Election Day is tomorrow and the final Times/Siena polls have Democrats ahead in every competitive Senate race, including Michigan, Texas, Maine, Ohio, Kansas, and Alaska. Nate Silver’s midterm model gives Democrats an 80 percent chance at the Senate and 96 percent at the House. Plus, Republicans anonymously blame Trump for the coming midterm losses, Trump promises to become “Mr. Veto” and pardon his DOGE staffers, Trump looks for a fall guy for the Iran war, and a federal judge blocks the DOJ’s bogus California voter list.

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A private prison company offered Minnesota an empty prison for $75 million. The state said no. Then the Trump administration paid CoreCivic $495.6 million for the same building to turn it into an ICE detention center. CoreCivic gave $500,000 to the Trump-Vance inaugural committee. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Minnesota prison deal, the GAO warning on ICE spending, and why JD Vance’s fraud task force has nothing to say. Later in the show, Trump demands a cut of Alina Habba’s $50 million payday, a new book alleges Jared Kushner took $50 million from the UAE after Rex Tillerson was fired, Vance answers a housing question with a joke at a Fox News town hall, and a House Judiciary report says Todd Blanche kept Ghislaine Maxwell from talking about Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

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The Washington Examiner, a conservative outlet, says the MAGA bubble is about to burst. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the piece and why right-wing media turning on Trump five days before the midterms matters. Also: James O’Keefe charged with felony voter fraud in Minnesota, ARPA-H director Alicia Jackson placed on leave after a ProPublica report on her stock holdings, corporations that donated to Trump hiring lawyers ahead of possible House investigations, and Obama’s Cheesecake Factory line rattles the Trump administration.

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A federal grand jury has refused to indict Cassidy Hutchinson. Trump’s Justice Department wanted to charge the January 6th witness with lying to Congress over her testimony about Trump, the armed crowd, and the Secret Service. Adam Kinzinger, who sat on the January 6th committee, explains what she told the country and why the DOJ’s case collapsed. Also today: Trump won’t commit to accepting the midterm election results, Alaska’s Republican government asks a judge to toss the DOJ’s Senate race lawsuit, RFK Jr. reverses a kratom opioid ban after a distributor’s donations to the RNC, and Flavio Bolsonaro flees Brazil for Florida with a State Department visa.

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The Trump Justice Department charges James Comey for the third time, over a 2016 leak that Trump’s own DOJ investigated twice and declined to prosecute. With the statute of limitations expiring, prosecutors skipped the grand jury entirely. A judge also ruled the firing of Comey’s daughter Maurene Comey unlawful and ordered her reinstated. Plus: Donald Trump Jr.’s Mongolia hunting trip with Kremlin-linked oligarch Umar Kremlev, the Ninth Circuit rejects the DOJ’s bid to set aside California mail ballots, CDC chief medical officer Jennifer Shuford leaves after six months, and a Washington Post analysis shows costs outpacing wages in 42 of 46 battleground House districts.

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Barack Obama is back on the campaign trail, rallying in Cleveland for Amy Acton and Sherrod Brown and going after Donald Trump on the grift, the war, and his cabinet picks. Trump’s response is to lie about the crowd size. Plus: MAGA voter fraud crusader Scott Presler caught with out-of-state voters registered at his Pennsylvania house, the DOJ sues Alaska to block a Mary Peltola win over Dan Sullivan, the Trump administration’s record number of vacant Senate-confirmed jobs, and Lula defeats Flávio Bolsonaro in Brazil despite Trump’s tariffs and pressure.

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Jared Kushner faces new allegations involving foreign money, secret bank accounts, and his role in Trump's Middle East policy. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the claims and why Congress should ask questions. Today's show also looks at the Trump administration's reported loyalty test for American diplomats, a new investigation by DOJ into DHS contracts and Corey Lewandowski, the departure of a leading MAHA adviser, and the DOJ watchdog's refusal to open an independent investigation into the botched Reflecting Pool related prosecution of former Olympian David Hearn.

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ProPublica obtained the secret contract behind Trump’s Venezuela oil deal, and it doesn’t match his claims of hundreds of billions in revenue. The U.S. bought a 35 percent stake in a company run by Alejandro Betancourt, a Venezuelan businessman investigated for money laundering in three countries, through a Barbados shell that hides the other owners. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the terms and why they were kept from Congress. Also: Trump fires envoy Paolo Zampolli, JD Vance attacks Republicans who criticized Vivek Ramaswamy’s ad against Amy Acton, a federal judge pulls DHS agents off the voter fraud hunt, and early voting surges in Kansas, Texas, and the battleground states.

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Alina Habba, Trump’s former personal lawyer, took a $50 million job from the family of Venezuelan billionaire Julio Herrera Velutini while she was still acting U.S. attorney for New Jersey. Two weeks after she started, Trump pardoned him. Also on today’s show: Steve Witkoff calls Vladimir Putin a humanitarian, Trump tells poisoned Marines their settlements depend on Republicans winning the midterms, inside the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel that keeps saying yes to Trump, and Don Jr. privately breaks with his father over the Iran war.

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ProPublica reports Trump’s DHS appointees asked CISA, the federal election security agency, to secretly buy a voting machine, hack it, hide the results from the manufacturer, and send them to the White House. Career staff refused, and DOGE layoffs had already gutted the team that could do it. Also: new Axios texts in the Alina Habba and Ric Grenell Kennedy Center feud, Elon Musk’s SpaceX share giveaway and Starlink Ukraine blame-shifting, the New York Times analysis showing Republican midterm ads barely mention Trump as his approval hits 31 percent, and Pete Hegseth stalling European-funded Patriot missiles for Ukraine.

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Trump waives the Russia sanctions law Congress passed 86 to 11 and he signed himself, then blames Zelensky for the war and praises Russia for cheap diesel. Adam breaks down everything Putin has gotten from this White House in a matter of weeks. Also on the show, Republicans start the midterm blame game two weeks before the election, JD Vance tells a CBS town hall he’s seen no corruption in the Trump administration, Trump calls a federal judge a lunatic and vows to restart work on his DC golf course, and CBS News under Bari Weiss gets caught up in a smear against Abdul El-Sayed.

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Trump cancels Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Fort Hood firing squad execution after bipartisan backlash, but says it still would have been a strong deterrent. Also: nine fired FBI agents who worked the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case sue Kash Patel and the DOJ, Bloomberg uncovers a Russian bot operation pushing fake AI videos to boost Republicans in the midterms, Reuters reports the order to throttle Ukraine’s Starlink came from inside the White House, and former January 6th committee staffer Tom Joscelyn launches a public archive of the DOJ records the administration tried to delete.

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The Wall Street Journal reveals that Trump’s White House crypto adviser Bo Hines kept a stake in a consulting firm that was paid $415,000 a month by Tether, the world’s largest crypto company, while he wrote the GENIUS Act regulating it. The payments now total over $6 million, and Tether made him CEO of its U.S. division a month after he left the White House. Adam also covers the Alina Habba and Ric Grenell feud over a missing $6 million Kennedy Center donation, open warfare inside the State Department, a Gallup poll showing Democrats with their biggest lead on the economy since 2007, and James Talarico’s CNN town hall after Ken Paxton skipped it.

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The IRS report showing who actually got a break from the Republican tax cut was due in July. It’s October 14th and the Treasury Department still hasn’t released it. A former top IRS official says the numbers don’t match what the White House has been telling voters. Adam breaks down the delayed tax data, the September inflation report that even Fox Business couldn’t spin, the foreign crypto traders paying for dinner with Trump, the Republicans privately admitting the House is gone, and the Starlink restriction that cut off Ukraine’s drones in the middle of a Russian attack.

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The Wall Street Journal has video of Ken Paxton, the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, at a Dubai New Year’s Eve party with two fugitives indicted for stealing $15 million from a Chicago hospital. One of them donated $190,000 to Paxton’s campaigns. Adam breaks down the video, the Texas attorney general’s donor problem, and why none of this is new. Also: Republicans push back on Pete Hegseth’s plan to livestream the Nidal Hasan firing squad execution, Trump’s new White House press secretary stumbles through her first briefing, Kimberly Guilfoyle resigns as ambassador to Greece after the access-selling scandal, and DHS raids Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home in Washington.

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Trump lifts Russia sanctions to buy diesel from Putin, and senators from both parties say it’s illegal. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the Russian energy deal, the 2022 law Congress passed, Thom Tillis and Mike Pence pushing back, and why it hands Putin a lifeline. Plus Ukraine’s drone strikes on Yandex data centers and Russia’s bot farms, a federal judge pulling Trump’s taxpayer-funded ads, a Politico poll on undecided midterm voters, and the DOJ antitrust investigation into five TV networks.

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Trump handed out National Medals of Science to Big Tech CEOs and declared a “Golden Age” of American innovation. His administration has canceled billions in research grants, including 2,500 NIH grants, and American scientists are fleeing overseas. Meanwhile, Trump has traded $3.2 billion in stocks and bonds since taking office, nearly three times the entire Congress. Also: Jon Ossoff and Abdul El-Sayed win their Senate debates, ProPublica finds Ken Paxton billed Texas $3.3 million for security on personal trips, a Politico poll shows Trump voters want Republicans to break with him, and Texas ranchers sue to stop Trump’s Big Bend border wall.

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Kimberly Guilfoyle, Trump’s ambassador to Greece, texted a donor asking him to wire $100,000 to her American Express account so it “won’t show up anywhere,” according to hundreds of messages obtained by the Wall Street Journal. Adam Kinzinger breaks down the access-for-cash scheme, the million-dollar offer, and why she wanted the whole thing moved to Signal. Plus, Trump midterm chiefs Chris LaCivita and James Blair get paid by a pro-Russia enclave in Bosnia, Tina Peters and Cleta Mitchell pitch Trump on seizing voting machines, Trump ties FEMA disaster aid to Republican rallies, and Texas Republican Bo French’s racist post raises $488K for his opponent.

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The Justice Department's civil rights division has lost more than 300 career lawyers under Trump, and the New York Times just revealed who's replacing them. One hacked a Florida election system twice and was sent to monitor a polling place in Minneapolis. Another was pulled off a murder case for reading privileged defense communications. A new senior counsel called January 6th a false flag. Also on today's Kinzinger Report: Susan Collins' rough first debate against Troy Jackson, the Wall Street Journal's look inside Scott Bessent's Treasury Department, DHS surveillance of more than 150 voter registration groups, and the senior voters pushing Democrats toward a Senate majority.

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A plague outbreak in Russia, and the Kremlin wants everyone to stop asking. One lab worker is dead, a second death is reported, and nearly 200 contacts are in quarantine while Moscow insists it's pneumonia. Adam Kinzinger breaks down what we know, why the WHO is the only channel left, and why Trump sounds a lot friendlier about this outbreak than he ever did about COVID. Plus: Trump retreats on taxpayer-funded political ads and hands them to his super PAC, Tillis regrets confirming Hegseth and RFK Jr., Trump bars Politico from Air Force One despite a court order, and Democrats eye a once-in-a-generation shot at state legislatures.

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