White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt faced several questions after President Donald Trump called several Democratic veterans "traitors" who should face the death penalty for releasing a joint video where they said that U.S. service members could refuse illegal orders.

"Just to be clear, does the president want to execute members of Congress?" one reporter asked Leavitt during Thursday's briefing.

"No," Leavitt said. "Let's be clear about what the president is responding to, because many in this room want to talk about the president's response but not what brought the president to respond in this way. You have sitting members of the United States Congress who conspired together to orchestrate a video message to members of the United States military to active duty service members, to members of the national security apparatus, encouraging them to defy the president's lawful orders."

In the video directed at military members, Democratic veterans and former intelligence officials -- including Sens. Elissa Slotkin and Mark Kelly -- said that military service members can refuse illegal orders. None of the Democrats mentioned any specific illegal orders given to service members, but they said "this administration is pitting our uniformed military and intelligence community professionals against American citizens."

A USDA official confirmed to ABC News that the Trump administration intends to release its plan to provide relief for farmers in early December.

The official also confirmed comments made by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to Bloomberg about the plan.

"We've been able to really analyze, build our formulas around what is happening. We're obviously in a different place today than we were a couple of months ago. Having said that, we expect to release and announce that the first week of December," Rollins told Bloomberg.

For months, administration officials have discussed providing economic relief to farmers as President Donald Trump's tariff plan has greatly impacted them.

During Trump's Asia trip, Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to resume purchasing soybeans from the U.S. as part of their larger trade framework.

In an interview with Fox Business in late October, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that China has agreed to purchase 12 million metric tons of soybeans between now and January.

--ABC News' Hannah Demissie

The White House has prepared an executive order for President Donald Trump to sign as soon as Friday directing the Department of Justice to sue states that pass AI regulations, according to sources familiar with the draft document.

The draft, according to sources familiar with it, says that AI bills introduced in the states "threaten to undermine" innovative culture.

The order would use the powers of the federal government to establish a number of measures solely geared towards challenging state AI laws, including establishing a so-called "AI Litigation Task Force" run out of the Department of Justice.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the draft executive order.

This comes as Republicans in Congress over the summer failed to pass a similar proposal on regulating AI in the states.
Trump teased this in a post on social media on Tuesday where he alleged that "overregulation by the States is threatening to undermine" the growth of AI.

Politico first reported on the draft order.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders

President Donald Trump says that he will meet with New York City's new Mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, at the White House on Friday.

"Communist Mayor of New York City, Zohran “Kwame” Mamdani, has asked for a meeting. We have agreed that this meeting will take place at the Oval Office on Friday, November 21st," Trump said in a post on social media Wednesday.

A spokesperson for the mayor-elect confirmed the meeting in a statement on Wednesday, saying the two would be discussing "public safety, economic security and the affordability agenda that over one million New Yorkers voted for just two weeks ago."

Mamdani told cable news channel MS NOW, formerly known as MSNBC, in an interview that he plans to “speak plainly to the president about what it means to actually stand up for New Yorkers and the way in which New Yorkers are struggling to afford” living in New York City.

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart and Ben Siegel