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The Michael Steele Podcast

Quick Take: Taking an Oath to the Constitution

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

This is an excerpt from the full episode "America's Descent into Dysfunction: With Adam Kinzinger."

Michael speaks with former Congressman Adam Kinzinger. Adam discusses serving on the January 6th Committee despite initially not wanting to, the leadership he witnessed on both the left and right, putting country over party and the news of Kevin McCarthy leaving office.

Check out Adam's book, "Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in Our Divided Country," here: https://www.amazon.com/Renegade-Defending-Democracy-Liberty-Divided/dp/0593654161

Check out Adam's organization, Country First: https://www.country1st.com/about

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Michael Steele podcast listeners, Michael Steele here with another quick take from the Michael Steele

0:13.0

podcast check out what's going on right now. Welcome back everybody to

0:17.7

Michael Steele podcast Michael Steele here and my buddy Adam Kensinger in the

0:21.9

house he's joining the neighborhood coming through talking about his new book

0:26.5

Renegade defending democracy and liberty in our divided country. It's actually it's a great sort of bookend moment for both Adam and Liz.

0:39.0

Liz's book just came out last week.

0:42.0

Yours been out a few weeks before, a few months before. So you got the bookends from not just Republicans perspective on January 6th, but from really the perspective. on you were trying to move the needle on this on this committee to keep it from falling into the very partisan

1:09.0

defy that it you know these things have a tendency to fall into as well as fighting your own troops

1:15.3

while you're serving on this committee.

1:18.0

How how did you get a lot of I'm glad you're there Adam?

1:24.5

Yeah.

1:26.1

I wish I could be there with you bro,

1:28.5

but you know I'm glad you there and you know keep the fight.

1:32.2

Oh, you guys are exposes so much as you know I don't know what's come at this party what are we going to do help us Adam get out of trouble that we put ourselves into and then when of course when you start to do that they're like no I'm not showing up for a subpoena.

1:47.8

Yeah, I mean look listen like it's so amazing so I never would betray personal conversations. By the way, Liz saves all our texts obviously so be careful what you say to Liz. I still with the reaction. But I had conversations with so many people that would come up to me on the floor of the house and be like, you know, it was interesting what you said or what you guys found. Or I'd have a few people that would thank me for

2:14.9

doing it and then say you know I can't because my district blah blah blah. Okay two

2:19.2

things number one my district two, I had a Republican district. Secondly, like this, and this is a point that I think is important to point out.

2:30.0

When we take an oath, it is not to our district.

2:35.0

Like, you take an oath to the Constitution.

2:38.0

Okay, so if the 700,000 people that I represented

2:42.0

all called me on the phone and said do not vote to impeach or do not be on this committee.

2:49.0

Guess what? I don't care because my commitment my oath is not to them it's to the

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