The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - President Trump Makes Triumphant Return to Washington D.C.

00:00:00.000 The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone.

00:00:07.580 Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.

00:00:11.640 He is a New York Times best-selling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.

00:00:17.260 As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues,

00:00:22.640 and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.

00:00:28.320 Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.

00:00:33.640 And now, here's your host, Roger Stone.

00:00:39.380 Ladies and gentlemen, my name is Troy Smith.

00:00:42.060 I will be hosting the Stone Zone here today in Roger's absence.

00:00:46.100 We do have a long Roger clip that we want to play, but I want to start off the show real quickly by breaking some news here because it's just breaking now.

00:00:52.620 President Trump has reportedly selected Florida Representative Matt Gaetz to serve as Attorney General in his next administration.

00:01:01.400 The former president has also reportedly named former House Democrat Tulsi Gabbard to be his Director of National Intelligence.

00:01:10.240 This is a huge step in bringing together this coalition that Roger and I have talked about for the better part of a year here on the Stone Zone,

00:01:19.960 the political realignment that America has been waiting for for some time.

00:01:24.600 And this political realignment, folks, has happened because for so long,

00:01:29.400 between the Mitt Romney party of the Republicans and the Obama party of the Democrats,

00:01:34.080 the working class people of this country have been left behind.

00:01:37.320 And President Trump really was the first politician in many years, really since Ronald Reagan,

00:01:43.620 to represent that working man and to rebuild that coalition of working class Democrats and working class Republicans

00:01:50.620 who want to put aside other differences in order for the country to succeed.

00:01:57.020 Just massive news is we also have news that there are several other people that have been nominated to this administration.

00:02:05.460 Mike Huckabee, yesterday, was announced as the U.S. Ambassador to Israel,

00:02:11.800 along with several other individuals that we're going to be discussing later in the show here today.

00:02:16.520 But we don't want to do too much here because we will have Mark Vargas with us on the back half to discuss these latest developments.

00:02:24.340 So, folks, as I said, my name is Troy Smith here, host in the show.

00:02:28.380 Let's roll this clip of Roger as he discusses really groundbreaking stuff that's going on inside of Trump's administration.

00:02:38.100 This is a great interview by Roger where he talks about the goings on.

00:02:42.200 So let's roll that.

00:02:43.300 And when we come back, we'll have Mark Vargas for the news.

00:02:47.360 Thank you.

00:02:47.720 We'll be right back.

00:03:17.720 Well, I was fine with it.

00:03:19.620 I knew that you were busy.

00:03:20.720 I was just hoping to get some of that Mar-a-Lago energy that you were around.

00:03:25.700 You, more than anyone, has been a part of getting Donald Trump ready for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

00:03:33.280 You helped him through the first time.

00:03:35.500 Now, what did it feel like for you to see your hand-picked candidate win and become the 47th president of the United States?

00:03:42.940 Well, I was very happy, first of all, for him, because his victory is a testimony to his personal resilience, his personal strength, his personal stamina, his personal perseverance.

00:03:58.600 It was a, it was a, it was really a landmark.

00:04:03.580 The man is a lion.

00:04:05.160 There's just no, no question about it.

00:04:06.900 This isn't just winning an election.

00:04:09.160 This is winning an election with the full illegitimate authority of the United States government trying to bankrupt you, trying to throw you in jail, trying to keep you off the ballot.

00:04:21.680 It's Herculean in its, in its scope.

00:04:24.920 I mean, look, prior to this, I make an argument that, well, it was Richard Nixon who had the greatest political comeback in American history.

00:04:32.520 He was dead and buried, losing a razor-thin election in 1960, then losing a race for governor of California in 1962.

00:04:42.620 But in a strange way, the murder of JFK, the murder of Dr. King, the murder of Robert Kennedy, and the disastrous Vietnam War created the sea, part of the seas in a way that allowed for, truly up until that time, the greatest comeback in American political history.

00:05:02.440 Donald Trump has now beaten that record in spades.

00:05:05.600 I like to think on election night that someplace Richard Nixon was looking down from heaven and smiling.

00:05:11.680 So it was a personal victory for the president, and for that, I am very happy.

00:05:18.340 But it's also a great victory for the country, because I think America is now going to enter into a golden age of peace and prosperity, of equal opportunity, of affordable housing, of low prices, of secure neighborhoods, where we can do away with the scourge of drugs.

00:05:41.260 And really, America is on the cusp of its greatest time since 1776.

00:05:49.580 Donald Trump is the right man at the right time for this incredible job.

00:05:54.160 And what's really amazing, Stephen, is that the American people saw through the tsunami of lies by the mainstream media, the tsunami of invective, the tsunami of smear that was used against him.

00:06:11.420 They saw through the lawfare tactics in which they tried to bankrupt him, throw him in jail, keep him off the ballot.

00:06:18.580 But so it is through all of that.

00:06:22.520 Now, I don't think the future could be any brighter than it is today for this country.

00:06:28.280 I agree.

00:06:29.120 I think my viewers would agree with that as well.

00:06:31.880 One thing I am nervous about, speaking of Richard Nixon and the government railroading you, you lived through the Russia hoax.

00:06:39.840 Are we going to see another Russia hoax 2.0, something totally different?

00:06:45.680 Are they already lining impeachments up against this man?

00:06:50.260 You have to assume yes.

00:06:51.980 I mean, when I watched Joe Biden after the election, I don't know.

00:06:56.780 He seemed pretty happy to me.

00:06:58.320 I think he realized who screwed him and who forced him out of this race. 0.99

00:07:02.380 And, you know, we both know right now in his heart, he believes he would have run a better race than Kamala.

00:07:08.340 He might even believe that he would have won, although I don't think he would have.

00:07:11.700 But then I saw Kamala committing herself to the peaceful transfer of power. 1.00

00:07:17.180 That's exactly what Barack Obama said.

00:07:19.660 At the same time, he was planning the biggest single dirty trick in American history, which was nothing less than the full use of the authority of the United States government and the enormous capabilities of our intelligence agencies to use what they knew was totally fraudulent evidence.

00:07:39.080 The Steele dossier and also the false claim that the Democrat National Committee had been the subject of an online hack by the Russians, for which there is no evidence whatsoever, to justify in their minds the removal of a duly elected president in a coup d'etat.

00:07:59.380 So people who will do that, people who I believe are behind, at some level, the two unquestionable assassination attempts against Donald Trump, they are not just going to walk away peacefully and cede control of the nation to the people, to the man who the people have chosen.

00:08:21.380 They don't care about the will of the American people.

00:08:25.260 So, yeah, you have to wonder, what's next?

00:08:28.300 Is it Iranian interference in our election?

00:08:34.660 Is it Russian interference?

00:08:36.860 I'd like to see if they're going to come up with something.

00:08:40.240 I'd like to see the proof, because they didn't have proof last time, yet they kept it going for two and a half years.

00:08:45.440 They ruined some people's lives.

00:08:47.880 They tried to ruin other people's lives.

00:08:49.900 They certainly tried to ruin Donald Trump's life.

00:08:52.700 But, yes, I think that we can count on some kind of countermeasure by the deep state to try to undo the will of the people yet again.

00:09:03.740 Yeah.

00:09:04.480 How mad do you think Barack Obama and Joe Biden are at Kamala Harris?

00:09:10.760 Do you think they knew she couldn't win?

00:09:13.900 Do you think they're mad at her for being too timid and intimidated by podcasters and interview?

00:09:20.820 What do you think is going on in their minds?

00:09:23.880 Well, first of all, I think Joe is as much madder at Barack Obama than he is at Kamala Harris.

00:09:29.220 He realizes Kamala Harris was just a pawn.

00:09:32.300 And then it was it was Barack Obama who who removed him against his will.

00:09:38.620 That was Barack Obama, who I believe used the threat of removal under the 25th Amendment to get Joe to withdraw his candidacy.

00:09:48.220 I think he was drugged.

00:09:50.260 I think he was bludgeoned.

00:09:51.600 I think he was forced into that.

00:09:53.620 So I think he's madder at Barack Obama than anyone else.

00:09:58.880 Having known Kamala Harris for all those years, you have to wonder why Obama or, for that matter, Biden, who endorsed her, ever thought that she was capable of running a viable race for president.

00:10:15.020 And the woman is a cipher. 1.00

00:10:17.240 There is no there there.

00:10:19.380 She is.

00:10:20.060 She is.

00:10:21.380 Her record in California was horrific.

00:10:24.240 Her record as a prosecutor was horrific.

00:10:27.720 And then Joe smothered her in his embrace.

00:10:30.680 I mean, remember, he said, oh, no, there was no decision that we made that she wasn't in on.

00:10:37.080 And so, folks, in essence, saying if you like the inflation, if you like the gas prices, if you like the fact that we're teetering on the edge of World War Three, well, she was in on all of it.

00:10:47.180 So he smothered her in his embrace.

00:10:49.760 And then, of course, she walked into it as well.

00:10:52.400 When she was asked, is there anything you can think of that you might have done differently than Joe Biden?

00:10:57.260 She said, no, I couldn't think of a single thing. 0.98

00:11:00.560 But, oh, by the way, Trump is Hitler and his followers are Nazis. 0.60

00:11:05.000 That's not much of an uplifting, inspiring message for the closing days of an election. 0.89

00:11:11.320 Yeah, I think they went too far.

00:11:13.660 They probably lost a lot of their own voters going, OK, you know, we don't like this guy.

00:11:18.160 But Hitler, come on, that's that's a bridge too far. 0.97

00:11:22.400 What are your thoughts on and I had my last night I did a emergency broadcast.

00:11:28.260 I had over a thousand people in my community calling Mitch McConnell, emailing him.

00:11:33.860 What are your thoughts on him now trying to hold the secret vote tomorrow to try to undermine Donald Trump's presidency by inserting either John Thune or Cornyn from Texas, which will go against MAGA desires, conservative desires.

00:11:52.000 What are your thoughts on all of that? 0.96

00:11:53.880 Well, what do you expect from a pig but a grunt? 0.96

00:11:56.700 I mean, look, he's been undermining Donald Trump from the beginning. 0.99

00:12:00.720 I find them both odious.

00:12:04.260 John Cornyn, who lauded the appointment of Lisa Monaco, who had been Robert Mueller's chief of staff at the FBI, who probably de facto running the Justice Department today.

00:12:17.260 She was involved deeply in the Russian collusion hoax.

00:12:19.880 But no Senate Republican brought that up in her confirmation hearings, which is almost unbelievable.

00:12:25.760 Only Ted Cruz and Rand Paul voted against her confirmation.

00:12:30.600 Cornyn actually rose to praise her at that time.

00:12:35.180 I find Thune equally odious.

00:12:39.900 This is a man who, when NBC sprung the famous grab them by the you know what on Trump, insisted that the Republican National Committee dump Trump as our candidate and replace him with Mike Pence.

00:12:55.980 And had we done so, we would have lost.

00:12:59.360 So neither one of them can be counted on to carry forward the the America First agenda of Donald Trump.

00:13:07.580 So I am strongly supporting my own senator, Rick Scott.

00:13:12.380 I disagreed with Rick Scott here and there on an issue or two.

00:13:15.820 But I must tell you, he was a great governor of Florida, much better than the one we have now.

00:13:21.720 And he's been a great U.S. senator for Florida and like Donald Trump because he he came from the business world, not politics.

00:13:31.660 You can't buy him.

00:13:32.740 You can't corrupt him.

00:13:33.720 You can't bully him.

00:13:34.600 He's very much his own man.

00:13:36.280 And he had the courage to endorse Donald Trump over his own home state governor.

00:13:40.800 So I I'm strongly for Rick Scott. 0.91

00:13:43.840 These cowards are having a secret ballot because, well, Stephen, here's the difference between a caucus and a cactus. 0.93

00:13:52.180 See, with a cactus, all the pricks are on the outside. 0.99

00:13:58.200 Oh, yes, that's a good one.

00:14:01.200 OK, is there any particular appointment or partnership between Trump and someone else that you are excited about?

00:14:11.480 For example, many of my libertarian friends are like out of their minds excited about Trump and RFK Jr.

00:14:20.820 teaming up to take on the FDA, big pharma, big food.

00:14:25.080 Any any particular partnership that just makes the future brighter in your mind?

00:14:32.220 Well, I'm a strong supporter of RFK and his agenda myself.

00:14:35.760 I think that we because of RFK and Tulsi Gabbard and Governor Rob Blagojevich and other common sense Democrats who actually believe in capitalism and a strong national defense and a healthier America and don't want to rush into every foreign war where our inherent national interests are just not apparent.

00:14:57.400 I think we're on the cusp of a giant realignment in this country.

00:15:01.920 We talked about it on your show.

00:15:03.500 Republican Democrat is not the divide here.

00:15:06.380 The divide are the insiders, the global elites who know what elected, but who want to run the country and outsiders, people of common sense and good faith.

00:15:17.620 So I'm very excited about the partnership with with Robert F. Kennedy.

00:15:21.380 I think he's a man of enormous integrity, enormous intelligence, what impresses me about him.

00:15:26.880 And I realize that some people find his views controversial, but whenever he's pressed on any question regarding public health, he can back up everything he says with studies and documentation.

00:15:41.020 He's not shooting from the hip.

00:15:42.660 That's impressive.

00:15:44.520 Tulsi Gabbard, to me, is the standout of this campaign.

00:15:47.720 I mean, I love J.D. Vance, don't get me wrong, but, you know, she was she's had an odyssey.

00:15:52.760 She was a Democrat.

00:15:54.520 She left that party when she realized that it no longer resembled the party she she joined 20 years ago.

00:16:01.240 It was the party of war and censorship and death. 0.72

00:16:04.760 And now she's become a Republican, which I think is very exciting.

00:16:08.880 I'm hopeful that President Trump will give her a an important position in his administration.

00:16:14.480 She's an enormously able woman, not only for terms in Congress and on the Armed Services Committee, but a lieutenant colonel in the U.S.

00:16:23.640 Army Reserve, a combat veteran in Iraq and Kuwait.

00:16:29.480 One of the greatest political communicators I've seen since Ronald Reagan.

00:16:34.640 I mean, I've watched her and it's just you can see the electricity in the room.

00:16:39.020 You can feel it.

00:16:39.820 So very excited about that collaboration as well.

00:16:45.240 Tom Homan, to me, a standout appointment, somebody who is going to be in charge of the deportation.

00:16:52.540 Let's start with those who are just here illegally, but who have criminal records. 0.98

00:16:56.120 Let's just begin with those.

00:16:57.840 But Homan is the man for that job.

00:16:59.760 He's a tough son of a gun.

00:17:01.560 Straight talker with a record of success when he was the head of ICE.

00:17:06.080 Very excited about that appointment as well.

00:17:08.140 OK, let's go a little deeper on Tom Homan.

00:17:14.120 He, you know, obviously has people like AOC scared out of their mind.

00:17:18.880 Oh, my gosh, we might have illegal immigrants removed from the country. 0.99

00:17:23.000 What are we to do?

00:17:24.380 He's used a lot of really bold language.

00:17:26.580 But I think that bold, lion-like energy is attractive to the conservative base.

00:17:35.140 He also said something yesterday that really stood out to me.

00:17:38.280 He said, those 300,000 missing children under Biden, we're going to find them and get them back to their family.

00:17:44.420 Biden, Harris, they've done nothing to find these children that are obviously being trafficked.

00:17:50.860 I have children.

00:17:52.020 It's gross.

00:17:52.740 It makes me sick to think about.

00:17:54.800 Do you think he has to, at this point, take a bold stance on the border and getting these illegals out? 1.00

00:18:01.320 Yeah.

00:18:01.660 First of all, I don't think it's just the base that that appeals to.

00:18:05.180 I'm not sure what AOC's problem is.

00:18:06.980 In other words, oh, my God, this guy's going to enforce the law.

00:18:09.600 He's going to enforce the law.

00:18:11.460 How terrible.

00:18:13.700 I think that this is the great thing that the Democrats don't understand.

00:18:17.860 It doesn't matter whether you are black or Hispanic or Asian or young or old.

00:18:24.720 All Americans want the same thing.

00:18:27.160 They want economic opportunity and security.

00:18:30.680 They want affordable housing.

00:18:32.440 They want low grocery prices. 0.73

00:18:34.140 They want low fuel prices.

00:18:36.740 They want good schools where they teach history and America's heritage, as well as the basics of mathematics and science.

00:18:48.400 They want, above all, secure neighborhoods so they can walk to the car without fearing being hit in the head and robbed.

00:18:57.240 They want to be free of the scourge of illegal drugs.

00:19:00.860 So I think Tom Homan speaks to a much larger constituency than just those in the base.

00:19:07.760 Okay.

00:19:08.520 Yeah, I don't understand AOC.

00:19:11.480 Maybe she's afraid she'll lose future voters. 1.00

00:19:14.700 But, like, she's Puerto Rico, a Puerto Rican, and having lived in Puerto Rico, I can tell you with certainty they don't like when Haitians and Dominicans illegally come in and start taking their jobs. 0.74

00:19:27.480 I don't know why she would see it any differently, but maybe it's because she's a New York, Puerto Rican.

00:19:34.000 Do you think Homan, as they say, is going to have to break some eggs in the kitchen in order to make a souffle?

00:19:42.780 Is he going to have to come out harsh?

00:19:45.940 There's going to be ugly scenes.

00:19:47.640 I mean, he talked about this mass deportation.

00:19:50.400 They're going to have to go into corporations, meet with employers, round people up.

00:19:56.640 It's going to have to be a little bit ugly, right?

00:19:59.620 Well, look, I think he's got to enforce the law.

00:20:03.040 You know, it's just like it was not pretty the way that these people were trafficked into the country by the cartels.

00:20:09.200 Just like it's not pretty that they have peddled drugs that have caused millions of deaths in this country.

00:20:17.060 No, this is not going to be pretty.

00:20:18.840 But Dwight Eisenhower, who's really one of our greatest presidents, very underrated because he wasn't flashy, but really one of our best presidents.

00:20:26.660 We had unprecedented peace and prosperity under Ike.

00:20:29.960 He deported 1.3 million illegals from the country who were here illegally.

00:20:35.140 Tom Homan is the exact right guy for this job.

00:20:39.840 And the left is going to go crazy because, yes, I think their long-term plan was always the same, which is to bring all of these illegals in and then eventually give them citizenship so they could change the makeup of the voting population of the United States. 0.97

00:20:54.560 And that is now going to fail thanks to the courage of Donald Trump and the capabilities of Tom Homan.

00:21:01.180 Help me and my audience understand why Trump came out publicly against Nikki Haley and Mike Pompeo.

00:21:12.800 Is it just that they are seen as being a part of the problem in D.C.?

00:21:18.580 What are your thoughts on him blocking them?

00:21:20.760 Well, if you go to StoneZone.com, I've written an extensive story on why the president cannot trust Mike Pompeo.

00:21:28.120 I have reason to believe the president read that piece before he made his decisions.

00:21:33.340 I also address the question of Nikki Haley.

00:21:35.620 Mike Pompeo, first of all, defended the Inquisition by Jack Smith over Donald Trump's perfectly legal retention of classified documents, which I believe under the Presidential Records Act he was entitled to do.

00:21:52.680 He defended the raid on Mar-a-Lago.

00:21:55.780 He defended the legitimacy of that investigation.

00:21:58.680 Mike Pompeo also is the man who convinced President Trump not to declassify all the documents pertaining to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

00:22:10.120 Mike Pompeo is a guy, I think he was speaking at Yale, who bragged about the fact that as CIA director, he lied and he cheated and he stole.

00:22:19.100 He says, that's what we've been taught to do.

00:22:20.720 That's what we teach in the CIA.

00:22:22.540 And then, of course, lastly, he planned to assassinate Julian Assange, a journalist inside the embassy.

00:22:31.480 There was a CIA plan that he pushed to assassinate Assange.

00:22:36.060 Assange is a journalist.

00:22:38.220 This idea that he was a Russian spy has never been proven because it's not true.

00:22:42.880 You know, the left used to love Julian Assange when he was exposing the excesses of the war machine under George W. Bush.

00:22:49.740 They only grew to hate him when he started to expose the excesses of the war machine under Hillary and Bill Clinton.

00:22:59.140 And no one to this day has ever challenged the authenticity or the accuracy of anything that was released by Julian Assange.

00:23:09.280 Now, those who say, well, but he took classified documents and he published them.

00:23:15.440 What do they do with the New York Times or the Washington Post?

00:23:18.960 Have you never heard of the Pentagon Papers case?

00:23:21.660 That's where the Supreme Court ruled that journalistic organizations who get information that's classified have a right to publish it.

00:23:30.960 So, so much for that.

00:23:32.760 Mike Pompeo is bad news.

00:23:35.620 Nikki Haley is bad news.

00:23:37.740 Both of them committed to the chain of endless foreign war.

00:23:41.880 Both of them, I think, committed to continuing the war in Ukraine, which Donald Trump wants to bring to a close so we can stop the killing.

00:23:50.880 Stop the killing.

00:23:51.940 So, I like to think that the piece that I wrote, you can find it in my sub stack as well.

00:23:58.740 Also find it at StoneZone.com.

00:24:01.160 I sent it to the president.

00:24:02.280 I hope he read it.

00:24:03.000 I think, I hope that it played some role in what I think was a very good decision to bar both of them from a future administration.

00:24:11.340 You know, it was Benjamin Disraeli forming his second government saying, I want no spent volcanoes is a line that Richard Dixon picked up.

00:24:20.580 It's time for an all new team, an all new team of people who understand they were not elected president.

00:24:29.180 Donald Trump was elected president.

00:24:31.500 Their job is to carry out the agenda, not their personal agenda, but the agenda of Donald J. Trump.

00:24:38.640 And I think so far he's picked extraordinarily able people who, some of whom have been past political opponents, but who now understand that their job is to carry out the Trump agenda, once again, not their agenda.

00:24:54.300 Okay.

00:24:54.640 The one that I'm seeing mixed reviews on in my community comments is Marco Rubio.

00:25:01.240 I have liked Marco Rubio.

00:25:04.120 I, you know, he, he challenged Trump when he ran for president, but I mean, other than that, is there something that I might be missing or what are your thoughts on Marco Rubio?

00:25:13.980 I don't know why my community kept saying, what about Marco Rubio?

00:25:18.480 What about Marco Rubio?

00:25:20.060 Well, first of all, Marco Rubio is my Senator and in his caseworkers, when my wife had cancer, he was very, very, very helpful to my family.

00:25:30.040 So I'll never say anything bad about him.

00:25:33.120 We have a few political disagreements, but when it comes to communism in this hemisphere, nobody has been more hardline when it comes to Venezuela, when it comes to Cuba.

00:25:43.220 He's been an excellent U.S. senator.

00:25:46.200 He endorsed Donald Trump over his own home state governor, Ron DeSantis.

00:25:51.100 That was an act of courage.

00:25:52.880 He has an excellent personal relationship with the president.

00:25:56.460 For somebody who ran against him, I think he was a major supporter of Trump's presidency.

00:26:02.060 They worked very closely together on foreign policy issues in this hemisphere particularly.

00:26:07.040 And again, I think Senator Rubio, while he was not my first choice, you know, I'm very happy with his appointment.

00:26:14.840 I think he understands that his job is to carry out the Trump agenda.

00:26:20.340 He's very able and he's going to do that.

00:26:23.400 So, look, I think that this Donald Trump is a very different man than the one who became president in 2016.

00:26:30.660 I think he has a very keen understanding of the Washington power structure and how it really works.

00:26:37.000 And I think he is carefully choosing people who he knows could be who could be trusted to carry out his agenda, not their agenda.

00:26:46.920 Senator Rubio clearly understands that his job is to implement Donald Trump's anti-war foreign policy.

00:26:54.600 And I think that's what he will do.

00:26:56.620 Okay.

00:26:57.160 Okay.

00:26:57.720 Just seeing if I was missing something.

00:26:59.880 I believe Senator Rubio was the one that correctly pointed out that there were bio labs in Ukraine.

00:27:06.680 And that might be part of the reason for the war there.

00:27:10.640 What are your thoughts on Trump just immediately moving on getting this Russia-Ukraine war shut down?

00:27:18.440 He's appealing to Zelensky.

00:27:20.060 No more U.S. money.

00:27:21.480 No U.S. blood.

00:27:22.520 He said, if you are going to go at this, you're going to go at it with Europe.

00:27:26.840 But you have a beautiful culture, a beautiful city.

00:27:29.620 Let's rebuild that.

00:27:30.980 To Putin, he's saying, we don't need any more dead Russians.

00:27:34.400 Let's get this thing wrapped up.

00:27:36.020 What are your thoughts on his handling of this so far?

00:27:39.520 Well, first, let's recognize that under Joe Biden and Antony Blinken, we didn't even have any negotiations going on.

00:27:46.780 We're having no dialogue at all to try to settle this matter.

00:27:51.440 Which makes it very clear that the State Department under Joe Biden had no interest in ending the war, no interest in stopping the killing.

00:28:01.280 Donald Trump's a dealmaker.

00:28:02.880 He has the trust and respect of everybody on both sides of the war.

00:28:06.980 They know he means business.

00:28:08.640 He didn't tell one side to stand down and not the other side.

00:28:11.360 He basically told both sides to stand down and let's resolve this.

00:28:17.320 You know, history, there is no greater accolade, no greater title that history can bestow on someone other than peacemaker.

00:28:27.100 And that's, I think you're going to find, describes Donald Trump's second presidency almost perfectly.

00:28:33.100 Do you think he will have a focus on not only reinstating the Abraham Accords, but strengthening and expanding those?

00:28:43.720 Look, I'm not a foreign policy expert.

00:28:47.500 Here's what I do know.

00:28:48.940 He's going to end the practice of the Biden administration, who, as you know, repealed the harsh sanctions that he put on Iran that drove Iran almost to the brink of bankruptcy.

00:29:00.900 These sanctions were so harsh that even their Chinese patrons would not buy oil from Iran.

00:29:07.540 They didn't have the money to subsidize Hamas or Hezbollah.

00:29:13.680 They didn't have the money to renew their nuclear weapons development program.

00:29:19.040 They were broke.

00:29:20.240 Therefore, they weren't a danger to Israel.

00:29:22.440 They weren't a danger to the rest of the world.

00:29:24.700 Joe Biden, following the policy prescriptions of his puppet master, Barack Obama, gave them more than $190 billion.

00:29:33.480 What did they think the Iranians were going to do with that money?

00:29:38.520 So this idea that building Iran up would create greater stability and balance in the region, that's what's called insanity. 0.91

00:29:49.360 And that's why we had the attack on Israel on October 7th. 0.95

00:29:52.900 And it's why we have this horrific conflict.

00:29:55.800 So I would expect, I don't speak for the president in any way, just a supporter and a 45-year friend, but I think he's going to reassert the sanctions against Iran so that they don't have the resources to wreak havoc in the world or the region. 0.99

00:30:12.940 Okay.

00:30:14.040 All right.

00:30:14.840 Final question, Roger.

00:30:16.000 I appreciate you coming on.

00:30:18.100 You're in independent media.

00:30:19.980 I'm in independent media.

00:30:21.260 But I read today on Daily Mail, CNN is hemorrhaging money.

00:30:27.680 They are preparing to lay off hundreds of employees before Christmas.

00:30:33.480 They're top talent.

00:30:34.940 They are either not renewing their contract or they're asking them to come back for little, you know, smaller, smaller salaries.

00:30:42.600 Does this all just come down to you reap what you sow and you lie to the American people?

00:30:48.400 You lose their trust?

00:30:49.420 Well, you know, I've got to be honest with you, Stephen.

00:30:52.440 I don't get my news from CNN for the same reason I don't eat out of the toilet.

00:30:57.240 I mean, this is not news.

00:31:01.160 This is not journalism.

00:31:02.380 This is just straight propaganda.

00:31:04.400 And, yeah, I'm very mindful of the fact that on that cold morning when I was arrested at 6 o'clock in the morning after 29 heavily armed FBI agents wearing full SWAT gear and brandishing fully automatic M4 assault weapons surrounded and then stormed my home, that CNN had a camera.

00:31:27.580 How coincidentally, just 25 feet from my front door.

00:31:31.760 Now, the street had been roped off.

00:31:34.400 I lived on a dead end street.

00:31:35.900 The rest of the media was, you know, two blocks away, roped off.

00:31:39.920 But CNN was given special permission.

00:31:42.700 Pardon me, to be outside my door.

00:31:46.860 And I have an affidavit signed by a Fort Lauderdale police officer who said when he told them, wait a minute, you're with the media.

00:31:52.480 You have to move down the street behind that barrier.

00:31:55.180 He got chewed out by an FBI agent who said, no, no, they have special permission to be here.

00:31:59.540 So the idea that, pardon me, that CNN won an award from the White House Correspondents Association for their tough investigative reporting that led them to believe that I might be arrested that morning, that's nonsense.

00:32:17.800 I was arrested at 6.06, at 6.11, someone at CNN texts my lawyer a copy of my sealed indictment, an indictment that would not be unsealed until 10.30 that morning.

00:32:31.140 It has no court stamps or time stamps on it.

00:32:35.480 But when you look at the metadata tags, there's the man who wrote it, the prosecutor, Andrew Weissman, who leaked it to CNN.

00:32:44.160 CNN, that's a crime, by the way, but the judge was not at all interested in that in my case.

00:32:49.520 So CNN is not, that's not journalism, that's propaganda.

00:32:54.080 The only people that are still watching are in airports, I think.

00:32:57.780 So, you know, it's karma.

00:33:00.340 It's karma as far as I'm concerned.

00:33:02.700 Well, I'm glad they're getting their due.

00:33:05.540 Roger, you are a national treasure in my mind.

00:33:08.260 Thank you so much for everything you do.

00:33:10.520 I know that you have sacrificed a lot to get the American people to this point.

00:33:14.940 If people want to continue to follow you, hear your ideas on improving the country, making America great again, where can they do that?

00:33:23.440 The best place to go to is StoneZone.com, StoneZone.com.

00:33:28.780 Also, I'm at Substack.

00:33:30.860 I think it's Substack.RogerStone.com.

00:33:34.280 You can go there. 0.97

00:33:36.040 I still, unfortunately, have a handful of these lawfare civil cases against my wife and I that are filed by maniacs, lunatics, crazy people, Democrats, liberals. 0.97

00:33:49.780 Oh, wait, I'm being redundant. 0.75

00:33:51.760 So you can go to StoneDefenseFund.com.

00:33:55.160 I once had 17 of these harassment lawsuits against us.

00:33:59.640 We have settled all of them to our favor so far.

00:34:02.420 We're down to, I think, two or three.

00:34:04.180 If you want to help me there, StoneDefenseFund.com, and God bless you for it.

00:34:09.360 God bless you, Stephen, for having me on.

00:34:11.300 I appreciate being here.

00:34:12.360 It's always a great privilege.

00:34:13.940 Well, I'll put those direct links down below.

00:34:15.960 Thank you so much.

00:34:16.740 I hope you have a great rest of your day.

00:34:18.300 Many thanks.

00:34:22.060 There you have it, ladies and gentlemen.

00:34:23.800 Roger Stone, the great Roger Stone, and a fantastic interview.

00:34:26.940 We have some great news to get to today.

00:34:30.460 President Trump making his return to Washington, D.C., meeting with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office.

00:34:37.580 We have a few clips, one of Trump's plane taking off and another of Trump in the White House.

00:34:42.500 Let's play those real quick, and then we will bring in our guest, the great Mark Vargas from the Illinois Review.

00:34:48.540 Let's roll that.

00:34:49.140 Let's roll that.

00:35:19.140 Let's roll that.

00:35:49.120 Donald, congratulations.

00:35:50.760 Thank you very much.

00:35:51.600 And I'm looking forward to having a, like we said, smooth transition.

00:35:57.020 We'll do everything we can to make sure you're accommodating what you need.

00:36:00.600 And we're going to get a chance to talk about some of that today.

00:36:02.680 It's good.

00:36:03.560 Welcome.

00:36:04.240 Thank you very much.

00:36:06.800 And politics is tough, and it's, in many cases, not a very nice world.

00:36:13.360 But it is a nice world today, and I appreciate very much a transition that's so smooth.

00:36:18.880 It'll be as smooth as it can get, and I very much appreciate that, Joe.

00:36:23.600 You're welcome.

00:36:24.060 Well, there you have it, folks.

00:36:25.920 President Trump returning to Washington, D.C.

00:36:28.380 I'm now going to bring in my co-host today, the great Mark Vargas from the Illinois Review, the editor-in-chief.

00:36:34.260 Mark, good to see you there, friend.

00:36:35.840 And occupied territory in Illinois, what do you make of the news, President Trump returning to D.C.?

00:36:41.600 That looked like a cheery Joe Biden, didn't it, Mark?

00:36:45.040 I haven't seen Joe Biden that happy in a long time, not since I think Jill got him his new box of Ensure Nutrition shakes when they arrived at the White House.

00:36:55.520 But the smile on his face, the way he was so welcoming, the photos afterwards with Jill Biden as well, just smiles all around.

00:37:07.060 I love what you're seeing on social media, people posing the question, you know, is this proof, yet more proof, that Joe and Jill Biden voted for Donald Trump?

00:37:16.540 You know, they've got a valid point, given all the happiness during today's meeting at the White House.

00:37:22.580 Well, Mark, you got a great point there. And, you know, we saw yesterday that there was a lunch between Biden and Harris, and there were some comments made, particularly in the press, about the awkwardness between Biden and Harris.

00:37:34.740 This was brought up during the White House press briefing yesterday, and Kareem Jean-Pierre, she actually snapped at Peter Doocy when he raised the question.

00:37:43.040 So let's roll that clip real quick, and when we come back, let's get Mark's thoughts on this controversy, because, you know, we see the contrast.

00:37:50.460 He's smiling there with Trump and with Biden, or with Kamala Harris, not so much. Let's roll that.

00:37:56.340 We know that today, a week after the election, President Biden and Vice President Harris had a private lunch. How awkward was that?

00:38:05.080 I don't even understand. Why would it be awkward?

00:38:10.100 Because the president got squeezed out for her, and then she kept him at arm's length, and then she lost, and now she's back.

00:38:16.000 Why would you characterize it as awkward? They have regular lunches. They meet and talk regularly. Why would you call it awkward?

00:38:24.480 So there's no weirdness about the way that things have unfolded since the last paper.

00:38:27.340 Did you see them together yesterday as well, when they honored our veterans and were together during the day, making sure that we didn't forget the brave men and women that fought for this country?

00:38:39.520 Did you see them together yesterday? Did you see the show of force together?

00:38:44.360 I'm not even going to take the premise of the question. What I will say is, the president and the vice president had lunch today. They've had lunch many times.

00:38:57.400 They communicate with each other regularly.

00:39:00.600 They had an opportunity to discuss the last 70 days or so of this administration, how important it is to get things done for the American people. And that's their focus. That is genuinely their focus.

00:39:18.240 Yes, Patsy.

00:39:19.440 Thank you, Corinne.

00:39:20.680 Mark, your thoughts on Corinne Jean-Pierre there. She seemed awful defensive about that, didn't she?

00:39:25.620 She did. And she's talking about the Veterans Day celebration, I believe, at Arlington National Cemetery.

00:39:33.960 And I don't know if it was a show of force.

00:39:36.280 It's were the two of them showing up to an event at the same time to participate in a ceremony?

00:39:41.500 The answer is yes. But was there smiles and love and friendship extended between the two?

00:39:48.820 Absolutely not. In fact, the first lady sat next to the vice president and her husband. 0.99

00:39:53.020 And you could see in the videos and in photos, it was a very cold reception.

00:40:00.260 Jill Biden hardly looked to her right.

00:40:02.840 And Harris spent most of the time smiling and talking to her husband.

00:40:08.060 So even their show of force yesterday was very, very frosty.

00:40:12.980 There's no question in my mind, there's no doubt in my mind that Joe Biden and Jill Biden did vote for Donald Trump.

00:40:20.800 And it's more than just the smiles on their faces today and the cold shoulder they've extended towards Kamala Harris and her family.

00:40:27.480 It's because he was hijacked.

00:40:29.660 They yanked him out of the presidency and denied 14 million voters their choice to be the nominee for president.

00:40:37.220 And what did she do?

00:40:37.980 Obviously, she paid entertainers, Oprah Winfrey, a million dollars and others half a million dollars to make appearances and to endorse. 1.00

00:40:46.540 And what did it get them?

00:40:48.020 Horrific losses across the scale.

00:40:51.140 Well, Mark, that it's very true.

00:40:52.800 And we're seeing a media that's really falling into hysteria.

00:40:56.300 I mean, they really have been in hysteria since Trump was declared winner here.

00:40:59.920 And I think I saw something yesterday that freaked him out more than just about anything.

00:41:04.100 And that was Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth.

00:41:09.700 And they're really freaking out about this, calling this guy unqualified.

00:41:13.120 Although I looked him up, Mark, he's a combat veteran.

00:41:16.000 He has ample experience in military.

00:41:17.860 And he's been very eloquent in what he thinks the military should become, what the U.S. military could be, and what they need to achieve in order to kind of weed out some of the corruption and the waste and fraud that we've seen plague our military for many years.

00:41:33.460 And they're really freaking out of this, Mark.

00:41:35.380 I want to ask you, why is this pick in particular getting under their skin?

00:41:40.220 Is it because this guy's going to be taking on the military-industrial complex?

00:41:44.060 Or what do you think's afoot here?

00:41:46.280 Well, a couple of things.

00:41:47.280 That's point number one, that he is going to be taking on the military-industrial complex.

00:41:50.740 Point number two is he's been discussing, even promoting his book, about how Pentagon leadership has failed, how we've fallen so far behind China, and that China currently is in possession of weapons that can completely annihilate our carriers out in the water, could end a conflict.

00:42:10.480 And Pete's, what he'd said, is in 20 minutes it would be over.

00:42:13.960 And so he's been very critical of the Pentagon and their leadership.

00:42:18.680 He's also anti-woke, and I think that's upsetting the Pentagon leadership.

00:42:22.620 While they were celebrating—while Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's Pentagon leaders were celebrating men transitioning to women and women transitioning to men and having—publishing DOD videos on this, celebrating it, you had our enemies and our adversaries planning an attack in Israel and in Ukraine.

00:42:44.960 And so this is what happens when you take your eye off the ball, and Pete has said clearly from the very beginning that there's massive failures in the Pentagon.

00:42:54.640 But they're afraid of—and I just read a report earlier today that said Pentagon leadership and the commanders said this is a nightmare scenario to have Pete Hegseth as the secretary of defense.

00:43:06.820 Well, listen, Troy, I worked at the Pentagon.

00:43:08.640 I worked there for three years, traveled into Baghdad 14 times as a civilian, where I was TDY.

00:43:15.360 I know the halls of the Pentagon very, very well.

00:43:18.900 I practically lived in that five-sided squirrel cage for three years.

00:43:23.220 I know what it's like, and I can assure you that these commanders that are saying this is a nightmare pick are exactly not the type of commanders we want leading us into war.

00:43:32.040 Well, and I think it represents, you know, that Dick Cheney wing of government there in D.C., Mark, that has been in control for so long.

00:43:40.360 They've had their way with basically everything, and the idea that they're going to be forced to change is very scary.

00:43:46.580 And there's another breaking news topic, Mark, we have to get to today.

00:43:50.100 We just have to talk about this because I've seen a lot of conservatives, I think, maybe mistakenly celebrating this news that Jack Smith,

00:43:57.280 Special Counsel Jack Smith, is going to be resigning before Trump takes office.

00:44:02.060 We have a couple headlines on this.

00:44:03.860 Mark, the telling thing to me here is that he's going to be filing his quote-unquote report before Trump gets into office,

00:44:11.040 so that there can't be any review of what he's doing or his conduct.

00:44:14.900 And I assume they'll have the opportunity to basically destroy any records that might incriminate people

00:44:19.660 that have been conducting this illegal investigation from the beginning.

00:44:23.380 So what are your thoughts here?

00:44:24.980 This is really just trying to beat the clock so they don't get caught with their hand in the cookie jar, isn't it?

00:44:30.200 It really is unbelievable that they can make this unconstitutional appointment, number one.

00:44:37.500 Secondly, to harass and antagonize and go after the 45th president with sham investigations.

00:44:45.880 And then on a dime, just be able to literally flip a switch and say,

00:44:49.340 investigation's over, this office is closed up, our work is done.

00:44:52.900 I mean, it's remarkable.

00:44:54.500 And of course, none of this is accidental.

00:44:57.120 They don't want to be investigated.

00:44:58.840 They want to end this now so they can go to the paper shredder and get rid of everything.

00:45:02.820 I mean, they have burn bags.

00:45:04.300 They want to throw everything that they can in these burn bags, hide the evidence.

00:45:07.800 But I think that President Trump would be wise to open up an investigation.

00:45:12.720 Let's look into this, the weaponization of special prosecutors like Jack Smith and so many others.

00:45:19.600 And this is why, Troy, I think it's so important, now that Republicans have control of both the House and the Senate, that we need to put legislation together.

00:45:28.200 Because our founding fathers never envisioned prosecutors having unbridled powers, cloaked in immunity, that would go after their political enemies.

00:45:38.980 That was something that they never envisioned.

00:45:40.600 They thought of everything else in terms of checks and balances, but this didn't cross their radar.

00:45:45.760 And so I think it's important now that we've got an overwhelming majority, that the American people have spoken, given the mandate, the popular vote, and the electoral vote that President Trump has received, more than any Republican president in the history of our country.

00:46:00.140 And I think what he ought to do is tell Congress, let's get some legislation together and let's prohibit, for any president, whether it's a Republican president or a Democratic president, let's keep these prosecutors, let's keep them in check, and let's pass legislation to do it.

00:46:15.760 Well, and Mark, you know what I'll add in there is, when we look at the documents case in particular, the ruling from Eileen Cannon was that the appointment of Jack Smith was illegal in the first place.

00:46:26.380 And I think that may have something to do with the fact that they're dropping this.

00:46:29.800 They don't want that to advance because they know if that precedent gets set further down the road, like in, say, a Supreme Court rules in that favor, then the special counsel switch is dead.

00:46:41.120 And this, I think, is an attempt by the deep state to preserve that special counsel precedent that we know, based on the judgment of Eileen Cannon, is completely illegal and unconstitutional.

00:46:52.400 There's no provision in the Constitution that allows them to do this, Mark.

00:46:56.280 And also, you know, when our elected officials, Mark, they take an oath of office, and that means they're supposed to protect us as citizens.

00:47:02.520 And one of the people that we've covered from the very beginning of Trump's win here, really defying their oath of office, is the Massachusetts governor.

00:47:13.320 And in Massachusetts, the state police and the governor have both come out and said, we're not going to help Donald Trump deport anybody.

00:47:20.620 We're not going to do anything to stop illegal immigration.

00:47:22.840 We have a few headlines on that.

00:47:24.260 And at the same time, Mark, keep in mind, ICE just grabbed an illegal immigrant in Massachusetts and charged him with child sex crimes as this governor is kicking and screaming and saying, we're not going to deport anybody.

00:47:39.680 We're not doing anything about this.

00:47:41.680 We had protesters gathered just yesterday at the statehouse in support of Trump and his deportation plan, really in defiance of this governor who has declared she's not going to enforce the law.

00:47:52.780 We want to roll the clip of those protesters.

00:47:55.140 When we come back, get your thoughts on this blatant, basically, refusal or basically willingness to put her people in complete and total danger here.

00:48:04.140 Mark, let's roll that.

00:48:09.360 Okay, we don't have that clip.

00:48:10.580 They just told me that.

00:48:11.460 But, Mark, what is your thoughts on this governor that basically refuses to enforce the law?

00:48:16.600 I mean, this is putting her people in danger, no?

00:48:20.340 Well, 100%.

00:48:21.540 And this is an issue that's very near and dear to my heart.

00:48:24.280 As you know, I'm here in Chicago, a sanctuary city where nearly 40,000 illegals have taken over Chicago. 0.98

00:48:30.760 And so for the Massachusetts governor to talk about this is really a dereliction of duty because the first duty of public office is to protect the people.

00:48:40.840 And how can you protect the people when it's proven, the statistics and facts are there, that these migrants, illegals, have created havoc in our cities. 1.00

00:48:51.980 Crime has skyrocketed.

00:48:53.560 You know, it's interesting, Troy, that they like to talk about women's rights to choose, right?

00:48:59.120 But what about just women's rights to protecting women? 1.00

00:49:02.780 That never plays into this factor.

00:49:04.580 You think about the 300,000 children that are missing along the southern border.

00:49:08.760 Where did they go?

00:49:09.340 Human trafficking.

00:49:10.720 That's exactly where they went.

00:49:12.020 And it's outrageous that this governor is not wanting to cooperate.

00:49:16.760 But, you know, what's happening is that she's going to learn soon because, again, this is why President Trump had this mandate.

00:49:23.540 One of his number one issues was illegal migration, closing our border and deporting the illegals, sending them back to their country of origin.

00:49:32.660 And he not only won the electoral vote, he won the popular vote, too, by a lot.

00:49:36.720 And so the message has been sent.

00:49:39.340 And if this governor doesn't catch up, she's going to be probably gashy with history on this one. 1.00

00:49:43.460 I think you're exactly right, Mark.

00:49:46.040 I mean, this was a popular vote mandate, not just from the red states or from, like, Texas or something like that.

00:49:52.280 This was a mandate from the entire country.

00:49:54.360 They want to see Donald Trump's policies brought to fruition.

00:49:57.160 And more importantly, they want to be protected.

00:49:59.940 You know, the Biden administration has turned a blind eye.

00:50:03.060 I mean, what, 25 million illegal immigrants have come into the country since Biden took office?

00:50:09.720 I mean, that is just unacceptable.

00:50:11.460 And I think people are getting wrapped up in the Tom Homan rhetoric, or they're saying, oh, this is too harsh, or who are they going after?

00:50:18.680 The basic fact is this, folks.

00:50:20.180 The people came in illegally.

00:50:21.520 They have to go.

00:50:22.620 It doesn't matter what kind of process you use.

00:50:24.660 And as Tom Homan says, you know, you want to keep the families together?

00:50:27.760 Deport them together.

00:50:28.740 I think that's brilliant.

00:50:29.620 It might ruffle some feathers, and people might not like it.

00:50:32.300 But they came into the country illegally, and we have to protect our own people and put them first. 0.92

00:50:36.760 You know, there's a whole group of Democrats, Mark, and I wanted to get this through because one of your greatest hits is in here.

00:50:44.020 We have Democrats angling right now for 2028 because as soon as Kamala Harris lost, the seat for 2028 to become the next Democrat presidential candidate kind of opened up.

00:50:55.660 I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, but it's important to lay the tracks and the foundation for what we're going to see going forward.

00:51:01.620 And what we've seen is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro is planting stories everywhere about himself, about how he's next on deck, and how there was even a story in the New York Post where it basically said Kamala Harris lost because she didn't pick Josh Shapiro, which is just unbelievable.

00:51:19.580 And there was another article in The Hill that I read that was an obviously planted story that was like, Josh Shapiro, he has the best chance of defeating the Republican in 2028.

00:51:31.660 His prospects are rising.

00:51:33.520 We've seen reports that he is really planning to enter this race.

00:51:37.380 And we also saw reports that California Governor Gavin Newsom, after calling a special session to the California legislator as soon as Trump was elected to address Trump's assault on California, he's now headed to D.C. this week in order to lobby for California's wish list and basically to lay out his anti-Trump agenda.

00:51:59.880 He's in D.C.

00:52:01.120 He's spending the week there.

00:52:02.580 He's obviously laying the groundwork for 2028.

00:52:05.080 So I want to ask you, Mark, what do you think's going on here?

00:52:08.540 Which one of these two gentlemen do you think would have the edge in a potential battle for the 2028 Democrat presidential nomination?

00:52:16.860 Well, President Trump's already on fire and he hasn't even taken office yet.

00:52:20.960 And then if that's the case, Democrats won't be in control for a long time.

00:52:24.580 Because what this election proved is how far out of touch these Democrats have become, like Shapiro and Newsom and Governor J.B. Pritzker in Illinois, my home state, who also wants to be president.

00:52:37.080 But when was the last time that we've elected a man who was 450 pounds to the presidency or the vice presidency?

00:52:43.920 Hasn't happened.

00:52:45.120 But, you know, this is all just a shell game.

00:52:48.640 Everyone's trying to position themselves.

00:52:50.860 But at the end of the day, the American people have spoken.

00:52:55.060 And to Trump-proof your state is absolutely laughable, considering that Trump's policies are pretty basic, policies that even Democrats in California can agree with.

00:53:05.960 Safer communities, closed border, put violent people where they belong, in jail.

00:53:12.460 Let's clean up our cities.

00:53:14.020 I mean, have you been to San Francisco?

00:53:15.380 I mean, there's human feces all over the streets. 0.55

00:53:19.100 It's literally disgusting.

00:53:20.680 I know people that have traveled there for business and have said, I don't even leave my hotel room. 0.93

00:53:26.180 The city of San Francisco is such a total disaster.

00:53:30.780 Violent and dangerous criminals that have crossed our southern border. 0.99

00:53:33.420 Let's send them back to our home country. 1.00

00:53:35.240 This isn't necessarily a Republican idea.

00:53:37.480 This is American ideas.

00:53:39.240 These are Trump's policies.

00:53:41.100 And for Gavin Newsom to think that this is just sort of a MAGA agenda is outrageous.

00:53:46.540 And he's going to learn quick that he's no longer in the majority.

00:53:50.260 He's now in the super minority.

00:53:52.940 Well, you know, Gavin Newsom, really just an unlikable guy.

00:53:56.640 I mean, as Roger said, he may have perfect hair, but he is not a good presenter on television.

00:54:02.340 And, you know, Ron DeSantis is a guy that, you know, it's the more the more people saw of Ron DeSantis, the less they really liked of him.

00:54:10.740 He's not he is not a star politician in the way that President Donald Trump is.

00:54:17.020 And yet in the debate between Newsom and DeSantis, DeSantis came off like he was the best politician you've ever seen. 0.92

00:54:23.760 And Newsom really was made to look ridiculous.

00:54:26.320 And, you know, Mark, with that record in California, I just don't see how he has any political future because people are fleeing the state. 0.99

00:54:33.100 No matter what he tries to spin about it, you know, there's they ran out of U-Hauls because so many people were trying to leave the damn place because it's turned into a hellhole. 0.84

00:54:42.180 Like you said, nobody wants to live there. 0.95

00:54:44.300 And as you did mention, I didn't know J.B. Pritzker was 450 pounds.

00:54:48.680 That's a lot of weight on that guy.

00:54:50.960 But we have several other people that are in contention for this 2028 run that are also considering.

00:54:56.940 Just want to run them real quick.

00:54:58.420 Pete Buttigieg also considering a run.

00:55:01.100 And this is my personal pick.

00:55:02.480 I'm praying just for my job.

00:55:04.060 I'll make a lot of money if he gets the nomination.

00:55:06.480 Tim Walsh, our favorite hands man.

00:55:08.940 Yes, he's going to be.

00:55:10.500 Apparently, he's seeking the 2028 nomination.

00:55:13.600 I can't wait for that, Mark, because he's comic gold.

00:55:16.940 I've never seen a guy that is more out of touch.

00:55:19.480 And I got to I just want to say real quickly, I saw him speak once just a couple of weeks ago.

00:55:24.680 And he actually criticized Elon Musk for jumping around on stage.

00:55:30.700 And I think he called him a fairy or something like that.

00:55:33.160 Have you ever seen somebody more disconnected from reality than Tim Walsh?

00:55:38.560 Jazz hands.

00:55:39.500 I mean, it really is was frightening every time he took the stage.

00:55:42.520 You just didn't sure whether he was going to, you know, throw up his jazz hands or kick up his one leg.

00:55:48.280 But what's even more frightening than Tim Walsh candidacy is his wife, Gwen. 0.99

00:55:54.280 I mean, the way she talks down to people like she's the teacher and we're the young, dumb students. 0.99

00:56:01.640 You know, repeat after me. 0.99

00:56:03.320 Repeat after me.

00:56:04.660 Turn the page.

00:56:06.540 Right.

00:56:06.740 And she really has that crazy look in her eyes. 0.93

00:56:11.100 And so, you know, even scarier than I thought of Tim Walsh running for president is his wife being a first lady. 0.87

00:56:20.540 Again, I'm happier to see that she's gone rather than than Tim.

00:56:25.300 Yeah, she she makes Jill Biden look like Marilyn Monroe. 1.00

00:56:29.980 We'll say that much. 1.00

00:56:31.380 And real quick, we have a headline just so Tim Walsh, you know, for the for the record, he lost his home county to Trump, which I just think is hilarious because this is a guy every time he comes out, Mark, he plays that stupid song. 0.99

00:56:44.180 I was born in a small town. 0.97

00:56:46.240 It's just like, yeah, dude, you were in China.

00:56:48.500 What, like 40 times you lied about being in Tiananmen Square.

00:56:51.500 Give me a break.

00:56:52.240 And he lost his home county.

00:56:53.300 So how's that for your small town?

00:56:55.280 Well, Mark, unfortunately, we're out of time today.

00:56:58.720 We had a great time.

00:57:00.080 I always have a good time with you here in the Stone Zone.

00:57:01.960 But we will hopefully see you next time.

00:57:04.980 And I thank you so much for joining us here today.

00:57:07.540 Thank you, Troy.

00:57:09.200 I will see you soon.

00:57:09.820 All right.

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00:58:42.780 And God bless.

00:58:43.700 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going and he's smart and he's strong and people love him.

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The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - November 13, 2024

President Trump Makes Triumphant Return to Washington D.C.

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