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0:38You know, last night Sofia and I are
0:39talking and we're kind of going in the
0:41end of this and we're like,
0:43you know, we're putting a lot of trust
0:45in these guys. They could make us look
0:47stupid. Like we've been
0:51blindsided by everything the past two
0:53years. It's been a lot to figure out who
0:56can we trust really.
0:58It's a real concern and you know,
1:01I recognize it like you have contempt
1:04for what I believe. Like in terms of my
1:07political viewpoints. Like you don't I
1:10think in any other situation we you
1:14probably would be protesting my office.
1:16You're just so far left. First of all,
1:18that's kind of mean. Yeah, it is. I
1:19know.
1:20>> That's kind of mean that you would think
1:21I would have contempt for your views.
1:22Yeah.
1:23>> Why would you think that?
1:23>> Do you have contempt for my views,
1:25Steve?
1:34And in the key House races, Republican
1:36Adam [music] Kinzinger cruised in that
1:3811th District Republican primary. He
1:40grabbed 64% [music] of the vote.
1:42>> The 32-year-old Air Force pilot also
1:44received strong support from the Tea
1:46Party in his landslide win. That Okay,
1:48that's a fair question. But what you're
1:49essentially asking me is why would I
1:51want to make a movie about you, a guy
1:52whose political views I oppose?
1:54Adam Kinzinger
1:56>> he's [music] a real up-and-coming star.
1:58Yes, Adam.
1:59>> Mr. President, thank you. And just from
2:00the House perspective, I want to say uh
2:02Adam is still currently serving guard
2:04member. You're my commander-in-chief.
2:06He's doing a great job as secretary.
2:07>> Great job. He is doing a great [music]
2:09job. Thank you, Adam. Very much
2:10appreciate it. Handsome guy. I mean,
2:12normally I want nothing to do with you.
2:14You voted with the president 93% of the
2:16time. So, that
2:18seems like you're No, it's all fun. I'm
2:20just curious to see And then
2:22lo and behold
2:24Frankly, we did win this election.
2:27>> [cheering]
2:28>> When the president denies the election
2:30result, all of a sudden there's this guy
2:31from my home state, you, who stands up
2:34and says, "Fuck that."
2:36The truth is that the election was not
2:37stolen.
2:39And it's important for our party to take
2:41inventory of that and go out and win the
2:43next election
2:44instead of continuing the big lie.
2:47And then after the president literally
2:48tries to overthrow the government
2:50to the Capitol you were the first
2:52legislator, you were the first one of
2:54either party to invoke the 25th
2:56Amendment and say,
2:57"This guy's a maniac and needs to
2:58[music] be forcibly removed from
3:00office."
3:01All indications are that the president
3:02has become unmoored, not just from his
3:05duty
3:06or even his oath, but from reality
3:08itself. Then you voted for impeachment.
3:10How does it feel to be a pariah within
3:12your own party? So, yeah, that's why I
3:14wanted to make this movie. But I'd be
3:16lying if I said I wasn't conflicted,
3:17right? Because to me, a courageous
3:19Republican is still a Republican.
3:22I think it's not about a political view.
3:27It's about
3:29what it is to turn against
3:32everything you've ever belonged to
3:36because of some red line you can't
3:39cross.
3:52So, out of all the cinematic visionaries
3:54who wanted to make this film,
3:57why did you say yes to me?
4:02Hot Tub Time Machine is the thing that
4:03sold me.
4:06>> [music]
4:08>> It's a cinematic masterpiece.
4:11How can such a serious filmmaker like
4:13Hot Tub Time Machine not make me look
4:15good?
4:16Wha- Right.
4:18That's really good logic.
4:19>> Thank you.
4:20So, we've been shooting together for
4:21over a year.
4:24Yeah, a lot over a year. Feels like 4
4:26years.
4:27And they need and
4:29in fact
4:30and that
4:34through, you know, up the appropriations
4:36process
4:36>> real negotiating yet between the two
4:38chambers Yeah.
4:40We're happy to take a look. Hello, this
4:42is Congressman Kinzinger's office. How
4:43may I help you?
4:45Okay, welcome to the office.
4:49And
4:51so, this is our
4:53front room. And then in here, this is
4:56where folks from our legislative team
4:58sit. Our deputy chief of staff, Mara, is
5:01out there looking.
5:03So, you're asking me for the statement
5:04before I even give out the statement?
5:10Mara is allowed to type her away but
5:12when she's being recorded, she's like
5:14just a little bit louder. You think so?
5:17You can feel the the emphasis, yeah.
5:22>> [laughter]
5:23>> Is that quiet enough for you, Paul? Is
5:25it too loud?
5:26So, when I joined the office, I would
5:28ignore Mara's emails because she was
5:30mean to me. That's not true. But I would
5:31always do what she asked. I would just
5:33never respond. Well, Mara could see
5:35Paul's computer. So, he'd open an email.
5:38I would see he saw it, close out of it.
5:40I was like, well, he clearly ignored me.
5:41That's quite rude.
5:44Rule number nine was in response to me
5:47suggesting that in some circumstances
5:49tickling would be okay.
5:52But this is a reminder that under no
5:54circumstance can you tickle any
5:55co-workers.
5:58Um
6:00How's this going?
6:02Good. It's actually good. Yeah. Yeah.
6:04They're not on my nerves yet or
6:05anything. That's good.
6:07>> Yeah. Any time.
6:09It's funny though because at the
6:10beginning I don't think your chief of
6:11staff was thrilled to see me in your
6:12office.
6:13You know, I think in Austin's
6:14perspective, anytime there's a camera
6:17around you're on defense. It's very
6:18difficult not not filming. I mean you
6:20you made it very clear from the very
6:21beginning that you didn't agree with my
6:23politics. You called yourself basically
6:25a communist. You outed yourself out.
6:27>> Progressive, but sure. All right.
6:29Thanks.
6:31You know, when we were filming that
6:32first day, keep in mind the mindset to
6:34that point, I was still considering
6:36running for governor or Senate.
6:38The decisions I made to speak out
6:40against Trump or even vote for
6:41impeachment, I never really had a debate
6:45on that in my own mind. I knew I had to
6:47do it.
6:48But when I voted that way,
6:50naively,
6:51I thought there's no way people aren't
6:53going to wake up from this.
6:56I remember the day after January 6th,
6:59you know, everybody was kind of waking
7:00up at that point. The president bears
7:02responsibility for Wednesday's attack on
7:05Congress by mob rioters.
7:07He should have immediately denounced the
7:09mob when he saw what was unfolding.
7:12These facts require immediate action.
7:15For President Trump.
7:16>> President Trump is practically
7:18and morally responsible
7:21for provoking the events
7:24of the day.
7:26No question about it.
7:28I called it it was like Saturday morning
7:31when you had a giant party at your house
7:33Friday night and now you got chickens
7:35flying around. You have a bad headache,
7:37you know, you're only wearing a shirt
7:39and you're like, what did we do last
7:40night? That's where I thought the party
7:42was. So you're
7:45you're thinking even at that moment was
7:47the insurrection and the attempt to
7:48overthrow the government and a and a
7:50coup d'état that included 140
7:52Republicans voting to not certify the
7:55election. You thought that just might
7:56have been a crazy bender and that they
7:58were going to wake up and get their [ __ ]
8:00together.
8:01>> You wake up, you're going to deal with
8:02the hangover,
8:04and you're going to gut it out and drink
8:05water, right?
8:10Donald Trump was a nonentity. Nobody
8:11even showed up at Andrews when he left.
8:21But you can always fix a hangover by
8:23starting to drink again.
8:26And that's when Kevin McCarthy goes to
8:28Mar-a-Lago. That changed everything.
8:31Cuz Donald Trump had been disgraced
8:33until that moment.
8:36Kevin McCarthy was the minority leader,
8:39and Kevin told us,
8:41"I just happen to be down there in Palm
8:44Beach,
8:45and he wanted to meet, and I'm not going
8:46to say no to a former president."
8:48[ __ ]
8:52I knew at that moment what would happen.
8:56You know, if you didn't know the TV
8:57footage was a video from January the
8:596th, you would actually think it was a
9:01normal tourist visit.
9:02>> The former president, was he responsible
9:04for what happened? No, of course not.
9:06You think about it. If you actually come
9:07to grips with what's happened,
9:09that's going to take some soul
9:10searching. It's much better to just numb
9:12the pain. It's easier.
9:14After careful consideration,
9:17I've made the decision to oppose the
9:19House Democrats' slanted and unbalanced
9:21proposal
9:22for another commission to study the
9:24events of January the 6th. Just to
9:27approach you with this analogy,
9:28>> it seems like you would be a great
9:29candidate to start Republicans
9:31Anonymous. Yeah, maybe. You know what I
9:33mean? Like you could have a you know,
9:34like, "Hi, my name is Jim Jordan."
9:36>> then we're just feeding into your little
9:38left-wing like, "Oh, every every
9:40Republican is just a Democrat waiting to
9:42find his wings."
9:44>> [ __ ]
9:48I mean, it's a funny analogy, but in
9:51that moment,
9:53I felt
9:55very isolated.
9:58With great solemnity and sadness,
10:01uh I'm announcing that the House will be
10:03establishing an uh
10:05select committee on the January 6th
10:08insurrection.
10:11It is imperative that we establish the
10:13truth of that day.
10:17The select committee will investigate
10:18and report on the facts and the causes
10:21of the attack, [music] and it will make
10:22report recommendations uh for the
10:25prevention of any future attack.
10:27>> The resolution is adopted. After you
10:29were the only Republican besides Cheney
10:31[music] to vote for the creation of a
10:33select committee, at that point, are you
10:35just all in? Because you don't know
10:37you're on the committee yet, right?
10:38>> No, and I don't want to be on the
10:39committee. Really? I didn't want to be
10:41on the committee.
10:43He was not supposed to be there.
10:45Adam was not supposed to be in that
10:48group of people.
10:50You know, I voted for it cuz it was the
10:51right thing to do.
10:53And I start hearing rumors that Nancy
10:55Pelosi is going to appoint a Republican
10:56to sit on a Democratic seat. Very
10:58brilliant of her.
11:00And I was like, "Please, dear Jesus, not
11:03me."
11:04And I remember we had dinner in DC that
11:07night.
11:08And I remember we both talked about it
11:10of like, "Should he do it?" I don't want
11:12to do it. I don't.
11:14I also know I can't I can't say no if
11:17I'm asked.
11:19And freaking Nancy Pelosi announces it
11:21before she even calls me, by the way.
11:23Kind of pissed me off.
11:24>> Will you be appointing more Republicans
11:26to the committee like Congressman Adam
11:27Kinzinger?
11:28That would be my plan. I wake up Sunday
11:31morning
11:32to a missed call from her at like 5:00
11:34a.m. Like I'm going to be up.
11:35>> So, when will that be announced?
11:38Perhaps so, after I speak to
11:40uh Adam Kinzinger.
11:43A lot changed out there.
11:46Illinois's Adam Kinzinger
11:47>> Adam Kinzinger joins Congresswoman Liz
11:49Cheney on the nine-member panel, who
11:51lost her job in Republican House
11:53leadership for taking a similar stance.
11:55>> The first committee hearing is set for
11:56Tuesday, where Capitol Police officers
11:59will testify about their personal
12:00experiences. My staff, by the way, is
12:02telling me like, "You're not going to do
12:04this, right? This is suicidal."
12:07And
12:09and they are right. Action.
12:13Cut.
12:14Everybody come up here and re-work.
12:15>> I was with you the day that the final
12:17redistricting map comes up. Was that
12:20when we were out shooting the
12:20commercial?
12:27Now, Kinzinger has served six terms in
12:29Congress, but newly approved
12:30congressional maps put Congressman Adam
12:32Kinzinger in the same district as Darin
12:34LaHood.
12:35>> That new district voted 60% for
12:37President Trump, a deep red, pro-Trump
12:39district.
12:42They drew me in in a very unfavorable
12:45district with a kind of crazy MAGA guy,
12:49and I knew there was no way I could run
12:50in a primary and win.
12:52Well, it's just a sensitive I mean,
12:54we're in a sensitive topic right now,
12:55and so we don't want information to kind
12:58of get out that we're not ready to get
12:59out.
13:00>> off the record.
13:01>> Yeah. Like, you know. I got to
13:06Well, there's no good timing. There's no
13:08good timing. If if you're not going to
13:10run, there's not a good time. Yeah.
13:14If we announce this week,
13:17you're no longer part of the party, and
13:18you're no longer
13:20influential.
13:21>> Yeah.
13:24Yeah, and that very bad news came in the
13:26middle of you doing like a thousand
13:28takes for a political ad about finding
13:30common ground.
13:32Some leaders in Washington have
13:34forgotten the purpose of democracy. Some
13:35leaders in Washington. Some leaders in
13:37Washington. Some leaders in Washington
13:39have focused
13:42That was a rough day for you.
13:52Hey, if I don't see you guys
13:58Adam Kinzinger, perhaps the most
14:00high-profile Republican lawmaker in
14:01Illinois, announced he won't seek
14:04re-election. He is one of only [music]
14:0510 Republican House members who voted to
14:08impeach former President Trump.
14:11Mr. Trump responded with a quick
14:13statement taking credit, apparently
14:15referencing the Republicans that voted
14:17against him earlier this year, simply
14:19saying, "Two down, [music]
14:20eight to go."
14:23about Friday's podcast.
14:25We talked about doing
14:26you explaining your decision. Do you
14:28still want to do that Friday or do you
14:30want to
14:31You can always do it before your
14:32podcast. Okay. It was great. It worked.
14:34I don't It worked better than it ever
14:35has.
14:38It's It works. Hello, friends. Hello,
14:40sir. It's amazing like everybody now is
14:42telling me how much they're sad I'm
14:44leaving. I'm like, "Why the hell didn't
14:45you guys say anything prior to this
14:46moment?" Um
14:48but uh we still have 14 months and you
14:50know, I want you guys to know obviously
14:52I'll help support you in anything you
14:54want to do in terms of next steps. Love
14:55to keep you here as long as we can.
14:58Well, just like talking about
14:59priorities, is there anything that us as
15:01a staff and in this office can shift any
15:03focus to or things that you want to
15:05accomplish here in the next 14 months? I
15:07think that you know, if we can leave
15:09here with a bit of a legacy on democracy
15:11preservation, like the history books
15:13will be kind.
15:14You know, it's a worthy fight
15:16but I think it's it's a battle that we
15:18have to have a bigger we have to have a
15:19bigger forum for it.
15:36Well, thank you everybody. Welcome back
15:38to uh Country First podcast. And it's
15:40been a heck of a year.
15:46One of the things I really want to talk
15:48about to in the season here is just why
15:50did I make the decision not to run
15:51again?
15:54After the 6th, I thought that people
15:55would say
15:56you know, we're done with this. This is
15:58getting ridiculous. And and and what's
16:00been worrisome to me as much as anything
16:02is just watching that that's not
16:04happening.
16:05I'm not ashamed of the fact that I'm a
16:07conservative Republican.
16:09Now, I haven't been the one that's
16:10changed. The Republican Party has
16:13changed.
16:20But as I look at moving on to the next
16:22chapter, it is not the end of the story.
16:24I think it's the beginning of a great
16:26story.
16:29When people look back and read the
16:31history books, the January 6th Committee
16:34is going to be noted in there as the
16:36movement that changed the trajectory of
16:38politics and saved this country and
16:40saved self-governance.
16:42We refuse to be the first generation to
16:44leave our kids a country worse off than
16:46the one we inherited.
16:50God bless you all and remember to keep
16:52putting country first.
17:00Nice. Boom, done.
17:03It's crazy how I think the baby
17:06recognizes your voice. Really? Does he
17:08like, "Yo."
17:09He wouldn't stop kicking.
17:18You know, look, it's fine to make the
17:20decision to like sacrifice everything,
17:22but if it's for no purpose, that makes
17:24it pointless, right?
17:25>> But I think the stakes of failure for
17:28you, you were hiding you were hiding
17:30from this film.
17:32Yeah, I was probably hiding it from
17:33myself, too.
17:34I don't think that's something I could
17:36think about or come to grips with
17:37because there was so much at stake both
17:39for me
17:40in terms of that sacrifice, but also,
17:43you know, for the country and the party
17:44that I still at that time, you know,
17:47liked.
17:53You know, some Republicans have been
17:54saying that the G-
17:57the GOP should play ball on this
17:59committee. You could You could get the
18:00three.
18:01>> Who was that? Adam and Liz? Well, aren't
18:04they kind of like Pelosi Republicans?
18:06Kevin McCarthy is technically my
18:07Republican leader. And to call, you
18:10know, members of Congress by childish
18:12names like Donald Trump used to do, I
18:14guess this is just uh kind of par for
18:16the course. Honestly, I'm less mad at
18:18Donald Trump than I am at Kevin
18:20McCarthy. So, Trump I'm mad at. Let's
18:22not I don't want to gloss that over,
18:24right? He's the reason all this
18:26happened.
18:27Um
18:28but he's just nuts, right? It's not like
18:31That's not an excuse, but it's like it's
18:32not a surprise.
18:34Kevin McCarthy is the surprise. I mean,
18:37look, McCarthy and I were pretty close.
18:40I met him early in like 2009 before I
18:42was elected. And he was invited us to
18:45dinners all the time. He's a great
18:46politician.
18:48I mean, the guy made it to the number
18:50three
18:51position in the House Republicans in 6
18:53years.
18:56And Kevin could be a very charming guy.
18:59Like I could see why they were friends.
19:03And I remember when we got engaged,
19:05Kevin offered to
19:10officiate the wedding.
19:12What? Yeah.
19:18And of course,
19:20after the election day, it was all
19:21different. And President Trump won this
19:23election. So, everyone who's listening,
19:25do not be quiet. Do not be Do not be
19:28silent about this. We cannot allow this
19:31to happen before our very eyes. We need
19:32to unite together.
19:36On January 1st, the Republican
19:38conference big phone call, all about
19:41certifying the election.
19:44Welcome to the conference calling
19:45center.
19:45>> Kevin said, "I will be voting against
19:48certification." Which actually shocked
19:50me.
19:51Because even to that point, I'm like,
19:53"Well, Kevin McCarthy knows the right
19:55thing to do."
19:56So, I was the first caller in the queue
19:58to go. Your line is open. And I go,
20:00"Kevin,
20:01you have convinced these people
20:04that are trusting us.
20:05You've convinced them that the election
20:07was stolen. There's going to be
20:08violence. Like, you have to tell people,
20:11like, this is on you."
20:12And he just said, "Okay, Adam. Operator,
20:15next question.
20:19That phone call was the last time I ever
20:20exchanged a word with him.
20:23Call full capital lottery. CALL FULL
20:25CAPITAL LOTTERY.
20:31I WAS ELECTROCUTED AGAIN,
20:34and again, and again,
20:37with the taser.
20:39I'm sure I was screaming, but I don't
20:41think I could even hear my own voice.
20:45I said as loud as I could manage,
20:47"I've got kids."
20:49That first hearing, that was with the
20:52Capitol Police.
20:54I'm pregnant at home. I'm crying and
20:58crying, like, the moment they started
21:00talking, I just couldn't stop crying.
21:04It just hit so much.
21:06>> They've got the gallows set up side this
21:08Capitol building. It's time to start
21:09[ __ ] using and pull me back to that
21:11day.
21:19So, January 6th, we had agreed that I
21:22was going to stay home and that his
21:23staff was not coming in, that it was
21:25just him.
21:28So, I was sitting in the living room,
21:30obviously watching the news, and I'm
21:31like, "Oh my god, they're they're
21:33they're heading towards the Capitol.
21:34They're starting to push the barrier."
21:39This is now effectively a riot.
21:4113:49 hours, declaring a riot.
21:46So,
21:47I go online and turn on the Statuary
21:49Hall live footage.
21:55And the moment like someone walked into
21:58the frame, that's where
22:00I guess I freaked out.
22:08I'm like,
22:09"They're coming to get everyone."
22:12>> [cheering]
22:12>> And yeah, Adam is probably
22:15a target.
22:22I was realizing what it meant to be a
22:24politician's spouse.
22:28And that the threats are real.
22:30>> [screaming]
22:32>> Until then, I had never seen anyone
22:35physically assault Capitol Police or
22:37MPD, let alone witness mass assaults
22:40being perpetrated on law enforcement
22:43officers.
22:45So, the first hearing,
22:48there was so much
22:50tragedy and sadness and defeat in their
22:53stories when reality
22:57I owe them my husband's life.
23:01And I text Adam, "Remind them they won."
23:05I yield back, Mr.
23:06>> That was like a second or two before
23:10it was his time to give the opening
23:11speech.
23:13Thank you to our witnesses.
23:15Uh I never expected the day to be
23:17>> [clears throat and cough]
23:18>> quite as emotional for me as it has
23:20been.
23:21I've talked to a number of you and
23:23gotten to know you.
23:25I think it's important to tell you right
23:27now, though.
23:29You guys may like individually feel a
23:31little broken.
23:33You guys all talk about the effects you
23:35have to deal with and
23:37you know, you talk about the impact of
23:38that day.
23:41But you guys won.
23:44You guys held them.
23:48Thank you.
23:49Thank you.
23:53Thank you.
23:54Oh, oh, by the way, this just in, Adam
23:56Kinzinger has won a best actor award.
23:58Check it out. You know, you talk about
24:00the impact of that day.
24:03But you guys won.
24:06Did he just bite his lip? You guys held
24:08them.
24:10>> [laughter]
24:11>> You know, democracies
24:13are not defined He's going for broke. by
24:16our bad days.
24:18>> [laughter]
24:19>> You know what? He needs a bubble bath,
24:21some red wine, and a bar of chocolate.
24:25Two reports last night that Congressman
24:27Adam Kinzinger of Illinois had been seen
24:30crying again. Members of Congress are
24:32technically speaking sent to Washington
24:34to vote and not to weep. Tonight we have
24:35an update on that. Congressman Kinzinger
24:37has been spotted crying again, according
24:39to our sources, in a place where you
24:41rarely see tears, in Waffle House.
24:44>> [music]
24:44>> You're seeing the Waffle House location
24:46on your screen. If you look closer, you
24:47will see Adam Kinzinger clearly
24:49distraught, crying inside a restaurant
24:52that serves waffles. [music]
25:03>> Hey you little [ __ ] sucker.
25:06Are you Liz Cheney's [ __ ] hag?
25:10You two [ __ ] sucking little [ __ ]
25:13We're going to get you.
25:15Coming to your house, son.
25:19Adam Kinzinger, I'm so glad you're
25:20leaving cuz you're a piece of [ __ ] and
25:22there's my [ __ ] message for you. May
25:25the Lord God Almighty come upon you,
25:28your health, your family, your home,
25:32your livelihood. And and I pray
25:35if it be God's will that you suffer.
25:43We killed her outside your [ __ ]
25:44house, you traitor. We're going to line
25:46you up on a wall and take care of all
25:48your traitorous asses. I think as the
25:51hearings ramp up, people are just going
25:53to continue
25:55berating our office. You son of a [ __ ]
25:58you gave 200
25:59>> I mean, over the course of the last 2
26:00weeks, obviously his name gets out there
26:02more and they just call and they call
26:04and they call. Congressman Kinzinger's
26:06office, how can I help you?
26:07>> We have brand new interns, too. And so
26:09there have been a lot of conversations
26:11between me, Luke, the interns on how to
26:14deal with those.
26:15>> office, how can I help you?
26:16>> Just expressing to them that look, this
26:18is going to like slowly it can
26:19completely break down your psyche. Like
26:21you might feel great and then a month
26:23in, you might just go home and start
26:25crying and you have no idea why. But
26:27it's because for 12 hours a day you're
26:28hearing somebody call you a [ __ ]
26:30idiot, uh a [ __ ] a traitor, that
26:32they're coming for you. People are
26:34getting increasingly hostile
26:35>> and a little more scary. I hope somebody
26:37like him kills your nasty wife.
26:40>> That one's going to Capitol Police.
26:41That's it. Should I go to district
26:42staff, too? Yeah. I'm a pretty sensitive
26:45person.
26:45>> have panic buttons under our desks.
26:47>> I also didn't have a lot of experience
26:49like on the phone.
26:51>> We had those checked, make sure they
26:52operate well. I think it might be a
26:54generational thing.
26:55>> The Capitol police came in at the
26:56beginning of the week and they're like,
26:57"We're going to check on you once every
26:59hour."
27:00No, Andrew, I think there were like a
27:02couple of times, I don't know if you saw
27:03me, I was just sitting there crying.
27:05>> [laughter]
27:06>> I brought you tissues.
27:08I couldn't believe that people would
27:10treat strangers like that. We load up.
27:12No, we do. He literally has a closet
27:14full of tissues.
27:21Some family drama for Illinois
27:23Congressman Adam Kinzinger. This
27:24handwritten letter obtained by The New
27:26York Times was sent to Kinzinger from 11
27:28family members.
27:29>> is going against his Christian
27:30principles and has joined [music] the
27:32devil's army,
27:33the letter goes on to say, "President
27:35Trump is not perfect, but neither are
27:37you or any of us for that [music]
27:38matter. It is not for us to judge or be
27:40judged, but he is Christian. It is now
27:42most embarrassing, that is underlined
27:44three times,
27:45>> [music]
27:45>> to us that we are related to you."
27:48Kinzinger's cousin spoke to The New York
27:50Times and said, quote, "I want Adam to
27:51be shunned."
27:55I honestly would never have dreamed that
27:58my family could be so crass and cruel.
28:03That that that bothered me.
28:07Well, my college friends wrote me and
28:10said, "I don't like Adam anymore." And I
28:12just wanted to answer,
28:14"Why tell me that? It's you don't have
28:16to like Adam, but you also don't have to
28:19tell his mother that you don't like
28:20him."
28:22Okay, sandwiches are finished. I don't
28:24know how many I have, but that's enough
28:25and I think that's
28:26>> this one over here?
28:28Oh, you can eat that one.
28:29>> I don't want to until I know why it's
28:31over here.
28:31>> Because I dropped it on my foot. Oh,
28:33yeah. You can have it now.
28:35>> Good call. Any of your cousins who would
28:37wrote the letter, have you talked to
28:38them since?
28:38>> No.
28:40It's it's awkward. I really don't think
28:42about it anymore at all. Except for when
28:44I I making out the list of who to invite
28:47to the shower.
28:59>> [laughter]
28:59>> So nice to see everybody and I'm Chalice
29:01if you don't remember me. I think most
29:02people know me so
29:03>> [music]
29:04>> and this is Sophia and the beautiful
29:06little baby.
29:08Your father thank you so much for
29:10allowing us all to get here today safely
29:13and to celebrate
29:14little Christian Adam and we want to
29:16pray that
29:17the remainder of her pregnancy will be
29:19completely uneventful in [music] a
29:20wonderful way.
29:33I'm so scared.
29:35If I have pee diaper I'll be fine. Pee
29:37diapers cuz like all my buddies that
29:39have kids now they're like
29:41Let me tell you about blow outs.
29:44And I'm like
29:45They're back.
29:47Oh, they'll be fine. Do I just dump them
29:48in the sink or what?
29:50Or just leave it like tie
29:52tie a knot in the bag or something.
29:57Now I'm taking loot.
30:15Okay, so we got all the stuff today and
30:17then tonight I have the gay what? Mhm.
30:20It's going to be a good day.
30:22Yeah.
30:23It's always a good day.
30:25It's a good day in America.
30:28We are using this elevator for members
30:30of Congress.
30:33My wife and I went and saw Dune. Mhm.
30:35It's the first movie we've seen in
30:36probably two and a half years in the
30:37theater or since the Rona.
30:40Great freaking movie. There was the old
30:42like movie in the '80s that was like
30:44these worms that would eat people.
30:47But the new Doom's like
30:49I don't know if it's going to be like a
30:50trilogy or two or something.
30:56Come here.
30:57I think it sounds fine.
30:59Fine? Not going for fine, pal.
31:01Great.
31:02You can't just go from fine to great.
31:04And he's certainly not going to tell us
31:05the truth. But we the reason we don't
31:07need to do that is cuz it's totally
31:10clear as a matter of objective evidence
31:12what that was. I think um it it's useful
31:16for us to think about what the
31:17difference is in the charge of our
31:19committee. Okay, we want to tell the
31:21events of the day. He clearly plays the
31:23the central role there.
31:25So you've talked about, you know, the
31:27value of trust and honesty. If you don't
31:29have that with your constituents, you're
31:30not doing your job, uh even if you're
31:32telling them what they don't want to
31:32hear. If you're not doing that with each
31:34other, with your colleagues here,
31:36you're not doing your job. And you put
31:38it into a conversation about we're
31:41better than this. We're better than what
31:43the public discourse has become. We're
31:44better than the tribalism that we see.
31:47What if What if we're wrong about that?
31:54See man?
32:06I like this idea.
32:12Is that still going?
32:33Well, we had
32:36quite a long labor.
32:38Actually, Sophia had quite a long labor.
32:40But now
32:43mom's doing good.
32:45We're getting back to normal. We are
32:47getting back to normal.
32:49We are now new parents
32:50to one
32:52Christian Adam Kinzinger.
32:55Hello, Christian.
32:57Say hi to everybody.
33:07The RNC will be voting on a resolution
33:09to censure Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger
33:12for their involvement in the
33:13investigation into January 6th.
33:15Resolution to formally censure Liz
33:17Cheney and Adam Kinzinger and to no
33:19longer support them as members of the
33:21Republican Party.
33:22All of those in favor of the motion,
33:24please signify by saying I. I. All of
33:27those opposed, signify by saying no.
33:30The eyes have it and the five
33:31resolutions are adopted. Thank you,
33:33Richard.
33:40We have the warm water ready for the
33:41bath. Okay.
33:49Good job.
33:53Dude, he's going to eat the whole thing.
33:54Should I just let him?
33:57Let's maybe pull it out, yeah. All
33:59right. We'll give it to Mom and we'll
34:01figure out
34:02how this thing will go down.
34:04Come on, come on, Mom.
34:08Did you know ahead of time that they
34:09were going to kick you out of the party
34:10or did it come as a surprise when
34:12suddenly they announced it when the bill
34:13No, I didn't see any of it coming, but
34:16um
34:16for me it's like they're the ones that
34:19should be ashamed.
34:20You you are so
34:22overcome with like this like childish
34:25anger that you can't control
34:27because Liz and I make it uncomfortable
34:30for you.
34:31It just reveals the truth of how screwed
34:34up this all is. I mean, not surprising
34:36to me cuz they're Republicans.
34:39But now I'm just trying to understand
34:40why you feel so loyal to this party in
34:42the first place.
34:43We saw
34:46things that you can look back now and
34:48say this is so logical where he's gone.
34:50>> Yeah.
34:51You know, when he was 5 years old
34:53campaigning for the mayor of
34:55Jacksonville, Florida.
34:58We were driving home from church one day
34:59and I remember seeing a yard sign.
35:02It was hot pink cuz it was the '80s.
35:04And I just asked my parents about it.
35:07That guy's running for mayor and blah
35:08blah blah.
35:09And I was just hooked. I was hooked on
35:10the fanfare of it at first.
35:12>> THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, JIM EDGAR. WHEN
35:15WE came up here and lived in McLean
35:17County,
35:18his involvement with the Republican
35:20Party at the time of Jim Edgar Jim Edgar
35:22was the governor of Illinois. Did he go
35:25to jail? No, he was the one of the ones
35:27that didn't. Some people might say I'm a
35:29little dull.
35:29>> He dressed as Jim Edgar for Halloween. I
35:32was 12 when that happened, 12 years of
35:35age. I also set up a Republican election
35:38headquarters in my bedroom and I
35:40pretended like and played election
35:43headquarters.
35:44You know, come on by and get a sign.
35:46But it was my room, so this is my
35:48parents going by.
35:53>> [laughter]
35:54>> He's been serious about this.
35:56>> Yeah.
35:57For a long time.
35:59That was That was so stupid.
36:02I remember when he would go out and
36:03after it would rain, he'd put out all
36:04these political signs. And go dry them
36:07off.
36:07>> And he'd get on his bike as soon as the
36:08rain was over with a cloth and he'd go
36:10and wipe off the rain off of every
36:12[laughter] sign.
36:13That was happening.
36:14Yeah, that happened.
36:17>> [laughter]
36:20>> You were in a debate club?
36:24So what did you debate?
36:25Abortion in seventh grade. Wow.
36:28>> Yeah. What so what side did you take?
36:29>> Pro-life side. What would you think?
36:32I had to ask. I was a Republican. I am a
36:34Republican now. Yeah, who knows?
36:37I'm a something. You're a something. I'm
36:39a something.
36:41How did you choose a political party so
36:44young?
36:45You know, my parents were Republican, so
36:47you know, you're naturally inclined to
36:48that.
36:49Ronald Reagan was president, you know,
36:51he was a pretty inspirational figure. Um
36:54What F
36:55>> I can't believe you probably hated
36:56Reagan. Like
36:58three people in this country hated
37:00Reagan. Like then you hated him, but
37:02then now like Reagan's a good dude. You
37:04probably still hate him.
37:05>> Oh, for sure still hate him.
37:07>> for
37:07Ronald Reagan, bro.
37:09>> What's so great about Ronald Reagan? I
37:11don't know, Soviet Union's gone, [ __ ]
37:13like that. He didn't do that. They spent
37:15their way out of the
37:15>> I think he did a pretty good job of
37:17that. He did he wasn't great.
37:18>> Whatever, I'm not going to get into this
37:19with you because literally if it was a
37:21war against Reagan supporters and
37:22non-Reagan supporters, you guys would
37:24lose quickly cuz there's only like seven
37:26of you in the country.
37:28Reagan raised taxes, I believe, too,
37:29right?
37:30>> Yeah, I'm not I'm not like a Reagan guy
37:31cuz he didn't raise taxes. I'm a Reagan
37:34guy cuz he was awesome. Springtime of
37:36youth.
37:37Some lights seem eternal. You know,
37:39Reagan was president, like Rocky was
37:41big. Red Dawn was a great movie. Red
37:44Dawn is a perfect film. It's the best
37:47film
37:48that's ever been created besides Hot Tub
37:50Time Machine.
37:50>> Thank you. As a kid, I remember sitting
37:53in high school daydreaming that like the
37:54Russians are attacking. Like the army
37:56comes by and they're like, we need a guy
37:58to defend the school, and of course they
38:00pick me, throw me an M4, and I just like
38:03just wasting Russians that are coming to
38:04the school.
38:05And all the girls are like, "Oh, Adam."
38:08>> [laughter]
38:08>> I was a Civil War reenactor at 16 as
38:11well, so let's keep going. It was the
38:13north, by the way. Mhm.
38:15It's good Otherwise, I would not have
38:16told you that I was a Civil War
38:18reenactor
38:19just now.
38:23And so, I got accepted at Illinois
38:25State. I had a friend that said to me
38:28like, "You should run for the county
38:29board." I don't think he meant it like,
38:32"You should run for the county board." I
38:33think he meant it like,
38:35"You should run."
38:37And then I'm like, "Oh, okay." And I
38:38ran.
38:41I won, and
38:43that was the beginning of kind of my
38:44foray into politics.
38:469/11 happens, and I'm just like, "I'm
38:47going to go try to fly."
38:49And then I remember in 2006 when I was
38:52in Milwaukee, I just gotten back out of
38:53pilot training,
38:55there was a stabbing incident um in
38:57which I had to intervene on a guy
38:59murdering his girlfriend.
39:07I had left a German restaurant 12:26 in
39:10the morning, and I'm walking to my car,
39:12hear commotion, and
39:14this girl's running at me holding her
39:15throat, you know, bleeding out, really.
39:19You know, they say in a crisis half of
39:20the people run, 40% freeze,
39:23and 10% act. I felt every one of those
39:26emotions. If somebody would have
39:27whispered run to me, I would have run.
39:30But, there were two immediate thoughts
39:31that went through my head. The first one
39:33was like, "If I act, I'm going to die."
39:37The second one was, "If I watch
39:40this girl this lady die,
39:42and I did nothing, I can't live with
39:44myself the rest of my life."
39:46It was a close grapple.
39:49Dude was bigger than me.
39:51I had his knife hand, and I remember
39:53consciously
39:54feeling that knife hand now trying to
39:56stab me.
39:57And
39:59I have to win this. It's not It's not a
40:01matter of pride now, it's a matter of
40:02life to win.
40:05I got him down,
40:06and I had made the decision in my mind
40:08to kill him.
40:10And I was justified in that, but
40:13I had no extra arms to do any killing,
40:16you know, I I had one
40:18pinning his hand down, the other I had
40:20his hair and I smashing his face into
40:22the ground.
40:23Eventually, Megan, who was the girl I
40:26was with that night, came over. I told
40:27her to kick the knife out. She did that.
40:30And the police showed up not much longer
40:32after that.
40:34You know, they arrest him. I have blood
40:36all over me and it was just from him
40:37that he got from the brief interaction
40:39with her. That's how much she was
40:40bleeding.
40:41She ended up with 110 stitches in her
40:43neck.
40:44The shirt that had all the blood, I
40:45could I could not bring myself to wash
40:47it for some reason. It stayed in a
40:49corner in my room.
40:51And then it was about two or three
40:52months later I started to realize I had
40:53some PTSD from it.
41:00That moment on that street in Milwaukee
41:03utterly changed my life.
41:05Do I think I would have been sitting
41:07here today
41:09talking about what happened in my
41:12congressional career or if I even would
41:13have had a congressional career without
41:15the incident in Milwaukee? Probably not.
41:20And now I'm fighting for the soul of a
41:22party that I think is going to be an
41:24important political party in this
41:25country.
41:29But if the party doesn't want to be
41:30fought for,
41:35it's tough to see the light at the end
41:37of the tunnel.
41:45I mean, there were definitely moments
41:46where I didn't want to be there anymore.
41:48Like there were moments where I would
41:50have wanted to quit.
41:52I did not What was the moment you wanted
41:53to quit?
41:54I mean,
41:55really probably that time frame between
41:58when we had our first hearing and then
41:59we had our set of hearings. If you
42:01notice, we had one hearing in August and
42:04we haven't had a hearing since. The vast
42:06majority of our work on the committee
42:09is depositions, meetings behind the
42:11scenes. It's an investigation, right?
42:20So, despite what you see on TV,
42:22we all generally can, when the doors
42:25close, can work together well on any
42:27committee.
42:30But yeah, going into it, I mean, I I
42:32think we were very much on edge,
42:34everybody, about this cannot descend
42:36into anything partisan.
42:39A couple times Raskin tried. He had said
42:41at one point, "Well, part of our
42:43recommendations have to be to get rid of
42:44the Electoral College." And we're like,
42:46"Listen,
42:47we don't disagree.
42:49That's This isn't the place for that."
42:51He was really trying to push his right
42:52to ask questions at every hearing. He's
42:55very smart and he'll make sure you know
42:57that.
42:58You have Stephanie Murphy, who was
43:00always defend her right and if she felt
43:02she was being disregarded, was clear
43:03about that. Elaine Luria, my fellow
43:05veteran, you know, really good person.
43:08Zoe Lofgren, she was in essence the
43:12kind of the bridge to Nancy Pelosi.
43:16Bennie, he's the one that can take any
43:18time conflicts exist on the committee
43:20and really allow it to kind of burn
43:22itself out before having to bring it to
43:24a head. He gets a lot of credit for
43:25allowing Liz to take the lead she did
43:29because he could have said no.
43:30Obviously, Liz is the bulldog. You
43:32couldn't challenge her on the facts
43:34because she knew the facts. She would
43:36rub people the wrong way sometimes, but
43:38she did it in a way that everybody
43:39respected because, you know, she knew
43:41her stuff.
43:46Do you believe the violence on January
43:476th was justified morally?
43:53Fifth the Fifth.
43:54Do you believe the violence on January
43:566th was justified legally?
43:59Fifth.
44:00Mr. Stone, did you have any role in
44:02planning for the violence on January
44:046th? Uh Uh, once again, I will assert my
44:07Fifth Amendment right to decline to
44:09answer your question.
44:11Fifth.
44:12Fifth.
44:13General Flynn, do you believe in the
44:15peaceful transition of power in the
44:16United States of America?
44:19The fifth.
44:21Problem is in the committee,
44:23you know, every day we're kind of
44:24pulling finding a new string, right? And
44:26if you pull on that string, that means
44:28new subpoenas, which means new
44:29information. And there's a point at
44:31which this thing could go on for two or
44:33three years, but uh, if the Republicans
44:35take power, which they likely will in
44:37January, you know, that's the clock
44:39anyway. So,
44:41uh, but I think we have a lot of
44:42information be able to tell a good
44:43story. Not a good story, a bad story,
44:46but in a good way.
44:48Well, if the
44:49if the Republicans take over, they will
44:51kill this.
44:54We have got a January 6th hearing that
44:56is going to start in like an hour
44:58focused on something that happened 18
45:00months ago. You know, the polls have
45:02said people have moved on from January
45:046th.
45:05That's a frustration leading up to it
45:06and it
45:07and just is anybody going to pay
45:09attention? Breaking tonight, the
45:11dullest, the most boring [music]
45:13multi-hour Democratic fundraiser
45:15masquerading as a January 6th hearing.
45:18>> You really didn't think anyone was going
45:20to pay attention and
45:20>> No, I told you I think the moment before
45:22the first hearing I thought it was going
45:24to fail. I was worried about it.
45:25Columnist David Brooks writes for the
45:27New York Times a piece entitled
45:29>> [music]
45:29>> "The January 6th Committee Has Already
45:31Blown It".
45:33And I knew that you know, obviously I
45:35was going to be judged by what happened.
45:48We all kind of line up on that door off
45:50the anteroom.
45:53And
45:54there's a countdown.
45:56Because it's timed with the national TV
45:58and
45:59somebody at the front's like, "Okay, you
46:01know, 15 seconds." and we're all kind of
46:03getting in line." And 10 9 5 and then
46:06two staffers, boom, open the doors.
46:11Dead silence.
46:14All you hear is cameras clicking, like
46:17something like out of 1920s.
46:20Liz sat next to me. So, I'm like,
46:23is it am I an [ __ ] if I sit down
46:25before she does?
46:30And I've done hearings a million times,
46:32but
46:33this had a this had a feeling that was
46:35very different.
46:44Tonight, you will see never-before-seen
46:47footage of the brutal attack on our
46:49capital.
46:50Those who invaded our capital and
46:53battled law enforcement for hours were
46:55motivated by what President Trump had
46:58told them.
46:59That the election was stolen and that he
47:01was the rightful president.
47:03Now, central question is whether the
47:05attack on the capital was coordinated
47:08and planned.
47:12You know, Trump has only asked me for
47:13two things. He asked me for my vote and
47:16he asked me to come on January 6th. I
47:19remember Donald Trump telling people to
47:20be there.
47:21>> Personally asked for us to come to D.C.
47:23>> why I was there and that's because he
47:25called me there.
47:26>> Proud Boys, stand back and stand by.
47:30Proud Boys, by the president of the
47:31United States.
47:32"Be there," he instructed them.
47:35"Will be wild."
47:37This tweet initiated a chain of events.
47:40They viewed this tweet as a call to
47:42arms. It's either President Trump is
47:43encouraged and bolstered strengthened to
47:45do what he must do, or we wind up in a
47:48in a bloody fight. We all know that. The
47:50fight's coming.
47:51On January 5th, the night before the
47:54attack, you were with the head of the
47:56Proud Boys, Enrique Tarrio.
47:59What happened? We
48:02encountered Mr. Stewart Rhodes from the
48:04Oath Keepers, drove down into the
48:07parking garage, and filmed Mr. Tarrio
48:10and Mr. Rhodes. What you witnessed is
48:13what a coordinated and planned effort
48:15would look like.
48:17All hell is going to break loose
48:19tomorrow.
48:21Just understand this. All hell is going
48:22to break loose tomorrow. We're going to
48:24walk down to the capital. The crowd
48:27turned from protesters
48:30to rioters,
48:32to insurrectionists.
48:35Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do
48:38what should have been done to protect
48:39our country and our Constitution, giving
48:43states a chance to certify a correct and
48:45set of facts.
48:49President Trump believed his supporters
48:51at the capital, and I quote,
48:54"We're doing what they should be doing."
48:57The attack on our capital was not a
48:59spontaneous riot.
49:01President Trump summoned the mob,
49:03assembled the mob, and lit the flame of
49:06this attack.
49:08Washington set the indispensable example
49:10of the peaceful transfer of power,
49:13what President Reagan called nothing
49:15less than a miracle.
49:17The sacred obligation to defend this
49:19peaceful transfer of power has been
49:22honored by every American president,
49:25except one.
49:33As we walked out, we always kind of
49:35stand around talking, there's a little
49:36bit of buzz in the room. This was not
49:39like a typical congressional hearing
49:41where you might see people kind of drop
49:42off or or want to leave the room.
49:45>> We just sit there and hear what the
49:45media is saying, and it's kind of like,
49:48"We did good." I've no idea how this
49:49will play in the rest of the country,
49:51but in that hearing room, the video that
49:54was shown hit like a sledgehammer.
49:57I think a plant from Nancy Pelosi.
50:00It just goes to show we're in a bizarre
50:02world a little bit. Hey, that went
50:04better than you thought.
50:07It was it was a blowout success.
50:09But
50:11you know, one of my biggest
50:12disappointments with Fox not carrying it
50:14cuz those are the people that need to
50:15watch it. Last night were the 19 million
50:17people watched the January 6th
50:19Committee's first public hearing. All of
50:21the major news networks aired it except
50:23for one. Of course, the odd one out, as
50:25you can see there in the center, is Fox
50:27News. You really should care about
50:28January 6th cuz democracy.
50:32The overwhelming majority of Americans
50:33don't care about January 6th.
50:37There are people that have been lied to
50:39and abused by the former president and
50:41convinced that no matter what facts are
50:43in front of their face, he is the most
50:45trustworthy person. I don't know how
50:47long it's going to take to open those
50:49folks' eyes. Uh, but we're certainly
50:51going to put the truth in front of them.
50:52That's what we can do. That's just
50:53that's just such a tone-deaf comment to
50:55make uh from Speaker Pelosi. She says
50:57nobody's in danger. I mean, we had a an
50:59armed gunman show up to to Justice
51:01Kavanaugh's house with the intent to
51:03kill him.
51:04>> And we've just gone through the first
51:05day of the January 6th Committee
51:07hearings airing last night. What is more
51:10important to your constituents in Texas,
51:13inflation and gas prices or January the
51:156th?
51:17Well, inflation obviously ranks way,
51:19way, way
51:19>> of power cannot happen like this ever
51:22again because we will not be a
51:24functioning democracy with any more of
51:26these.
51:27That's a huge audience that we want to
51:29make sure sees the the hearings and sees
51:32the the facts that are coming out from
51:34the hearings. Um, so now they've moved
51:37several of the hearings to the
51:39afternoon, um, so that Fox does cover
51:42them.
51:49Okay, I can understand why you'd want
51:50Fox to cover the hearings, but from my
51:52perspective, who cares?
51:54You're not changing anyone's mind on Fox
51:56anyway. I mean, you've got Republican
51:59after Republican testifying that they
52:00didn't believe in the big lie. You've
52:01got Trump's Attorney General, Bill Barr.
52:04I told him that the stuff that his
52:05people were shoveling out to the public
52:07was [ __ ] I mean, that the claims of
52:09fraud were [ __ ] And I didn't want
52:12to be a part of it. You've got Eric
52:14Herschmann, Trump's White House
52:15attorney. She says, "Well, the judges
52:17are corrupt." And I was like, "Everyone?
52:20Every single case that you've done in
52:21the country you guys lost, every one of
52:23them is corrupt? Even the ones we
52:24appointed?" You've got fiercely
52:26conservative Republican officials from
52:27Arizona and Georgia. President Biden
52:30carried the state of Georgia by
52:31approximately 12,000 votes. Well, then
52:34All I want to do is this. I just want to
52:37find
52:38uh
52:3911,780
52:43votes, which is one more than we have.
52:46Because we won the state.
52:49And rounding out the batting order is
52:51the what? Pomegranate red Republican
52:53leadership of the Department of Justice.
52:55The president turned to me
52:58and he said,
52:59"Well, one thing we know is you, Rosen,
53:02you aren't going to do anything. You
53:04don't even uh agree with the claims of
53:06election fraud." The conversation at
53:08this point was really about whether the
53:11president should remove Jeff Rosen and
53:13replace him. And That's a coup.
53:17That's like
53:19How did the president respond to that,
53:21sir?
53:22He responded very quickly and said,
53:25essentially, "Uh that's not what I'm
53:26asking you to do. What I'm just asking
53:28you to do is just say it was corrupt and
53:30leave the rest to me and the Republican
53:31congressmen." "Just say the election was
53:34corrupt
53:35and leave the rest to me and the
53:36Republican congressmen."
53:39Mr. Donoghue, that's a direct quote from
53:41President Trump, correct? That's an
53:43exact quote from the president, yes.
53:47There's obviously been a lot of
53:48misinformation out there, but to hear it
53:50from Republican appointees,
53:53uh people appointed by Donald Trump, uh
53:55how he tried to use the Department of
53:56Justice as yet another prong to overcome
53:59the will of the people, uh it was
54:01powerful. Thank you, guys. Appreciate
54:04it. So, again, my point is you have a
54:05parade of Republicans damning the
54:08president's lies, but what's the hot
54:09take over at Fox? We've heard it all
54:11before, and the hearings are
54:13overproduced.
54:14>> This show trial is not reassuring
54:15anyone. It's a political theater, 100%
54:18Hollywood production with all the
54:20creative license that would go along
54:22with that. Yeah, that's the criticism
54:24that comes from somebody that's getting
54:25their ass handed to him.
54:27Yeah, you could say it's overproduced.
54:29Um
54:30but
54:32it's truth. When that criticism came,
54:34I'm like, "Oh, that means you're
54:35losing."
54:36Okay, but what are they losing? You keep
54:38saying that the goal of the hearings is
54:39to tell the story of Jan 6. We're
54:41talking about a criminal conspiracy, and
54:42I don't understand why you're not all
54:44over criminal referrals. Yeah, my
54:46frustration with it is that it becomes
54:48the MSNBC talking point. And I got to
54:51ask about this every day, are you going
54:53to make criminal referrals? If you talk
54:55about the issue of criminality, do you
54:57see things heading that way for uh
55:00former President Trump?
55:01>> And I'm like, "It doesn't matter." But
55:03Congressman, can't you make criminal
55:04referrals to the DOJ? Yeah. Yeah, we can
55:08refer. Where do you stand on that, the
55:10referral? What you
55:12What do you think about what's the
55:13conversation going to be about? You
55:14know, we're sitting here showing these
55:15things that are happening, and people
55:17are like, "Are you going to make
55:18criminal referrals?" Like,
55:20maybe, I don't know, it doesn't matter.
55:22Whether we make a criminal referral or
55:23not has nothing to do with whether he's
55:25criminally liable or whether DOJ takes
55:27it up.
55:28So, that was the frustration, because
55:30there was so much more to do.
55:32You know, one of the things I've come to
55:33think about and realize is
55:35short of staff members and congress
55:38people on the hill, nobody really knows
55:41what happened.
55:43And not just the violence, but like the
55:44stuff that led up to it. But you see it
55:47all together and it's like, oh yeah,
55:48that's a big deal, you know.
55:53It was funny cuz the
55:54the guy that had been out outside
55:59every morning, so they rotate and it's
56:01like 12-hour shifts. So in the morning
56:03it's always the same guy.
56:05Um so he asked, "How is Christian? How
56:08is Christian doing? How did Christian do
56:10last night? How is he doing with his
56:12sleep training?" So I thought it was
56:13funny.
56:14They're all They're all invested. All
56:15the security is invested in his sleep.
56:18Really? You guys have security? Yeah, we
56:20do. Uh-huh.
56:21In Illinois?
56:23Yeah, we've got We had to put security
56:25on our house, so they're We have a
56:27company that's there basically like 24
56:29hours now. Okay.
56:31Yeah, cuz people want to kill me, so you
56:33know.
56:34That sucks, right?
56:37Surprise announcement from the January
56:396th Committee just this afternoon,
56:42stunning a lot of the reporters who've
56:43covered this very thing. The House
56:44Select Committee on January 6th
56:46announced that it would be holding a
56:47surprise hearing tomorrow. Uh this will
56:50be a surprise witness uh heading into
56:53tomorrow's hearing. Let me see. I'm just
56:55sitting right there, but whatever.
56:56What's up, dude? We met with her
56:57yesterday and we think she's she's going
57:01to be great. She's a It's clear I think
57:02she's got
57:04I mean you would you have
57:05>> I know her better than us, but uh from
57:06having spent time with her but Not
57:07really. I've only met her like once or
57:08twice. [music]
57:09>> Well, I mean from from her telling she
57:10appreciates the the consideration that
57:12you've given her.
57:15Today the January 6th Committee will
57:17hear live testimony from a White House
57:19advisor who was right there [music] in
57:21the West Wing on January 6th and in the
57:24days and weeks leading up to the attack
57:26on the capital.
57:27>> will please stand and raise her right
57:28hand.
57:29>> is Cassidy Hutchinson. She was an
57:32assistant to Mark Meadows, the chief of
57:34staff, and she was the right there in
57:36the West Wing while the capital was
57:38under attack.
57:40Based on what she has already told the
57:41committee,
57:43investigators tell me that they believe
57:44that she will truly be one of the star
57:46witnesses of this investigation.
57:49When we were in the off-stage announced
57:51area tent behind the stage,
57:53he was very concerned about the shot,
57:56meaning the photograph that we would get
57:58because the rally space wasn't full.
58:00Um
58:01and he was angry at that we weren't
58:03letting people through the mags with
58:04weapons.
58:06What the Secret Service deemed as
58:07weapons and our
58:09our weapons.
58:12Ms. Hutchinson, I just want to confirm
58:14that that is when you heard the
58:15president say the people with weapons
58:17weren't there to hurt him and that he
58:18wanted the Secret Service to remove the
58:20magnetometers. That's correct. In the
58:22photos that you displayed, we were
58:24standing towards the front of the tent
58:25with the TVs
58:27really close to where he would walk out
58:30to go onto the stage.
58:31Did these conversations happen
58:342 to 3 minutes before he took the stage
58:36that morning?
58:37I was in the I was in the vicinity of a
58:39conversation where I overheard the
58:40president say something to the effect
58:42of,
58:43you know, I I don't I think I don't care
58:44that they have weapons.
58:46They're not here to hurt me. Take the
58:47effing mags away. Let my people in. They
58:50can march to the capital from here. Let
58:51the people in. Take the effing mags
58:53away.
58:55Then they can march to the capital.
58:59President Trump expressed to multiple
59:01White House aides that he wanted to go
59:03to the capital after his speech. We know
59:06that White House counsel Pat Cipollone
59:08was concerned about the legal
59:10implications of such a trip. Is that
59:12correct? That's correct. Mr. Cipollone
59:15said something to the effect of,
59:17"Please make sure we don't go up to the
59:19capital, Cassidy.
59:21We're going to get charged with every
59:22crime imaginable if we make that
59:25movement happen."
59:27Hutchinson's testimony was such a game
59:28changer even Fox News
59:31didn't know how to spin it. What was so
59:33compelling I think
59:35is is how it was laid out. But the
59:37testimony in and of itself
59:39is really really powerful.
59:45Sandra, are you still here? Indeed, yes,
59:47I am here.
59:50>> [cheering]
59:50>> How do you feel about the speed with
59:53which the Justice Department is [snorts]
59:54bringing indictments of any kind? I'm
59:56frustrated at
59:58the speed. I know they have a job to do,
1:00:01but when you try to overthrow the will
1:00:03of the people and you try a coup in the
1:00:05United States government, you have to
1:00:07pay for that. Period. That's what we
1:00:09require.
1:00:13It's a weird feeling to kind of
1:00:16go out and know that how polarizing of a
1:00:18figure you are.
1:00:24All of us in politics want to be better
1:00:26known because it makes us more
1:00:28effective.
1:00:30Once you vote for the committee,
1:00:32particularly
1:00:34once the hearings are happening
1:00:37the kind of fame you get is very
1:00:38different.
1:00:41Your social circle shifts.
1:00:43You lose all your friends. You gain some
1:00:45new ones, but you don't really trust
1:00:46them because they only like you because
1:00:48you're speaking out. So until they find
1:00:50out you're still conservative, they're
1:00:51like, oh, well, you're just no
1:00:53different. And
1:00:55You lost all your friends? Yeah, I lost
1:00:57all my friends. Because you keep saying
1:00:59you, but I still have all my friends.
1:01:01Like, what is this? Like, you say you a
1:01:03lot. Like, what is this?
1:01:04>> I think there's a level of protection in
1:01:06when I say like you and I'm talking
1:01:09about me. Right. There's probably a bit
1:01:11of a level of protection in that because
1:01:13>> What's that about?
1:01:14You go I have come to realize
1:01:19in the last few whatever
1:01:21weeks, months
1:01:23like how much of an impact this has
1:01:25really had on me.
1:01:31People tell me, you know, what you did
1:01:32is heroic.
1:01:35And I again appreciate it. It's nice to
1:01:37say. I'm
1:01:41But I get this sense of like
1:01:43a battle in World War and there's this
1:01:45tank
1:01:46right rolling through this battle.
1:01:50And it's getting the [ __ ] kicked out of
1:01:51it. Just getting beat up, scarred.
1:01:56Rolls out the other end of this battle.
1:01:57And everybody's like, look at that tank.
1:01:59Survived. Like it's a heroic tank.
1:02:02But that doesn't mean it's not scarred.
1:02:04And it doesn't mean it's ready to fight
1:02:05again. You're the tank. I feel like the
1:02:07tank.
1:02:08In the battle, you don't think about it.
1:02:11All you're thinking about is like, this
1:02:13is what's in front of me. This is what
1:02:15we have to do. You know, here's the
1:02:16committee. Here's the next hearing. Here
1:02:18is this report that's due.
1:02:20>> [music]
1:02:20>> And then it's all done and you're
1:02:22sitting there in this tank. And then the
1:02:24weight of what happens sits on you.
1:02:27And so I think sometimes I don't I don't
1:02:29necessarily understand if I say like
1:02:30you, it's it you have to psychologically
1:02:34I have to psychologically protect myself
1:02:37from some of those impacts.
1:02:38And that's something I'm working
1:02:39through.
1:02:43Okay.
1:02:44Um
1:02:45cool. Paul.
1:02:47Okay, can I talk to you?
1:02:52Have a donut. I can't be eating more
1:02:54sugar, but I will.
1:02:58I'm leaving.
1:02:59Congratulations. What?
1:03:02Um next month, early next month. So
1:03:06next week will be well, that'll be our
1:03:07last week like in the office together.
1:03:09So anyway, I just wanted to let you
1:03:11know.
1:03:12But I've really enjoyed it.
1:03:13>> us where you're going yet or
1:03:15I'm actually not going anywhere yet.
1:03:17I've been on the hill for almost 12
1:03:18years.
1:03:19It's a long time. It's like a line from
1:03:21Miss Congeniality. Like, I am the job. I
1:03:22am the job. And so so much of what I've
1:03:24been, you know, the last 12 years is a
1:03:26Capitol stuffer. You know, this is my
1:03:29my world, basically.
1:03:31This job has been, like I said, really
1:03:33rewarding, but it's also really taxing.
1:03:35Now, you can feel free to cry if you
1:03:36want. I mean, just get it all out.
1:03:39Whatever you feels best, but
1:03:41>> My announcement will be coming soon
1:03:42after, so it's going to be a rodeo last
1:03:45or whatever. I don't even know what I'm
1:03:46going to be screwed, man. That's the
1:03:48spirit.
1:03:49I had told the congressman Tuesday
1:03:51evening. So, I heard the news.
1:03:54I know. I heard the news.
1:03:57I think we get it. Like, we need a
1:03:59break. Everybody needs a break. It's
1:04:01just been a lot. Like, rest and and
1:04:04think and whatever you feel makes you
1:04:07happy, go for it. Thank you. I love you
1:04:09guys. I did not cry. So, good job, me.
1:04:16I feel like I'm going to leave this
1:04:17place in a really like a good spot for
1:04:18the congressman. And
1:04:20that's all I can do, right? I mean
1:04:22Thursday's hearing, it's no longer in
1:04:24prime time cuz the NBA games are
1:04:25happening.
1:04:26>> finish up the race as best I can and
1:04:29walk out with my head held high.
1:04:32All right. So, this is for hearing
1:04:33seven.
1:04:33>> Oh my lord. I know.
1:04:36Because what you will learn is that for
1:04:37187 minute 87 minutes over 3 hours,
1:04:40President Trump refused to tell the mob
1:04:42to stop the carnage and leave the
1:04:44Capitol despite emphatic pleas from
1:04:47staff, family, and advisors. What you
1:04:49will learn is that President Trump sat
1:04:51in his dining room and watched the
1:04:53attack on television while his senior
1:04:55most staff, closest advisors, and family
1:04:57members begged him to do what is
1:05:00expected of any American president.
1:05:03One week after the attack, Republican
1:05:05leader Kevin McCarthy acknowledged the
1:05:07simple truth.
1:05:10The president bears responsibility for
1:05:12Wednesday's attack on Congress by mob
1:05:14rioters.
1:05:15He should have immediately denounced the
1:05:17mob when he saw what was unfolding.
1:05:19Leader McCarthy, who I had a good
1:05:21relationship with, he told me he was
1:05:23getting really ugly over at the Capitol
1:05:25and said, "Please, you know, anything
1:05:26you could do to help, I would appreciate
1:05:28it." You know, they were scared. Think
1:05:30about that. Leader McCarthy, who was one
1:05:32of the president's strongest supporters,
1:05:35was scared and begging for help.
1:05:39President Trump turned him down.
1:05:42And he kept resisting for another almost
1:05:452 hours.
1:05:47President Trump finally agreed to record
1:05:49an address to the nation the evening of
1:05:51January 7th because of concerns he might
1:05:54be removed from power under the 25th
1:05:56Amendment. Whenever you're ready, sir.
1:06:08I would like to begin by addressing the
1:06:10heinous attack yesterday.
1:06:13And to those who broke the law,
1:06:16you will pay.
1:06:17You do not represent our movement. You
1:06:20do not represent our country. And if you
1:06:22broke the law,
1:06:24You can't say that. I'm not going to I
1:06:26you I already said you will pay. But
1:06:28this election is now over. Congress has
1:06:31certified the results. I don't want to
1:06:33say the elections are over. I just want
1:06:35to say
1:06:37Congress has certified the results
1:06:39without saying the elections are over,
1:06:40okay?
1:06:43Whatever your politics,
1:06:46whatever you think about the outcome of
1:06:48the election,
1:06:51we as Americans must all agree on this.
1:06:55Donald Trump's conduct on January 6th
1:07:01was a supreme violation of his oath of
1:07:05office and a complete dereliction of his
1:07:09duty to our nation.
1:07:11It is a stain on our history.
1:07:15It is a dishonor to all those who have
1:07:18sacrificed and died in service of our
1:07:21democracy.
1:07:23Oaths matter.
1:07:25Character matters.
1:07:27Truth matters.
1:07:30If we do not renew our faith and
1:07:32commitment to these principles, this
1:07:34great experiment of ours, our shining
1:07:37beacon on a hill,
1:07:39will not endure.
1:07:42I yield to the gentlewoman from
1:07:44Virginia.
1:07:46Thank you very much, ma'am. I will
1:07:47definitely pass it on to him.
1:07:49Thank you so much for calling and
1:07:50sharing. Have a wonderful day.
1:07:52Bye.
1:07:57Congressman Kinzinger's office, how can
1:07:59I help you?
1:08:00Thank you very much. He'll be very He
1:08:02will really appreciate this. Thank you
1:08:03very much for sharing. I will definitely
1:08:05pass it on.
1:08:07It was a big night. I'm glad we did it
1:08:09primetime. I'm glad,
1:08:11you know, it was a success.
1:08:13And and it's not about the entertainment
1:08:15value. It was about putting that story
1:08:17out in front of people like
1:08:20you had a guy that literally watched
1:08:22this happen and did nothing. And it's
1:08:25like we assume, living in the bubble of
1:08:27DC,
1:08:29that people all knew that. They didn't.
1:08:32Cuz I was totally wrong about the
1:08:33hearings. I thought that they weren't
1:08:34going to go well. They're doing well. I
1:08:36was wrong. I am very convinced that
1:08:39once, particularly Cassidy Hutchinson
1:08:41came,
1:08:43we we have we have altered the course of
1:08:45what the Justice Department's going to
1:08:47do.
1:08:48You were seeming kind of happy.
1:08:50No, lies. You seemed kind of enjoying
1:08:52the McCarthy stuff. Is that just my
1:08:54imagination?
1:08:55>> No, that was true. I enjoyed McCarthy
1:08:57stuff.
1:08:58Look, the guy is like
1:09:02I think what the what hurts me a lot
1:09:04about McCarthy is that he and I were
1:09:05friends.
1:09:07And that doesn't like hurt me personally
1:09:09on that. I I've I can deal with it.
1:09:11But just to see the level of
1:09:14of complete groveling he has done and
1:09:18the damage he's done to our country uh
1:09:21is so disappointing. And it's just so
1:09:23foreign to how I think. I mean, I'm not
1:09:25trying to sound like Jesus here, but it
1:09:27truly is just foreign to how I even
1:09:29think. And uh so yeah, when I can expose
1:09:32that, it's fun.
1:09:37We're going to begin this morning with
1:09:38the latest on the midterm elections. I
1:09:39want to see this one.
1:09:41What the [ __ ] is this thing? Okay. NBC
1:09:43News is projecting that Republicans will
1:09:46control the House for the next 2 years
1:09:48after winning enough seats to have a
1:09:50majority in the chamber.
1:09:53Jay, with Republicans set to take
1:09:55control of the House, Kevin McCarthy
1:09:57appears [music] to be in line to take
1:09:58over as Speaker. So, what comes next for
1:10:01him and the party under his leadership?
1:10:03House Republicans have already said that
1:10:05they plan to dissolve the January 6th
1:10:07Committee
1:10:08investigating the attack on the Capitol
1:10:10as it stands right now.
1:10:12Did you lose in that moment?
1:10:22Today's GOP agenda rollout by Leader
1:10:24McCarthy was an opportunity squandered
1:10:27by his decision
1:10:29to once again bow to the MAGA crowd for
1:10:32his own political gain.
1:10:34I I I'd say ask you just not to report
1:10:36this part before the hearing.
1:10:38I think we've proven our case. The the
1:10:41difficult part of where we're at now is
1:10:43wrapping this up, right? How do you cuz
1:10:46there's still loose ends, but there's
1:10:47some loose ends that we just may not
1:10:48know that DOJ will have to try to track.
1:10:51Right.
1:10:54Yeah, I mean, And was probably the
1:10:55moment I lost. And now, you it's like
1:10:58kind of the end of the battle, but
1:11:00where we sit today,
1:11:02when I'm out of
1:11:03the combat, let's call it, I've had the
1:11:06luxury to go back to the beginning
1:11:08and play through it.
1:11:11It's like always there's moments in
1:11:13history where you're like, "Oh, if
1:11:14something would have gone a little
1:11:15different." And this is one that's
1:11:17haunted me of recent, which is
1:11:20after the impeachment vote, there was
1:11:22such a moment where nobody knew what was
1:11:24going on. I think back to that, I'm
1:11:26like, "Wait."
1:11:28There was that moment where had we taken
1:11:30charge,
1:11:32we might have won.
1:11:35And I think it's just recently where I
1:11:36kind of
1:11:37went back, put myself in that moment,
1:11:40and I'm like, "Could things have been
1:11:41different?" I actually think they could
1:11:43have been.
1:11:45You know, after the 10 of us voted to
1:11:47impeach,
1:11:49I was trying to convince the other nine
1:11:51impeachers to expand out and basically
1:11:54take over for the Republican caucus, and
1:11:57I think we could have done it. Like that
1:11:59was a immense amount of moral authority.
1:12:02Like, let's all join forces together.
1:12:04Let's say we're in charge here. Just
1:12:07declaring we're in charge.
1:12:09We had this idea of being the
1:12:11clearinghouse for downtown. Downtown
1:12:13being the code word for the PACs to give
1:12:15the money.
1:12:15>> America's biggest corporations are
1:12:17backing away from politics
1:12:18>> Because these PACs all made the
1:12:20announcement that they wouldn't support
1:12:22the people that voted against
1:12:24certifying the election. Marriott among
1:12:26those turning off money to 147
1:12:29Republicans who voted against
1:12:31certification.
1:12:32>> suspend donations to members of Congress
1:12:34who voted to overturn the U.S.
1:12:37>> question campaigns are asking themselves
1:12:39is how long is this going to last?
1:12:42It lasted a whole year.
1:12:43But
1:12:45you know, they made that decision. Had
1:12:47we then taken that decision matrix
1:12:50and said, "Okay, we will clear whether
1:12:54somebody is pro-democracy or not. Kind
1:12:56of what Heritage Action does. They put
1:12:57out a scorecard. The 10 of us are going
1:12:59to put out a scorecard. We're going to
1:13:00say Jim Jordan gets a zero for defending
1:13:02freedom. So all that money doesn't go to
1:13:04him.
1:13:04Toyota hears the 86 Republicans that
1:13:08have basically committed to the defense
1:13:09of democracy. Toyota's like great. Let's
1:13:12give them all checks.
1:13:14You could see a scenario where now all
1:13:16of a sudden people like trying to get on
1:13:17our good side.
1:13:19You know, $300,000 raise is the
1:13:21difference between I support democracy
1:13:23and I don't. They're going to start
1:13:24openly supporting democracy.
1:13:26Then it actually becomes you take full
1:13:29accountability of what happened on
1:13:30January 6th.
1:13:32You have a mea culpa to the American
1:13:33people. Look, we were wrong. People lied
1:13:36to you about this. The election was
1:13:38legitimate. And by the way,
1:13:41here is our agenda now for the future.
1:13:42Here is how we're going to focus on
1:13:44uniting people.
1:13:45Yeah, you would have half of the party
1:13:47upset cuz they still got a little bit of
1:13:49thing for Donald Trump, but that
1:13:50dissipates. In order for somebody to
1:13:53hero worship somebody, you have to
1:13:54basically keep feeding them material.
1:13:57For at least three or four weeks, he he
1:13:58didn't say a word.
1:14:00And that would have been all us.
1:14:03Now you have actually a constant steady
1:14:05stream of a positive agenda. The deniers
1:14:09of what happened on January 6th are
1:14:11outnumbered by the people that say,
1:14:12here's the truth of what happened.
1:14:15But the people that also voted to
1:14:16impeach,
1:14:18they just kind of went silent.
1:14:21We missed a historic opportunity, a
1:14:23historic opportunity to at least make an
1:14:26effort
1:14:27to overthrow McCarthy, to change the
1:14:30future of that party, and instead we had
1:14:31silence for 3 weeks, and in that vacuum
1:14:34McCarthy goes to Mar-a-Lago.
1:14:45So where are we going?
1:14:47So this is the departing member center.
1:14:50Uh
1:14:51It's where offices go to die.
1:14:55Uh not actually.
1:14:57Every departing member, this is the
1:14:58office that they get for the lame duck
1:15:00session,
1:15:01um which is the session in between
1:15:03Thanksgiving and the new year and when
1:15:04the new Congress is sworn in, which is
1:15:06what we're in right now.
1:15:09Yeah, so this is our this is our space.
1:15:11This is our this is our cubicle.
1:15:15This is the cubicle.
1:15:17This is where Adam goes. No.
1:15:21The congressman will not be sitting
1:15:22here. What? No.
1:15:25No, he'll be We have a special We got a
1:15:28space on the third floor.
1:15:30Yeah.
1:15:31Speaker Pelosi was kind enough to give
1:15:33us the office, so we're lucky.
1:15:39Isn't this cool? We're in this little
1:15:40tiny place.
1:15:42From the speaker? Yeah. Someone in your
1:15:44party has some privileges, huh?
1:15:47I I want to get a clip of what Senator
1:15:50Durbin sent over as his holiday gift.
1:15:54So, wait.
1:15:56So, wait, is that it?
1:15:58Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were
1:15:59setting me up for something cool.
1:16:00[laughter]
1:16:00It's like nice of him to send a gift,
1:16:02but dude,
1:16:04like that's really tiny.
1:16:07>> [laughter]
1:16:09>> They made a big deal about delivering it
1:16:10to us. Of course, I didn't send anybody
1:16:12gifts, so whatever. Yeah, but you put
1:16:13your career on the line.
1:16:14>> Yeah. What did you get?
1:16:16>> And I get popcorn for it.
1:16:19Like come on, man. Give me something
1:16:21better than that.
1:16:23Give me a tin of popcorn.
1:16:28Oh, well. It's one less thing I have to
1:16:29take home. Yeah.
1:16:31Yeah.
1:16:46>> I remember I I missed my very first vote
1:16:48in Congress
1:16:50because I thought we could just come
1:16:52back to the office.
1:16:54That doesn't seem like that long ago.
1:16:57But that was 12 years.
1:17:00I didn't imagine that January 6th would
1:17:02be the thing that would
1:17:04cost me.
1:17:10All right, ready? I'm ready. Mr.
1:17:12Speaker, it's with great pride that I
1:17:14rise today to lead this special order.
1:17:17For the half hour, my colleagues will
1:17:19join me to reflect on their time serving
1:17:21the American [music] people and the US
1:17:22Constitution.
1:17:24These members who swore and upheld their
1:17:26oath of office will be remembered by
1:17:28history as patriots
1:17:29>> [music]
1:17:29>> who placed their country over party.
1:17:32I move that the committee favorably
1:17:34report to the house the select
1:17:36committee's final report
1:17:38which includes the committee's
1:17:39legislative recommendations
1:17:41and criminal referrals of Donald J.
1:17:43Trump and others.
1:17:47Returning from Operation Iraqi Freedom
1:17:48and Operation Enduring Freedom, I ran
1:17:51for Congress and won.
1:17:52While at the time I didn't have a
1:17:54family, I promised myself to leave them
1:17:57a better country than the one I
1:17:58inherited I inherited.
1:18:00Unfortunately, Mr. Speaker, I cannot in
1:18:03good conscience
1:18:04say that I have done that.
1:18:07Had I known that standing up for truth
1:18:09would cost me my job,
1:18:11friendships,
1:18:13and even my personal security,
1:18:15I would,
1:18:16without hesitation,
1:18:18do it all over again.
1:18:21And even though my time in Congress is
1:18:22coming to an end, I stand here renewing
1:18:25that promise I made over a decade ago to
1:18:28leave this country a far better place
1:18:30than the one I inherited.
1:18:32Not only for my son, Christian,
1:18:34but also for future generations.
1:18:39Ms. Cheney? Aye. Ms. Lofgren? Aye. Mr.
1:18:43Schiff?
1:18:44Aye. Mr. Aguilar? Aye. Ms. Murphy? Aye.
1:18:48Ms. Luria? [music] Aye. Mr. Raskin? Aye.
1:18:52Mr. Kinzinger? Kinzinger, aye.
1:18:54Mr. Chairman, you are not recorded.
1:18:57Chair votes aye.
1:19:01And last but not least, I need to thank
1:19:02my staff, both past and present. [music]
1:19:04They have become like family, and I will
1:19:06never forget the work that they've done
1:19:08in service to me and in service to their
1:19:09nation.
1:19:12How long did that go? 11 minutes.
1:19:14Yeah, what did you think it was, 7?
1:19:18The Select Committee stands adjourned.
1:19:35It's been like the longest goodbye, you
1:19:37know, it's been months where I know I'm
1:19:38leaving.
1:19:43You can
1:19:44mourn about it whenever you want, but
1:19:50right now I'm in the mode of like
1:19:52just get out of [music] here.
1:20:01What the hell's going on? My car sucks.
1:20:03It's out of juice.
1:20:27It's crazy.
1:20:28It's the things and actions that he
1:20:30committed.
1:20:37See you fellas.
1:21:13Any courage I showed just comes from I I
1:21:15think saying I always want to be able to
1:21:17look at myself in the mirror. You know,
1:21:19I had a situation in Milwaukee,
1:21:20obviously, where guy was killing his
1:21:22girlfriend, and I don't know if I'd ever
1:21:24make that decision again, but at the
1:21:25time I made the decision to stop it.
1:21:27You know, going to war, well, millions
1:21:29of people make those decisions every
1:21:31day, but
1:21:33in terms of the politics of it,
1:21:35I I really don't believe what I did was
1:21:37courageous. I think it's just I'm
1:21:39surrounded by cowardice.
1:21:42They don't know it's cowardice, but it
1:21:44is. So, then when somebody, me or Liz
1:21:46Cheney, speaks out
1:21:49in the absence of other people doing
1:21:50what their basic job is,
1:21:52it appears like courage.
1:21:54Okay, I agree. You and Liz were just
1:21:56doing your job, and everyone who didn't
1:21:57was a coward. But, you know, what
1:22:00happened in Milwaukee, what happened
1:22:01there?
1:22:03That was courageous.
1:22:05I I didn't I didn't make the conscious
1:22:07decision to do something. It was like
1:22:10I guess how I'd been trained to an
1:22:11extent in terms of how to think,
1:22:15what I believed my moral priorities
1:22:17were,
1:22:18that brief second of like what's the
1:22:20rest of my life going to look like from
1:22:22this.
1:22:23I made the right decision, a decision I
1:22:25shouldn't have made because
1:22:27I should have died. Never fight anybody
1:22:29with a knife.
1:22:32But when you make a decision that
1:22:35you to give your life up
1:22:44Yeah, I think
1:22:46when you make a decision to give your
1:22:48life up for a stranger
1:22:55I mean, how can't that change you?
1:23:00And I hope
1:23:02I hope I'm never
1:23:03I never want to do that again and I hope
1:23:06that
1:23:07I don't know if anything if that ever
1:23:09happened again to me.
1:23:11I'm not sure I'd make the same decision.
1:23:17I met her later, like a year later and
1:23:20uh
1:23:21I don't know.
1:23:22What what can you say about that except
1:23:25it it's a it's an honor to have been at
1:23:27that to be able to act.
1:23:30And yet it's like this creeping cynicism
1:23:34after like the January 6 stuff of
1:23:39why would you try to defend these
1:23:40people, right? Like they're
1:23:43they hate you. They want to kill you,
1:23:45right? Everybody's self-centered.
1:23:48And I think that's
1:23:50I that's the fight now of my next part
1:23:54of life is
1:23:56fighting against that cynicism
1:24:00because
1:24:02I don't want in the second half of my
1:24:04life
1:24:05to not be willing to put my life on the
1:24:07line for people.
1:24:09Um
1:24:11even MAGA people.
1:24:12Yeah, even MAGA people.
1:24:14Maybe especially them because they need
1:24:18they need they need some
1:24:20I don't know, some inspiration or
1:24:21something that they're not getting,
1:24:22they're being lied to and abused, but
1:24:24that's the fight of the second part of
1:24:25my life.
1:24:27Is making sure I can keep my head above
1:24:29water and find that again, find that
1:24:31inspiration again.
1:24:33>> [snorts]
1:24:33>> You just probably need a little break
1:24:34first, huh?
1:24:37I'm good.
1:24:44All right, well, thank you, brother.
1:24:45Yeah, dude.
1:24:48Listen, if this documentary helps you
1:24:50win the presidency and you enact
1:24:51horrible conservative policies, I swear
1:24:53to [ __ ] god.
1:24:54>> Oh, I will call my first horrible policy
1:24:58the Steve Pink Conservative Future Bill.
1:25:09I got this. I got this. I got this
1:25:12feeling.
1:25:13It's all right.
1:25:15Out of sight.
1:25:18I got this. I got this. I got this
1:25:20feeling.
1:25:22It's all right.
1:25:23Yeah.
1:25:24Yeah.
1:25:25Show me the way.
1:25:27Yeah.
1:25:29Show me the
1:25:33Show me the
1:25:39Hulk. Hulk.
1:25:42I got this. I got this. I got this
1:25:45feeling.
1:25:46It's all right.
1:25:48Yeah.
1:25:49Yeah.
1:25:51When I'm with you,
1:25:53it's always
1:25:55sunshine.
1:25:59Yeah.
1:26:01Oh, yeah.
1:26:02Oh, yeah.
1:26:03Good times. Oh, yeah.
1:27:35>> Uh can I have a thing of water, too,
1:27:36please?
1:27:37Oh, you got me a bottle of water. Thank
1:27:39you. Thank you, Kyle. Um
1:27:41Whatever you guys get or don't get for
1:27:43Steve, whatever shortens the amount of
1:27:45time we're talking, do that.

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