The FBI has requested interviews with six Democratic lawmakers who appeared in a social media video urging members of the United States military to “defy illegal orders”, according to the legislators.

The statements on Tuesday came a day after the Pentagon said it was reviewing Senator Mark Kelly , a US Navy veteran and one of the six lawmakers, over potential violations of military law.

President Donald Trump has previously accused the lawmakers of sedition and said in a social media post that the crime is “punishable by DEATH”.

All six of the Democratic lawmakers in the video have served in the military or the intelligence community.

Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, one of the six in the video, told reporters on Tuesday that “the counterterrorism division at the FBI sent a

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