The Stone Zone is a new segment on CNN Radio's new morning show hosted by Alex Blumberg. This week, Alex talks about the impact of non-citizens voting in the U.S. election system in New Jersey, and how this could impact the 2020 mid-term elections. Plus, President Donald Trump draws a red line in Iran.
00:01:49.300but he's kept going and he's smart and he's strong.
00:01:53.280and people love him. Not everybody, but people love him and respect him. Roger Stone. Where's
00:01:58.440Roger Stone? Here's Roger Stone. You are now entering the Stone Zone. Well, New Jersey,
00:02:06.980the garden state, a state I know well, having run President Ronald Reagan's campaign there in 1980
00:02:13.940and his reelection in 1984, as well as running the campaign of Tom Kane in 1981. He won by
00:02:22.5401,209 votes out of 2.2 million cast. And then I ran his stunning re-election in 1985. I think it
00:02:33.260was Jersey boss Haig who said famously, plan your work and work your plan. And that appears to be
00:02:42.120what some in the New Jersey Democrat Party have done. A stunning election system failure in New
00:02:47.760New Jersey has now confirmed what President Trump and some Republicans have been warning for some time.
00:02:54.200Election integrity is not some conspiracy theory.
00:02:58.180It's a major and legitimate national concern.
00:03:01.780Governor Mikey Sherrill says a software glitch at the State Motor Vehicles Commission registered roughly 6,600 people to vote, even though those people were not United States citizens.
00:03:15.040Officials say that these registrations occurred between June 2023 and June 2024.
00:03:23.880The error was reportedly been fixed, and Sherrill has ordered an investigation, removal of improper registrations and replacement of the responsible technology vendor.
00:03:35.780But I don't think we can dismiss this as a harmless glitch.
00:03:40.140Thousands of people who explicitly said they were not citizens were nevertheless added to the voter rolls.
00:03:48.780This is precisely why Americans are correct to demand stronger safeguards.
00:03:53.760Democrats and their allies in the media have repeatedly insisted that non-citizen registration is either impossible or too rare to even matter.
00:04:06.380Congress should pass the Save America Act, requiring documentary proof of citizenship for federal voter registration and strengthening protections against unlawful voting.
00:04:18.940Honest elections require more than promises after the mistakes are discovered.
00:04:23.680They require a system designed to prevent those mistakes in the first place.
00:04:28.340Every legal vote must count and every illegal vote must be stopped.
00:04:33.260Protecting the ballot is not voter suppression.
00:04:36.380Remember what happened in 2020 when I believe they stole the election from President Trump and sent us into the Biden dark ages.
00:04:43.520We can never allow that to happen again.
00:04:47.000Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is drawing a red line in the Straits of Hormuz,
00:04:52.280saying that every Iranian attack on shipping will bring a strike on a bridge, a power plant, or a strategic target inside Iran, including Tehran itself.
00:05:02.720He also warned that the fortified Picksax Mountain nuclear complex could soon face an American bombing campaign.
00:05:11.460Iran's response has confirmed what Trump has said for years.
00:05:15.300The regime is not a misunderstood regional power.0.77
00:05:18.880It is a chief engineer of terror, chaos, and bloodshed across the Middle East with a long history of killing Americans.
00:05:26.860I have to give it to the president. He gave peace a chance, but he learned what many of us suspected, and that is the regime cannot be trusted to keep their word about anything.0.95
00:05:38.660Tehran has vowed to keep threatening the Straits of Hormuz,0.91
00:05:41.520from which at least 40% of the world's energy must flow,
00:05:47.280while expanding their attacks on American bases,
00:05:53.040U.S. partners in Behran, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Kuwait.
00:05:58.440Iranian missiles and drones have targeted military facilities,
00:06:02.460commercial shipping routes, and civilian infrastructure,
00:07:42.920Meanwhile, in the House of Representatives, a Republican-backed immigration bill
00:07:47.940that's now moving through the House would actually allow illegal immigrants working in agriculture
00:07:53.240to obtain temporary legal status instead of facing arrest and deportation.
00:07:59.020The proposal would overhaul the H-2A Guest Worker Program by waiving immigration violations for agricultural workers already in the country.
00:08:09.980It would also extend some label certifications from one year to as long as three years.
00:08:16.380Supporters argue that farms need a dependable workforce, but rewarding illegal entry is not an America First solution.
00:08:23.700In fact, I believe it would betray voters who demanded secure borders, equal enforcement, and an immigration system that puts American workers first.
00:08:34.120If anything, this is a core issue of Donald Trump's agenda.
00:08:38.620For decades, powerful industries have claimed they cannot survive without a steady supply of cheap foreign labor.
00:08:45.780The results have been downward pressure on wages, fewer incentives to improve working conditions, and less investment in automation and domestic recruitment.
00:08:59.360So do American citizens, legal immigrants, and small farmers who must compete in a labor market shaped by government-sanctioned wage suppression.
00:09:09.360Congress should not solve labor shortages by giving employers continued access to workers whose illegal status makes them easier to exploit.
00:09:18.940It should enforce immigration laws, raise wages, streamline lawful seasonal hiring, and require businesses to compete for labor honestly.
00:09:28.160Food security is also national security, but so are secure borders, fair wages, and the rule of law.
00:09:35.160America First means building an agriculture economy that serves American workers and consumers, not one permanently dependent on illegal labor and special interest exemptions for the elites.
00:09:48.880For those who follow politics like me, I'm a complete political junkie.
00:09:53.820There was a powerful triumph for President Trump's America First movement in Arizona yesterday, where Congressman Andy Biggs won the Republican nomination for governor of Arizona, delivering a decisive victory for conservative principles in this critical battleground swing state.
00:10:11.920Biggs is a staunch Trump ally and former chairman of the House Freedom Caucus.
00:10:17.120He defeated fellow Republican Congressman David Schweikert in a strong showing Tuesday night.
00:10:23.820Endorsed by President Trump and the grassroots firepower from Turning Point USA, Biggs vowed to make this the year that we turn Arizona red again.
00:10:35.340Arizona Republicans delivered strong Trump-aligned wins all up and down the ticket.
00:10:40.620Former Arizona Cardinals kicker Jay Feely, who had Trump's endorsement, secured the Republican nomination for Congress in one key district.
00:10:48.700State Representative Alexander Colliden won the nomination for Secretary of State, and State Senate President Warren Peterson advanced with Trump's endorsement for the Office of Attorney General, setting up aggressive challenges to Democrat incumbents this coming November.
00:11:07.000Biggs is a principled conservative with a proven record fighting for border security, law and order, and fiscal responsibility, excites the Republican base.
00:11:16.920Republicans praised his fighting spirit in alignment with President Trump's vision.
00:11:21.200One Biggs supporter I saw told the Associated Press,
00:11:24.500I want the border secured and Andy Biggs has the same qualities as President Trump.
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00:13:18.280Meanwhile, the latest job data paints a disturbing picture of a nation turning away from work.
00:13:23.900In June, the number of Americans aged 16 and older, not in the labor force,
00:13:29.260surged to a record $105.8 million, an increase of $832,000 in a single month.
00:13:38.180That's higher than during the Great Recession or the peak of the COVID lockdowns.
00:13:43.620Prime-age men are dropping out in alarming numbers.
00:13:47.580Labor economist Nicholas Eberstadt noted that millions of healthy working-age men
00:13:53.320and a growing number of women without young children or spouses at home
00:13:57.680have simply checked out. Over 23 million of them are on long-term disability or related benefits,
00:14:04.360while millions more are just discouraged and not even looking. Labor force participation has
00:14:10.320sunk to levels not seen since the post-pandemic haze and the Obama era of stagnation. This isn't
00:14:18.120just demographics, by the way. Other aging societies like Japan and parts of Europe are
00:14:23.700seeing workforce participation rise. Here, a sprawling welfare and disability system0.98
00:14:30.040creates blind spots and perverse incentives that reward people for not working. Calls for
00:14:36.860universal basic income would only supercharge this flight from work, turning America into
00:14:42.780screen-addicted dependents, spiraling hopelessly into despair. This is a troubling trend proves
00:14:49.100why implementing President Trump's economic policies are actually more urgent than ever.
00:14:54.220Trump's blueprint, tax cuts that reward work and investment, slashing job-killing regulations,
00:15:01.120unleashing American energy, and securing the border to protect wages, is the proven path
00:15:06.740to restore dignity, growth, and a culture of self-reliance. Biden's policies fuel dependency
00:15:13.760and decline. The next administration must reject more government handouts and recommit to the
00:15:19.740fundamentals that make America the land of opportunity. Meanwhile, the Secretary of War,
00:15:26.200Pete Hegseth, delivered a warning to the U.S. Senate yesterday. America cannot remain the
00:15:31.080world's preeminent superpower while starving its military of resources needed to deter growing
00:15:37.180threats. Hegseth said four years of neglect under Joe Biden left the armed forces facing
00:15:42.920deferred maintenance, funding gaps, and training cutbacks.
00:15:47.340He argued that failing to fund what the administration calls the Department of War now
00:15:51.680at $1.5 trillion would be one of the gravest dangers facing the country.
00:15:57.000The point is not to launch endless wars.
00:15:59.400It's to make war less likely by ensuring every adversary understands
00:16:03.540that the Americans have the strength, the readiness, and the resolve to dominate any battlefield.
00:16:09.900This is the concept of peace through strength that was first championed by Dwight Eisenhower, then by Ronald Reagan, now by Donald Trump.
00:16:20.500Democrats, of course, challenged Hegseth over the administration's Iran policy and the cost of operations, estimating that $37.5 billion through September would be insufficient.
00:16:32.620But Hegseth responded that a far greater cost would come from allowing Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon and threaten generations.
00:16:51.040A strong military protects America's families, secures global trade, reassures our allies, and forces hostile regimes to think twice before testing us.
00:17:07.480America should rebuild its forces, modernize our weapons, restore training, and invest in the next generation of warfare.0.88
00:17:15.000Not because we seek conflict, but because overwhelming strength is the surest path to preventing war.
00:17:22.180The world is safer when America is feared by its enemies, trusted by its allies, and recognized as the leader of the free world.
00:17:29.740Meanwhile, the House is set to vote on a $1.15 trillion defense bill containing Section 219.
00:17:38.880That's a plan to accelerate integration of American and Israeli military technology, supply chains, and defense production.
00:17:47.300America should stand firmly with Israel.
00:17:49.200It's a vital ally facing threats and cooperation on missile defenses, drones, cyber warfare, and battlefield technology.
00:17:56.780But friendship should not require squandering or surrendering our sovereignty.
00:18:03.460So I think Section 219 could create a Pentagon executive agent tasked with expanding defense integration with Israel.
00:18:11.080Critics warn that this office could gain influence inside the Defense Department, outlast administrations and make it harder for Congress or the President to change course when American interests demand it.
00:18:23.160This is not, therefore, America first.
00:19:13.200Those on the far left are going completely and totally out of their minds.
00:19:16.860After a remark at the Nixon Library by Vice President J.D. Vance, in which he said that President Richard Nixon, the 37th president, was taken down by the same deep state forces who attempted to take Donald Trump down,
00:19:30.740There has been an explosion of interest in the former president on social media, most of it generated by the Nixon Foundation, run by two Gen Z individuals who are using Instagram, Facebook, X, True Social, as well as YouTube to generate entirely new interest in our 37th president.
00:19:59.500Not only do they extinguish the idea that the removal of Nixon was legitimate, but now we finally get a focus on his record.
00:20:09.100Remember, Nixon, who said the greatest title that history can bestow is that of peacemaker.
00:20:16.180Listen to the Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.
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00:20:29.500this is the stone zone now get in the zone it's the stone zone a man who's gone through hell
00:20:47.180but he's kept going and he's smart and he's strong and people love him not everybody but
00:20:53.540people love him and respect him roger stone where's roger stone here's roger stone
00:20:59.100You are jumping headfirst into the Stone Zone.
00:21:04.220While with rents skyrocketing, bus fares unchanged, and businesses fleeing the city as rents are frozen,
00:21:12.920Mayor Zoran Mamdami is too busy playing international prosecutor to fix New York's myriad of problems hurting working-class families.
00:21:21.600On Tuesday, the far-left socialist was forced to admit that he cannot enforce the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
00:21:33.860Another broken campaign promise exposed Mamdami grandly pledged to deploy NYPD to arrest Netanyahu, pandering to his socialist and Islamist base.
00:21:44.880Now he's backed off and admits that the city lacks the authority and is begging the federal government to do its dirty work.0.86
00:21:51.980President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance have said repeatedly, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
00:21:59.340that the United States is not bound and does not participate in the International Criminal Court of The Hague.
00:22:07.020President Trump has rightly declared that Netanyahu will not be arrested anywhere in the United States of America.0.85
00:22:13.800Israel's U.S. ambassador rightly called out Mamdami for pushing Hamas propaganda.0.91
00:22:20.180But this is what social side ideology always delivers, lies dressed up as moral crusades.0.76
00:22:26.960Mamdami built his campaign on can't-to-see handouts, lower rent, free buses, free food, endless giveaways,
00:22:34.880while exploiting the rising tide of anti-Semitism on the radical left for votes.
00:22:40.260He knows that stoking hatred of Israel's rallies is base, even as it poisons our city.
00:22:48.000These unfulfilled promises are piling up, and now reality is beginning to set in.0.51
00:22:53.560Wealthy taxpayers and businesses are escaping to red states, hollowing out New York State's and New York City's tax base.
00:23:01.620This means financial trouble is ahead for working families who are stuck with the bill.
00:23:54.800The concern is that some donations may have required Harvard to create aid programs
00:24:00.140favoring students from selected foreign countries,
00:24:03.260potentially violating Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:24:08.700Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon, a good friend of mine, put the issue very plainly.
00:24:14.020Universities cannot accept America tax-paying dollars while using foreign money to operate programs
00:24:19.680that deliberately discriminate against American citizens.
00:24:23.260No final determination has yet been made, and of course Harvard denies violating federal law.
00:24:29.300But an investigation is more than justified.0.91
00:24:31.980Communist China has spent decades seeking influence over America's universities, research institutions, corporations, and government agencies.0.89
00:24:42.220Every dollar carrying foreign conditions deserves scrutiny, especially when it enters institutions responsible for educating America's future leaders in developing sensitive technology.
00:24:54.400The Trump administration also deserves credit for confronting a problem Washington has ignored for far too long.0.99
00:25:01.040Hostile Chinese influence must be identified and rooted out of every publicly supported institution,0.99
00:25:06.680not through hysteria, but through transparency, enforcement, and accountability.0.99
00:25:12.480Harvard and every other Ivy League university receiving federal support
00:25:16.320should answer to the American people, not foreign governments or overseas donors.
00:25:22.020Treasury Department under Donald Trump is delivering another major victory for taxpayers,
00:25:26.140announcing new safeguards to stop federal payments from going to people who are dead.
00:25:31.880The Treasury Department says it has screened 885 million government payments
00:25:37.520worth nearly $2.7 trillion against expanded death records.
00:25:43.140The system has already blocked roughly $99 million in improper payments
00:25:51.520In other words, $99 million going to people who are deceased.
00:25:56.960Treasury Secretary Scott Bessett, who is not only the best-dressed, but one of the best members of the Trump cabinet,
00:26:04.280says the administration could stop as much as $350 million more by the end of the year
00:26:10.300simply by comparing the payout records of those getting federal benefits with the list of those who are deceased.
00:26:16.880He also warned that improper federal payments could reach hundreds of billions of dollars before this research is over.
00:26:24.340This is exactly why President Trump made rooting out fraud, waste, and abuse a central priority of his administration.
00:26:31.960It was back in February that he signed legislation giving Treasury broader access to Social Security death records.
00:26:39.000Of course, Democrats screamed at the time.
00:26:40.800In March, he created Vice President J.D. Vance's anti-fraud task force to investigate abuse across housing, food assistance, Medicaid, small business loans, and pandemic relief programs.
00:26:54.380The administration has already exposed billions in potentially fraudulent benefits and cleaned up millions of outdated Social Security records.
00:27:03.860See, for too long, Washington treated taxpayer money like it belonged to the bureaucracy.
00:27:08.820The Trump administration is changing that mindset, leaving no stone unturned, and demanding accountability at every level of government.
00:27:18.120Every dollar sent to a dead recipient, fraudulent claimant, or corrupt middleman is a dollar stolen from American taxpayers.
00:27:26.640Stopping that theft means lower deficits, stronger public services, and greater trust in government.
00:27:32.900This is what serious stewardship looks like.
00:27:35.400Verify first, pay second, and protect the taxpayer at every step of the way.
00:27:40.520The Trump administration is restoring public trust within our federal system, and these are necessary reforms.
00:27:47.300I applaud Secretary of the Treasury Besson as well as Vice President J.D. Vance for their extraordinary efforts.
00:27:54.640Meanwhile, leftist judge James Boesberg of the D.C. District Court has once again exposed himself as the rogue activist who lectures President Trump about executive overreach while shamelessly exceeding his own judicial authority.
00:28:10.060In a blatant display of hypocrisy and bias, Boesberg has now twice denied pro-life groups a jury trial after they were arrested for chalking Black pre-born Lives Matter on sidewalks.
00:28:23.700while Black Lives Matter graffiti was allowed to deface public spaces with impunity during 2020.
00:28:30.600George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley highlights how the D.C. Circuit Court reversed Boesburg
00:28:37.520for applying the wrong legal standard and substituting his own judgment for that of a jury.
00:28:43.980Despite clear evidence of selective enforcement, including body cam footage of police watching BLM spray painting,
00:28:52.140Bozberg dismissed the First Amendment claims protecting viewpoint discrimination
00:28:56.320against conservative speech that he disagreed with.
00:29:00.000This is part of a disturbing pattern under Bozberg's law,
00:29:04.240where the judge has shown contempt for limits on judicial power.
00:29:09.020He was previously slapped down by the higher courts for abuse of discretion in Trump deportation cases
00:29:14.440and for blocking subpoenas in the federal chair plobe with openly hostile reasoning.
00:30:17.640Meanwhile, another American woman suffered unimaginable torment at the hands of an illegal immigrant, proving once again why mass deportation is not just necessary, it's actually a moral imperative to protect our citizens.
00:30:31.500Vin Pandip Singh, a 26-year-old illegal alien from India who snuck across the border near Calexico, California in 2022, stands accused of torturing a Washington state woman for two brutal years.
00:30:47.280Prosecutors describe some of the most horrific atrocities imaginable.
00:30:51.700Daily beatings, strangulation, burning her arms with a hair straightener, breaking her fingers, and isolating her completely while he controlled every aspect of her life.
00:31:01.280The victim finally escaped by secretly texting her sister for help.
00:31:05.520She now lives in fear for her life, bearing permanent physical and psychological scars.
00:31:11.360ICE has filed a detainer, but Washington's radical sanctuary policies, championed, of course, by Democrats, may shield this predator from swift removal.
00:31:20.920King County holds him on $1 million bail, yet local resistance to federal cooperation forces ICE to hunt criminals in our communities instead of removing them at the jailhouse door.
00:31:34.660This nightmare is the direct result of Joe Biden's open border policies that flooded America with millions of unvetted illegals, including violent criminals.
00:31:44.700President Trump's promise of the largest deportation operation in history cannot come soon enough.0.75
00:31:50.580Every illegal alien must be deported. No exceptions, no excuses.
00:31:54.960Sanctuary cities and states that harbor criminals endanger American lives.1.00
00:31:59.360The blood of victims like this poor tortured woman is in the hands of politicians who prioritize foreign invaders over citizen safety.
00:32:08.620I say secure the border, enforce our laws, and deport them all.0.72
00:32:12.900Actually, American safety depends on it.
00:32:16.120Meanwhile, Cuba's communist regime is sounding increasingly alarmed as the Trump administration intensifies its campaign against Marxist influence operations across the Western Hemisphere.
00:32:27.100Following a Washington summit with delegations from 65 countries focused on combating far-left extremism and foreign subversion,
00:32:35.600Cuban leader Miguel Diaz-Canel accused the United States of reviving McCarthyism.
00:32:43.880His angry response reveals just how seriously Havana views this new pressure.
00:32:48.960For more than six decades, Cuba has worked to export revolutionary ideology and cultivate sympathetic political networks abroad.
00:32:56.420American officials are now examining organizations linked to Cuban intelligence and influence operations, including international solidarity groups with connections to radical activist movements inside the United States.
00:33:10.500So the era of unchecked communist interference in this hemisphere must end.
00:33:14.900Under President Donald Trump's Don Roe Doctrine, that's a takeoff on the Monroe Doctrine, America is reasserting leadership in its own hemisphere, confronting hostile foreign influence, defending national sovereignty, and making it clear that Latin America will no longer be treated as a playground for communist regimes and their overseas allies.
00:33:37.240Cuba's rulers should understand that their time is running out,
00:35:30.000When's the last time you saw a really good movie?
00:35:33.980Well, the culture war has found a potent new battleground on screens across America.
00:35:38.240Two recent successes, the raw vigilante thriller Citizen Vigilante and Angel Studios' inspiring young Washington,
00:35:48.080are proving definitively that American-based stories can draw large crowds and turn serious profits.
00:35:54.820They prove audiences are hungry to seek a more conservative perspective illustrated through the medium of cinema when it's done well.
00:36:03.820As America doubles down on ideologically driven woke flops, these two films are charting a path that bypasses the old gatekeepers entirely.
00:36:13.120Citizen Vigilante arrived in theaters with a great deal of controversy.
00:36:17.340Attempts to ban or bury it only, of course, supercharged demand, one of Stone's rules.
00:36:23.760The people always want more of what they're told they can't have, creating the classic Streisand effect on steroids.
00:36:31.620When Elon Musk himself posted on X about it, the film went absolutely nuclear.
00:36:37.840His politically incorrect messaging takes the vigilante archetype from classics like Death Witch and Falling Down, two great films,
00:36:45.600and pushes it further into territory that most studios in Hollywood still fear to enter.
00:36:51.520The story delivers a satisfying message of cathartic justice
00:36:54.720in a world where the system too often coddles criminals
00:36:57.880at the expense of innocent, vulnerable people
00:37:00.240who are put directly in harm's way as a direct result.