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00:01:48.940Today, the White House released classified documents that showed that Eric Swalwell, formerly a congressman from California,
00:01:58.580who was driven from both the House and the race for governor of California based on revelations that he had sexually assaulted multiple women,
00:02:06.660was during his time in the House as a member of the House Intelligence Committee,
00:02:12.500having sexual relations with a Chinese communist spy who also infiltrated his office,
00:02:19.460as well as lining up illegal campaign contributions for him.
00:02:25.080They actually produced emails where the Chinese spy named Fang Fang
00:02:29.500offered to reimburse donors, which is a felony under the federal election law.
00:02:35.340Now, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew of this report, knew that Swalwell was penetrating a communist Chinese spy who, in turn, had penetrated and placed staffers in his office, yet he was allowed to remain on the House Intelligence Committee, where he had full access to classified documents.
00:02:57.500It's just another stunning example of the two-tiered justice system.
00:03:01.280Why did me and my family, why did we go through hell on unfounded claims that I was a Russian asset, particularly when that particular charge came from Eric Swalwell himself and his running buddy Adam Schiff?
00:03:15.960We already know from an inspector general's report from the Justice Department of the Biden administration that Swalwell and Schiff were both leaking classified information in order to embarrass President Trump.
00:03:30.700So the question remains, where is their prosecution?
00:03:35.460I don't I'm not seeing it and I'm not seeing any sense of fairness whatsoever.
00:03:41.160Also newly classified were national security emails raising disturbing questions about whether politics infected America's intelligence agencies and whether communist China benefited from that.
00:03:52.780According to documents released by the White House Government Transparency Task Force, the National Security Agency analysts spent months trying to publish intelligence about Chinese efforts to target U.S. elections only to see officials delay or block that distribution.
00:04:08.840One analyst wrote that the information had been held up for 16 months, while another account said that the National Security Agency's deputy director feared releasing it during the Trump administration would damage the agency's credibility and make it appear part of the so-called deep state, which, of course, it was.
00:04:27.140The emails indicate the concern was not that the intelligence was false.
00:04:30.540Instead, officials worried about the political environment surrounding President Trump and his battles with the Intelligence Committee.
00:04:37.380Personally, I think this should alarm every American citizen today.
00:04:41.220Intelligence agencies actually exist to give presidents and lawmakers the unvarnished truth about foreign threats,
00:04:47.360not to filter intelligence based on Washington politics, reputational concerns, or fear of how our elected officials might react.
00:04:55.260We've seen it over and over again by the Central Intelligence Agency and the FBI's power was abused in Operation Crossfire Hurricane, Arctic Frost.
00:05:06.760most recently at Round River. I believe that they had a role in the murder of John F. Kennedy,
00:05:14.100as I wrote in my book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ. I believe they were involved
00:05:19.420in the soft coup that removed Richard Nixon. I believe that they attempted to assassinate
00:05:24.960President Ronald Reagan. And I believe they attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump,
00:05:30.940not once, not twice, but three times. So this is an abuse that I'm one of the few Americans who
00:05:37.900will talk about it. Again, this is not based on politics. The chief beneficiary in this case,
00:05:45.580where the intelligence agency, specifically the CIA, knew of the fact that 220 million
00:05:51.940voter records had been accessed by the Chinese, the chief beneficiary was Beijing.0.68
00:05:57.740The malignant behavior of the CIA was shielded from the president0.91
00:06:01.840Because the National Security Agency cared more about protecting their own prestige
00:06:07.000Than in doing the right thing for America
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00:10:59.440Meanwhile, a newly surfaced report is raising serious concerns about Michigan's U.S. Senate race, specifically regarding Democrat candidate Abdul El-Sayed's family ties to the Islamic American Relief Agency, or the IARA.
00:11:17.420According to reports, El-Sayed's actual birth mother, Fatin El-Knomah, worked for IARA from 1999 through at least 2004.
00:11:27.080Now, this is significant because in 2004, the U.S. Treasury Department designated the Islamic American Relief Agency's worldwide network as a terrorist organization, saying they supported terrorism, saying international offices provided direct financial support for Osama bin Laden, aided Taliban fighters, and served as a conduit for funds linked to Hamas.
00:11:50.120Federal court records also list al-Sayed's mother, al-Khomi, in government exhibits connected to the IARA USA, including a December 2000 transfer request for more than $24,000 to the organization's Iraq office.
00:12:07.220The IARA later pleaded guilty to illegally transferring nearly $1.4 million to Iraq in violation of U.S. sanctions.
00:12:15.480Now, El-Sayed's mother previously denied that the IARA had terrorist connections, saying that her work focused on helping orphans and children.
00:12:27.420Islamic Jihad often operates behind the veneer of charity to funnel illicit money and weapons into the hands of terrorists.0.87
00:12:34.300At a time when Democrats and much of the media routinely demand exhaustive scrutiny of Republican associations, El-Sayed should face the same standard.0.80
00:12:43.800He should not get a free pass just because he checks the right victim boxes.
00:12:48.040If El-Sayed's mother worked for a terrorist-supporting organization
00:12:51.620and his sister is an admitted communist, American-hating academic,
00:12:56.080it suggests that El-Sayed's views may not be all that different.
00:12:59.800He needs to continue to be exposed, and Republicans must go for the jugular
00:13:03.120to make sure this man does not make it to the U.S. Senate.0.64
00:13:06.120El-Sayed makes Barack Hussein Obama look like a turtle dove in comparison.
00:13:13.180You know, if you ever thought that the two parties were different and didn't believe in the unit party, this next story kind of establishes that you were wrong.
00:13:21.040Even though I'm a proud member of the party of Lincoln, the party of Eisenhower, the party of Nixon, Reagan and Trump, I do understand that both major national parties have become captive of an elitist class.
00:13:35.520Texas Republicans are getting a reminder of why President Donald Trump broke with the Republican establishment and endorsed State Attorney General Ken Paxton for the U.S. Senate, rejecting the rhino incumbent John Cornyn.0.87
00:13:48.000Now, Fox News reports that Jacob Smith, a longtime aide to Senator Cornyn, a Republican in name at least, has crossed party lines to join the campaign of Democrat James Tallarico.
00:14:00.520Smith spent five years as Cornyn's deputy legislative director and policy advisor
00:14:04.640before signing on with the Democrat now battling Paxton, the Republican attorney general, for the seat.
00:14:10.840This move highlights the divide President Trump identified during the Republican primaries,
00:14:15.940establishing Republicans on one side and the MAGA America First wing of the party on the other side.
00:14:21.900Cornyn has said he will support the Republican ticket,
00:14:24.240but one of his aides now working to elect the radical leftist Democrat
00:14:28.340is a sign that his network is now working to sabotage Republican victory in the Lone Star State.
00:14:34.280The pathetic defection strengthens the argument behind President Trump's endorsement of Paxton.
00:14:39.300Trump wanted a nominee firmly committed within his movement,0.88
00:14:42.880not one committed to the Washington political elite class.
00:14:46.680Paxton also faced years of political and legal controversy
00:14:49.420as Texas' deep state has hoped to destroy his political career.
00:14:53.320But he's emerged stronger with his scandals being proof that he's a fighter
00:17:53.360If you were listening yesterday, we talked about the fascination of the American people with political polls
00:17:59.580and whether the polls show your head or whether the polls show that you are behind.
00:18:04.680a political polling outfit that claimed prominent left-wing candidates were surging has now suddenly
00:18:09.960admitted that their numbers were completely and totally fake. Media and Strategies announced
00:18:14.920Monday that it ended what had called a short-term social experiment designed to see how unverified
00:18:20.680polling could spread through America's political information ecosystem. This is entirely
00:18:24.720illegitimate. The group withdrew every poll it had ever published and said that none of them
00:18:29.240should ever have been treated as genuine. Among the bogus surveys was one showing the Los Angeles
00:18:34.480Mayor Karen Bass leading challenger Nishya Rahman by nearly 12 points. Bass had celebrated the
00:18:41.060supposed momentum on social media before deleting the post after the poll was exposed as a total
00:18:46.360fake. The media and polling company also published an IPOP in Wisconsin poll claiming that Democrat
00:18:52.040socialist Francesca Hogg held a 23-point lead over David Crowley in the Democratic gubernatorial
00:18:58.920primary. It turns out that was fake too. Reality delivered a very different verdict. Hong lost
00:19:04.280the race by less than a percentage point. And again, it is a reminder that it is essential
00:19:12.700that you look at the sample size, the methodology, the order of the questions, and the wording
00:19:21.860of the questions. Any poll can be designed to show anything. Some polls are designed
00:19:27.020to show you the truth. It's a snapshot in time, almost immediately outdated, but they're
00:19:34.020An attempt is to realize and measure the reality of public attitudes.
00:19:39.280Other polls are taken with a predetermined result, and that's what was going on here.
00:19:45.200This episode is worth this warning to voters about blindly trusting political polling,
00:19:49.860especially when sensational numbers perfectly fit a preferred campaign or media narrative.
00:19:55.980Media strategy says no candidate, campaign, political party, PAC, or media organization
00:20:00.560funded or directed their little project.
00:20:02.960They basically showed how polls are curated on a monkey-see, monkey-do basis, rather than based on objectivity and following honest data.
00:20:10.980We saw this very recently in New York's 21st District, where a poll popped up showing that Democrat Blake Genderbin was leading Republican Anthony Constantino.
00:20:23.360Turns out that 10% of the people in that poll were not registered to vote, and two of the counties in the 12-county district were not included in the poll.
00:20:32.960Yet they did include in the poll question the name of a write-in candidate whose name is not even on the ballot.
00:20:39.440So take all of these polls you see with a grain of salt.
00:20:43.760They're, as I say, they're obsolete almost as quickly as they're taken because of the rate Americans receive information in and the volatility of our electorate.
00:20:53.600I'm an expert on this. I'm a veteran of 13 national presidential campaigns and over 700 campaigns for state and federal office.
00:21:01.500And I can tell you, take all these polls with a grain of salt.
00:21:45.140I think it's time to get these license plate reading cameras, the flock, out of here.
00:21:50.540It turns out that thousands of AI-powered flock cameras across the country are tracking drivers' locations and identity features of their vehicles every day.
00:22:00.000But I was shocked to learn today that smartphones' data collection often goes much deeper.
00:22:04.900Thousands of these AI-powered flock cameras across the country track drivers' locations and identify features of their vehicles.
00:22:14.760The smartphone data collection goes much, much deeper.
00:22:17.520D-FLOC, which is a project that maps the ALPR installations and advocates against their use, has identified more than 8,000 of these FLOC cameras in Florida alone.
00:22:29.680The ALPR photographed passing vehicles and extract information, including license plate numbers, time, and location.
00:22:38.300Over 5,000 law enforcement agencies, 1,000 businesses, and 6,000 homeowners associations have employed their use.
00:22:45.100according to flock safety the company that sells this technology but in florida some of the places
00:22:50.920that first welcomed flock are having buyer's remorse not surprisingly for example sumter
00:22:56.100county suspended the use of flock cameras after it came to light the detectives have abused the
00:23:01.220databases elsewhere a city council member in lake city tried to push for a non-binding referendum
00:23:08.500on the ballot took the voters way in on their use this resolution was shot down after the local
00:23:14.080police chief told the council that the FLOC system had made a significant contribution
00:23:18.920to reducing gun violence in that city. Still concerns about abuse and privacy have led to
00:23:25.320FLOC safety announcing updates this month designed to improve privacy, accountability,
00:23:30.580and security. But while the bottle over FLOC cameras is waged, there's a smaller, much more
00:23:36.620prevalent source of location tracking and data farming that is not facing the same debate.
00:24:31.320One important distinction is how police obtain the information.
00:24:33.880The U.S. Supreme Court has generally required warrants for law enforcement to obtain historical cell site location information from wireless carriers.
00:24:43.520Police searches of existing ALPR databases, those are the flopped camera databases, have not carried the traditional warrant requirement.
00:24:52.260So the most prevalent threat to our privacy is the slow, steady, relentless accumulation of relatively mundane data points on how we live our lives.
00:25:01.460To me, this is a giant violation of our Fourth Amendment right.
00:25:07.380That is why I say it's time to get these cameras, the flock, out of here.
00:25:12.640Meanwhile, the Trump Justice Department is fighting to revive human smuggling charges against Kilmar Albrego Garcia,
00:25:20.920who had become a cause celeb for Democrats and immigration activists after his 2025 deportation.
00:25:28.160On Monday, prosecutors asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse a May ruling that dismissed the indictment.
00:25:36.640U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw Jr. had concluded the prosecution was a vindictive retaliation for Abrego Garcia's successful challenge to his removal to his native El Salvador.
00:25:48.760The Justice Department says that ruling got the facts and the law wrong.
00:25:52.540Prosecutors are now arguing that career attorneys pursued the case because they believed the evidence could prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Albrego Garcia committed human smuggling offenses.
00:26:03.500The charges stem from a 2022 Tennessee traffic stop.
00:26:07.600Albrego Garcia has pleaded not guilty and denies government allegations that he's associated with the MS-13 gang that is so very active on Long Island.
00:26:17.680His case exploded nationally after the Trump administration deported him to El Salvador.
00:26:21.920That was March of 2025. Liberals whined and have used lawfare to protect this alleged criminal from being deported as a way to stick it to the Trump administration.
00:26:32.360But now the Department of Justice is warning that the lower court's decision dramatically expands judicial power by allowing judges to dismiss serious charges based on their assessment of the prosecutor's motives.
00:26:44.740Courts should protect constitutional rights, of course,
00:26:47.100but they should never prevent prosecutors from bringing legitimate cases supported by legitimate evidence.
00:26:52.920There is no excuse for Albrego Garcia to be in this country any longer.
00:26:58.760He is a resident and native of El Salvador, and he's in the country illegally.0.99
00:27:04.660I say get him and every illegal alien out of here immediately and the court stand in the way.
00:27:09.560Well, it's time to start impeaching certain judges.
00:27:12.780Meanwhile, President Trump's law and order agenda is being proven to be an overwhelming success beyond what anyone could have remotely predicted as violent crime in America fell sharply yet again in 2025.
00:27:25.080The new FBI figures show the national violent crime rate dropped 9.7% last year, the largest annual decline since the Bureau began producing these national estimates back in 1936.
00:27:38.980Property crime has also plunged 12.4%, with motor vehicle theft down 22.7%, burglary down 15.8%, and larceny theft down a stunning 9.8%.
00:27:52.140This decline was broad, reaching big cities, small towns, suburbs, and rural communities alike.
00:27:58.440The numbers reinforce, to me, a basic principle.
00:28:01.540President Trump has emphasized this for years, as long as I've known him.
00:28:04.300Public safety matters, criminals should face consequences, and the government's first responsibility is protecting law-abiding citizens.
00:28:12.860The Trump administration has made aggressive enforcement support for police, border security, and restoring order central themes of his second term, as he said he would during the campaign, and encouraging this trend appears to be continuing.
00:28:25.740Axios reports that violent crime kept falling across major cities during the first half of 2026.
00:28:31.680Americans should welcome this result without reservation or apology.
00:28:35.020After years of public anxiety over violence, car theft, and disorder,
00:28:39.560the country is finally moving decisively when it comes to crime in the right direction.
00:28:44.320Easing as the left has attempted to defund and eliminate law enforcement,
00:28:47.940that has not stopped the administration from achieving unprecedented success.
00:28:51.960This is nothing short of a titanic achievement for President Trump,
00:28:55.580and frankly one that every voter must know about heading into this year's midterm elections.
00:29:01.460Minnesota's fraud scandal has produced a new case involving a man the state once honored as an outstanding refugee, Salman Ahmed Elmi,
00:29:10.660who received a Minnesota Department of Human Services Entrepreneurship Award in 2021, now faces eight criminal counts tied to an alleged Medicaid fraud scheme.
00:29:21.920Prosecutors accuse Elmi and others of billing Medicaid for more than $1 million in totally fraudulent services.
00:29:28.400Two people connected to the alleged scheme were reportedly tied to a sex trafficking operation involving brothels
00:29:34.860The political optics for Minnesota's government could hardly be any worse
00:29:38.800Officials were eager to hand out praise and taxpayer money
00:29:42.280While basic oversight was nowhere to be seen
00:29:44.860Any public official who even mentioned that the Somalis could be engaged in fraud
00:29:49.480Would wear the scarlet letter and be castigated as a racist1.00
00:29:52.740So everyone kept their mouth shut and allowed these third world invaders to get away with fleecing the taxpayers.1.00
00:29:59.560Minnesota has already been rocked by fraud investigations across multiple public programs, with investigators examining literally billions of dollars in potentially improper payments.0.99
00:30:09.040The scandal became a major liability for the governor, Tim Holt, as it was, and has continued to be a substantial issue.
00:30:25.720The Department of Homeland Security said the temporary conditions justify the designation and no longer prevent a safe return.
00:30:32.520This is another huge victory for Donald Trump.
00:30:35.980immigration enforcement. A federal judge cleared the way today for the administration to end
00:30:40.180temporary protected status for Ethiopian nationals. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy lifted an
00:30:46.320administrative stay and denied a request to postpone the termination of Ethiopia's TPS
00:30:51.680designation. The ruling follows a June Supreme Court decision holding that law limits judicial
00:30:58.320review of non-constitutional challenges to this TPS termination decision. Ethiopia first received
00:31:05.880the temporary designation under the Biden administration in 2022 amended armed conflict
00:31:11.580and humanitarian concerns, but Homeland Security later determined the conditions had improved
00:31:16.680enough that Ethiopia no longer met the statutory requirements for this program. The Department of
00:31:22.420Homeland Security said the temporary conditions that justified the designation no longer prevent
00:31:27.100safe return. Therefore, the Ethiopian illegals must be returned home. The Department has also0.99
00:31:32.780noted that hundreds of Ethiopian nationals had sought permission to travel back to Ethiopia.
00:31:37.940That matters because the TPS program was never intended to be a permanent immigration status.
00:31:44.160By law, it is a temporary protection tied to conditions in a foreign country, not an open-ended
00:31:49.660promise of residency in America. In this case, a federal judge had previously blocked the
00:31:55.140termination, finding likely procedural problems with the administration's decision. But after
00:32:00.420the Supreme Court intervened in related cases, while the legal landscape kind of changed.
00:32:05.220The judge's latest order lifts the stay, although an equal protection claim remains alive. It's also
00:32:10.340been a long and ugly battle, but the Trump administration is winning their battle to show
00:32:14.060that temporary, well, it means temporary. The temporary status does not give third-world
00:32:19.340immigrants carte blanche to come to America forever. The left has used this as a loophole
00:32:24.100to flood our country for too long, and those days are rapidly coming to an end. President Trump was
00:32:29.240elected to restore control over immigration policy, enforce the law, and end programs that
00:32:34.600outlive their legal justification. This latest ruling on temporary status for illegals is a
00:32:40.200major victory for the Trump administration. Meanwhile, President Trump's administration
00:32:44.260is preparing an election integrity push ahead of November's midterms with roughly 1,000
00:32:49.380Justice Department monitors expected to be deployed nationwide. Now, this makes sense to me.
00:32:54.600Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon says the monitors are being trained using materials employed by previous administrations and will watch for compliance with federal voting laws, ballot security, and potential election fraud.
00:33:09.360She says the goal is simple. Every eligible American should be able to vote and trust the result.
00:33:14.560This is not an unprecedented federal takeover of our elections. The Justice Department has monitored elections for decades under both Republican and Democrat administrations.
00:33:24.600In 2024, the Biden Justice Department sent personnel to 86 jurisdictions in 27 states.
00:33:30.980The Trump administration is now expanding that scrutiny as the concerns over election administrations remain front and center.
00:33:39.520This is the Trump administration providing exactly the transparency voters have demanded.
00:33:44.380Secure elections require more assurances from politicians and bureaucrats.
00:33:48.520They actually require oversight, clear rules, lawful ballots, and accountability when something goes wrong.
00:33:54.600The administration is also pushing the Save America Act, of course, which simply requires voter identification to vote in federal elections and proof of citizenship when registered.
00:34:04.840But the U.S. Senate has shamefully obstructed this simple motion, which makes securing election territory that much more difficult.
00:34:12.960The far-left radicalized Democrats may attack this new monitoring effort, but election observation does not stop lawful voters from casting ballots.
00:34:21.660This is not about voter suppression, and there's nothing racist about it.
00:34:26.100Properly conducted, it will help protect voters from irregularities and discrimination.
00:34:31.080President Trump has made election integrity a centerpiece of his second term,
00:34:34.920deploying monitors to send a clear message ahead of November that every legal vote must count,
00:34:40.260every election law must be enforced, and Americans will get the results that they can trust.
00:34:44.860And the Democrat obstruction attempts will be crushed.
00:34:48.100I strongly support this effort. I know it will be controversial.
00:34:51.660But a thousand monitors at the right polling places can ensure that America's elections are fair, free and honest.
00:34:59.480I'm Roger Stone. Listen to the Stone Zone. Don't go away because we'll be right back with more politics.
00:35:05.280This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:35:08.560And he's a great, great person. Roger Stone.
00:39:34.640It is increasingly mainstream, and the socialists are better organized and effectively running the show.
00:39:41.080The choice facing America is becoming less about minor differences over tax rates and spending levels
00:39:46.660and more about something far, far more fundamental.
00:39:50.080Whether the country remains committed to free enterprise, limited government, and economic liberty,
00:39:55.160or continues drifting towards a system that gives politicians and bureaucrats more control of our everyday lives.
00:40:01.580The Democrat Party is becoming an open Marxist group, and that must be stopped before they transform America into socialist despotism.
00:40:09.560I've said it before here in the Stone Zone, I'll say it again.
00:40:11.920The old Democrat Party, the party of John F. Kennedy, the party of Harry Truman, the party of Mayor Ed Koch, the party of Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, that party's been taken over by a radical Marxist clique.0.92
00:40:25.200It's not just in New York City with the rise of Mamdami.0.92
00:40:28.640We've seen it in Colorado. We've seen it in Michigan. We're going to see it again, I think, in some of the primaries today in Florida.0.99
00:40:36.880And that sets up a classic clash between the Republican Party, which will stand by the U.S. Constitution and the precepts of free enterprise, capitalism, free speech and religious liberty, and those who advocate socialism as some kind of utopia.
00:40:54.260But Republicans should be careful because just the socialist label does not repel voters as this new poll shows,
00:41:01.580particularly among younger voters who think that they are voting for hope and change.
00:41:06.240They don't understand that that hope and change includes a government that is deep-footed,
00:41:15.220that is obstructionist, that they will be voting for scarcity.
00:41:19.940They'll be voting for an oppressive government like you see in Cuba, like you see in Venezuela, like you see in Nicaragua today.
00:41:28.020And that is what is at stake in this November's elections.
00:41:31.520I'm Roger Stone. Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
00:41:34.600As always, we get together five days a week to talk politics, news, history, food, style.
00:41:41.260And today about the epic clash that's coming this November between socialism, really Marxism and democracy.
00:41:47.900Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.