A rattled White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt tried to defend her boss, President Donald Trump, at Thursday’s press briefing during intense questioning about Trump’s calls to execute six Democratic lawmakers over a video message urging U.S. troops to protect the Constitution and refuse illegal military orders, but ended up fleeing the briefing in indignation instead.

It started about 22 minutes into the press briefing with a question from CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Nancy Cordes.

“This morning President Trump accused six Democratic lawmakers of ‘SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR punishable by DEATH.’ Just to be clear, does the president want to execute members of Congress?”

Leavitt insisted Trump was not calling for the execution of the lawmakers.

“Let’s be clear about what the

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