It is Thursday, June the 19th.

This is the warning.

The entire exchange you're about to see is remarkable.

Michigan's completely normal and superb freshman senator, Elise Slokin, is going to ask the Secretary of Defense a fundamentally important question. And it's about whether he would give an

order that would allow America's soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines to open fire on the American

people. The question is asked so he can say, no, emphatically, directly, and on the record, under oath.

This matters because it's been well documented that during his first term in the Oval Office,

Donald Trump asked his defense secretary, Mark Esper, in the presence of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff about

the possibility of opening fire on peacefully protesting Americans, though, be reassured.

Donald just wanted to shoot in the legs.

What specifically was he suggesting that the U.S. military should do to these protesters?

He says, can't you just shoot them? Just shoot them in the legs or something.

And he's suggesting that that's what we should do, that we should bring in the troops and shoot the protesters.

Stephen Miller, on the other hand, in the Oval Office, wanted the U.S. Navy to destroy boats full of migrants off of San Diego.

And there's a word for what that would have been, and that word is murder.

But let's watch this incredible exchange.

Do they have the ability the uniformed military to arrest and detain protesters currently today?

It's a yes or no thing.

Authority.

It's sort of amusing the extent to which the speculation is out there.

These troops are given very clear orders.

Then what is the order?

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