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The Kinzinger Report
Adam Kinzinger — former U.S. Congressman and Air Force veteran — breaks down the day's biggest stories with the clarity and candor Washington doesn't always welcome. No spin. Just honest analysis of the people, decisions, and moments shaping America.
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Episodes
The Kinzinger ReportCentral Casting | Trump's Pentagon Picks Generals for Their Looks — August 5, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportIntentional Discrimination | A Federal Judge Blocks Trump's Attack on New Citizens' Voting Rights — August 4, 2026
A federal judge blocked the Trump administration's ban on voter registration help for newly naturalized citizens, ruling it was motivated by intentional…
The Kinzinger ReportBackfire | Capital One Cites Money Laundering in Trump Account Closures — August 3, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportShakedown | Inside Trump's $800 Million Money Machine — July 31, 2026
The Wall Street Journal exposes Donald Trump's $800 million fundraising operation, where his personal fundraiser tells corporate executives "the boss wants…
The Kinzinger ReportMajor Setback | GOP Holdouts Pull the Vote on Trump's Attorney General — July 30, 2026
Todd Blanche's confirmation vote for Attorney General was pulled after Republican Senators John Cornyn and Thom Tillis demanded written assurances about the…
The Kinzinger ReportBroken Promise | Trump Ends the Medicare Program Holding Down Costs — July 29, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportUnderwater | Trump's Political Operatives Tell GOP Candidates to Keep Their Distance — July 28, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportAwkward Silence | Trump Embarrassed at the Correspondents' Dinner — July 27, 2026
Trump attended the rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner and bombed, rambling for an hour, insulting reporters by name, and mocking CNN's Kaitlan…
The Kinzinger ReportNever Vance | The MAGA Revolt Against Trump's Own VP — July 24, 2026
The 2028 fight has already started. Terry Virts, filling in for Adam Kinzinger, covers the "Never Vance" campaign against Vice President JD Vance, the…
The Kinzinger ReportRunning on Empty | Officials Flee Trump at a Record Pace — July 23, 2026
Senior officials are leaving the Trump administration faster than under any modern president, and Trump is replacing them with acting officials who skip Senate…
The Kinzinger ReportSpecial Episode: Introducing Astronaut Terry Virts — July 23, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportNo Answers | Pete Hegseth's Brutal Day in the Senate — July 22, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportFollow the Lettuce | The Trump Donor at the Center of a Nationwide Parasite Outbreak — July 21, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportChange the Subject | The Speech Republicans Are Pretending Never Happened — July 20, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Big Lie Is Still a Lie | Trump's Primetime Election Speech Falls Apart — July 17, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Slip | Trump's Personal Lawyer Auditions for Attorney General and Tells On Himself — July 16, 2026
Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former personal defense lawyer, faced the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing to become Attorney General. He…
The Kinzinger ReportKeep Those Crime Stats Coming | Trump Orders ICE Traffic Stops to Resume After Two Deaths — July 15, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Slush Fund Is Dead | A Federal Judge Torches Trump's IRS Deal — July 14, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportNo Line He Won't Cross | Trump Uses Lindsey Graham's Death to Push the SAVE Act — July 13, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportPlatner Drops Out | Trump Casts Doubt on the Woman Who Accused Him — July 9, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportBack to War | Trump's Iran Ceasefire Collapses — July 8, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportTrump Loses in Court Again | Judge Orders Legal Immigration Applications to Restart — July 7, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportReclaim America? | White Nationalists March on DC and Trump's Cabinet Won't Condemn It — July 6, 2026
Hundreds of masked members of the white nationalist group Patriot Front marched through Washington on July 4th, and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum wouldn't…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Promise Is Still Ours | A Fourth of July Message — July 3, 2026
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 Kinzinger ReportCashing In | Trump's $1.4B Crypto Windfall — July 1, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Constitution Holds | SCOTUS Strikes Down Trump's Bid to End Birthright Citizenship — June 30, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportTrump Loses at the Supreme Court | Mail Ballots and the Carroll Verdict — June 29, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportThe TPS Ruling | Supreme Court Clears the Way for Mass Deportations — June 26, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportFall in Line | Trump's Capitol Hill Shouting Match — June 25, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportHeld Hostage | Trump Won't Sign Landmark Housing Bill — June 24, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportLosing Streak | The Courts Hand Trump Two Big Losses in One Day - June 23, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportWho Is She? | Trump's Weird Post Raises New Questions About His Mental Acuity - June 22, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportEmpty Warehouses | ICE Abandons $700 Million Detention Center Plan - June 19, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportTrump Signs the Iran Deal | And His Party Is Already Bailing — June 18, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportSave the Receipts | Dems Probe Trump's Bid to Suspend Constitutional Rights — June 17, 2026
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are demanding answers about how close the White House came to suspending constitutional rights. It's a records…
The Kinzinger ReportEnemies List | Trump's DOJ Comes for Gavin Newsom — June 16, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Art of the Deal | Trump's Iran Deal Is Worse Than the One He Tore Up — June 15, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportSounding the Alarm | The Iran War Comes for the World's Food Supply — June 12, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportGoing Dark | Trump Turmoil Could Kill a Critical Surveillance Tool — June 11, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportTrading Fire | U.S. Strikes Iran and Tehran Hits Back — June 10, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportEscalation in the Strait | Trump Says Iran Shot Down a U.S. Helicopter — June 9, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportWhen the Questions Get Hard | Trump Walks Off NBC Interview — June 8, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportFired for Telling the Truth | Trump's 8,000-Worker Purge — June 5, 2026
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…
The Kinzinger ReportThe Blanche Loyalty Test | Trump's Lawyer Takes the DOJ — June 4, 2026
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 Kinzinger ReportThe Cost of Telling the Truth | CBS Fires Scott Pelley — June 3, 2026
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…