Trump's decision to strike Iran's nuclear facilities and enriching centrifuges is not the end of MAGA. It's the beginning of a new era in American foreign policy, and it's a time to learn to live in the Stone Zone.
00:00:39.800Well, as I've said here in the zone, the only thing predictable about Donald Trump is that he's completely and totally unpredictable.
00:00:49.620So after the head fake of saying he would make a decision in two weeks on Sunday,
00:00:54.760He launched a surgical strike against the three locations where American intelligence told him enriched uranium was stored and where the centrifuges existed to produce a nuclear weapon.
00:01:11.540I stress for those who say this is the end of MAGA or that he's just another neocon.
00:01:17.980And this is specifically not regime change.
00:01:22.020First of all, there will be no boots on the ground.
00:01:27.340The president did not hit the Iranians oil refinery capabilities.
00:01:32.860That would be a direct challenge to the Chinese, their principal customer, indeed their patron.
00:01:39.940He did not launch a Soleimani type drone attack on the Ayatollah because he is a religious leader.
00:01:48.860And of course, immediately after the attack, which the president decided on, he called for talks yet again.
00:01:58.380As for the report from the Iranians that we did no damage to their nuclear weapons development program, that they had cleverly moved everything out of those three locations,
00:02:12.860no military or intelligence source that I trust tells me that's true.
00:02:18.620I think that was a face saving statement with no basis in reality.
00:02:28.380On the other hand, we cannot pretend that the president's historic decision will have no consequences.
00:02:36.340Many military experts, Colonel John Mills, Colonel Douglas McGregor here in the Stone Zone,
00:02:43.620predicted that there was a strong possibility that the Iranians would shut down the Strait of Hormuz,
00:02:51.240where one out of every six barrels of oil in the world travels.
00:02:56.340They have made noises about that, but have not yet done so.
00:03:01.260To do so would also hit their clients, such as the Chinese.
00:03:07.200Whether the Pakistanis or even the Russians or others choose to lend or give nuclear warheads to the Iranians,
00:04:23.140And he decides what constitutes America first.
00:04:27.620Meanwhile, of course, the Iranians have attacked a U.S. base in Qatar in what they say is retaliation for airstrikes on their facilities over the weekend.
00:04:38.260Explosions were heard over the Qatari capital of Doha, while video shows air defense missiles being deployed following what Iran called blessings of victory.
00:04:48.880A devastating and powerful missile was fired at the U.S.
00:04:54.440Al-Uaid air base in Qatar, according to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in a statement put out by Iranian state media.
00:05:04.440Some 10,000 U.S. troops are normally based there, which serves as the forward headquarters for U.S. Central Command.
00:05:12.140Qatar has reported the Iranian missiles attack on our base was successfully intercepted with no reports of casualties and that Iran coordinated the attacks with Qatari officials, giving them advance notice.
00:05:27.400You have to wonder to what extent all of this is for public consumption.
00:06:10.580I think he has sublimated his earlier neocon positioning to be one of the president's most effective appointees, carrying out the Trump doctrine rather than the doctrine of endless foreign war, where our inherent national interests were never clear.
00:06:31.060Meanwhile, President Trump made a statement on True Social today regarding the fake news reports about the operation of midnight hammer strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities.
00:06:42.540Monumental damage was done to all nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images.
00:06:50.320Obliteration is an accurate term, said the president.
00:06:53.780The white structure shown in a photo that the president put up is deeply embedded into the rock, with even its roof well below ground level and completely shielded from flame.
00:07:05.860The biggest damage took place far below ground level.
00:07:11.520Bullseye, said the president, with no less than three exclamation points.
00:07:16.880The sites that we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it, the president said.
00:07:23.400Only the fake news would say anything different in order to try to demean as much as possible.
00:07:29.860And even they say they were pretty well destroyed.
00:07:33.880Working especially hard on this falsehood, the president called out Allison Cooper of Fake News CNN, his words, Brian Roberts, chairman of Comcast, who the president called dumb, Johnny Carl of ABC Fake News, and as always, the losers at Comcast's NBC Fake News.
00:07:59.200It never ends with the sleazebanks in the media, and that's why their ratings are at an all-time low, said the president.
00:08:10.040As one who's been the target for their disinformation, someone they falsely labeled as a Russian intelligence asset for over two years, I know exactly how the president feels.
00:08:26.440President Trump made a second statement regarding the idea of Russia giving Iran a nuclear weapon.
00:08:33.940Did I hear that former President Medvedev from Russia casually throwing around the N-word and saying that he and other countries would supply nuclear warheads to Iran?
00:08:46.260President Trump, President Trump wrote on social media, did he really say that, or is it a figment of my imagination?
00:08:53.020If he did say that, and if confirmed, please let me know immediately.
00:08:57.760The N-word, meaning nuclear, should not be treated so casually.
00:09:05.420By the way, if anyone thinks our hardware was great over the weekend, far and away the strongest and best equipment we have, 20 years advanced over the pack.
00:09:16.120That describes our nuclear submarines, the president said.
00:09:20.620They are the most powerful and lethal weapons ever built.
00:09:29.120So in addition to our great fighter pilots, thank you also to the captain and crew.
00:09:35.600Now, regarding the idea of regime change, I think the president was trolling his critics when he said it's not politically correct to use the term regime change.
00:09:46.700But if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, why wouldn't there be a regime change?
00:10:21.600But as someone whose life was saved by the president, I myself support him 100 percent in this decision.
00:10:30.660But I also continue to differentiate this from decisions made by previous presidents.
00:10:36.460It's kind of interesting that Joe Biden, Barack Obama and even Hillary Clinton all said that if the Iranians developed a weapon of mass destruction, a nuclear bomb, that they themselves would attack.
00:10:51.720It's interesting now that Democrat lawmakers lawmakers are now saying that the president's actions violate the War Powers Act and that he needed the permission of Congress to do this.
00:11:08.500In the meantime, I'm happy to see that the U.S.'s chief administrative officer informed congressional staffers today that the messaging app WhatsApp is banned on their government devices.
00:11:19.860The ban, which censors on the vulnerability of staffers' data, comes as Congress is also taking steps to limit the use of AI programs it deems similarly risky.
00:11:33.380AI, artificial intelligence, is one of the greatest dangers in the world.
00:11:41.860You can see dozens of videos of me online saying things, appearing to say things, that I never actually said.
00:11:51.940Some of them are really pretty rough around the edges and can be easily detected as fraud, while others, you need to use an AI software detection program.
00:12:04.820There are several good ones out there to prove that these are fraudulent.
00:12:10.140This is the real danger to democracy, because for a very little amount of money and not much technical skill, one can produce a video of making it appear that, oh, I don't know, Joe Biden said something that he never said, or perhaps Donald Trump.
00:12:27.500So we're now to the point where you cannot necessarily believe what you see with your own eyes.
00:12:35.180It's interesting that there in recent days are banning on Congress a number of AI technologies.
00:12:44.560It has also heavily restricted the use of chat GPT, instructing offices to only use the paid version, chat GPT+.
00:12:53.360The Office of Cybersecurity has deemed WhatsApp a high risk to users due to the lack of transparency in how it protects user data, absence of stored encryption, and potential security risks involved with its use.
00:13:09.260That's what the Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives said.
00:13:15.040House staff are not allowed to download or keep the WhatsApp application on any house device, including any mobile, desktop, or web browser version of its products.
00:13:27.200The email added, if you have a WhatsApp application on your house-managed device, you will be contacted to remove it immediately.
00:13:34.800Andy Stone, a spokesman for WhatsApp, no relative of mine, said in a statement,
00:13:40.620we disagree with the House's Chief Administrative Officer and their characterization in the strongest possible terms.
00:13:47.460We know members and their staff regularly use WhatsApp, and we look forward to ensuring members of the House can join their Senate counterparts in doing so officially.
00:13:58.340I'm Roger Stone. You're in the Stone Zone.
00:14:01.020Whatever you do, don't go away, because we'll be right back.
00:14:51.120President Donald Trump announced last week that he was seriously considering the appointment of a special counsel to study the 2020 election results.
00:15:02.000I think that is a good way to proceed, particularly in the wake of reports from FBI Director Cash Patel, that there were 20,000 fraudulent driver's licenses sent from China to Chicago, intercepted prior to the 2020 election.
00:15:21.280Unfortunately, this fact was buried, and FBI Director Christopher Wray clearly perjured himself before the Congress when he said that he was aware of no efforts of foreign interference in our 2020 election.
00:15:37.240Add that to the fact that the Secretary of State in the state of Colorado posted the passcodes for their entire election system online prior to the 2020 election.
00:15:53.200And now an explosive new story where veteran and former Hillsborough County, Florida, Supervisors of Election Candidate William Billy Christensen has come forward blowing the whistle on what he calls a coordinated internal manipulation of democracy.
00:16:12.200Armed with damning evidence, Christensen submitted a formal criminal complaint to state authorities calling for immediate investigation into doctored official election results, statistical anomalies, and digital tampering surrounding the 2024 general election in Hillsborough County, one of the largest counties in Florida.
00:16:33.560This isn't just administrative negligence, it's systematic corruption, and it threatens every Floridian's right to a free and fair election.
00:16:40.680At the center of Christensen's complaint is the final certified election results report from the Hillsborough County Board of Elections, helmed by incumbent Craig Latimer and Dee Foran.
00:16:56.180A forensic review of the publicly released PDF report reveals clear digital tampering, visibly editing marks, and graphical layering embedded directly into the final version.
00:17:08.020Those anomalies, which bear all the hallmarks of post-processing tools like Adobe Acrobat and Microsoft Word, are suspiciously concentrated in the race for supervisor of elections.
00:17:24.760The report appears altered and the artifacts weren't scrubbed.
00:17:28.500This isn't just sloppy, it's fraudulent.
00:17:31.000Yet another example of why the president should go ahead and appoint a special counsel to examine the integrity of our elections.
00:17:40.820We should have these questions, and only a thorough investigation and full disclosure to the American people is going to satisfy our democracy.
00:17:51.960By the way, we don't live in a democracy, we live in a democratic republic, as people like to remind me on social media every single day.
00:18:03.680When we come back, Pat Garandi, one of the leaders when it comes to the field of rare diseases and their cures, is going to join us to talk about the fight to find an applicable treatment for sickle cell disease.
00:18:44.740Now, if you met Patrick Garandi, you would not know that he is a biomedical company executive who has spent a life trying to find the cures and treatments for rare diseases.
00:18:56.960You might think that he was a very hip jazz musician or an A-list celebrity, but Pat Garandi is a respected, well-known leader in the field of rare diseases.
00:19:07.640He's traveled all over the world counseling medical centers on the strategies to be most effective when it comes to rare diseases.
00:19:14.980He's devoted his life to curing sickle cell disease and thalassemia after his own son, Rocco, was diagnosed with thalassemia as a child.
00:19:26.900An early pioneer in the field of gene therapy, Pat Garandi has fought big pharma corruption every step of the way in the court of public opinion, as well as in the courts, to save his own son and others from these debilitating conditions.
00:19:43.660It's an honor to have this courageous fighter with us today.
00:20:00.420So once you identify the therapy that creates a genetic disease, once you know what that gene is, then there's a possibility of delivering that gene to enough stem cells in a patient's body to where the patient defeats the disease or is no longer symptomatic.
00:20:21.060And you can do that either by changing the gene, which is called gene replacement, which is what we do, or you can edit the gene, which is what CRISPR does.
00:20:36.340So your company, San Rocco Therapeutics, developed a superior gene therapy for the treatment of sickle cell disease.
00:20:47.120You would think that this would be greeted as great news, but instead it landed you in court and in the front pages of the New York Times.
00:22:27.320So, Bluebird Bio said, you know, in 2013, after they had sabotaged our product, basically, we weren't aware of that yet.
00:22:38.600But they said that they would treat patients for around $750,000 per patient.
00:22:43.920In 2017, when we realized what had happened through discovery in the court system, we went after them.
00:22:51.920And in 2020, we finally settled out of court, and we were getting back into the business of curing patients.
00:23:00.960We were the first, actually, in patients in 2012 in a clinical trial in the United States.
00:23:07.340Bluebird Bio, however, got approved in December of 2023.
00:23:13.740And instead of charging $750,000 because they didn't have any competition, which was us at one time, so they charged $3.1 million per patient.
00:23:25.400We can treat the patients for $800,000.
00:23:32.020To what extent are taxpayers picking up the tab for these treatments?
00:23:36.160So, there's basically 90% of all thalassemic and sickle cell disease patients are on some form of Medicare or Medicaid.
00:23:47.580To treat a patient with gene therapy costs the company, costs my company, excuse me, costs my company somewhere around $500,000.
00:24:00.820Just for hospital costs and for the creation of the product.
00:24:06.720So, after you add overhead for the company, et cetera, et cetera, like I said, I promised Bobby Kennedy that we'd keep the price under $1 million per patient for the next 10 years.
00:24:18.260But, however, like I said, Bluebird Bio for gene replacement charges $3.1 million.
00:24:24.980And CRISPR, which is gene editing, and it cures the exact same patients, is charging $2.2 million per patient.
00:24:32.920So, if you multiply the difference between $3.1 million per patient and $800,000 per patient, which we believe is the fair price, is the right price, times 100,000 patients,
00:24:45.520the taxpayers, the taxpayers basically theoretically defrauded out of about $230 billion.
00:24:51.940Yeah, that's the back of the envelope number I came up with.
00:24:55.240At some point, you notified New York Attorney General Letitia James about this precarious situation regarding children in New York State with sickle cell anemia.
00:25:10.420Yeah, so, in 2018, we basically, after we did discovery in our court case, we realized that there was this horrible criminal sabotage that happened, including insider trading.
00:25:24.740So, Bluebird Bio traded up to a $12 billion market cap that has raised a total of $4.2 billion in the marketplace.
00:25:34.220And they were getting ready to treat patients with what we believe was a less safe drug because they were using our first generation of our drug, and since then, we have improved it.
00:25:46.740And so, we went to Letitia James' office, excuse me, one of our guys actually met with her, but I met with her office probably 10 times.
00:26:04.660We brought her all of the court evidence, which pointed to criminal activity to sabotage our product and to boost the cost of gene therapy for sickle cell disease.
00:26:22.440We recently were pushing back and forth all the way until 2024, and the answer was always the same, that she didn't have the resources to go after the people who were costing the lives of sickle cell disease children.
00:26:46.220I have to ask you, as a high school dropout, how did you assemble a team to take on Big Pharma in the way you have?
00:26:54.780Well, initially, I started investing all of my own family money.
00:26:58.380Like I said, I was a rags to riches story on Oprah Winfrey.
00:27:01.200I was in Playgirl magazine as one of America's most overall bachelors with Magic Johnson and Sylvester Stallone.
00:27:08.140So once my son was diagnosed, I stuck all my own money.
00:27:12.140I stopped trading, and I stuck all my own money into curing the disease.
00:27:17.600And by doing that, I won a lot of heroes or a lot of people who thought that I was a hero and a lot of people who wanted to collaborate, including some of the top researchers in the United States, including the head of gene and cell therapy at the NIH, Dr. John Tisdale, an incredible person.
00:27:35.780And I also attracted the Walton family.
00:27:39.060The Walton family, meaning John Walton, they have son Lucas.
00:27:47.060We got involved in 1995, and he was partners all the way to 2004.
00:27:52.620And the Walton family, over the last 20-some years, have also put in about $23 million into the project.
00:28:01.600But by being the father of a sick patient, being very serious about all of this, and not chasing the money, just chasing the cure, it actually won me tons of wonderful allies, including Dan O'Connor of Trial Site News, Professor Frank Park, Dr. Lucho Lusato.
00:28:21.040So it goes on and on and on, all of the wonderful people who are helping us.
00:28:26.420Because this is obviously, for some people, not about a cure or treatment, but about making money.
00:28:33.720Are you concerned that these powerful, big pharma corporations will move to try to stop you again?
00:28:39.760That's always a possibility and always a concern.
00:28:46.160We know how these huge, you know, multinational corporations work.
00:28:50.820You know, for them to knock somebody off is not a big deal.
00:28:54.260You know, somebody dies of a heart attack or gets hit by a car and something like that.
00:28:58.160However, you know, I've met President Trump, I've met Vice President Vance, I'm very close to Robert Kennedy, and him, Senator Tim Scott from North Carolina, have all pledged to make a gene therapy for sickle cell disease and thalassemia, my own son's disease, accessible.
00:29:21.660So at this time, if they decide to do something against me, I think they'd have a lot of, they'd have to think about a real lot before they would do something.
00:29:34.960Well, we obviously not only pray for your safety, but we pray for anybody who's afflicted with these horrific diseases.
00:29:44.420I really think Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of the standout appointees by President Trump.
00:29:51.300I knew him casually before he himself ran for president, had a high regard for him then.
00:29:58.320What impresses me most about him is when you watch him prior to his appointment, even prior to his candidacy, running first as a Democrat, then as an Independent, and ultimately putting his own personal ambitions aside to endorse President Donald Trump, forming a powerful new political realignment.
00:30:20.060Because I think millions of common sense-minded Democrats and independents followed him in the last election.
00:30:29.620But what impresses me the most about him is that in any format, whether in a panel or whether questioned about his beliefs,
00:30:41.300he never makes any statement that he can't back up with solid research from a credible source, whether it's a trial or whether it is a study.
00:30:57.760I also think it was disgusting the way that big media tried to just erase him, just to try to censor him entirely.
00:31:07.580So even when he did get on, say, CNN or one of the three networks, they would severely edit his interviews, never allowing him to fully and completely express himself.
00:31:22.240It was a news blackout that this administration opposes.
00:31:28.320I think one of the three pillars of this new coalition is free speech.
00:31:33.860And the fact that he's changed the vaccination advisory board makeup, the fact that he is outlawing certain toxic additives, dyes, and other chemicals in our food,
00:31:50.100things that have already happened long ago in Europe that will now happen now,
00:31:54.140shows me that his commitment to make America healthy again is very serious, very much on target.
00:32:01.360I notice that he is relentless in his efforts.