00:02:01.780Now, in my 50 years in American politics, I've seen a lot of what they call dirty tricks.
00:02:07.220Like, for example, when Bobby Kennedy, managing the campaign of his brother Jack,
00:02:12.180mailed virulent anti-Catholic literature to Catholic voter households in the West Virginia primary,
00:02:18.660making it look like that came from their competitor, Hubert Humphrey.
00:02:21.740But I've rarely seen a dirty trick like the one that's unfolding right now in Alaska.
00:02:26.940Federal prosecutors are now investigating how Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. landed on Alaska's U.S. Senate ballot as an independent in a race in which incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan is running.
00:02:39.060There's now a grand jury, a subpoena is expected, as investigators examine whether voters' rights were violated.
00:02:45.100And the Democrats have basically been caught red-handed in the middle of this dirty trick.
00:02:50.120Fox News correspondent Bill Malugan relaying reporting from his colleague David Spunt on Monday that the criminal investigation has been underway for months and has gained urgency following a New York Times investigative report published earlier this week into the efforts by Democrat operatives to go out, recruit, and find somebody with the senator's name, the senator's namesake.
00:03:11.440The U.S. Attorney's Office in Alaska is preparing to seek preservation of communications held by phone companies and expect to issue subpoenas in the hours and days ahead.
00:03:20.500Prosecutors want to establish whether the sequence of events that brought Sullivan into the race are examining possible offenses involving the deprivation of Alaska's voting rights, the report said.
00:03:31.760The investigation is expected to continue beyond Election Day.
00:03:34.660The latest development follows a blockbuster New York Times report describing a months-long effort involving people working with Democrat Senate nominee Mary Peltola and her campaign, as well as the Democrat Senatorial Campaign Committee, to recruit additional candidates.
00:03:51.500In other words, they put out a dragnet to find somebody named Dan Sullivan.
00:03:55.700The Times based its account on interviews with 12 sources, text messages, and documents.
00:04:01.060The report included searching for Alaska residents who shared the incumbent senator's last name in computer searches.
00:04:08.260Elias Rios, Peltola's former campaign manager, told the Times that voters should know about the recruitment effort.
00:04:14.800Peltola's campaign again denied any involvement after the story appears, but let's just say the New York Times has the receipts.
00:04:20.700The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement in either Sullivan campaign, the campaign of Peltola said in a statement reported by the Alaska public media.
00:04:31.580Like Mary, our campaign is focused on lowering costs and fixing the rigged system in D.C.
00:04:37.380That sounds to me like whistling through the graveyard, folks.
00:04:40.340The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has also denied participating in the recruitment.
00:04:45.540Sullivan has previously maintained that his candidacy was independent of Peltola's campaign.
00:04:49.840The dispute over his candidacy began well before the general election, however.
00:04:53.880Election officials in Alaska initially sought to exclude Sullivan from the ballot,
00:04:58.500concluding that his filing was intended purposely to mislead voters.
00:05:02.440He challenged that decision in court, and the Alaska Supreme Court upheld his eligibility to run.
00:05:07.720President Donald Trump also called on Peltola and the second Sullivan be taken off the ballot
00:05:11.860and prosecuted, accusing Democrats of recruiting the challenger in order to mislead the voters of Alaska.
00:05:17.620This is voter fraud at the highest level, said the president, and the Democrat candidate who was involved in the scheme, Mary Peltola, should be removed from the ballot and prosecuted, and so should the fake Dan Sullivan. Nothing else will do. This behavior in our elections cannot be allowed to continue, President Trump wrote online.
00:05:35.040It's also interesting that Mark Elias, the Democrat super lawyer, the guy who was behind many of the efforts to keep Trump off the ballot in the 2024 election and was deeply involved in the Russian collusion hoax.
00:05:48.020I'm very familiar with Mr. Elias because he showed up in the courtroom during my trial to argue with the judge that my defense attorneys should not be furnished with the so-called crowd strikes memo, which supposedly proved that the Democrat National Committee had been the target of a successful Russian intelligence hack.
00:06:09.980The judge didn't need much convincing. She denied that document to my defense attorneys, but we later learned out why.
00:06:16.520Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee, the head of CrowdStrikes testified that the report did not include any proof whatsoever that the Russians had hacked the DNC.
00:06:30.180Sean Henry, the head of CrowdStrikes, just coincidentally happened to be a former deputy to Robert Mueller when he was the FBI director.
00:06:38.600So Mark Elias, whose fingerprints are all over this Dan Sullivan hoax, is among those who are now under the microscope.
00:06:46.520On Wednesday, however, on CNN, Senator Cory Booker said that the reporting that Democrats had attempted to recruit this spoiler Dan Evans to try to take votes away from Senator Dan Evans, Sullivan, pardon me, is much ado about nothing.
00:07:00.620And it's an attempt for Donald Trump to cast a shadow over what might be a really bad loss for him for an Alaska election.
00:07:06.340So in other words, Senator Cory Booker says putting a fake Dan Sullivan on the ballot to siphon votes from the real Dan Sullivan is much ado about nothing.
00:07:16.700Co-host Boris Sanchez asked, the New York Times is reporting that aides at your party's Senate campaign committee helped recruit spoiler candidate Dan Sullivan in Alaska to try to split the Republican senator's vote there.
00:07:28.660Both Mary Peltola's campaign and the Democrat senatorial campaign committee deny it.
00:07:33.880Do you think that the Democratic senatorial campaign committee should open an internal review?
00:07:38.960And if the reporting is accurate, what is an acceptable way to, is this an acceptable way to win a Senate race?
00:07:43.860Booker answered, look, you want me to trust an objective person on this? Turn to Lisa Murkowski.
00:07:48.980She said she's already been decided by the Alaska Supreme Court that the Trump DOJ should stay out
00:07:53.640of this. They have no standing in terms of the law. What they've been trying to do is to cast
00:07:57.800doubt on an election. I'm actually looking at the ballot to see if there is any other way confusing.
00:08:02.400I think what they're doing is insulting Alaska voters. It's clear that Dan Sullivan is a
00:08:06.600Republican candidate, so I think this is much to do about nothing, and its attempt for Donald
00:08:11.320Trump to cast a shadow over what might be a really bad loss for him for Alaska. Actually,
00:08:15.640that's inconsistent what I saw. I saw Lisa Murkowski, who is a moderate Republican and
00:08:20.480the other senator. Her trajectory is interesting. Her father was governor. Then when he was elected
00:08:25.900to the Senate, he resigned the Senate seat to become governor and appointed his daughter,
00:08:30.200Lisa Murkowski, to the Senate. Since then, she's gotten reelected several times. But remember,
00:08:34.440Alaska has ranked choice voting, which is this very convoluted system in which the candidate
00:08:40.040who gets the most votes in the first round
00:08:42.260is not necessarily the candidate who's elected to the U.S. Senate
00:09:13.140The Newark Watershed Conservation and Development Corporation scandal
00:09:16.700involved widespread corruption at the nonprofit
00:09:19.440managing Newark's watershed during Cory Booker's term as mayor.
00:09:24.360The executive director, Linda Watkins Brashier,
00:09:27.540pled guilty and was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison
00:09:30.280for accepting nearly $1 million in bribes and kickbacks
00:09:33.880become contractors via no-bid deals and inflated payments.
00:09:38.400It was Watkins Brashier who approved the transfer of the money to Cory Booker's law firm.
00:09:43.860When confronted specifically about the payment to his law firm,
00:09:47.000well, Cory Booker couldn't keep his story straight.
00:09:48.980First he said it was delayed compensation, then he said it was a partnership buyout,
00:09:53.620then he said it was for legal work done for the Watershed Water Authority,
00:09:58.040which of course would have been a conflict of interest.
00:09:59.940How could the Water Authority retain the law firm of the mayor in order to do their legal work?
00:10:06.900Booker's former campaign treasurer and law partner, Leonardo Webster, helped recommend board members.
00:10:12.020The board then retained his firm for over $1 million in legal fees.
00:10:16.560A New York State Comptroller's report criticized reckless spending and minimal oversight.
00:10:21.220Booker was, of course, an ex-officio board chair, but attended zero meetings and was never criminally charged.
00:10:26.400He did attend one meeting, however, the meeting in which he was there to vote for the transfer to his own lot firm.
00:10:32.700If Cory Booker was a Republican, he would have gone to jail with the staffers who were convicted for processing the payments to Cory Booker's own firm.
00:10:39.180Cory Booker, if I were you, I would be, if it were you or I, I would be in prison.
00:11:51.240And along the way, they find something bigger, a community where children grow, families connect, and people of all ages build confidence, discover new strengths, and feel like they belong.
00:12:02.520Feel what it means to be greater together.
00:12:38.040Meanwhile, China's National Bureau of Statistics published the 2026 edition of its yearbook this week,
00:12:43.700revealing that the national population declined by 3.39 million in 2025.
00:12:48.260This is the fourth decline in a row, and the worst since 2022.
00:12:52.280China's population remained enormous, over 1.4 billion people,
00:12:56.500but the cycle of births and deaths left it 7.7 million people smaller than it was in 2021,
00:13:03.220the beginning of China's seen inexorable population decline.
00:13:07.620Foreign Affairs magazine called it China's long twilight,
00:13:11.060pointing out that the situation for China was graver than the total population numbers indicated
00:13:15.380because a generation of much-needed young workers is not being born.
00:13:20.260By 2020, by 2040, if China continues to follow East Asia's descent into ultra-low fertility rates,
00:13:28.440it will shed around 1% of its population annually.
00:13:31.580That's roughly 10 million people per year, more than the population of New York City.
00:13:35.860At the same time, the proportion of China's population age 65 and older will surge,
00:13:41.620doubling from 15% today to around 30% in 2040, and then rising to well over 40% by the late 21st century.
00:13:50.760The size of that cohort in the United States, by contrast, is projected to rise far more gradually
00:13:55.920from about 19% of the population today to about 23% by 2060, that is to say those over 40.
00:14:03.120So put simply, China is entering a century of demographic decline.
00:14:06.800This change will remake the country's economy and politics just as dramatically as the last century's demographic boom did.
00:14:13.860AEI placed most of its blame on China's infamous one-child policy of forced abortions,
00:14:20.020which crippled Chinese fertility rates in the 1990s and set the stage for the full-blown plunge in the 2010s.
00:14:26.880This was part of the Great Leap Forward, in which Chairman Mao killed many of his inner-party rivals.
00:14:33.160The post-one-child birth shock produced the kind of population decline that usually follows a devastating war or a plague.
00:14:41.400With less than half as many babies in 2025 as in 2016, China's working-age manpower is set on a crash course in this generation ahead.0.67
00:14:51.100We'll see it already. There's already very little Beijing can do about it to alter this trajectory, according to the analysis that I read.
00:14:57.220The Chinese Communist government is still trying to correct demographic decline through programs that subsidize the high cost of having children.
00:15:04.420Last week, for example, the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese State Council, roughly equivalent to a presidential cabinet,
00:15:11.120recommended building a fertility-friendly society with more financial support for maternity care, preschool care, and, of course, school tuition.
00:15:20.100The state council, the Chinese state council, also suggested equalizing services for rural Chinese to move to big cities
00:15:27.140because the current household registration system bars them from some of the benefits that native city dwellers insist on.
00:15:34.520It's certainly an idea, a key story to keep your eye on.
00:16:39.180this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:16:51.180political minds roger stone was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:16:55.960political analyst now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone welcome back into
00:17:03.920the stone zone well president trump's bet that the united states could squeeze far more power
00:17:08.940out of the nuclear plants the country already has, got a $5 billion boost this week, enough
00:17:13.980to light more than 930,000 homes without breaking ground on a single new nuclear reactor.
00:17:19.980The Energy Department is accelerating President Trump's American nuclear renaissance and unlocking
00:17:24.920the full potential of our nation's nuclear capacity, according to Energy Secretary Chris
00:17:30.400Wright when he said in announcing the new program.
00:17:33.100He called uprates yet another example of the common sense energy addition policies of the
00:17:38.040Trump administration is embracing. The conditional loan from the Energy Department's Office of Energy
00:17:42.300Dominance Financing will fund uprates and modernization of eight Constellation energy
00:17:47.480plants in Illinois, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, adding nearly 1.1 gigabytes, gigawatts, pardon me,
00:17:54.340to the grid and supporting more than 10,000 project jobs. Wright made the announcement
00:17:59.580Tuesday at Constellation's Byron Generating Station in Illinois. The deal advances President
00:18:05.420Trump's May 2025 executive order, reinvigorating the national industrial base, the nuclear
00:18:10.900industrial base, which set a goal of five gigawatts of new output from existing reactors.
00:18:16.900The department said 94% of that target has now been identified through the Uprise program.
00:18:22.400It follows a $4.2 billion commitment to Vistra and a $1 billion loan to restart Pennsylvania's
00:18:28.820Crane Clean Energy Center, formerly known as Three Mile Island Unit 1.
00:18:33.380In total, the administration has conditionally approved nearly $30 billion for the nuclear reactor.
00:18:40.860The loan is not final. Constellation must still meet technical, legal, environmental, and financial conditions before money flows.
00:18:47.820But the president is realistic about the obstacles to building new nuclear plants, although that does make the most sense.
00:18:53.700And therefore, he is determined to squeeze more energy out of the plants we already have.
00:18:58.920Meanwhile, my good friend, investigative journalist James O'Keefe, has been charged in Minnesota over a video he made earlier this year in which he highlighted a state law that permits one registered voter to vouch for up to eight others who lacked ID.
00:19:11.820James O'Keefe and Cam Higbee, both investigative journalists, are accused of trying to sow doubt in the state's voting system after sharing a video that shows them in Islamic attire and using fake accents while interacting with poll workers.
00:19:25.220Prosecutors alleged the pair misrepresented their identities by giving election judges the names of registered voters in the precinct without those voters' knowledge or permission.
00:19:32.620The investigation was conducted to expose vulnerabilities in the Minnesota voting system, which affects all Americans, Higby said.
00:19:39.660I never voted, I never signed an affidavit, and I never violated the law.
00:19:43.020It's important to note that O'Keefe didn't vote either, so neither of them actually cast a false vote.
00:19:47.380All they did was demonstrate on a video how easy it would be to do so.
00:19:50.760They showed up in these strange outfits.
00:19:53.200They claimed to be people they weren't.
00:19:54.460They were prepared to vouch for others, and the election officials were ready to let both of them vote.
00:20:00.760The video saw O'Keefe dressed in this Islamic garb alongside Cam Higby.
00:20:06.040O'Keefe and Higby were charged in connection with the video for allegedly unlawfully voting, which, of course, they didn't do.
00:20:11.840State bar laws do bar impersonation of registered voters and identity theft, both care of a five-year maximum prison sentence,
00:20:19.900but since neither one of them actually voted, I don't think they're guilty of any crime
00:20:24.300other than demonstrating how porous the system is
00:20:26.980and how easy it would be to vote illegally in the state of Minnesota.
00:20:31.500O'Keefe has been known for these undercover videos
00:20:33.660from which he convinces people who he secretly films to reveal incredible political biases
00:21:27.980The New York Times has reported that the Obama-era Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security
00:21:33.420actually investigated in the summer of 2016 and found some evidence that Congresswoman Ilhan Omar's 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Sed Elmi
00:21:43.960was fraudulent and intended to help him obtain a green card.
00:21:47.700The inquiry stalled allegedly because of a five-year statute of limitations on marriage-based immigration fraud.
00:21:54.680You remember last week the outrage of CNN and others on the left
00:21:58.560when the home of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was raided at 6 o'clock in the morning
00:22:03.600as part of the ongoing investigation into whether she falsified the facts regarding her own background
00:22:09.340in order to enter the country illegally and to obtain citizenship.
00:22:13.760Funny, those people weren't that upset when 29 heavily armed FBI agents brandishing fully automatic assault weapons and arriving in 17 armored vehicles surrounded my home at 6 o'clock in the morning to arrest me for the non-violent first-time crime of allegedly lying to Congress under oath about a Russian collusion that never actually took place.
00:22:36.400It should come as no surprise to anyone that the Obama regime looked the other way
00:22:41.340and let Omar flout the law, coming up with a novel excuse to do so.
00:22:46.140Omar entered Congress, remained there while questions about the marriage
00:22:49.640and related immigration paperwork persisted.
00:22:52.880Even the New York Times has come forth to admit that Obama had the evidence all along.
00:22:58.080Before President Trump, Somalis were considered the model Americans with political class of Minnesota,0.56
00:23:02.840but some established Republicans, genuflecting belief in them, even them.0.88
00:23:07.620But now they're widely known as scammers and low-IQ con artists who set up for deportation.
00:23:13.080Omar will be the most high-profile among them.
00:23:15.220There are a number of questions about how she went from being worth virtually nothing
00:23:18.380to being worth millions of dollars on her federally filed income requirement,
00:23:23.220those forms required of a member of Congress.
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00:25:12.820Security records show large-scale surveillance of lecturing activists in Minnesota. A transparent
00:25:18.320organization and defense attorneys have obtained Department of Homeland Security records indicating
00:25:23.280that Homeland Security Investigations conducted extensive monitoring of left-wing activist groups
00:25:28.020in Minnesota under operations including Project Whipple Shield and Operation Puppet Master.
00:25:33.500The effort, authorized under National Security Presidential Memorandum 7,
00:25:38.420signed by President Donald Trump in September 2025,
00:25:41.700immediately after the assassination of my good friend Charlie Kirk,
00:25:44.780involved roughly 120 agents, including 11 undercovers.
00:25:49.220Agents infiltrated groups attended trainings and marches, monitored signal chats, used Reaper drones, and photographed vehicles and individuals.
00:25:59.000One undercover, using the handle peanut butter jelly, attended ICE watch sessions.
00:26:04.780Prosecutors say the targets organized to impede ICE during Operation Metro Surge.
00:26:10.080Defense lawyers argue the charges criminalize lawful protests.
00:26:13.700The records detail agents sitting in on meetings of the Sunrise Movement and the Party for Socialism and Liberation.
00:26:20.620A Department of Homeland Security spokesman declined to comment on specific methods.
00:26:25.220The scale of the operation involving undercover presence inside activist networks
00:26:29.620and the use of advanced surveillance tools is exactly the kind of activity that is needed to get to the center of Antifa terrorism and violence.
00:26:37.320This shows that the Trump administration is serious about rooting out left-wing terrorism.
00:26:42.080They're no longer getting a free pass just because it's politically correct.
00:26:46.240They have lost their institutional support.
00:26:48.100They have the option of ceasing their subversive anti-American activity or facing the consequences.
00:26:53.740Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve held its benchmark interest rate steady on Wednesday.
00:26:58.020The decision keeps federal funds rated at a range between 3.75% and 4%, the range set at its previous meeting in September.
00:27:05.800The great irony here, the great tragedy is that in Donald Trump's first year as president, when the inflation rate and the unemployment rate both merited a much deeper cut in the Fed's interest rates, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Tulate Powell, strictly for political reasons, refused to cut interest rates.
00:27:23.600By the way, Powell was not trained as an economist. He was an attorney.
00:27:27.160He remains as a member of the Fed board after his chairmanship, the first chairman, other than one during the war who's ever done so.
00:27:35.120But unfortunately, now you have a different economic picture.
00:27:38.400Economic activity is expanding at a strong pace.
00:27:41.400While uncertainty remains elevated, only in part to the geopolitical developments, the war,
00:28:01.920Yes, but the last time I saw it was around 3.4%, nowhere near the 9% inflation rate we had under the heights of Joe Biden.
00:28:10.580Two Federal Reserve officials, Governor Lisa Cook, who's still fighting in court whether she could be removed from the Fed based on mortgage fraud,
00:28:19.980and Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammock, dissented from the decision,
00:28:24.520preferring to raise the target rate for a federal funds rate by one quarter of a percentage point.
00:28:29.900That would have had, of course, a chilling effect on the economy.
00:28:34.160At a press conference on Wednesday, Federal Chair Kevin Warsh, a Trump appointee, announced a significant change to the Fed's meetings.
00:28:41.680So beginning next year, one of the Federal Reserve's eight meetings would be focused on broader economic questions and monetary strategy rather than directly considering the Fed's policy rates.
00:28:52.440After that meeting, the Fed would not issue a post-meeting statement.
00:28:55.940Bors said at the time, added that he expects the strategy meetings will expand to twice a year in
00:29:02.0802028. The September increase was the first increase in three years, the most marked a
00:29:07.520reversal of the Fed's previous rounds of cuts in late 24 and 25, moves that were spurred by
00:29:13.560concerns among Federal Reserve officials that the economy was slowing and the labor market was
00:29:17.880weakening. The increase indicated that Fed officials are now confident in the resilience
00:29:22.380of the economy and view stubborn inflation as a greater risk. The Fed says it targets two percent
00:29:27.860inflation. In the pandemic era, inflation consistently undershot that target. Since March
00:29:33.300of 2021, inflation has run above the target. The personal consumption expenditures price index,
00:29:39.780the gauge the Fed prefers to measure inflation, was at 3.4 percent in August, the latest month
00:29:46.040for which the index has been released. It's a number I referred to earlier. It rose by the same
00:29:50.440amount in July, which was down from the June reading of 3.5 percent, and the May reading of
00:29:55.5403.8 percent. September reading is due out this Thursday. Higher gasoline prices have pushed up
00:30:01.020inflation this year. In recent months, however, inflationary pressures have begun to show up in
00:30:05.580a broader swath of prices, raising concerns inflation might be becoming more entrenched.
00:30:10.900Meanwhile, Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, endorsed a Democrat in Alaska's governor's race,
00:30:17.000saying that he'll be more bipartisan. Republican U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski, while objecting to
00:30:23.120the dirty trick in which the Democrats recruited some guy named Dan Sullivan to run against
00:30:28.480incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, has at the same time endorsed Democrat Jonathan
00:30:34.340Kreese-Tomkin in the Alaska governor's race. In a statement posted on Kreese-Tomkin's website,
00:30:40.360Murkowski explained her surprising choice to endorse a Democrat over the three Republicans0.60
00:30:45.040running in the four-way race. Remember, they have ranked choice voting in which all candidates,
00:30:49.960regardless of party, run in one election, saying the Democrat candidate would be hamstrung by
00:30:55.280partisan divisions. Jonathan understands that government requires listening to people
00:30:59.940with different perspectives and finding common ground to solve problems for all of us. Alaska
00:31:05.060needs a serious conversation about our fiscal future as well as a focus on the cost of energy
00:31:38.080She also only more recently criticized the dirty trick that was exposed by the New York Times in which another Dan Sullivan was recruited to confuse voters in the race.
00:32:44.220Former Vice President Kamala Harris urged congressional Democrats this week
00:32:47.340not to try to impeach President Donald Trump yet again.
00:32:50.120In January, if they win back control of both chambers in next month's midterm elections.
00:32:57.820Several Democrats have toyed with the idea in recent weeks,
00:33:00.880though House Democrat leadership had been noncommittal on the prospect.
00:33:04.300White House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicating no decision had been made.
00:33:09.740Now, personally, I think that the Democrats' socialist wing will demand the impeachment of Donald Trump to those who want to take leadership positions.
00:33:19.340House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson, have warned that Democrats will try to impeach again and remove Trump if they win control of both chambers in November.
00:33:27.920A member would take a two-thirds vote in the Senate to convict.
00:33:32.000In other words, the House only passes articles of impeachment, which if they have a Democrat majority, they can do.
00:33:38.300But then to be convicted in a Senate trial requires two-thirds vote.
00:33:42.360That is a very, very high bar, one that the Democrats, even if they do impeach Trump in the House, are unlikely to reach.
00:33:49.680It will, however, have the effect of paralyzing the government so that the president cannot focus on the very important questions facing the country.
00:33:57.700Harris told an interview on Tuesday that she believes Democrats needed to focus on accountability and ending the Iran war if they return to power in the next election, instead of focusing on a third Trump impeachment.
00:34:10.900I think that going in the direction of impeachment is not a good idea, just to be honest with you, Harris said.
00:34:15.840Just because we have limited resources and time, I think the energy and the resources need to be put into accountability rather than be put into investigations.
00:34:24.920That's where the time should be spent, she continued.
00:34:27.700Remember, I was in the Senate for the last go-round, and the votes were not there, so that's how I feel.
00:34:32.240But also, I think after the election, we all have to just agree that our attitude has to be to get stuff done.
00:34:37.780The president was, of course, impeached by the House twice in his first term, but that's the only charge.
00:34:42.620The impeachment is a charge. That doesn't remove you from office.
00:34:45.760He was acquitted in two Senate trials.
00:34:48.140It seems that Kamala Harris is starting to wise up.0.93
00:34:50.180She's telling Democrats openly to hide their true attentions if elected.
00:34:54.040I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
00:34:55.700If elected Democrats don't plan to fix health care, they have no plans for lower costs.
00:35:00.640They have no policy plan to bring down gas prices or to build more affordable housing or grand schemes to bring down inflation.
00:35:07.800The only thing America will get if Democrats are elected 26 are more baseless, fruitless, wasteful, and illegal investigations
00:35:14.600designed to totally obscure the facts, attack the Democrats' chief political opposition,
00:35:19.560and destroy the man they cannot get over their hatred for, President Donald Trump.
00:35:24.700Meanwhile, the New York Times, among others, admitted this week that the Obama-era Department of Justice and Homeland Security
00:35:30.900had found evidence, as I said earlier, that Ilhan Omar married her own brother in order to get a green card.
00:35:38.940The question now was one of accountability.
00:35:42.220So, for example, when Nancy Pelosi learned that Eric Swalwell,
00:35:46.180Congressman of California at that time, member of the House Intelligence Committee, had engaged in a sexual affair with a communist Chinese spy, Fang Fang, he was not removed from the committee, a committee in which he still had full access to classified documents.
00:36:05.060That's a shocking decision by the leadership, but that's Nancy Pelosi for you.
00:36:11.160Ultimately, of course, Swalwell would be brought down not by that scandal,
00:36:15.540but by the scandal that engulfed him when he tried to run for governor.
00:36:20.040He was essentially first snagged in a residence schedule because under California law,
00:36:27.460you're required to live in the state, to have a domicile in the state to run for governor.
00:36:32.420But the home that Swalwell owned was in Washington, D.C.,
00:36:35.760and he declared on those documents to be a D.C. resident.
00:36:39.280Nonetheless, the California Supreme Court, dominated by Democrats,
00:36:43.560ruled that Swalwell was still eligible to be a candidate for governor.
00:36:47.700His candidacy crashed and burned, however, over multiple charges
00:36:52.220by multiple women of both sexual assault and sexual harassment.
00:36:56.380What I really didn't understand is when he left the House
00:39:53.720I identify, she said, as Angie Nixon, as a black woman who is a former single mom who wants to make sure that no one has to struggle the way I struggled when I was a single mom.
00:40:03.360Well, she clearly knows how to stick to message.
00:40:06.580This race is not going to be close in the final analysis, although overall, the Democrats are putting up a spirited fight.
00:40:14.380It's interesting that when President Donald Trump flew to Fort Myers, Florida, for a rally for Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds,
00:40:22.680Governor Ron DeSantis went to the Fort Myers airport to greet the president, but then did not show up at the rally, which I think is a gigantic mistake.
00:40:33.960Republicans have been dogged by a scandal, however.
00:40:36.720This is the Hope Foundation scandal in which Governor Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey took $10 million from Medicare,
00:40:45.340money that was earmarked for the poor, the elderly, and the handicapped,
00:40:49.660and moved it to a dark money fund that they used to fight against a statewide constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana.
00:40:59.120Those who defend the DeSantis' say that the money was part of a fine of a company that had been caught overcharging Medicare.
00:41:08.400I say that it was still taxpayer funds.
00:41:10.460The DeSantis' money was moved by their chief of staff, James Uthmeyer, later appointed attorney general.
00:41:17.880And it was actually Moody who, as attorney general, said that this was legal.
00:42:27.280That's the story. Florida's Sunshine State will be very closely watched on election night, but I expect a Republican sweep, although not by huge margin, but I still believe they will hold on.
00:42:38.560Republicans have increased their standing in the state. Their voter registration now 1.3 million more Republicans than Democrats in the Sunshine State.
00:42:48.020I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone. Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.