https://rollcall.com/factbase/trump/transcript/donald-trump-interview-ross-douthat-cbs-news-60-minutes-november-8-2026/

Hamilton will absolutely work with him on that.. and wants to solve problems.. is pleading.. let’s just fix this.. vs doing the whole investigation route.

Do this.

KRISTEN WELKER:

Well, it’s great to have you here today. You made history on Tuesday night, Mr. Senator-elect. How’d you do it?

SEN.-ELECT ADAM HAMILTON:

Well, I’ll tell you it was a lot of people. There were literally thousands of volunteers, people who gave, people who knocked on doors. That was a big part of our campaign, was getting the vote out, and knocking on doors, getting people to register to vote and — but here’s the big thing. There was a lot of people in Kansas, like across the United States, who were saying, “What’s happening in Washington D.C. is not okay. This is not who we are.” Republicans saying, “This is not what it means to be a Republican what’s happening in Washington D.C.” Democrats who were clearly frustrated, disappointed, afraid I think sometimes of what’s happening in our country and just saying, “We’ve got to do better.” And so I had a chance. You know, people resonated with that message. It had to do with kitchen table conversations around the cost of fuel, the cost of fertilizer if you’re a farmer. But it was also the hidden tariff tax. It was 60,000 people in Kansas that lost health insurance the last year and a half. So it was these things, SNAP benefits taken away from 20,000 children in Kansas. But I think it was also a sense of common decency. This was part of our campaign was you know, we’ve got to do better. This is not decent. There was cruelty. There was corruption. There were things happening in D.C. that people are saying, “That’s just not American. It’s not who we are as Kansans. And we have to do better.” And I think, I think that message resonated with a lot of people here.

KRISTEN WELKER:

Well, as Democrats prepare to take over control of both chambers of Congress, there seem to be two priorities emerging: addressing the issue of affordability and investigating the Trump administration. That’s according to Democrats. Which do you think is the bigger priority?

SEN.-ELECT ADAM HAMILTON:

Well, clearly the bigger priority for me and I think for most people in America, especially people living paycheck to paycheck is, “Please help us with the cost of living.” I am very interested in ending the war in Iran as quickly as possible. I want to see us claw back tariff policies, back to the Congress where it started in our constitution, and to be able to say when the president wants to impose a tariff, “You’ve got to make the case for it. You’ve got to show us who’s going to be helped by this. Why are we doing this? How long is it going to last? Who’s going to be hurt by it?” And so those two things are going to bring affordability back in play. That’s about $250 a month between the fuel prices and the hidden tariff taxes. That doesn’t count what farmers are paying in the ag industry, what they’re paying for the hidden cost of these tariffs and the war, again fertilizer, input prices. And then, so we’re going to start there. If I spent the next two years, my first two years in the Senate in investigations, I’d be deeply disappointed. I want to get to work helping the people in my state and helping the people across the country. So what I’m interested in is yes, let’s get guardrails put in place so that we don’t see these kinds of things happen again. But let’s focus on helping the American people. And I will tell you the Democrats, if we don’t figure that out and get to work on helping people, this is going to be a one-and-done kind of, you know, kind of blue wave.

KRISTEN WELKER:

Well, let me follow up with you on that point. Because as you know, one of the debates inside the Democratic Party is just how far to take oversight. There’s a discussion about should President Trump be impeached for a third time. President Trump himself this week said that impeaching him would, quote, “destroy the Democrat Party.” Do you think impeachment should still be on the table?

SEN.-ELECT ADAM HAMILTON:

Well, I’m not as interested in impeachment as setting up guardrails. I will say I understand the move and the desire to do this. There are a lot of things that have happened that I think are wrong. But I also feel like there’s two things that are at play in mind. One is — and our campaign was built around trying to bring people together, I don’t want to see us spend the next two years dividing our country further. I want to see us come together to look at solving really big problems. And — but I also think we, again, have to look at what’s happened in Washington’s that’s corrupt. What’s happened in Washington? I mean, the people I talk to across the state, Republicans and Democrats, don’t understand how a president makes $1 billion in his first year back in office. That’s just not right. There’s so many things that happened that were not right. And I would say, you know, insider trading, we need to address that. We want to make sure that we’re looking at, you know, how people in Congress are using information when it comes to making decisions on their investments. There’s a lot of things. Term limits, I think these are really important, age limits. You know, if you look at one of the number one concerns of American people, it’s corruption in Washington D.C. And that’s on both sides of the aisle. And so, you know, yes, we need to address that. But I really want us to focus on what brings Americans together, what heals our democracy, and then what solves problems for the people who are living paycheck-to-paycheck, who are struggling in our country. And so I want to see us focus on that.“

Amen.

Theres a pathway if Trump will take it. 

the ball is in Trumps court.