Kamala Runs From Biden Record as Protestors Attack
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In this epic battle in which we engage with a little bit of levity, we are engaged with an amazing video from Ramble Rants. Featuring legendary strategist and political icon and pundit, Raldsy Stone, who has served as a senior campaign aide to three U.S. presidents, a best-selling author, and a long-time friend and advisor of President Donald J. Trump, joins us to talk about the breaking political developments, including the Democratic National Convention, the return of Sen. Hillary Clinton to Chicago, and the massive protests that erupted in the streets of the city after her appearance on the first night of the two-day event in which she delivered a blistering attack on President Donald Trump and his failed presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton's attempt to become the first woman to run for president with 34 felony convictions, and why she will never be elected again, we have a clip of a clip from a clip featuring a collection of speakers that spoke last night including joe Biden, Joe Biden, and Joanne DeBannon, including a compilation of all of the former president s former campaign speakers that were invited to the podium last night in Chicago, including Joe Biden and John Boozman, and we continue to continue to focus on the obsession with former president Donald Trump's obsession with his own obsession with the former vice president, Donald Trump, and his obsession with being re-elected, we take a look at some of the craziness that took place on the streets last night, and get to the details of what happened on the night and the chaos that ensued, and what happened the night after Hillary Clinton got kicked off the stage in Chicago on the evening of her speech, and more, we get into what happened and what will happen next, and much more! Join us in the Stone Zone, join us in The Stone Zone. . Stay tuned for a Stone Zone episode, featuring legendary political icon, political icon & pundit Raldy Stone, and pop culture icon, Roger Stone, as we discuss the latest in politics, and how to make sense of it all, and its impact on the political landscape, and whether or not, as the future of the political and cultural landscape, we'll be back in 2020, and who's going to be the next in 2020? -The Stone Zone! -Jonestown, Jonestown Jon Stone, Jon Stone - Jon Stone and Jon Stone's new book, and more!
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stone zone with legendary republican strategist and political icon and pundit roger stone stone
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has served as a senior campaign aide to three republican presidents he is a new york times
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best-selling author and a long-time friend and advisor of president donald trump as an outspoken
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libertarian stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts spoken at countless venues and
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lectured before the prestigious oxford political union and the cambridge union society due to his
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four plus decades in the political and cultural arena stone has become a pop culture icon and now
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welcome i'm roger stone and yes you are back in the stone zone you've got to start each day uh in this
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epic battle in which we are engaged with a little bit of levity here is an amazing video from rumble
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i correct myself that's ramble rants part of the dynamic dilly meme team anyway i wanted to
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start with that but uh we have a democrat national convention going on mark vargas the editor and
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publisher of the illinois review who's on the scene in chicago joins us later in the show but to talk
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about the breaking political developments i want to welcome my co-host troy smith the editor in chief
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over at slingshot dot news troy welcome back in to the stone zone roger as always it's an honor to be
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here and uh the the dnc got kicked off last night and i can't tell you how many people were texting
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me sending me photos uh videos of some of the strange stuff that was going on at that and and i
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thought of you roger i'll be honest when i saw hillary clinton speaking she was one of the very first
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speakers of the convention and we have a couple clips of that of really walking out basking in the
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democrat uh politicians that are there in the audience so i want to play this clip um and then we're
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getting to some of the protests you know some really crazy stuff that happened uh but let's
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roll a hillary clinton speech last night and get roger's thoughts on the return of hillary clinton
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donald trump fell asleep at his own trial and when he woke up he made his own kind of history the first
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person to run for president with 34 felony convictions
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kamala locked up murderers and drug traffickers she will never rest in defense of our freedom and
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safety donald trump fell asleep at his own trial and when he woke up he made his own kind of history
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the first person to run for president with 34 felony convictions
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you know if donald trump accomplished nothing else
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he kept that foul-mouthed short-tempered entitled kleptocrat out of the white house now once trump
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was elected we now know it was more than enough evidence of corruption and yes indeed treason to lock
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hillary clinton up and trump could have insisted on her prosecution but he wanted to heal the country
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and he didn't do it now of course that the shoe is on the other foot they have attempted to criminalize
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our current justice system uh and they have convicted trump of a crime in new york that isn't
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a crime at all in fact federal pardon me state prosecutors couldn't define the underlying crime so they
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criminalized uh they they made a felony paper transactions business transactions that at worst
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would have been a business transactions infraction that would be settled with a fine and they catapult
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that into be being a criminal felony without the underlying criminal act ever defined by the
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prosecutors really a travesty in front of a biased judge but hillary clinton will still not be happy in
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fact we both know she's not happy about the rise of kamala harris
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she's uh probably happy that joe is out of the way but she'll never really be happy because you
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know what troy she will never be president well and roger you know last night it was interesting
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uh to see these guests go up there because the democrats can routinely say oh and i saw pete
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budajas he said this word for word on mainstream news coverage he said donald trump and jd vance run in
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politics because it's about them they he says oh jd vance and donald trump make politics about
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themselves it's not about the people and they asked him what are you going to see at the dnc
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and he said well we're going to focus on the american people we have a clip i want to show of a collection
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of all of the speakers that spoke last night including joe biden which we have a clip of that
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we're going to get into in a second here joe biden being wheeled out and quickly uh taken away from
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the stage uh we have a clip of all of them mentioning donald trump it was like almost we
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were at the republican convention roger because all any of these speakers talked about was donald
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trump let's roll the compilation and get roger's thoughts on the dnc's obsession with the former
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president while they continue to say oh we're running our own campaign we care about americans
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when in actuality all they care about uh is stopping donald trump from making america great again
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let's roll that clip donald trump donald trump donald trump donald trump donald trump donald trump
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donald trump donald trump donald trump donald trump donald trump donald trump donald trump
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donald trump donald trump donald trump trump trump trump who in the hell does he think he is who does he think he is
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does seem like Trump derangement syndrome. In the meantime, Troy, the Trump campaign has mounted
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what I think may be their most effective ad. They're running it during programming, during
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the DNC, and also in the swing states. So as Kamala Harris tries to distance herself from Joe
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Biden, and we didn't know whether Joe left on vacation immediately after his speech, which
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the Democrats conveniently pushed out of primetime, Joe didn't speak. The sitting
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president of the United States didn't speak till well after midnight on the East Coast. They want
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him to disappear as quickly as possible. Now, I don't know whether he left out of peak because
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he's still angry about being forced out, or whether they ordered him to leave. Either way,
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it served their purpose. Donald Trump, on the other hand, and his campaign, I think very effective
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with this spot, pointing out that, well, Kamala is not going to be able to walk away from the Biden
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I'm Donald J. Trump, and I approve this message.
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The alarming spike in inflation soaring to its highest level in nearly 40 years.
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Americans are paying the price for rising inflation from the grocery store to transportation.
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Gas prices rose again today, reaching a new all-time high.
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Under Bidenomics, incomes have fallen three straight years.
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We're still dealing with inflation, and we've got super high interest rates at the same time,
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and that's putting American households in a hole.
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Two-thirds of Americans are just struggling to make ends meet.
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That is called Bidenomics, and we are very proud of Bidenomics.
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So we got fewer jobs created in the month, revisions lower to the two previous months,
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You may have seen this. U.S. stock market tumbling today, sparking fears of a recession in the near future.
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And this comes after Friday's jobs report showing a spike in unemployment.
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That is called Bidenomics, and Bidenomics is working.
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Stunning ad cutting right to the most important issue.
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Every survey, every poll shows the economy and people's anxiety about the economic future
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It's fueled by record inflation, record gasoline prices, a lack of affordable housing,
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and the fact that the buying power of the dollar is just being strictly eroded.
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We're in this period now where I think it's essential that the Trump campaign seek to define Kamala Harris
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as she really is, a Bernie Sanders, San Francisco progressive, way out radical.
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This is someone who wanted to decriminalize illegal border crossings.
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This is someone who wanted to defund the police.
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This is someone who wants U.S. taxpayers to pay for the health care costs of the 20-plus million illegals
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This is someone who wanted to ban private health insurance.
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This is someone who now talks about using wage and price controls to basically try to manipulate the economy.
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It is among Nixon's greatest and biggest mistakes, as I've said in the two books that I have written on Nixon.
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But she openly talks about seizing the assets of private companies.
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People need to see very soon who the real Kamala Harris is.
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It's not the Kamala Harris who came up with the brilliant idea of ending the tax on tips.
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It's not the Kamala Harris who woke up and said, I'm going to secure the border.
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I'm going to crack down and we're going to hire hundreds of new border guards.
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Well, and, Roger, that's, I think, becoming the theme of this Kamala Harris campaign is the false portrayals of both her and her running mate, Tim Walls,
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who continues to be, I think, an embarrassment to the campaign.
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And as we're going forward, Roger, that pick is looking worse.
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And we're seeing the stolen valor thing come back again and again and again.
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And I think that's going to continue to hurt him.
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But I wanted to ask you particularly about this attack that we've seen from the Democrats.
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Recently, President Trump was talking about Medal of Honor recipients.
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And he was talking about a woman who received a Medal of Honor from the president,
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but it wasn't the presidential Medal of Honor where you technically, you know, you get it because you're in battle.
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So basically there's Medals of Honor and they're different.
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And he was he was saying to the woman that got this award, oh, you know, you got this award and you didn't have to have your legs blown off,
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like not joking about it, but saying like, oh, you got this award where other people really have to sacrifice.
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And the Democrats are taking that now and turning that into Trump is insulting Medal of Honor recipients and the medal and the military in general.
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Now, to me, this looks like an extension of the suckers and losers hoax that was put out there by the former chief of staff, John Kelly.
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They're desperate to get the military attention off of Tim Walz, aren't they?
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First of all, what's amazing is that the mainstream media continues to say there's no evidence of stolen valor,
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no evidence that he lied about a combat service.
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There's no evidence that he lied about where he was, claiming he was in Afghanistan during battle when he wasn't,
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that he saw his comrades being unloaded, their bodies being unloaded.
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They've been documented by people of men he served with.
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But the media continues to pretend none of that's true.
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General John Kelly was fired by Donald Trump as his chief of staff.
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Now, when he was a chief of staff, he was extraordinarily disloyal.
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He somehow had the idea that his job was to slow down, derail, or stop Donald Trump's America First agenda.
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He was also a control freak, which is never going to work in Trump role, because Donald Trump runs his presidency.
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Only after he was fired did he come up with this tall tale that Trump, while visiting a French cemetery, said that the men buried there, the Americans buried there, were suckers and losers.
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Now, there were 19 other people present the entire time.
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Not a single one of them remembers Trump saying this.
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We're supposed to believe General Kelly because he has the title of general.
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So now, although I think the president's comments were a little hard to understand, does anyone think that Donald Trump doesn't love our military?
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Does anyone think that our military doesn't love Donald Trump?
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I mean, the people who are serving know who supports them.
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It wasn't Donald Trump who got 13 Americans killed in Afghanistan because he wouldn't use the drone technology to keep the Taliban pinned down to cover our retreat.
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Biden's instinct to withdraw men from the Middle East was not incorrect.
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Back during the Trump presidency, tens of thousands of American soldiers were brought home from the Middle East.
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But that's without the countries that they were fighting in collapsing into the hands of the enemy upon their withdrawal.
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Well, and, Roger, you know, it's very truthful.
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You know, the military is under attack with President Biden.
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And you see conflicts arise around the world while President Biden has been in office.
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And people have to understand that Kamala Harris is going to continue those wars.
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It's going to be a continuation of what the situation in Israel.
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President Trump has sworn that he will stop that war, that he will stop the war in Ukraine.
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And you can best believe that under Kamala Harris, there's not going to be any stopping of any of these wars anytime soon.
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Because the people that fund her campaign, the people that fund the Democrat politics, they benefit and they profit and their friends profit hugely off of war.
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And they want to get into a situation where they're in right now where we have multi fronts where they can continue to ship weapons from these military industrial complex companies that will generate trillions of dollars for these people.
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And they celebrate this as some kind of win, Roger.
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It's a win for America to send our troops over.
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And for anybody in the military, I think it's this simple.
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The Democrats don't have a problem sending you to die for whatever cause it may be, for Israel, for Ukraine, whatever.
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With President Donald Trump, he showed time and time throughout his presidency that he values human life and he especially valued American lives.
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And he took steps against nations who actively threaten American lives to ensure that that didn't happen.
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You don't see that under the Kamala Harris Biden presidency and you will not see it if Kamala Harris wins this election, Roger.
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It's just it's so clear, I think, for anybody in the military.
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And the fact that they try to take this tack, I think it shows a little bit of maybe kind of political naivete when it comes to the Kamala Harris people.
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We don't know exactly, you know, these people that are surrounding the campaign.
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There's another thing I actually wanted to get your thoughts on, Roger, that's pretty interesting here.
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And that is Nicole Shanahan, the vice president.
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You know, we're now fully in the Trump Harris, Trump versus Harris election cycle.
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And, you know, kind of left to the side that nobody's paying attention to anymore is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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His running mate is now claiming in interviews, seemingly undermining his campaign actively, saying that he's considering dropping out and they don't really know what they're going to do.
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I want to play this for you because I know you've been a critic of Shanahan from the very beginning.
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I don't believe it because it didn't come from Mr. Kennedy himself.
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Let's roll that clip and get Roger's thoughts on what's going on with RFK's campaign.
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What my gut tells me right now is that we just have to keep being honest.
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I got to keep focusing on what matters the most outside of party lines.
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I need to focus on a vision that goes beyond November.
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And if that means that we stay in and, you know, there's benefits to staying in.
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If we get over 5% of the vote, we actually establish ourselves as a party.
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71% of Americans want a strong third party with a real shot at winning.
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There's even public funds available if we get over 5% of the vote.
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So we could get, I think it's like $13.5 million in public funds to keep the party going.
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Um, that means that we can position for a real third party, uh, election in 2028 where we don't
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have to go around and spend tens of millions of dollars on ballot access, which means that
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we can spend all of that time and money campaigning.
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Um, so, you know, there's two options that we're looking at.
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And one is staying in, forming that new party, but we run the risk of a Kamala Harris, Kamala
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Harris and, and Walt's, uh, presidency because we draw votes from Trump or we draw somehow
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more votes from Trump or we walk away right now and join forces with, with Donald Trump.
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And, and, and, you know, we walk away from that and we explain to our base why we're making
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Uh, you know, Troy, in all honesty, I think that's what is known as the tease.
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How do I get as many views on this video as possible?
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Um, she spent far more time talking about the, uh, what she saw as the benefits of staying
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in the race and forming a new party than she did, uh, the dangers of a Kamala Harris, uh,
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Uh, and then at the end, there's that throwaway line.
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Now I already see the internet ablaze with people saying, oh, RFK is thinking about getting
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Well, first of all, he didn't say that she did.
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Uh, I think we have a two party system and that the laws, unfortunately at the state and
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federal level are written to benefit the two major parties.
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Uh, look, I briefly joined the libertarian party, so I experienced this firsthand, but
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I, I would be surprised if RFK got out of this race and threw his support to another
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Uh, I don't believe that's going to happen and I think this is going to prove out to
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Mark Vargas, uh, served his country, uh, and served, uh, the defense department, but in
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a civilian capacity, spent a lot of time working for peace abroad.
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Uh, and, uh, he is now the editor and publisher of the Illinois review, which is the largest
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and most influential conservative alternative news outlet in the middle West.
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He is right there in the windy city, uh, joining us from Chicago and the scene of the Democrat
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So, Mark, it's good to be with you, Roger and Troy.
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I see you're not in the streets wearing a tie dyed t-shirt.
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You've seen them before Chicago, of course, the site of the famous 1968 convention, which
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seems very similar to this one in many ways, uh, more protesters outside the convention hall
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than delegates and alternates inside the convention hall.
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This all seems very carefully and tightly staged, stage managed.
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In fact, I have seen online, some in the media complaining about their lack of access.
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Well, again, Roger, greetings from the people's Republic of Chicago, uh, the host side of what
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I'm calling the DNC convention, democratic national chaos, because that's what this is.
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This convention is going to be nothing but chaos, and it is playing out just as we suspected,
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you know, Roger, 150 groups nationally formed a single coalition of over a hundred thousand
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people who plan to march and protest, uh, here in Chicago during the convention.
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These are pro-communist, pro-socialist groups, pro-Palestinian, pro-Gaza organizations that have
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all come together, uh, in hopes that their democratic leaders hear their voices.
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And certainly they did yesterday when hundreds of them stormed the first outer security perimeter
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and ripped down the first line of gates, uh, and went towards the second line of gates and,
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And we're assaulting police officers, throwing objects at Chicago police officers, uh, who were
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standing guard just blocks from the United center where the Chicago bulls and Chicago Blackhawks
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But in addition to the chaos that was happening outside and around the city of Chicago, uh,
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that delayed the start of the actual convention yesterday by nearly a half hour because of the
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security concerns that they had going out, going on outside.
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We also learned Roger that the transportation, the logistics were a total nightmare that it was
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taking an hour and a half, two hours for delegates and visitors to get from their hotels, to get
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from the McCormick place across town to the United center.
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Uh, the lines to get into the United center were hours long, uh, and especially including
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for members of the press who had their own press entrance.
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Uh, but when groups and delegates arrived, they were told to go in through the press entrance.
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And so you have people standing for hours outside, uh, trying to get into the convention.
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Uh, you have people even in the mainstream media that are saying that it was total chaos,
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And Roger and Troy, this is the same party that's trying to say, elect us for another four
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years because we're going to get our country back on track after we've ruined it after four
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prosperous years under, uh, president Donald Trump.
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And so, uh, it's no surprise, uh, that this really is a week full of chaos.
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Look, a party that can't unite itself cannot unite, uh, the United States.
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Uh, and, uh, the violence, I guess is quite predictable.
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This of course is all the result of the Biden Harris administration trying to play both sides
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We are funding financing, uh, both sides in that conflict.
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When you make a conscious decision to unfreeze $190 billion in assets, which allows the Iranians
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to refuel their nuclear weapons development program and to finance Hamas and Hezbollah
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At the same time we give Israel, I think it's $1.4 billion in aid a year.
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Uh, and the radical element that's taken over the, the Democrat party, uh, is so powerful
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that the president and the vice president don't dare go to a joint session of Congress to greet
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They basically snub him for fear of the rabble in the streets, screaming to, uh, to, uh, destroy
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Israel, uh, and to, uh, and to, uh, support Palestine.
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It is, uh, uh, it is the greatest single dilemma in the Democrat party today.
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It's one of the other reasons why I think they're going to lose.
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Interestingly, if you saw this yesterday, uh, Barack Obama's chief strategist, a Chicagoan
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David Axelrod says publicly that the Democrat party's being way too euphoric about Kamala
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He continued to say that Trump still has a very good chance of winning.
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And in fact, he would win if the election were held today.
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Also, Charlie McClain, who is the founder of Kamala's main super PAC, Future Forward, uh,
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gave a, uh, very rare off the record interview yesterday in which he said that the actual poll
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numbers, the real poll numbers are much less rosy than what you're seeing in public.
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So, uh, this idea of her, her surge, uh, and Donald Trump's dip is not, uh, does not
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Uh, but it is also a misnomer to think this election is in 76 days because early voting starts
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in September, uh, in Pennsylvania, I think it's the 17th, uh, and it begins shortly thereafter
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So at this point, campaign wise, uh, every single day is precious time.
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I do think Kamala benefits from this, uh, contracted campaign, uh, season because she needs as little
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Well, you know, it's an interesting situation there in, uh, Chicago, Roger, because we're getting
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the full spectrum, uh, and I wanted to ask Mark about this, you know, uh, it seems it,
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it, you know, Chicago seems like you call it, you know, the Democrat Republic.
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It's just totally like it's, it's out of control.
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We see so much Democrat carnage on the streets already.
00:28:01.760
Uh, the idea that these, you know, politicians are having this conference in the city that
00:28:08.200
they've destroyed, uh, there's a certain pompous nature that, and I was going to ask Mark,
00:28:12.600
you know, what's the sentiment on the street about them having this in Chicago?
00:28:16.020
Uh, there's gotta be a lot of anger and resentment towards these people because they are who have
00:28:24.360
Well, unlike the Republican national convention in Milwaukee, which is just about an hour and
00:28:29.080
a half North of here of Chicago, where you had small businesses celebrating the fact that
00:28:34.480
the RNC was going to be there because of the influx of money that was going to go in,
00:28:44.580
You're seeing business owners leave the city for the week.
00:28:48.840
You're seeing tourists who are not part of the DNC staying away from the city of Chicago
00:28:54.140
It's laughable to have a convention in a city that has been completely destroyed by Democratic
00:29:01.360
You think about, we have a 2000 police officer shortage.
00:29:04.560
If you call 9-1-1 over 220,000 high priority 9-1-1 calls went unanswered in the city of
00:29:11.740
Chicago last year, because we have a police officer shortage.
00:29:16.400
The medical examiner's office will get there faster, uh, than the police officers, because
00:29:20.940
for the last four years, the police officers have been the lip belittled.
00:29:28.240
Uh, the police officers' hands are literally and figuratively tied behind their backs, so
00:29:37.200
At the same time, you've got the Chicago City Council basically in a war over support of
00:29:41.980
Israel, despite the fact that 20 minutes north of the city of Chicago is the second, the second
00:29:50.660
And Chicago's city council can't even agree, uh, on a resolution in support of Israel.
00:29:56.740
It's why these anti-American, pro-communist, pro-socialist, anti-Israel, uh, democratic protesters
00:30:02.960
feel so comfortable here in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention.
00:30:07.860
And last night, when Joe Biden gave his midnight speech, he validated them during his speech by
00:30:16.500
And that's going to be celebrated by these very violent, vicious, and dangerous organizations
00:30:20.640
that hate our country, hate our, hate Israel, and hate everything that we stand for.
00:30:24.300
You know, we had a very good discussion on this subject, uh, on my 77 WABC radio show, uh,
00:30:31.960
Mike Crispy, who was a Trump delegate from New Jersey to the recent Republican National
00:30:37.260
Convention, also a member of the board of the Italian American Civil Rights League, uh, put
00:30:45.520
Tim Walz, first of all, when violent radicals threatened to tear down, first desecrate, then
00:30:51.380
tear down and destroy the statue of Christopher Columbus outside the state capitol.
00:31:02.040
Then, uh, he basically said he justified their reasons.
00:31:05.840
He didn't, he didn't defend their, their violent act.
00:31:09.000
He said it should have been removed through the, through the, uh, appeals process, through the
00:31:14.380
When he disrespected Italian American culture, he completely smears Columbus, who never owned
00:31:21.880
Uh, and, uh, I, I think that Crispy's right that this is, uh, it's, it's anti, uh, it's
00:31:29.000
Uh, it's, uh, it's, uh, the same kind of thing you see today in Chicago.
00:31:36.260
Chicago under, uh, Mayor Richard J. Daley was an incredibly safe city.
00:31:41.460
I'm sure it had bad neighborhoods, but it was a city that for decades has worked.
00:31:47.620
I think Mark knows this, but maybe he doesn't understand that everybody knows, doesn't know
00:31:52.560
Uh, the lawlessness, the crime that you see in Chicago today is not different, unfortunately,
00:31:59.900
Chicago's is, is, uh, in the Chicago suburbs are experiencing a crime epidemic, uh, that
00:32:06.760
is, uh, that is a result of the failed policies.
00:32:09.640
The mayor of Chicago says the person to blame for the deterioration of the city is Richard
00:32:20.320
I mean, the Richard Nixon who founded the small business administration, or pardon me,
00:32:26.380
the business of minority business enterprise, the Richard Nixon who desegregated the public
00:32:31.500
schools, the Richard Nixon who, uh, forced, who founded the votes for the 1958 Civil Rights
00:32:37.580
Act, the Richard Nixon who increased ninefold funding for black colleges.
00:32:43.160
But the mayor of Chicago blames all of the problems today in the city of Chicago on Richard
00:32:53.160
And he doesn't even like to take the hard questions.
00:32:55.820
He's just like Kamala Harris, doesn't want to talk to the press, runs away from the press.
00:32:59.660
And when he does answer a question, he gets agitated and said, you're only asking me about
00:33:05.980
No, we're asking these questions because you're the mayor of Chicago.
00:33:09.820
It's outrageous that they continue to blame Donald Trump.
00:33:12.500
They blame, Mayor Johnson has also blamed a MAGA extremist.
00:33:17.120
But Roger, going back to your earlier point about Christopher Columbus statue, we, we're
00:33:21.280
Under Mayor Lori Lightfoot, she removed the Christopher Columbus statue, much to the
00:33:26.320
anger of a very prominent and active Italian American community here in Chicago.
00:33:35.960
It's where police officers, Chicago police officers were violently injured, many life
00:33:44.140
They were throwing frozen water bottles at police officers, lots of blood, stitches.
00:33:49.480
It was a horrific scene, all caused by these agitators and protesters and a violent mob.
00:33:57.920
And Mayor Johnson has still not pledged whether or not he's going to return the Christopher Columbus
00:34:03.000
It really is a dark stain on our city's history, the way that the police officers were treated
00:34:14.720
This is the same Democratic Party that wants to remove statues of Abraham Lincoln.
00:34:22.400
And it's why Democrats like Mayor Richard Daley is upset with the direction of the Democratic
00:34:28.740
I've heard from multiple people that have had conversations with former Chicago Mayor Daley
00:34:33.240
that he is just angry about what's happening to Chicago with the crime, with bending towards
00:34:48.720
His party wanted to help working middle class Americans.
00:34:58.360
And we're seeing that all play out in real time just down the road about a mile from here
00:35:05.240
Mark, I had heard reports that Mayor Johnson actually had to be hospitalized on numerous occasions
00:35:21.520
Multiple press reporting that he has been taken to the hospital over a dozen times for
00:35:29.060
The source of those panic attacks, there's been rumors that he's upset that he's worried
00:35:34.580
that he's upset a violent Venezuelan cartel over the migrant crisis.
00:35:39.900
He's upset about his personal life is in shambles.
00:35:48.600
When memos come out of the fifth floor of the mayor's office at City Hall, these memos
00:35:53.040
are first approved by Chicago Teacher Union officials.
00:36:02.320
But under his leadership in just a very short period of time, I mean, the city of Chicago
00:36:09.380
And the joke now here is that people never thought they'd say they missed Lori Lightfoot
00:36:15.580
because he really has turned this city from a once great city to now, as President Trump
00:36:22.380
said, I think yesterday or early today on his Truth Social, turned this once beautiful city
00:36:31.000
My earlier comments when I made a reference to Mayor Richard J.
00:36:34.500
Daley, I, of course, referring to Dick Daley, who was mayor of Chicago in the 60s, 1968
00:36:40.820
specifically, where you were discussing Mayor Richard J.
00:36:44.260
Daley, also known as Richie Daley, who by today's standards was a very successful and moderate
00:36:50.280
He has to be appalled at what his party has done to this city.
00:36:59.600
Because I want to get Mark's thoughts on some of that stuff as well.
00:37:03.560
Well, Roger, we have another video of some of the protests that are going on at the DNC
00:37:10.820
And I want to ask Mark, you know, what he thinks that these people are going to end up
00:37:13.960
doing, because it doesn't seem to me that they are very intent on, you know, supporting
00:37:17.880
the Democratic Party in this coming up election.
00:37:20.380
And in states like Michigan and states like Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, these people could
00:37:26.580
So let's roll that clip of some of the more rabid protests yesterday and get Mark's opinion
00:38:20.800
It's a tragedy. This is a Shakespearean tragedy, what's happening in once beautiful city of
00:38:26.420
Chicago. You know, there's video of people walking around Chicago protesting wearing
00:38:32.900
t-shirts that say F Israel. It's shocking. It's upsetting. And again, when you have Joe Biden
00:38:40.020
validating their violence during his speech by saying that they're making a good, they make a
00:38:46.180
good point too, I think is very dangerous for our country. They don't love our country. They hate
00:38:51.700
our country. They despise our country. They despise everything that we stand for. And unfortunately,
00:38:57.480
here in Chicago, in these democratic controlled cities, and certainly under Tim Waltz's tenure as
00:39:04.560
governor of Minnesota, what we've seen is that nobody's held accountable. And this only emboldens
00:39:10.480
them to take it to the next level. This is why stores are closing in Chicago, because you could
00:39:15.240
take up to $900 in merchandise or products and get the equivalent of a parking ticket for it. There are
00:39:22.420
no police around to stop them. And so you've got businesses shutting down. Nobody's held accountable.
00:39:27.040
And as a result of this, you're allowed to have 150,000 protesters from all over the country,
00:39:34.160
from groups that hate America to assemble here and create havoc and destroy once beautiful monuments,
00:39:43.420
destroy beautiful parks and rip down gates. Today's Democratic Party allows this. The Democratic Party of
00:39:51.660
Richard Daly's would not allow this. The Democratic Party of Truman and John F. Kennedy would not allow
00:39:57.340
this. Again, it's just sad to see where we're at. And lastly, Roger and Troy, what's remarkable is that
00:40:04.140
the Democrats talk about lifting up America here in the first day of the convention, lifting up average
00:40:09.360
hardworking middle-class Americans. But what they're doing here on the separately behind the scenes is
00:40:15.500
they're prioritizing illegal migrants, the 25,000 that have come here into the city of Chicago,
00:40:21.100
who are getting better housing conditions than residents living in the south and west sides of
00:40:25.780
Chicago. They're staying in luxury hotels. They're getting money. They're wearing brand new shoes.
00:40:29.920
They're texting on their iPhones. These are migrants. While their own residents, particularly black
00:40:36.660
residents, live in poverty with no hope, no educational opportunities, no jobs. And so it's
00:40:43.520
remarkable that on one end they can talk about how they're lifting up Americans, but on the other end,
00:40:47.780
in reality, they are destroying lives. Good point. Here's another story I really want to spend a little
00:40:56.280
bit of time on. Congressman Clay Higgins of Louisiana, a former police officer, has been investigating
00:41:03.340
the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. The number of people on
00:41:08.880
social media who insist that this never really happened, that it was a psyop, that no one really
00:41:13.360
ever shot at Trump, therefore they are insulting the memory of Corey Comparatori, the brave firefighter
00:41:21.000
who gave his life, shielding his wife and daughter and took one in the head. It is disgraceful,
00:41:27.700
yet there's a whole subculture of assassination deniers. Some of them claim that I orchestrated
00:41:34.140
this. That's particularly outrageous. But we learn more and more that it's troubling. Among other
00:41:40.360
things, Congressman Higgins has determined that the body of Thomas Matthew Crooks was cremated without
00:41:47.720
notice to anyone, including evidently his family or anyone in the federal government. Secondarily,
00:41:54.860
now we have seen surface, at least a physical image of Crooks talking on a phone. So who is
00:42:03.000
he talking to? If this is not a conspiracy, who is Crooks talking to shortly before the shooting?
00:42:10.520
We've also now seen a video of him walking through the crowd. Let's see if we can roll that.
00:42:16.520
Extraordinarily strange. I think we've also seen video of him carrying a rifle in the open that my
00:42:35.740
friend Jack Posobiec posted. Again, the most shocking thing I've heard in the last 24 hours is
00:42:42.520
that the FBI, the Secret Service, the state police, and the local police were all on different radio
00:42:49.140
frequencies, and therefore they couldn't all hear each other. So while it is true that local police
00:42:54.240
officers saw a gunman on the roof and knew he was armed, we're not certain that that was ever heard
00:43:00.640
by the federal authorities. This entire thing continues to create more questions than answers,
00:43:08.880
but make no mistake about it. The Democrats and those who control the mainstream media
00:43:13.560
and much of the internet landscape, they want this story out of the news. They want this story out of
00:43:20.980
the news. One of the things that supporters of Donald Trump, like myself and many others,
00:43:27.220
do every day is pray for the safety of Donald Trump so that there is not yet another attempt on
00:43:33.660
his life. I think those who oppose him, not all of them, obviously, but some of them recognize that
00:43:39.340
he is an existential threat, that they fear a time that they are held responsible for their
00:43:47.440
own crimes. They keep calling it revenge. No, it's not about revenge. It's about equal protection under
00:43:52.700
the law. It's about the end of a two-tiered justice system in which some people are persecuted
00:43:57.880
when they actually have committed no crimes, while others commit substantial material crimes, including
00:44:04.900
treason or bribery, in the case of Hunter and Joe and Jim Biden, and are not held accountable.
00:44:15.160
To me, this is extraordinary that we still don't have any answers as to what took place in Butler,
00:44:24.360
Pennsylvania. And again, I pray that it doesn't happen again. Mark, your thoughts.
00:44:31.520
Well, what's markable is here for the Democrat DNC convention, what they've done, Roger, around some
00:44:36.680
of the higher-end hotels is they've shut off access to all the rooftops of the apartment buildings.
00:44:42.240
They shut off access to all the rooftop pools in the area. So local residents aren't even allowed to
00:44:48.060
go on the rooftops. They're not even allowed to go up to their pools because they wanted to lock that
00:44:53.040
down. So it's okay. It's completely appropriate to lock down the rooftops and restrict access
00:44:58.820
for the Democratic National Convention. Yet this shooter can walk around completely noticed,
00:45:05.960
not unnoticed, completely noticed on this rooftop at a Trump rally, just 150 yards from where the
00:45:11.560
president was standing at the podium. And we have our Secret Service and local law enforcement agencies all
00:45:17.000
singing from a different sheet of music and on different channels so they can't even communicate.
00:45:23.680
None of this makes sense other than to say it appears almost deliberate, all of the things when
00:45:29.360
you add everything up. It just doesn't make that sort of sense. It's remarkable. But you could
00:45:36.120
certainly see a double standard here in terms of security for a DNC convention versus security for a Trump
00:45:43.900
rally. Very good point, folks. I do want to point out that yesterday's show here on the Stone Zone
00:45:50.180
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00:47:50.340
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00:48:04.000
Gentlemen, Troy, what else do you have on tap for us? Well, Roger, you know, we got a little bit left,
00:48:09.180
and a couple more clips I want to play for you guys because there is a lot going on here. One of
00:48:14.320
the worst members of Congress that I know of is a guy that used to, you know, I used to live in
00:48:20.300
Maryland, and he's a congressman from that state. His name is Jamie Raskin, and he froze last night.
00:48:25.400
Now, he kind of went off script, and see, here's exactly what happens. Jamie Raskin, he's good on
00:48:30.540
script, but when the teleprompter cocked out there for a second, he completely lost his place. I want to
00:48:36.440
play that video and get your guys' reaction on one of the worst members of Congress. This is what
00:48:41.440
happens when they go off script. He's no Donald Trump. Jamie Raskin couldn't have a rally where
00:48:46.060
he talked for an hour and 41 minutes like President Trump did in Montana just a few weeks ago. He
00:48:51.620
couldn't talk if there's not literally scripted words being put in front of him. So let's roll that
00:48:56.600
clip and get your guys' thoughts on this kind of funny moment from last night.
00:48:59.500
Someone should have told Donald Trump that the president's job under Article 2 of the Constitution.
00:49:12.820
Wow. Jamie Raskin, a man who said repeatedly that his January 6th committee would prove my
00:49:18.740
involvement in the illegal actions of January 6th when they proved nothing whatsoever. In fact,
00:49:23.400
they suburned perjury for some witnesses. They used manipulated videos and they proved nothing of
00:49:30.340
the kind. He is, of course, the son of Marcus Raskin, a famous radical, many thought a communist,
00:49:37.980
in Franklin Delano Roosevelt's circle. Right now, Jamie Raskin is engaged in a struggle with Dan Goldman
00:49:44.920
to see who can be the more wildly radical, irresponsible, congenital liar in the Congress.
00:49:51.100
And I think Raskin is still ahead in that competition.
00:49:56.160
Well, and we have one more clip that will play and we want to get, Mark, your reaction to this
00:50:01.200
as well because there's so much going on on the campaign trail. We have J.D. Vance, a short clip
00:50:07.660
of him talking about a possible VP debate. So we're going to play this clip. It's Vance talking about
00:50:14.480
a possible VP debate with Tim Walts. I want to get, Roger, your thoughts and Mark's thoughts as well
00:50:18.920
as will this VP debate between Walts and Vance have an impact on the 2024 election? Usually,
00:50:26.060
the VP debate is kind of a throwaway, but people have speculated that this year it might actually
00:50:30.980
have an effect. Let's roll that clip and get Roger's thoughts and then we'll go to you, Mark, as well.
00:50:34.980
Kit Maher, CNN. I know Donald Trump has been reported.
00:50:41.800
Don't, guys, she's one of the good CNN reporters. There's like two of them. She's okay.
00:50:46.820
Back to my question. So Donald Trump has enlisted the help of Tulsi Gabbard to prep for his debate.
00:50:53.900
I'd like to know how you were prepping for a debate with Tim Walts, who has described himself
00:50:57.900
as a bad debater. Who's helping you and how are you prepping?
00:51:01.460
Well, I found a good friend from back home who embellishes and lies a lot and I'm having
00:51:05.520
him stand in for Tim Walts. That's what we're doing during our debate.
00:51:08.380
But look, what, what, what, all kidding aside, what we're going to do is we're going to focus
00:51:15.400
a lot on policy, right? What I, what I, the way that I'm trying to prepare is to try to make sure
00:51:20.060
that we're, we're prepared to answer the American people's questions on how we're going to make
00:51:23.880
their lives better, how we're going to make their community safer, how we're going to bring back
00:51:27.660
prosperity and low prices to the American economy. And we're going to focus on policy. And then obviously
00:51:32.820
we're going to answer whatever questions the moderators have. That's how we're focusing.
00:51:35.880
And by the way, just on, on, on president Trump, we have to remember Tulsi Gabbard was a democratic
00:51:41.940
Congresswoman just a few years ago. She ran against Kamala Harris back in 2020. And now she
00:51:47.920
is firmly behind the Trump Vance ticket. We're actually the ticket that is supported by common
00:51:54.300
sense people across the spectrum. I think Tulsi Gabbard, you saw her, I mean, she basically ended
00:51:59.020
Kamala's campaign on the debate stage. So she's a hell of a debater, but she's also one of these people
00:52:03.720
who believes in some common sense things like we shouldn't send America's sons and daughters
00:52:07.760
off to fight in stupid wars, right? Amen to that Tulsi. And I, I, again, I think it's really telling
00:52:14.280
that the campaign that has brought a lot of Democrats and Republicans and independents together,
00:52:19.200
it's the campaign of Donald J. Trump. And that's very important.
00:52:22.160
Well, excellent clip, and he makes a very good point. Look, Trump is a, is a championship debater.
00:52:29.640
He's proven it. He doesn't do traditional debate preparation in which somebody stands in and plays
00:52:35.480
Biden and they set up a battery of, he just doesn't do it that way. He, I think Tulsi Gabbard can be of
00:52:42.400
huge assistance to him. First of all, because of her finite knowledge of Kamala Harris's record and her,
00:52:47.640
kind of her, her tactics in the debate, but Trump doesn't need coaching on how to debate. Uh, but I
00:52:53.360
do think she can assist him with her superior knowledge, uh, and her study, uh, of Kamala Harris,
00:52:59.260
who she clearly bested, uh, in a very memorable moment that we played several times here on the show.
00:53:06.500
Uh, the entire attack on, uh, on, uh, Vance, uh, is, uh, is, uh, is kind of interesting. I mean,
00:53:13.200
what it really is, is elitism. So at some point I figured they figured out the guy they picked for
00:53:19.620
vice president is in fact pretty weird. So what other way to deflect that is that other than to
00:53:26.220
say that, well, it's J.D. Vance that is weird. Now I, Vance seems a lot more, I don't know, normal,
00:53:32.280
uh, to me than, than Tim Walsh, who seems to be, uh, you know, uh, on some kind of sugar high,
00:53:39.140
the way the guy jumps around, but more importantly, his record is a radical record.
00:53:44.840
It is a record of destruction. It's a record of being politically correct. Uh, he's lied about
00:53:51.280
his military record. They continue to deny that in the mainstream media. It's more than documented.
00:53:57.020
Uh, and of course, uh, his, his policies, uh, have left that state, uh, during the 2020 Antifa BLM
00:54:07.200
riots when he delayed three days before, uh, ordering the national guard, even though the
00:54:13.920
mayor had asked for it, then he blamed the mayor who never had the authority to activate, uh, the
00:54:19.460
Minnesota national guard. Uh, it, it, I think they realize that his radicalism is a problem. I look
00:54:27.020
forward to this vice presidential debate. You're right, Troy. Traditionally, uh, first of all,
00:54:32.300
traditionally there were ever were vice presidential debates. So, uh, Lyndon Johnson
00:54:36.800
and Henry Cabot Lodge never debated in 1960, for example. Uh, but more recently they become
00:54:42.760
an American tradition. I think this one could be an epic clash between two completely different
00:54:47.720
philosophies. Tim Walsh is a radical leftist progressive who seems to have some kind of
00:54:53.740
fixation with China. He worked in a communist Chinese funded university. He visited China 25 times.
00:55:01.340
Uh, he went on his honeymoon. He went to China. Uh, China is our most dangerous adversary on the
00:55:08.540
planet. Uh, I wonder if JD Vance asks him whether China has an ill intent, intent towards the United
00:55:16.600
States, how he would answer that question. I do too. And, uh, Mark, your thoughts on, uh,
00:55:21.940
this VP debate and, uh, JD Vance's response there. Well, for starters, I believe that, um, you know,
00:55:28.720
the, our founding fathers are rolling over in their graves and the ghost of Joseph Stalin is dancing in
00:55:34.180
the streets with the Harris waltz ticket. Uh, it is just so extreme, uh, that, uh, you know, it's
00:55:41.620
the average American is, uh, can't relate to the extremist policies of waltz and Harris. And this
00:55:48.120
country is only going to get further, uh, into, uh, socialism, uh, with these two guys. But my last
00:55:53.580
point to this is JD Vance, and in order to find a stand-in, he ought to see if Maduro, Xi Jinping,
00:55:59.680
Vladimir Putin, or Kim Jong-un, or are available to help him prep for debating with, uh, uh, Tim
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