Rep. Crow signals legal action after administration's effort to indict 6 Democrats
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | A federal grand jury put a halt, at least temporarily, to the Trump administration's |
| 0:05.3 | efforts to prosecute democratic lawmakers under an anti-insubordination law. |
| 0:10.7 | In November, six lawmakers with military and intelligence backgrounds published a message |
| 0:15.9 | urging members of their former communities to disobey illegal orders. |
| 0:20.6 | Senators Mark Kelly and Alyssa Slotkin |
| 0:22.1 | of Arizona and Michigan, respectively, as well as representatives. Jason Crow of Colorado, Maggie |
| 0:28.0 | Goodlander of New Hampshire, and Pennsylvania's Chris Deluzio and Chrissy Houlihan each took part |
| 0:33.2 | in the video. The Trump administration reportedly sought to indict all six of them. |
| 0:38.6 | Joining us now is one of those members. That's former Army Ranger Representative Jason Crow of |
| 0:43.9 | Colorado. Congressman, welcome back to the News Hour. Thanks for being with us. |
| 0:47.7 | Thank you. I want to put to you the response we heard today from House Speaker Mike Johnson in reaction |
| 0:52.2 | to the DOJ's failure to indict. |
| 0:54.4 | Here's what he told reporters. |
| 0:56.9 | Anytime you're obstructing law enforcement and getting in the way of these sensitive |
| 1:01.5 | operations, it's a very serious thing and it probably is a crime and yeah, they probably should |
| 1:06.3 | be indicted. |
| 1:07.2 | What's your response to the leader of your chamber? |
| 1:10.6 | Well, it's too bad that Speaker Johnson continues to prostrate himself and sell his soul |
| 1:15.6 | to Donald Trump. |
| 1:16.6 | But let's be really clear, the man has never served a day in his life in uniform. |
| 1:20.6 | I went three times to war for this country in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| 1:24.6 | I was a paratrooper and I was an army ranger. From my first day of boot camp, we were taught about the law of war. We were taught about |
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