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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