Whether Joe Biden is able to hang on as the Democratic presidential candidate, or not, is still an open question. On the other hand, a doctor who was in a public event I went to last night pointed out to me that Biden was clutching a pencil during his entire interview with George Stephanopoulos. And a doctor said that one of the holding on to an object like that like like like a person with Parkinson s has been tested, and that he has not been tested by a doctor. Does anybody else have a chance to run against Joe Biden? Does anybody really have a shot at being elected president if Joe Biden doesn t decide to run? And if he doesn t run, what will happen if he does decide to leave the race, and what will that mean for the rest of the Democratic primary race? And will it be enough to elect a Democratic candidate who can beat Hillary Clinton in 2020? Or will he be replaced by a woman who can do the job he spired to do it? or will he become a lame duck president? The answer to all of these questions and much more is still very much up in the air, and it s up to us to decide who s going to be the next president of the United States and who s running for president in 2020 or if it s not even a race at all. Roger Stone breaks it all down, and gives us the answers to these questions, and explains why it s still possible for Joe Biden to run for president after all of us to vote for the office he s running against Hillary Clinton. The answer the question: Is he or not running for President in 2020, or is he running for re- or is it going to run as a third party candidate? and what s the real chance he s really running for the country is still in the running for a chance at the White House in 2020 after all? in this episode, Roger Stone explains why he thinks Joe Biden has a chance of winning the election? of course, and why he s not running. Roger Stone is a pop culture icon and icon, and a political icon. of all of that the answer is yes, yes, indeed, he s . he s got a shot of the kind of guy you need to be of the time at least in the 2020 presidential candidate on this episode of The Biden Watch by Roger Stone.
00:00:00.000The Stone Zone, with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit, Roger Stone.
00:00:11.980Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
00:00:16.300He is a New York Times bestselling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
00:00:21.980As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues,
00:00:27.340and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
00:00:32.940Due to his four-plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
00:00:38.280And now, here's your host, Roger Stone.
00:00:45.580Welcome, I'm Roger Stone, and yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
00:00:51.220Well, now it's time for the Biden Watch.
00:00:55.040Whether Joe Biden is able to hang on as the Democrat candidate for president or whether he can hang on as president at all is still very much an open question.
00:01:09.880Frankly, the president's media outlet interviews have done little to assuage the American people and Democrat leaders that he's up to the rigors of a tough four-month campaign.
00:01:23.360I learned a few things just in the last couple of days from my sources in the Democrat Party.
00:01:33.800First and foremost, he has an immediate financial problem.
00:01:37.520The major financial angels in the Democrat Party, left-wing money, what they call bundlers, those who not only put forward their own money, but other large donors' money, pull it together, have his money largely cut off.
00:01:54.120There are still increasingly, I would say, intense nervousness by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Speaker Hakeem Jeffries,
00:02:09.920because their prospective campaign committees are bringing back polling that shows that congressional districts and indeed states that were heretofore thought to be impregnable, safe, are now very much in play.
00:02:28.820Yesterday afternoon, the president's pollsters, he has four of them, met with the president to tell him that based on their most recent research, that he has an 85% probability of being defeated.
00:02:48.380To put a cherry on the top, they told him that he was now six and a half points down in pivotal Pennsylvania.
00:02:56.980It is kind of heartwarming to watch those who were fully and completely aware of Joe's infirmity, now pretending they had no idea and insisting on his candidacy.
00:03:14.140The real problem seems to me here to be several fold.
00:03:18.660First of all, as we've said on the program this week, Hunter Biden has emerged as the president's chief gatekeeper and his chief political strategist.
00:03:31.240Now, Hunter Biden is a man with a very substantial conflict of interest, because if Joe Biden is no longer president, well, then Hunter Biden cannot get a presidential pardon.
00:03:44.300So at a minimum, whether Joe runs or he doesn't run, I think the chances of the family allowing him to leave office, elevating Kamala Harris to the presidency, still fairly remote.
00:04:00.560So the other question we have to ask ourselves is whether Barack Obama, who should not be read by his immediate posting on X supportive of Joe Biden in the wake of the disastrous debate, that should not be read as how he really feels.
00:04:20.960My sources tell me that he is maneuvering furiously behind the scenes to try to persuade Joe Biden to throw in the towel on his re-election.
00:04:33.760I've also said on this show and elsewhere that I believe that Obama holds the whip hand when it comes to removal under the 25th Amendment.
00:04:45.020Again, this is a little more complicated than I thought at first blush.
00:04:51.660To remove the president would require a majority of the cabinet plus the support of the sitting vice president.
00:05:00.540If, however, Biden refuses to go, he has a right to appeal that to both houses, Congress, where it would require a two-thirds vote to remove him.
00:05:15.020So perhaps the 26th Amendment threat, the private threat by Barack Obama, would not work.
00:05:23.520Joe is nothing if not extraordinarily stubborn, at least when he has lucid moments, and is very clear to anyone who can watch that he's pretty dug in.
00:05:37.040On the other hand, a doctor who was in a public event I went to last night pointed out to me that Biden was clutching a pencil during his entire interview with George Stephanopoulos.
00:05:52.720The doctor said that that is one of the signs of Parkinson's, the holding on to an object like that.
00:06:00.720So, and now the president and his incredibly incompetent press spokesman, Ms. KJ, they seem to have completely gotten themselves tangled up in the question of whether he has or has not consulted or been tested by a doctor for Parkinson's.
00:06:22.560And they put out a letter late yesterday, which I think will do very little to shed light on this situation.
00:06:44.620Kamala Harris would bring him nothing.
00:06:46.900The dynamics would remain generally the same.
00:06:53.120Does anybody out there listening to this show believe that there's a chance that Joe Biden could get through the rigors of a four-month campaign without another public embarrassment, without another meltdown, without once again beginning to mumble or fall down or leave the stage the wrong way,
00:07:14.460or wander off in the middle of a public proceeding, I, for one, do not.
00:07:21.060From a strictly political point of view, therefore, sure, I'd prefer to run against Joe Biden.
00:07:27.680On the other hand, Colonel Douglas McGregor, whom I have enormous respect, was on my 77 WABC radio show this past Sunday.
00:07:39.060He makes an urgent point that having Joe Biden with his current mental disability with his finger on the nuclear trigger means that Joe Biden should leave immediately and that that is what is in the best interests of the country.
00:07:57.820While Colonel McGregor may be correct, I think Joe Biden is putting the interests of Joe Biden and the Biden crime family over the interests of the United States.
00:08:11.200Okay, those are my thoughts. Joining me now, Troy Smith, the executive editor of one of the most dynamic and fastest-growing alternative media outlets in the United States, Slingshot.News, and he now joins us in The Zone.
00:08:30.680Roger, that was a great soliloquy there. Really appreciate it. I think people are going to be taking that, putting that everywhere, because you made so many great points.
00:08:37.440And I think the most important point that you made is that the Democrats have been covering up this fact for years now, and now they want to pivot.
00:08:45.720So in preparation for this, I actually grabbed a video that I want to play for you, get your reaction on, of Democrats for years denying Biden's claims.
00:08:54.240These are top Democrats in Congress and other places. Let's check out that video.
00:09:39.380Joe Biden needs to be allowed to be Joe Biden. He is energizing. He cares about issues. He's Joe Biden. And Joe Biden, there's nobody better than Joe Biden.
00:09:47.760We see Joe Biden up close. We know how attuned he is to the issues, how informed he is. And I debate with him about legislation and not debate, but discuss it with him. He's right there.
00:10:01.020I strongly support President Biden. He has an incredible track record of success and accomplishments.
00:10:09.380He puts many of us to shame with his energy.
00:10:11.540Clearly, this president is fit to serve.
00:10:14.740Joe Biden has vision. He has knowledge. He has a strategic thinker. This is a very sharp president.
00:10:23.740And nobody is better equipped to do that than Joe Biden. He has the experience. He has the wisdom. He has the demeanor.
00:10:31.520I was in Israel on October 7th, as you know, and President Biden was nice enough to call me. And I can tell you this was the day before that interview. I can tell you he was sharper than anyone I've spoken to.
00:10:42.180It always seemed very clear to me that he had the energy and the ability.
00:10:46.720Is he capable of being a president? Absolutely.
00:10:49.700I think he's actually really good. I think his staff overprotects him. I think put him out there in a press conference. Who cares if someone makes a gaffe?
00:10:56.900What I find interesting is the issue is more around ageism and ableism and not what this president, President Biden, has done.
00:11:04.640I think he has every ability and every confidence to continue to be commander in chief.
00:11:08.800I think the more he's out there, the better.
00:11:10.840President Biden has proven himself to have a strong memory.
00:11:14.480You don't do that unless you're mentally competent and capable. And he certainly is.
00:11:20.180Yeah. I mean, you can always tell when Dan Goldman or Eric Swalwell are lying, their lips are moving.
00:11:29.400There it is. You see, the very folks who have been covering for him are now beginning to panic.
00:11:38.280Remember what I said at the stop, that Biden's own own pollsters told him yesterday that he has an 85 percent probability of defeat under the current circumstances.
00:11:52.100I don't. It's just an opinion, Troy. I don't think he's going to throw in the towel.
00:11:56.620I think the family pressure they have to be concerned about being prosecuted has to be the primary thing in their mind.
00:12:07.420I'll tell you what isn't the primary thing in their mind. And that's what's good for the country.
00:12:13.360The other part of this that's kind of interesting is the way they continue to insist that he has all of these enormously great accomplishments as president.
00:12:24.320Oh, he expanded NATO. Really? In violation of the two trials, the treaties that we signed agreeing not to do that?
00:12:32.680And, and bringing us to the brink of Ukraine-Russia war, anybody who tells you that Ukraine is in a militarily viable position today is lying.
00:12:47.540I actually think Putin has shown enormous restraint.
00:12:51.620Personally, I just want the killing to stop, but, well, this administration doesn't even have any negotiations going on.
00:12:58.360No peace talks, but they see that as an accomplishment.
00:13:03.580How about our open borders? Is that one of his other great signature accomplishments?
00:13:09.000The 15 million new jobs, those are not 15 million new full-time jobs.
00:13:17.280This guy's, he's got a lot of accomplishments, all right, but unfortunately, almost none of them are positive.
00:13:22.520Well, and Roger, you know, you made a point there about Pennsylvania, and I find it incredibly interesting that the, the pollsters are telling Biden now that he really is down at least six points in the state.
00:13:33.880And I have a clip that I wanted to run for you and get your opinion on the Senate race that's going down there, because we have Dave McCormick that's going to be going up against Pennsylvania Democrat Senator Bob Casey.
00:13:43.140And obviously with Casey and Fetterman, the Democrats have both senators there, and it's kind of looking, like, as we get closer to the election, Bob Casey's kind of realizing that Joe Biden is going to tank his Senate election effort in Pennsylvania, as you kind of talked about there in the open.
00:14:00.160This is Bob Casey kind of really walking the line while talking to Fox News on his support for President Biden, and he says he's only going to focus on his race.
00:14:09.860I want you to kind of politically translate this for us, if you will.
00:14:20.780But it doesn't seem like your Senate colleagues want to stop talking about this.
00:14:24.980In fact, they want to start the conversation.
00:14:26.960Well, I'm not going to, look, I'm not going to give advice to anybody who knows what they talk about.
00:14:31.160I've got a race to run in a very competitive state in a tough election, so I'm going to focus on my race.
00:14:37.900So what we just saw there was Senator Bob Casey, a son of former Governor Bob Casey, sometimes called the three-time loss from Holy Cross, since he ran so many times before he first got elected to office.
00:14:55.360Senator Bob Casey is not the sharpest tool in the shed.
00:14:59.080But what you just saw there was him distancing himself from Joe Biden.
00:15:03.460Anytime you see somebody who is down ballot, justing themselves from the top of the ticket, you know you have a very serious problem.
00:15:12.900That, by the way, should be a competitive race.
00:16:43.080Well, and Roger, we wanted to play, I wanted to play a clip specifically and for all those that haven't seen it, I think most people here probably have.
00:16:52.280We had 2.1 million views so far on a post in which we described your tweet and your source where you say that Kamala Harris is actually considering choosing Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro.
00:17:06.380And I found it interesting that Pennsylvania has become this focal point since we've released that article.
00:17:11.040And I think it's mainly because the Democrats are looking at Pennsylvania.
00:17:14.360They're saying, wow, without Pennsylvania, really, they struggle to have a path, really, I think, to 270.
00:17:24.200But I think one of the parts that really people didn't focus on that was also included in that article is that you said that Nancy Pelosi's comments where she's come out and she's basically said that there's a legitimate question as to whether Biden is fit to really serve and beat Donald Trump in 2024.
00:17:40.920This has come up now over and over again, and Nancy Pelosi seems to be leading, almost leading the charge on cable news against President Biden, but it's kind of like a soft takeover.
00:17:53.560We have a clip that's Pelosi before the debate, and she's raising questions about President Trump.
00:18:00.480She's deflecting, as you saw in the clip earlier.
00:18:04.320Then we're going to play a clip directly after that of what happened after the debate and get Roger's thoughts on what Pelosi's vote of confidence or vote of no confidence means for President Joe Biden heading into 2024.
00:18:19.000This is an opportunity for Joe Biden to go out there and show he has the stamina and the rest.
00:18:24.140And, by the way, while the press, and for some reason they don't, there are health care professionals who think that Trump has dementia, that his connection, his thoughts do not go together.
00:18:39.380And, you know, while he may be saying we're enablers, we see Joe Biden up close.
00:18:44.820We know how attuned he is to the issues, how informed he is.
00:18:49.440And I debate with him about legislation, not debate, but discuss it with him.
00:19:17.300He has a strategic thinking, and the rest, he has a bad night.
00:19:22.100Now, again, I think it's a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this a condition?
00:19:31.000That secondary comment, according to my Democrat sources, did extreme damage to Joe Biden.
00:19:37.540That was seen by many in the party as a tell, as a shift.
00:19:44.500And I, therefore, think it is important.
00:19:47.860To go back to your other question, here's the issue.
00:19:51.400If, let's say, that Joe Biden elects to resign as president, which I think is highly unlikely, putting aside the question of whether he runs or not.
00:20:03.320But let's just say that he, for one reason or other, has to leave the presidency, either because he decides to or because of matters of ill health or, God forbid, that he dies in his sleep.
00:20:34.560The transfer of power to the vice president to become president is automatic.
00:20:40.560Well, the problem then, of course, is that the new president, Kamala Harris, would be entitled to appoint a vice president subject to confirmation by both houses of the legislature.
00:20:57.360Not just the Senate, as you have with judgeships, but by both houses of the legislature.
00:21:05.160Therefore, the Republicans could conceivably stop the country from having a sitting vice president.
00:21:12.800That would put Mike Johnson next in line to be president of the United States for the duration of the Kamala presidency.
00:21:24.080The other issue, however, is that if Kamala Harris, who is a legal resident of California, wanted Gavin Newsom, well, he's also a legal resident of California.
00:21:41.060And under the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, Article 2, you cannot, as you know, cast electoral votes for two candidates from the same state.
00:21:54.260Now, it is permissible, meaning they could run.
00:21:58.660There's no prohibition of the party nominating two people who are legal residents of the same state for president and vice president.
00:22:07.420But they would forfeit the votes of the electoral college if they were to carry that state.
00:22:19.120That's why I believe, and my sources tell me, that Kamala Harris would probably look to Governor Shapiro, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, mainly because it alters the map.
00:22:35.720If Trump is indeed up by six or seven in Pennsylvania, perhaps that gets Pennsylvania back in play for the Democrats.
00:22:46.340The other possibility, as you pointed out, is Wes Moore, the candidate from Maryland.
00:22:53.360Then that would mean two people of color on the ticket.
00:22:58.700I think that may not be politically viable.
00:23:01.500It's the other thing that people don't recognize who haven't studied polling and demographics.
00:23:08.280It is a mistake to assume monolithic thinking and attitudes among all dark-skinned voters.
00:23:17.880There's a substantial difference in the political attitudes of African-Americans than there are from Americans who came from the Caribbean.
00:23:27.040So all of those nations, Bahamas, Jamaica, and so on, Jamaican-Americans, Bahamian-Americans, Costa Rican-Americans, have very different attitudes and political views than African-Americans.
00:23:46.280Kamala Harris is not African-American.
00:23:48.480I believe that she's of mixed Jamaican and Bahamian heritage.
00:24:10.080But I think we all know that if Kamala Harris became president and she made Hillary Clinton her vice president, well, Kamala would need a food taster.
00:24:23.020To say the least, Roger, you know, we would have another Clinton side, I think, if that was the case.
00:24:28.720And, you know, you make a lot of great points there as far as the structure.
00:24:32.300I hadn't actually thought about Gavin Newsom and the constitutional problems with him actually being the vice president.
00:24:41.180And I think, you know, there's a lot of speculation right now, Roger.
00:24:45.420I think there's a lot of Democrats who are coming around to the idea of Kamala Harris.
00:24:51.280And while there are people, I think, within the party that definitely want to get rid of Kamala Harris,
00:24:57.540I'm seeing more support for her as time goes on.
00:25:00.540And people, as you pointed out, you know, with your sources, she consolidated her position, I think, quicker than you or I or anybody thought that she would.
00:25:10.380And you said something yesterday that's kind of been I've been thinking about this more and more.
00:25:14.900Willie Brown's warning about Kamala Harris, about how she's this shrewd political person.
00:25:19.660And it's true, you know, I think the public perception of Kamala Harris is false and the public perception is that she's this ditzy, you know, idiot.
00:25:28.740And look, she does a great job of playing that part.
00:25:31.480If you watch her on whatever show she did, an interview with Drew Barrymore.
00:25:35.480It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen.
00:25:37.840She doesn't there's a lot of things about her that make people dismiss her.
00:25:41.360But I almost think that that's maybe to her benefit because she is not thought of as this shrewd political person that has been able to become vice president of the United States.
00:25:52.040I mean, she's one, I'll add, very weak heartbeat away from being the president of the United States.
00:25:58.500And when you look at how she's got there, it takes it takes a lot of personal strength and endurance and the idea that she's been able to get through all of this.
00:26:41.740Well, I think it's important to have kind of a historical review of what transpired here.
00:26:47.780The the the Obamas who were leaving, but but pardon me, who were dominant in their party, wanted to nominate a candidate who could beat Bernie Sanders.
00:27:00.980They had to cheat Bernie Sanders in 2016 in order to beat him.
00:27:05.920Remember, by the way, Bernie wasn't even a member of the party.
00:27:09.000He left the Socialist Party to become a Democrat in order to run for president.
00:27:13.600They still had to cheat to beat him running against the Democrat secretary of state, who was a former first lady.
00:27:22.340I'm one of those who believes that that was the motive for Seth Rich to remove sensitive files from the DNC because he was, in his heart, a Sanders supporter.
00:27:56.840I think it is only at that juncture that Barack Obama decided that, well, Joe is a known commodity.
00:28:06.940He's completely controllable because everything we're now learning about him and his foreign exploits, I suspect Barack Obama already knew.
00:28:18.120So they viewed Joe as the safest candidate.
00:28:22.280It's ironic that he was saved in the South Carolina primary because, remember, he lost Iowa.
00:28:34.200His campaign bounced back on South Carolina largely because veteran Congressman James Clyburn delivered, to the extent one can deliver, but Clyburn's organization delivered a large black vote for him.
00:28:49.520It's truly ironic in view of the fact that Joe Biden is a racist and he has no civil rights record.
00:28:56.680Actually, what he has is a record of opposing civil rights.
00:29:01.040Joe Biden is the author of the 1994 crime bill.
00:29:05.480That is the bill that put in place the harsh mandatory penalties for the first time, nonviolent crime of possession of small amounts of drugs.
00:29:19.540And as I said, you have these harsh mandatory penalties where a judge is not allowed to take any other factor in consideration.
00:29:28.220That one law has done more damage to African-American people and poor people than perhaps anything in the last hundred years.
00:29:41.060So Joe Biden also, as you know, ran in 1972 for the United States Senate, 29 years old, as an outspoken opponent of the integration of the Wilmington school districts.
00:29:58.760He said, and I quote, if the Wilmington, if the Wilmington schools are desegregated, they will be a jungle.
00:30:06.820I don't want my daughter going to school in a jungle.
00:30:11.780If that isn't the dog whistle, I don't know what is.
00:30:15.880Joe Biden now seems in his time of peril to be depending heavily on the black constituencies within the Democratic Party.
00:30:26.160Clyburn, who's up there on age, says he's riding with Biden.
00:30:42.980The key is not the fact that, yes, there are some blacks who will feel that Trump has now been subjected to the same unfairness of the criminal justice system that they have.
00:30:53.980But the real keys to African-American votes is economic opportunity.
00:31:01.440We had the lowest level of unemployment among African-Americans during Donald Trump's presidency.
00:31:08.320I believe that appealing them to them on economic issues and also stressing Trump's accomplishments in the area of criminal justice reform.
00:31:20.460He is, as you know, responsible for the First Step Act and the Second Chance Act.
00:31:27.920This is the first meaningful criminal justice reform designed to address those problems in the 1994 crime bill that has passed the Congress into law.
00:31:40.080And as you know, Troy, a number of the members of the House Black Caucus, Congressional Black Caucus, pardon me, voted against those reforms, not because they opposed the substance of them, but simply because they were proposed and pushed by President Donald Trump, which proves they never cared about criminal justice reform for their constituents at all.
00:32:06.520Well, and as far as, you know, we can call it the insanity surrounding former President Trump, you know, I am constantly reminded, Roger, you circulate this clip all the time, George Stephanopoulos being put in his place by President Trump.
00:32:24.460And I thought that moment where he tells him, you know, George, there's a lot of things I'd like to take back, like you, for instance, you know, you would love to have not given to the Clinton Foundation.
00:32:33.600He takes him apart. And it's weird for me to see this monolithic media that that was all about hating Trump.
00:32:42.040And they still, you know, they still hate Trump, obviously. But you're seeing them kind of split now.
00:32:46.620And you're seeing them really half of them attacking Biden, half of them attacking the people who are attacking Biden, saying that, oh, there needs to be stability.
00:32:55.060And it's really unbelievable to see these members of the media who have told us for years, you know, George Stephanopoulos was a Democrat operative, have told us for years that, oh, no, we're just we're just unbiased journalists.
00:33:06.440You know, we really just we're trying to report the facts.
00:33:09.060And the truth is, they're operatives. And the more they talk about this, a scrum in the Democratic Party, the more they're being unmasked as pure operatives.
00:33:18.440And and Stephanopoulos specifically, there is a video that's been leaked now by TMZ of him after his interview with President Joe Biden, trashing Biden.
00:33:29.060Now, I tweeted out before the interview between Stephanopoulos and Joe, I said, watch out, Joe, because Clinton George, he's going to be coming for you.
00:33:37.540And he didn't really do a tough interview.
00:33:40.400But afterwards, it looks like he threw the president entirely under the bus.
00:33:44.400Let's roll that clip. Get Roger's thoughts.
00:34:19.560I'll have to get the second name for you.
00:34:21.040I mean, the larger question you speak to is a very is a very good one.
00:34:25.980How does someone leave the employ of Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden?
00:34:32.280Where, by the way, George's principal job was threatening the women who were threatening to come forward to talk about being sexually assaulted by by Bill Clinton.
00:34:43.580Also, he was the duty officer trying to shut down the very legitimate story regarding Bill Clinton's illegitimate black son, Danny Williams.
00:34:55.560All of that covered in my book, The Clinton's War on Women.
00:35:00.440You get that at StoneZone.com in the shop.
00:35:04.320So, can you imagine a situation in which anyone who was a Republican, anyone other than, say, Ronald Romney, would be hired as an anchor at one of the three major networks after having been involved in Republican politics?
00:35:22.540Tim Russert, who was a friend of mine, was the brilliant host of Meet the Press.
00:35:30.440He had been the press secretary for Governor Mario Cuomo and had been the chief political operative for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
00:35:40.020I suspect if you voted for, if you worked for Barry Goldwater and, say, former House Minority Leader John Rhodes from Arizona, you wouldn't be hired at NBC.
00:35:52.740It is amazing how the Democrats have this revolving door.
00:35:57.940Ken Bodie, one of the key factors, key actors in the nomination of George McGovern, active in the anti-war movement.
00:36:06.820He's a great guy, by the way, but he goes seamlessly from Democrat politics to being a correspondent, I believe, also with NBC.
00:36:17.880So, you never see a time where anybody goes from being a Republican operative or political figure to being hired to comment on politics at the great networks,
00:36:32.320which is why I have to say, why does anyone take little George Stephanopoulos seriously?
00:36:40.640Well, I just, you know, I think the only thing, Roger, is, you know, I mean, I grew up after Bill Clinton.
00:36:47.040I mean, Bill Clinton was in office for the first year of my existence here, but I don't remember him being president.
00:36:53.920And as a child, you know, I remember watching Good Morning America bringing on George Stephanopoulos, and I had no idea that the guy was a Clinton operative.
00:37:01.340I mean, it was just, you know, and that's the thing.
00:37:03.440You have this whole group of people who weren't around for that, and especially, you know, I know it now because I'm involved in the media and I cover things.
00:37:11.260But if I wasn't in this, I still wouldn't know.
00:37:13.200And I think it's just, it speaks to the people that are in control of these networks.
00:37:49.400And I'm interested to hear your thoughts after we play a couple clips here so we can just fill in people what the president was talking about.
00:37:56.480Because the mainstream media, the people like George Stephanopoulos, they refused to cover the president's actual words and instead throw out two to three second out of context clips in order to craft a narrative that's politically beneficial to the people who oversaw their transfer from Democrat politics.
00:38:12.920So let's roll those clips of President Trump in Miami yesterday.
00:38:15.580On day one, I will sign a new executive order to cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, transgender insanity and other inappropriate racial, sexual or political content onto the lives of our children.
00:38:31.440And I will not give one penny to any school that has a vaccine mandate or a mask mandate.
00:38:43.440And I will keep men out of women's sports.
00:38:50.440Can you imagine even having to say that?
00:38:53.440Before I even arrive at the Oval Office shortly after we, we all of us together win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled.
00:39:03.440And I will prevent our nation and we will prevent the whole world from entering World War three because that's where we are.
00:39:10.440We're very close to World War three and Biden doesn't have a clue.
00:44:49.440And yes, if you ask, I'm happy to personalize your inscription.
00:44:53.440All books bought at that site will be signed. Thank you.
00:44:59.440All right, Troy, let's keep going down the political road here. What else have you got for us?
00:45:07.440Well, Roger, there was something really disturbing yesterday.
00:45:10.440I kind of wanted to ask your opinion on this because as an American and as somebody who loves this country, I was disgusted by what I saw.
00:45:17.440We have a civilian award. Now, I looked this up. It is specifically a civilian award called the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
00:45:26.440Now, this medal is given to the highest level civilians in the country, people like Roger Staubach, people like Rush Limbaugh, people who have had a profound impact on American culture.
00:45:37.440And we saw yesterday that President Joe Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg.
00:45:46.440And I really question, you know, if he can actually even give this award to somebody who is not a citizen of the United States.
00:45:55.440More importantly, somebody who is stoking the flames of world war, pushing NATO further and further closer to Russia, actually wanting to get Ukraine to join NATO formally, which would all but basically push the entire world into another world conflict.
00:46:11.440So, I want to roll the clip of Stoltenberg getting this Presidential Medal of Freedom from a confused Joe Biden yesterday and get your thoughts.
00:46:20.440I think this is a tremendous insult to the people of this country, Roger.
00:46:24.440I saw the clip in which, I don't know, it appeared to me that Joe Biden either made a joke or claimed that he was sleeping with Stoltenberg's wife.
00:46:52.440George's wife seemed to be quite a gaffe, very embarrassing.
00:46:57.380We should do some legal research on this, Troy.
00:47:00.760It'd be interesting to see whether the president can give that medal of honor to a non-U.S. citizen.
00:47:09.980Of course, Barack Obama gave it to Oprah Winfrey, gave it to a number of other leftists.
00:47:21.160Ronald Reagan gave out a number of notable ones.
00:47:26.920The larger problem in NATO, I think, is very clear.
00:47:30.860We signed two treaties agreeing not to push Ukraine into NATO.
00:47:35.260The Budapest Accords, probably the Budapest Memorandum, signed by Secretary of State James A. Baker III under George Bush,
00:47:45.600in which we specifically said we would not move one inch east towards Russia in the NATO alliance.
00:47:53.600And then we reaffirmed that commitment in the Minsk Accords.
00:47:59.120To me, that means that we're violating international law if we do indeed push Ukraine into NATO.
00:48:07.620And the problem with that, in turn, is, of course, that is, I really think, based on everything I've read, Vladimir Putin's line in the sand.
00:48:19.040He's made it very clear to him, first of all, that's what this war is really about.
00:48:26.600Now, even Joe Biden said in the beginning, in one of those things where he blurts out the truth, like many Alzheimer's patients do,
00:48:34.800that he was willing to give up the Donbass, that he was willing to give Putin land for peace.
00:48:41.000Now, of course, if Donald Trump becomes president and he negotiates a settlement that includes that,
00:48:48.440well, the first person complaining will be Joe Biden and the Democrats if Joe Biden survives that law.
00:48:55.740Well, and Roger, I think it's important for people to point out,
00:48:58.940President Trump took Stoltenberg to task over Germany specifically and Germany's energy relationship with Russia.
00:49:05.660And I actually went back and pulled a clip, and you'll find this funny, too.
00:49:10.460In the back of this clip, you actually see John Kirby, Trump's former chief of staff,
00:49:14.760who, of course, put out the fake suckers and losers hoax, who has lied about President Trump over and over again.
00:49:20.700And as Trump, this is Trump confronting Stoltenberg over the Russian energy that's pouring into Germany,
00:49:29.960while Germany is taking billions of dollars from the United States to defend them from Russia.
00:49:36.340So I want to play this clip, but I want you to take special notice of John Kelly squirming around in the back of this clip.
00:49:43.420He really looks like he's coming out of his skin.
00:49:45.360And this is what we need back in the White House.
00:49:47.420This is what we need to bring the world back to order where we're not going to be on the brink of World War III.
00:49:53.420Let's roll that clip and get Roger's thoughts.
00:49:55.120What are your thoughts about the meeting with President Putin later on?
00:49:58.680Well, I have to say, I think it's very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia,
00:50:06.660where you're supposed to be guarding against Russia,
00:50:09.700and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.
00:50:14.560So we're protecting Germany, we're protecting France, we're protecting all of these countries.
00:50:19.220And then numerous of the countries go out and make a pipeline deal with Russia,
00:50:24.600where they're paying billions of dollars into the coffers of Russia.
00:50:29.260So we're supposed to protect you against Russia, but they're paying billions of dollars to Russia.
00:50:34.360And I think that's very inappropriate.
00:50:36.040And the former chancellor of Germany is the head of the pipeline company that's supplying the gas.
00:50:41.240Ultimately, Germany will have almost 70 percent of their country controlled by Russia with natural gas.
00:57:25.900On behalf of my host, Troy Smith, the editor-in-chief of Slingshot.news, perhaps the hottest and fastest-growing alternative media outlet in the country today.
00:57:37.760On behalf of myself here at the Stone Zone, until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
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