00:00:30.000You are now jumping headfirst into the Stone Zone.
00:00:34.880Well, the Russian collusion hoax, which if you're a regular listener of the Stone Zone, you know, I believe is the greatest single abuse of power, the greatest single dirty trick in American political or governmental history in which the full authority of the United States government and the incredible capabilities of our intelligence agencies were used to try to undo a duly elected president and end his presidency,
00:01:00.640may be finally moving to the accountability and justice phase.
00:01:06.020The mainstream media, in concert with the Democrats, still continue to hold out this myth
00:01:12.400that Russia somehow interfered in our 2016 election, for which there is no basis of fact at all.
00:01:20.380In fact, when you press those on the left, like Adam Schiff, for example,
00:01:25.560They will say, oh, well, the proof of that is that Donald Trump's campaign manager, Paul Manafort, was giving proprietary polling information from the Trump campaign to Konstantin Kalemnik, who was a Russian intelligence asset.
00:01:40.220After $30 million, that's what you found.
00:01:42.260By the way, the Trump campaign had no proprietary polling information immediately after the convention.
00:01:47.320And Konstantin Kalemnik, who they now claim was a Russian intelligence asset, was in fact a U.S. intelligence asset.
00:01:55.980Oh, but there was a minor Facebook campaign by some Russian entity that spent less than $5 million that supposedly changed the results of a campaign in which well over $1 billion was spent.
00:02:11.520No, that's part of the same kind of cover-up, but now the Justice Department's investigation into the origins and the handling of the Trump-Russia inquiries has moved deeper into the grand jury phase.
00:02:23.620Breaking this morning, a story by the Associated Press, still quite biased by the way, but prosecutors in Florida have reportedly issued a new round of subpoenas, shifting parts of the inquiry from voluntary interviews to now seeking compelled testimony.
00:02:38.480Former CIA Director John Brennan has, by his own lawyers, been identified as a potential target.
00:02:45.600Not surprising because it was John Brennan who took the so-called Steele dossier.
00:02:51.700That is a fake report financed by Hillary Clinton, put together by a former British intelligence agent,
00:02:59.320which claimed falsely that Donald Trump had misbehaved with Russian prostitutes when visiting Moscow as a private businessman.
00:03:07.400The government knew at the time of Robert Mueller's appointment that that was a fraud. The government knew and John Brennan specifically knew when he put that into the footnotes of the intelligence community assessment daily report to Barack Obama as a rationale for the entire Russian collusion investigation and the appointment of Robert Mueller that it was a fraud.
00:03:33.380John Brennan was the ringleader of the greatest dirty trick in American political history.
00:03:39.460Investigators are now examining whether intelligence and law enforcement officials
00:03:42.640cross legal and constitutional lines while scrutinizing Donald Trump and his associates.
00:03:47.700Now, the reason that this grand jury is in Florida, although this massive scandal began in Washington,
00:03:54.300is because it is a continuing seditious conspiracy.
00:03:57.980Those are the words of Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence,
00:04:02.280when she declassified the documents that absolutely proved beyond any doubt whatsoever
00:04:08.040that the Russian collusion matter was a conspiracy, was a hoax, run by Barack Obama,
00:04:15.120cheered on by Joe Biden, but actually put into action by John Brennan, as well as FBI Director
00:04:22.040James Comey, Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, the National Security Advisor Susan Rice, and others.
00:04:29.820President Trump went through three years of the Russian collusion investigation, which hampered his first term in office.
00:04:37.920Then, of course, the two completely fraudulent impeachment inquiries.
00:04:43.240Once again, Tulsi Gabbard declassified the documents, proving that those were all baseless and politically motivated.
00:04:49.720In one case, the so-called Ukrainian impeachment inquiry was both offensive and defensive.
00:04:54.840They were accusing Donald Trump of trying to muscle the president of Ukraine for facts about Hunter Biden, when what they were really trying to do was hide the fact that Joe Biden, as vice president, had withheld $1 billion of aid meant for Ukraine, unless the Ukrainians agreed to fire the prosecutor who was investigating his son, Hunter Biden, and his keys to ties to Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company.
00:05:24.840Then, of course, you have the 2020 election, about which there are many questions regarding anomalies, irregularities, and at least evidence of outright fraud, all the way over to the so-called documents case, in which it appears to me that someone at the FBI, someone in the globalist realm, wanted to get back documents that Donald Trump had every right to hold onto under the Presidential Documents Act that proves everything that I'm telling you right now is true.
00:05:53.820and therefore they raided his home in Mar-a-Lago.
00:05:57.640That brings the jurisdiction right to South Florida.
00:06:01.380What that means in turn is that you will get an honest judge and an honest grand jury
00:06:06.320and an honest jury when these cases go to trial.
00:06:09.260I can tell you from personal experience, having been a target of the Russian collusion hoax
00:06:13.440where they tried to pressure me into lying,
00:06:15.940that you'll never get a fair trial or a fair shake from a D.C. judge or a D.C. grand jury.
00:06:22.140Based on the exhaustive amount of information that has been declassified and released, it should now actually be an open and shut case for the grand jury to bring charges to these discraped deep state spooks of the entire Obama-Biden era.
00:06:41.460He was appointed by Attorney General Bill Barr.
00:06:44.720But what they don't tell you is that John Durham never had subpoena power.
00:06:48.640He never had the ability to compel anybody to talk.
00:06:51.180So John Brennan and James Comey could just tell him to pound sand, and they essentially did.
00:06:58.100Then you had the inspector general's report.
00:07:00.540That was the inspector general of the Justice Department.
00:07:03.860He seemed to miss a number of the key elements that were exposed by Tulsi Gabbard.
00:07:09.920So for years, arguments over Russiagate, intelligence assessments, surveillance, and federal investigative power were fought through congressional hearings.
00:07:17.500and the weak investigations, including those by Durham and the inspector general.
00:07:23.120But many, many more important facts have now been unearthed.
00:07:26.060There's been a little movement in terms of actual criminal indictments.
00:07:29.400As someone who faced a criminal indictment and whose life was saved by Jesus Christ and by Donald Trump in that order,
00:07:37.020because I refused to lie and refused to bear witness, false witness against the president,
00:07:41.940I can tell you that this isn't about revenge and retaliation.
00:07:46.100This is about accountability and justice. A grand jury can now change what has been a two-tiered justice system. Prosecutors can compel witnesses and documents, and they can develop admissible evidence backing up a criminal indictment.
00:08:00.120The time for action is now. We've been waited with bated breath for almost two years as Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Rosenstein, McCabe, and the rest of these low lives are still free men.
00:08:11.520If they're not charged and jailed, nothing will prevent them from having the same kind of operation in the future.
00:08:17.160Next chance they get. The grand jury must do its job and work to restore the rule of law in this country before it's too late.
00:08:23.060There's one other key factor here, though, and that is I'm asked every day about the 2026 elections, which are far from over.1.00
00:08:30.120Amateurs and panikins are already ready to concede control of House to the Democrats.1.00
00:08:34.560I don't necessarily agree with that.0.99
00:08:37.520If those who voted for Donald Trump feel that there is no justice in this matter,
00:08:42.300then that nobody who perpetrated the greatest dirty trick, the greatest hoax on the American people in our history is held responsible.
00:08:49.580They're far less likely to turn out and vote.
00:08:52.780That is a key factor as we head to the 2026 elections.
00:08:57.760Well, it looks to me like Trump hating leftist Jimmy Kimmel is nearing the end of his run as a late night host on ABC. According to TMZ, Jimmy Kimmel Live expected to end when Kimmel's current contract expires in May 2027 following an initial Page Six New York Post report that his deal would not be renewed.
00:09:17.420TMZ is also citing staff chatter that Kimmel has been exploring other shows and podcasts, sensing that the writing is on the wall.
00:09:24.920That's good because, frankly, he's long since no longer funny.
00:09:29.220ABC says the account is inaccurate and calls reports about the show's future being purely speculative.
00:09:34.740But I smell something much greater here.
00:09:37.220Kimmel has been working on year-to-year contract basis, has openly discussed eventually leaving late night.
00:09:42.860Seems like ABC is looking to soften the blow, perhaps diminish the perception that President Trump and his supporters have pressed them into booting Kimmel.
00:09:50.920Frankly, it's not about that at all. It's really about ratings and it's about money.
00:09:56.120Kimmel's program, you may remember, was temporarily suspended last year following his heinous comments and made about Charlie Kirk's killing, my good friend Charlie Kirk.
00:10:04.880Then he returned six days later to his biggest regularly scheduled audience in more than a decade.
00:11:19.480It's about the fact that he's no longer funny and he's no longer entertaining.
00:11:24.040When we come back, I want to talk about the 9-11 memorial coming up.
00:11:28.520A group of September 11th families, first responders and retired law enforcement officers
00:11:32.860I have now publicly asked New York Mayor Zoran Mamdami not to attend the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero.
00:11:41.500I stand with Governor George Pataki, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, John McDivitt, the former president of the Port Authority Police Officers Association,
00:11:52.000And my good friend, Sid Rosenberg, when I asked the mayor to stay away, he embraces an ideology of those who attacked America on 9-11. His smirk drives me crazy. His handing the pen to a radical lawyer who represented those involved in 9-11 turned my stomach.
00:12:14.220And if the mayor does come, and I suspect he will, I think there should be some peaceful protests.
00:12:20.200Some have suggested turning their back on the mayor.
00:12:42.520It is a day that is tattooed in my brain, is etched in my memory, and I think it is disrespectful to the families and those who went through the terrific suffering on that day for the mayor to show up with that little smirk of his.
00:12:59.580This is The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Don't go away, because we'll be right back.
00:13:04.780The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative.
00:13:45.860It is, other than my devotion to my God and my wife and my family,
00:13:50.500it's the single dominant thing in my life.
00:13:53.220And, of course, I spend all of my days reading polling
00:13:56.520and other statistical information to try to get an assessment for the 2026 elections.0.98
00:14:02.380For those who have thrown in the towel, we call them panikins.
00:14:05.840But the new Harvard-Harris poll, which is no one's idea of a conservative polling operation, shows a narrow generic margin of 5149 for Republicans in the House races.
00:14:18.100So for those who are ready to throw in the towel, it is greatly premature.
00:14:21.600You see, our politics are extraordinarily volatile.
00:14:24.840So, for example, Jerry Kushner, the president's son-in-law, who I believe, by the way, deserves enormous credit for the Abraham Accords.
00:14:32.320That's a historic peace agreement between Israel and a number of the Arab neighbors that was executed during the first Trump term.
00:14:39.900Something, by the way, people said could never be achieved.0.99
00:14:42.220But Jared Kushner really shepherded that and was nominated for a Nobel Prize for doing so, rightly so.
00:14:49.580But he and Steve Witkoff, who's a close friend of the president's and a very savvy businessman and a great negotiator, have been conducting shuttle diplomacy between Russia and Ukraine.
00:19:50.380El-Sayed, an Islamist and radical socialist
00:19:53.100who inexplicably won Michigan's Democrat primary for the U.S. Senate,
00:19:57.140although we did predict right here in the Stone Zone that he would win,
00:20:00.020despite that the polls at the end of that race did not show that,
00:20:03.740has said that he's not affiliated with the Democrat Socialists of America,
00:20:07.600but if that's true, then he's cheating them out of their dues.1.00
00:20:10.580This is a sleight of hand from a silver-tongued Muslim0.99
00:20:13.280hoping to pull the wool over the eyes of Michigan's voters.1.00
00:20:17.700With its comparison, the Democrats to the KKK may seem a little overzealous,
00:20:21.960but assuming their attitudes, I actually believe it's warranted.0.99
00:20:25.700Democrats have taken African-American votes for granted,
00:20:28.280and they think they'll vote for them no matter what they say or do.
00:20:31.860They're also growing more anti-Semitic and to the point where Michigan's Democrat Attorney General,
00:20:37.560Dana Nessel, is scared for her own safety and could not attend the party convention.
00:20:42.520Dana Nessel is an extreme leftist herself.
00:20:45.480She's not a conservative Democrat, but even she is now scared by the radical fringe in her own party.
00:20:52.380El-Sayed represents the lurch to the far left by a Democrat party that increasingly is ignoring its long-stated constituency.0.81
00:21:00.220With it and other black Democrats refusing to take it lying down, this is a significant development in a state where Republicans really have a chance to pick up a U.S. Senate seat.0.61
00:21:10.320It's very clear at this point that Mike Rogers, the former congressman, former FBI agent, is going to have more than sufficient resources.0.94
00:21:19.900And the Michigan Senate race is an important one, along with Texas, to watch.
00:21:24.600Meanwhile, a juror from the Lindsay Clancy murder trial has given an extraordinary explanation of how she moved from believing that Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children to favoring a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict.
00:21:40.700Juror number five told WBZ-TV that she initially thought Clancy was guilty and in her words, maybe I still believe that in a certain way.
00:21:51.640that's troubling. The juror stated that she came to believe that a not guilty verdict was the only
00:21:56.820way Clancy received the mental health treatment she needed. The trial ended in an 11 to 1 deadlock
00:22:03.680and missed trial after seven long days of deliberations. Clancy has admitted strangling
00:22:09.680Cora, Dawson, and Callan, her three children. Her defense argued postpartum psychosis made her
00:22:16.320legally not responsible. My hat's off to that one male juror who evidently held out from the very
00:22:23.640beginning against a majority insisting that he vote to equip. He would not do so. This poor guy
00:22:31.260must have gone through extraordinary pressure, but I believe wherever he is tonight, he knows he did
00:22:36.900the right thing. This interview with the juror deserves scrutiny because it's a juror's job
00:22:41.920to apply the law and the evidence, not to design the defendant's post-trial treatment plan.
00:22:49.300The juror also expressly said reasonable doubt drove her conclusion,
00:22:53.040and she believed convincing, despite the doubt, would violate Clancy's rights.
00:22:58.240Other female jurors publicly criticized that lone holdout who favored conviction,
00:23:02.660while the foreperson has accused him during deliberations of failing to apply the judge's reasonable doubt instructions.
00:24:55.200I would note, just as a small point, that they had an exhibition recently in which they said,0.54
00:24:59.700flatly, as a matter of fact, President Richard Nixon was impeached. President Richard Nixon was
00:25:04.940not impeached. President Richard Nixon resigned from the presidency to avoid impeachment. He might
00:25:10.740have been impeached had he not resigned, but he was not impeached. These are historians. Should
00:25:14.740they not get it right? You see, it was more important to blacken the name of Nixon, who I
00:25:20.220think is getting a little bit of a re-examination among the public, which is something I've worked
00:25:25.420for it for 30 years. But I use that just as one example of how the Smithsonian is giving you a
00:25:31.340politically concocted, politically correct version of history. The succession battle now for this
00:25:38.000position will matter because the Smithsonian is neither an ordinary museum chain nor a normal
00:25:44.100executive agency. It's a federally supported national institution overseen by a board of
00:25:48.940regents that includes the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, the Vice President, members of
00:25:53.880Congress and a couple of private citizens. That structure gives it significant insulation from
00:25:58.860direct presidential control, even as federal funding creates political leverage. In other
00:26:04.460words, folks, these museums are being paid for with our tax dollars. Shouldn't their version
00:26:09.660of history just simply be the truth? That has not stopped President Trump, of course, from using the
00:26:15.360bully pulpit of his office from having a major impact on things at the Simplonium. Bunch's
00:26:21.020retirement indicates that there is a changing of the guard at that institution. If Bunch is not
00:26:25.760replaced with a true patriot who understands the need to celebrate Americans exceptionalism and
00:26:31.260greatness, that individual will be the next one put in the pressure cooker from an administration
00:26:35.480that will not tolerate unpatriotic behavior or a DEI sensitized version of America's history.
00:26:45.180Meanwhile, roughly 200,000 Salvadorians living in the United States under temporary protected status have reached a deadline that exposes one of the strangest features of American immigration policy, a program called Temporary that has lasted for a quarter of a century.
00:27:02.760El Salvador received the temporary protected status after devastating earthquakes back in 2001, which allowed qualifying nationals of that country already in the United States to live and work legally while conditions at home were considered unsafe. Seems reasonable.
00:27:20.140But the current designation was extended through September 9, 2026.
00:27:25.920The Trump administration has already terminated or attempted to terminate this temporary protected status for more than one million people from numerous countries.
00:27:35.000Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen now faces the same decision on El Salvador,
00:27:40.100whose security conditions have changed dramatically under President Nayib Bukele,
00:27:47.220who actually is a friend of mine, sends me coffee every month.
00:27:50.680Coffee, he's also a close ally of President Donald Trump.
00:27:54.620Went from being one of the most unsafe countries in the world
00:27:56.940to perhaps the safest nation in the hemisphere,
00:28:01.400thanks to Bukele's visionary leadership and his toughness.
00:28:04.500Many Salvadorans, who are temporary holders of this temporary status, have spent most of their adult lives in the United States, built businesses, bought homes, and raised.0.82
00:29:01.820Meanwhile, Treasury Secretary Scott Besant, who is a good friend of mine and perhaps one of the very best of President Trump's appointees,
00:29:08.960says that automatic enrollment is coming for Trump accounts, the tax-advantaged investment accounts created for American children under the administration's 2025 tax legislation.
00:29:21.640Besant told a Breitbart economic forum that more than 7 million enrollments have already been recorded since the program's formal launch in July.
00:29:30.080and said a coming change could expand eligibility enrollment dramatically, while families would still need to activate their accounts.
00:29:38.360Under the program, qualifying children born during the covered period receive $1,000 in federal seed money,
00:29:46.080and families can add contributions throughout the Treasury-backed platform.
00:29:50.740The administration represents these accounts as a way to broaden long-term household participation in the equity markets.
00:29:57.620Policy is important because it frames social policy around asset ownership rather than only annual benefits or income transfers.
00:30:06.200In other words, it's not a social welfare program. It's an investment program.
00:30:11.240Besson noted that a large share of America's households has no direct stake in the stock market and argues that children should begin adulthood with capital already accumulating.
00:30:22.000This is how we make the next generation of American citizens financially literate.
00:30:27.620Connecting working and middle-class families to long-term investment growth is how we curtail the out-of-control welfare state without instituting crippling cuts.
00:30:37.380This exciting program's long-term significance will ultimately depend upon whether balances grow meaningful, fees remain low, and the families actually use the accounts over many years.
00:30:48.700This could be for Republicans what Social Security has been for Democrats, a major achievement.
00:30:53.960So if the Republicans in power and the Democrats win back the country's policy could be torpedoed or even ended, that would be a horrific mistake.
00:31:03.260This is one of the myriad reasons why I think it is vital Republicans hold on in the midterm elections.
00:31:08.960That is the Trump savings accounts, this incredible program, let us hope that we don't have to go back.
00:31:16.120Meanwhile, a 27-year-old artificial intelligence researcher has resigned from the tech firm Anthropic with an ominous warning that should give us all pause about rapid technological growth and its effects on society.
00:31:29.860One Jacob Coxon, who spent roughly three years in pre-training research in open AI and Anthropic, says that leading AI labs are racing towards self-improving superintelligence without a credible plan for controlling what they create.
00:31:46.100Coxson wrote that people building the technology earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade
00:31:52.260and accuse the industry of gambling with our lives.
00:33:21.020You know, I really love the commentator Adam Carolla.
00:33:25.160It's not just the fact that he's half Italian and half Hungarian, as am I, but I think he's
00:33:29.560a very funny but also very shrewd guy.
00:33:32.280He offered a bleak cultural diagnosis of Los Angeles recently.
00:33:36.080The city is going from a place that residents rarely imagine leaving to one where, in his telling, people increasingly answer anywhere else when asked where they're moving.
00:33:45.180Speaking with my good friend Sean Hannity, Adam Carolla said the psychological barrier about leaving Southern California has collapsed and confirmed that he's preparing to leave the state himself.
00:33:56.200The conversation ranged beyond relocation into a late-night television, political correctness, and Carolla's argument that many older comedy formats would struggle to be approved in today's entertainment industry.
00:34:09.200His comments capture a sentiment that has become undeniable as California's taxes, housing costs, far-left governance, and weak-on-crime policies, not to mention their woke cultural climate, have caused the state to spiral into oblivion.
00:34:24.740Los Angeles, which was once one of my favorite cities in the country, remains one of the world's largest entertainment centers, at least for the time being, but it's starting to show signs of atrophy.
00:34:35.280California has experienced significant domestic out-migration in recent years, and entertainment productions increasingly moved to states and countries offering lower costs and tax incentives, as well as safer conditions.
00:34:47.240That makes Adam Kroll's complaint more than just rank-and-file celebrity grumbling.
00:34:52.220Adam Crowley, shooting straight about L.A.'s problems,
00:34:54.700the City of Angels once sold itself as a designation.
00:34:59.020People endured hardship to reach when long-time residents began discussing departure
00:35:03.320without caring much about destination.
00:35:05.400As long as they got the heck out of town pronto,
00:35:08.200the city's brand has clearly changed and not for the better.
00:35:11.760Mrs. Stone and I used to, every summer,
00:35:14.180we would rent a home in either Santa Monica or Venice Beach for a solid month.
00:35:21.640Today, I would even begin to think about doing that between the homeless, since people using outdoors as the largest, world's largest outdoor toilet, junkies shooting up on the street.
00:35:35.800I've seen the videos. It's shocking and deeply disturbing.
00:35:39.460It was once my favorite city, a place that I would no longer visit under any circumstances.
00:35:45.440This summer, I'm happy to say, because I thought ahead, I booked tickets to the south of France almost a year ago,
00:35:52.080so I didn't have to take out a mortgage to pay for them, and I stayed with friends in the south of France,
00:35:58.200high on a mountaintop right outside of Monaco.