Mark Kelly, Jimmy Kimmel Commiserate Over War Department’s Investigation Into Seditious Six

ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel and Democratic Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly scoffed at Department of War Secretary Pete Hegseth’s investigation into the senator over his call for military members to defy so-called illegal orders.

Kelly joined five other Democrats, all of whom had served in the military or intelligence community, to participate in a video calling on service members to “refuse illegal orders” given to them by President Donald Trump. During his Tuesday appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” Kelly and Kimmel completely disregarded the investigation and agreed that Hegseth is just unqualified for his job.

“You have Pete Hegseth, who runs the Department of War, is going to open an investigation into you, I assume into your colleagues.You will have to be interviewed by the FBI. And they’re trying to find what exactly?I mean, what even is sedition?” Kimmel asked. 

“Well, this is the investigation because of what Donald Trump said, from what I can tell. And I don’t know Pete Hegseth well,” Kelly said. “I sit on the committee that ultimately had to confirm him.So I know a little bit about his background. He’s totally unqualified … And from what I can tell, and talking to some of my Republican colleagues, I mean, he justwants to please the president. And this is what he can do this week.” 

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Kelly, who is a retired Navy Captain, remains subject