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00:01:46.540 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:01:50.260 People love him and respect him. Roger Stone.
00:01:52.600 Now, get in the zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone.
00:01:59.940 Welcome into the Stone Zone. Well, it looks to me like Geraldo Rivera just got busted.
00:02:06.880 Back in 2018, Geraldo Rivera blasted President Donald Trump for his criticism of Haiti when Trump said that Haiti was an S-hole country.
00:02:17.620 But now, when the courts have ruled that President Trump can legally return as many as 160,000 to 180,000 Haitians who are in the United States illegally back to their home country,
00:02:32.780 Geraldo blasts Trump saying that sending them back to Haiti is like sending them to hell.
00:02:39.660 So this is kind of par for the course for Geraldo Rivera.
00:02:44.200 I have a great Geraldo Rivera story that I have to reveal to you.
00:02:48.620 You see, Lyndon Baines Johnson, LBJ, had a mistress named Madeline Brown.
00:02:55.000 Madeline Brown bore Lyndon Johnson a son, Stephen Brown.
00:03:00.040 If you saw a photo of Stephen Brown, you can see he is indisputably the son of Lyndon Johnson,
00:03:05.500 who was not the most handsome guy who ever came along.
00:03:08.480 The reason that Madeline Brown is significant, however, is because she came forward in an interview with Geraldo Rivera to say that on the night of November 21st, 1963, she spent the night with Lyndon Johnson in a Fort Worth hotel. 0.57
00:03:27.420 And it was that night and the following morning that LBJ told his mistress, Madeleine Brown, after tomorrow, I won't have to deal with those Kennedy SOBs ever again.
00:03:40.620 The following morning, he reiterated the same thing, although this time he said, I'll never have to deal with those Irish SOBs again. 0.90
00:03:50.020 and he said that's not a promise, that's not a threat, it's a promise, 0.92
00:03:56.280 and he squeezed her hand.
00:03:57.820 Obviously, this is evidence of the theory that I wrote a New York Times bestselling book on
00:04:03.740 that Lyndon Baines Johnson was the main orchestrator of the murder of John F. Kennedy
00:04:10.140 in a conspiracy that included organized crime, the CIA, Big Texas Oil, and so on.
00:04:17.400 In any event, I have seen the video clip of Geraldo Rivera interviewing Madeline Brown on YouTube multiple times.
00:04:25.980 I incorporated it in my book.
00:04:28.640 So the first time I met Geraldo Rivera was in the green room at Fox, and I introduced myself.
00:04:35.780 He knew who I was.
00:04:37.160 This was part of my being ostracized and being a target of the mother of witch hunts,
00:04:43.980 so I was a little less famous than I am today.
00:04:46.600 And I congratulated him on this incredible piece of investigative journalism, which he, Geraldo Rivera, had located and interviewed the mistress of Lyndon Johnson, again, whose son looks exactly like LBJ, in this amazing interview.
00:05:06.140 He looked at me very blankly and said he had no idea what I was talking about.
00:05:12.240 I said, your interview with Madeleine Brown.
00:05:15.500 He said, who's Madeleine Brown?
00:05:19.140 Then he locked himself in the men's room and wouldn't come out until after I did my segment and I left.
00:05:26.200 So, Geraldo Rivera, I remember the big hype about Al Capone's safe.
00:05:31.300 That turned out to be a fraud as well.
00:05:33.780 I really think that Geraldo goes for the clicks at this point, but he's now been busted twice, as far as I'm concerned.
00:05:42.740 Yesterday I went online and I said New Jersey tomatoes are the best in the nation.
00:05:47.940 It's amazing the backlash that I got from people as far away as Alabama, Arkansas, and elsewhere.
00:05:54.560 But the truth is, New Jersey tomatoes are legendary for a reason.
00:05:58.180 You see, New Jersey tomatoes have that perfect balance of sweetness and acidity with a deep, almost, I don't know, meaty flavor that shines in everything, whether you use it in a sandwich or a sauce.
00:06:10.240 I guess it is the Garden State's sandy soil and coastal climate give us a real edge if you're growing tomatoes.
00:06:17.800 And the shorter time from vine to table means they're picked ripe, not shipped green like some of the tomatoes you get in a grocery store.
00:06:24.220 People call them Jersey tomatoes for a reason.
00:06:26.800 They're absolutely special, and I'm not standing down on my defense of the New Jersey tomato.
00:06:34.760 Also incredible news today, but fitting in a pattern, we learned days ago that the FBI had opened a counterintelligence investigation into Donald Trump.
00:06:45.520 Immediately after he fired FBI Director James Comey, Comey used to refer to the FBI as my FBI, not recognizing the FBI belongs to the American taxpayers.
00:06:57.140 We now know that they had no probable cause, no evidence that would indicate a legal rationale for the opening of that investigation, and they even called it Oxford, O-X-F-E-R-D.
00:07:15.160 They misspelled the name of the operation so that the documents would be hard to find in their filing system.
00:07:21.720 But it was, once again, an incredible act of lawfare.
00:07:27.800 But what we learned today is even more shocking.
00:07:30.640 You see, remember, there could never have been the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller,
00:07:35.460 who tried to destroy the Trump presidency, as well as my life and my family, along with General Flynn,
00:07:41.660 if the Attorney General Jeff Sessions, appointed by Donald Trump,
00:07:46.960 had not recused himself from the Russian investigation,
00:07:50.780 leaving Rod Rosenstein, the Deputy Attorney General,
00:07:54.020 one of the principal actors in the efforts to destroy Trump,
00:07:56.840 a guy appointed to the office of Deputy Attorney General,
00:08:03.540 on the advice of White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus,
00:08:06.900 came up with Rod Rosenstein.
00:08:09.280 Rosenstein later actually got caught saying that he was willing to wear a wire in a conversation with President Trump in an effort to entrap him in the Russian collusion.
00:08:20.500 We now learn today, based on newly declassified documents, that the FBI opened an investigation into a sitting attorney general and informed him he was being investigated over conversations that he, as a U.S. senator, had had with the Russian ambassador.
00:08:41.920 And on that basis, out of fear, Jeff Session recused himself, which in turn allowed Rod Rosenstein to become the acting attorney general in the matters of Russian collusion, for which he then appointed Robert Mueller and the whole witch hunt went down.
00:09:00.880 You can say it as many times as you want, liberals online do. There was no evidence whatsoever of Russian collusion or interference or at least coordination with the Trump campaign in 2016. The whole thing is a fraud.
00:09:16.160 It is the greatest single dirty trick in American political history, certainly the single greatest abuse of power in which the full authority of the United States government, the full legal authority, was used to destroy a sitting president, utilizing two pieces of evidence that they knew were fraudulent.
00:09:35.560 The so-called Steele dossier paid for by Hillary Clinton and her campaign.
00:09:41.760 She later paid a multi-hundred thousand dollar plus fine for that illegal action because she tried to hide it as legal fees.
00:09:49.300 And also the false claim that the Russians had hacked the Democratic National Committee and that information ended up in the hands of WikiLeaks.
00:09:58.460 A claim to which to this day there is still no forensic evidence or proof whatsoever.
00:10:03.420 A claim essentially invented by John Brennan and the folks at the CIA.
00:10:10.420 So every single week now, whether it is last week, whether it is this week,
00:10:15.200 with this news that the FBI's number two man, Andrew McCabe,
00:10:18.980 had opened an investigation into a sitting attorney general in order to pressure him
00:10:23.500 to recuse himself so that they could clear the way to appoint Mueller,
00:10:27.420 who would then spend three years trying to destroy Donald Trump.
00:10:29.940 There is no evidence of Russian collusion. And when you go at those who defend the Mueller investigation today, like Andrew Weissman, who was the de facto head of the Mueller investigation, since Mueller himself was at that point non-compos mentis, he was really around the bend.
00:10:49.580 And they'll say, oh, no, Paul Manafort shared Trump campaign polling data with a Russian intelligence officer whose name was Konstantin Kalimnik.
00:11:04.740 And that's the Russian collusion.
00:11:06.240 There's only one problem with that, and that is that the Trump campaign had no proprietary poll information at that point.
00:11:12.880 Their pollster right after the convention, Tony Fabrizio, had not gone into the field to take in any polls.
00:11:18.520 So any information Manafort would have shared with Kalimnik would have been public polling information, hardly proprietary, but more importantly, Konstantin Kalimnik has never been a Russian intelligence asset.
00:11:30.820 In fact, the independent journalist Matt Taibbi proved definitively that Konstantin Kalimnik was a U.S. intelligence asset.
00:11:41.880 In fact, his name is redacted in all of the cables between our State Department and our embassy in Kyiv.
00:11:49.840 So the real question still remains the most basic one, and that is, is anyone going to be held responsible for this incredible crime against the Constitution and this attempted coup d'etat, an attempt to destroy a sitting president?
00:12:06.700 This is a continuing seditious conspiracy. Here's why I say it. It is born in a White House meeting in 2016, April of 2016, in the Obama White House, in a meeting in which Barack Hussein Obama himself is chairing.
00:12:26.480 Joe Biden is there. FBI Director James Comey is there. CIA Director John Brennan is there. National Security Advisor Susan Rice is there. The Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is in the room.
00:12:43.380 It is in that meeting that the Clinton plan, as it was known, the plan to falsely charge Donald Trump with Russian collusion was born, and it continues.
00:12:55.400 It is it not only fuels the the appointment of Robert Mueller under the shady circumstances I just outlined, but it also spills over to two impeachment trials in the Senate.
00:13:10.340 what I believe is the theft
00:13:13.260 of the 2020 election
00:13:15.040 the false claims
00:13:17.480 against Donald Trump and others
00:13:19.380 including myself regarding
00:13:20.980 January 6th in which
00:13:23.080 Donald Trump clearly says that his supporters
00:13:25.400 should peacefully and patriotically
00:13:27.220 march to the Capitol
00:13:28.460 they take that piece of audio tape
00:13:31.040 and videotape down off of
00:13:33.220 all social media so that
00:13:35.140 the American people can't see it
00:13:36.580 then of course they raid
00:13:38.840 Mar-a-Lago in an audacious attempt to get back the classified documents that prove their guilt,
00:13:49.060 in my opinion. So we have a new Attorney General, Todd Blanche, and we have a continuing conspiracy
00:13:55.480 that takes you from Washington, D.C. all the way to South Florida. So now there is, under the U.S.
00:14:03.100 attorney for South Florida, an open investigation into this massive seditious conspiracy. Todd
00:14:10.940 Blanche has sent former prosecutor Joe DiGenova down to join that strike force, and the American
00:14:19.100 people, before they vote in the next election, I think are going to want to see whether anyone is
00:14:24.160 going to be held accountable. We have a two-tier justice system in the country, it is obvious.
00:14:30.620 James Comey was charged in the Southern District, pardon me, of the Eastern District of Virginia,
00:14:35.460 with the exact same crime that they charged me with.
00:14:38.320 He was charged with lying under oath to Congress.
00:14:41.740 That's the exact same thing they charged me, even though no misstatement I made to Congress was material.
00:14:47.000 In other words, you have to have motive.
00:14:49.500 To violate the False Statements Act, your statement has to not only be willfully false,
00:14:54.600 but it has to have a motive, an underlying crime that you are hiding.
00:14:57.980 Not true in my case because there was no Russian collusion to lie about.
00:15:04.420 But why was James Comey allowed to just stroll in and quietly turn himself in, no media, show up with his lawyers?
00:15:13.500 They gave him a grace period, I think, of 10 days before he had to turn himself in.
00:15:16.800 yet 29 heavily armed FBI agents in full SWAT gear
00:15:21.100 wearing night goggles and brandishing fully automatic assault weapons
00:15:25.640 with a CNN camera crew in tow
00:15:28.920 stormed my home at 6 o'clock in the morning
00:15:31.680 now they said that I was a flight risk
00:15:34.920 and that I had to be arrested in this manner
00:15:37.400 but if I were a flight risk
00:15:38.640 first of all they knew I had no passport so I wasn't a flight risk
00:15:41.860 also I'm pretty recognizable thanks to them
00:15:44.980 I wasn't a flight risk, but if I was a flight risk, why then, when I was arraigned at the Fort Lauderdale courthouse, did they not ask for any cash bond?
00:15:56.840 So you can see just in that example how FBI Director James Comey and Roger Stone, who did nothing wrong, were treated completely and totally differently.
00:16:07.440 So the question remains, is anybody going to be held responsible for these crimes?
00:16:12.840 The New York Times says Trump is on a tear for revenge and retaliation.
00:16:18.200 No, it's not revenge and retaliation.
00:16:20.620 Those who violated the law, those who violated the Constitution,
00:16:24.020 and their manic desire to destroy Donald Trump need to be accountable in the interests of justice.
00:16:30.300 So it's not about revenge and retaliation.
00:16:32.860 It's about accountability and justice.
00:16:34.840 And the American people are waiting.
00:16:36.620 Frankly, many Republicans or many pro-Trump voters will not turn out this November.
00:16:42.080 If there is not a demonstration of commitment when it comes to holding those who violated the law, those who perpetrated the Russian collusion hoax, are being held responsible.
00:16:53.580 I'm Roger Stone. Had to get that off my chest. You're in the Stone Zone. Don't go away, because we'll be right back.
00:17:00.300 The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative.
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00:17:19.460 Now, get him a zone.
00:17:21.380 It's the Stone Zone.
00:17:23.380 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.
00:17:30.300 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.
00:17:32.920 Roger Stone. Where's Roger Stone?
00:17:35.220 Here's Roger Stone.
00:17:36.820 Well, President Donald Trump has named a good friend of mine, Will Scharf,
00:17:42.680 who is a very dynamic young conservative attorney
00:17:45.640 and has become a trusted confidant to the president
00:17:48.420 to serve as the new White House legal counsel beginning September 1st.
00:17:53.280 Will Scharf will replace David Warrington, also a longtime friend of mine.
00:17:57.940 We were in Young Americans for Freedom together back in the 70s.
00:18:03.360 But he, Warrington, is returning to the private sector.
00:18:06.820 and Scharf will also hold the title as assistant to the president as well as the White House Legal Counsel.
00:18:17.220 President Trump praised his incoming counsel correctly as tough, strong, and smart,
00:18:21.540 adding that Will Scharf loves our country and respects the law.
00:18:24.740 The appointment elevates one of the administration's, I think, most accomplished young conservative legal minds.
00:18:30.860 He's a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School.
00:18:34.700 Scharf actually briefly served as a federal prosecutor in St. Louis,
00:18:38.700 and he worked on the confirmation of efforts for Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh,
00:18:45.000 as well as, unfortunately, Amy Coney Barrett.
00:18:49.000 He actually ran for attorney general of the state of Missouri, a campaign in which I endorsed and supported and campaigned for him.
00:18:55.960 So I think it is very, very appropriate.
00:18:59.820 I'm very pleased for Will Scharf.
00:19:01.580 It's no small part to Sharf's, I think, adept legal maneuvering against the Biden era, lawfare attempts against the president where he represented President Trump.
00:19:12.220 So I'm very pleased by Sharf's appointment.
00:19:14.940 He's a very solid individual, and I wish him the very best.
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00:19:47.040 Now, get him a zone.
00:19:49.040 It's the Stone Zone.
00:19:51.100 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.
00:19:58.340 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.
00:20:01.060 Roger Stone. Where's Roger Stone?
00:20:03.460 Here's Roger Stone.
00:20:07.460 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
00:20:11.120 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a top presidential contender for the Democrats in 2028, 0.99
00:20:18.480 if she doesn't decide to run for the U.S. Senate,
00:20:21.900 is turning one of the most, I don't know, personal decisions a woman can make 1.00
00:20:26.240 into yet another political attack on President Trump. 0.98
00:20:30.100 The New York City Democrat announced that she's freezing her eggs
00:20:33.500 and documenting the fertility process publicly,
00:20:37.620 saying she wants to encourage more openness about women's reproductive health
00:20:41.520 and give herself greater control of her future.
00:20:45.720 Okay, so far so good.
00:20:48.520 She's entitled to do that, I guess. 0.71
00:20:50.120 But then, AOC quickly transformed this intensely private subject 0.99
00:20:54.300 into a partisan spectacle.
00:20:57.600 AOC said,
00:20:58.520 This administration has made pregnancy more dangerous
00:21:01.860 than probably at any point in the last 30 years.
00:21:05.020 We're going to take our power back.
00:21:07.760 The result is bizarre,
00:21:09.300 even by the standards of modern political theater.
00:21:12.320 In other words, AOC rivals Laura Loomer in this department.
00:21:18.220 Freezing one's eggs is a personal medical
00:21:20.520 and family planning decision.
00:21:22.200 Yet AOC is presenting her own fertility treatment as part of a sweeping political narrative about life under President Donald Trump.
00:21:31.300 Life under which, if anyone will look at the crime statistics in every major city in the country, things are measurably better.
00:21:40.220 AOC also shared weird footage and details from the process on social media, arguing that women should have more information about fertility and their reproductive choices.
00:21:52.080 There's nothing inherently political, I guess, about a woman choosing to preserve her fertility, 0.61
00:21:57.600 but AOC, already 37, perhaps be wiser for her to settle down and just have kids now, 1.00
00:22:04.540 instead of pushing socialist nonsense, utilizing her own fertility as the vehicle.
00:22:12.700 Nevertheless, there's something voyeuristic and almost, I don't know, perverted about filming this process and making it public. 0.99
00:22:19.080 So AOC's determination to make Trump a simple character in the story is kind of stupid, but I guess it's to be expected. 0.95
00:22:30.540 The Democrats have so much Trump derangement syndrome that every personal, cultural, or medical issue has to be used to portray Republican governance as an existential threat to democracy. 0.97
00:22:43.760 When in fact those who are a threat to democracy are the liberals themselves, those who would limit our free speech and our free choice.
00:22:52.120 AOC may call this move empowering, but this spectacle is more like a medical decision being shoehorned into an anti-Trump campaign message by a low IQ demagogue with stars in her eyes.
00:23:04.840 What was shocking to me is a new Pew Research Center survey that was just produced, and it shows a deeply troubling finding.
00:23:15.660 44% of Muslim Americans who were polled said they hold a favorable view of Hamas, the terrorist terror organization that has ruled Gaza, and spent decades waging war against Israel.
00:23:30.240 That number should alarm Americans across the political spectrum, frankly. Hamas is not simply a controversial political movement or a generic resistance organization. It has a long record of terrorism, including suicide bombings, rocket attacks, kidnappings, and the deliberate targeting of Israeli citizens.
00:23:51.860 Its October 7, 2023 assault on Israel included some of the most brutal mass killings, hostage-taking, and triggered the devastating war that followed.
00:24:03.340 Yet Pew's May 2026 poll found that Hamas was viewed favorably by nearly half of the Muslim respondents in America, compared with just 10% of Americans overall.
00:24:15.480 law. Interestingly, among Jewish respondents, only two percent viewed Hamas favorably. I guess you
00:24:21.820 would expect that. Among white evangelical Protestants, the number was four percent.
00:24:27.680 This, I think, demonstrates the vast difference in values between us and those in the Muslim 0.99
00:24:34.200 American community. When Muslims enter into a country, they don't do it to assimilate, 1.00
00:24:39.240 unlike the Irish or the Hungarians or the Italians or the Poles 0.98
00:24:44.660 or even the Asians who have assimilated when they come here. 0.95
00:24:50.120 When they come to the United States, they bring their own values 1.00
00:24:52.800 and they have the mentality of conquerors,
00:24:55.300 not those who wish to join our country and become Americans.
00:24:59.600 They are at war with the Judeo-Christian underpinnings of our nation and our civilization. 0.65
00:25:05.060 Admiration for Hamas is morally indefensible under any circumstances.
00:25:09.980 This is a terrorist movement responsible for massacres, hostage-taking, and decades of attacks on civilians,
00:25:16.180 and it deserves nothing but condemnation, not rehabilitation, not romanticization or excuses. 0.83
00:25:23.740 The fact that American Muslims do not agree shows that we are diametrically opposed, 0.82
00:25:28.640 The compromise is, in fact, untenable, and we must make sure that they never get a demographic advantage over us in our own homeland, which, of course, I think was the whole purpose of Joe Biden's open border policy. 0.92
00:25:44.680 We may have taken as many as 30 million illegals into the country. 0.92
00:25:51.620 I remember in the 2016 campaign, President Trump briefly said that he would put a stop, a hold on all Muslim immigration into the country. 0.98
00:26:02.540 I wish he had done so during his first term. 1.00
00:26:05.360 I wish he would do so now.
00:26:07.180 Now, what is interesting is AOC would have us believe that things are terrible in the United States, but that's not really the truth.
00:26:15.600 After one year, Donald Trump's launched a sweeping federal crime crackdown in Washington, D.C., for example.
00:26:21.820 Numbers are hard to ignore, and the critics of his use of the National Guard in D.C. have been effectively silenced.
00:26:29.920 The Make D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force has now made up more than 16,000 arrests since August of 2025, according to administration officials today.
00:26:41.420 This includes 35 homicide suspects, more than 100 known gang members, and over 3,200 narcotics arrests.
00:26:49.460 Authorities also seized nearly 2,000 illegal firearms and located 25 missing children.
00:26:56.240 See, this is what law and order looks like when a government actually decides to enforce the law.
00:27:01.680 President Trump's decision to surge federal agents and the National Guard deployment
00:27:08.040 was immediately attacked by everyone in the Democratic Party
00:27:11.340 and their handmaidens in the mainstream media who warned the move was unnecessary.
00:27:19.480 Some even argue that it was unlawful.
00:27:21.260 But the administration says the crackdown has helped drive down violent crime, restore dangerous offenders from the streets, and restore order in the nation's capital.
00:27:31.420 I can tell you that when I have recently visited Washington, D.C., it is cleaner, quieter, and safer than it has ever been.
00:27:40.940 It's interesting that when you actually poll the residents of D.C., who are overwhelmingly African-American, even they, by huge numbers, say the city is safer and cleaner than it was prior to this crackdown by President Trump.
00:28:00.240 It's interesting, the whole Trump crusade against crime came after a string of high-profile violent crimes,
00:28:07.260 including the killing of a congressional intern and other attacks that really intensified concern about public safety in our nation's capital.
00:28:15.460 I guess the lesson here is not complicated.
00:28:18.660 When prosecutors prosecute, when the police are allowed to police, and when violent criminals face consequences, communities become safer.
00:28:26.260 The Biden gang chose to empower and enable criminals.
00:28:31.420 Leftist politicians pushed softer enforcement, reduced penalties and policies that often seemed more concerned with coddling the offenders than providing justice for the victims.
00:28:43.860 New York's cashless bond system is a perfect example.
00:28:49.180 President Trump took the opposite approach, law and order.
00:28:51.980 After one year, his administration is pointing to thousands of arrests and countless weapons and pounds of drugs removed from the streets as evidence, and enforcing the law still works.
00:29:02.520 There really are no more excuses.
00:29:04.520 President Trump needs to replicate this program in virtually every other major city across the country that have been devastated due to the Democrats.
00:29:13.960 Meanwhile, former President Barack Obama is apparently ready to help unite Democrats behind one of the party's most far-left Senate nominees.
00:29:23.540 Former President Barack Obama held what was described as an encouraging phone call Friday with Michigan Democrat Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed discussing the November elections and ways to bring the party together behind El-Sayed's campaign.
00:29:40.020 That matters because El Sayed has backed abolishing ICE, Medicare for All, paid for by you and I, and ending all U.S. aid to Israel, as well as abolishing the Electoral College and the U.S. Senate.
00:29:56.120 Positions that any common sense voter should see as extreme. 0.63
00:30:02.900 And I imagine positions that will get highlighted as Michigan voters decide who will represent them in the Senate.
00:30:08.700 Now, Obama's involvement suggests that Democrat leaders are moving very quickly from bruising primaries like the ones they had here, in which El-Sayed very narrowly defeated Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who was a more, I wouldn't say mainstream, but a more conventional establishment liberal Democrat,
00:30:29.420 had the support of the sitting governor, Gretchen Whitmire,
00:30:34.440 had the support of the outgoing Senator Gary Peters,
00:30:38.660 had the support of the powerful United Auto Workers,
00:30:41.600 but who nonetheless lost to El-Sayed.
00:30:46.140 It's very clear that this is going to be one of the key Senate races in the country.
00:30:51.220 Republicans have nominated former Congressman Mike Rogers
00:30:54.380 in what is a crucial election contest.
00:30:58.100 The problem, of course, is that Stevens has already circled the wagons around El-Sahed.
00:31:02.800 It now appears that most of the mainstream Democrats will be doing the same.
00:31:07.800 For Republicans, it shouldn't come as no surprise that Barack Obama and Abdul El-Sahed have a lot in common.
00:31:13.980 Obama persuaded the American people that he was a moderate.
00:31:16.860 He hid his radical agenda nearly 20 years after Obama's elected president.
00:31:22.080 El-Sahed doesn't have to hide his extremism.
00:31:24.320 He is much more upfront about his hatred of America and his wishes to see it transformed into something it is not.
00:31:32.660 Al-Sayed, he's the natural progression of the Democrat Party that embraced Obama.
00:31:38.440 We need to end this man's political career before he proves to be as destructive to our national policies as Obama was, or even worse. 0.66
00:31:45.560 The problem, as we have discussed, is that many voters look at the promises of a Mamdami, the promises of an Al-Sayed, the way they looked at the promises of Barack Obama.
00:31:58.920 Hope and change without much specificity.
00:32:02.600 Free health care.
00:32:05.440 Subsidized free food in city-owned grocery stores.
00:32:10.100 Free transportation.
00:32:11.980 Free this, free that.
00:32:13.180 Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch.
00:32:17.080 The Democrat Party has enormous problems going into this election in their radicalization.
00:32:23.320 But as I said the other day in an interview, it is not enough just to say, oh, they're socialists or they're Marxists and expect that to repel people.
00:32:34.360 Part of our problem is that younger voters in this country who have never been taught anything about history don't understand the harsh lessons of socialism.
00:32:43.180 They don't understand the gulag that was created in China or Russia or Cuba.
00:32:51.300 They don't understand that this leaves in the end to oppression, poverty, and when you get right down to it, death.
00:33:00.320 So I do think the Republicans and Trump's instincts to pit this as a contest between democracy and authoritarian Marxism is correct.
00:33:14.700 But you have to lay out for people what the result of those high tax, soft on crime, defund the police, do away with the criminal justice system, do away with our penitentiaries.
00:33:28.720 These are all in the Democratic Socialists for America platform, so it's there for all Americans to see.
00:33:38.100 And as I have said many times and say it yet again, the old Democrat Party, the party of Harry Truman, the party of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, both ardent anti-communist,
00:33:50.400 the party of Ed Koch, the party of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, that Democrat Party no longer exists.
00:33:58.720 Right now, wherever he is, Chuck Schumer is sweating bullets about the fact that AOC may challenge him for a U.S. Senate seat he has had for decades.
00:34:09.200 And if she does challenge him, he knows that he will lose.
00:34:13.320 So the corporate liberal Democrats, you can't call them moderates because they're not moderates.
00:34:18.840 The corporate liberal Democrats are scared to death because they see their party being taken over wholesale by radical socialists who have a radical agenda and no longer hide it.
00:34:31.800 That will be the face of the Democrat Party going into these midterm elections.
00:34:36.380 And that is why those who insist the Republicans will definitely lose both houses, I believe, are completely and totally wrong.
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00:35:30.400 I think this one's pretty funny.
00:35:32.000 Former NBA players Enos Freedom Cantor and Royce White
00:35:36.700 are openly trolling the Women's National Basketball League.
00:35:41.960 In the process, they're putting the league
00:35:43.540 between a rock and a hard place.
00:35:45.200 You see, White and Cantor have announced
00:35:47.140 that they intend to declare for the 2027 WNBA draft,
00:35:52.520 with White sarcastically telling Fox and Friends
00:35:55.360 that he's enjoying his feminine era
00:35:57.700 and now sometimes identifies as a transgendered woman
00:36:01.340 for the purposes of professional basketball.
00:36:04.740 Legal action, of course, is a possibility 0.98
00:36:07.080 if a league refuses these two nearly christened ladies 1.00
00:36:10.780 the opportunity to play professional ball. 1.00
00:36:13.800 Now, obviously, this is a publicity stunt,
00:36:15.980 And it's deliberately provocative, but it's hitting the mark.
00:36:19.820 You see, White and Cantor are forcing the WNBA to confront the immense woke hypocrisy.
00:36:26.620 They now have to broach the subject.
00:36:28.660 If biological sex is no longer the decisive standard for women's athletics, where exactly is that line?
00:36:36.680 I think the league now will find itself in a very rough spot. 0.61
00:36:40.700 They could just reject white and canter outright, and officials could face uncomfortable questions about what standards they are using to determine who qualifies for women's competition. 0.56
00:36:51.820 If they entertain their claim, the absurdity of allowing former NBA-caliber male athletes into a women's game becomes impossible to ignore. 0.89
00:37:01.780 They'll wipe the floor with all the women players, even though both of them have been out of the NBA for many years and are actually no longer in their primes.
00:37:10.240 Controversy comes as the WNBA is already facing growing scrutiny over this issue.
00:37:15.800 Indiana Fever player Sophie Cunningham has publicly criticized allowing transgendered identifying athletes, men, into women's competition,
00:37:25.840 while Commissioner Kathy Engelbert recently told teams that the league would hold additional discussions and listening sessions on the matter.
00:37:35.260 This announcement by the former NBA players, White and Cantor, may just be a troll.
00:37:41.140 But it might be very interesting to see how far they decide to take it.
00:37:44.560 If they suit up with WNBA, the comedy potential here is undeniable. 0.98
00:37:51.960 And it will be a national scene in which people understand the idiocy, the lunacy of men playing in women's professional sports. 0.92
00:38:02.340 I want to thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone where we talk politics, news, history, style, and food five days a week. Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed. 0.99
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