Ep. 503 — Rep. Adam Kinzinger
The Axe Files with David Axelrod
CNN
4.6 • 7.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Rep. Adam Kinzinger was one of just 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach former President Donald Trump following the January 6 insurrection. After deciding to not seek reelection in 2022, Rep. Kinzinger has spent his last months in office as a member of the January 6 Committee, investigating the events of that day. He joined David to talk about his work on the Committee, tribalism in politics and its negative effect on leaders, why he thinks the Mar-a-Lago search could spell trouble for Trump, and his predictions for the midterms.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:06.0 | And now, from the University of Chicago Institute of Politics and CNN Audio, the Axfiles, with |
| 0:12.6 | your host, David Axelrod. |
| 0:18.9 | I caught up with Adam Kinzinger this week the Republican Congressman from Illinois was |
| 0:23.4 | last on the Axfiles in January of 2021, shortly after the insurrection that rocked our |
| 0:28.8 | democracy. |
| 0:29.8 | But so much has happened since then including his vote to impeach President Trump and his |
| 0:34.7 | service on the January 6th select committee probing the insurrection that it was time to speak |
| 0:39.9 | with him again. |
| 0:40.9 | Here's that conversation. |
| 0:48.9 | Adam Kinzinger, it's good to see you again. |
| 0:51.4 | You know, I don't have repeat guests on this podcast a lot. |
| 0:55.6 | This is your third time in part because you always mentioned up in the middle of everything. |
| 1:01.1 | So I always want, I always have more questions for you and I do want to talk about, you know, |
| 1:06.9 | your journey from regular Republican to hated apostate within the Republican ranks. |
| 1:15.4 | But before we get to that, there's your back. |
| 1:19.3 | The January 6th committee is back in business. |
| 1:22.9 | I know you guys were working all summer behind the scenes. |
| 1:26.3 | So tell me, first of all, tell me you had eight hearings, I think eight hearings before |
| 1:31.3 | the summer or during the summer. |
| 1:33.5 | What in the broadest terms, what do you think that we learned and where do you go from here? |
| 1:39.9 | Yeah. |
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