The Kinzinger Report

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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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Trump's handpicked candidates lost across the board last night. Catalina Lauf and Cory Mills went down in Florida, his pick for Wyoming governor lost her primary, and a Democrat flipped a Pennsylvania seat Trump carried by 18 points. Adam covers what it means for November, plus Darline Graham's Senate debate disaster, the court ruling unsealing Ghislaine Maxwell's Epstein files, the fake polling firm that fooled campaigns and newsrooms, and the $40 trillion national debt.

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Adam Kinzinger breaks down Trump's Oval Office meltdown at CNN reporter Kristen Holmes after a question about aide Natalie Harp, the story Jon Ossoff put on the map, and the official White House statement attacking her children. Plus: Attorney General Todd Blanche creates a new path for convicted felons to get their guns back, Trump votes by mail in Florida after years of calling it fraud, Pete Hegseth and the Cabinet campaign in Iowa as Trump's approval hits 33 percent, and Russia moves warships into the Baltic while arming Iran.

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The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump's fraud enforcement operation is falling apart. DOJ officials are accusing each other of faking prosecution numbers, and court records show the unit took credit for cases charged before it even existed. Adam breaks it all down, plus a Trump-appointed regulator approving a bank charter for the Trump family's crypto company World Liberty Financial, the mystery of White House aide Natalie Harp, Trump canceling military drills with South Korea to please Kim Jong Un, and the Navy finally sending relief to the USS Abraham Lincoln.

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The court tossed Trump's billion-dollar case against Harvard, and Adam explains why the antisemitism claim was a mask for a retaliation campaign. Also today: the Kennedy Center board voting to close the building and rename it for Trump while a judge has already ruled that unlawful, the USS Abraham Lincoln crisis with 250 days at sea and Pete Hegseth dismissing the families' warnings, DHS surveilling labor unions and climate groups and even a bike repair collective in Minnesota, and New York handing out thousands of free Broadway tickets to high school students.

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Trump's press secretary Karoline Leavitt is out, and Adam covers what her tenure really represented along with the troubling shortlist to replace her. Also today: a Wall Street Journal exclusive on Ukrainian drones destroying a U.S. armored brigade during the Combined Resolve exercise, Pete Hegseth shutting Democrats out of Pentagon briefings on the $1.5 trillion defense budget, the record-breaking sale of the Los Angeles Lakers to Josh Kushner and Bob Iger, and the election deniers nominated for governor and secretary of state across Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada.

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The Air Force One decoy backlash keeps growing, and Trump's excuse under questioning fell apart on camera. Adam also covers Trump signaling openness to a conspiracy theorist's plan to declare an election emergency and seize control of the midterms, the White House pressuring prosecutors to revive the Reflecting Pool case against Olympian David Hearn after a judge already threw it out, Treasury killing the corporate ownership rule meant to stop money laundering, and David Crowley's razor-thin win in the Wisconsin Democratic primary.

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Just over a week after Trump declared a historic breakthrough for peace in Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood in front of his own cabinet and rejected the entire 15-point plan, handing Trump a public embarrassment from the one ally he was sure was on his side. Adam breaks down why it happened and what it says about how Trump misunderstands foreign policy, plus Trump already souring on his new DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, a heartbreaking update on Joe Biden's cancer, bulldozers tearing through Big Bend National Park for a border wall even local sheriffs call pointless, and...

A federal appeals court just ordered Donald Trump to stop building his $400 million White House ballroom, the one he tore down the East Wing to make room for, ruling that he needs congressional approval and can't use what the court called executive self-help. Adam breaks down that ruling and what it means for the fight over Trump's overreach, plus Democrat James Talarico surging ahead of Ken Paxton in the Texas Senate race, a brutal week for the GOP as Trump loses two House primaries and scandals pile up, a new U.S. intelligence warning that Russia could attack a...

The missile shortage is real, the war in Iran has stalled because of it, and Trump's answer is to hunt down leakers and threaten prison. Adam covers the Camp David blowup with Hegseth, Trump naming JD Vance his successor for 2028, the MAGA defections led by Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Greene, two losses for RFK Jr. and the MAHA movement as the FDA approves an mRNA flu vaccine, a stunning Michigan primary upset driven by anti-Muslim bigotry, and the ballooning cost of Trump's vanity battleship fleet.

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Adam Kinzinger breaks down NBC News reporting that the Pentagon is drafting a new nuclear weapons strategy for a possible war with China or Russia, one that embraces tactical nukes, while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's pick to lead the Army gets blocked by Senate Republicans. Plus Max Miller's disastrous CNN interview with Jake Tapper, Kansas and Missouri voters rejecting GOP power grabs, the DOJ dropping the Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy case against Stewart Rhodes, and Senator Ron Wyden's report on Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan Chase, and the money behind Jeffrey Epstein.

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A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's ban on voter registration help for newly naturalized citizens, ruling it was motivated by intentional discrimination. Adam breaks down the ruling and what it means for voting rights. Plus: RFK Jr. and Rand Paul turn the Fauci circus into a book-selling operation, Senator Bernie Moreno says Max Miller is unfit to serve as Trump looks the other way, a court lets ICE agents keep their masks on in New York, and Trump blames Big Oil for the gas prices his Iran war created.

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Capital One told a federal court it closed hundreds of Trump Organization accounts for anti-money laundering reasons. The bank never said why until Trump sued them for debanking, and his own lawsuit forced the answer into the open. Adam breaks down the court filing, plus Senators Cornyn and Tillis caving to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General, RFK Jr.'s meltdown with Dana Bash on CNN, Trump blaming Minnesota instead of Iran for the water system cyberattacks, and the DOJ dropping the Reflecting Pool vandalism case.

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The Wall Street Journal exposes Donald Trump's $800 million fundraising operation, where his personal fundraiser tells corporate executives "the boss wants this money" and companies believe donations buy access to the White House. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the shakedown, plus the Commerce Department taking equity stakes in seven more private companies, Trump walking back Ukraine's Patriot missile deal, the White House's claimed Hamas disarmament agreement, and the global revolt against FIFA's $20 billion World Cup sell-off linked to Jared Kushner.

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Todd Blanche's confirmation vote for Attorney General was pulled after Republican Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis demanded written assurances about the Trump-IRS settlement that shields the President's family from tax audits. Plus: Senate Republicans turn the Fauci COVID hearing into a spectacle, Alex Jones demands Trump's impeachment over the Iran war, Elon Musk brings back America PAC to spend big on the midterms, and the Secret Service admits it tracked James Comey over a seashell photo.

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Medicare drug premiums are going up in 2027. The Trump administration is ending the Part D subsidy that held them down, and Dr. Oz is calling it the end of a bailout. Adam runs the real numbers for 25 million seniors. Also in this episode: Trump at Lindsey Graham's National Cathedral funeral, the Senate Russia sanctions vote, Jay Clayton's party-line confirmation as DNI, and the leaked GOP memo behind Trump's communist attacks.

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With the 2026 midterms under 100 days out, Trump's own political operation is telling Republican candidates to keep their distance from him. Adam breaks down why the people running these campaigns already know they're in trouble, and why Speaker Mike Johnson is counting on prayer warriors at the Capitol instead. Also: new abuse allegations against Ohio Rep. Max Miller and the Republican silence around them, a new analysis showing Trump has made more money in two years than in the previous sixty, and Trump pressuring RFK Jr. to cut the childhood vaccine schedule. Adam closes on a personal note.

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Trump attended the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner and bombed, rambling for an hour, insulting reporters by name, and mocking CNN's Kaitlan Collins. Then he watched Wall Street Journal reporters win the Katharine Graham Award for the Epstein birthday letter story he's suing them over. Also: fired 60 Minutes correspondent Cecilia Vega says CBS pressured her to report things that never happened, Trump goes quiet on the Iran war as Patriot missile stockpiles run low, a DEA assessment finds the drug boat strikes haven't slowed cocaine, and a new executive order puts warning signs outside the Smithsonian.

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