back with me now republican congressman adam kinzinger of illinois. want to play with you some sound from democratic congressman jim himes and this is what he said about the devin nunes meeting on white house grounds. >> congress is to serve of as a check and a balance on the president, on the white house, and so -- and yet devin and chairman nunes, whatever he's done, it's been at the white house. it appears to have been in the service of the white house and so it is very clear that it deves an explanation. >> you've been very clear. you want some bipartisan answers on what went on with russia. can you get bipartisan answers from this committee if the democrats on it don't trust the republican chair, if the republican chair isn't giving the democrats on the committee the information about where he's getting this intelligence, and as far as we know as of now at 4:13 eastern time hasn't shared with him actual intelligence. >> i'll leave where to devin and to the white house to talk about -- actually devin because he's the one that got it. but, look, i

joining me now is adam kinzinger from the great state of illinois. thanks for being here on this snowy day. you heard that there, you're well aware of what the president charged more than a week ago, certainly explosive as yet unsubstantiated charge that president obama specifically wiretapped his phones. not some sort of general charge of some sort of surveillance of someone during the campaign, but that obama wiretapped president trump. still no proof. from your seat, is there proof of this? >> i haven't seen it, and i think frankly the administration probably should come forward with whatever proof they have because, again, leveling a charge like that is a huge deal. that's like watergate basically if, in fact, a prior president was spying on a campaign. now, what it could be, of course, is, you know, a legitimate fisa warrant. maybe they'll listen to what general flynn was saying or somebody like that. there is a legal process to do that. or it could have been overheard conversations as part of normal intelligence gathering. but i think making a

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i want to bring in illinois congressman adam kinzinger. jeff sessions is scheduled to give a press conference in about 20 minutes. what do you to want hear from the attorney general should he recuse himself? >> i think he needs to explain what these meetings were and talk in as much tee do tail as he can remember. i think he should recuse himself, not necessarily as admission of any kind of guilt, because as you've heard and talked about, literally, i'm on the foreign affairs committee, i meet with ambassadors every day. and i cannot tell you the number of ambassadors i've met with and who you forget after a while. >> russian ambassadors, too? >> i have met with russian ambassador a number of years ago, yeah. that's part of diplomacy. but, i've got to tell you, what the american people want is a bipartisan investigation, that's what i've called for through the intel committees. and i think any appearance of any conflict of interest is not in the favor of the administration. so, i think it would be in jeff sessions' benefit to say, look, i

. >> martha: joining me now, congressman adam kinzinger, no doubt be burning the midnight oil, good to see her tonight, congressman. what is the mood there? >> well, everybody is interested, right? we are all waiting. we don't know exactly where the boat cart vote count is. we want to move forward and follow through on the promises we made to the american people, and we've got a conference that is happening here very soon. we're going to probably talk about this. ultimately, we have to be able to get to yes. that's the difference between being in charge now versus being in the opposition party. voting though is easy. but governing and getting to yes is difficult, and we are all going to have to make that decision on our own. i hope we can get there. >> martha: the president was meeting with members of the tuesday group, it seems to me that they are trying to -- they sort of went a little bit toward the conservatives on this and made some of them happy but some of the moderates sort of fell off the front end of the raft and the water, right? >> again, the art of this is very difficult,

adam kinzinger/-r- illinois: "what i want is a full accounting in a bipartisan way of what communications they had or didn't have. it will serve to put this to bed."besides democrats calling for sessions to resign -- a number of prominent republicans had said that he should recuse himself from any d-o-j probes looking at possible ties between the trump campaign and russia. so pressure from both sides. but the president himself today -- said he did not think sessions should make that recusal.in washington, i'm karin caifa. earlier today -- president donald trump met with navy sailors and shipbuilders in virginia. the president spoke aboard on the u-s-s gerald r ford -- a nearly 13- billion dollar warship expected to be comissioned later this year. he promoted his plans for a major buildup of the nations military. san leandro is the latest city in the bay area to become a "sanctaury city". it joins a growing list that includes san francisco -- oakland -- and san jose. tonight kron4's hermela aregawi talked to san leandro's mayor about what exactly the new status means. standupwell the mayor

joining us right now for some perspective, republican congressman, adam kinzinger of illinois. he's a veteran of the iraq and afghanistan wars. i saw you laughing, as i was saying what happened to ryan. but you're happy you're not him this morning. were you on that call back in october? >> yeah, look, you know, that was a call between members, obviously, you get that. and i think it was around august or september. look, it just -- i mean, it was wildly reported what he said. he basically said, in public, what he said, which is -- and you know, this is right after the "access hollywood" issue. so for breitbart to release this and act like this is some behind-the-scenes, you know, secret thing that happened, everybody already knew this. and again, it just goes to show that sometimes these news groups, they think that they can be the next branch of the government. >> well, look, news groups would be a very generous assessment of this particular outlet that we're talking about right now. >> right. >> but the point is pretty clear. this is steve bannon's mouthpiece organization. and

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byt: her thoughts reflected adam kinzinger this morning who just tweeted out after the decision yesterday, the house freedom caucus just single-handedly saved obamacare. the new york times has a highlight of the republicans involved in this process. to stop the republican health bill is the story. they boil it down to 32 republicans, 15 hardliners they label and eight other republicans, 10 moderates. hardliners section, hard-line conservatives are all members of the house freedom caucus, among the most conservative members of the house who highlight members like andy biggs of arizona and bill posey of florida and paul gosar of arizona, jim jordan of mentioned,s i including the appointed leader of this caucus, mark meadows of north carolina. the 10 moderates including barbara comstock of virginia, dan donovan of new york, ileana ros-lehtinen of florida. .here are others eight other republicans who had a variety of reasons, chris smith of new jersey, brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania and rick crawford of arkansas. the new york times website shows the breakdown of republicans who were trying

. >> bill: want to bring in adam kinzinger, good morning and thank you for your time.ou were in the room last night. what did you -- let's start with your observations. what did you see and hear? >> i thought it was an incredible speech. nobody knew what to expect. walking into that speech, seeing him begin and you knew from the very beginning this was going to be a very different speech than he has given in the past, very presidential. uniting and very bold. i think to build it around the idea of the 250th anniversary of the country gave him a singular focus, reminded america of our history and pride, and i have to tell you it was a home run, a touchdown, a three-point shot. all those. >> bill: did you speak to any democrats, colleagues in the house or senate? what did they say? >> they said we may not admit it publicly. it surprised us and it was a really good speech. we don't necessarily agree with all the things he outlined, of course, i sat through president obama and didn't agree with a lot of what he said but they were pleasantly surprised at his tone and hopefu

brian: congressman adam kinzinger called on them to get on board. freedom caucus stood by him.er the billie bush. ainsley: he tweeted that out. brian: lieutenant general michael flynn was the top ping yesterday as his generals reached out and said he was looking for immunity in terms of his testimony. and then he tweeted this out. steve: president trump tweeted this out just within the last minute. mike flynn should ask for immunity in that this is a witch-hunt. excuse for big election loss, by media democrats of historic proportion. keep in mind, michael flynn, pictured right there, he was the national security advisor to the president of the united states. he was early on in the days of the trump administration. he was asked apparently by the fbi, hey, did you talk to the russians during the transition period about sanctions? and he said no, i don't remember doing that and then suddenly somebody from one of the major newspapers has got the intercept between flynn and russians and said nope, he said it right here. how did that newspaper wind up with this? that's really what th