The Kinzinger Report

The 2028 Republican primary has started, and the candidates are running from Trump. Adam Kinzinger breaks down how JD Vance, Marco Rubio, Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz are each explaining the midterm losses, and why Vance is stuck between MAGA and everyone else. Plus: the ICE hiring scandal, Jim Jordan elected House Republican leader, the failed Pete Hegseth impeachment vote, and ethics charges agains...

Will the House impeach Pete Hegseth? Republican Rep. Thomas Massie’s resolution puts eight articles on a fast track, including those covering Hegseth waging war with Iran without authorization. Adam Kinzinger breaks down Hegseth’s “impeachment for success” defense and what the war has cost America. Plus the Nvidia CEO scandal involving an alleged Chinese spy, Putin’s demands from the Ukraine talks...

A former Trump health adviser and RFK Jr. ally went on Joe Rogan and said the White House made policy based on who was funding the midterms. Adam Kinzinger breaks down Calley Means’s corruption claims against Susie Wiles and James Blair. Also in this episode, Stephen Miller becomes chief of staff, Trump tells 60 Minutes he could never forgive his enemies, a company tied to the Trump sons gets Ebol...

Harmeet Dhillon resigns from the Justice Department. The head of the Civil Rights Division ran Trump’s election strategy, from the voter roll lawsuits to the federal poll monitors, and she’s the first major official out since the midterms. Adam Kinzinger asks whether she jumped or got pushed. Plus Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s AI investments and data centers on public land, Elon Musk and big te...

Republicans are blaming Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth for the midterm wipeout, and the House could vote to impeach him next week. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Iran war blame game, Thomas Massie’s impeachment push, and why Trump has eight weeks to confirm a replacement before Democrats take the Senate. Plus: Mike Johnson steps aside as Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan run for minority leader, the Tr...

Republicans are at war with themselves after a historic midterm blowout. Democrats took both chambers, and the GOP blame game is on. The White House blames Fox News and “lazy” candidates. JD Vance blames the Iran war. A senior Senate Republican says “Trump did this.” Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Republican civil war, Trump’s election night meltdown, the exit polls showing young men swinging 38 p...

Trump’s final speech before the 2026 midterms was 53 minutes about the Reflecting Pool. Adam Kinzinger breaks down Trump’s Election Day pitch, Stephen Miller and Scott Presler’s closing arguments, and why Republicans have nothing to show for two years of total control. Also: MAGA House members like Scott Perry and Anna Paulina Luna fighting for their seats, Westchester County ballot scanner conspi...

Election Day is tomorrow and the final Times/Siena polls have Democrats ahead in every competitive Senate race, including Michigan, Texas, Maine, Ohio, Kansas, and Alaska. Nate Silver’s midterm model gives Democrats an 80 percent chance at the Senate and 96 percent at the House. Plus, Republicans anonymously blame Trump for the coming midterm losses, Trump promises to become “Mr. Veto” and pardon...

A private prison company offered Minnesota an empty prison for $75 million. The state said no. Then the Trump administration paid CoreCivic $495.6 million for the same building to turn it into an ICE detention center. CoreCivic gave $500,000 to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Minnesota prison deal, the GAO warning on ICE spending, and why JD Vance’s fraud task f...

The Washington Examiner, a conservative outlet, says the MAGA bubble is about to burst. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the piece and why right-wing media turning on Trump five days before the midterms matters. Also: James O’Keefe charged with felony voter fraud in Minnesota, ARPA-H director Alicia Jackson placed on leave after a ProPublica report on her stock holdings, corporations that donated to Tru...

A federal grand jury has refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson. Trump’s Justice Department wanted to charge the January 6th witness with lying to Congress over her testimony about Trump, the armed crowd, and the Secret Service. Adam Kinzinger, who sat on the January 6th committee, explains what she told the country and why the DOJ’s case collapsed. Also today: Trump won’t commit to accepting the mi...

The Trump Justice Department charges James Comey for the third time, over a 2016 leak that Trump’s own DOJ investigated twice and declined to prosecute. With the statute of limitations expiring, prosecutors skipped the grand jury entirely. A judge also ruled the firing of Comey’s daughter Maurene Comey unlawful and ordered her reinstated. Plus: Donald Trump Jr.’s Mongolia hunting trip with Kremlin...

Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail, rallying in Cleveland for Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown and going after Donald Trump on the grift, the war, and his cabinet picks. Trump’s response is to lie about the crowd size. Plus: MAGA voter fraud crusader Scott Presler caught with out-of-state voters registered at his Pennsylvania house, the DOJ sues Alaska to block a Mary Peltola win over Dan Sulli...

Jared Kushner faces new allegations involving foreign money, secret bank accounts, and his role in Trump's Middle East policy. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the claims and why Congress should ask questions. Today's show also looks at the Trump administration's reported loyalty test for American diplomats, a new investigation by DOJ into DHS contracts and Corey Lewandowski, the departure o...

ProPublica obtained the secret contract behind Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, and it doesn’t match his claims of hundreds of billions in revenue. The U.S. bought a 35 percent stake in a company run by Alejandro Betancourt, a Venezuelan businessman investigated for money laundering in three countries, through a Barbados shell that hides the other owners. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the terms and why th...

Alina Habba, Trump’s former personal lawyer, took a $50 million job from the family of Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera Velutini while she was still acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey. Two weeks after she started, Trump pardoned him. Also on today’s show: Steve Witkoff calls Vladimir Putin a humanitarian, Trump tells poisoned Marines their settlements depend on Republicans winning the midterm...

ProPublica reports Trump’s DHS appointees asked CISA, the federal election security agency, to secretly buy a voting machine, hack it, hide the results from the manufacturer, and send them to the White House. Career staff refused, and DOGE layoffs had already gutted the team that could do it. Also: new Axios texts in the Alina Habba and Ric Grenell Kennedy Center feud, Elon Musk’s SpaceX share giv...

Trump waives the Russia sanctions law Congress passed 86 to 11 and he signed himself, then blames Zelensky for the war and praises Russia for cheap diesel. Adam breaks down everything Putin has gotten from this White House in a matter of weeks. Also on the show, Republicans start the midterm blame game two weeks before the election, JD Vance tells a CBS town hall he’s seen no corruption in the Tru...

Trump cancels Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood firing squad execution after bipartisan backlash, but says it still would have been a strong deterrent. Also: nine fired FBI agents who worked the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case sue Kash Patel and the DOJ, Bloomberg uncovers a Russian bot operation pushing fake AI videos to boost Republicans in the midterms, Reuters reports the or...

The Wall Street Journal reveals that Trump’s White House crypto adviser Bo Hines kept a stake in a consulting firm that was paid $415,000 a month by Tether, the world’s largest crypto company, while he wrote the GENIUS Act regulating it. The payments now total over $6 million, and Tether made him CEO of its U.S. division a month after he left the White House. Adam also covers the Alina Habba and R...

The IRS report showing who actually got a break from the Republican tax cut was due in July. It’s October 14th and the Treasury Department still hasn’t released it. A former top IRS official says the numbers don’t match what the White House has been telling voters. Adam breaks down the delayed tax data, the September inflation report that even Fox Business couldn’t spin, the foreign crypto traders...

The Wall Street Journal has video of Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, at a Dubai New Year’s Eve party with two fugitives indicted for stealing $15 million from a Chicago hospital. One of them donated $190,000 to Paxton’s campaigns. Adam breaks down the video, the Texas attorney general’s donor problem, and why none of this is new. Also: Republicans push back on Pete Hegseth’...

Trump lifts Russia sanctions to buy diesel from Putin, and senators from both parties say it’s illegal. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Russian energy deal, the 2022 law Congress passed, Thom Tillis and Mike Pence pushing back, and why it hands Putin a lifeline. Plus Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex data centers and Russia’s bot farms, a federal judge pulling Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads, a Politic...

Trump handed out National Medals of Science to Big Tech CEOs and declared a “Golden Age” of American innovation. His administration has canceled billions in research grants, including 2,500 NIH grants, and American scientists are fleeing overseas. Meanwhile, Trump has traded $3.2 billion in stocks and bonds since taking office, nearly three times the entire Congress. Also: Jon Ossoff and Abdul El-...

Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump’s ambassador to Greece, texted a donor asking him to wire $100,000 to her American Express account so it “won’t show up anywhere,” according to hundreds of messages obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the access-for-cash scheme, the million-dollar offer, and why she wanted the whole thing moved to Signal. Plus, Trump midterm chiefs Chris LaCivi...