00:01:57.980You are now jumping headfirst into the Stone Zone.
00:02:08.660When President Donald Trump gave an extensive interview to 60 Minutes,
00:02:13.580he had a number of interesting observations regarding immigration
00:02:17.220and clearly seemed to favor some form of immigration reform,
00:02:21.800which he said he'd be welcome to working with Democrats.
00:02:24.940He made a very clear observation, that is, he does deserve credit for getting the bad ones, the most dangerous illegal immigrant criminals out of the country, as they should always have been the first target of deportation.0.82
00:02:39.200But he also raised the question of people who are in the country illegally but have been here for 20 years or less, have been gainfully employed, have paid taxes, who own a home, who go to church.1.00
00:02:53.480Let's say Juan is a gardener and his wife Olga is a chambermaid or a housekeeper.
00:02:59.280There ought to be some form of temporary residence status for people like that who are filling jobs and contributing to society.
00:03:08.520Now, that is not amnesty. The president's base will never accept amnesty. Amnesty to me is to
00:03:17.060not only forgive the illegality of their presence, but also to grant them citizenship. I'm not saying0.99
00:03:23.800that those people who came here illegally, who maybe should not be held responsible for that
00:03:29.180crime, if they've lived a productive life and continue to be a productive, peaceful American,
00:03:34.680and that's not amnesty. Amnesty, to me, the Democrats' idea of amnesty is to forgive the
00:03:40.420fact that they're here illegally and also give them citizenship so they can vote. That I'm
00:03:45.980opposed to. The president's base supporters and the polls are firmly against any level of illegal
00:03:51.940aliens. During a recent 60 Minutes interview, the president again said he'd like to get the
00:03:57.140killers, the drug dealers, and the rough ones out, but could potentially work out something for
00:04:01.560people who've been here 10, 15, 20 years and hold jobs. Polls showed that 78% of all Americans want
00:04:08.480Trump to deport illegal immigrants who have committed a crime. Among Republicans, that's
00:04:13.36078% of men, 66% of women supported mass deportations. President Trump later reiterated
00:04:21.400to reporters that he was not in favor of amnesty and that his deportation policy remains strong
00:04:26.960and that Stephen Miller's appointment as the chief of staff shows how dedicated President Trump is to immigration policy.
00:04:33.460So a broad amnesty is not on the table and it would destroy what is left of MAGA,
00:04:38.540saying that anyone who has come here legally can stay and be a citizen.
00:04:50.180A large majority of his own voters and a plurality of the broader public
00:04:54.080do not want a pathway for people illegally and have committed a crime. And the fact that these0.59
00:05:00.960people have been here and have found work and have been a contributing factor in society needs
00:05:06.680to be taken into consideration in some type of immigration reform. It does not grant them
00:05:12.200citizenship or the vote, diluting the votes of legal citizens. Enforcement is a promise that
00:05:18.220delivered the 2024 victory and sustained support through the midterms. These numbers have held up
00:05:23.680spectacularly considering some of the optics of the deportation.
00:05:29.440It is my understanding that ICE comprises, under Tom Holman, of law enforcement professionals
00:05:37.080with extensive experience when it comes to arrests for deportation.
00:05:44.020But the Border Patrol, which was under the control of Secretary of Homeland Security,
00:05:49.700Kristi Noem, were individuals who had far less law enforcement treatment. They had perhaps six
00:05:56.740hours of training. They tended more to be cowboys, not knowing how to de-escalate these situations.
00:06:05.000Now, theoretically, anytime any illegal was deported under the policies of this administration,
00:06:09.920the deportation team was supposed to be three from ICE and three from the Border Patrol. Yet,
00:06:15.940in the most egregious cases where illegals were shot and killed under circumstances that were
00:06:23.000later questioned, I think if you'll note, all of the officers present were from the Border Patrol.
00:06:28.440I think this was a contributing factor in the president's decision to sack Kristi Noem. That
00:06:37.180and the epic corruption going on under Corey Lewandowski, who had reemerged essentially as
00:06:43.840Her de facto chief of staff, despite the fact that he was not a federal employee, had been a temporary government employee at no compensation for the permitted period, but continued to de facto run the Department of Homeland Security, going so far as to having the final say on multimillion dollar contracts.
00:07:04.880is referred to in a number of internal emails leaked as the chief of the department. He is now
00:07:10.260facing both investigation by the DOJ and without any questions, there'll be an investigation by
00:07:18.080House Democrats. Immigration has remained the president's strongest issue because the public
00:07:22.820understands that he wants to get the most dangerous illegal criminals out of the country.0.98
00:07:28.400So I'm open to some reasonable reform, but amnesty to me is to forgiving the crime but coming here legally,
00:07:36.920at the same time granting these folks citizenship, and that is not what I'm for.
00:07:42.280Meanwhile, Secret Service officers and the National Guard, Purcell, responded yesterday
00:07:46.200after a vehicle drawn down the sidewalks bordering Lafayette Park, which is immediately north of the White House.
00:07:51.800The driver became combated with officers and was arrested.
00:07:55.460Around the same time, another individual jumped a nearby security barricade.
00:10:58.380But just to be clear, he's been saying since 1988
00:11:01.220that the Iranian regime can never be allowed to have a nuclear bomb.
00:11:05.620In 1988, he had a brief exploration looking at the potential of a candidacy for the presidency.
00:11:13.920Again, he said it in 2000 when he was being urged by Ross Perot and then Minnesota Governor
00:11:21.440Jesse Ventura to be the Reform Party candidate for president.
00:11:26.800He spent several million of his own dollars exploring that race.
00:11:30.040It was attractive to him because in those days, under the old federal election law,
00:11:34.980The Reform Party, first of all, had permanent ballot status in about 35 of 50 states, and the nominee of that party would get $38 million from the federal treasury.
00:11:46.300That's from the little checkoff box on your taxes where you give to the presidential campaign fund, which many Americans do, or I should say did.
00:11:56.380So even then, when Trump visited New Hampshire in an exploratory effort, first of all, more people turned out to see his black Trump helicopter land, jet bell helicopter land.
00:12:11.860About 1,500 people in New Hampshire showed up there.
00:12:15.320He spoke at the Plymouth, New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce to their luncheon.
00:12:20.540It was the first time I really saw the Trump sizzle in a political context.
00:14:28.560The president, to restore his strength, has to put America first.
00:14:32.240He's already cut Israel's foreign aid, no more $4 billion a year flowing to our ally.0.77
00:14:39.560We will continue to sell them armaments, and we will continue to try to get a just settlement out of Iran.
00:14:48.320But the president will not allow them to have a bomb.0.88
00:14:51.520And at the end of the day, I guess he had to choose between being politically popular or doing what was right in the eyes of history, in the eyes of the world.
00:21:33.200He also suggested that the midterm elections could mark a turning point for America, giving
00:21:37.640the voters an opportunity to change the country's political direction.
00:21:40.480You know, it's funny, Alec Baldwin, who did possibly the worst Trump impression of all
00:21:44.420time back on Saturday Night Live, probably second only to Steve Martin's putrid and unfunded
00:21:49.940portrayal of me when I was under trial. Should have looked at videos of me before you portrayed
00:21:54.640me. The fact that he would dare talk about anything related to politics in public is strange.
00:21:59.980Here's a man who literally pointed a gun at a woman and shot and killed her on a movie set,
00:22:05.660yet still somehow evaded charges in that matter. On October 21st, 2021, on the set of the low-budget
00:22:13.780western rust in New Mexico. Baldwin was rehearsing a scene when the proper of Harvey was holding
00:22:19.640discharge a live round. It struck and killed cinematographer Hylena Hutchinson and wounded
00:22:25.700director Joel Sousa. A 2023 report on concluded the trigger had to be pulled or depressed
00:22:32.900sufficiently to release the cocked hammer. Photos from the set also showed Baldwin's finger on or
00:22:38.720near the trigger during practice. Baldwin has always said he did not pull the trigger
00:22:43.140that would make this the magic gun that goes off without a trigger pull. It kind of reminds me of
00:22:51.200the magic bullet theory in the Kennedy assassination. I don't think Baldwin is telling
00:22:56.360the truth. Lucien Haag concluded in a 2023 report on the shooting that the trigger had to be pulled
00:23:03.820or depressed sufficiently to release the cocked hammer. Again, photos from the set show Baldwin's
00:23:10.280finger on the trigger. So he pulled the trigger of a live gun, killed a member of the crew of
00:23:16.800the film he was producing and starring in. Then he lied about to the public in order to generate
00:23:22.080sympathy for himself. The production had documented safety complaints beforehand and even had live
00:23:27.900ammunition on the set, which is completely and totally illegal. Armorer, hid by Baldwin in the
00:23:34.120film's production team, was later convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Critics argue Baldwin,
00:23:39.120as both star and producer, was heavily involved in the process and that this guy took the fall
00:23:43.740for him in the death of Hylena Hutchins. The criminal involuntary manslaughter case against
00:23:49.940him was dismissed mid-trial in 2024 because prosecutors withheld evidence, not because the
00:23:56.760underlying facts cleared him. He was never acquitted on the merits of whether he pulled the trigger or
00:24:01.900acted recklessly. So for those who are familiar with Alec Borwin or his wife, it should be no
00:24:06.280surprised that in this case, it appears to me that he lied. For years, Baldwin's wife, Hilaria,
00:24:12.280has told media outlets that she is from Spain, speaking a forced Hispanic accent that never
00:24:17.960sounds quite right. Baldwin himself has said repeatedly told interviews and members of the
00:24:22.920past his wife is from Spain. But it turns out that Hilaria wasn't born in Spain at all. She
00:24:28.340wasn't born as Hilaria either. She was born as Hillary Lynn Haywood Thomas in Boston, Massachusetts.
00:24:36.280and she has absolutely no Spanish ancestry. The whole thing's kind of strange. Her parents were
00:24:43.260Dr. Karen Hayward, a physician who worked at Massachusetts General Hospital and taught at
00:24:48.560Harvard Medical School, and David Thomas Jr., a lawyer who funded their daughter's lavish
00:24:53.980lifestyle. Hilaria, real name Hillary, attended college in Massachusetts as well. Her parents
00:24:59.920would later move to Majorca, Spain, but that was in 2011 when she was already 27 years old.
00:25:06.280Yet in public appearances, she frequently speaks with a noticeable Spanish accent and one widely
00:25:12.100circulated Today Show cooking segment appeared to forget the English word for cucumber, saying
00:25:18.080how you say in English. That is some acting. Hillary and Alec Baldwin are two of the biggest
00:25:25.020frauds in show business history. Baldwin's wife's unbelievable lies about her background,1.00
00:25:29.660faking a Spanish accent is, to me, pathetic and insulting to the Hispanic community.0.99
00:25:34.500My own wife is a Cuban-American, and frankly, I find the outright lies that Baldwin's wife has told about her heritage to be disgusting.0.96
00:25:41.800My wife, Nidia Bertrand Stone, Nidia Bertrand Espinoza Stone, D. Espinoza Stone, is the daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Juan Bertrand, who was the military attache in the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C.
00:26:00.860my wife was actually born in Washington, D.C., but she's clearly of Cuban-American
00:26:09.020parents because her father was posted there. When Castro came to power, her father was a
00:26:16.180civil servant. He was ordered to return to Cuba for briefings. His bags were packed and he was
00:26:24.000ready to go. But the night before he left, a friendly man from the CIA knocked on the door
00:26:29.120to tell him that his name was on a list of those who, if they returned to Havana, would be
00:26:35.660liquidated. So he lost everything. His home, his insurance, whatever savings he had were, of course,
00:26:43.580all in Cuba. He worked as a fuller brush man. He worked as a house painter. He worked as a printer.0.98
00:26:48.700His command of English, which was not required in his job at the embassy, was not great. So I think
00:26:54.540those who, in this case, lie about their Hispanic version is kind of like Elizabeth Warren lying
00:27:01.560about her Native American ancestry. By the way, it's not Pocahontas. It was originally
00:27:07.580Focahontas, F-A-U-X, fake Focahontas. I think it was a columnist in Boston who actually came up
00:27:15.900with that originally, got bastardized to Pocahontas. But it speaks to the fact that
00:27:22.360Senator Elizabeth Warren claimed Native American heritage in order to get a scholarship into
00:27:28.620Harvard. She, of course, since then has become a multimillionaire while serving in the U.S.0.94
00:27:34.180Senate. I can't quite understand other than insider trading, stock trading, how that is
00:27:40.760possible. But she's collected millions of dollars from banks and pharmaceutical companies in the
00:27:46.120financial industry. It's why she is such an outspoken critic of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency0.95
00:27:52.260because of the institutions who fund her campaign. In the meantime, Secretary of War Pete Hegsath
00:27:59.900defended the conflict with Iran, defended the extraction of Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro,
00:28:06.080defended his strikes on narco-terrorist vessels and other actions he's taken as the leader of
00:28:11.760the U.S. military, but Congressman Thomas Massey, a Republican who was defeated for
00:28:16.960renomination but will still be a member of Congress in the upcoming lame duck effort,
00:28:22.700intends to introduce articles of impeachment against Pete Hegseth and demand that the House
00:28:33.640vote on them. With his parents and his brother seated in the audience among public affairs
00:28:37.880to staffers and journalists in the Pentagon's briefing room, Hagseth called Massey a disgruntled
00:28:43.620and defeated congressman and argued that his impeachment resolution is not oversight and it's
00:28:48.860not accountability. The Secretary of War said that the motion by Massey, a Republican, was a political
00:28:55.420spectacle, a personal manifesto driven by ego and resentment, arguing that the outgoing congressman's
00:29:02.200effort is due to his own personal animus for President Donald Trump and his administration,
00:29:06.880and the Secretary of War went on to call the resolution a farce, a stunt, and everyone knows
00:29:12.820it. I have a very positive view of the Secretary of War. I think he's done a good job of stripping
00:29:18.920the DEI policies from our military, getting rid of those on active duty who are fat or incompetent
00:29:27.120or incapable of doing the job. He has turned the War Department into what it was supposed to be,
00:29:33.000a lethal fighting machine that is fit to defend the United States as well as to achieve our goals
00:29:39.460abroad when necessary. There's no question that he has broken eggs in his effort to do so.
00:29:46.600There was a story in the UK Daily Mail only days ago about a cabal of officers inside the
00:29:52.620Department of War who had been certifiably keeping memos and other documents and text
00:29:58.460messages and other things they feel are evidence that merit his impeachment. Make no mistake about
00:30:07.520it, the way I see this unfolding, if Massey does reduce the resolution with the eight impeachment
00:30:13.320articles, the allegations listed against Hegseth include violations of the War Powers resolution,
00:30:19.480which many people have questioned the constitutionality of, as well as kidnapping
00:30:23.400a sovereign foreign leader. That refers to Maduro. According to Massey, Hegseth suppressed
00:30:30.380free speech when he retaliated against Senator 25 statements that the War Department claims
00:30:36.260were seditious. That's where Kelly encouraged members of the armed services to disobey lawful
00:30:43.720orders by any means. I think that was inappropriate. Mark Kelly, of course, has a job in the U.S.
00:30:51.880Senate is kind of a side job. His main job is being in the balloon, the surveillance balloon
00:30:56.760business with the communist Chinese, in which he has had a very publicly stated stake. I, for one,
00:31:05.600recognize the Democrats will come back and try to impeach Pete Hegseth once they control the House,
00:31:11.660but I'm against this Republican impeachment attempt first. I truly believe this is about
00:31:16.560the bigger picture. Whatever you think about Pete Hegseth, he has orchestrated possibly the most
00:31:21.300aggressive approach to ridding this hemisphere of communism under the leadership of President
00:31:26.500Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The Venezuela operation was a glowing success
00:31:34.560that liberated an entire country from a communist hell and cut off China and Cuba's access to cheap0.83
00:31:41.940oil. Not only that, but Hegseth has largely operated in Iran and across the globe with
00:31:47.280less casualties than we've historically seen into other military operations. Now, if it is true that
00:31:53.420he told President Trump that the Iran conflict could be over from six to eight weeks, I think
00:31:58.560we're going to learn whether that is accurate or not. I've seen that, but I've not seen it in any
00:32:03.640formal sense. I don't know if it's true, but he certainly supported the subsequent escalations of
00:32:10.360Midnight Hammer and Epic Fury, as that war has wound on far longer than any of the president's
00:32:17.740advisors, I think, believed it would. But it's the Secretary of War who's supposed to opine.
00:32:24.620I think he prioritizes keeping America's soldiers safe. I think he's built a lean,
00:32:30.180mean fighting machine because at heart he's a soldier. He's not an elitist politician,
00:32:35.000masquerading as a military commander like the traitor Mark Milley. Remember him? He was the
00:32:39.420joint chiefs. He contacted his counterpart in China in the Chinese military to assure him that
00:32:45.940he would stop any attack on communist China. If one were coming, he would let his counterpart0.80
00:32:52.220know in advance. By any measure, that is an act of treason for which he should have been
00:32:57.680court-martialed. But to date, that hasn't happened. Pete Hegseth has worked to clean the military up
00:33:03.280and to get them back into shape. They got rid of DEI and woke in the military. He's training our
00:33:08.380fighting forces to do again, to do what they're supposed to do, to fight. The Department of War
00:33:13.380today is more precisely aimed at achieving victory for the United States than at nearly
00:33:17.880any point in my lifetime. I'm not old enough to have seen the days of World War II when winning
00:33:22.440was a priority, but Hegseth represents a return, I think, to that mentality. The political attacks
00:33:29.720against him are just that, political attacks, and we see how effective Hegseth has been at stopping
00:33:34.360the spread of global communism right here in this hemisphere, you have to wonder what
00:35:45.280The House Oversight Committee released a 137-page report concluding that prosecutorial failures, preferential treatment, and institutional negligence
00:35:54.400allowed Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell to continually sexually
00:36:00.300exploring young women and girls for many years, years after Epstein had been convicted or had
00:36:06.960pled to a minor charge in Florida. The committee examined the 2007 non-prosecution agreement
00:36:14.200negotiated by then U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta, which let Epstein plead to state charges and avoid
00:36:21.260federal prosecution for the larger charges of sex trafficking. The Palm Beach City police chief
00:36:29.300had handed over to the county prosecutor a much broader case of child sex trafficking, as well as
00:36:35.360multiple cases of statutory rape that had been documented. But because Epstein hired a dream
00:36:41.280team of lawyers, including Alan Dershowitz, he got this sweetheart deal. That put him back out
00:36:47.220in the street where he continued his outrageous activities, exploiting underage boys and girls.
00:36:54.120The new report flagged potential conflicts of interest, including a senior prosecutor who had
00:36:59.240a prior romantic relationship with one of Epstein's later lawyers. The report detailed Epstein's
00:37:04.560unusually lenient work release privileges after his Florida conviction. So he never even went
00:37:09.740to a state penitentiary. He was put in the new Palm Beach County jail. He was put in the air
00:37:15.900conditioned wing, where he was only required to be from, as I recall, 10 o'clock at night until
00:37:22.540six o'clock in the morning. Other than that, he was free to go, and the sheriff's office actually
00:37:26.960kind of provided a motorcade for him as he moved around. Quite strange. And then, of course, there
00:37:33.560are the strange staffing shortages, procedural breakdowns at the Metropolitan Correctional
00:37:38.780Center that contributed to his 2019 death in custody. Bill Barr insists that there's nothing
00:37:44.680suspicious about that death, but the former New York City coroner, a very renowned coroner,
00:37:52.420examined Jeffrey Epstein's body and said that the breaks in his neck were not consistent with
00:37:57.200hanging with a bed sheet. And we're supposed to believe that the monitoring cameras conveniently
00:38:03.440are turned off and the two guards in charge of keeping an eye on Epstein just conveniently fall
00:38:09.940asleep. It's important to note that the committee report found no documents whatsoever implementing
00:38:14.940President Donald Trump in any criminal or inappropriate activity and recommended further
00:38:19.320investigation of certain associates, including questions about whether some witnesses purposely
00:38:24.360misled investigators. Again, the claim by Democrats that Trump has some vulnerability
00:38:33.060regarding his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein is demonstrably false. Who were the politicians
00:38:41.040who went to the island? Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton was on the island multiple times. Secretary of
00:38:46.100Treasury Larry Summers. New Mexico Governor and Ambassador Bill Richardson. Mega donor Bill
00:38:54.080Gates. And of course, Stephen K. Bannon, based on the 1900 emails the Department of Justice
00:39:01.160released between Bannon and Epstein. Those are the only politicians or political types that I
00:39:06.140ever know based on my 2015 book, The Kennedy's War on Women, in which I had the full manifest
00:39:11.920from Epstein's airplane. And I had his little black book, which had been published and was
00:39:17.900available in Britain. So again, the false claim that Trump has a vulnerability here and covered
00:39:23.820up for Epstein is entirely untrue. I favor release of all of the Epstein documents. I would
00:39:31.760note that the Trump Justice Department moved to release all the grand jury testimony and documents
00:39:37.020that were used to indict Epstein in 2019. That was denied by a federal judge in Florida and a
00:39:44.880federal judge in Washington, pardon me, in New York, both of them Democrats. Thanks for joining
00:39:50.800us today on The Stone Zone. Until tomorrow, when we come back with the latest political report on
00:39:55.820what's moving and shaking in Washington, D.C., thanks for tuning in to The Stone Zone.