{"id":326254,"date":"2025-12-05T04:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326254\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:01:08","slug":"stephen-a-smith-launches-tirade-on-the-view-over-sen-kellys-video-urging-troops-to-ignore-illegal-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/326254\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A Smith launches tirade on ‘The View’ over Sen Kelly’s video urging troops to ignore illegal orders"},"content":{"rendered":"

The co-hosts of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View<\/a>\u201d tore into ESPN host\u00a0Stephen A. Smith<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday for condemning Sen. Mark Kelly<\/a>, D-Ariz., for participating in a video telling US military members to ignore any unlawful orders from President Donald Trump<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

During the latest episode of the daytime talk show, co-host Sunny Hostin<\/a> brought up Smith\u2019s spirited criticism of Kelly and called him \u201cloud and wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

After playing the clip of Smith\u2019s commentary, Hostin said, \u201cI\u2019d love to give you the opportunity to perhaps change your position on what you said.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not changing a thing,\u201d Smith shot back. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t stutter when I said it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hostin replied, \u201cOK. You want to stay loud and wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n

Smith responded, \u201cWell, you can call it loud and wrong all you want to. You\u2019re entitled to your opinion, I\u2019m entitled to mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

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 \u201cillegal\u201d orders.<\/p>\n

Directly calling out the Trump administration, they added, \u201cThis administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community officials against American citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe View\u201d co-hosts called out ESPN host Stephen A. Smith for condemning Sen. Mark Kelly. ABC<\/p>\n

In his commentary on the video during his XM radio show last Wednesday, Smith went after Kelly for\u00a0appearing in the video.<\/p>\n

\u201cRespectfully, senator, what the hell are you doing?\u201d Smith said. <\/p>\n

\u201cLooking into the camera and telling military men and women to ignore the commander-in-chief? How dare you? How dare you do that?\u201d<\/p>\n

While on \u201cThe View,\u201d Hostin tried to debunk Smith\u2019s point, stating that before he was Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth<\/a> had expressed that military members should not follow unlawful orders, suggesting that he and Kelly agree on the subject.<\/p>\n

Smith dismissed the point, telling Hostin, \u201cFirst of all, I don\u2019t give a damn what\u00a0Pete Hegseth\u00a0has to say, because I will tell you right now, he was never qualified for the job\u2026 I don\u2019t care what he has to say. Let me get that out the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sunny Hostin told Smith he had a chance to change his stance, to which he replied, \u201cI\u2019m not changing a thing.\u201d ABC<\/p>\n

Smith then defended his point against Kelly, saying he was warning that, as a veteran, Kelly could land in hot water if he\u2019s caught, implying that troops should disobey orders.<\/p>\n

Referencing conversations with his family members who have military experience, he said, \u201cYou can be implicated for implying something if you are a former military member, or you are a present military member. It wasn\u2019t what Mark Kelly said, it\u2019s the fact that he was a combat Navy pilot who served in the military who would tell folks, \u2018ignore an order,\u2019 when it could get them in a world of trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Co-host Joy Behar<\/a> and Hostin interjected, saying Kelly mentioned ignoring \u201cillegal\u201d orders.<\/p>\n

Smith shot back, \u201cI said illegal. I\u2019m talking about illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hostin doubled down: \u201cHe said you don\u2019t have to follow an unlawful order and that is in the military code of conduct. It didn\u2019t sound like you were aware of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Along with Kelly, six Democratic officials appeared in a video that went viral last month, calling for all military and intelligence community members to refuse to take \u201cillegal\u201d orders. WILL OLIVER\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

\u201cWhich I\u2019m aware of,\u201d Smith answered.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it didn\u2019t sound like you were aware of that during your show,\u201d Hostin said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI disagree with you,\u201d he told the co-host.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI had two governors, by the way, text me to tell me I was wrong and they agree with you,\u201d Smith said, referring to his hosts.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are wrong,\u201d Hostin stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I had two senators that reached out to me and said \u2018you aren\u2019t wrong at all,\u2019\u201d Smith added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The co-hosts of ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View\u201d tore into ESPN host\u00a0Stephen A. Smith\u00a0on Thursday for condemning Sen. Mark Kelly,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,1376,75,16883,142135,7607,28306,35518,40472,16884,348],"class_list":["post-326254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-joy-behar","tag-mark-kelly","tag-media","tag-pete-hegseth","tag-stephen-a-smith","tag-sunny-hostin","tag-the-view","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}