Mark Kelly: The Senator Trump wants 'hanged'
The News Agents - USA
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4.3 • 719 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Senator Mark Kelly is a former astronaut, a Navy pilot, and was almost Kamala Harris VP pick. Now he’s weighing up a run for the presidency himself in 2028. He came into the News Agents studio this lunchtime to tell us why Trump is helping his cause by threatening to have him “hanged“ and why it’s important for European leaders, including Starmer, to push back on Trump’s bullying.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents USA Podcast is brought to you by HSBC, UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.6 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | Do I regret this? Absolutely not. I would do it again tomorrow. |
| 0:17.2 | 100%. |
| 0:17.5 | And go to prison for it? |
| 0:18.9 | Absolutely. We're talking about the Constitution of the United States that this guy is clearly violating |
| 0:25.6 | over and over again. |
| 0:26.6 | Not just the freedom of speech. |
| 0:29.6 | He threw Don Lemon, a journalist. |
| 0:31.6 | He flew through somebody like you guys in jail for doing their jobs. |
| 0:36.6 | He has attacked law firms, got them to back down media companies |
| 0:41.0 | got them to back down universities got them to back down he's not getting me to back down |
| 0:46.3 | because this is too important it's not just about me i just happen to be like the first person |
| 0:52.6 | through the breach here. |
| 0:54.9 | And, you know, I'm the guy who has to deal with this. |
| 0:58.6 | I mean, I've almost died for this country so many times. |
| 1:03.0 | And I'm going to take this to whatever conclusion. |
| 1:07.9 | I mean, Donald Trump, he's got a couple options here. |
| 1:10.5 | He can continue to put the |
| 1:13.2 | full force of the Department of Defense and the Department of Justice up against me, or he can go and |
| 1:20.0 | I don't want to use the wrong word here. What do you guys say? Bugger off. He can do that. |
| 1:26.2 | That is Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona. |
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