The Great America Show - The Great America Saturday Show： August 31, 2024

00:00:00.000 Hello, everybody. Welcome to the Great America Show. It's great to have you with us. For

00:00:06.620 those of you that don't know me, my name is John Fawcett. I've worked for Lou for the

00:00:10.300 last five years in various capacities at Fox News and most recently as executive producer

00:00:14.920 on this show. I want to start out today's show by thanking the tens of millions of you

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00:00:32.900 just departed Fox Business after spending the last nearly 50 years in television as an

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00:00:41.960 needed to have a voice in the fight. A voice in the fight for this great country and not

00:00:46.300 to be held back and censored. And so the Great America Show was started. Lou could have very

00:00:51.000 easily went off into the sunset and enjoyed retirement as he so much deserved. But not

00:00:55.720 working was not in Lou's blood or his DNA. Lou's vision for this show was simple. Say

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00:01:15.840 something I'd never thought about or thought I'd ever want to do. It's not an easy business

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00:01:59.480 did so very often. It will also be tough for me to fill the shoes he leaves behind because

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00:02:17.560 of knowing or working with Lou knows that the Dobbs standard is something that's almost

00:02:21.580 unrealistic. But that tells you what kind of person Lou was. I want to conclude with

00:02:26.560 this before we get into our first show. Lou was a brother to me, a best friend and a mentor.

00:02:31.600 He was someone who gave me everything. And now it's my time to give back to him. Lou now passes

00:02:36.500 on the torch to me as his work here is complete. And every day that I wake up and sit down in my

00:02:40.820 studio to get to work, I will look at the picture of Lou and I that sits on my desk and let him know

00:02:45.500 this is for you, brother. With that, I want to get into it. With that, I want to get into today's

00:02:51.640 show. The political climate of late has been what we'll call it weird. The DNC just wrapped up and it

00:02:57.080 was one for the books. Historic, in fact. We watched Kamala Harris become the presumptive nominee for the 1.00

00:03:02.300 Democratic Party. This is a person who has never received one vote from the American people, yet somehow

00:03:07.780 she has not only stolen the show, but she's stolen the nomination. How did we even get here? How is this

00:03:13.660 democracy? Well, it's not. This is business as usual for the Democrats. You may recall what they did in

00:03:19.500 2016 to Bernie Sanders when they stole the primary from him. And they did it again in 2020 when they

00:03:24.820 ensured Joe Biden was the candidate to go up against President Trump. It may have taken almost nine

00:03:29.760 years, but it seems some Democrats and the American people have finally had enough. One of them being

00:03:35.120 Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the latest victim of the backroom deals for the Democrats. RFK said enough was enough

00:03:41.280 and decided to make history endorsing President Trump and vowing to fight with Trump for a victory in

00:03:46.240 November. Our guest today is Roger Stone. He's a political strategist and longtime advisor to President

00:03:51.080 Trump. He's also the host of The Stone Zone. And joining us now is the great Roger Stone. Roger, it's great to

00:03:56.860 have you with us. Thanks for joining us. News of the week. RFK uniting behind President Donald J. Trump. We have

00:04:04.540 Republicans in our party, the RINOs, who can't even unite behind this man, yet we have an independent, we'll call him a

00:04:10.960 Democrat because that's what he is, uniting behind President Trump. What do you have to say?

00:04:15.920 Well, first of all, I give huge credit to Robert Kennedy Jr., who put party aside, put his own

00:04:21.460 personal ambitions aside and realized that the Harris-Waltz campaign and potential administration

00:04:31.460 would be the ruin of this country. He understands this is about war. It's about censorship. It's about

00:04:38.920 free speech. It's about the poisoning of our food. And I think this is a very selfless act. I think it

00:04:46.660 gives President Trump a big boost. I would argue that it negates any bump that Harris might have

00:04:53.560 gotten out of that relatively pitiful Democrat National Convention, which was all attacks on Donald Trump,

00:05:01.500 but no positive proposals to help America. When they do talk to you about what Kamala Harris is really

00:05:08.920 for, she rarely speaks herself. You know, it's wage and price controls. It's loans to people who could

00:05:17.600 never service a mortgage to buy a home. Last time we tried that was under Secretary of HUD Andrew Cuomo

00:05:24.100 in the Clinton administration, and it brought the entire economy down. So her politics, 0.82

00:05:31.980 her policies, they try to hide. And then, as you know, John, they act like she hasn't been vice

00:05:38.860 president for the last three years. There are all these problems in America, folks. Our border,

00:05:43.220 the prices in the grocery stores, I'm going to fix all that. Well, why doesn't she fix it 1.00

00:05:47.640 right now? So I think this is a political realignment. You're right. The fake Republicans,

00:05:57.180 the globalist country club Bush Republicans, if they want to side with Kamala Harris and

00:06:03.080 Walsh, they can do so. But this is a realignment. What you're going to get now are working class 1.00

00:06:10.280 Democrats and independents, the old style. I mean, back from the days when the Democrat Party believed in

00:06:17.140 capitalism, believed in free enterprise, believed in a strong national defense, believed in anti-communism.

00:06:23.940 I mean, Bobby Kennedy's father and his uncle were both ardent, hardcore anti-communists,

00:06:30.860 and they would be shocked by the communist influence in today's Democrat Party.

00:06:35.980 You know, the reason I asked you to come on is because I don't think there's anybody who knows

00:06:39.280 more about JFK and the whole situation behind JFK, aside from maybe his family and those who have seen

00:06:45.560 the 1% that hasn't been declassified about the CIA and you, you wrote a book on it, The Man Who

00:06:50.400 Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ. And you can get that on your site, right? Stonezone.com.

00:06:56.980 It's truly remarkable. But, you know, I see some pollsters out on Twitter saying it may not move

00:07:01.500 the needle. And one, for example, is a pollster from Rasmussen. And he tweeted out and he said,

00:07:07.180 you know, it may not move the needle. Maybe 15 minutes after RFK made that announcement, he says,

00:07:13.640 I think I'm going to regret that. And I'm just going to give you one poll that I find very

00:07:18.100 interesting. The deep blue or what was the deep blue state of Virginia now looks to be in play.

00:07:23.600 A new poll out from Roanoke polling in a three-way race with RFK has Harris at 45, Trump at 42,

00:07:30.420 RFK at 6% with 3% between Trump and Harris. Now you couple that with something Glenn Yomkin did over

00:07:38.480 the last few weeks. And that was an executive order 30, which said the 2024 election must be on paper

00:07:45.700 ballots. I don't know why everyone in the nation's not doing that. But do you think now states like

00:07:51.040 Virginia, New York and New Jersey will be in play? Well, it's very important to understand polling

00:07:57.820 because not all polls are the same. And polling can be manipulated. That's what we've seen recently.

00:08:04.160 So in many cases, some of these mainstream pollsters would oversample Democrats, too many Democrats in 0.54

00:08:10.780 the sample to create this false impression that Kamala Harris was somehow surging, that support for

00:08:17.420 her was exploding. But if you look at the more respectable polls where the methodology is solid,

00:08:26.660 where they're not cooking the poll by cooking the sample or by the way they word the questions or

00:08:33.540 the order the questions are asked, I think you're going to see that Trump will get a nice increase

00:08:39.920 in his vote. Now, I think there's a process. In other words, Kennedy voters, I think, are going to

00:08:46.960 take a minute before they decide where to go. But increasingly, at the grassroots level,

00:08:53.180 talking to some of his supporters that I know, there's been a sea change in their attitude

00:08:59.400 after the attempted assassination. I think people then began to realize that our biggest single

00:09:05.140 problem is the deep state. The biggest single problem is the criminalization of our critical,

00:09:15.440 our justice system. The the the the opened, unanswered questions about this assassination,

00:09:23.040 I think, brought people a lot of focus. So I think that the polls are going to show a modest increase.

00:09:30.500 But now that if you have Robert Kennedy out campaigning for Trump, if you have Tulsi Gabbard,

00:09:36.620 who's joined the Trump entourage out campaigning for Trump, if you have a Nicole Shanahan,

00:09:43.500 who was Robert Kennedy's running mate, who I think has been a red pill through this whole process.

00:09:50.540 And I think in the beginning, she was a she was more of a liberal Democrat. But then when she saw

00:09:55.980 the brutal way that the Democrats tried to keep RFK off the ballot every place, very similar to what

00:10:03.140 they tried to do with Donald Trump. I think she has a she deserves a lot of credit here, because I think

00:10:10.360 both she and Robert Kennedy put their personal interests aside for the good of the country.

00:10:16.440 But all of those all of those surrogates, if you will, I think this becomes very, very powerful.

00:10:22.920 You know, the interesting thing you mentioned, Shanahan, which, you know, like you said, I think

00:10:26.460 coming into this, she was, you know, very, very far left. And seeing what the Justice Department and

00:10:32.700 the deep state can do, and it's the deep state on the left left now. You know, we're so used to it coming

00:10:37.020 from the right and attacking Republicans. But this was a deep state from the left, suing RFK in almost

00:10:41.640 every state to get him off the ballot. You know, I do think that that RFK and her principle, then you'll

00:10:47.900 hear from the left that they're not and they sold out and that they're for sale. And I'll tell you one

00:10:52.160 point. Apparently, right before the endorsement came, Shanahan did an interview and she was very upset with

00:10:59.240 the vaccines and Operation Warp Speed. And, you know, we all understand now, you know, that the vaccines

00:11:04.760 didn't work. You know, they were forced upon us in blue states like here in New York, where you are

00:11:11.880 in Florida, you guys were lucky enough to have Ron DeSantis. But that was one thing that they took

00:11:17.200 issue with. And they wanted President Trump to come out and say Warp Speed wasn't as successful as he

00:11:24.280 says it was, and that we now know a lot more than we knew before. So I think, you know, something like

00:11:29.600 that shows that you have some sort of principle and that you believe in something and it just wasn't

00:11:35.400 all for nothing. Well, and look, here's the most important point, which is that President Trump has

00:11:40.320 always opposed a vaccination mandate. He does not think anyone who doesn't want to take the

00:11:45.400 vaccination should be forced or required to have the vaccination to keep their job or to go out in 1.00

00:11:51.320 public. As you read the other day, he thinks that those members of the military who were fired because

00:11:57.480 of their refusal to take the vaccination should get their back pay back and if they want their jobs

00:12:02.860 back. I think that's simple justice. So I think it's a step in the right direction. This is going

00:12:10.460 to be a fight where the issues are broader than health freedom. Health freedom is a hugely important

00:12:17.420 issue. And RFK is right. They're poisoning us through our food. You know, for years, I must tell you,

00:12:25.080 I always thought there was only one mayonnaise, Hellman's mayonnaise, the real mayonnaise. That's

00:12:29.780 their slogan. I would go to a barbecue. Somebody would buy craft mayonnaise. I would bust their chops

00:12:34.700 and say, what's wrong with you? But then, John, I took a look at the ingredients and I found out

00:12:40.820 there's all kinds of HMOs and all kinds of, pardon me, GMOs and all kinds of other chemicals and

00:12:47.040 additives in there that are not natural. And then if you look a little broader, it's happening across the

00:12:52.620 board in all of our food. This is a huge issue. This and the lack of affordable housing, which is

00:12:59.120 another issue that I think RFK played a crucial role in terms of getting into this campaign. You

00:13:05.800 can't buy a house because you can't afford to buy a house and you can't find rental properties. And when

00:13:12.140 you can find them, you find in many cases they're being used to provide free housing to people who are

00:13:18.160 here illegally. So I think that he's raised a number of really crucial issues in the election.

00:13:25.040 This is, I must tell you, I've been in 13 national presidential campaigns, but this development could

00:13:32.320 never have been foreseen. And I think it completely changes the race. So to the extent the Democrats were

00:13:39.480 going to get any bump out of the show in Chicago where they pretended to be something they're not,

00:13:45.400 where they identified a few of our problems, but tried to pretend like they weren't the fault of

00:13:50.960 the current administration. I just don't, I think this is a bridge too far. The American people are

00:13:57.540 not that stupid. They know what they're paying for gas today. They know what they were paying under 1.00

00:14:02.360 Donald Trump. They know how much they can get at the grocery store for their dollar. They knew how much

00:14:07.300 more it bought under Donald Trump. And now the administration is forced to admit that their job creation

00:14:13.640 numbers, the 8,800 and 18,000 jobs they claimed had been created by Joe Biden, that was all BS as

00:14:21.340 well. They were forced to revise their numbers. And then Kamala Harris's chief economic advisor, 0.57

00:14:27.620 when told that these numbers come from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, she says she's not

00:14:32.700 familiar with who they are. Unbelievable. You know, it's interesting. It's sort of like these Democrats who

00:14:37.500 are still fooled by the BS that Kamala and I guess you can say Biden, I don't know if you can say him

00:14:42.780 anymore, but are pushing it. The people are still fooled by it. It's almost like they have Stockholm

00:14:46.440 syndrome. You'd brought up the food thing and that goes to the vaccine thing as well. I was looking

00:14:51.060 at a spray olive oil the other day in my cabinet and it said there was silicone in it. Now, why the

00:14:56.320 hell would you need silicone in a spray olive oil? Both of my grandparents lived on my mother's side 1.00

00:15:01.920 and my father's side lived to over a hundred. And, you know, this is back in the day when they were born

00:15:06.180 in 1918. They went through the Great Depression and they lived to over a hundred. I mean, you see cancer rates

00:15:11.660 now and diabetes rates now off the charts. And it's truly, you know, people don't realize what

00:15:16.260 the hell is going on. We're going to take a quick break here. When we come back, I want to go further

00:15:19.920 into that polling. When can we expect the polling to start changing? And in Donald Trump's favor,

00:15:24.840 is the honeymoon period over for Kamala Harris? We're going to get Roger's take on that. We return.

00:15:29.000 Stay with us. We're coming right back.

00:15:36.040 We're back. We're talking with the great Roger Stone. And Roger, right before we went to break,

00:15:39.440 I wanted to go further into polling, just looking over some real clear politics averages

00:15:44.140 just for a starting point. They've got Harris plus 1.5. Now I want to go down to top battleground

00:15:51.080 states where Trump is leading in all but two, and that's Michigan, Wisconsin. He's leading

00:15:55.560 according to their averages in Pennsylvania, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, and Georgia.

00:16:00.820 So I said we have a 1.5 point, a point and a half advantage for Kamala Harris in the real 1.00

00:16:05.580 clear politics average. But then you go down to the battleground states and you have Trump leading

00:16:09.800 by 0.1. With no toss-up states, according to their predictions, Trump wins 287 to 251. So where are

00:16:17.820 they coming up with this? The numbers just don't seem to make sense because the swing states is what

00:16:22.040 carries you over the finish line if you're President Trump or Kamala Harris. Where's the discrepancy there?

00:16:27.780 Well, first of all, timing is very important. So people need to recognize that a poll

00:16:32.980 is a snapshot in time. In other words, it's only valid for that episecond after it's been

00:16:38.680 tabulated. But with our situation as volatile as it is, things change very closely, very quickly.

00:16:46.980 So Kamala Harris got a free ride. She got the big media buildup in which we tried to pretend that she 1.00

00:16:52.840 was some tough, capable, tough-on-crime prosecutor, an absurdity, all of this. And then you're doing

00:17:03.960 the right thing, though, by looking at the real clear average. In other words, don't look at any

00:17:09.880 one poll. Look at multiple polls in the same time period and see if you can find a trend. I still think

00:17:17.040 it's going to take a little bit of time because you can never poll in the eye of a storm. You can't

00:17:23.720 poll, you know, during the time when this is all in the media. You have to let people digest it a

00:17:30.240 little while. That includes the impact of the Democrat Convention, as well as the impact now of

00:17:36.920 the Robert Kennedy endorsement. So I would say by the middle of next week, you'll get a much better

00:17:42.280 feeling for where things are. That said, this was always going to be a close, hard-fought,

00:17:49.640 very tight race, even against Joe Biden. That's because of the fake news media ability to manipulate

00:17:56.560 people, also because of the online manipulation by Google and Facebook and Instagram and so on. So

00:18:05.740 I take nothing for granted. This is still going to be a very tough, hard-fought election. But I do think

00:18:13.380 that Trump is now today, my guess is he has a modest lead. And I think he can hold the lead. And I think

00:18:22.200 by using people like Tulsi Gabbard, like Robert Kennedy, like Nicole Shanahan, as well as many others,

00:18:32.400 plus, I still believe, and I'm absolutely certain I'm right about this, J.D. Vance is going to turn

00:18:38.780 out in the end to be the right guy. His moment is going to come. I understand the left likes to

00:18:44.480 dump on him. It's elitism, really. It's snobbery. They don't like him because he came from nothing,

00:18:50.800 because he came from hardscrabble background. He earned everything he has. He's been incredibly

00:18:56.360 successful in business. He was a successful author, a successful documentary maker, a filmmaker.

00:19:04.320 But he also served his country in the U.S. Marine Corps. He's fearless. He's 100 percent

00:19:10.420 America first. He's going to turn out to be the right guy as well. So when you add that all up,

00:19:16.580 I'm still confident that the president will win a narrow but unassailable victory when it's all over.

00:19:25.220 You know, you mentioned J.D. Vance, and before I forget, you know, I wasn't a J.D. Vance guy in

00:19:29.480 the beginning. I thought there were other people who suited President Trump better just based off

00:19:33.640 the track record that J.D. Vance was sort of a never-Trumper in the beginning. You know, now that

00:19:37.940 we're essentially stuck with him, and I'm not saying it's a bad thing, I've actually grown to like the

00:19:41.480 man. But anyone listening to this who hasn't watched on Netflix, Hillbilly Elegy, I really highly

00:19:48.100 recommend it to you. The life that J.D. Vance went through, it was truly the troubles he had with his

00:19:54.160 mother, drug addiction. You know, it almost ruined his life. And it was truly sad and humbling to see

00:19:59.580 that someone who came from absolutely nothing could do so much with his life. And I mean, 1.00

00:20:05.680 he really is the American dream. And to see these Democrats at the DNC, that it's a bad thing that

00:20:11.280 he went to, and Tim Walter, whoever the hell it was, he left Nebraska, he left Ohio to go to an Ivy

00:20:17.520 League school. Well, what the hell do you want him to do? You know, was he supposed to not go to law

00:20:21.240 school? Was he supposed to go to a state school? I mean, what more do you want when you had six or

00:20:25.120 seven people on that Democrat stage who also went to Yale? I mean, the hypocrisy. But, you know, 0.87

00:20:32.240 the question I have for you is, are these Democrat voters dumb enough to buy this stuff? Here's an 1.00

00:20:38.220 example. Kamala Harris is deputy campaign manager on MSNBC the other day, telling the audience Kamala

00:20:45.360 will do interviews on her own time whenever she feels like it. You're not entitled to anything.

00:20:50.600 Who the hell does she think she is? That's a losing strategy. I think the American people want 1.00

00:20:55.700 to feel like they know the president. They certainly know Donald Trump because he's so incredibly

00:21:00.320 accessible. He talks, you know, he does interviews, he does press conferences, he answers questions.

00:21:07.820 They would like to play hide the ball here. And as they know, Kamala Harris can't answer a question 1.00

00:21:13.280 that she has no substance. She has no program. And she's not good on her feet. They've demonstrated

00:21:21.540 that. So they're now trying to hide her. They've theoretically agreed to two debates, but I'll

00:21:27.440 believe it when she shows up. And the idea that Donald Trump would be afraid to debate Kamala Harris

00:21:32.920 is laughable. He went into the CNN debate where the rules were completely rigged against him. He stuck to

00:21:39.760 the rules. And I think he came out ahead. I thought he had an excellent debate. He stayed focused. He

00:21:46.520 didn't take the bait on those few times during the debate where Joe Biden was temporarily lucid.

00:21:54.080 He tried to bait the president who ignored him and kept pounding on him over the economy,

00:22:00.020 on the open borders, on the potential of World War III. So I think they ultimately realized

00:22:08.700 that their biggest single problem is their candidate can't speak. They don't want a debate.

00:22:14.580 They'll do anything they can to dodge a debate. Why won't they do the Fox debate? Trump did the CNN

00:22:19.660 debate. Why is he afraid to do the Fox debate? Yeah. The notion that Trump is scared of anything. I

00:22:24.840 mean, Trump is literally the epitome of a man voluntarily going to the lion's den. I mean,

00:22:29.640 he puts himself in these situations. And God bless the man because he's not scared of anything.

00:22:33.800 He knew when he announced he was running for reelection in 2024, 2024, that these indictments

00:22:39.300 were going to come against him, that there was jail time that that could be had if he was found

00:22:43.120 guilty. And now he's waiting trial in September in New York where he can have jail time. He's got

00:22:47.180 the case in Georgia, which is a state case, which he can't be pardoned. He knew these repercussions

00:22:51.740 to think that he was somehow scared to go into a debate. Kamala Harris has not introduced. I mean,

00:22:58.120 anyone who watched the DNC, it was terrible. And I apologize that you wasted your time,

00:23:03.180 myself included, but there was nothing policy. Everything was Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump's the

00:23:07.820 bad. Even you have Joe Biden going out there his last time, probably his last time on a big stage,

00:23:13.400 repeating the same Charlottesville hoax that Trump is a racist. He's all for KKK. And I mean, 0.96

00:23:19.760 it was truly unbelievable. Kamala's only policy that she has told us about is no tax on tips. 0.61

00:23:26.340 What do you think about that? Yeah. Whose idea was that? I mean,

00:23:30.420 this is very interesting. In Nevada, the culinary union has always been a major piece of Senator

00:23:38.800 Harry Reid, the late minority leader, later majority leader. That's always been part of the Democrat

00:23:49.160 machine. But Trump, I think, is going around the bosses, the union bosses, directly speaking to

00:23:56.260 the individual service employees. And this has been very popular. So what does Kamala Harris do? 0.74

00:24:01.980 She basically lifts the whole thing like she just thought of it yesterday. People are not that

00:24:06.600 stupid, I don't think. You know, you've got, like we said earlier on the show, you had Robert F. 1.00

00:24:12.060 Kennedy coming over from the Democrat side, uniting with the party. Just last week, we have now Brian

00:24:17.300 Kemp, who was one of President Trump's staunchest enemies during the 2020 election. I mean,

00:24:23.380 going as far as not investigating ballot fraud, you had the whole phone call, which led to an

00:24:28.960 impeachment. I mean, the ball, the avalanche rolled on and on. Now, Kemp says he wants to unite with

00:24:34.820 Trump because we've had enough of Kamala Harris. Is it genuine? Why now?

00:24:40.100 You know, I don't know the background here, but I am encouraged. Perhaps the governor's mind

00:24:47.560 changed when he saw this attempted assassination against Donald Trump. All I'm happy about is that

00:24:53.880 he's agreed to get on board. Georgia is a crucial election. There are still outstanding lawsuits over

00:25:01.480 the integrity of that election, both state and federal law. There's an enormous amount of evidence

00:25:07.720 that has now been documented in those lawsuits, proving that there was actual fraud. But let's be

00:25:12.900 clear. Nixon did not get elected in 1968 because he whined about being stolen in the 1960 election.

00:25:20.560 We need to focus on the next election. And I'd much rather have the governor of Georgia with us

00:25:26.020 than against us. Well, I agree we have to focus on the next election, but we also have to look at the

00:25:30.200 mistakes that were made in the last election and ensure. And I think, you know, we were seeing that

00:25:34.660 across the board and mail-in ballots being one of perhaps the biggest ways the Democrats could use

00:25:40.580 or have used to steal an election. And I think some of these states now have finally started to

00:25:44.460 realize, and like I said earlier, Virginia being one. We're going to take a quick break here. When

00:25:48.400 we come back, Jerome Powell, the Fed chair, says he's looking at cutting interest rates. What a

00:25:53.940 coincidence. Just in time for the November election? We're going to take that up with Roger when we

00:25:58.040 return. Stay with us. We're coming right back.

00:25:59.640 We're back. We're talking with political strategist, the great Roger Stone. Roger,

00:26:10.080 Jerome Powell, who hasn't touched interest rates in a while now, says he's looking at cutting rates

00:26:15.380 because inflation has been, I guess, taken care of. What do you think about that? Just in time for

00:26:21.300 the election, what is he doing? He's trying to manipulate the economy to give Kamala Harris a 0.53

00:26:28.820 chance. By the way, other presidents have tried to do this to get the Fed to either ease up or to

00:26:35.200 tighten up, depending on the situation. This is just another example of them using the government

00:26:40.860 for political purposes. And that's, I think, what they want. Does anyone out there really think

00:26:47.020 that the high cost of, say, groceries is because of the greedy grocery companies and food

00:26:56.800 processing and food companies? No. The reason that prices are so high is because their costs are so

00:27:03.560 high. It's the idea of wage and price controls, which Richard Nixon tried. That was Governor John

00:27:11.820 Connolly, later Treasury Secretary John Connolly, talked President Nixon into not only taking us off

00:27:21.180 the gold standard, but also wage and price controls, probably Nixon's two greatest mistakes.

00:27:26.320 They won't work. It's an obvious political ploy. Economists that I respect tell me the economy is

00:27:33.220 still going to get substantially worse under the current Biden-Harris administration. See,

00:27:39.180 they want to pretend that Joe Biden, who's he? Who's Joe Biden? I mean, the idea that a sitting

00:27:45.260 president would not be president when they nominated Kamala Harris and the torch was passed is beyond

00:27:54.960 belief. Now, what we don't know is whether Joe left in a feat of peak himself, spoke and then left,

00:28:01.720 or he spoke after they pushed him out of prime time and he left because they wanted him gone.

00:28:08.860 But they would just like to pretend that his administration never existed and that Kamala Harris

00:28:14.360 has the solution to all the problems in the country without mentioning that all these problems have

00:28:20.160 existed for three and a half plus years and she's done nothing whatsoever about them.

00:28:25.440 Right. You know, you mentioned food costs and inflation and the price of gas and everything

00:28:29.680 that we consume on a daily basis as Americans. But one thing we didn't talk about was the stock market

00:28:34.280 and how that frames everything around the world. We saw what happened in Japan a few weeks ago

00:28:39.340 when their market crashed and what it did to our markets. A lot of people don't realize because

00:28:44.180 they're so set on this being Trump versus Biden and they don't realize that this market is teeter

00:28:48.920 totter. I mean, it's it can go either way at any point. And, you know, this this the drop of a pin,

00:28:54.480 I think, could, you know, tilt it in one direction or the other and most likely going in the wrong

00:29:00.000 direction. A lot of people don't realize that that we're one step away from a depression, a recession.

00:29:06.560 We saw how fast it happened during covid. I mean, it was over the course of, you know,

00:29:10.460 two weeks. We went from, you know, a booming economy, job markets and stock market to two weeks

00:29:16.480 later, people losing their jobs and losing their houses.

00:29:20.760 Yeah, it's it's really quite extraordinary. If you stop and think about it, you're just in a

00:29:27.200 situation in which they're kind of making it up as they go along. This we know, which is the

00:29:34.420 economic prescription that she has put together. The little little policy stuff she has previewed

00:29:41.600 is is certain to destroy the economy. I remember when they said if Trump is elected,

00:29:47.980 the stock market will crash and we'll have a depression. Right. Instead, we had the most robust

00:29:53.080 economy in our history, the greatest rate of job growth, the greatest rate of wage growth,

00:29:59.080 lowest levels of unemployment among all Americans, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, young, old,

00:30:05.780 rural or urban. They also told us if we elected Donald Trump, we'd have World War Three. Well,

00:30:12.480 who is it that's this close to World War Three? Well, I would say it's this administration that

00:30:18.100 that risks World War Three. So to the Democrats, black is white and white is black. In other words, 0.53

00:30:24.780 if they continue at the rate they're going, they have to try to completely erase Biden's presidency

00:30:33.880 and pretend that all of these problems that the country has today, well, they're all Donald

00:30:39.080 Trump's fault. Donald Trump hasn't been president for three plus years. I just don't think the American

00:30:43.520 people are that stupid. The thing and I hope I hope you're right. And I think we all pray that you're 1.00

00:30:48.580 right. But the thing that just doesn't make sense to me is President Trump has a proven track record

00:30:53.220 in 2016. He was a little bit more robust than he has been now. He's toned down the rhetoric a lot,

00:30:58.260 which, you know, I'm not really a fan of. I like the funny Donald Trump, but he's turned it down,

00:31:02.520 especially here in this election. He's tried to keep it mostly on policy. Why are there still those

00:31:08.920 people who are just the Oprah Winfrey's of the world? Why are they so set against Trump? What is it

00:31:15.820 in their head? RRFK, his wife's an actress, Cheryl Hines, on one of the greatest television shows in the

00:31:22.140 history of television, Curb Your Enthusiasm. Larry David, a huge anti-Trump guy, this man was able,

00:31:28.620 and anyone who's married, you know, I'm not married, but anyone who's married knows how hard

00:31:32.340 it is, I think, to get anything past your wife. He was able to endorse President Trump, his wife,

00:31:37.460 who's still working in Hollywood, and Trump's probably hated by about 95 percent of Hollywood,

00:31:41.400 just to throw a number out there. Why are people just so blinded by the fact of

00:31:47.220 these Democrats being the Lord and Savior? Look, I think it is elitism. So look at their convention.

00:31:55.680 Michelle Obama talks about, you know, the evil of people who want too much. My family, my parents

00:32:04.920 always were concerned about those who wanted more than their share. She's worth a hundred million

00:32:10.000 dollars. Plus, plus, plus. Or Oprah. Oprah is mega wealthy. All these people are elitists,

00:32:20.600 but... Three billion dollars. Yeah. So Bernie Sanders is my all-time favorite. Bernie Sanders

00:32:26.160 skimmed millions of dollars in media commissions from his two presidential campaigns. He's driving a

00:32:31.720 top-of-the-line Mercedes. He's got three homes. Yeah. But he insists that socialism is good for you.

00:32:38.580 It's just not good for the rest of us. You know, and then when the Republicans call it out for what

00:32:43.720 it is, we're bad. We're bad people. We're starting wars. You know, we're starting arguments over

00:32:49.280 nothing. It's not on policy. I mean, what are we supposed to do at this point? It truly is

00:32:53.740 unbelievable. Some good news out of the Supreme Court last week. The Supreme Court upholding Arizona's

00:33:00.200 law requiring a proof of citizen on a 5-4 vote. Judge Amy Coney Barrett siding with the Democrats

00:33:05.980 once again. I don't understand what's going on there. Is this enough to stop the cheating and

00:33:11.560 to prevent some cheating down in Arizona, which we know it's ripe for? It's too early for me to say.

00:33:17.860 I've got to catch up. I did see where the court agreed to hear the question raised by the Arizona

00:33:26.040 authorities. But at this point, 20-plus some states want the Supreme Court to rule on this question

00:33:32.900 about whether you have to be essentially an American citizen, a U.S. citizen and legally

00:33:40.020 eligible to vote. I don't know why the Democrats find that outrageous. They say we're against

00:33:45.600 voting rights. Well, no, people who are eligible, not legally eligible to vote should not be allowed

00:33:52.000 to vote. And why they're so afraid of having a photo ID? You need one to get on an airplane.

00:33:58.540 You need one to buy, you know, a carton of cigarettes. You need one to buy certain

00:34:05.260 pharmaceuticals. Why would you not want people to have a voter ID? No, there's nothing racist about

00:34:13.760 this. Only people who are legally eligible to vote should be allowed to vote. And having a photo ID 0.99

00:34:20.240 is not racist in any way. What are you saying? That people of color are too stupid to go get 1.00

00:34:26.400 a voter ID, a picture ID? That's absurd. It's ridiculous. It's racist is what it is. 1.00

00:34:34.520 Yep. It's a double standard. And like I said, the Republicans are just, you know, so lazy and I

00:34:40.320 think scared of what the retribution will be if they call out these people for what they are. I think

00:34:45.780 they're getting better. I want to wrap up with here the assassination attempt on President Trump.

00:34:50.680 A few Secret Service members out of the Pittsburgh field office quietly put on a paid leave after the

00:34:57.140 attempted assassination. Seems the FBI is more intent on figuring out who tried to maybe put maggots in

00:35:04.000 the food at the DNC than they are to what's going on with this lone shooter. You know, what do you

00:35:11.960 think's going on with this? Did he act alone? Congressman Waltz saying that he had multiple

00:35:17.300 overseas communications accounts. We now see video of him walking around hours before the rally

00:35:22.780 with a man who is dressed in a button down shirt, looking like someone who'd be undercover out of

00:35:28.820 the government. What do you make of the whole situation, Roger? Well, it just seems to be more

00:35:32.820 questions than answers. We've now seen a photo image of him talking on the phone, the man they say is

00:35:39.120 the assassin talking on the phone. Well, then that's an obvious question. Who is he speaking

00:35:44.060 to? That would seem to me indicate that he had some kind of confederate. We know that the Secret

00:35:49.920 Service, the Department of Homeland Security, the local police and the state police were all using

00:35:57.460 different radio networks. So they were all using different channels. They weren't speaking to each

00:36:05.500 other. You asked yourself, how could that happen? According to a congressman, let's see, from

00:36:13.160 Louisiana, who I like a lot, came out and pointed out that they had actually moved to cremate the body

00:36:22.360 of the alleged killer. I find this very, very strange. Yeah. Like you said, more questions than

00:36:28.360 answers. And that seems to be what we get out of this government, especially when it comes time to

00:36:32.680 figuring out a crime against a Republican. Roger Stone, you're a great American. You're the host

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00:37:05.440 We'd love to have you follow us there. There's nobody more influential than this, Roger. You're

00:37:09.620 a brilliant American. Thanks so much for joining me today. Thanks, John. Great to be with you.

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