Adam Kinzinger

So that has done its job, sadly.

And that's, you know, part of the reason.

Like they're afraid they're going to get court-martialed?

Yeah, it's all of it.

court-martialed security concerns, you know, have their ranks stripped and, or actually, and I'll tell you, this is the sick thing.

And this is actually why you also don't hear a lot of retiring members of Congress speak out because they have to have jobs when they get out and their job relies on their ability to have relationships with people in power.

Whether you're a four-star general or whether you're a former member of Congress.

Why are these guys retiring but they're still voting party lines?

Because they want to go back and lobby and they need to have access to their friends to do it.

That's a sad thing, by the way.

I see him and people like Ben Hodges, who was the general for Europe, has spoken out.

There are a few that are willing to speak out, and seriously, they get high comments from me on that.

On the country first side, it'll just be very brief.

Look, our goal is just to remind people of the role of the National Guard.

You can see it at country1st.com.

And we have a commercial that's out there that's basically talking about

Imagine the floods actually hit your district, but the guard's not there because they're being used by a politician to suppress people.

One of the things we've seen in polling is that one of the things that actually compels people to the guard the most is the idea that if a natural disaster hits, their guard is doing some political thing off somewhere.

And so we talk about that.

It's information for guard members and for the public.