now, adam kinzinger is a air force who held a suburban chicago seat in the house for six terms until he decided not to run again in 2022. his new book is titled renege defending democracy and liberty in our divided country. mr. kinzinger, this book will be released october 17th. it's been published by the peuin imprint, t field, which is run by former california first lady and journalist maria shriver. and speaking of former president trump in the house january six select committee, cassidy hutchinson, the former special assistant to. the president will soon release her memoir enough. ms. hutchinson became a key witness during house january 6th hearings. her book is expected to be a tell about her time in the white house and her decision to testify on capitol hill. that's coming out september 26th, and that's the same day that another high profile trump administration staffer will release the book. kash patel was an adviser to president trump and chief of staff to the secretary of defense. his book is entitled government gangsters the deep the truth and the battle for our democracy.

and we are talking now with former congressman adam kinzinger, former member of the january 6th house committee. we are -- defend democracy is what the sign says right there. congressman kinzinger, one of the other things that's been going on in the last week beyond the georgia case is the sentencing of the oath keepers and proud boys. they are getting stiff sentences, 17 years, 22 years, 18 years, enrique tareo, stuart rhodes, a few months ago for stuart rhodes, they obviously were the tip of the spear of the actual attempt to stop the count in the capitol, to commit the riot and more. what was your reaction to that sentencing? >> again, i was pleased. i mean, you know, it's tough because we're, what, 2.5, 3 years later, i always wish that the wheels of justice had turned a little faster. look, we are where we are, and i think the justice department ultimately did a good job on these things. and you know, this is the oath keepers, the proud boys, this isn't, again, justice somebody that -- just somebody that was out that day and let their emotions overtake them. even if your emotions

we also want to bring in former republican congressman adam kinzinger. he's the honorary chairman of the country first act. what's your reaction to this news the president's son has been charged? >> the good side of it is nobody's above the law. for those that are trying doesn't mean the republicans aren't going to still try to do it. for those just buying into this doj only targets republicans, this is a counter point to that. i'd be very curious -- i'm not the law guy but i'd be very curious who's been charged with similar things for similar crimes. but i also -- you know, when the republicans now -- and this was kind of my biggest pet peeve in all this. they act like they're trying to be the guardians of the flame of the constitution in going after hunter biden. let's be very clear. hunter biden is simply a prop they can use to hang around joe biden's head, and these same people have never looked into it -- i'd take it much more serious if they'd be looking into jared kushner's deal with the saudis after office, ivanka in office, you know, investigati

. >> evan, stick around and let's bring in adam kinzinger and former assistant attorney carrie cordero. adam, attorney garland refused to answer questions related to on going investigations led by special counsel weiss. there were called to hold him in cob contempt of congress and they pointed out that jordan refused to comply with your january 6 subpoena to testify. how do you interpret the back and forth? >> well, i mean it is just show. i think, look, yes, jordan refused to -- refused our subpoena. refused to talk to us. he and others did the same. and it also happened to be some of the loudest. it has completely been appropriate for the attorney general not to comment at this hearing on ongoing investigations. as far as i know, that is pretty much what every attorney general does. especially on issues like this. and all it is, it is jim jordan knows and the others on the committee know that he can't comment and so they try to fashion questions in a way that make it look like there is something that he's hiding when there is not anything he's hiding. he oversees the justice departme

. >> i want to bring in cnn senior political commentator and former republican congressman adam kinzingerentator bakari sellers. great to see you both, tonight, gentlemen. congressman, i will start with you. -- on the nfl opener. not your people want to see that. maybe they want to see the rioters commercials, i just don't really. no but the truth of the matter, there's a new wall street journal poll that finds only 37% of voters approve of his actual handling of the economy. you've got a slogan, right? bidenomics. can he actually win without turning that 37% number around? >> i think he has to, to the extent that anyone even cares about policy anymore, who knows. but in terms of the economy, he has to start selling that story. because, look -- the best thing you can say about trump's he goes out and constantly talks about how great the economy was under him. he actually is one of the only president that left office with less jobs than what he came in with. and, look, i don't necessarily approve of democratic economic theory. but what i will say is, i think joe biden has a pretty solid ca

coming in to rescue him, and quite honestly he's done nothing to deserve it in my opinion. >> adam kinzingerh. coming up, they helped the former president's alleged attempt to overturn the election results in georgia. now they're being called to testify for the prosecution. their names in a moment. plus, good news if you are vivek ramaswamy or nikki haley, bad news if you're ron desantis. the latest cnn poll out of new hampshire for republican voters. next. (ella) fashion moves fast. setting trends is our business. we need to scale with customer demand... ...in real time. (jen) so we partner with verizon to take our operations to the next level. (marquis) with a custom private 5g network. (ella) with verizon business, we get more control of production, efficiencies, and greater agility. (marquis) so our customers get what they want, when they want it. (jen) it's not just a network. it's enterprise intelligence. (vo) learn more. it's your vision, it's your verizon. thursday night football on prime. it's on. welcome to thursday night football. thursday night football is on! it's daniel jones,

. >>> so, two cnn senior political commentators join me now, adam kinzinger, and former obama senior ramaswamy say he's not a party man. he doesn't need the party. how much truth is there in that? >> well, i mean, i think it's probably right to an extent because the party, all it does is reflect candidates now. i don't think -- people still talk about a party structure. it doesn't exist. it doesn't exist really in the democrats or the republicans. they don't have any power. all it is is a vehicle for somebody to run in a primary. but he -- man, how much he has changed his views, how much he just wants to get attention, you know, that actually may work right now. and he's a smart guy. i don't know how smart he is on things like foreign policy. but he's smart enough to know at this moment what people are looking for is somebody that just says outrageous things. because for whatever reasons, that's what politics has become. >> david axelrod, he is getting a lot of attention. he's been on this meteoric rise to where he is right now. in your experience, does this kind of momentum -- you k

joining me now, adam kinzinger. congressman, great to be with you.stic tonight that the house might be able to get something through. by that i mean the republicans would be able to get something through, but it would still be dead on arrival inside the senate there. where is this headed? is this still headed toward an inevitable shutdown? >> i'll tell you what, john, if i could, like, count the number of times i sat in this exact situation -- if people would pay attention to the script, this is every year. we're always down to the wire every year. it's always the same people holding out every year, and they always end up pass something that's not going to go past the senate every year. the play is let's get it out of the house so we can go on tv and tell people we did our job and now it's the senate's job. here's the problem. they may get something passed. it's going to be a piece of garbage that everybody knows will never become law. this is my concern. the moderate wing of the party -- the so-called moderate wing of the party -- is seeming to capi

congressman adam kinzinger that if i were a russian in crimea, i would panic, well, i hope that the russianstarting to panic there, but there is no panic, on the contrary , there is a solemnity of the moment, the locations where the vasyl stus prize is awarded, prominent ukrainian cultural figures gathered there to find out who became a laureate this year in direct communication with the studio from the ceremony, our correspondent kateryna, who already knows the name of this outstanding person, so kateryna congratulations, please reveal the secret to our viewers of the tv channel espresso, a few quick words, i am the laureate of one of the oldest ukrainian awards in tsarist culture, the vasyl stus award in 2023. he became a ukrainian film director, actor, author of many documentaries, serhii bukovsky , and like all the laureates of this award, he is an exceptional person for ukrainian culture, as well as a person with a strong public position behind me, they just handed over the coveted statuette. and i will remind you that the awards are also broadcast on our youtube channel, which is inter

adam kinzinger has all these comments being made by trump.here's a political benefit of staying loyal to trump because he has such a thrawl over his voter base and there's a fear of going up against him. i'm so glad to see -- i'm mortified and terrified that jay brad who i worked with for 15 plus years that he's been subject to any threats. his family, i read the comments that mike and his colleagues put in talking about fbi families not signing up for this. it has a real impact. it's not going to stop anybody from doing their job. any time your spouse has to look out the window before they leave for work, any time they have to drive a different route because of concerns about what the targeting might be, that sort of thing, if you're an investigator, prosecutor, that's the reason people are afraid to go up against trump. >> mike, your reporting leaves us wondering whether that's the point, right? it ends with one of your experts making this point, that 80% of all americans are against violence. if you're running in a general election and one

also cnn political commentator, adam kinzinger, former congressman from illinois and member of the house what stood out to you? >> first of all, she is not an easy interview, so i did admire as he tried to get her to be very specific in certain answers. what stood out to me certainly was her answer about kamala harris. >> she did not say yes. >> well, she said it was biden 's decision. more importantly, she actually offered a nugget of defense of vice president harris, which is that she is politically astute. if there is one thing about nancy pelosi, she respects winds. that is what she always brought to the caucus. that's the energy that she brings to things, and she very much said, look, this person can do it. don't underestimate them. and she did not have to say that. there are lots of people who would have been swirly in her answers, and she was not. >> congressman kinzinger, i referred to david ignatius's washington post op-ed, where he argued that president biden should not run again. he said that biden's undoing of his greatest achievement of stopping trump. do you think that joe

talk about what happened and more with cnn political commentator david axlerod, adam kinzinger, oddi, they wanted to be sort of in the mold of reagan. the ronald reagan national library, et cetera. you say they were in the shadow of trump. >> mine, it's hard to have these conversations about reagan at this point. adam can probably talk to this more. but the person who granted amnesty or the person who, like, fired air traffic controllers. but not much of what they had to say is actually within the realm of that era of conservatism. so what you have a lot of people bickering about nonsense because the stakes are really low. it's not clear that there is a cohesive coherent post-trump policy. if it is in existence, it wasn't on stage. >> the starkest thing was on ukraine. can you imagine what ronald reagan would have said about some of the things that were said about ukraine on there? i think the big -- the big loser last night was whoever had to operate the closed-caption machine because how do you distinguish between all those people yelling at each other? i don't think it was a lack o

. >> congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, the only republican on the january 6th committee other thanney, says all the threats are part of trump's plan. >> i don't think you can look at the words and actions of donald trump and think that he wanted anything except the explosion of these threats to people. he could stop that in a second if he wanted to, but he likes it. there are a lot of members of congress that i think voted against impeachment because they were scared for their family and for themselves. what does that mean? it means threats of violence worked. >>> up next -- >> they suggested that he use the apparatus of government to the apparatus of government to seize voting machines.tists. tourist taking photos that are analyzed by ai. so researchers can help life underwater flourish. ♪ the morgan stanley client experience? listening more than talking, and a personalized plan ♪ to guide you through a changing world. ♪ thursday night football on prime. it's on. thursday night football returns, as the vikings take on the eagles. stream thursday night football. only on prime. i br

like the rest of the republican party, other than a couple of exceptions like liz cheney and adam kinzinger, he's sticking with trump. >> great reporting. thank you so much. >>> let's turn to robert james, the former district attorney for dekalb county, georgia. you heard me tick through a few of the votes. help me understand, if the special jurors voted to bring charges against these people, a majority of them, why were charges not ultimately brought. >> well ultimately it is a recommendation. that is all it is. especially with a grand jury, they're not or a regular grand jury that has the power to indict. they get together and they hear evidence and they recommend charges. they recommend changes. their scope is pretty broad, even beyond recommending that people be criminally charged and recommend changes to government. and so ultimately it is the prosecutors' job to sit down and review all of the evidence, right. because she has the lawyer and she is the attorney and the special purpose grand jury is not and do they have enough evidence to prove that law was violated beyond a reasonable d

can i ask you one point that your former republican colleague in congress, adam kinzinger said on cnn last night. you've been supporter for funding for ukraine. "i don't understand they have to play hardball against the freedom club." do you agree? time for hard pd ball? >> i do agree. a couple ways to play lhard bal what matters to our districts and stand for over the last 48 hours, beginning to play hard ball and like i said move things forward today, i do want to obviously represent, the migrant crisis. so impacting new york. particularly right here where i am in new york city, more than 100,000 migrants arriving here. you know what mayor add answer said about that. even said this crisis could destroy the city. critical of the biden administration for not giving more aid for them to deal with this. overnight the biden administration did do something on this front. that is giving temporary protected status to almost 500,000 venezuelan migrants in the u.s. allowing them to work more quickly and shield them from deportation. >> certain eweryou're going to support a policy drawing more

>>> let's bring in deputy chief of staff, former deputy chief of staff for former congressman adam kinzinger and bloomberg senior washington correspondent zalaeh. i want to start with you, congressman, democrat but you represented a very purple part of new york. so, biden is going to a battleground state. then trump follows him. you think that biden needs to be careful and in your words wake up the campaign on this. why? >> well, absolutely. look at what happened. okay. donald trump initially ate his lunch. right, when he announced that he was going to this site that is traditionally the democratic base. >> stronghold. >> now what's interesting, though, is that what everyone thought, the press and myself included, is what biden was going to do was stay away from michigan as a consequence there. you don't want to look like you're going there just in response to trump being there. but instead, the administration and his campaign has decided to do something that no president, no sitting president has ever done and in the process has completely shifted the narrative away from donald trump to thi

every elected official, especially people like liz cheney, adam kinzinger, mitt romney talking abouto. anybody who goes on tv and speaks out against these folks, you worry about walking to your car on the way out. that's the culture he has created in this country. it geese all the way down to the school board. people are afraid to speak up in a school board, they're worried they're going to get jumped outside. that's the command climate that trump has created, the culture of intimidation he has created. it goes all the way down to your vaccines. i think a bigger point here, he was also sympathizing with putin this week. putin loves this. our enemies love this. imagine how bin laden would have celebrated nobody taking a vaccine, people attacking each other out in the open, direct attacks on our politicians. this is our enemy's dream. and it's all intertwined into what should be a national security priority and not just a political discussion. >> yeah, charlie, this is the -- put it on our list to expand upon. i think about this in the context of the dominion voting systems case. there

joining us now is former january 6 committeed edmember adam kinzinger. how damage could this be? >> could be very damaging. she's an insider. it's a direct statement from the president. shows his intent, as does his action with telling her -- or making notes on the back of a classified document. she will be a valuable witness. i suspect this is just a sliver of what she has told them and what she knows. >> congressman, when you hear -- there's nothing that one can be too surprised about, that one hears about the former president. writing notes on classified documents and giving them to an aide, if true, is extraordinary. >> yeah. it's reckless. it's everything we know about donald trump, which is the only thing he cares about is himself. whether it's classified information or not, if that's the convenient paper to grab and write a note, that's what he is going to do. once again, molly michael -- you think of people like cassidy hutchinson, sara matthews, you have these young women in trump's orbit that have the courage to say the right thing. i don't know the whole fstory with mo

a few figures have come for two -- like peter meijer of michigan and adam kinzinger of illinois who both shared details about the difference there were safe after voting for trump's second impeachment. >> i'll tell you the threats are constants. they have increased. i've even heard a voice mail just this morning we got last night, threatening execution. that kind of seems to be the normal thing nowadays. let's just throw an execution. we have security, we've had to up our security posture. and we are aware, but we're going to move on. it's not going to hinder us and not intimidate us. >> all sorts of people in public life across the political spectrum received threats. it's part of how things operate, these days. it's not new. here is something different. in the age of trump, those threats become very real and acute. during his first run for president, donald trump explicitly encourage violence from his supporters. he told him at his rallies,, quote knock the crap out of any procedures, i'll pay the legal fees. and we've seen that endorsement of violence take hold among his supporters. p

and maura gillespie, former aid to congressman adam kinzinger and before that to house speakerjohn boehner around the panel and take a quick take from all of you as to what your instant thoughts were about what we've been watching for the last two hours, brakkton, we'll start with you. hours, brakkton, we'll start with vom— with you. well, i think that the candidates _ with you. well, i think that the candidates were - with you. well, i think that the candidates were doing | with you. well, i think that - the candidates were doing their best to differentiate themselves from their counterparts. and what i absolutely think is that these candidates were really trying to counterprogramming, trying to counterprogramming, trying to get past what donald trump was doing in michigan, where he was doing in michigan, where he was campaigning for the general election there.— election there. matt, what's our election there. matt, what's your quick — election there. matt, what's your quick view? _ election there. matt, what's your quick view? certainly, l election there. matt, what's i your quick view?

many of them particularly on the house side were flushed out either in the last election and adam kinzingerhis is i think basically, you know, the last person, you know, who was in there who has had the courage in his convictions and made the moral case against trump. others have spoken out from time to time, but romney was the one who has gotten to the core of donald trump and not fit to be in office and someone who doesn't have the character to be a president. not having that voice in washington i think just kind of solidifies the trajectory we are on, which is that the republican party is, you know, completely submitted to donald trump and unwilling to address all of his myriad flaws. >> so romney was sort of insulated on the maga pressures because of republicans and how popular he is in that state. we've seen other republicans try to stand up and trump and got all frankly crushed when liz cheney comes to mind after she stood up to him. is there anyone you see in the party in washington with any position of power at all who could fill romney's shoes? >> no. i wish i could come up with so

plenty to talk about with cnn's audie cornish, also cnn adam kinzinger, member of the house january 6th >> first of all, she's not an easy interview. so, i did admire, as you tried to get her to be very specific in certain answers. what stood out to me, though, certainly was her answer about kamala harris. first of all -- >> she didn't say yes. >> she -- well, she said it was biden's decision. more importantly, she offered a nugget of defense of vice president harris, which is she is politically astute. if there's one thing about nancy pelosi, she respects wins. that's what she brought to the caucus. that's the energy she brings to things. she very much said, look, this person can do it. don't underestimate them. and she didn't have to say that. there's lots of people who have been, kind of, squirrely in their answers, and she wasn't. >> congressman kinzinger, i referred to david ignatius' "washington post" op-ed today, arguing that president biden should not run again. she said, i think biden risks undoing his greatest achievement, which is stopping trump. do you think joe biden can be

. >> yeah -- john dean, adam kinzinger, thank you so much. aly honig as well, with -- democratic congressman jamie raskin raskin. congressman, i don't have any this surprise you, but how damning do you think this is for the former president? >> well, it's doubly damning, when you consider that there is also an i. t. worker on the staff, who is apparently prepared to testify. they think donald trump tried to get him to delete security camera footage, from the trump servers. so obviously, donald trump was trying to cover his tracks. sometimes he tries to play the fool, and act as if he doesn't really know what he is doing. or maybe he is too crazy to be found criminally responsible. but, this demonstrates, clearly, premeditated patterns of obstructing the investigation of the evidence. and he has been charged in that case, with not just stealing those documents and concealing those documents over repeated efforts to get them back, but also of obstruction of justice. so, i think there is an extremely promising progress for the prosecutors in all

bring in former senior investigative counsel for the january 6th committee, deputy chief of staff adam kinzingerthis meadows of the georgia case specifically. why we're waiting for what will happen next. >> so there's the criminal statute that allows individual charge with state crimes if that person is a federal officer and charged for a crime that was conducted under color of law, they did the thing they're charged with because they were a federal employee, they can go to court and say i want to remove that case to federal court for basically a neutral jury, a neutral forum. you can think way back when more old time days, folks are really concerned that states wouldn't be physical therapy to the federal government. so mark meadows is saying, i want my case out of georgia court. doesn't make it a federal case. he'll have the same prosecutors. he'll have the same criminal exposure, but it does put it before a different jury that will be likely more conservative than a fulton county jury. it will be in the federal court, which is not where fani willis and her team are used to practicing. why it's

dilanian, former democratic congressman from new york, john crowley, former adviser to john boehner, adam kinzinger and barbara mcquade. you had a chance to look at his prepared remarks. >> if garland gets the chance, he's going to talk about the good work the doj is doing against corporate crime or fentanyl tracking. we all know he's got a message here. in the remarks i got a chance to take a look at, he's trying to push back against republican criticism that the doj has b politicized. he said our job is not to take ders from the president, from congress, or from anyone else about who or what to criminally investigate, and he goes on to say i'm not the president's lawyer. and i will also add that i'm not the congress's prosecutor. the justice department works for the american people, and ana, he's also going to push back against the climate of threats against line prosecutors and fbi agents that he's going to say is stemming in part from some of the rhetoric that's coming from some of these very members of congress who are accusing the justice department without evidence of being politicized. >> i

tsirkin joining me now, along with more agile espy, former adviser to congressman john boehner and adam kinzingerthe founder of blue stacked strategies. juliette, let me just with you on this one. what are you hearing from both republicans and democrats at this point, as we get closer and closer to that saturday night deadline? >> literally, within the last three minutes, speaker mccarthy did end up entering the capital coming through, telling my colleague fiona glisten, basically the same thing he's been saying yesterday. they have this conference call with the members. they are continuing to make progress. however, we did hear from a number of the holdouts today. at least two of them on air, one of them on paper, including marjorie taylor greene, the congresswoman who said she will not vote for anything that includes ukraine eight. some of those appropriations bills mccarthy wants his conference to take up on tuesday will include some of that for training only. this is not the biden administration's request. but he did not request to the holdouts. i'm planning on pressing him on that in a coupl

leigh khan takes aim at adam kinzinger. what it -- at amazon.t means for tech. >>> we get a top pick from one of the fund managers big show ahead don't go anywhere. >>> so this lawsuit is fundamentally about protecting free and fair competition. and the u.s. anti-trust laws prohibit firms from using their monopoly power to punish or preclude or prevent competition. that's what our lawsuit lays out that amazon has done. >> that's ftc chair lina khan earlier this morning discussing the lawsuit against amazon. our next guest said the complaints are, quote, plausible doug melman joins us now, he was a top attorney in the doj case against microsoft in the '90s. great to see you again. thanks for the time. >> nice to see you. >> hard to read into it with the redactions and not knowing amazon's defense. you're not dismissing outright it sounds like. >> no, this is a serious complaint i think. it alleges like the microsoft case, the u.s. case against google, it alleges that amazon has am monopoly. >>> we were talking about the 17 states and whether that

so that's what we're unagainst, and that's why people like liz cheney and adam kinzinger and others have's the moment to put those partisan divisions aside, work across the aisle, and get people who support the constitution and democratic institutions elected to office and get bhaga types who don't -- maga types who don't out of office. >> let me push back gently and with faekds for your conservative -- affection for your conservative icons. trump ran as an anti-constitution guy. were they new to these positions? again, what do they ambulance to do? do they plan to use their platforms to encourage their readers and followers to vote for democrats because they're the only ones that will make sure we continue to live in a democracy? >> yeah. i think they, and i hope so. folks like this, it's not like they're going to win over that maga base. and you know, you and i have analyzed that segment pretty extensively. you're not going to move those people to go coalition campaign with democrats, but there is a sizable number of disaffected conservatives in this country, and they show up again and

adam kinzinger and liz cheney, they are gone.back and the professor was saying that nancy pelosi was running. no, she wasn't. her daughter was filming her documentary. she was in there talking about punching donald trump in the face. that is what he wants to talk about. what about all of the other politicians? maxine waters telling people to get in their face, fight like hell. you guys are a a whole bunch of hypocrites. host: independent line. caller: i wanted to speak to your last guest but cannot get on. did he think donald trump could get a fair trial in washington dc, which voted 96% for the democrats. it is the seat of the cesspool. when you're indicted by the federal government, it is not the d.c. citizen reverses you. it is the united states of america versus you. part of the solution to this problem is they should pan a jury of jurors who come from all 50 state. that is the only way donald trump is going to get a fair trial. he will never get a fair trial in the district of columbia. i get on and off. i listen on ceased t