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The Bulwark Podcast

Adam Kinzinger: Renegade

The Bulwark Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.611.6K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The former congressman says he wasn't always fighting the good fight, and that he feels some responsibility for the GOP's descent into dysfunction—and the rise of people like Marjorie Taylor Greene. Adam Kinzinger joins Charlie Sykes to discuss his raw and personal new book, "Renegade."

show notes:


https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/723495/renegade-by-adam-kinzinger-with-michael-dantonio/

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0:00.0

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0:07.2

We're here together for a 10 minute empathy meditation.

0:10.5

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0:16.7

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0:17.7

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0:18.7

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0:23.4

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0:25.4

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0:29.2

Go. UK. We're going to the Bull Work Podcast. It is Halloween and you don't need me to tell you that it's pretty scary out there. So we are joined by Adam Kinsiger, former Congress from Illinois whose new book Renegade defending democracy and liberty in our divided country is out today.

0:54.1

So first of all, Adam, thank you for making time to be with us because I see that you're pretty much everywhere

0:59.5

this week.

1:00.5

Yeah, but you know what, the Bullwork podcast with Charlie Sice, I mean who couldn't be there, you know?

1:04.4

Plus now that I get to see you, it's like, it's handsome overwhelming.

1:07.8

Well, there's a lot of things we need to talk about, we need to talk about the new fifth string speaker,

1:11.2

we need to talk about the war in the Middle East we need to talk about

1:14.5

your critique of politics but what I really was struck by about your book let me give you my

1:19.4

my short review what I really appreciated was how raw it was, how personal it was, and how open you were about

1:27.7

the transition. You had bought into a lot of this and are admitting that you were part of this as I was.

1:34.8

And you had a very interesting sound bite yesterday.

1:37.3

I want to just play this.

1:38.1

You were on CNN, where you're a contributor now, with Anderson Cooper,

1:41.8

and you told this little story.

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