Reporter:Karoline, can I just follow up? The President and the Vice President, for that matter, have accused the other side of encouraging political violence. Isn't that exactly what the President is doing when he says that members of Congress should be killed?
Karoline Leavitt:Why aren't you talking about what these members of Congress are doing to encourage and incite violence? They are literally saying to 1.3 million active duty service members to defy the Chain of Command, not to follow lawful orders. Every single—
Reporter:—They're telling them not to follow an illegal order, which is—
Karoline Leavitt:But they're suggesting, Nancy, that the President has given illegal orders, which he has not.
Every single order that is given to this United States military by this Commander-in-Chief and through this Chain of Command, through the Secretary of War, is lawful. And the courts have proven that. This administration has an unparalleled record at the Supreme Court, because we are following the laws.
We don't defy court orders. We do things by the books. And to suggest and encourage that active duty service members defy the Chain of Command is a very dangerous thing for sitting members of Congress to do.
And they should be held accountable. And that's what the President wants to see.
