Adam Kinzinger: The People of Minneapolis Won
The Bulwark Podcast
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
ICE failed in its operation in Minnesota because the people would not bend to their terror campaign. Minneapolis residents also maintained incredible discipline in their resistance and totally let Trump down by keeping a check on any potential riotous behavior. Meanwhile, the El Paso airport closure shows the administration’s continuing communication problems, and Bondi’s performance before the House Oversight Committee was so over-the-top bad, it’s even getting panned on the right. Plus, Bongino is a con artist and a loser, the Dems have an increasing number of pickup opportunities in red states, Nick Fuentes of all people is providing a little clarity on the state of Republicans, and exactly how many pardoned J6 insurrectionists have gone on to commit child sex abuse? We’re losing count.
Adam Kinzinger joins Tim Miller.
show notes
- Country First's campaign to push back on politicization of the National Guard
- Kinzinger on his event with Democrats in Anderson, Indiana
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome to the Bullwark podcast. I'm your host, Tim Miller. |
| 0:16.3 | Delight to welcome back, one of our faves. He's a former member of Congress from Illinois. |
| 0:19.6 | He served in the Air Force and Air National Guard. He's the founder of Country First. They got a new campaign to push back on the politicization of the National Guard. He's also on substack with the rest of us. He's in the gym a lot. He's doing peptides. It's Adam Kensinger. Hey, buddy. What's going to be back with you, man. It's going to spend a minute. |
| 0:37.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:39.9 | And, uh, you know, we just put this on the calendar. |
| 0:41.2 | We didn't know what was going to be happening. And, like, this is insane. We could do nine hours of podcasting today with all the shit that's out there. Just pick a day, though. It's like insane every freaking day. So, you know. Yeah, much to cover. |
| 0:50.8 | We've got to start with Pam Bondi, unfortunately. |
| 0:53.6 | It's unpleasant having to listen to her talk. |
| 0:56.7 | Just to be candid. But I'm going to punish people. We're going to listen to a little bit from yesterday's performance on the hill. |
| 1:04.0 | So I really have just one question for you. How many of Epstein's co-conspirators have you indicted? How many perpetrators are you even |
| 1:12.6 | investigating? |
| 1:17.6 | First, you showed it. I find it. |
| 1:22.6 | How many have you indicted? |
| 1:24.6 | Excuse me. I'm going to answer the question. |
| 1:26.6 | I answer my question. No, I'm going to answer the question the. I'm going to answer the question. I answer my question. |
| 1:28.0 | No, I'm going to answer the question the way. You're going to answer the question. Your |
| 1:31.3 | theatrics are ridiculous. You don't tell me anything washed up. He was not even a lawyer. |
| 1:38.3 | Have you apologized to President Trump? Have you apologized to President Trump, all of you who participated in those impeachment hearings against Donald Trump? You all should be apologizing. You sit here and you attack the president, and I am not going to have it. I'm not going to put up with it. And none of them, none of them, ask Merrick Garland over the last four years one word about |
| 2:06.2 | Jeffrey Epstein. How ironic is that? You know why? Because Donald Trump, the Dow, the Dow right now, |
| 2:15.0 | is over, the Dow is over 50,000. Fifty thousand dollars, the now is over. The Dow is over $50,000. |
| 2:19.3 | $50,000, the Dow's over. |
| 2:22.2 | That's the Attorney General of the United States of America, |
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