The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - September 15, 2026


Brotherly Love & Border Controls: Ilhan Omar Under Investigation

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00:02:39.920 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:02:43.800 People love him and respect him.
00:02:45.260 Roger Stone.
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00:02:58.620 Well, it's no secret that one of the most detestable anti-American radical members of Congress
00:03:04.480 is none other than Minnesota's Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar.
00:03:09.900 Omar, of course, has been at the center of an immigration controversy for years,
00:03:15.200 a controversy in which many have credibly alleged that she married her own brother in order to allow her to enter the United States illegally.
00:03:24.840 The Congresswoman is currently under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security over this matter,
00:03:30.280 and over the last several days we've received crucial updates on the development of that investigation.
00:03:36.860 In a recent interview with conservative influencer Benny Johnson at the midterm Republican National Convention in Dallas,
00:03:43.840 The Department of Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen spoke about the progress being made investigating Omar, saying,
00:03:51.940 We know that she married her brother in order to bring him into the United States.
00:03:56.080 There may be more to this, the whole family, migration, and possibly some illegal activity for them to come to the United States to begin with.
00:04:04.420 Then there's the question of Ilhan Omar's net worth.
00:04:07.820 When she first entered Congress, it was essentially negative.
00:04:11.120 She showed a student debt.
00:04:12.640 More recently, she showed that she and her ex-husband were worth between $6 and $30 million.
00:04:20.000 Then she claimed that that was a clerical error and now claims to be worth $180,000.
00:04:27.320 Hmm, curious.
00:04:28.860 Omar, of course, has refused to comment on the investigation following these remarks by Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen.
00:04:35.880 Ilhan Omar was born in Somalia, where she eventually fled the Civil War as a child.
00:04:40.360 The congresswoman spent several years in a Kenyan refugee camp before arriving in the United States as a refugee in 1995 and then became a naturalized citizen in 2000 while still a minor.
00:04:54.320 Despite the fact that the United States and its generous citizens extended a helping hand to Omar, allowing her sanctuary and giving her a home after she was forced to flee her home country, she shows no gratitude towards the United States whatsoever.
00:05:09.020 In fact, she actually outwardly states that she hates the United States of America and all that it stands for.
00:05:16.640 Back in March of 2019, Omar revealed sympathies for the 9-11 hijackers,
00:05:22.040 referring to the 9-11 terrorist attacks as some people doing something.
00:05:27.680 It's offensive.
00:05:29.020 In 2017, in response to the Charlottesville riots in which one woman lost her life
00:05:34.500 and both left and right wing protesters clashed,
00:05:37.620 Omar revealed her true feelings about the country that saved her from poverty,
00:05:41.680 writing on her Twitter account at the time,
00:05:43.640 We must confront that our nation was founded by the genocide of indigenous people
00:05:48.680 and on the backs of slaves that we maintain global power with the tenor of neocolonialism.
00:05:56.420 Ilhan Omar doesn't love America.
00:05:58.300 She doesn't pretend to like America. 0.88
00:06:00.340 She doesn't care about our history or our values or our way of life.
00:06:03.660 She openly speaks about her hatred for the country that saved her from a refugee camp as a child when nobody else cared for her.
00:06:11.380 Among other causes she's championed throughout her political career, Ilhan Omar has more recently moved to viciously attack those in federal law enforcement,
00:06:19.980 ensuring those who have illegally entered the country and or committed crimes be removed from our country. 0.97
00:06:26.140 Back in January, during a Democratic field hearing in St. Paul, Minnesota, Ilhan Omar referred to the United States as the U.S. goddamn states, which grammatically doesn't even make sense. 0.94
00:06:38.520 Omar said while speaking at ICE raids, I don't want to curse, but those of us who have escaped places like that, the one place where we thought we would never experience this is in the U.S. G.D. states. 0.96
00:06:50.120 And we should all be ashamed that this is the United States that is allowing this to take place.
00:06:54.860 When you examine the current ongoing investigation into her immigration record by the Department of Homeland Security, it becomes extremely clear while Ilhan Omar is publicly criticizing ICE agents.
00:07:06.420 In a Fox interview, which aired yesterday, Trump border czar Tom Homan, a good friend of mine, was asked about the comments made by Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen on the Ilhan Omar investigation.
00:07:18.600 Homan was clear, saying,
00:07:20.640 We'll see if someone committed immigration violations, marriage fraud, or anything like that.
00:07:26.620 Regardless of whether they're a congressman or not, no one is above the law.
00:07:30.940 I'll just leave it at that.
00:07:32.800 I will leave it to the Homeland Security Investigations to continue the investigation.
00:07:38.020 When asked afterwards if he was confirming that there was an active investigation into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar,
00:07:45.520 Homan nodded and said, yes, it's something that's been needed to be looked at for some time.
00:07:50.000 I've been saying it for a number of years.
00:07:52.440 Tom Homan then went on to brilliantly describe the process by which Congresswoman Ilhan Omar could be deported
00:07:58.520 if the investigation into reveals any specific criminal action, saying,
00:08:03.880 I've been around 40 years. We've done denaturalization situations.
00:08:08.580 We've had denaturalized citizens based on fraud, based on lying on their applications,
00:08:13.260 or lying through the process, misrepresenting themselves or maybe misrepresenting organizations
00:08:18.740 they belong to or beliefs that they may have. Denaturalization is a process, a very serious
00:08:24.620 process, Holman went on to say. So if somebody lies through the process of becoming a citizen
00:08:30.020 and we can prove that they in fact lied or misrepresented themselves, we can absolutely
00:08:35.160 denaturalize them. We've done it before many times over the last 40 years. I've done it while I've
00:08:40.620 been around. It's part of the process. Now, after making that statement, Holman was asked about his
00:08:45.620 response to Democrats who say that his investigation is politically motivated. Now, this, in my opinion,
00:08:52.160 was his best answer of the entire interview. Holman pointed out there's nothing political
00:08:56.920 about it. ICE is enforcing the law that Congress wrote. These are all the laws and the statutes
00:09:03.460 Immigration Nationality Act, which is written by Congress, enacted by Congress, and signed by the
00:09:10.240 president. ICE, Homeland Security Investigations, the Department of Homeland Security, none of us
00:09:16.240 are making this up. Our job is to enforce the law as Congress wrote it, and that is exactly
00:09:22.520 what we're going to do. See, in this particular case, I think Tom Homan is right. The mainstream
00:09:27.740 media is much like the case of the indictment of former FBI Director James Comey or Ambassador
00:09:33.160 John Bolton or investigations into Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and others. They refuse to expect that
00:09:39.420 they might be accountable for those who violate the law on behalf of left-wing causes.
00:09:44.320 In other words, a two-tiered justice system.
00:09:47.480 In my case, there was no evidence against me and no evidence to this day
00:09:50.740 that I colluded with or even spoke to Julian Assange or worked with any Russians.
00:09:55.600 However, the Mueller cowards and the thugs treated that total fiction as a reality, 0.89
00:10:00.940 turning my life upside down. 0.79
00:10:03.160 The media worked in conglomeration with the courts to libel me, slander me, destroy my name,
00:10:08.620 while the courts ordered me speechless with an unconstitutional gag order.
00:10:12.960 My home was seized in the early hours of the morning by SWAT teams armed with automatic rifles,
00:10:18.120 which they pointed at my wife and my dogs as they shuffled me off to be filmed by CNN.
00:10:23.920 It just so happened to arrive minutes before the FBI.
00:10:28.040 I was a target not because of any infraction or any illegal action.
00:10:32.260 I was framed.
00:10:33.100 I have been forcibly accused of committing crimes, largely because of my 40-year friendship with President Donald Trump, who graciously and correctly granted me a full and unconditional presidential pardon in December of 2020.
00:10:47.120 Now, let me ask you this. James Comey was charged with the exact same crime that I was, lying to Congress, although no misstatement I made to Congress was material and therefore was serious.
00:10:59.780 Was there a Newsmax crew outside his home minutes before the raid, ready to film?
00:11:04.840 Were there automatic weapons pointed at his wife or his dogs?
00:11:08.920 No.
00:11:09.860 James Comey was allowed to turn himself in on his own conditions.
00:11:12.680 He was afforded a civility that left-wing factions within the Justice Department never allowed me or my family, even when I had done nothing wrong.
00:11:21.100 It isn't lawless or targeting to punish people who abuse the law to such extent to put myself or General Michael Flynn or Paul Manafort or dozens of others through political hell without a basis.
00:11:33.200 It's a requirement to ensure the continuation of a healthy democracy in which people are not persecuted for their political party or the candidate they choose to support for president.
00:11:43.420 For years, Democrats like Ilhan Omar have been allowed to violate the law with impunity.
00:11:48.140 The system is designed to protect those who serve it, even if they break the law, and to punish those who stand against its corruption, even if they have committed no crime.
00:11:58.280 It is my hope, and I know the hope of millions of Americans, that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and other Democrat thugs will be held accountable for their lawlessness by President Donald Trump and his administration.
00:12:11.480 Leslie Stahl, CBS and 60 Minutes ran a long segment last night in which she alleged that a pardon industry has opened up surrounding President Donald Trump and that some individuals are charging hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to secure presidential pardons from the president.
00:12:30.180 Leslie Stahl alleged that hiring pardon lobbyists in Trump's administration is a new system.
00:12:37.340 Stahl never mentioned that Bill Clinton's brother took hundreds of thousands of dollars from people seeking pardons.
00:12:44.000 Or does she recall the other enormous scandal during Bill Clinton's time, the Mark Rich pardon?
00:12:50.900 Now, this is something I know a little bit about.
00:12:52.740 It has been my great honor to advocate and help secure pardons for five individuals, including Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, who I believe was framed for narco trafficking, New York hero cop Mike McMahon, who was framed as a foreign agent for China,
00:13:13.140 Judge Michelle Fiore, who had clashed with the federal government over the Bundy scandal
00:13:19.980 Former Governor Rod Blagojevich, who definitely was framed, did nothing wrong 0.76
00:13:25.860 But was refused the orders by Barack Obama to put Valerie Jarrett on the U.S. Senate
00:13:33.700 And a sheriff from Virginia, Scott Howard Jenkins
00:13:38.960 All of these people, I believe, were falsely charged with crimes
00:13:42.100 they did not commit. I'm happy to say I advocated for a pardon for every one of them. And my work
00:13:48.440 for securing those pardons, I can tell you, I've played a grand total of zero. Absolutely zero.
00:13:55.540 Yet on January 20th, 2001, in his last hours in office, President Bill Clinton granted a full
00:14:02.180 and unconditional pardon to commodities trader Mark Rich and his partner, Pincus Green. Both have
00:14:08.520 been fugitives for 17 years. 1983, a federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York
00:14:14.780 indicted Rich and Green on more than 50 felony counts, including tax evasion of roughly $48
00:14:20.640 million, at that time the largest tax fraud case in U.S. history, mail and wire fraud, racketeering
00:14:27.160 and trading with the enemy, specifically oil deals with Iran during the 1979-81 hostage crisis.
00:14:35.380 The petition did not go to the Justice Department's Office of the Pardon Attorney. Former Clinton White House Counsel Jack Quinn delivered it directly to the White House on December 11, 2000. The pardon was issued hours before George W. Bush's inauguration.
00:14:51.800 Here's the part that Leslie Stahl forgot.
00:14:54.000 Mark Rich's ex-wife, songwriter Denise Rich, had given more than $1 million to the Clintons,
00:14:59.760 including $450,000 to the Clinton Presidential Library,
00:15:04.460 as well as tens of thousands of dollars to Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign.
00:15:10.340 Former President Jimmy Carter correctly called the pardon disgraceful.
00:15:13.960 It should be noted that Hillary Clinton's brother, Hugh Rodham,
00:15:17.040 also took almost a million dollars for getting pardons for two other criminals.
00:15:22.220 So you have to ask, was Leslie Stahl totally forgetful about the fact
00:15:28.340 that all of this took place previously when she claimed this was a new system
00:15:32.260 and she focused on two con men who actually never secured a pardon for anyone?
00:15:38.060 I commend the president for pardoning those who were wrongfully convicted
00:15:41.920 or convicted of weaponized crimes like me.
00:15:47.040 Like Paul Manafort, like General Michael Flynn.
00:15:50.540 That article last night on 60 Minutes was a disgrace.
00:15:54.120 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.
00:15:56.260 Don't go away because we'll be right back.
00:15:59.720 The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative.
00:16:03.780 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:16:05.840 this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:16:22.000 political minds rogerson was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:16:26.780 political analyst now get him his own it's the stone zone here's roger stone and we're back
00:16:34.900 in the stone zone. If you watch the Republican midterm convention, you know that J.D. Vance
00:16:40.560 gave an incredible speech that some say was the kickoff of his 2028 presidential campaign.
00:16:48.180 Within the Republican Party, if you're a sitting vice president, you're definitely the frontrunner.
00:16:53.700 At this point, there is a proposed Trump administration plan that is being championed
00:16:58.280 by J.D. Vance that would attempt to bolster the finances of families with one stay-at-home parent,
00:17:04.340 by directing funds from the Child Care and Development Fund directly to American families.
00:17:10.300 Under the drafted proposal, some married couples would reportedly receive $9,000 a year per child,
00:17:17.660 provided that one parent works at least 35 hours a week and the other is staying at home.
00:17:23.180 Unmarried couples in a similar situation would not qualify for this subsidy.
00:17:28.060 Vice President J.D. Vance is said to be the primary booster of this plan,
00:17:32.280 having pointed it out previously that stay-at-home mothers are important to a young child's
00:17:37.380 development. The plan directly contrasts with the Democrats' general approach to welfare costs,
00:17:43.780 where they advocate for daycare funding and are wary of any policy that could be construed as
00:17:48.840 against working or single moms. Indeed, Democrats have already begun attacking this proposal
00:17:54.200 on these grounds, with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro stating that supporting stay-at-home parents
00:18:00.760 should never come at the expense of working families.
00:18:04.420 She went on to call the policy proposal by J.D. Vance
00:18:07.560 unconscionable, partially because of its restriction to married couples.
00:18:11.760 As ever, Democrats have long ceased viewing marriage
00:18:14.840 as having any connection to raising children.
00:18:18.160 Interesting, the plan also provoked backlash from selected conservatives
00:18:21.980 who spuriously compared it to socialism.
00:18:25.160 Angelo Morabito, who was the Department of Education's press secretary
00:18:29.240 during the first Trump administration,
00:18:30.760 was particularly dismissive, saying that taxing working moms to fund someone's stay-at-home
00:18:35.620 lifestyle is a gut punch. I disagree. Recent political discourse has widely discussed the
00:18:41.880 increased difficulties of achieving a comfortable middle-class life, the decrease in marriage rates,
00:18:47.940 and the strained relationships between men and women. While these are broader problems that no
00:18:52.840 single policy will magically fix, the government can certainly provide incentives that make raising
00:18:58.660 a family slightly less financially strict. People of common sense have long recognized that gender 0.98
00:19:04.740 roles matter, have spoken of the importance of marriage to family stability. The fact that the
00:19:10.200 Trump administration is now actively exploring policies in sync with these views rather than
00:19:15.600 simply debating them is a positive development. In this case, I think J.D. Vance is to be commended.
00:19:22.500 I'm reminded of President Nixon's family assistance plan, which was a bold proposal to help the American family.
00:19:30.180 That was never enacted. But this, this is a great idea.
00:19:34.980 By supporting the family, by supporting one stay-at-home parent.
00:19:39.140 I think this idea is typical, and frankly, I think it will help propel J.D. Vance if he becomes a candidate for president.
00:19:46.960 By the way, if you didn't catch his speech at the convention, go online and hear it.
00:19:51.140 It was one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard.
00:19:53.700 He is clearly the frontrunner.
00:19:55.920 And I point out to you that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a good friend of mine who I like very much, did not address the convention.
00:20:03.120 And he certainly could have if he wanted to.
00:20:05.640 I take this as believing him when he tells me he has no plans to run for president.
00:20:12.260 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.
00:20:14.420 Don't go away because we'll be right back.
00:20:17.020 the stone zone entertaining and informative on the red apple podcast network
00:20:24.140 this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:20:40.240 political minds roger stone was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:20:45.020 political analyst now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone welcome back into
00:20:53.720 the stone zone i'm roger stone one of the more ridiculous fights of the trump administration 2.0
00:21:00.900 the kennedy center for the performing arts renamed the trump kennedy center for the performing arts
00:21:07.300 is making headlines again this time for begging for donations threatened to close its doors
00:21:12.860 if it doesn't receive enough money from supporters in the wake of its fight with President Donald
00:21:17.940 Trump. Officials are now claiming that the center may close as soon as Tuesday. They've also warned
00:21:23.960 that it could face bankruptcy. The Kennedy Center has fought President Trump at every level when it
00:21:29.060 comes to renovations, which are desperately needed in the failing buildings. They've had no renovation
00:21:34.920 or upgrade for over 30 years. Just because Trump is president, the Kennedy Center has refused
00:21:40.760 all funding or plans to renovate. Now a special meeting is called for Tuesday as the mainstream
00:21:47.660 media failed to cover that on September 4th there was an incident at the Kennedy Center that saw
00:21:53.140 ceiling plaster fall nearly 60 feet from the ceiling to the floor of the grand foyer of the
00:22:01.600 venue. The building appears to be literally falling down. It's a danger to the public. Despite this
00:22:07.680 fact, the liberals in charge have blocked all attempts by the Trump administration to renovate.
00:22:13.440 Congresswoman Joyce Beattie, a Democrat of Ohio who is an ex-officio trustee of the Kennedy Center,
00:22:19.520 sued Trump over the Kennedy Center renovations. In May, Judge Christopher Cooper blocked the
00:22:25.360 shutdown for renovations of the Center and also ordered that Trump's name be taken off the facade,
00:22:31.600 ruling that only Congress can rename the center. The letters came down in June. That decision is
00:22:38.940 being appealed. In August, the board voted once again for renovations and to inscribe Trump's
00:22:45.000 name underneath the existed signage. That fight is, as I say, still in court. Cooper has scheduled
00:22:51.280 a conference tied to the latest closure plan. With the building literally collapsing around itself
00:22:57.800 and the Democrats unwilling to work with the administration,
00:23:01.280 it's hard to see why Democrats are fighting to keep an unsafe building open.
00:23:06.100 Undoubtedly, if the ceiling plaster had crushed somebody,
00:23:09.880 well, Donald Trump would have been blamed.
00:23:11.880 The center, as it stands today, is unsafe.
00:23:15.300 It needs renovation desperately, and the idea we must keep it open,
00:23:19.240 even as the ceiling drains down to the floor,
00:23:21.840 is evident of what Democrats want to do to America.
00:23:25.300 Reporters for Reuters recently conducted an investigation in which they attempted to acquire the materials to make over $3 million worth of fentanyl.
00:23:35.880 What they found was shocking.
00:23:37.740 Sealed in a metallic Mylar bag ordered by a Reuters reporter was a plastic jar containing a kilogram of one botch for Piperdome, a pale powder that's a core ingredient of fentanyl.
00:23:51.560 it was enough to produce 750,000 tablets of the deadly drug.
00:23:57.140 The fentanyl business is largely a three-nation trading system
00:24:00.160 with the United States, China, and Mexico linked in a toxic triangle
00:24:05.300 as the illicit drug's biggest consumer, manufacturer, and raw materials suppliers.
00:24:11.740 The Reuters investigation has uncovered the names of Chinese sellers,
00:24:15.900 the methods they use to ship their chemicals to North America,
00:24:18.560 and how these packages evade customs and inspections in Mexico and the United States.
00:24:24.680 The ease with which the reporters bought the drug-making chemicals
00:24:27.880 and the gear exposes holes in the world, the regulatory framework,
00:24:32.260 and it shows how law enforcement is playing catch-up amidst a profound transformation of the opioid market.
00:24:38.700 As the tap of a buyer's smartphone, Chinese sellers will airship fentanyl precursors,
00:24:44.380 sometimes falsely labeled as gadgets, cosmetics, or other mundane goods, to the United States.
00:24:51.320 These packages are loaded onto planes stuffed with nearly identical-looking boxes of cheap exports
00:24:57.380 that leave China by the billions every single day.
00:25:00.240 Major destinations are airports in Mexico and the United States,
00:25:04.440 where the precursor-filled packages typically sail through customs with other merchandise,
00:25:10.580 authorities in both countries have said.
00:25:13.420 There's no need to buy bulky barrels of chemicals and navigate the tricky logistics of getting them on shore, as is the case for drugs like methamphetamine.
00:25:23.240 President Trump, unlike former President Joe Biden and the Democrats, has worked to stop the flow of deadly fentanyl in the United States.
00:25:31.500 Fentanyl deaths increased sharply under Biden.
00:25:34.720 We see why, because it's so simple to get the ingredients to make it into the country.
00:25:40.200 Meanwhile, Democrat state parties and allied organizations are building a 10,000 volunteer election monitoring operation before this November, even though no broad federal deployment to polling places has yet been ordered.
00:25:54.700 The Association of State Democratic Committees calls the effort the New Battlefield Project.
00:26:00.260 Volunteers are being recruited to observe polling places, document possible federal activity, and coordinate legal or protest responses if disputes arise over ballot custody or law enforcement presence.
00:26:12.980 So, in other words, they're prepping their lawfare operation ahead of time.
00:26:17.340 Civil rights groups, and the city of Denver specifically, have separately sued to keep ICE away from the polling places.
00:26:24.120 Administration officials have repeatedly denied plans for a broad ICE deployment on Election Day,
00:26:30.020 while the Pentagon says it has no plans to station troops at the polls.
00:26:34.540 But that has not stopped the paranoid brains of some liberals from running wild.
00:26:39.640 Republicans are preparing their own infrastructure.
00:26:42.020 The Republican National Committee says it has recruited a record number of poll watchers and election inspectors
00:26:48.420 in what will be the largest election integrity operation in the party's history.
00:26:52.880 Democrats, Republicans, and civil rights groups are increasingly threatening election administration as a pre-litligation environment.
00:27:01.000 We saw what the Democrats did when Republicans did not fight in this atmosphere in 2020.
00:27:06.360 Now we frankly have to meet them head on.
00:27:08.640 Lawful observation must be permitted.
00:27:11.240 And if Democrats believe that they can game the process, they should be shown otherwise.
00:27:16.060 We must stand firmly even if Democrats attempt to prevent us from rooting out fraud.
00:27:20.500 Poll watchers and election inspectors must know their rights and must never back down to those on the hard left.
00:27:27.520 We must have honest, fair, free elections.
00:27:31.120 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is escalating his pressure campaign on the Federal Reserve just days before policymakers meet,
00:27:38.920 arguing that the United States should have the lowest rates in the world.
00:27:42.360 The federal funds rate currently sits at about 3.5 to 3.75 percent.
00:27:47.940 President Trump says America's economic strength, our trade position, and our reserve currency status justifies cheaper money than any other major economy.
00:27:57.520 Reuters' latest economist poll found that most analysts expect the Fed to hold steady with their rates at the upcoming September 15th and 16th meeting, even as some foresee another hike perhaps later this year.
00:28:10.580 This may impede economic growth and stifle America's recovery during a precarious time.
00:28:16.540 Inflation concerns are real and, of course, warranted, but those fears should not hold our economy back during a time when investment is headed to rebuild our nation while President Trump is in the White House.
00:28:26.880 If you look at it historically, Chairman Jerome Powell cut interest rates when Joe Biden had levels of unemployment and inflation much higher than today.
00:28:36.340 To this credit, President Trump has never treated Central Bank independence as a commandment, and he's again arguing that monetary policy should reflect national economic strategy rather than an insulated technocratic consensus.
00:28:49.780 Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh maintains that policymakers must make decisions independently.
00:28:55.600 Lower interest rates would actually help mortgages, investment, and refinancing.
00:28:59.760 Warsh, I hope, will not act too much like his predecessor, the disgraced Jerome Tulate Powell, who used his power at the Fed in an attempt to thwart President Trump's policy goals.
00:29:10.580 This week's meeting is therefore bigger than a quarter point move.
00:29:14.140 It's another test of how much daylight can exist between the economic program of an elected president and the independent Federal Reserve Board.
00:29:22.220 Chairman Walsh needs to get with the program and finally lower interest rates to help America and help President Trump make America great again.
00:29:30.940 Meanwhile, President Trump says he's considering releasing additional government records dealing with possible Saudi connections to September 11th after victims' families renewed their demand for disclosure.
00:29:43.600 Speaking Sunday in Ireland, President Donald Trump said he would examine the request when he returned to Washington, D.C., and he did point out that 15 of the 19 hijackers were Saudi nationals and that families have spent years pursuing litigation, alleging that the Saudi-linked individuals assisted some attackers after they entered the United States.
00:30:05.980 The Saudi government has consistently denied that the Saudi government supported the plot, but at the same time, they have resisted any transparency.
00:30:14.300 Previous administrations have released significant material, including FBI records, but relatives of victims argue that important documents remain withheld or redacted.
00:30:24.260 25 years after the attacks, this is no longer merely an argument about intelligence history.
00:30:29.500 It's about whether the families of the nearly 3,000 murder Americans have received the fullest accounting that we can lawfully provide.
00:30:38.000 We've been lied to for too long about these important events and deserve to know the entire truth, no matter how shocking it may be.
00:30:44.920 Secrecy carries a cost when it persists for decades and creates suspicion that diplomatic relationships are being protected at the expense of transparency.
00:30:54.440 President Trump now has an opportunity to order a rigorous review, release whatever can safely be released, explains specific redactions that genuinely must remain and allow the evidence to speak.
00:31:06.140 Families have lived with unswerving questions for a quarter of a century.
00:31:10.300 Whatever the remaining documents ultimately show, another generation should not have to stay in the dark, wondering just how diabolical their government and his partners can be.
00:31:20.280 Late last week, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency declassified documents that showed without any question of a doubt that both Presidents Bush and Clinton were shown in advance of al-Qaeda plots to attack the United States, specifically to fly airplanes burdened with explosives into buildings, and those warnings were ignored.
00:31:43.980 It's time for the American people to know the entire truth.
00:31:47.880 Senator Ted Cruz could be one of the most least likable individuals in American politics today.
00:31:52.840 He was hilariously booed at an ESPN event in Austin, Texas for college football this past Saturday.
00:32:00.440 Cruz was relentlessly heckled by the students at the event, who chanted things that I can't repeat on a family radio show.
00:32:07.600 Cruz largely ignored the booing, charging through the interview with a shameless appearance.
00:32:12.660 As you recall, Ted Cruz ran for president against Donald Trump.
00:32:15.540 Trump called him Lion Ted. He went down in flames. I suspect Ted Cruz is planning to run again.
00:32:22.940 What people have to understand about Senator Ted Cruz is that he's not an authentic political
00:32:27.960 conservative. He's actually a product of the Bush dynasty in Texas. And throughout his career,
00:32:32.700 he was acted as an agent of the Bush crime families, I call them, pushing Texas to where 0.68
00:32:38.080 it is politically today, with a Democrat leading some polls for the U.S. Senate race. It's all 0.68
00:32:42.940 discussed in my New York Times bestselling book, The Bush Crime Family, which I lay out exactly how
00:32:48.180 the Bushes from George H. W. and CIOA all the way to Jeb's spectacular collapse in 2016 went down.
00:32:55.280 Ted Cruz worked for George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign as his domestic policy
00:33:01.000 advisor. That's where he met his wife, Heidi Nelson Cruz. He was also part of the Bush legal team
00:33:07.180 during the Florida recount. After Bush won, Cruz served in the administration at the Department
00:33:12.660 of Justice and at the Federal Trade Commission. He later became the Texas Solicitor General. He's
00:33:18.560 not only tied to the Bushes, but also somewhat corrupt. Cruz told voters that he and his wife
00:33:23.660 liquidated their savings to fund his underdog 2012 Senate race. In reality, we now know that
00:33:29.900 more than $1 million came from a Goldman Sachs margin loan, his wife Heidi worked there, and a
00:33:36.800 Citibank line of credit. He reported the money to the FVC as personal funds, and he never disclosed
00:33:42.640 the banks as the legal source of the campaign funds as required by law. The Federal Election
00:33:48.400 Commission later found that as a reporting inaccuracy. In 2019, his campaign paid a $35,000
00:33:55.140 fine and signed a conciliation agreement. Ted Cruz called it an inadvertent filing error.
00:34:02.500 The loans themselves were listed on a separate Senate personal financial disclose, just not
00:34:07.120 incorrectly on the FEC campaign forms. That's sloppy. iHeart Media produces and syndicates
00:34:13.780 Cruz's podcast. Between 2023 and 2024, iHeart played roughly between $630,000 and $961,000
00:34:23.180 in digital revenue to the Truth to Courage PAC, a super PAC whose purpose is getting Ted Cruz
00:34:30.220 re-elected or perhaps running him for president. Watchdogs argued this was an illegal corporate
00:34:35.700 contribution or an undisclosed gift. Cruise has also received luxurious gifts from donors including
00:34:41.260 a $76,000 private jet round trip to Turks and Caicos. A Goldman Sachs executive gave him that.
00:34:48.880 Cruise received other charter fights, astro tickets, concert tickets, and a long haul ticket
00:34:53.940 from a Texas oil and real estate donor. Cruise responded to the jeering at the ESPN stage on X
00:35:00.300 by saying, the whole came clown on a blitz this morning. I stayed in the pocket, never flinched.
00:35:05.740 If we don't pass the Protecting the College Sports Act, I would play for your favorite team,
00:35:10.320 call your senator. Folks, Ted Cruz will never be president. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening
00:35:15.840 to The Stone Zone. Don't go away because we'll be right back. The Stone Zone,
00:35:22.040 entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:35:30.300 this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:35:42.480 political minds roger stone was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:35:47.260 political analyst now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone welcome back in
00:35:55.740 the Stone Zone. Earlier we were talking about Leslie Stahl of CBS. How could we forget the
00:36:02.520 interview in which Leslie Stahl very smugly told President Donald Trump to his face that there was
00:36:07.320 no evidence of spying in the 2016 campaign? We're 60 minutes, she said. We can't report things like
00:36:14.020 that. Trump told her confidently and correctly, Leslie, they spied on my campaign. Stahl showed
00:36:20.200 incredible disrespect for the commander-in-chief, brushing off his evidence as false. Well, thanks
00:36:26.060 to the tireless work of former Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, we now know
00:36:31.140 definitively that President Donald Trump was correct and that the national security apparatus
00:36:35.460 in the country was indeed being used to spy on his 2016 campaign for president in what was undoubtedly
00:36:41.540 the largest political scandal in American history. The Russian collusion hoax was the greatest
00:36:47.360 single dirty trick, the greatest single abuse of power in American history. It was an abuse of
00:36:53.520 power in which totally fraudulent evidence, the so-called Steele dossier, and the false claim
00:36:59.280 that the Democrat National Committee had been the target of a Russian intelligence hack were
00:37:05.980 utilized to launch the greatest witch hunt in American history, an illicit and illegal and
00:37:11.940 unconstitutional attempt to dump a duly elected president. Gabbard's declassified document showed
00:37:18.680 through late 2026 intelligence community products assessed Russia was probably not trying to
00:37:24.580 influence the election by using cyber means and that foreign adversaries had not used cyber attacks
00:37:29.900 on election infrastructure to alter the outcome. At a December 9th 2016 White House principles
00:37:36.080 meeting, Obama directed a new ICA, that's Intelligence Community Assessment, which included
00:37:42.860 the fake Steele dossier, the claim that Donald Trump had dallied with Russian prostitutes
00:37:49.300 when he was a private businessman visiting Moscow. We know today it was a fraud. That January 2017
00:37:57.140 Intelligence Community Asset Assessment concluded that Russian had interfered to help Trump,
00:38:03.120 an assessment that Gabbard says was used through the Steele dossier and other information already
00:38:08.280 viewed internally as unreliable or indeed just rumored. A senior intelligence community
00:38:13.600 whistleblower later described being pressured to endorse the ICA findings. Gabbard has described
00:38:20.120 the overall sequence as officials manufacturing a narrative after the elections to delegitimize
00:38:26.120 the result. Earlier official reviews, those by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice,
00:38:31.680 Horowitz and Special Counsel John Durham documented significant FBI procedure failures and use of
00:38:38.700 unreliable information in the Page-FISA process. That's when Carter Page was subjected to spying
00:38:47.040 under the foreign intelligence courts, but did not find that Obama personally ordered
00:38:52.820 any intelligence surveillance of the campaign as a whole. The deep state has tried to cover it up,
00:38:58.740 but Tulsi Gabbard has exposed the truth.
00:39:01.820 So why has Leslie Stahl not issued an apology
00:39:04.300 for her false statements during that interview? 0.53
00:39:07.160 More importantly, why is she allowed to continue to report
00:39:09.500 false, slanted, and biased information 0.75
00:39:11.920 to the American people on national television?
00:39:15.420 Barry Weiss, who is the new editor-in-chief,
00:39:19.240 essentially, over at CBS,
00:39:21.040 should be compelled to take action against Leslie Stahl
00:39:23.580 and 60 Minutes, who for decades have been nothing more
00:39:26.520 than a mouthpiece and a propaganda wing for the most sinister elements of our security state and
00:39:32.580 the elite political class. In this case, there is some good news. John Brennan, who was the former
00:39:39.400 CIA director, who I think is the chief orchestrator of the Russian collusion hoax, the single most
00:39:45.580 guilty party has been subpoenaed to a grand jury in South Florida looking into the matter in October.
00:39:53.380 Why South Florida? Because this was a continuing seditious conspiracy. It may have begun in
00:39:59.340 Washington, D.C. through the Russian collusion hoax, continued through two phony impeachments,
00:40:05.940 the questionable 2020 election, the so-called documents case, including the raid on Mar-a-Lago,
00:40:13.140 and then Arctic Frost, an effort once again to destroy Donald Trump, to bankrupt him,
00:40:19.020 to keep him off the ballot. John Brennan is, I think, the lead villain in this entire drama,
00:40:25.220 but because it is a seditious conspiracy, the jurisdiction is in South Florida where you think
00:40:31.080 you can actually get an honest judge and an honest jury and, in fact, ultimately accountability and
00:40:37.580 justice. The left says this is about retaliation and revenge. No, it's about accountability and
00:40:45.720 justice, and I believe it's coming. Thanks for joining us today in The Stone Zone until tomorrow.
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