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00:04:29.160At any given time, late at night on a weekend, you'll hear shootings just this past week.
00:04:35.180And from Friday to Monday, 71 people were shot in Chicago.
00:04:40.920This is all under Governor J.B. Pritzker's leadership.
00:04:43.520He's not only going after our First Amendment rights and trying to silence the voices of conservative grassroots Republicans.
00:04:50.120He's also going after the Second Amendment and his assault weapons ban, which is penalizing everyday law-abiding gun owners, while at the same time, they're allowing these violent criminals to continue to roam the streets without any consequences.
00:05:07.700And what's interesting is that under J.B. Pritzker's Illinois, my toothpaste spends more time locked up at CVS than the violent criminals do.
00:05:16.420And it's why our jails and our prisons here in Illinois, and particularly in Chicago, are empty.
00:05:21.820They're out on the streets, walking around, causing havoc.
00:05:28.500Well, and it seems like a dumpster fire, Mark, as somebody who's not really close to Chicago.
00:05:33.600What you're describing is a real horror show.
00:05:36.840I'm interested to know what your thoughts are as far as the Democrat convention coming up,
00:05:41.700because there's been speculation that there's going to be chaos that's caused by, you know, political things like the, you know, the whole Israel-Palestine thing that's going on right now.
00:05:50.700They say that there's going to be pro-Palestine, anti-Biden people there.
00:05:55.420But from what you're telling me, it sounds like there's just going to be chaos in general because that's how Chicago is nowadays, it appears.
00:06:01.880Well, the rhetoric from the anti-American, pro-Palestinian protesters is really amping up, and their protests are getting larger and larger.
00:06:13.960And what's interesting, Troy, is the anti-American, anti-Israeli sentiment here in the city of Chicago is shocking to me,
00:06:20.700just because 20 minutes, nearly 20 minutes north of downtown Chicago, in a town called Skokie, Illinois, resides the second largest Holocaust museum in the United States.
00:07:33.120We are short over 2,000 cops, and as a result, not only Chicago residents but Chicago visitors, tourists in the city, their lives are in grave danger.
00:07:46.500The only reason why the Democratic National Convention is in Chicago is because Governor Pritzker is the wealthiest politician in America.
00:07:53.700He's the wealthiest governor in America.
00:07:55.920And the decision was between Atlanta or Chicago, and this has been well-documented.
00:08:01.340Governor J.B. Pritzker picked up the phone, called President Biden, said, if you choose Chicago, I will tell you I will cover the cost of the convention, which is $100 million roughly.
00:08:11.520I will cover the cost myself if you name Chicago as the host city for the Democratic National Convention.
00:08:19.320So it's remarkable, as they're making preparations for all of these dignitaries and top Democratic leaders and visitors to come into Chicago, the city is a war zone.
00:08:37.920What can you tell me about Mr. Communist there running the city of Chicago?
00:08:42.640Well, Mayor Brandon Johnson is a product of the very corrupt Chicago Teachers Union.
00:08:47.900He was a teacher, and Mayor Johnson isn't making any of the decisions.
00:08:51.200I'll call it Mayor Teachers Union is making all of the decisions.
00:08:54.460He's just the guy warming up the chair.
00:08:56.780So, Troy, when he's actually not checking himself into the hospital for panic attacks, which is absolutely true, I've heard anywhere from between three and 14 times he's been hospitalized since he's been mayor for panic attacks because he can't handle the pressure.
00:09:11.600Whenever he's asked by reporters at press conferences, he doesn't give very many, but when he is asked by reporters, Chicago reporters, about the rise in crime, preparations for the convention, this anti-Israeli sentiment, anti-American sentiment, he likes to pull the race card.
00:09:26.800And he'll say, you're only asking me these questions because I'm a black man.
00:09:30.620No, we're asking you these questions because you're the mayor of Chicago.
00:10:22.980In fact, J.B. Pritzker is a huge supporter and friend of the Clinton family, of Bill and Hillary Clinton.
00:10:29.300And in fact, during the 2008 campaign, J.B. Pritzker supported Hillary over Barack Obama, even though Barack Obama was from the city of Chicago.
00:10:42.100His sister, Penny Pritzker, is obviously a huge Obama supporter and served in Obama's administration.
00:10:49.420But J.B. and Barack Obama are not friends.
00:10:52.120And in Chicago, the shine has worn off because his eight years as president, Barack Obama abandoned Chicago.
00:11:00.360He abandoned his home, he abandoned his constituents, he abandoned his friends.
00:11:06.800And the only time he seems to come into Chicago is to check on his presidential library.
00:11:12.920The streets are still shut down around his home that he hasn't stepped foot in in over a decade.
00:11:18.620And so he really hasn't done anything.
00:11:21.860The black community is not any better today than they were when Barack Obama was president.
00:11:27.880There was very little resources, very little energy, very little attention spent in his own backyard.
00:11:34.340And as a result of that, I can assure you that President Obama remains highly unpopular here in Chicago.
00:11:41.920Well, and you touched on something there that I was going to bring up next, and it was incredibly caught my eye because it was just like, I believe the total was $400 million they are spending on this Obama presidential center.
00:11:54.120And he goes there with a high-vis vest with neon colors with an Obama change symbol on the back.
00:12:40.280And as a result of President Trump, the MAGA Republican Party is now the party of the working class.
00:12:46.520It's now the party of the blacks, the Hispanics, the minorities, women, because of how our economy flourished under President Trump's economic policies.
00:12:58.100And I can assure you, Troy, that President Obama can wear any of these logos that he has and talk about hope and change.
00:13:07.100But when under his presidency and certainly thereafter and under Biden's presidency, there is no hope.
00:13:13.520And that's all we've got is change because Biden inflation is hurting everyday hardworking Americans.
00:13:20.080So President Obama is a perfect example of when you get fame, when you get money, you forget your roots.
00:13:26.580And he was always an elitist to begin with.
00:13:29.140But every time he comes to Chicago, it's laughable.
00:13:32.220He just parachutes in and gets the heck out of there.
00:13:36.120No, it doesn't seem that they really it seems like the Obamas love saying they're from Chicago more than they like being in Chicago.
00:13:43.620And it's it's kind of ironic because it's their policies and the Democrat Party policies that have made it kind of an uninhabitable, not a nice place to live.
00:13:51.580And it's a tragedy because, you know, I look at these cities like Chicago and New York.
00:13:55.860You know, isn't it sad, Mark, that these used to be beacons for people around the world to come and experience the American life?
00:14:02.060And now I feel like most Americans and people around the world see them as places that they really want to avoid.
00:14:08.260They do. And these the Democratic Party has been hijacked by these anti-police, anti-American Marxists who hate our country, who hate everything that we stand for.
00:14:18.720And as a result, these policies in place, the power of George Soros, who funds a lot of these district attorneys all over the country.
00:14:26.520You know, the pattern is pretty clear. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to just to to to see that the communities that have the highest crime are our Democratic controlled major cities like Chicago, for example, like New York.
00:14:40.440And when you don't support your police, when you advocate and pass legislation that turns victims into criminals and criminals into victims and when you can commit crimes, when you can riot and loot loot and bounce on top of cars and shatter storefront windows and and steal merchandise for up to nine hundred dollars.
00:15:03.920It's essentially a parking ticket. And so it's incentivized criminals to terrorize the streets, terrorize citizens, terrorize visitors.
00:15:15.720Basically, the Magnificent Mile in downtown downtown Chicago has historically been one of the most beautiful and remarkable shopping strips in the country next to Fifth Avenue in New York and Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
00:15:26.680Number three was Michigan Avenue. Now they've got over a thirty five percent vacancy rate.
00:15:31.940Some of the largest retailers have abandoned Michigan Avenue.
00:15:36.520It looks it's boarded up and signs in the windows for lease when it used to be a location where you had people coming from all over the world to shop and to sightsee.
00:15:47.380You have the president of the neighborhood association. They're literally begging the mayor for assistance because of the high crime that is occurring on Michigan Avenue as visitors and residents shop.
00:16:00.300And what is our Democratic leadership doing about it? Absolutely nothing.
00:16:04.980So I think it's all smoke and mirrors as they make these preparations for the Democratic National Convention.
00:16:10.120They want to make Chicago look like a postcard. But in reality, it's a war zone.
00:16:15.700Well, and Mark, as we approach what's going on here in the 2024 election, the DNC obviously having their convention there in Chicago and a man that was challenging Joe Biden initially for that nomination was RFK Jr.
00:16:28.640And Roger couldn't be with us today physically, but he's here in spirit.
00:16:32.360And I wanted to play this video of a recent interview Roger did with Breitbart.
00:16:37.300And he talks a little bit about Kennedy and he talks a little bit about what's going on now.
00:16:42.860And I want to get your thoughts on what Roger has to say about the the Kennedy Shanahan ticket currently running as an independent.
00:16:48.440Let's roll that and get Mark's thoughts in the back half.
00:16:50.340How much of a threat do you think Robert Kennedy Jr. is to Trump with regards to pulling away votes?
00:16:55.660He seems to be appealing to some people on the right or maybe neutral leaning people politically.
00:17:01.040Let me be very candid. I think a vote for Robert Kennedy is a vote for Joe Biden.
00:17:06.600It's hard to make a blanket statement across the entire country.
00:17:10.440If you look at the swing states in the majority of the swing states, he is robbing votes from Donald Trump with no ability to win himself.
00:17:19.440He talks about health freedom. He talks about his opposition to the war in Ukraine.
00:17:25.340He talks about the border, but he never talks about his position in favor of abortion on demand or his radical climate change position in which he thinks those who disagree with climate change should be arrested.
00:17:39.680So I think it is designed to pull votes from Donald Trump and therefore to benefit Joe Biden.
00:17:46.940Again, you can't make a blanket statement. That isn't true in every state.
00:17:51.660But as I look at polling, that is my overall impression.
00:17:55.340If you saw Robert Kennedy Jr. face to face, what would you say to him?
00:17:59.720I guess I would ask him why he chose a globalist whose wealth comes entirely from Internet censorship and information manipulation on the Internet as his running mate.
00:18:12.640I mean, it's amazing how Nicole Shanahan went overnight from being a radical progressive who funded the defund the police movement in California to suddenly whining about Internet censorship, to which I say, speak to your ex-husband from whom you derive all of your wealth in a divorce.
00:18:32.020Maybe you should talk to him about that problem.
00:18:33.820So the Democrats have been trying to do a lot of things, as we have seen.
00:18:38.440What do you think they're going to pull during the 11th hour of the election?
00:18:42.380Well, I mean, these people are capable of starting a war.
00:18:45.540Again, Antony Blinken, who's as bad at guitar playing as he has statesmanship, has already said that in September they intend to force NATO to accept Ukraine.
00:18:56.900That's a violation of the Budapest Memorandum, which we signed.
00:19:02.800It's a violation of the Minsk Accords.
00:19:04.920It's a violation of two different bilateral agreements that we have signed with the Russians.
00:19:22.180In all honesty, I also I pray for the safety of President Trump.
00:19:26.220I wrote a New York Times bestselling book on the assassination of President John Kennedy.
00:19:32.340I sadly don't put it beyond those in power who seek to hold power and to fear who fear prosecution for their previous crimes to do virtually anything to remain in power.
00:19:45.360I think it was Benny Thompson, the congressman, who proposed legislation to pull Trump's secret service, presumably if he were to be put in jail for whatever reason.
00:20:01.180First of all, I'm having been through the D.C. judicial meat grinder myself and finding out the hard way that the Constitution doesn't matter, the facts don't matter, the rules don't matter, the evidence doesn't matter.
00:20:15.000However, I'm very apprehensive about the president's sentencing on July 11th.
00:20:22.680The legislation by Congressman Thompson is mean-spirited.
00:20:27.380It makes it very clear that they would be very happy if Donald Trump were to die.
00:20:33.120Yet if we said something like that about Joe Biden, who, candidly, I only wish the best.
00:20:40.220So I thought that that was disgusting, but I thought it was also naked in terms of the purpose.
00:20:48.920Do you think Joe Biden is going to drop out of the 2024 election?
00:20:52.020Well, if you went to the Turning Point event in Palm Beach, which was a great, great event, I predicted in my remarks that shortly before the convention,
00:21:00.960the Democrats would recognize that Joe Biden is just not capable of getting through another campaign.
00:21:07.460If anything, things are worse now than they were then.
00:21:21.420So I think the chances are greater than they have ever been before that Joe Biden will be replaced,
00:21:27.540that shortly before the convention, he will announce his decision not to resign but to not run again.
00:21:33.540He will throw it open to the convention, and I still believe that the convention will draft Michelle Obama.
00:21:41.160Now, I haven't said that Michelle Obama is running for president or wants to run for president,
00:21:46.020but I think the Democrats may persuade her that she could be their last best chance to stop Donald Trump's return to the White House.
00:21:55.000So I'll stick by my prediction, and we'll see.
00:21:57.620What do you think getting justice for what the Democrats have done to Trump, what do you think that should look like?
00:22:03.960Should we start looking into why Nancy Pelosi is so good at stock trading?
00:22:08.480I mean, we need to have equal protection under the law.
00:22:12.040So this whole Democrat media cabal revenge thing is, no, as someone who was convicted of lying to Congress when there was nothing to lie about,
00:22:22.320when there was no underlying crime that would motivate me to lie, I look at Hillary Clinton, who lied to Congress,
00:22:30.660James Comey, who lied to Congress, John Brennan, who lied to Congress, Andrew McCabe, who lied to Congress.
00:22:36.180And they lied to Congress regarding material matters, important matters.
00:24:38.860Who's lost their jobs because of their political beliefs?
00:24:41.900Who knows somebody that's lost their jobs because of their political beliefs?
00:24:45.160And virtually every single person in the room raises their hand.
00:24:49.400This is Joe Biden's America under his second term.
00:24:52.780Again, we cannot allow Biden to be reelected.
00:24:59.140But the Democratic Party is clearly in panic mode.
00:25:02.820You know, Troy, you've got a problem when political pundits and political strategists like Van Jones and David Axelrod and James Carville
00:25:12.240are all singing from the same sheet of music talking about Joe Biden's age and the fact that over 80 percent of Americans,
00:25:19.320whether Republican or Democrat or independent, over 80 percent are very seriously concerned about Joe Biden's health and his mental state and his cognitive disability.
00:25:29.160And so they may be forced to try and figure out an alternative choice.
00:25:33.880But I know Roger mentions Michelle Obama.
00:25:36.800I don't think it will be Michelle Obama.
00:25:39.460And here's why, Troy, for President Obama really rolled into two very easy presidential elections.
00:25:47.700There were virtually no negative stories about him.
00:25:51.160There is a lot of dirt on Obama and the Obama family.
00:25:55.020And the fact that if Michelle were to run again for the first time in their political careers,
00:26:01.700they'd face a tsunami, tsunami of negative stories, negative coverage,
00:26:07.140things coming to the surface that they had hoped had been buried for a very, very long time.
00:26:11.780And I think the thought of that horrifies the Obama family.
00:26:16.660And so why it may be good for them financially, it may be good for their brand to tease the fact that maybe Michelle Obama will be elected president.
00:26:24.820In reality, I don't see that happening because as a Chicagoan, we know the dirt that that's on the Obama family.
00:26:33.400We know where the bodies are buried and running for president exposes that and potentially ruins their brand.
00:26:41.820Well, Mark, you know, you make so many good points there.
00:26:44.300I think it's a perfect reason why people need to go and check out the Illinois Review.
00:30:21.560I'm a veteran of 13 national presidential campaigns, starting with Richard Nixon, who was my mentor.
00:30:29.120There are three campaigns for governor Ronald Reagan, the unsuccessful campaign when we challenged Gerald Ford for the nomination in 1976, our successful campaign in 1980 when we defeated George Bush for the nomination, went on to beat Jimmy Carter.
00:30:47.560And then, of course, the reelection campaign of Ronald Reagan in 1984.
00:30:53.540It was in 1979, 78, really, late 78, that I met Donald Trump.
00:31:00.700And it was because Nancy Reagan had this small card file, like index cards, that were the names and addresses of the people that the Reagans knew in New York.
00:31:16.240And they were all theatrically connected from their show business days.
00:31:22.440In all honesty, about half the people on the cards were dead.
00:31:25.440Some of the rest of them were very recognizable, but there was a card for Roy M. Cohn, Esquire, the infamous attorney who'd been the counsel to Senator Joe McCarthy, whose father had been a bigwig in Tammany Hall, and the Democratic Organization in New York City was notorious.
00:31:49.380And I needed a lot of things because, well, you know, Ronald Reagan was, pardon me, Donald Trump was not the toast of New York.
00:32:05.700And I needed help for Ronald Reagan, and I needed telephones, I needed office space, I needed labor connections.
00:32:15.860I kept calling his office and asking for an appointment, and nobody would call me back.
00:34:25.660And I said, well, I explained that, you know, I've been given his name.
00:34:29.060And he said, well, I've known Ronnie and Nancy since Hollywood in the 1950s, when Dutch Reagan was the head of the Actors Guild, which the communists had tried to infiltrate and take over.
00:39:59.320And then when Reagan won and I went to Washington, I did not want to join the government.
00:40:05.720I'd actually worked at the Office of Economic Opportunity under Howard Phillips, who was the founder of the Conservative Caucus, who had been the head of the Republican Club at Harvard as a student, was one of the founders of Young Americans for Freedom, was one of the greatest patriots I've ever known, was an incredible organizer.
00:40:22.520But I had no interest in going into government, so I went into politics.
00:40:28.120Pardon me, I went into a public affairs firm.
00:40:30.940And my first client was a Trump organization.
00:40:34.540Donald Trump was building a skyscraper in Chicago, actually, I think it was.
00:40:38.800And he needed a waiver because it was 200 feet too tall for the FAA.
00:40:48.060Then he was, he bought the Trump Princess.
00:40:50.640And he was bringing the yacht that he had bought from Adnan Khashoggi into the Atlantic City harbor, except the harbor wasn't deep enough and it needed to be dredged.
00:41:04.180And an Army Corps of Engineers permit would usually take nine years.
00:41:58.920And you criticize the fact that when it comes to negotiations, they send their best and brightest and we send social workers to do our negotiating.
00:42:07.960You feel strongly about the American military and the way that it's been allowed to atrophy.
00:42:15.840We made an exploratory trip to New Hampshire, and it's the first time I saw, in a political context, the Trump magic.
00:42:24.700I saw something that I'd only seen previously with Ronald Reagan.
00:42:30.020It was then that I realized that Trump had the size.
00:42:32.840I don't mean the physical size, but the stature and the toughness and the stamina and the courage and the deep belief in America not just to be a great presidential candidate, but to be a great president.
00:42:47.580And they didn't give up on this, even though he did not run in 1988, I tried again in 2000.
00:42:55.140We spent, I don't know, somewhere around $20 million exploring an independent candidacy because Ross Perot was a great friend of Trump's.
00:43:04.560All these billionaires know each other, by the way.
00:43:06.460And Jesse Ventura had been elected the governor of Minnesota as an independent on the Reform Party, actually, and they were both urging Trump to run.
00:43:17.120And Trump, who was a lifelong Republican, by the way, as were his parents, thought about it because as the Reform Party candidate, you would get a check from the Treasury for $38 million.
00:43:30.100So, run for president on OPM, other people's money, Trump was kind of intrigued with that.
00:43:37.220In the end, he determined that one could not be elected as a third-party candidate.
00:43:42.480One had to be a Republican or a Democrat.
00:43:45.760For a couple of years, he would needle me and keep saying, maybe I'll become a Democrat, which he just said to upset me.
00:43:51.280But by 2016, the time and the man came together at exactly the right time.
00:44:32.300The Clintons had far more political experience than Donald Trump, who'd never run for anything.
00:44:40.120And they made a classic mistake because Donald Trump is a workhorse and a brawler.
00:44:44.760So in the final days of that campaign, for those of you who are familiar with the regulations, an airline pilot or an airplane pilot can only fly a certain number of hours before they have to rest.
00:44:57.780Trump would switch out pilots so he could keep going.
00:45:01.680And he was hitting Milwaukee, Philadelphia, Detroit, Miami, Fort Lauderdale.
00:45:09.720Hillary Clinton was in Chappaqua, measuring the drapes and looking at swatches to pick out the curtains in the Oval Office.
00:45:18.260He outworked her in those closing days.
00:46:00.040By the way, they could simply, they talked to the special counsel's office, talked to my lawyer the day before.
00:46:05.600We handed over 30 pages of text messages that essentially proved that everything I had said regarding my knowledge of the WikiLeaks drops could be found online.
00:46:23.180And I was, you know, so dumb that I thought I was going to get a fair trial.
00:46:27.600I really thought I'd have a chance to prove my innocence, even though the government has to prove your guilt.
00:46:34.500And then, only recently did I realize that my prosecution and that of General Flynn, who's become a great friend of mine, and George Papadopoulos, was the template for what they just did to Donald Trump.
00:47:15.260So, the judge said that if Roger Stone is allowed to speak freely on social media, where I was already substantially gagged, it could taint the jury.
00:47:28.300I had MSNBC and CNN and the rest of them, New York Times, Washington Post, calling me a Russian traitor, insisting that I had coordinated the WikiLeaks drops in cooperation with the Trump campaign.
00:47:42.520Entirely false, for which they never produced an iota of evidence.
00:47:48.180I had a biased, hateful, anti-Trump judge who refused to recuse herself, just as Donald Trump had a biased judge who gave a contribution to Joe Biden.
00:48:00.100And whose daughter was making millions of dollars as a Democratic campaign consultant, fundraising consultant, using this case as the focal point of her fundraising.
00:48:12.680My lawyers asked for a change of venue, denied.
00:48:15.960Donald Trump's lawyers asked for a change of venue, realizing that in liberal Manhattan, the chances of him getting a fair jury were nonexistent.
00:48:25.180Even the limitations on your defense, in other words, Donald Trump's lawyers wanted to bring the former chairman, vice chairman, and general counsel of the Federal Election Commission as a witness,
00:48:38.300because he would have said there was no underlying federal campaign finance crime here, but he was not allowed to testify.
00:48:45.500In my case, I wanted to call Bill Binney, who had been the cyber security expert at the CIA, who could have testified and used forensic evidence to prove that there was no online hack of the DNC, the underlying premise of my indictment.
00:49:05.260But I was not allowed to call him as a witness.
00:49:09.180So I realize now that my own prosecution was the was the template, was the prototype, was the dry run for what they just did to our president and what they'd like to do in this case in Florida and this case in D.C.,
00:49:25.400although I don't think they're going to make it time wise.
00:49:28.520It is most definitely election interference.
00:49:32.440Why did they wait to the fourth year of Biden's presidency to bring these cases?
00:49:36.840It's because they didn't realize that Trump would be re-embraced by the Republican Party and he would storm to the nomination.
00:49:43.500They thought that he'd be replaced by someone more to the liking of the Una Party.
00:49:49.540They misunderstood the strength of our movement.
00:49:52.400They misunderstood the strength of the America First message.
00:49:57.160And they misunderstood the resolve and the determination of Donald Trump,
00:50:02.840because it breaks his heart to see the country he left and see the condition that it's in today.
00:50:09.580When Joe Biden says it's all about him, Trump's campaign is about him.
00:50:12.920If it was about him, folks, he'd have left.
00:50:15.760He could have the greatest life in the world.
00:50:18.140No, it's not about him, not even in the slightest.
00:53:01.000It's actually the best thing that ever happened to me.
00:53:04.300Because I was redeemed in the blood of the cross.
00:53:06.820Because in my despair, in my depression, in my anger, in my frustration, I had a chance meeting with Reverend Franklin Graham.
00:53:24.400I had met Billy Graham when I was much younger and had worked for Richard Nixon.
00:53:29.080Billy Graham had autographed or signed a Bible for me, which I still have.
00:53:32.240And a young pastor, Randy Coggins, knew Franklin Graham and his staff and asked me if, when Franklin Graham visited Boca Raton, Florida, I wanted to meet him.
00:53:45.360And I was very deeply depressed because I was realizing that I was not only being gagged, but I was about to be lynched.
00:53:52.260So I had my meeting with Franklin Graham.