00:02:04.320Well, I continue to be perplexed by events over at Fox Television where they have just
00:02:09.240let Maria Bartiromo, who to me was their single greatest talent, one of the best investigative
00:02:15.900reporters, one of the best interviewers in media today, they suspended her from the air.
00:02:22.980Reports that she had been fired are incorrect.
00:02:25.860In fact, she has a contract with Fox that takes her through 2029.
00:02:31.660The problem with that means that if she's bound by that contract, she does not have the ability to appear anyplace else.
00:02:39.780I, for one, will really miss her reporting, but I'm not the only one.
00:02:44.140President Donald Trump, I'm told, is livid over Fox News' abrupt filing of Maria Bartiromo, who, he agrees with me, was one of the network's most prominent pro-Trump personalities.
00:02:57.400This is a hard lesson, unfortunately, that we've seen before.
00:03:02.380Kimberly Guilfoyle, Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, Tucker Carlson, back when he was a Trump supporter.
00:03:08.800All of them learned the hard way that, well, the folks at Fox seem to care more about money or perhaps its political correctness.
00:03:17.520There are reports that Bartiromo was suspended because he wanted to cover President Donald Trump's national address,
00:03:26.760in which he pointed out that the Chinese communists had illegally and illicitly obtained 200 million U.S. voter records.
00:03:36.440To me, that's a huge national story, and one has to wonder why the powers that be at Fox did not want Bartiromo to cover that story, if that report is accurate.
00:03:50.460I have to note that this is the final weekend for summer style after Labor Day. No more silk, no more seersucker, no more linen, no more two-tone spectator shoes that I'm so fond of. I have to turn my straw Panama Optimo hat in for a felt Hamburg.
00:04:10.680So, my favorite season of men's style, summer, has now passed, and those are the rules. Now, people can ask me, well, what if I live in Florida or what if I live in a warm climb? No, the rules are the rules. No white after Labor Day until Memorial Day, and that's the way it is.
00:04:30.700Meanwhile, the Lindsay Clancy jury has reached the astonishing point where 12 people cannot unanimously decide criminal responsibility after the defendant admitted killing all three of her children in a shocking crime.
00:04:47.560Clancy strangled her children, ages 3, 5, and 8, respectively, in the family home in January 2023.
00:04:55.740Prosecutors argued that she created an opportunity by sending her husband away and acted deliberately
00:05:02.660The defense maintained that severe postpartum psychosis left her legally incapable of appreciating the wrongfulness of what she was doing
00:05:12.640Frankly, this is shocking to me and makes very little sense
00:05:16.560After more than 38 hours of deliberation, jurors told the judge, William Sullivan, for a third time that they could not agree
00:05:25.280Their latest note said with a heavy heart that unanimity that is required by law was impossible.
00:05:32.640Sullivan moved towards declaring a mistrial while allowing the defense to seek emergency appellate relief.
00:05:39.300The facts in this case make the inability to reach any verdict deeply unsettling to me.
00:05:45.080The legal system can recognize psychiatric disease without allowing sympathy to swallow accountability altogether.
00:05:53.020Prosecutors presented evidence of the planning, the three defenseless children ending up dead,
00:05:58.620and Clancy does not dispute that she killed them.
00:06:00.880When undeniable acts become submerged beneath therapeutic explanations,
00:06:06.360the victims begin disappearing from the story.
00:06:10.920Particularly the cult of personality that has developed around Clancy
00:06:15.360with thousands of impressionable, self-important women glued to TikTok,
00:06:20.180believing they're finding out the real truth about the case,0.99
00:06:24.600when in actuality, what they're doing is public relations for a murdering fiend.
00:06:30.360Hopefully, if the mistrial goes through, the new trial will not descend into farce,
00:06:35.560and Clancy will not join, say, O.J. Simpson and Casey Inch in the examples of what happens
00:06:41.240when the justice system of America fails us all.
00:06:45.340Meanwhile, good news for the Trump administration heading into the midterm elections. The August jobs report landed far more favorably to the Trump administration than most economists had predicted or expected.
00:06:58.840Employers added 162,000 jobs, compared with forecasts clustered around 53,000 to 65,000, while unemployment held strong at 4.1%.
00:07:11.620Private payrolls rose by 127,000. Manufacturing added 16,000 jobs. Restaurants and bars and other hospitality added 59,000. And average hourly earnings were up 3.1% from a year earlier.
00:07:29.380This is the wage growth that Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besson, keeps talking about.
00:07:35.700Meanwhile, just as important, in June and July, the predictions were revised upwards to a combined 55,000 jobs,
00:07:44.060turning July's previously reported decline into a gain.
00:07:48.540The report weakens the recession narrative pushed by panicans and Democrats and doubters of the administration's economic agenda.
00:07:56.800When you consider that unemployment, pardon me, inflation hovers at 3.4, far lower than the 9% that was the peak under Joe Biden, and the fact that we have safer neighborhoods with all of the crime statistics, whether it be murder, car theft, homebreaking, violent assault, all down in every category,
00:08:18.700the administration has an increasingly good story to tell and lay out for the American voters
00:08:24.300before the 2026 elections. Given this resilient labor market, it gives the Federal Reserve more
00:08:31.440room to make monetary policy tight if inflation continues to be slightly above the target.
00:08:37.820President Trump renewed his criticism of the Fed after the report, while policymakers waiting for
00:08:42.780the next inflation readings before deciding what comes next. The jobs report therefore delivered
00:08:48.900two messages at once, in a way. Recession fears look less persuasive today than they did a month
00:08:54.900ago, but economic strength may also make cheaper mortgages and business loans harder to obtain.
00:09:02.240Kevin Warsh was not appointed as chair of the Federal Reserve to follow in the footsteps
00:09:06.360of his disgraced predecessor, Jerome, too late Powell.
00:09:11.320He was put in work in congruence with the Trump renaissance.
00:09:14.760Warsh needs to get in gear and bring interest rates down where they belong
00:09:18.540so that the nation's economy can reach its maximum potential.
00:09:22.320I point out to you that Jerome Powell cut interest rates
00:09:25.760when the unemployment and the inflation rate were less favorable than they are today
00:09:30.260in order to try to help Joe Biden politically.
00:09:34.920But in this case, I still believe that we should not have an increase in interest rates.
00:09:40.180We should actually have a cut specifically to make housing more affordable.
00:09:46.300Meanwhile, the administration has taken its newest mail-in ballot regulations directly to the Supreme Court on an emergency timetable.
00:09:55.660This, I think, demonstrates the administration's commitment to make sure that the 2026 elections are free, fair and honest.
00:10:03.300the U.S. Postal Service rules would require states using the mail for federal ballots to provide voter information through a federal system
00:10:12.520and use approved outbound and return envelopes carrying unique barcodes.
00:10:18.580Under this new regulation, the United States Postal Service could decline to process ballots that do not satisfy these new requirements.
00:10:26.400U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani, who was an Obama appointee to the bench, temporarily blocked implementation of the new regulation, saying that challenges are likely to show the system intrudes on the state's constitutional role in administering elections and raising serious concerns about whether the Postal Service could implement the system competently this close to the November election.
00:10:52.820The administration asks the Supreme Court for emergency leave, while a related request remains pending before the Federal Appeals Court.
00:11:01.380The administration makes the case that the existing postal regulations gives it sufficient authority,
00:11:08.120while liberal voting rights groups argue that election administration belongs entirely to the states unless Congress acts.
00:11:15.560Isn't it strange how liberals all of a sudden become supporters of states' rights
00:11:20.920When it comes to this one particular issue
00:11:23.600They want the states to have control because in blue states and cities
00:11:27.880It's valley arc anarchy with no safeguards and no rules
00:11:32.160This is the type of system they can gain
00:11:34.660We saw it on full display in the 2020 presidential elections
00:11:38.620The Supreme Court now must step in and stop this madness
00:11:42.540The United States Postal Service must be allowed to drive a state through the heart of the left-wing vote fraud machine and enforce their lawful authority during the mid-term elections.
00:11:53.760I applaud this move by the Trump administration.
00:11:57.200Unfortunately, thanks to an incomprehensible court decision, Missouri has now one of the strangest election law situations in the country.
00:12:06.180Candidates who were nominated in August under congressional districts that, barring federal intervention, will not exist for the November general election.
00:12:14.480The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday that the Republican-backed map approved last year never legally took effect because Democrat opponents successfully triggered the state's referendum process.
00:12:29.540More than 300,000 signatures were submitted seeking a statewide vote on the redistricting legislation
00:12:36.400Secretary of State Denny Hoskins eventually rejected that effort, but not until primary day
00:12:42.940The state's high court said that even though the petition effort was not valid, according to the Secretary of State
00:12:48.860The old congressional mask must remain in place anyway
00:12:52.380This is an egregious and senseless act of obstruction and a political act by the Missouri Supreme Court.
00:13:00.740Voters already chose nominees under the decided districts, leaving candidates and election officials confronting a general election on completely different lines.
00:13:11.600Republican Attorney General Catherine Hannaway says she will seek relief from the U.S. Supreme Court, who shall have to step in to stop this madness.
00:13:20.220Missouri deserves to get a federal ruling before ballots are finalized and printed,
00:13:24.800and it should restore the process unimpeded.
00:13:28.040The courts want to prevent Republicans from winning the redistricting wars,
00:13:31.800even if it means robbing the people of their choices.
00:13:35.220Voters went to the polls in August, believing one electoral map governed the races,
00:13:40.620and entered September with another different set of districts.
00:13:46.120This is precisely why so many people have no faith in our political system or process.
00:13:53.320Meanwhile, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order concerning beef, with country of origin labeling becoming a major part of it.
00:14:02.500The move follows the administration's decision to temporarily increase imports for some low-tariff beef in an effort to reduce high retail prices.
00:14:12.040That decision brought immediate resistance from cattle producers in the United States, concerned that additional foreign supplies could depress domestic cattle prices without doing enough to rebuild America's own herd.
00:14:25.380The ranchers and farmers don't acknowledge the fact that the actual herd is down substantially in terms of the size.
00:14:32.500It's not that there's more beef in the United States.
00:14:35.440There isn't enough beef in the United States, which is why the president has made this move.
00:14:40.760It is important that the ranchers respond with their long-standing demand for clearer labeling so shoppers can distinguish beef from cattle born, raised, and slaughtered in the United States from the imported product.
00:14:56.660But current federal laws allow qualifying meat to carry a voluntary product of the USA label, and the Trump administration's orders are expected to change that.
00:15:06.580Americans dealing with tight cattle supply and rebuilding herds takes years, decimated by the radical environmental policies of Joe Biden.
00:15:15.340Me? I just want a good medium rare hamburger at a reasonable price.
00:15:19.780And thanks to the Trump administration, I think that there's a good possibility that I will get one.
00:15:25.440I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone. Don't go away because we'll be right back.
00:15:30.680This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:15:34.260He likes politics, and he's a professional at the highest level.
00:16:25.420The administration's long-running dispute with the Smithsonian
00:16:29.500has moved beyond arguments about exhibits into allegations of federal civil rights violations.
00:16:36.500A joint Interior Department and White House letter says that officials have uncovered evidence
00:16:41.280suggesting that Smithsonian leadership may have created a hostile workplace
00:16:45.660or allocated opportunities, funding, and benefits according to race, ethnicity, or other protected characteristics.
00:16:53.140The administration has warned that federal agencies could withdraw forms of discretionary cooperation,
00:16:58.800including artifact loans, procurement assistance, and grants
00:17:03.080if the institution does not address the concerns.
00:17:06.780The Smithsonian receives roughly $1 billion annually in federal funding
00:17:13.100and that may be put in jeopardy because of their alleged infractions.
00:17:18.220The evidence will determine whether this develops into a civil rights enforcement case that has legs.
00:17:23.600It was not too long ago that we learned that the Smithsonian had an exhibit
00:17:27.400in which they claimed that President Richard Nixon had been impeached,
00:17:31.260which is historically and legally incorrect.
00:17:34.820President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency
00:17:36.880rather than put the country through the agony of impeachment.
00:17:40.360Perfect example, the Smithsonian reporting a politically correct but incorrect conclusion.
00:17:46.980Smithsonian museums have frequently allowed the DEI concepts
00:17:51.580and progressive interpretations of history to shape its exhibits.
00:17:55.440Therefore, it should come as no surprise if the Smithsonian's employment practices follow that same pattern.
00:18:03.880Liberals argue that political officials are attempting to dictate how historians and curators interpret America's past.
00:18:11.540But this is what they have always done. Academia is riddled with liberals.
00:18:16.460They're not unbiased. They're giving you their point of view.
00:18:19.560This is also true of the so-called historians.
00:18:22.840Democrats just no longer control the process, and that's what they're really upset about.
00:18:27.300This is proof that elections have consequences, and the consequences in this case is removing the leftist cancer from the Smithsonian.
00:18:35.520Civil rights laws are now being applied fairly. It's no longer a cudgel for the use of liberal policy.
00:18:41.540All races are expected to be treated fairly under the law, meaning no affirmative action and no special treatment.0.76
00:18:49.320The diversity gravy train is being derailed. We have the Trump administration for thanking of that. But this whole idea that every problem in the country was caused by white men or any other political narrative put forward in the Smithsonian, such as the idea that Richard Nixon was impeached when he wasn't, well, those days are over.0.98
00:19:12.620When we come back, big news out of the state of Kansas where the Teamsters, longtime stalwarts of the Democrat Party, have switched over to support the Republican candidate for governor, something we have not seen in decades.
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00:21:37.120Here in the sunshine state of Florida, U.S. Congressman and Florida Republican gubernatorial nominee Byron Donalds is making the contention that merely telling young voters socialism has failed on a historical basis will not adequately address the pressing concerns dominating their lives today.
00:21:56.320Indeed, a look at the poll shows that just the title, Socialism, does not repel younger voters as it should if they understood the impact of those policies.
00:22:07.500The Republican nominee for Governor of Florida told the Daily Caller,
00:22:11.320Younger Americans want a credible path to owning a house, finding work that pays well, starting families, and accumulating wealth.
00:22:19.980His proposals include lowering permitting costs that add to housing prices, expanding apprenticeships and vocational pathways outside the four-year college model, as well as forcing universities to become more transparent about whether expensive degrees produce economic value.
00:22:39.000Congressman Donalds has also reiterated his support for eliminating the H-1B visa program
00:22:45.480And returning to a quota-based legal immigration system
00:22:49.360Arguing that immigration policy should give priority to American workers
00:22:54.440Governor Ron DeSantis endorsed Byron Donalds this week
00:22:59.180There has been some tension between the two of them in the past
00:23:01.980But the Republican Party of Florida is now united
00:23:05.180I think Byron Donald is making some key arguments here. Younger adults encounter power prices far beyond those faced by many previous generations. Large education costs and debt and an unemployment market being reshaped by automation, globalization, and immigration.
00:23:23.400Donald is trying to translate the Trump-era Republican focus on trade, immigration, and domestic production
00:23:30.240into more of a theory of economic growth that should benefit to appeal to younger voters.
00:23:37.500This is exactly the message the Republicans need to hear.
00:23:41.700It's fine to point out socialism is morally bankrupt and how it has failed in other places,
00:23:46.700But without a counter-proposal to make America a better place, younger voters are going to tune it out or buy into the hope and change narrative of the Democrats that's never very specific.
00:23:59.160They'd be more apt to embrace the false promises of a radical left.
00:24:03.840Donald here is very wise to reframe the debate surrounding the actual impact of the policies that he's proposing versus the policies put forward by the Democrats.
00:24:16.700Meanwhile, in an interesting development, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters president, Sean O'Brien, has endorsed Republican Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas.
00:24:28.880This is another sign that the old relationships between organized labor and party politics is becoming less predictable in the age of Donald J. Trump.
00:24:38.540O'Brien endorsed Marshall for re-election in Kansas, praising his willingness to work across party lines on labor legislation.
00:24:47.380Teamsters Local 696 in Topeka, Kansas, has also backed Marshall.
00:24:51.960The senator supports proposals, including the Faster Labor Contracts Act, the Warehouse Workers Protection Act, and Railway Safety legislation.
00:25:02.020And he led the Overtime Wages Relief Act, which created a federal income tax exemption on specified overtime earnings as part of President Trump's major tax legislation as part of the big, beautiful bill.
00:25:15.740That does not mean that Teamsters have become a Republican organization by any stretch of the imagination.
00:25:21.560Union leadership and local chapters remain politically divided, and individual members support candidates across the spectrum.
00:25:28.760Other Teamsters bodies have endorsed Democrats in the 2026 races, while O'Brien's Republican outreach has generated some internal criticism inside the union.
00:25:38.620The significance, though, cannot be understated.
00:25:40.980Republican politics under President Trump has placed greater emphasis on tariffs, domestic manufacturing, immigration restriction, overtime tax relief, and protection of American workers, as well as other issues designed to appeal to the wage earners who historically belonged to the old Democrat coalition.
00:26:01.120President Trump is slowly but surely remaking the Republican Party into the party of the working man and the working family.
00:26:08.120The more the Republican Party consistently adopts Trump's America First economic policies, the more they will be able to rely on support from elements of organized labor in a way that was previously unfathomable.
00:26:22.620Meanwhile, for decades, presidents and members of Congress have promised a leaner federal government.
00:26:29.400This time, the payroll numbers have unmistakably moved.
00:26:32.400According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, they now show federal unemployment fell by another 5,000 jobs in August to approximately 2.674 million.
00:26:44.660The comparable figure was about 3.10 million in January of 2025.
00:26:51.360This is a reduction of roughly 336,000 positions or just over 11%.
00:26:57.720If you exclude the post office, the contraction has been even more pronounced over the past year.
00:27:03.580Most of the decline occurred during President Trump's first year back in office at the peak of the Doge era.
00:27:10.840August produced a particularly stark contrast.
00:27:13.300Private employers added 127,000 jobs, while federal employment fell once again.
00:27:20.840Headcount, however, is only half of the story.
00:27:23.920Smaller government is not automatically a more efficient government.
00:27:27.720Agencies still have to process veterans' claims, passports, social security matters.
00:27:33.340They have to enforce laws, inspect facilities, manage contracts, and perform thousands of functions that citizens notice only when they stop working.
00:27:43.240This is why it's important to automate bureaucracy using AI and nascent technologies to reduce the need for excessive manpower in Washington, D.C. and by the U.S. government.
00:27:54.640When agencies maintain or improve their performance with substantially fewer employees, the public will increasingly get behind smaller but more efficient government.
00:28:05.500Productivity numbers will ultimately tell the entire story.
00:28:08.960Washington is measurably smaller than it was when President Trump was returned to office.
00:28:13.940Now the challenge is to create an efficient government that does not overly burden the American taxpayer.
00:28:20.600That, of course, will be a tall order, but the Trump administration is up to the challenge.
00:28:24.360After all, they have already given us the largest single tax cut in American history,
00:28:29.800as well as cutting the tax on tips, cutting the tax on overtime.
00:28:34.560And for the first time under Donald Trump, 88% of those receiving Social Security benefits will pay no tax on them.
00:28:45.080The artificial intelligence race is rapidly becoming an energy and construction race. The United States retains a commanding lead by several measures. Stanford Data cited Fox News counted 5,427 American data centers in 2025, compared with just 449 in China, while U.S. private AI investment reaches roughly $286 billion against a mere $12 billion in China.
00:29:34.960While Vice President J.D. Vance says the United States cannot remain
00:29:38.720The AI leader without constructing far more electricity generation
00:29:43.280China currently generates roughly three times as much electricity as the United States today.
00:29:49.740The key thing to remember here is that data centers do not necessarily have to utilize local water or tap into the grid for local electricity.
00:30:00.000There are technologies that can cool a data center that are completely closed loop, that don't have to utilize local water.
00:30:08.660And there are at least three technologies that are closed loop to provide the electricity to fuel the data center.
00:30:17.360That's what Congressman Byron Donalds has been talking about in Florida.
00:30:20.800So data centers do not necessarily have to utilize local water or tap into the grid and cause increases in the local utility rates.
00:30:32.280This changes the way technology competition has to be understood.
00:30:35.520Advanced AI requires chips and algorithms, but it also consumes enormous quantities of electricity and depends on transformers, transmission lines, gas infrastructure, nuclear plants, cooling systems, and physical constructions, unless done the way I've just outlined, both of which can be completely internal and closed loop.
00:30:55.980China can often approve and build large infrastructure projects much faster than the United States,
00:31:02.620although that speed comes from a political and regulatory system that's radically different than America's.0.92
00:31:09.000We obviously should not abandon federalism in a mad rush to compete with China, but we simply must out-innovate them.0.78
00:31:16.000That's what I'm talking about in terms of building these systems in which data centers can be completely and totally fueled and cooled0.96
00:31:23.420without disrupting local water or electricity rates.
00:31:28.100The breakthrough that wins the AI race will ultimately be written in the laboratory.
00:31:32.180Whether it can operate at a national scale will depend on how many megawatts
00:31:36.380America actually is able to produce without tapping into the grid.
00:31:42.180The Trump administration has placed a major legal immigration change
00:31:48.660The Department of Homeland Security is considering a rule
00:31:51.680that would end employment authorization for certain H-4 spouses of H-1B visa holders,
00:32:01.920reversing a policy in effect since the dark, dark days of Barack Obama in 2015.
00:32:08.740Under the current system, some spouses of skilled foreign workers can obtain permission to work
00:32:15.160while their families wait for an employment-based green card.
00:32:18.260The newly listed rule would restore the older policy under which those spouses generally could not receive employment authorization simply through their H-4 status.
00:32:29.040The United States has approved 228, 147 initial and renewable H-4 work authorizations between fiscal 2023 and 2025, according to calculations cited by Forbes, although that figure should not be confused with the number of people currently working under the program.
00:32:50.980This dispute exposes two different problems inside the legal immigration system.
00:32:55.620H-4 employment has taken a temporary guest worker program that was actually created for H-1B professionals and expanded into a second labor pool through spouses, increasing competition for American workers.
00:33:11.380This rule change will cut off another way that the immigration system is being abused to flood our country with foreigners taking jobs from Americans.0.93
00:33:20.740They've gained the system in a myriad of ways in order to hasten the demographic collapse of our country0.88
00:33:27.120This is why we must tighten every potential loophole
00:33:30.520It's not about lacking compassion or being inhospitable to our fellow man1.00
00:33:34.900It's about making clear to foreigners that the invasion must stop now0.98
00:33:38.720And when it comes to jobs, that Americans have priority
00:33:42.420That is the philosophy of the Trump administration
00:33:45.760If you're just tuning in, you're in the Stone Zone
00:33:49.440and I'm Roger Stone. Federal prosecutors have charged a Los Angeles man with crossing the line
00:33:56.760from inflammatory political speech into criminal threats. Benjamin Azariah Southworth, 40, was
00:34:04.780arrested Thursday after a federal grand jury indicted him on one count of threatening the
00:34:10.440life of President Donald Trump, one count of cyber-stalking, and one count involving harassing
00:34:16.720interstate telephone calls. Prosecutors alleged that Southworth posted material explicitly
00:34:23.320advocating President Trump's killing, published the residential address of a lawyer who represented
00:34:29.700President Trump, and repeatedly targeted members of the lawyer's family with both messages and calls.
00:34:36.780If convicted on all counts, he faces a statutory maximum sentence of 12 years. The Secret Service
00:34:45.200and the FBI are investigating this case. The case represents a useful First Amendment0.98
00:34:51.740distinction at a time of intense political rhetoric from the radical left. Legitimate
00:34:58.040threats, targeted intimidation, and cyber-stalking Occupy are not protected speech. Courts have
00:35:06.320spent decades drawing that boundary because an overly broad definition of threats can chill
00:35:14.320lawful speech, while an overly narrow one can leave targeted people exposed to credible violence
00:35:21.200and threats. Recent assassination attempts and threats involving President Trump make those
00:35:27.760questions especially serious. We were one centimeter away from seeing President Trump
00:35:33.880assassinated publicly in Butler, Pennsylvania. I thank the good Lord for preserving his life.
00:36:51.820The Customs and Border Patrol is tearing out President Trump's Executive Order 14165, securing our borders, and Proclamation 10886,
00:37:02.060which declared a national emergency at our southern border after Southwest's encounters surged during the Biden administration.
00:37:10.540What is going up now is a modern upgrade.
00:37:13.260The smart wall, unveiled by the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection in October of 2025,
00:37:20.540is actually a physical barrier and a persistent detection system built as one machine across nearly 2,000 miles.
00:37:28.760steel, sensors, roads, drones, and satellites.
00:37:33.240Remember they told us that it couldn't be done?
00:37:35.900The Customs and Border Patrol publishes that work on its smart wall map,
00:37:40.260an interactive tractor of the entire 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border
00:37:47.260from the Pacific near San Diego to the Gulf near Brownsville, Texas.
00:37:52.620The agency updates the markers weekly as construction moves.
00:37:56.060The map covers a new primary wall, replacement wall, secondary wall, waterborne barriers, vehicle barrier, and detection-only miles,
00:38:06.880stretches of remote or park terrain where the Custom and Border Patrol is installing cameras, sensors, and towers instead of 30 feet of steel.
00:38:16.580The map tracks 1,954 miles southwest by project status awarded under construction and completed since January 20, 2025.
00:38:28.460Colors separate the new primary wall, the replacement wall, the secondary wall, the waterboard barrier, the vehicle barrier, and the detection on the stretches.
00:38:38.680The table shows about 193 completed across all types, with hundreds more currently under construction.
00:38:47.560Detection only in miles marked terrain were the agencies installing cameras and sensors instead of a 30-foot steel wall.
00:38:56.480Trump's first term was focused on height, length, and presence, about 458 miles of mostly steel barriers from 2017 to 21.
00:39:05.900the bulk of it, replacement fencing, and only a few dozens of miles of new wall of previously unfenced areas.
00:39:14.480The second term version builds on that work as a technological operation system.
00:39:23.340The wall is changing to match the technology now available.
00:39:27.860Contracts covering hundreds of miles of these upgrades have been awarded from the $46.5 billion
00:39:34.200set aside in the 2025 Big Beautiful Bill, signed back on July 4th.
00:39:41.160New and replacement primary walls use tall steel bollards.
00:39:45.360In many sections, a second parallel wall creates an enforcement zone with a road in between.
00:39:52.320Along the Rio Grande, syndrical waterborne barriers and nets are meant to block swimming and small boat crossings.
00:39:59.860Vehicle barriers and low-profile rails appear in rugged stretches as parts of Big Bend, where a 30-foot wall on a cliff would, of course, be pointless.
00:40:11.140The sensors sit on and around that steel.
00:40:14.360Ground sensors, radars, camera, lighting, and acoustic monitors feed a constant technological stream.
00:40:22.120Autonomous towers watch the line without an agent in the cab.