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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 midterm election results, Alaska’s Republican government asks a judge to toss the DOJ’s Senate race lawsuit, RFK Jr. reverses a kratom opioid ban after a distributor’s donations to the RNC, and Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil for Florida with a State Department visa.

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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-linked oligarch Umar Kremlev, the Ninth Circuit rejects the DOJ’s bid to set aside California mail ballots, CDC chief medical officer Jennifer Shuford leaves after six months, and a Washington Post analysis shows costs outpacing wages in 42 of 46 battleground House districts.

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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 Sullivan, the Trump administration’s record number of vacant Senate-confirmed jobs, and Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil despite Trump’s tariffs and pressure.

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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 of a leading MAHA adviser, and the DOJ watchdog's refusal to open an independent investigation into the botched Reflecting Pool related prosecution of former Olympian David Hearn.

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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 they were kept from Congress. Also: Trump fires envoy Paolo Zampolli, JD Vance attacks Republicans who criticized Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad against Amy Acton, a federal judge pulls DHS agents off the voter fraud hunt, and early voting surges in Kansas, Texas, and the battleground states.

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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 midterms, inside the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel that keeps saying yes to Trump, and Don Jr. privately breaks with his father over the Iran war.

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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 giveaway and Starlink Ukraine blame-shifting, the New York Times analysis showing Republican midterm ads barely mention Trump as his approval hits 31 percent, and Pete Hegseth stalling European-funded Patriot missiles for Ukraine.

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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 Trump administration, Trump calls a federal judge a lunatic and vows to restart work on his DC golf course, and CBS News under Bari Weiss gets caught up in a smear against Abdul El-Sayed.

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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 order to throttle Ukraine’s Starlink came from inside the White House, and former January 6th committee staffer Tom Joscelyn launches a public archive of the DOJ records the administration tried to delete.

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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 Ric Grenell feud over a missing $6 million Kennedy Center donation, open warfare inside the State Department, a Gallup poll showing Democrats with their biggest lead on the economy since 2007, and James Talarico’s CNN town hall after Ken Paxton skipped it.

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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 paying for dinner with Trump, the Republicans privately admitting the House is gone, and the Starlink restriction that cut off Ukraine’s drones in the middle of a Russian attack.

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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’s plan to livestream the Nidal Hasan firing squad execution, Trump’s new White House press secretary stumbles through her first briefing, Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as ambassador to Greece after the access-selling scandal, and DHS raids Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington.

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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 Politico poll on undecided midterm voters, and the DOJ antitrust investigation into five TV networks.

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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-Sayed win their Senate debates, ProPublica finds Ken Paxton billed Texas $3.3 million for security on personal trips, a Politico poll shows Trump voters want Republicans to break with him, and Texas ranchers sue to stop Trump’s Big Bend border wall.

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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 LaCivita and James Blair get paid by a pro-Russia enclave in Bosnia, Tina Peters and Cleta Mitchell pitch Trump on seizing voting machines, Trump ties FEMA disaster aid to Republican rallies, and Texas Republican Bo French’s racist post raises $488K for his opponent.

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The Justice Department's civil rights division has lost more than 300 career lawyers under Trump, and the New York Times just revealed who's replacing them. One hacked a Florida election system twice and was sent to monitor a polling place in Minneapolis. Another was pulled off a murder case for reading privileged defense communications. A new senior counsel called January 6th a false flag. Also on today's Kinzinger Report: Susan Collins' rough first debate against Troy Jackson, the Wall Street Journal's look inside Scott Bessent's Treasury Department, DHS surveillance of more than 150 voter registration groups, and the senior voters pushing Democrats toward a Senate majority.

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A plague outbreak in Russia, and the Kremlin wants everyone to stop asking. One lab worker is dead, a second death is reported, and nearly 200 contacts are in quarantine while Moscow insists it's pneumonia. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what we know, why the WHO is the only channel left, and why Trump sounds a lot friendlier about this outbreak than he ever did about COVID. Plus: Trump retreats on taxpayer-funded political ads and hands them to his super PAC, Tillis regrets confirming Hegseth and RFK Jr., Trump bars Politico from Air Force One despite a court order, and Democrats eye a once-in-a-generation shot at state legislatures.

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Dozens of Republicans are endorsing Democratic candidates ahead of the 2026 midterms, and new polls show Democrats competitive in red states Trump won by double digits. Conor Lamb fills in for Adam Kinzinger on why the GOP's "vote for the team" strategy is cracking. Plus: more leaked Ken Paxton audio, Trump doxxing Senator Tom Cotton, The Atlantic's report on Kash Patel and the FBI's 2020 election probe, and Trump's reversal on mail-in voting.

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Trump told TIME he won't rule out invoking the Insurrection Act or declaring a state of emergency around the 2026 midterms. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what the Insurrection Act actually is, why federal law bans troops at polling places, and why a losing president five weeks out is talking about the military at all. Also today: the Justice Department reopens Watergate to review Richard Nixon's prosecutors, Trump says he regrets picking Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett, FHFA Director Bill Pulte slashes the inspector general investigating him, and Congress leaves town with no affordability bill while Democrats gain ground on voter registration in swing states.

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Trump is spending the final month before the midterms campaigning in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Alabama, some of the reddest states in the country, while a new AP poll puts his approval at 30 percent and his economic approval at a record low 26 percent. Two thirds of Americans say Trump's policies are driving higher prices. Adam Kinzinger explains why the 2026 midterms have turned into a rescue mission. Adam also gets into Trump's plan to let AI companies regulate themselves, the $500 HealthCare.gov checks that come with a letter from Trump, Elon Musk and Newt Gingrich leading the Pentagon's Project Meridian weapons study, and the U.S. withdrawal from the GRECO anti-corruption panel.

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Ken Paxton was secretly recorded at a private Washington fundraiser admitting Trump's Republican convention in Dallas dropped his poll numbers and hurt the whole GOP ticket. The tape went to the New York Times, Paxton's campaign is calling it manipulated, and James Talarico leads every independent poll in the Texas Senate race while Paxton dodges a Fox News debate.

Plus, Republicans hype a migrant caravan a thousand miles from the border just ahead of the midterms, a new poll shows Hispanic voters swinging hard toward Democrats and flipping Republican-drawn districts in Texas and Florida, Speaker Mike Johnson calls Democratic investigations of Trump a nightmare and promises more of the same if the GOP keeps the House, and the White House censors its America.gov chatbot after it contradicted Trump on the 2020 election, tariffs, and the Big Beautiful Bill.

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Trump's grand conspiracy investigation loses a second prosecutor in a month. Kurt Olsen, the election denier sanctioned in Arizona for false statements in Kari Lake's case, walks away from the DOJ probe into Obama officials. Fourteen months, three lead prosecutors, zero indictments. Adam Kinzinger explains why this was never a real investigation. Also on the show, FBI deputy director Andrew Bailey resigns after clashing with Kash Patel as a massive FBI data breach exposes employee records, Trump falls asleep in the Oval Office during his Iowa steel mill announcement, Trump's AI "Golden Age" event and the America.gov chatbot, and a federal judge blocks DHS from tying counterterrorism grants to election demands.

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Farmers, truckers, and Trump's own rally superfans are turning on him. Soybean prices collapsed after China stopped buying, diesel hit a record six and a half dollars a gallon in the middle of harvest, and farm bankruptcies tripled in Iowa. One superfan who followed Trump in an RV for years now calls him a fraud. Adam Kinzinger explains what the MAGA defection means for the midterms. Plus: taxpayers pay over a million dollars for a Trump campaign ad, Trump's illegal offer to sell weapons to China, Trump turns down an Iran peace deal as 37 more wounded troops go unannounced, and Vance's fraud task force caught padding its numbers.

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A government watchdog says ICE wasted tens of millions on detention space it never used, including tents and empty warehouses, after Congress gave the agency 45 billion dollars. Meanwhile new reporting shows ICE arrests are surging, spread out across the country and away from the cameras after the January backlash. Plus, Trump hosts Xi Jinping at the White House, the West Wing lets GOP candidates distance themselves from Trump ahead of the midterms, Senate Republicans block a resolution to end the Iran war, and a taxpayer-funded ad praising Trump airs on Fox News.

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A Trump-appointed federal judge blocked Trump's press ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, ruling it likely unconstitutional and ordering the White House to restore their press passes. Reporters were still turned away at the White House gates the next morning. Plus: Trump invites Putin to the G20 at his golf club, MAGA podcasters stop talking about Trump, F-35 parts turn up in China, and Cook Political Report shifts three Senate races toward Democrats.

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Republicans timed the One Big Beautiful Bill's Medicaid and SNAP cuts to land after the 2026 midterms. They're hitting early instead. Food stamp work requirements, expired health insurance subsidies, and rural hospital cuts are landing hardest in Trump country. Plus Trump's UN speech falls flat, Sen. John Curtis wants Don Jr. subpoenaed, the GOP spends big to defend safe seats, and JD Vance defends Trump's press ban. 

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Trump killed the FBI's bribery investigation into Congress. ProPublica reports the case ran through Susan Collins' office, built on a defense contractor who funneled $150,000 to her Super PAC through a shell company and then gave the FBI a road map naming more than a dozen members of Congress. Trump fired the agents working the case, including one targeted for investigating his 2020 election scheme. Also on today's show, the White House press pool walks out over Trump's ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico, his Arlington arch is redesignated a military installation with a sniper nest, Republicans demand a diesel export ban to cover for the Iran war, and housing chief Bill Pulte pulled mortgage records on Attorney General Todd Blanche.

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Trump's secret drug pricing contracts are finally public, and they show the deals protected the pharmaceutical companies instead of lowering drug prices. Tariff exemptions, confidentiality clauses, and bestsellers carved out of the discounts entirely. RFK Jr. signed the deals, and now his Make America Healthy Again movement is holding a summit funded by corporate money. Plus: Republicans in Congress turn on Pete Hegseth, Trump's Greenland deal with Denmark changes almost nothing, Trump privately admits the midterms look bad for Republicans, and he blames Ukraine for record diesel prices.

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The White House pulls its nominee to run ICE after Republican opposition in the Senate. Rand Paul wanted DHS files on the two American citizens killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, and the administration chose to lose its nominee instead of handing them over. As a result, ICE stays in the hands of an unconfirmed acting director. Plus: RFK Jr. speaks at an anti-vax conference as the Pennsylvania measles outbreak kills a fourth unvaccinated victim, DOT lobbyists pour money into Sean Duffy's son-in-law's congressional campaign, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna hit 218 signatures to force a House vote on a second Epstein files bill, and Attorney General Todd Blanche breaks decades of norms to campaign for Republican candidates.

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JD Vance gives the Republican closing message for the 2026 midterms, and it amounts to begging voters for another chance. Adam breaks down why the White House can't ask for forgiveness while insisting nothing is wrong. Plus, Republican candidates like Maria Salazar run away from Trump, the Federal Reserve raises interest rates over Trump's objections, House Republicans fight behind closed doors over the gas tax, and Mike Johnson sends the House home to dodge a vote on impeaching Pete Hegseth.

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The Pentagon's inspector general and the Congressional Budget Office just revealed the true cost of the Iran war: dozens of aircraft destroyed, bases hammered by missile strikes, and $38 billion spent. Now Republicans are breaking ranks. Thomas Massie filed articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and seven Republicans voted with Democrats to end the war. Adam also covers a new report on DOGE paying 150,000 federal workers to stay home, Trump shutting down the Kennedy Center, Kash Patel's brutal Senate hearing, and Trump's Truth Social attack on his own Supreme Court justices.

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The Supreme Court rejects the Trump administration's attempt to rewrite mail-in voting rules weeks before the midterms, and a whistleblower report reveals a new scheme: federal immigration officers pulled off their jobs to hunt for noncitizens on state voter rolls. Plus, Trump calls AI safety warnings a hoax as industry leaders beg for regulation, Iran-backed Houthis seize a second oil chokepoint at Bab-el-Mandeb, oil hits 109 dollars a barrel with diesel above 6 dollars a gallon, and a federal judge rules Trump's FEMA cuts illegal heading into peak hurricane season.

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A ProPublica investigation reveals Donald Trump Jr.'s Bahamas wedding was bankrolled by Umar Kremlev, a Russian oligarch in Vladimir Putin's inner circle who paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for the private island and fireworks. Adam reports from his trip to Ukraine, where a Russian drone hit a passenger train on the route he'd just avoided. Plus, 60 Minutes catches Trump allies selling presidential pardons for $300,000, peace envoy Steve Witkoff reports $250 million in income while working in government, and Democrats map out their investigations ahead of the November midterms.

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 Joe diGenova has resigned from the Justice Department's grand conspiracy investigation into Trump's enemies, saying on his way out that indictments without evidence are an ethical problem. Today's show breaks down why Trump's revenge probe keeps losing its own prosecutors. Plus, Republican election officials ask the Supreme Court to keep Trump's mail ballot order blocked, the FCC pressures Jimmy Kimmel into pulling his James Talarico interview off ABC, Democrats run competitive races in deep-red states like Kansas, and JD Vance distances himself from the Iran war.

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The Trump administration wants to change who counts in the 2030 census. A new Commerce Department proposal would exclude millions of immigrants, including people here legally, and drop the race and ethnicity questions asked since 1790. The census decides House seats, electoral votes, and federal funding, and the Fourteenth Amendment says to count every person. Plus: Trump promises a $5,000 "Trump Dividend" if Republicans win the midterms, a mystery super PAC linked to MAGA Inc. spends $47 million without disclosing donors, Elon Musk's Vote Safe website harvests voter data, and the DOJ blocks European investigations into Jeffrey Epstein.

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Trump told a fake story about firefighters carrying him to safety at Ground Zero on 9/11, days before the 25th anniversary. There's no record he was there until September 13th, and on the day of the attacks he called a news station to brag that his building was now the tallest in downtown Manhattan. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the lie, plus the GOP convention Republicans are skipping, Canada's retaliatory tariffs and Trump's new import bans, a federal appeals court ruling that the IRS broke the law sharing tax returns with ICE, and the secret DHS predictive policing unit using Americans' financial records to trigger traffic stops.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Corey Lewandowski secretly ran Trump's Department of Homeland Security as an unpaid, unconfirmed adviser, controlling billions in DHS contracts, then offered his services to Qatar and the UAE on the side. Adam breaks down the shadow secretary scandal and the criminal referral now on the table. Plus: the White House marks Labor Day with AI videos that contain no workers, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff meet Putin in Moscow with nothing to show for it, the GOP's redistricting scheme starts backfiring in Texas and beyond, and Gallup gives Democrats their biggest party ID lead since 2008.

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Adam Kinzinger marks Labor Day with a special episode on Trump's assault on organized labor, from stripping nearly a million federal workers of collective bargaining to firing career employees without due process. Then the 2026 midterm map, Democrats' path to the Senate, ICE at the polls, and what Adam learned running for Congress that every first time candidate needs to hear.

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Fox News fired Maria Bartiromo after she leaked internal Fox guidance about Trump's 2020 election claims straight to the White House. Adam Kinzinger breaks down how she finally lost her job, and why Trump calling her "a true warrior" says it all. Plus: the DOJ fires the prosecutor who wanted to hold an ICE agent accountable for shooting a man in Minneapolis, the Missouri Supreme Court throws out Trump's gerrymander, construction begins on a 250-foot triumphal arch nobody approved, and House Republicans cancel the rest of September.

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Republicans are skipping Trump's first-ever midterm convention in Dallas. Politico surveyed more than 70 GOP candidates and most are staying away or won't answer, with swing-district Republicans leading the exodus sixty days before the 2026 midterms. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what it means for the election, plus DHS agents hunting voter fraud that doesn't exist, a whistleblower's report on ICE hiring failures, the federal judge who blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order, and the White House building an executive privilege strategy for a Democratic House.

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Trump's approval rating just hit 33 percent, a record low for his second term and his worst numbers since January 6th. Republican approval is down 14 points, 71 percent of Americans disapprove of his handling of the cost of living, and Democrats now lead on the economy for the first time in a decade. Adam breaks down the polls Trump calls "Demoralization Operations." Plus: Pete Hegseth's Pentagon purge and the Army leaders sounding the alarm, the USS Abraham Lincoln docking in Thailand after a record 286 days at sea, European allies refusing to pose with Russia's finance minister at Trump's G20 summit, and the Tarrant County, Texas voters fighting the closure of 92 polling places ahead of the midterms.

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Adam Kinzinger breaks down the revolt inside the Pentagon. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigned after telling President Trump how many generals Pete Hegseth has fired, and military chiefs are warning that the Iran war is unsustainable. The Army now has no Senate-confirmed civilian leader or top general. Plus, a USPS whistleblower says Trump's mail ballot system was built to fail ahead of the midterms, mass deportations are shrinking the American workforce, Republicans beg Trump to spend his $400 million super PAC war chest, and a GOP House candidate gets banned from Kalshi for betting on her own election.

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Adam Kinzinger breaks down why Trump is losing farm country. Cattle ranchers and farmers are furious over tariff-free beef imports, soaring fuel and fertilizer costs, and the trade war with Canada, and Republicans like Senator Kevin Cramer now fear a 2006-style midterm wipeout. Plus: fired three-star admiral Nancy Lacore runs as a Democrat in South Carolina, DHS gets caught using a 1930 customs law to spy on journalists, Trump threatens NBC's Kristen Welker with the FCC, secret State Department deals cut global health funding by 59 percent, and the Pentagon takes a 35 percent stake in a Venezuelan oil venture.

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Adam Kinzinger breaks down why the case against Anthony Fauci is falling apart. Rand Paul's committee held Fauci in contempt of Congress, but Trump officials at the Justice Department doubt the referral would survive in court, and nobody wants to prosecute. Plus: Trump signs an executive order renaming Lake Ontario "Lake America," the Iran war hits six months with 18 Americans dead and no end in sight, corporate donors who bankrolled Trump start writing checks to Democrats before the midterms, and fired Stars and Stripes journalists sue Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon.

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Adam Kinzinger breaks down the White House's quiet admission that the affordability crisis is real. After a year of Trump calling high grocery prices a Democrat scam, a JD Vance fundraising text told donors the truth, internal polling shows the issue could sink Republicans in the midterms, and Congress is now scrambling for a last-minute stimulus. Plus: ICE arrests surge for people with no criminal record, the CIA Director's secret Moscow trip to warn Putin against attacking NATO, a Trump-appointed judge refuses to erase Steve Bannon's contempt conviction, and a Florida grand jury traces ten million dollars in Medicaid money to DeSantis political causes.

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A federal appeals court just blocked the Republican plan to buy midterm TV ads at the discounted candidate rate, throwing out Trump's FCC guidance days before the 60-day election window opens. Adam breaks down what the ruling means for the midterms. Also on today's show: a Trump-endorsed Kentucky candidate scrubs Trump from his website after a bad poll, MAGA influencer DataRepublican is exposed as a paid Pentagon employee, DHS withholds police and counterterrorism grants to force Trump's election rules, and new reporting ties the firing of Army Chief of Staff Randy George to the Kid Rock helicopter flyover.

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The Supreme Court just cleared the way for Trump's executive order restricting mail voting, lifting a freeze that covered 23 states, while the Postal Service says ballots should be handled like replica explosives. Adam breaks down what the order does, what the dissent warned, and what it means for the 2026 midterms. Plus: the US-Canada trade war and Trump's plan to rename Lake Ontario, America's refusal to sign a UN statement on Ukraine as CIA Director John Ratcliffe makes a secret trip to Moscow, the largest visa revocation in American history paired with a $100,000 H-1B fee, and a federal judge rejecting Ghislaine Maxwell's appeal while the DOJ fights to keep Epstein files redacted.

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Adam Kinzinger breaks down the DOJ's apparent hire of a convicted election hacker into the office that polices voting rights, plus the White House sitting on the 2024 foreign election interference report that federal law required to be public over a year ago. Also on today's show: Trump's June financial disclosure reveals more than 1,000 stock trades, including Boeing and SpaceX purchases timed to government contracts. Canada trade talks collapse into a trade war with 50% tariffs. A federal judge rules Trump's visa ban on 75 countries illegal. And Democrats prepare investigations and subpoenas ahead of the midterms.

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Trump got caught manufacturing his own voter fraud. Adam Kinzinger exposes the Census Bureau's anonymous 2020 election report, built by partisan operatives, contradicted by Republican election officials, and debunked by DHS's own staff in Nevada. Also on today's show: the USS Doris Miller renaming controversy, the House Judiciary report on Trump's 1.7 billion dollar pardon giveaway, GOP hypocrisy on the 40 trillion dollar debt, and Trump's ground beef tariff suspension that leaves ranchers holding the bill before the midterms.

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A record food outbreak has sickened more than 11,000 Americans, the FDA just upgraded a frozen blueberry recall to Class One over E. coli, and Trump's answer is to nominate Heidi Overton, a White House loyalist with no management experience, to run an FDA that's lost a fifth of its staff. Adam also covers the Moderna-Merck mRNA cancer vaccine breakthrough that RFK Jr.'s research cuts put at risk, the Army killing its Ukraine-inspired drone battalion, the NYT report on Jennifer Hegseth's role inside the Pentagon, and Trump admitting he's rooting for bad economic news.

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