Stephen A Smith launches tirade on The View over Sen. Mark Kellys video urging troops to ignore illegal orders

The co-hosts of ABC’s “The View” tore into ESPN host Stephen A.Smith on Thursday for condemning Sen.

Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., for participating in a video telling US military members to ignore any unlawful orders from President Donald Trump. During the latest episode of the daytime talk show, co-host Sunny Hostin brought up Smith’s spirited criticism of Kelly and called him “loud and wrong.”After playing the clip of Smith’s commentary, Hostin said, “I’d love to give you the opportunity to perhaps change your position on what you said.”“I’m not changing a thing,” Smith shot back.“I didn’t stutter when I said it.”Hostin replied, “OK.

You want to stay loud and wrong?”Smith responded, “Well, you can call it loud and wrong all you want to.You’re entitled to your opinion, I’m entitled to mine.”Six Democratic lawmakers, including Sens.

Elissa Slotkin, D-Mich., and Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., appeared in a video last month that urged military and intelligence community members to consult their consciences and refuse to obey “illegal” orders.Directly calling out the Trump administration, they added, “This administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community officials against American citizens.”In his commentary on the video during his XM radio show last Wednesday, Smith went after Kelly for appearing in the video.“Respectfully, senator, what the hell are you doing?” Smith said.“Looking into the camera and telling military men and women to ignore the commander-in-chief? How dare you? How dare you do that?”While on “The View,” Hostin tried to debunk Smith’s point, stating that before he was Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth had expressed that military members should not follow unlawful orders, suggesting that he and Kelly agree on the subject.Smith dismissed the point, telling Hostin, “First of all, I don’t give a damn what Pete Hegseth has to say, because I will tell you right now, he was...