The Kinzinger Report

Never Vance | The MAGA Revolt Against Trump's Own VP — July 24, 2026

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:17:41 +0000

The 2028 fight has already started. Terry Virts, filling in for Adam Kinzinger, covers the "Never Vance" campaign against Vice President JD Vance, the online revolt inside MAGA, and what it means for the race to succeed Trump. Also in this episode: the DOJ backs down on its New York Times reporter subpoenas after a judge threatens to quash them, new tariffs take effect on 80+ countries covering 99% of US imports, Laura Loomer's Ukraine reversal, and the Pentagon's edited Iran war casualty count.

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Running on Empty | Officials Flee Trump at a Record Pace — July 23, 2026

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 16:32:08 +0000

Senior officials are leaving the Trump administration faster than under any modern president, and Trump is replacing them with acting officials who skip Senate confirmation entirely. Adam Kinzinger explains why that loophole matters. Also on today's show: $13 billion in missing Venezuelan oil revenue, the US-Saudi nuclear agreement and the Trump family's Saudi money, the dignified transfer at Dover, and why the White House is panicking over Jon Ossoff.

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Special Episode: Introducing Astronaut Terry Virts — July 23, 2026

Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:39:18 +0000

Adam sits down with astronaut and former ISS commander Terry Virts, who'll be filling in on the daily show when Adam's on the road. They talk about his run for office in Texas, his passion for Ukraine, and the open corruption of this administration.

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No Answers | Pete Hegseth's Brutal Day in the Senate — July 22, 2026

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:48:24 +0000

Adam Kinzinger breaks down Pete Hegseth's disastrous Senate hearing on Iran war funding, where senators from both parties demanded answers on the $67 billion request and got none. Then: Republican midterm panic and the $530 million "hate election" plan, Trump's push to make FIFA president Gianni Infantino the UN Secretary-General, the court order opening Trump's financial records in the BBC lawsuit, and the Trump campaign's fake "failed application" donation scam.

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Follow the Lettuce | The Trump Donor at the Center of a Nationwide Parasite Outbreak — July 21, 2026

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:37:35 +0000

The worst cyclospora outbreak on record is spreading, and the lettuce supplier at the center of it, Taylor Farms, gave a million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC and met with the White House days before the FDA reversed its only positive test. Adam also covers the 50 percent Canada tariff, Kash Patel's Russia trip hosted by the FSB, the Justice Department subpoenaing reporters' relatives over the Air Force One story, and electricity prices up 18 percent under Trump.

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Change the Subject | The Speech Republicans Are Pretending Never Happened — July 20, 2026

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:02:41 +0000

Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Republican backlash to Trump's primetime address on the 2020 election. His own party wanted a midterms message, Fox and Friends went three hours without mentioning the speech, and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin is now threatening to prosecute state election officials. Adam also covers the three US soldiers who died at the hands of Iran this weekend and the attacks the Pentagon kept quiet, the FBI ending its investigations of ICE shootings, Trump inserting himself into Spain's World Cup celebration, and his tariff threat against Canada over wildfire smoke.

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The Big Lie Is Still a Lie | Trump's Primetime Election Speech Falls Apart — July 17, 2026

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:44:34 +0000

Trump went on primetime TV claiming China stole the 2020 election, but the declassified documents he released prove him wrong. Adam breaks down what the intelligence actually says. Plus, the White House teleprompter operator caught betting on Trump's speeches on Kalshi, Trump Media selling Wall Street early access to Truth Social posts, the Washington Post debunking Trump's Reflecting Pool vandalism story, and Epstein survivors calling acting Attorney General Todd Blanche condescending after a tense meeting.

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The Slip | Trump's Personal Lawyer Auditions for Attorney General and Tells On Himself — July 16, 2026

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:36:36 +0000

Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former personal defense lawyer, faced the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing to become Attorney General. He dodged questions on DOJ independence, the January 6th pardons, and investigations of Trump's enemies, then slipped on one unguarded question that revealed who he really works for. Adam also covers Jay Clayton, Trump's Director of National Intelligence nominee, refusing to say who won the 2020 election, JD Vance admitting on Joe Rogan's podcast that the White House botched the Epstein files, Pete Hegseth's testosterone screening video and blocked Navy promotions, and Pentagon planning for a military invasion of Cuba during the Iran war.

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Keep Those Crime Stats Coming | Trump Orders ICE Traffic Stops to Resume After Two Deaths — July 15, 2026

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:15:38 +0000

Trump overrules his own administration and orders ICE to resume traffic stops just one day after the agency suspended them over two fatal shootings in Maine and Texas. Adam breaks down Trump's Truth Social post, the deaths of two men who weren't even targets, and what "keep those crime stats coming" says about this president. Plus: a judge reveals ICE has 11,000 pages on putting agents at polling places after claiming it had zero, Wisconsin's bipartisan elections commission finds probable cause Elon Musk committed election bribery, the UAE gets license-free access to advanced AI chips after secretly buying a $500 million stake in Trump's crypto company, and a federal judge blocks the State Department's visa ban on disinformation researchers as a First Amendment violation.

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The Slush Fund Is Dead | A Federal Judge Torches Trump's IRS Deal — July 14, 2026

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:57:46 +0000

A federal judge just nullified Donald Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization" fund, ruling his IRS lawsuit was brought for an improper purpose and sanctioning his lawyers days before Todd Blanche's Attorney General confirmation hearing. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the ruling, plus ICE suspending vehicle stops after two deadly shootings in Maine and Houston, Trump's plan to release classified 2020 election documents ahead of a prime-time speech, the 20 percent Strait of Hormuz toll he abandoned in a day, and Marco Rubio's campaign to dismantle the International Criminal Court.

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No Line He Won't Cross | Trump Uses Lindsey Graham's Death to Push the SAVE Act — July 13, 2026

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:49:44 +0000

Adam Kinzinger remembers Senator Lindsey Graham, then breaks down how Donald Trump marked his friend's death: by going on Meet the Press within hours and turning it into a pitch for the SAVE America Act, his stalled voting bill. Also on today's show: the Justice Department subpoenas four New York Times reporters over the Air Force One story, Iran declares the Strait of Hormuz closed as Trump claims a 20 percent toll on all cargo, a Trump-appointed judge dismisses the Proud Boys seditious conspiracy case, and the FBI fires two analysts who refused to join the Georgia 2020 election investigation.

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Platner Drops Out | Trump Casts Doubt on the Woman Who Accused Him — July 9, 2026

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:41:21 +0000

On today's Kinzinger Report: Graham Platner is out of the Maine Senate race after a sexual assault accusation, and when Trump was asked about it, he didn't go after the Democrats. He went after the woman. Adam breaks down why he does this every single time in today's show. He also gets into why Trump refused to board his brand new Qatar-gifted Air Force One after the NATO summit, the Pentagon running out of money, the White House's new "Freedom Fuel" gas stations, and the President denying disaster relief to four states because they didn't vote for him.

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Back to War | Trump's Iran Ceasefire Collapses — July 8, 2026

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:22:08 +0000

The ceasefire Trump spent all summer bragging about is dead. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the overnight US strikes on Iran, the spike in oil prices Americans will feel at the pump, and a NATO summit where the President demanded Greenland, cut off trade with Spain, and confused Zelensky with Putin in front of the world. Plus some actual good news: courts protected your vote twice in one day, even with a Trump-appointed judge on the bench. And in Texas, the GOP's Senate nominee Ken Paxton, who built his career hunting voter fraud, now stands accused of committing it himself.

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Trump Loses in Court Again | Judge Orders Legal Immigration Applications to Restart — July 7, 2026

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:55:48 +0000

Adam Kinzinger breaks down a federal judge's order forcing the Trump administration to unfreeze green card and work permit applications for immigrants who are already here legally, and why the ruling exposes the "legal immigration" talking point. Plus: Trump's oldest friend Peter Ticktin pushes a national emergency plan to take federal control of the midterm elections, Kevin McCarthy's response to the Maine Senate race scandal ignores his own party's record, a $13 million helipad goes up on the White House South Lawn, and Trump backs Turkey's return to the F-35 program at the NATO summit.

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Reclaim America? | White Nationalists March on DC and Trump's Cabinet Won't Condemn It — July 6, 2026

Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:47:01 +0000

Hundreds of masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched through Washington on July 4th, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wouldn't condemn them when asked directly. Adam breaks down the photo that defined the weekend, Trump overruling safety officials before falling asleep at his own fireworks, the President's communism rhetoric while his government owns a stake in Intel, the phone call to FIFA that erased Folarin Balogun's World Cup suspension, and Russia's deadly strikes on Kyiv ahead of the NATO summit in Turkey.

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The Promise Is Still Ours | A Fourth of July Message — July 3, 2026

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:30:19 +0000

Adam Kinzinger spends a few minutes on the Fourth of July, 250 years after the Declaration was signed, and why he still thinks the promise is worth keeping. The regular show is back Monday. Happy Fourth.

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Cashing In | Trump's $1.4B Crypto Windfall — July 1, 2026

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:35:33 +0000

Trump's new financial disclosure runs 927 pages and shows he pulled in at least $1.4 billion from crypto in his first year back in office, most of it from a meme coin with his own face on it. Adam breaks down what it means for a sitting president to profit this openly from the office he holds. Plus: House Republicans tank the defense bill and leave town early for the Fourth, freezing a troop pay raise on their way out; Congressman Tom Kean Jr. returns after nearly four months away and explains why; the right scrambles for ways around its Supreme Court birthright citizenship loss; and a tightening Texas Senate race has Republicans convening in Dallas to save Ken Paxton.

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The Constitution Holds | SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump's Bid to End Birthright Citizenship — June 30, 2026

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:01:14 +0000

The Supreme Court upholds birthright citizenship, striking down Trump's executive order in a 6-3 ruling. Plus: Trump calls the bipartisan housing bill a "big yawn" while building a $500 million White House ballroom, a plan to issue 250 pardons for America's 250th birthday, confusion over US-Iran talks in Qatar and Trump's demand for $2.50 gas, and a federal judge calling the Gateway Tunnel funding freeze "flagrantly illegal."

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Trump Loses at the Supreme Court | Mail Ballots and the Carroll Verdict — June 29, 2026

Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:13:46 +0000

Donald Trump had a rough morning at the Supreme Court. In a 5-4 ruling written by his own appointee Amy Coney Barrett, the justices upheld Mississippi's grace period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day, rejecting a challenge brought by the RNC and backed by Trump's Justice Department. The same morning, the Court refused to hear his appeal in the E. Jean Carroll case, leaving the jury's verdict — and the $5 million he owes her — in place.

Adam also digs into a New York Times investigation of the Trump family's stake in a Kazakhstan tungsten deal financed with taxpayer money, the election operative with no intelligence background now running staff at the nation's top spy agency, the fabricated CPS hoax that pulled Pete Buttigieg's children into a police interview, and the president's half-empty 250th birthday fair on the National Mall.

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The TPS Ruling | Supreme Court Clears the Way for Mass Deportations — June 26, 2026

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 18:21:11 +0000

The Supreme Court just stripped legal status from roughly 350,000 Haitians and thousands of Syrians who came here the legal way — registered, passed background checks, paid their fees — and cleared the way to deport them to a country our own State Department says is too dangerous to visit. We break down the 6-3 ruling, Stephen Miller's reaction, and why even Republican governors like Mike DeWine are calling it a mistake.

Then: JD Vance shrugs off Watergate at the Nixon Library and accidentally tells on himself about how far political accountability has fallen. RFK Jr. gets caught on tape leaning on a third-party candidate to drop out of an Iowa race. The White House and Pentagon start "Q posting" in a clumsy bid to win back a base that's already calling it cringe. And Ted Cruz takes the Senate floor to brand Tucker Carlson the most dangerous demagogue in America.

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Fall in Line | Trump's Capitol Hill Shouting Match — June 25, 2026

Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:32:26 +0000

The President went to Capitol Hill for a show of unity and turned it into a shouting match, spending most of a private lunch railing against the Republicans in his own party. When Senator Bill Cassidy stood up to push back, Trump told him to sit down — and by midnight, Cassidy had folded and voted exactly the way the President wanted.

Adam also breaks down Trump admitting on camera that he leaned on a federal prosecutor over a California election still being counted, his Postmaster General threatening to hold back mail ballots until a federal judge blocked the order, and NATO chief Mark Rutte flattering the President to keep America in the alliance.

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Held Hostage | Trump Won't Sign Landmark Housing Bill — June 24, 2026

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 19:08:44 +0000

In a rare case of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats passed the biggest housing bill in 30 years. Then, hours before signing it, Trump torched the whole thing, refusing to put his name on it until Congress passes a voter bill aimed at fraud that doesn't exist. We get into how the President is holding struggling families hostage over a lie. Plus: the Senate's historic rebuke of the Iran war, the Pentagon falling apart under a cable-TV host, the COVID study the administration tried to bury and the mystery drug raising questions about Trump's own health, and the Reflecting Pool saga that just keeps getting worse.

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Losing Streak | The Courts Hand Trump Two Big Losses in One Day - June 23, 2026

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:30:26 +0000

The courts had a big day yesterday, and it did not go the administration's way. A George W. Bush appointee threw out the DOJ's grand jury subpoenas against Tim Walz, Jacob Frey, and other Minnesota officials, calling it a blatantly unlawful use of the grand-jury process. Hours later, a D.C. judge struck down the administration's expanded SAVE database after it flagged natural-born citizens as noncitizens and knocked some off the voter rolls.

Plus: Trump threatens to sue ABC News over its reflecting pool coverage after correspondent Jonathan Karl held up a piece of peeling paint on camera. Tens of thousands protest a Kushner-backed luxury resort in Albania with ties to Qatari money. The latest Iran talks collapse into threats, cleanup, and a deal that already isn't what Vance claimed. And after 35 years, Tucker Carlson says he's done with the Republican Party — though not for the reasons you might hope.

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Who Is She? | Trump's Weird Post Raises New Questions About His Mental Acuity - June 22, 2026

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:09:08 +0000

On the eve of Father's Day, the President posted a tribute to his "great daughter" — and the woman in the photo was a stranger. Adam digs into what that moment says about the President's mental decline, his late-night posting, and why the people around him won't say what they're seeing.

Plus: a Washington Post investigation suggests Tulsi Gabbard spent years following the script of an alleged cult leader while in elected office. Trump blames "vandals" for the algae in his $14 million reflecting pool. The Iran deal collapses days after it was announced, with the Strait of Hormuz closed again. And Trump unveils his Qatari-gifted Air Force One — a "free" jet whose makeover is costing taxpayers close to a billion dollars.

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Empty Warehouses | ICE Abandons $700 Million Detention Center Plan - June 19, 2026

Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:33:58 +0000

ICE spent $700 million on empty warehouses to lock people up — and now it's trying to give them back. Trump's brand new intelligence chief has zero experience, asked to take classified files home, and the White House already told CNN he's there to do whatever Trump wants. Trump's own government found no evidence of a stolen election, and now the White House is sitting on the report. Plus, Trump spent the week telling reporters he's greater than Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon, with help from a "presidential historian" who turned out to be a golf caddie. And four former presidents gathered in Chicago for the opening of the Obama Presidential Center, for a night that felt like the country a lot of us still believe in.

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Trump Signs the Iran Deal | And His Party Is Already Bailing — June 18, 2026

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:06:14 +0000

Trump signed his Iran deal at the Palace of Versailles, and he's calling it historic. The problem is, his own party isn't. Adam also gets into Georgia Republicans backing away from their own redistricting fight, new reporting on Trump's obsession with "taking" Greenland, a DOJ inspector general nominee who won't call January 6th an attack, and the leaked story of Jeff Bezos trashing the Washington Post over dinner with Trump.

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Save the Receipts | Dems Probe Trump's Bid to Suspend Constitutional Rights — June 17, 2026

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:51:03 +0000

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding answers about how close the White House came to suspending constitutional rights. It's a records request today, but they're laying the foundation for something bigger. Also on the show: JD Vance doing damage control on his own book tour, Trump holding intelligence powers hostage, confusion over the Iran deal, and Kash Patel's latest mess.

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Enemies List | Trump's DOJ Comes for Gavin Newsom — June 16, 2026

Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:48:56 +0000

Gavin Newsom says he and his wife are under federal investigation, and the timing is hard to ignore — he's the Democrat most expected to run in 2028, and he joins a growing list of Trump rivals the Justice Department has gone after. Adam lays out what we know, what we don't, and why the burden is on the President to prove this is about the law and not a list. Plus: Trump's own CIA director doubts the Iran deal he's calling historic, new reporting on the President's staggering stock trades, the "free" White House ballroom that's already cost taxpayers, and Trump shrugging off Ukraine as America's allies scramble to keep him at the table.

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The Art of the Deal | Trump's Iran Deal Is Worse Than the One He Tore Up — June 15, 2026

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:33:11 +0000

The US and Iran say they have a deal, and the war could be over by Friday — but the fine print tells a different story. Adam breaks down why the agreement Trump is about to sign looks a lot like the one he tore up in 2018, except this time it comes with billions for Tehran and the same unanswered question about Iran's nuclear program. Plus: the FBI raids a voter registration group in Ohio, new reporting that the White House weighed suspending habeas corpus and invoking the Insurrection Act, fears that the Situation Room is bugged, and the UFC cage fight Trump threw himself on the South Lawn for his 80th birthday.

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Sounding the Alarm | The Iran War Comes for the World's Food Supply — June 12, 2026

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:16:40 +0000

Adam Kinzinger breaks down how the Iran war is coming for the global food supply, with fertilizer shortages set to spike grain prices and deepen world hunger. Plus: Elon Musk becomes the world's first trillionaire as SpaceX hits the Nasdaq, Trump calls off strikes on Iran while claiming a deal is nearly done, the Pentagon pulls a third of U.S. fighter jets out of Europe, and a UFC cage goes up on the White House lawn for the President's 80th birthday.

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Going Dark | Trump Turmoil Could Kill a Critical Surveillance Tool — June 11, 2026

Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:30:02 +0000

Adam breaks down the turmoil inside Trump's White House and the surveillance program set to expire Friday because of it. Also today: the Postal Service's new mail-in ballot rules, JD Vance's Epstein damage-control meeting revealed in a new book, Trump's plan to take Iran's oil, and fresh questions about the President's health.

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Trading Fire | U.S. Strikes Iran and Tehran Hits Back — June 10, 2026

Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:08:57 +0000

U.S. airstrikes hit Iran overnight and Tehran fired back at American bases as inflation climbed to a three-year high of 4.2%. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Social Security trustees report moving insolvency up to 2032, a GOP congressman faking a phone call to dodge questions about benefit cuts, the $70 billion ICE funding bill passing the same day a report revealed 500 detained babies and toddlers, Epstein assistant Lesley Groff's testimony about setting up his calls with Trump, and Nancy Mace's fifth-place finish in South Carolina.

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Escalation in the Strait | Trump Says Iran Shot Down a U.S. Helicopter — June 9, 2026

Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:55:27 +0000

President Trump says Iran shot down a U.S. Army Apache near the Strait of Hormuz and that America will retaliate — and the two soldiers on board survived the first-ever rescue by an unmanned Navy drone boat. Plus: Trump booed and caught napping at the NBA Finals, Ken Paxton's impeachment lawyer endorses his Democratic opponent, Speaker Mike Johnson on cutting Social Security and Medicare, and Republicans cry fraud over a Los Angeles race.

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When the Questions Get Hard | Trump Walks Off NBC Interview — June 8, 2026

Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:30:16 +0000

Trump sat down with NBC's Kristen Welker and walked off the set the moment she asked him to prove his election fraud claims. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the walkout, plus Israel striking Iran after Trump told Netanyahu to stand down, a federal prosecutor sent to Los Angeles as Trump-backed candidate Spencer Pratt loses ground, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche admitting the DOJ's job is shielding Trump, and Trump stalling on a Ukraine drone deal his own Pentagon wants.

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Fired for Telling the Truth | Trump's 8,000-Worker Purge — June 5, 2026

Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:19:56 +0000

Adam Kinzinger breaks down Trump's new executive order stripping civil service protections from 8,000 senior federal workers. Plus: a new Lawfare study finds at least 97 pardoned January 6 defendants have been arrested or charged with new crimes, the flesh-eating screwworm reaches Texas for the first time since 1966, the Senate's all-nighter fails to kill the $1.8 billion "weaponization" slush fund as Bill Cassidy casts the deciding no vote, and Trump tells new spy chief Bill Pulte to chase "rigged elections" with the intelligence community.

The Blanche Loyalty Test | Trump's Lawyer Takes the DOJ — June 4, 2026

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:18:29 +0000

Trump is making his own defense lawyer, Todd Blanche, the permanent Attorney General. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what two months of loyalty bought at the DOJ, the House's historic 215-208 vote to end the Iran war, new Medicaid work requirements that could strip coverage from 5 million people, Spencer Pratt's stunning surge in the LA mayor's race, and how California's slow vote count is feeding the election deniers.

The Cost of Telling the Truth | CBS Fires Scott Pelley — June 3, 2026

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:09:51 +0000

CBS fires 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley after he refuses to put falsehoods on air — and goes public on Bari Weiss. Plus: Trump's pick Randy Feenstra loses the Iowa governor primary, the Pentagon hires a convicted January 6th rioter for a top-secret counterterrorism job, Rep. Andy Ogles' Pride Month post draws fire from his own party, and a new assessment says the Iran war left its nuclear program more dangerous, not less.