it's congressman adam kinzinger.and kevin mccarthy says he's going to do is an investigation of the january 6 committee. so that's in some ways an investigation of you. you're on of the prominent members of the january 6 committee. and thank you for the work you all did, by the way. ( applause ) it restored my faith in the idea of a congressional committee being useful. if they subpoenaed you and they asked you to show up, would you do it? >> well, i want to see what that looks like, but i believe in the power of congress to subpoena, even though all of the republican congressmen ignored our subpoena, i believe in the power of congress for oversight. and then, you know, they'll have to own that. but, look, i'm happy, i am proud of the work the committee did. i'm happy to put that out. we put all of it out for the american people to see, and y ant to investigate what investigating truth looks like and what it looks like to actually tell the truth and recover from a bad moment in democracy, i walk in that, because we h

the one insurrectionist that adam kinzinger seems to like.ed this, i was in the front of the demonstration with others and orchestrated it. oh, you admit a crime. you were never charged, arrested or sent to jail. why? friday is the anniversary of january 6th and will mark it with an investigation. we can't wait for that. in the meantime have a great night with the ones you love. sean hannity right now. >> sean: welcome to "han it." coming up tonight the han it hot seat is back. buckle up for the debate segment. first breaking now the house has adjourned for the evening. the on going battle for speaker that continues at this late hour. we have coverage and full details. and the liar adam schiff has been exposed again. not this time with russians. this time documents show that adam schiff was attempting to use the power of your ve

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poppy, i get where kinzinger is coming from. from his perspective having played the role he played on the january 6th panel or commission to look at the evidence and to say, wait a minute, this is what he caused. he was essentially the arsonist, the president, who let the fire burn and he's not going to be held accountable for that? i completely understand his concerns. it's still not an ironclad slam dunk case. >> michael, what happens to this committee? i think i know the answer to this, after tomorrow? >> gone. >> what committee? they fulfilled their purpose. they always knew the time on the clock was running out as that ball was dropping. they're at a close. it's over now. kevin mccarthy, and i know we're going to get to that, should he be the house speaker and others can't wait to shut down that whole process. >> let's get to that, shall we? >> he's in a predicament. >> harry went through the numbers with us earlier in the program. he's down by 14. there's 14 votes he needs that he doesn't have as of this morning. he can on

republican congressman adam kinzinger will be here exclusively. >>> plus, making way. house democratic leaders stepped aside for the next generation. >> have you heard i was 83? >> our exclusive interview with outgoing house democratic majority leader steny hoyer ahead. >>> hello. i'm dana bash in washington where the state of our union is wishing you a happy new year. it is sunday, january 1st, 2023, and we hope you're enjoying a restful holiday. here in washington this week, reality is going to set in quickly. on tuesday, house republicans will take control of the chamber and try to elect a speaker. that could take a while. house republicans are also planning to launch a slate of investigations into the biden administration as washington begins to adjust to divided government. there will be new faces in congress and in statehouses across the country where you're going to see a lot of changes this month. there will be 12 women governors, two governors who are openly gay, and in maryland voters elected only the third black man ever to lead a state. governor-elect wes m

former illinois congressman ada kinzinger has joined cnn as a senior political commentator.here still intent on making people vomit. he made his debut this week at the failing network, which has rating cycle away of becoming trevor noah. sorry. here is a snippet. >> congressman, we are thrilled to have you on board welcome. we've seen you over the past couple of years on the january committee. >> it is great to be on the tea thank you. >> welcome aboard at cnn. is like taking a lifeboat to th titanic. you are supposed to leave, do a return but i guess congress was just a stepping stone to cnn. if things go well, it is on to selling timeshares. remember all the time he flits nancy pelosi's sock puppet. she didn't warm her hands befor and his eyebrows were higher than hers. we would be remiss if we did no play some of his greatest hits. for rowlett, henrietta. >> i never expected the date to be as emotional for me as it ha been. democracies are not defined by our bad days. we are defined by how we come back from bad days. we thank you for holding that line. >> oh, my god. don'

what do you think of kinzinger making this kind of prediction?e is a strong foundation of evidence in the public realm on which prosecutors are going to make this decision. much of that evidence comes from representative kinzinger and the january 6th committee itself. we need to be very careful when we're getting into the guess org predicting whether doj will or will not indict donald trump because the fact is that prosecutors always know more than we do. there are indicators, yes, and we can draw reasonable judgments from them, but these are grand jury proceedings, there could be witnesses prosecutors have that we don't know, documents prosecutors have that we don't know of, and there could be these incommitteesies prosecutors are trying to deal with. prosecutors are the ones with the information and ultimately this is going to be on them to decide. >> yeah. and they, you know, frankly, it's not about what they think happened or the moral thing to do. they have to have all the evidence to back it up. they have a higher bar when they bring a char

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let's talk to our panel, adam kinz kinzinger, you're concerned about this? >> i'm really concerned.h the majority making team. we dealt with the debt limit. we barely made it through that. we were a lot less crazy in 2011, and we had a lot bigger majority. we still -- the stock market tanked. it was really -- actually, it was the first time america ever had a credit downgrade, which by the way, makes borrowing way more expensive, which is the most fiscally irresponsible thing to do. i'm worried. let me say this to the democrats, though, come to the table with some budget proposal that actually does cut spending. we have 31 trillion in debt. i don't think there's anybody with a straight face that can say that's sustainable. if the indicates actually can come forward with some reforms or cuts or whatever you want to call it, i think they can put republicans in a position to where they're going to be pressured to take that. more on democrats' terms, but you never should be playing this game if you're republicans with the debt limit. >> the onus should be on republicans here to present

i want to bring in our political director, david, kasie hunt and adam kinzinger. defense attorney sharon wu is joining us. sharon, let me get your thoughts on the breaking news we're following now from a legal perspective. >> right. there are important differences here in terms of the scale and number of documents involved and i think what you're seeing here, sounds like it was a referral to doj and so garland was moving promptly. i would guess both the referral as well as the speed of garland's actions reflects the concern over making sure they appear even handed in the treatment here. so there would be a full investigation to talk to who was handling it. the chain of custody is really important. and also to both jamie and evan's point, if we're talking about a potential criminal charge then of course the intent is very important. there's certainly a difference between mistakes and intentional viol violation. all of that needs to be looked at. >> adam kinzinger, you're now a cnn contributor. let's get your thoughts since you were obviously a key member of the jan

we're going to talk to former congressman adam kinzinger. >>> also, on the international front a battles brewing over the fate of ukraine. the u.s. is urging germany to sent tanks to ukraine. this, as president zelenskyy, has been making a declaration this morning bluntly saying that ukraine will retake crimea which was illegally annexed by russia nearly a decade ago. both russia and ukraine claim ownership over the land. we're live in kyiv this morning. the big question is whether or not this could happen. does it seem like that's a realistic goal for zelenskyy to have? >> reporter: well, it certainly is the ukrainian's goal. they've been saying they want to take back crimea. if we look at some of the gains that the ukrainians have been making in the south, in the kherson area, you can see it on that map, if they gain a lot more territory, they could be knocking on crimea's door and could be cutting off russia's land bridge to crimea. that's one of the things that president zelenskyy was alluding to. he said if ukraine gets the weapons, they'll take back crimea. the kremlin has reacted

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adam kinzinger joins us now with more.euters says this probe, quote, has neutralized democrats' ability to target former president trump. former obama adviser david axelrod calls it a huge gift to trump. what's your take? >> yeah. i think they're right. it's a huge gift. so, there's the legal side and there's the political side. the legal side will be -- the legal side can do what it wants. they'll be fair. they'll go through, you know, the donald trump thing, the joe biden thing, and go after it the right way. politically, basically this is taken out, i think, almost any ability for democrats to go after the former president on this issue. still -- there is still a january 6th thing that happened, which i think is important to keep in mind. and it's really -- the other thing is that i think one of the biggest problems has been the continuing revelation of new documents. and they have not done a good job of putting together how that happened. did they happen upon it? and i think politically it's pretty bad. >> yeah, when t

adam kinzinger tweeted this last night, the deals being made were terrible for the country and the party on brent they are picking ego over country, it's time for a compromise candidate. and let me show you liz cheney, some of our conversations have been about the work of cheney and kinzinger who joined the democrats on the committee. there she is basically predicting the kind of run mccarthy would have this week. >> he has been completely unfaithful to the constitution, demonstrated a total lack of understanding of the significance and the importance of the role of speaker. at every moment since, frankly, the aftermath of the election in 2020, when minority leader mccarthy had the opportunity to do the right thing or do something that serves his own political purpose, he always chooses that pics mac he is very consistent, every single time he had to make a choice between what is right, or his political future, he chooses his political future. and, so, the speaker of the house is second in line to the presidency. it is, you know, we need somebody much better to be speaker of the house. >

kinzinger is too busy selling wetographed copies of his one sided january six report. we've got full coverage tonight. that's straight ahead.k around and stick around for tonight's last call. the lowest grade we've gotten so far as a regular call to my radio show, velma. m she gave me a c.. well, she's back and she will tell us if she thinkswe i'm improving tonight. but we begin tonight witsia with bombshell new development from the russia hoax. listen to this. to big news, by the way, i hope the congenital liar adam schiff is hanging on his seat because someone was just arrested for colludinge with russiwaa. g with but it wasn't donald trump or someone from his campaign or the white house or adam schiff himself when he was pranke adadr by russians talking about compromising materials. remember that one ? it was a instead, it was a man named nam charles mcgonagle. he was a high ranking fbi official who worked with the fbi's trump russia collusion investigation for years. the whole hoax was there. you literally can't make this up now, mcgonagle is now accused of taking

"outfront" now, former republican congressman adam kinzinger. first time in his new role which is senior political commentator. congressman, we really are thrilled to have you on board. so welcome. people have seen you over the past of course couple years on the january 6th committee. and we're so glad to have you on board. >> it's great to be on the team, by the way. i'm excited. >> so here you are tonight not about to go to the house floor for the first time in ten years. you wouldn't be obligated to do that. but ten years you've spent the past ten years in the house. you have seen good, you have seen plenty of bad and a lot of ugly. did you ever expect to see this? >> no, not really. actually up until the first vote, i thought, because it's always happened in the last hundred years that kevin mccarthy would pull this off. i think, though, it's interesting as i look at what's going on, there's a couple things. first, i do think it's embarrassing to an extent. it also shows how closely this country is divided. keep in mind, and particularly in

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. >>> want to bring in adam kinzinger who is a cnn political commentator. good morning, sir. we have a lot to talk about. we'll get to santos and all that. you heard our conversation with the former attorney general there. do you think the public at home -- do you think they see the distinction between the trump documents and dobiden documents, and what do you make of the discussion where he says as a human being, the attorney general may think differently about whether he would prosecute, but as the attorney general he has to do his job? >> what he says is accurate. first off, the good thing is law does nuance. the law does differences. the law can look at what was intention and that matters. politics doesn't do that. politics everything blends together. what we learned in the last few years, if you throw enough doubt on the wall, that's enough to win your case. i think from a human perspective, yes, i think for attorney general garland he's going to continue to prosecute, even if the joe biden case if necessarily correctly. politically, especially the second batch, this is

i think, today committee members vote republican congressman adam kinzinger reflecting optimism for his path and the future of the country. >> democracies are not defined by bad. days we are defined by how we come out of those bad days. in the, long-term i am optimistic. i have to, say this is not a moment to rest. this is a moment when you have to understand. have accountable alliances to defend democracy, but we can do this. >> chief justice john roberts using his and reports on the reports, to highlight the need for increased security for federal judges after a surge in threats in the past year. roberts, wrote quote, a judiciary system cannot and should not live in fear. however, the chief justices report did not include an update on the drought opinion on. abortion or marching calls for more rigorous ethics rules for the justices. president biden is ramping up whose vacation in the region oiler. he will face a list of agenda items now resisting the republican-led house. -- it's with a president saying to. roy one assignment you. have what should the president prioritizing the new ye

but in the year as years past, and when i worked with congressman kinzinger, a lot of members on thede are unwilling to work with election deniers because of that right there. and i think it is going to be a problem. there are areas that will need to be worked on together. china, ukraine. and so it will be interesting to see. but there are areas that need bipartisanship. especially with a small majority. >> all right, joe crowley and morrow gillespie. thank you for being with. that is, mariano your uncle had gillespie. we are different parties but we always had bipartisan discussions and you continue that tradition. thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> after the break, the snow in the show. we are gonna talk about buffalo systolic holiday blizzard. it has been largely cleared away, but the racial divide exposed by the storm remains. we will check in with mail byron brown of buffalo, next. il byron brown of buffalo, next byron brown of buffalo, next - [reporter] one of the deadliest mass shootings in us history at pulse nightclub in orlando. - [barbara] walking into the build

adam kinzinger had to say about mr.e in the coup plot of the doj. >> on the same day acting attorney general rosen told mr. clark to stop talking to the white house, representative perry was urging chief of staff mark meadows to elevate clark within the department of justice. you can now see on the screen behind me a series of texts between representative perry and mr. meadows. mr. perry requested mr. clark be elevated within the department. perry tells meadows on the 6th, quote, mark, just checking in as time continues to count down. 11 days to january 6th and 25 days to inauguration. we've got to get going. representative perry followed up and says, quote, mark, you should call jeff. >> the rest of that is, i just got off the phone. the other guy won't work with the fbi. this was one of the architects of the coup plot, not just bringing the insurrection and militia groups to washington to stop the physical certification, but the thing they wanted to carry out fraudulently within the executive branch of government, whi

military analyst retired major general james "spider" marks and former republican congressman adam kinzingerel in the u.s. air national guard. spider, first to you, what do you make of the time line we're learning now on when these german leopard tanks will start arriving in ukraine and the fact that the u.s. will send a more lethal upgraded version of the abrams battle tanks? >> well, in my mind it's all good news. but clearly there's a logistical tale associated with the deployment and training necessary to get the ukrainian forces up to speed and confident with these main battle tanks. also bear in mind you have challengers from the uk so you have a mix of capabilities, certainly have to address the training, logistics, maintenance, sustainment but those are considerations, those aren't impediments or barriers that would lead you to a decision -- a no go decision so i frankly am very glad the united states has stepped forward, germany has stepped forward and all those considerations will be addressed but there will be a time lag between this decision and when the realization of all those

. >>> i want to bring in former republican congressman, adam kinzinger, now a cnn political commentator. so, congressman, kevin mccarthy says he's going to have the votes to be elected speaker tonight. what do you make of it? is he going to get the votes tonight and has he given away too much of the store? >> well, so first off, i mean, i thought that he would do literally whatever he needed to to win this position. he gets credit for that t. he's been going through a hard negotiation. if he does win, i mean, really it's historic. i do think the question is, though, how can he govern? and knowing what i know about the house and some of the moments we've been through, and then seeing some of the things he's going to give away, so, for instance, the whole one person to vacate the chair, that's going to be chaos. but the bigger things are rules committee positions for some of these freedom caucus members. you can't get a bill to the floor, as you were mentioning, without going through the rules committee. you have things like that. and i worry about the inability now of the house to be abl

because people like adam kinzinger and others are being chased out. there are republicans who are saying they were afraid to vote for impeachment because they thought their own base would kill them. they're afraid of their own base. is there somebody who is not afraid of the very heavily armed republican base, part of it, to say something or do something about it? >> i think that's really kind of the sad thing at this point, joy, is that there isn't. there isn't anyone that has the stature and the ability to successfully lead the republican party out of this extreme wilderness. we have seen the folks like kinzinger and liz cheney. guess what, they're not in congress anymore. every time at least one or two of them try, they get ran out of town, ran out of their own party, ran out of their own leadership in the case of liz cheney. kevin mccarthy was caught on audio agreeing with liz cheney about donald trump's culpability on january 6th and a few weeks later, what was kevin doing? high tailing to mar-a-lago and throwing liz cheney under the bus. there i

because as you know very well, on the one hand, you worked for adam kinzinger.ooking down the barrel of steep defense cuts. if they play this game the way they have laid it out, there could be very steep cuts to the defense department budget. some folks on the liberal side may be like go strong, do it. it's something you normally can't do. you're also talking about real questions whether ukraine funding will remain as it is. a lot of americans are not going to look well on that with all of the crises, china, et cetera. on the other side, i watch enough lawrence o'donnell to know there's such a thing as a must-pass bill. if you default on the debt limit, we go into a deep, deep recession or worse. so how does kevin mccarthy manage to with a lot less skills than john boehner, pass a debt limit bill without getting recalled? >> i think that's the big question with this motion to vacate the chair as a weapon essentially looming over his head, especially with the debt ceiling, that's a real issue and unfortunately i think with a senate -- a democratic led senate and

so what do you make of those comments kinzinger made? think what he says is incredibly important in the sense that if a president can get away with the conduct that we all saw and have now learned more about donald trump engaging around the 2020 election, then as a country we would be in a very dark place. as a practical matter, though, doj faces constraints that the committee doesn't face. the committee's able to put out its narrative without having to grapple with any potential defenses the former president might have to offer. they don't have to worry about admissibility of evidence or whether witnesses will hold up under cross-examination. so it may take doj a fair bit of time to get to the point that the former congressman would like them to get to, but i agree that ultimately they will do the right thing based on the evidence and the country's need to take care of our democracy. >> the doj is certainly expected to take plenty of time for this one. garrett, i also wanted to ask you about representative-elect george santos. the hits

before we bring you more on what she and other insiders had to say on that day, first what adam kinzingeras to say about charging the former president in connection with what he spent months helping investigate. >> if this is not a crime, i don't know what it is. if a president can incite an insurrection and not be held accountable, then really there's no limit to what a president can do or can't do. i think the justice department will do the right thing. i think he will be charged. and i frankly think he should be. if he is not guilty of a crime, then i frankly fear for the future of this country. >> joining us now with more on the new material from the select committee, sara murray. what more did we learn about hope hicks? >> you get a sense of how much she and other aides stress were under. in these messages, hope hicks is texting with ivanka trump's chief of staff at the time. she says, in one day, he ended every future opportunity. that doesn't include speaking engagements at the local proud boys chapter. she said, this made us all unemployable, like, untouchable. god, i'm so fing ma

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congressman kinzinger, are you concerned about.really concerned in 2011 i came in with the majority making team and we dealt with the debt limit we barely made it through that. we were a lot less crazy in 2011 and we had a lot bigger majority we still do stock market tanked and it was -- first time america ever had a credit downgrade. which by the way, makes borrowing way they are expensive which is the most fiscally irresponsible thing to do. i'm worried, for me say this to the democrats. no come to the table with some budget proposal that actually does cut spending. we have 31 trillion in data don't think there's anyone with a straight face that can say that that sustainable. if the democrats actually can come forward with some reforms, cuts, whatever you want to call. it i think they could put reese publicans in a position where they're gonna be pressure to take that. more on democrats terms. but you never should be playing this game if you're republican with the debt limit. >> the owners should be on republicans. air to present

this is something that is unfortunate to to me a sign of the republican party of of liz cheney adam kinzinger and quite frankly, republican party of of a lot of are you is not around anymore. and what we have today is exemplified what's going on in the speakership. drama, which is you have right wing trying to hold hostage speaker vote but also being enabled by over 200 republicans are backing one of mccarthy's going to do giving away the store hopes in in many ways. part of that is, you know, is simplified. and some of the things you're a tie-dye is already done. for example, i don't know if you knew that your guy, but the magnetometers are gone from outside outside the house of representatives chamber, the republicans when they first come for the first came in the 40's and elected speaker, had them all taken >> so michael, not often in the history of the republic of people tried to overthrow the government. so the basic question, what have we learned from that experience? >> that's a good question. i think for the 900 people have been charged. so for the 477 in them, who would be to plead g

. >> reporter: congressman adam kinzinger of illinois, the only republican on the january 6th committee than liz cheney, 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 seize voting machines. we got this, babe. that means that your dreams are ours too. and our financial planning tools can help you reach them. that's the value of ownership. any questions, chris? all good, thanks maura! there you go, one new inhaler! nice did you get my refill too? maybe healthier is auto refills and delivery made easy. you're a lifesaver. have a nice day. you've already put a parlay on this game... with the life parlay yo

former congressman adam kinzinger, you're going to love this. he's also being mocked tonight,n rightly so, after selling what sign copies of the january six report for $100 a piece claiming he's offering the historic record as a limited edition . whoa, that's fake news. cnn's first hire of a liberalbea comedian here with reaction,medn republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is withy. us . thngresswoman, good to see you. thank you for being with us. he shouldn't be on the intel committee, nor should the congenital liar adam schiff be on the intel committee. this is nothatt that's i not a difficult decision, is it? >> no, not at all. and you can see there's a major difference in the leadership a with kevin mccarthy as speaker of the house and nancy pelosimc as speakercarthy of the house. nancy pelosi and the democrats removed me from committees, from things they didn't likeme on my facebook years before i became a member of congress.ny but you can see thatacebook. kevin mccarthy isn't being political . he's removing members of congress tha

>> look, i think representative kinzinger makes than incredibly important point.tigations swirling around the former president. he focuses our attention on insurrection and makes the point that if our system cannot hold a president accountable for insurrection than we are in a lot of trouble. that doesn't mean that doj has an easy job ahead of it the. committee and many rays have an easier playing field to perform on. doj will have to grapple with issues around what the evidence of the committee has compiled and the doj puts together in its investigation will be admissible in court. there are strict rules. you could have great evidence of it's not admissible it doesn't matter. doj will have to assess how these witnesses who we heard in the committee with no cross-examination. how with will they hold up when they are subjected to cross-examination. and of course, the committee didn't have to present any potential defenses that donald trump or anyone else might have again doj has to think about that. i don't think we should pretend that the path forward is straight

liz cheney and adam kinzinger wound up basically becoming the republican party by choosing to participate on that committee. there could have been more republicans but they didn't want to participate. the two that did, it practically ended their careers in congress. host: west virginia, democrat, good morning. caller: good morning, happy new year. i have a couple questions and a couple points. an earlier caller mentioned, and i agree, it is pretty sad that the house republican control is probably going to result in a much things that we've known since 2018 already. but nonetheless, republicans are upset because they were allowed to use that for social media. i'm not questioning some things about hunter biden, but russian propaganda. my point is this. you should have answered improperly. he was appointed by trump and are already to investigate the steel dossier. he had three cases. and they were disproven, essentially. a lot of the steel dossier presented to trump and the trump campaign and republicans just don't want to hear that. but those trials, that vindication venture and crusade tha

. >> you have adam crimea river kinzinger, then you have liz is she supposed to still bele there.ct >this played out in primetime on our tvs, starting c in the spring. at abc news. like, here's all the b-roll from the capitol. it had a hollywood feel to it because they hired a formery producerth from abc news. >> you have half of america thaa is amazed by the stuff coming out of it., r half says it's the group of people that all hate former president trump.dy >> d the former president said e search of his mar-a-lago estate focused on documents he already declassified. >> if you are a trump hater.d itme was your super bowl. you see the flashing lights andn the fbali agents coming in. w maybe theyhi had to raid trump'w house because melania saided o something at a school board meeting. >>i do they have laid the docums onment the floor. >> i don't know if they were trying to embarrass trump more with the existence of classified documents or drawing attention into that terrible commercial grade carpet. >> you have finger pointing with trump saying they are in the wrong and the fbi saying

speaker pelosi named liz cheney added adam kinzinger and disallow did the committee to operate with aommon purpose that we all saw. just to close this point, the results should have been foreseeable. in 2005 house republicans set up the hurricane katrina select committee. back the democrats didn't join because of what they viewed as an an in adequate scope for the committee. but several democrats in the region participated anyway. fast forward to the benghazi select committee. democrats had an internal debate over whether to join because there had been seven or eight previous investigations. as adam schiff wrote in his book, he argued for the boycott while my old boss elijah cummings argued that democrats should participate. ultimately democrats decided to participate. as congressman schiff mentioned in his book, after the internal debate speaker pelosi appointed him to the benghazi committee which he said he wasn't sure whether it was a punishment or reward. however, after he went through the entire process being on inside of that investigation he said in his book pelosi's and compan

voted and he made suree i was the one term senatr and i was getting calls from president ford, henry kinzingerl those i want to votes and finally i remember the chair of the committee after the fifth vote realized couldn't past and i think we better get the president on the phone. it would have been disastrous, pictures of helicopters taking off from our embassy and i visited that embassy and i knew there were newspapers back home but we had people come up to us quietly at the grocery store saying thank you, thank you. >> and 48 years, was the hardest single vote? >> that one was difficult, i thought it was the right vote i would catch for it, i've had some clothes for example, i was proud to vote for john roberts because i did not want different philosophically, i did not want chief justice of the united states to be confirmed on the party line vote and it was difficult if we had president chief justice that i felt he was an honest manat and sulfites differently philosophically and i voted for him. there is pushback on that but i would say to myself, sometimes i knew i was against majority vi

you had kinzinger and cheney on the january 6 committee, republicans regretting their limited role andnt to investigate that committee and intelligence. but progressive's have long called for investigating intelligence committees. you had the hearings of the 1970's. is there a way, you are a master of working with the other side, also investigating what happened with julian assange -- a number of people calling for just -- is there some way of investigating the intelligence community from a progressive perspective? >> unfortunately i don't think in the current committee -- it is no church committee. the church committee did extraordinary work. in el salvador, as you're are well aware, the history of person we provided significant of the el salvador and military. never acknowledged our role. if this committee were looking at overreaches at american policy, i would happily have supported it. my fear is in the fear many of my democratic colleagues, the committee is going to go after investigators donald trump. and then i don't think serves any productiv purpose. amy: let me ask you about

. >> that was adam kinzinger. they're scrambling to lock down the votes to become house speaker. >> he's agreed to make more concessions. that includes making it easier to oust the speaker in the future. nine republicans saying his concessions were insufficient and they're still not-solved on making him the speaker. >> ron brownstein weighed in on the trouble mccarthy is facing as he tries to secure the speakership. >> it's been exactly 100 years since we've had an election for the speaker go past a first ballot. 1923 was the last time it's happened. that's the only time it's happened before the civil war. more common before the civil war. kevin mccarthy is a real risk of having this go past one ballot. the conservatives want to make a point. maybe they've already made their point, even if mccarthy can get the votes together to become the speaker, they have already demonstrated that he has to concede to them so much in order to get there that they will be in a very strong position in 2023 with all of the riffs and

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adam kinzinger, where are you? we're coming for you. statute water hall. all of a sudden i'm hearing commotion. kind of screaming. and i just see this crowd of people walking through into the camera picture. they've now breached the capitol building. >> i've never been in this house, how about you? >> that's right, we own it, we own you! >> the thing that goes through my head is, once the capitol building is breached, you have access to every part of this complex. i don't know if it's just the capitol that's been breached. i don't know if there are people wandering the halls of my office building. i'm one of the loudest people to say the election wasn't stolen, so certainly a target. and it's about that moment when the capitol alarm goes off. i'm listening to a very panicked-sounding capitol police officer, or whoever is speaking, saying, in essence, take shelter in the buildings. so i start locking every door into my office. i have my gun out on my desk. and i'm wrestling with the fact that i may have to actually use this weapon to def

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. >> i want you to listen to congressman adam kinzinger.ow he sees accountability for the former president. >> if he's not guilty of a crime, i fear for the future of this country because now every future president can say here's the bar. the bar is do everything you can to stay in power. >> the committee is wrapping up before the republican majority takes over in the house. it's now up to the justice department to follow all the leads. >> right. the select committee for a long time has been carrying the football, pushing forward, making sure they're getting as many people in for interviews. the justice department will pick it up. one of the things in the recent transcripts released this weekend, it shows the limitations that the house select committee hit up against and certain people, people including especially mark mea meadows, they were able to not only get his text messages, but emails too. they say we weren't able to ask him about that. the justice department could. >> what do you think the justice department follows up on? >> i thin

former republican congressman adam kinzinger tells cnn that members of congressman don't need a backgroundarance. he says, quote, your election is constitutionally your claims. you just sign a sheet that you understand, once. joining me now, senior political commentator paul -- senior contributor to axios, margaret -- and former communications director doug high as well. first of, all i might be sending to many people, margaret, that there's not a requirement of the extensive background check of election. because that would be additional con -- but, i do remember having a security clearance, and they go through everything at the oj. and, yet you could see classified documents and security clearance, in the members of congress. is that surprising? >> no. i mean, look, to be a member of the house of representatives is us about as close as you can be as being an ordinary citizen and being elected to federal office. and, that is what being elected to the house is about. now, you get assigned to committees. and, some of those committees are more sensitive than others. george santos doesn't actu

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