The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone | 01-16-26


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A persistent rumor has been circulating on social media in recent weeks that former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy will be taking over for Attorney General Pam Bondi as the next replacement for Loretta Lynch. But one thing is clear: Trey is not the man for this crucial job.

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00:00:59.380 A persistent rumor has been circulating on social media in recent weeks that former South Carolina
00:01:05.880 Congressman Trey Gowdy will be taking over for Attorney General Pam Bondi.
00:01:10.720 Now, many Trump supporters, myself included, are understandably frustrated by the lack of progress
00:01:17.180 made by the Department of Justice to indict the deep state spooks for crimes committed in the
00:01:23.840 Russiagate scandal, the January 6th fedsurrection, and the 2020 stolen election,
00:01:31.880 as well as many other treasonous acts that I believe have occurred.
00:01:35.820 But I have continued to maintain my support for Attorney General Pam Bondi.
00:01:40.180 I have known her for decades, and I understand her to be a diligent patriot.
00:01:44.780 I, too, am frustrated by the Department of Justice's inactivity regarding crucial prosecutions.
00:01:51.060 But folks do have to remember there's a tremendous amount of institutional rot
00:01:54.680 that is keeping these well-protected men and women who are high up in our intelligence agencies
00:02:00.480 and elsewhere in our government for being brought to justice.
00:02:03.520 That is being churned out under Bondi, and it will be done faster, I hope.
00:02:08.940 But one thing is clear.
00:02:10.620 Trey Gowdy is not the man for this crucial job.
00:02:14.060 See, Gowdy is well-known for giving strongly worded speeches, sending strongly worded letters,
00:02:21.120 and when he was leading the investigation into the Benghazi scandal as a congressman.
00:02:26.460 But in hearing after hearing, Trey Gowdy would pound the podium
00:02:30.580 and threw lots of red meat at the angry Tea Party base. 0.98
00:02:34.940 He amassed quite the following as a result of his theatrics.
00:02:39.020 But then, no accountability ever occurred.
00:02:42.380 No prosecutions or real answers came as a result of the Benghazi hearings.
00:02:47.880 You remember Benghazi.
00:02:49.280 That's when Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted 0.92
00:02:52.560 that our diplomats and other Foreign Service officers had been brutally murdered
00:02:57.820 as a result of a video that was shown in a country where virtually no one is online.
00:03:06.920 Gowdy refused to assign any blame to Hillary Clinton
00:03:09.580 or any other Obama administration official
00:03:13.300 in the aftermath of the lengthy, expensive public investigation.
00:03:17.880 It was classic Republican establishment theater
00:03:21.480 with political hacks playing beat the clock
00:03:24.360 until the issue could sadly be swept under the rug.
00:03:28.420 When President Trump came to power and came down that golden escalator,
00:03:33.120 that, in my mind, changed the face of politics forever.
00:03:37.280 Trey Gowdy's tough guy facade cracked almost immediately.
00:03:40.780 In fact, he joined the chorus of anti-Trumpers hoping to keep Donald Trump on the outs.
00:03:46.520 When their gatekeeping attempts failed,
00:03:49.640 they then attempted to subvert him while he was in office.
00:03:52.880 In 2018, then-Congressman Trey Gowdy, along with former House Speaker Paul Ryan,
00:03:58.480 were the loudest defenders of the Russian collusion hoax.
00:04:02.980 That's when the deep state got caught red-handed spying on President Donald Trump.
00:04:08.260 They were arguing that the FBI was perfectly correct in their use of informants
00:04:13.440 to infiltrate President Trump's inner circle
00:04:16.040 as part of their expansive phishing expedition based on faulty intelligence.
00:04:21.760 I'm even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do,
00:04:26.920 Trey Gowdy said on Fox News regarding the Russian collusion hoax.
00:04:30.960 It has nothing to do with Donald Trump.
00:04:33.280 Well, now, thanks to the brave and courageous actions
00:04:37.440 of the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
00:04:40.820 who has declassified all of the relevant public documents,
00:04:44.960 we know that there was no Russian collusion
00:04:47.660 and that this was the greatest single dirty trick in American political history.
00:04:53.580 It was an abuse of power in which the full authority of the U.S. government
00:04:58.860 was utilized to remove a duly elected president,
00:05:03.400 utilizing two pieces of completely falsified evidence,
00:05:07.220 the so-called Steele dossier.
00:05:10.600 That's a secret report that was actually illegally paid for
00:05:14.080 by Hillary Clinton's campaign that claimed falsely
00:05:17.860 that President Donald Trump had dallied with Russian prostitutes
00:05:22.080 while visiting Moscow as a private businessman.
00:05:25.740 It was and is a total and complete fabrication.
00:05:30.080 And then there was the second leg of this stool.
00:05:32.800 Well, that's in which they claimed that the Democrat National Committee
00:05:36.320 had been the target of an online hack by Russian intelligence,
00:05:40.100 a claim for which there is no forensic evidence whatsoever.
00:05:44.920 Gowdy incredibly claimed the FBI was actually working to clear
00:05:48.480 President Trump's name during the Russian collusion farce,
00:05:51.960 which is at this point a laughable notion.
00:05:55.000 And it's been proven abjectly false as more documents have come out
00:05:59.300 exposing the depths of this incredible conspiracy.
00:06:04.040 It was President Trump himself who said,
00:06:05.960 number one, I didn't collude with Russia,
00:06:07.560 but if anyone connected with my campaign,
00:06:09.620 I want the FBI to find that out.
00:06:12.220 Gowdy said it looks to me like the FBI is doing what
00:06:14.940 President Sub said he wanted them to do, find it out.
00:06:19.160 This alone, in my opinion, is disqualifying
00:06:22.120 as it shows that Gowdy is imbecilic and naive at best,
00:06:26.140 but more likely was running cover for the deep stake the whole time,
00:06:30.240 as indicated by his desire to suppress the full Mueller report
00:06:34.720 that cleared both President Trump of any Russian collusion claims,
00:06:38.960 but also cleared me.
00:06:41.420 You see, on page 178, the long-redacted, long-hidden,
00:06:46.760 long-suppressed Mueller investigation's final report
00:06:49.940 concluded that Mueller himself had found
00:06:52.600 no evidence, on my part, of Russian collusion,
00:06:56.500 WikiLeaks' collaboration, or any other crime.
00:07:00.740 Trey Gowdy's comments about CIA Director John Brennan years later
00:07:04.540 further exposed Gowdy's true colors,
00:07:07.460 calling Brennan a liar,
00:07:09.180 but stating that he should be shamed rather than charged
00:07:12.540 for his capital offenses.
00:07:14.100 This shows how Gowdy uses weasel words and tactics
00:07:17.620 to protect these federal crooks.
00:07:20.780 Handcuffs are not the only way to met out accountability.
00:07:24.780 There's shame.
00:07:25.840 There's history.
00:07:26.620 It's not just prison.
00:07:28.760 There's other ways we need to met out accountability.
00:07:32.980 And the fact that somebody's not wearing handcuffs
00:07:34.880 does not mean to me,
00:07:36.680 does not mean that I think,
00:07:38.660 that it's okay because he wasn't.
00:07:41.560 Wow, that's really tough.
00:07:42.920 After bailing out from Congress amidst an exodus of rhinos in 2019,
00:07:48.580 Trey Gowdy took a well-paying job over at Fox News,
00:07:52.180 reinventing himself as a moderate pundit
00:07:55.000 and adopting a similar look and style to Rachel Madcow. 0.98
00:07:59.920 Gowdy's transition did not serve him well
00:08:02.500 in terms of rebuilding his waning credibility,
00:08:05.200 to put it mildly.
00:08:06.460 When Gowdy was hawking his book,
00:08:09.020 Doesn't Hurt to Ask,
00:08:10.120 he did an anti-Trump media tour,
00:08:12.700 even appearing on the show of reviled Trump hater
00:08:15.720 and vaccine pusher Stephen Colbert
00:08:18.140 to trash President Trump's impact on the Republican Party.
00:08:22.780 It's not the Republican Party I grew up with,
00:08:25.460 Gowdy said.
00:08:26.200 Conservatism tells people what they ought to hear.
00:08:29.020 Populism tells people what they want to hear.
00:08:31.760 I'm a conservative,
00:08:32.760 and you know,
00:08:33.240 sometimes it gets difficult to see
00:08:34.780 what the party platform really is,
00:08:37.360 Gowdy said on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
00:08:41.100 In that same interview with Colbert,
00:08:43.440 Trey Gowdy was criticizing President Trump
00:08:45.580 for not forcing face diapers onto the faces of Americans 0.94
00:08:49.060 when the COVID hysteria reached a fever pitch.
00:08:53.220 We now know,
00:08:54.240 based on extensive scientific research,
00:08:56.400 that the masks protected no one.
00:08:59.440 I do wear a mask,
00:09:01.000 said Trey Gowdy.
00:09:01.760 I would have liked it for President Trump,
00:09:03.200 to have embraced the goodness,
00:09:05.040 the propriety of wearing masks sooner,
00:09:07.820 Gowdy told Colbert.
00:09:09.320 Just last year,
00:09:10.280 Trey Gowdy came out forcefully
00:09:11.940 against the Second Amendment,
00:09:14.500 claiming that jettisoning fundamental rights,
00:09:17.700 including the right to own a firearm,
00:09:19.760 was necessary for,
00:09:21.340 quote,
00:09:21.740 protecting children,
00:09:23.260 following a mass shooting of kids
00:09:24.980 by a transgendered maniac 1.00
00:09:26.960 in a Catholic church in Minnesota.
00:09:29.320 The only way to stop it
00:09:30.760 is to identify the shooter ahead of time
00:09:32.680 and keep weapons out of their hands,
00:09:35.040 he said.
00:09:35.880 And so we're going to have a conversation
00:09:37.740 of freedom versus protecting children.
00:09:40.180 I mean,
00:09:40.540 how many school shootings does it take
00:09:42.180 before we're going to have a conversation
00:09:43.660 about keeping the firearms
00:09:45.820 out of the hands of people?
00:09:48.120 Adding,
00:09:48.720 it's always a young white male 0.97
00:09:50.500 to add some revolting wokeness
00:09:52.960 to Gowdy's unconstitutional rant.
00:09:55.820 The rumor mill pushing Gowdy
00:09:57.900 as Attorney General can't be
00:09:59.340 is likely an op
00:10:00.520 to reroute the Department of Justice
00:10:02.980 and the reason the good work
00:10:04.120 that is currently being done,
00:10:05.720 particularly in the Southern District of Florida,
00:10:08.520 where it appears that subpoenas
00:10:10.080 have been unveiled,
00:10:13.600 beginning to corral those,
00:10:16.080 like John Brennan,
00:10:17.240 like James Comey,
00:10:18.640 like Andrew McCabe,
00:10:22.620 in the Russian collusion hoax.
00:10:25.500 The notion of Trey Gowdy,
00:10:27.800 who, by the way,
00:10:28.600 is being pushed for Attorney General
00:10:30.300 by Senator Lindsey Graham,
00:10:32.600 is inspiring intense rage
00:10:34.580 among MAGA partisans on social media
00:10:37.380 and for good reason.
00:10:38.940 Trey Gowdy is a Paul Ryan
00:10:41.240 establishment Republican
00:10:42.500 who was rightfully swept out of the party
00:10:45.220 in the age of Trump
00:10:46.400 to the betterment of mankind.
00:10:49.080 He must stay relegated
00:10:50.320 to Fox News' echo chamber,
00:10:52.140 far away from any role
00:10:53.380 in the Trump administration.
00:10:55.580 Meanwhile,
00:10:56.300 the Trump administration
00:10:57.220 is forcefully pushing back
00:10:59.140 against a reckless
00:11:00.020 and dangerous proposal
00:11:01.900 from a New York
00:11:03.380 congressional Democrat
00:11:04.520 that would put
00:11:05.200 federal immigration officers
00:11:06.880 at risk.
00:11:08.000 New York Democrat
00:11:09.020 Richie Torres
00:11:09.880 has introduced
00:11:10.620 what he calls
00:11:11.240 the Quick Recognition Act,
00:11:13.540 which would require
00:11:14.660 immigration and customs enforcement
00:11:16.560 and customs
00:11:17.640 and border protection agents
00:11:19.000 to wear uniforms
00:11:19.940 with scannable QR codes
00:11:22.300 revealing their names,
00:11:24.180 badge numbers,
00:11:24.960 and employing agency.
00:11:26.520 The White House
00:11:27.080 immediately slammed that idea,
00:11:29.100 warning it would fuel
00:11:30.360 a nationwide doxing campaign
00:11:32.620 and encourage activists
00:11:34.400 to interfere
00:11:35.200 with law enforcement operations
00:11:36.700 during a time
00:11:37.860 of widespread unrest.
00:11:41.040 America is at the brink,
00:11:42.920 as I think we know.
00:11:44.500 The United States
00:11:45.280 is once again
00:11:45.940 facing a constitutional
00:11:47.040 and civil crisis,
00:11:48.800 not on some distant battlefield,
00:11:50.400 but in the streets
00:11:50.960 of Minnesota,
00:11:51.620 for example,
00:11:52.500 where violence has escalated
00:11:53.940 and civil order
00:11:55.040 has frayed.
00:11:56.120 What began as protests
00:11:57.900 tied to federal immigration
00:11:59.240 law enforcement
00:11:59.980 has metastasized
00:12:01.700 into a sustained unrest,
00:12:03.980 exposing a deeper
00:12:05.320 national question.
00:12:06.920 Who enforces the law
00:12:08.220 when local
00:12:09.180 and state officials
00:12:10.280 refuse to do so?
00:12:11.840 Situations has deteriorated
00:12:13.520 to such an extent
00:12:14.340 that President Donald Trump
00:12:15.940 has publicly warned
00:12:16.920 that he may invoke
00:12:18.720 the Insurrection Act
00:12:19.780 of 1807
00:12:20.720 to restore order
00:12:22.000 if Minnesota officials
00:12:23.040 continue to abdicate
00:12:24.440 their responsibility
00:12:26.000 to protect life,
00:12:27.920 property,
00:12:28.480 and federal authority.
00:12:30.500 Trump administration
00:12:31.560 spokeswoman Abigail Jackson
00:12:33.300 said the bill
00:12:34.240 by Congressman Torres
00:12:36.000 is designed
00:12:36.940 to intimidate officers
00:12:38.300 and protect
00:12:39.440 criminal illegal aliens,
00:12:41.620 calling the proposal
00:12:42.520 unserious
00:12:43.380 and extraordinarily dangerous.
00:12:45.380 The administration
00:12:46.200 cited the Department
00:12:47.440 of Homeland Security data
00:12:48.740 showing assaults
00:12:50.040 on ICE officers
00:12:51.000 have surged
00:12:51.740 by 1,300 percent,
00:12:54.260 driven by Democrats
00:12:55.380 irresponsible
00:12:56.200 and inflammatory rhetoric.
00:12:58.820 Congressman Torres
00:13:00.400 doubled down,
00:13:01.200 calling ICE
00:13:01.780 systematically corrupt
00:13:03.540 and declaring
00:13:04.540 he would oppose
00:13:05.540 funding the agency
00:13:06.700 beyond one single dollar.
00:13:09.260 His office dismissed
00:13:10.200 safety concerns,
00:13:11.220 claiming the administration
00:13:12.000 fears transparency
00:13:13.700 and accountability.
00:13:15.440 I find the whole thing
00:13:16.720 disgraceful.
00:13:18.020 Who is opposed
00:13:19.220 to the deportation
00:13:20.500 of dangerous
00:13:21.600 illegal gangbangers
00:13:22.960 and criminals?
00:13:24.300 The answer should be
00:13:25.300 no one,
00:13:25.740 but unfortunately
00:13:26.320 the answer seems
00:13:27.500 to be Democrats.
00:13:29.060 The Democrats
00:13:29.560 are targeting
00:13:30.360 federal officers,
00:13:31.600 they're undermining
00:13:32.340 border enforcement,
00:13:33.540 and they're prioritizing
00:13:34.940 partisanship
00:13:35.640 and ideology
00:13:36.560 over public safety.
00:13:38.680 I'm Roger Stone,
00:13:39.680 you're listening to
00:13:40.240 The Stone Zone
00:13:40.860 right here
00:13:41.340 on the Red Apple
00:13:42.680 Audio Networks.
00:13:43.960 And don't go away,
00:13:44.960 we'll be right back
00:13:45.980 because my friend
00:13:47.020 Scott Adams,
00:13:48.000 who sadly passed away
00:13:49.540 just the other day,
00:13:50.620 his book has gone
00:13:51.720 to number one.
00:13:53.040 He appeared here
00:13:53.800 in The Stone Zone
00:13:54.420 many times.
00:13:55.500 We're going to talk
00:13:55.980 about Scott Adams
00:13:56.820 when we return.
00:13:57.800 Every week,
00:14:00.600 the Payne family
00:14:01.420 cuts straight
00:14:02.100 to the real
00:14:02.780 financial story.
00:14:04.060 The one question,
00:14:04.840 Bob,
00:14:05.220 everyone's asking
00:14:06.140 is are we in
00:14:07.680 an artificial
00:14:08.160 intelligence bubble?
00:14:09.720 You've been through
00:14:10.440 boom and busts.
00:14:11.680 What do you think?
00:14:12.460 No hype,
00:14:13.420 no myths,
00:14:14.660 just what actually
00:14:15.560 matters to your money.
00:14:17.080 It does feel
00:14:17.780 very similar
00:14:18.640 to what we experienced
00:14:19.880 in the 90s.
00:14:20.560 Where are we though?
00:14:21.260 Are we in 1995,
00:14:22.660 1997,
00:14:23.860 1999?
00:14:24.360 Listen to the
00:14:25.560 Paying Points of Wealth
00:14:26.720 on the Red Apple
00:14:27.740 Podcast Network.
00:14:30.720 The Stone Zone,
00:14:32.700 entertaining
00:14:33.280 and informative
00:14:34.520 on the Red Apple
00:14:35.640 Podcast Network.
00:14:37.700 I can't tell you
00:14:39.060 how much I appreciate
00:14:40.160 those warm words
00:14:41.340 from Vice President
00:14:42.260 J.D. Vance.
00:14:44.300 So,
00:14:45.180 my late friend
00:14:46.480 Scott Adams,
00:14:47.300 the creator
00:14:47.760 of the Dilbert
00:14:48.920 comic strip
00:14:49.640 and extraordinarily
00:14:51.040 influential
00:14:52.060 social commentator,
00:14:53.280 his final book
00:14:54.120 climbing the
00:14:54.860 best-selling charts
00:14:55.600 following his
00:14:56.700 untimely death
00:14:57.580 earlier this week.
00:14:58.720 Adams' final work,
00:15:00.240 Reframe Your Brain,
00:15:01.460 the user interface
00:15:02.460 for happiness
00:15:03.400 and success,
00:15:04.740 surged to the
00:15:05.680 number one
00:15:06.240 overall best-seller
00:15:07.240 position on Amazon
00:15:08.260 on Thursday,
00:15:09.620 just days after
00:15:10.520 his death.
00:15:11.020 The book now
00:15:11.480 tops all categories
00:15:13.200 on the platform,
00:15:14.780 a reflection of
00:15:15.420 the enduring impact
00:15:16.500 that Scott Adams,
00:15:17.760 who appeared here
00:15:18.420 in the Stone Zone
00:15:19.160 several times,
00:15:20.600 had on millions
00:15:21.480 of Americans.
00:15:22.800 Adams passed away
00:15:23.740 Tuesday morning
00:15:24.800 following a public
00:15:25.860 battle with
00:15:26.860 prostate cancer.
00:15:28.200 He disclosed
00:15:28.900 his diagnosis
00:15:29.640 in 2025
00:15:30.560 and continued
00:15:31.820 hosting his
00:15:32.520 popular Coffee
00:15:33.860 with Scott Adams
00:15:34.720 live stream show,
00:15:36.120 even as his
00:15:36.860 health declined.
00:15:38.400 In the final weeks,
00:15:39.420 the show shifted
00:15:40.080 to a call-in format
00:15:41.240 as his health
00:15:42.320 deteriorated,
00:15:43.120 allowing Adams
00:15:43.720 to speak directly
00:15:44.560 with friends,
00:15:45.700 colleagues,
00:15:46.220 and long-time
00:15:47.200 viewers.
00:15:47.660 Earlier this month,
00:15:48.940 Adams candidly
00:15:49.820 told his audience
00:15:50.600 that recovery
00:15:51.200 for him
00:15:51.740 was no longer
00:15:53.340 possible.
00:15:54.380 He entered
00:15:54.920 hospice care
00:15:55.840 this past Monday.
00:15:58.400 During Tuesday
00:15:59.100 morning's broadcast,
00:16:00.500 his ex-wife,
00:16:01.680 Shelly Miles,
00:16:02.380 announced his
00:16:02.920 passing and read
00:16:04.080 a final message
00:16:05.000 Adams had prepared
00:16:05.940 in it.
00:16:06.660 He shared the fact
00:16:07.620 that he had accepted
00:16:08.500 Christianity before 0.95
00:16:09.560 his death,
00:16:10.100 writing,
00:16:10.880 I accept Jesus Christ
00:16:12.080 as my Lord and Savior,
00:16:13.940 and I look forward
00:16:14.720 to spending an eternity
00:16:15.940 with him.
00:16:16.860 Adams was best known
00:16:17.980 as the creator
00:16:19.060 of Dilbert,
00:16:19.760 the iconic comic strip
00:16:21.080 launched way back
00:16:22.900 in 1989
00:16:23.680 that skewered
00:16:24.680 corporate absurdity
00:16:25.880 and became a
00:16:27.100 defining voice
00:16:28.120 of office culture.
00:16:29.980 Fake news media
00:16:30.820 may claim that Adams
00:16:31.840 was disgraced
00:16:32.760 in their shameful
00:16:33.920 obituaries of him,
00:16:35.080 but the truth is
00:16:35.900 Scott Adams'
00:16:37.280 bold truth-telling
00:16:38.280 and unwillingness
00:16:39.620 to bow to
00:16:40.440 political correctness
00:16:41.420 made him a legend
00:16:42.740 in the eyes
00:16:43.640 of millions of patriots.
00:16:45.620 Scott Adams,
00:16:46.700 may you rest
00:16:47.600 in peace.
00:16:49.120 Iran appears 0.82
00:16:50.060 to be getting
00:16:50.440 one more final repeat.
00:16:51.940 President Donald Trump
00:16:52.740 has opted
00:16:53.160 not to strike Iran
00:16:54.640 with reports emerging
00:16:56.040 the United States
00:16:56.720 has temporarily
00:16:57.240 held off
00:16:58.080 on military action
00:16:59.640 among Tehran's
00:17:00.640 brutal crackdown
00:17:01.700 on human rights
00:17:02.980 protesters.
00:17:04.120 According to
00:17:04.560 multiple reports,
00:17:05.740 President Trump
00:17:06.220 conveyed to the
00:17:06.960 Iranian regime
00:17:07.680 that the U.S.
00:17:08.820 would not launch
00:17:09.540 a strike
00:17:10.140 for now
00:17:11.540 while demanding
00:17:12.560 an immediate halt
00:17:13.540 to the mass killings
00:17:14.680 of peaceful protesters.
00:17:16.940 Officials from Qatar
00:17:17.980 and Saudi Arabia
00:17:19.180 with reported
00:17:20.260 involvement from Egypt
00:17:21.480 worked behind the scenes
00:17:22.800 to try to ease tensions
00:17:24.720 and prevent escalation
00:17:26.240 according to
00:17:26.740 the Jerusalem Post.
00:17:28.160 President Trump
00:17:28.780 said on Wednesday evening
00:17:29.960 that he had received
00:17:30.660 credible briefings
00:17:31.640 indicating that
00:17:32.920 executions and
00:17:33.980 protests-related
00:17:35.180 killings in Iran
00:17:36.160 were slowing,
00:17:37.120 but it made it clear
00:17:38.000 that America
00:17:38.500 will respond forcefully
00:17:40.000 if the violence
00:17:41.320 resumes.
00:17:42.100 There are up to reports
00:17:43.520 of 800 protestors
00:17:44.860 having lost their lives,
00:17:46.560 pardon me,
00:17:47.060 800 protestors
00:17:48.160 having their lives
00:17:49.220 spared
00:17:49.760 because of
00:17:50.580 President Trump's
00:17:51.400 tough negotiating.
00:17:52.720 Those lives
00:17:53.300 have been spared,
00:17:54.140 at least temporarily,
00:17:55.420 because President Trump
00:17:56.380 achieves peace
00:17:57.420 through strength.
00:17:58.720 However,
00:17:59.420 the Iranian regime
00:18:00.420 cannot be trusted
00:18:01.480 and I believe
00:18:02.380 their days are numbered.
00:18:03.960 President Trump
00:18:04.480 has given a blunt message
00:18:05.820 to Iranian citizens
00:18:06.860 urging them
00:18:07.800 to keep protesting
00:18:08.740 and warning regime
00:18:10.280 enforcers
00:18:10.860 that they will be
00:18:11.760 held accountable
00:18:12.480 for their crimes
00:18:13.860 against humanity.
00:18:15.320 I'm Roger Stone.
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00:18:33.100 into The Stone Zone.
00:18:34.880 President Donald Trump
00:18:35.720 is moving
00:18:36.460 aggressively
00:18:37.340 to shield
00:18:38.140 American families
00:18:39.020 from soaring
00:18:39.640 electricity bills.
00:18:40.860 and he's making
00:18:42.000 big tech
00:18:42.780 pay for the problem
00:18:43.720 it helped create.
00:18:45.020 According to Bloomberg,
00:18:46.480 President Trump
00:18:47.180 and several
00:18:47.760 Northeastern governors
00:18:48.760 are set to announce
00:18:49.680 an unprecedented
00:18:50.440 emergency plan
00:18:52.120 aimed squarely
00:18:53.100 at runaway power costs
00:18:54.840 driven by massive
00:18:55.980 data center expansion.
00:18:57.660 Under the proposal,
00:18:59.060 grid operator
00:18:59.820 PGM Interconnection
00:19:01.640 would be pushed
00:19:02.520 to hold a special
00:19:03.520 wholesale electricity
00:19:05.260 auction
00:19:06.060 forcing large
00:19:07.320 technology companies
00:19:08.380 to fund
00:19:09.060 new power plants
00:19:10.300 through long-term
00:19:11.640 contracts.
00:19:12.320 The goal here
00:19:13.320 is very simple.
00:19:14.840 Cap residential
00:19:16.000 electricity rates
00:19:17.060 while ensuring
00:19:17.960 enough power
00:19:18.660 to fuel America's
00:19:19.960 AI race
00:19:21.240 without sticking
00:19:22.320 households and
00:19:23.200 small businesses
00:19:24.060 with the bill.
00:19:25.320 Under this plan,
00:19:26.800 tech giants
00:19:27.460 would bid on
00:19:28.240 15-year contracts
00:19:29.480 for new generation
00:19:30.820 capacity
00:19:31.500 paying whether
00:19:32.800 they use
00:19:33.360 electricity or not.
00:19:34.680 that guaranteed
00:19:35.620 revenue
00:19:36.240 would support
00:19:37.220 roughly $15 billion
00:19:38.700 in new power plant
00:19:40.520 construction
00:19:41.100 which would ease
00:19:42.340 supply shortages
00:19:43.260 in a grid
00:19:44.040 already operating
00:19:45.300 well below
00:19:46.140 critical reserve
00:19:47.420 margins.
00:19:48.400 President Trump
00:19:49.020 has been very blunt
00:19:49.980 about the principle
00:19:50.800 behind this move
00:19:51.680 saying that he
00:19:52.400 never wants
00:19:53.360 Americans to pay 1.00
00:19:54.220 higher electricity
00:19:55.080 bills because of
00:19:56.360 these data centers.
00:19:57.820 The initiative
00:19:58.360 has drawn support
00:19:59.360 from governors
00:19:59.980 of both parties
00:20:00.900 including Democrats
00:20:01.900 underscoring
00:20:03.100 growing concerns
00:20:04.100 that unchecked
00:20:05.360 data center growth
00:20:06.460 is distorting
00:20:07.720 energy markets
00:20:08.580 and driving up
00:20:09.540 costs for average
00:20:10.860 consumers.
00:20:12.120 This to me
00:20:12.800 is a great example
00:20:13.860 of President Trump
00:20:14.660 using his power
00:20:15.640 in a way that
00:20:16.200 helps the little guy
00:20:17.120 and stops the spread
00:20:18.460 of unchecked
00:20:19.640 corporate power.
00:20:20.860 Other Republican
00:20:21.620 politicians would 0.56
00:20:22.520 pay lip service
00:20:23.320 to the notion
00:20:24.080 of the free market
00:20:25.300 while actually
00:20:25.960 doing nothing
00:20:26.600 and of course
00:20:27.500 lining their pockets
00:20:28.700 with big contributions
00:20:29.880 from the tech firms
00:20:30.820 on the back end.
00:20:32.160 Even though
00:20:32.600 President Trump
00:20:33.340 is pro tech
00:20:34.260 he is pro AI
00:20:36.120 he is making sure
00:20:39.620 that the ordinary
00:20:40.340 people do not
00:20:41.680 suffer the burden
00:20:42.640 of economic growth.
00:20:44.480 This is another
00:20:45.080 example of the
00:20:46.340 tremendous leadership
00:20:47.180 we're getting
00:20:47.820 from President Donald Trump.
00:20:49.880 Meanwhile
00:20:50.320 a new Arctic
00:20:51.380 intelligence assessment
00:20:52.600 from Denmark
00:20:53.360 is showing that
00:20:54.560 President Trump's
00:20:55.360 warning about 0.81
00:20:56.280 growing Russian
00:20:57.560 and Chinese activity
00:20:58.720 near Greenland
00:20:59.520 are not false
00:21:01.060 pretenses
00:21:01.580 to justify intervention.
00:21:03.180 President Trump
00:21:03.780 recently argued
00:21:05.280 that Russian 1.00
00:21:05.920 submarines
00:21:06.560 and Chinese
00:21:07.880 naval assets
00:21:08.940 are increasingly
00:21:09.860 active around
00:21:10.760 Greenland
00:21:11.240 warning that 0.80
00:21:12.440 the United States
00:21:13.220 cannot allow
00:21:14.040 strategic Arctic
00:21:15.080 territory
00:21:15.660 to fall under
00:21:16.920 the influence
00:21:17.560 of either Russia
00:21:18.520 or China.
00:21:20.140 Fake news media
00:21:21.160 dismissed the remarks
00:21:22.260 as an exaggeration
00:21:23.520 or outright lie
00:21:24.860 but Denmark's
00:21:26.240 own
00:21:26.540 2025
00:21:27.220 intelligence
00:21:28.160 outlook
00:21:28.720 paints a
00:21:29.760 more sobering
00:21:30.660 long-term
00:21:31.140 picture.
00:21:31.640 According to
00:21:32.200 the Danish
00:21:33.120 Defense Intelligence
00:21:34.360 Service
00:21:34.880 Russia remains 0.99
00:21:35.760 the dominant
00:21:36.780 military power
00:21:37.800 in the Arctic
00:21:38.320 and continues
00:21:39.420 to expand
00:21:40.240 its submarine
00:21:40.920 and surface
00:21:41.880 fleet in the region.
00:21:43.600 The report notes
00:21:44.520 that Russia's 0.89
00:21:45.240 nuclear-armed
00:21:46.100 submarines
00:21:46.600 are based
00:21:47.640 in Arctic waters
00:21:48.740 forming a core
00:21:50.000 pillar of its
00:21:50.820 deterrence strategy
00:21:52.040 against the United
00:21:53.160 States and NATO.
00:21:54.820 The assessment
00:21:55.400 also warns
00:21:56.840 that China 0.93
00:21:57.500 is steadily
00:21:58.060 building the
00:21:58.720 capability
00:21:59.260 for independent
00:22:00.440 military operations
00:22:01.680 in the Arctic
00:22:02.420 with long-term
00:22:03.620 ambitions that
00:22:04.460 include missile
00:22:05.440 submarines operating
00:22:06.500 beneath the polar
00:22:07.420 ice and
00:22:08.540 sustained engagement
00:22:09.700 around Greenland
00:22:10.720 through research
00:22:11.520 and commercial
00:22:12.480 ventures.
00:22:13.440 While fact-checkers
00:22:14.540 including the
00:22:15.180 Associated Press
00:22:16.120 argue that Russia 0.85
00:22:17.140 and China
00:22:17.720 forces are not
00:22:19.300 lurking directly
00:22:20.120 off of Greenland's
00:22:20.920 coastline,
00:22:21.420 national security
00:22:22.880 isn't waiting
00:22:23.660 for a crisis
00:22:24.360 to occur
00:22:24.900 and then reacting
00:22:26.100 after it's too late.
00:22:27.680 It's about
00:22:28.200 recognizing strategic
00:22:29.500 trends before
00:22:30.460 they become threats.
00:22:31.760 That's what
00:22:32.120 Trump is doing.
00:22:33.160 The Arctic is vast,
00:22:34.640 contested,
00:22:35.580 and increasingly
00:22:36.300 central to global
00:22:37.440 power competition.
00:22:38.700 President Trump
00:22:39.360 has rightfully
00:22:40.500 recognized that
00:22:41.600 Greenland
00:22:42.140 is essential
00:22:43.680 for the
00:22:44.480 Don Roe Doctrine.
00:22:46.340 That, of course,
00:22:46.920 is a euphemism
00:22:48.200 after the
00:22:48.960 Monroe Doctrine,
00:22:49.980 but it is a
00:22:50.840 simple premise
00:22:51.960 by Donald Trump
00:22:52.860 that we must
00:22:54.080 have control
00:22:56.640 here in our
00:22:57.820 own hemisphere.
00:22:58.520 Just as he
00:22:59.200 opposes the
00:23:00.040 brutal regimes
00:23:01.140 in Venezuela,
00:23:02.560 Honduras,
00:23:03.160 and Cuba,
00:23:03.960 we cannot have
00:23:05.180 a colonial
00:23:05.960 power in
00:23:07.680 control of
00:23:08.580 Greenland.
00:23:09.520 They would be
00:23:10.240 much better off
00:23:11.200 as an independent
00:23:12.440 entity.
00:23:13.380 What we need,
00:23:14.000 I think,
00:23:14.420 is a popular
00:23:15.240 vote of the
00:23:16.420 people of
00:23:17.160 Greenland.
00:23:17.580 Let them decide
00:23:18.580 and let
00:23:19.700 President Trump
00:23:20.340 work his
00:23:20.900 campaign,
00:23:21.540 deal-making
00:23:21.960 magic.
00:23:22.860 It's time
00:23:23.280 for the
00:23:23.680 EU and
00:23:24.260 NATO to
00:23:24.820 get out
00:23:25.340 of the
00:23:25.540 way of
00:23:25.820 progress.
00:23:26.760 Ultimately,
00:23:27.440 at a
00:23:27.720 minimum,
00:23:28.620 Greenland
00:23:29.060 must be
00:23:29.620 free and
00:23:30.780 independent,
00:23:31.780 and then
00:23:32.300 they can,
00:23:32.860 of course,
00:23:33.140 receive
00:23:33.620 American aid.
00:23:35.200 Meanwhile,
00:23:35.880 a Senate
00:23:36.300 hearing this
00:23:36.900 week exposed
00:23:37.520 another massive
00:23:38.600 national security
00:23:39.460 failure stemming
00:23:40.720 from the
00:23:41.180 Biden
00:23:41.520 administration's
00:23:42.360 reckless
00:23:42.860 immigration
00:23:43.420 policies.
00:23:44.040 On January
00:23:45.080 14th,
00:23:45.820 a deputy
00:23:46.380 inspector
00:23:46.920 general
00:23:47.440 testified
00:23:47.940 that over
00:23:49.120 30,000
00:23:50.060 Afghan
00:23:50.700 nationals
00:23:51.360 were admitted
00:23:51.900 into the
00:23:52.940 United States
00:23:53.700 without basic
00:23:55.000 identification
00:23:55.780 under a
00:23:56.560 Biden-era
00:23:57.340 parole program
00:23:58.620 and that
00:23:59.360 more than
00:23:59.740 50 individuals
00:24:00.880 with confirmed
00:24:01.780 or suspected
00:24:02.700 terrorist ties
00:24:04.140 were allowed
00:24:05.000 into the
00:24:05.500 country.
00:24:05.880 The hearing,
00:24:07.000 titled
00:24:07.340 Biden's
00:24:08.360 Afghan
00:24:08.940 Paroli
00:24:09.520 Program,
00:24:10.540 a Trojan
00:24:11.160 horse with
00:24:11.760 flawed vetting
00:24:12.460 and deadly
00:24:12.940 consequences,
00:24:14.040 focused on
00:24:14.900 Operation
00:24:15.560 Allies
00:24:16.160 Welcomed,
00:24:17.080 launching after
00:24:17.960 that Biden
00:24:18.580 administration's
00:24:19.340 chaotic
00:24:19.880 2021 withdrawal
00:24:21.600 from Afghanistan.
00:24:23.280 So,
00:24:23.720 roughly 76,000
00:24:25.620 evacuees
00:24:26.560 were flown
00:24:27.500 into the
00:24:28.040 U.S.,
00:24:28.960 many without
00:24:29.680 verified names,
00:24:30.940 dates of birth,
00:24:31.680 or documentation.
00:24:33.360 According to
00:24:33.880 the testimony
00:24:34.440 in the hearing,
00:24:35.220 36,000 provided
00:24:36.480 no identification
00:24:37.280 at all,
00:24:38.180 and up to
00:24:38.640 12,000 did
00:24:39.800 not know
00:24:40.380 their date
00:24:41.160 of birth.
00:24:42.020 Kind of hard
00:24:42.480 to believe.
00:24:42.920 Even more
00:24:44.000 alarming,
00:24:44.640 witnesses
00:24:44.960 confirmed that
00:24:46.040 the evacuees
00:24:47.100 were not
00:24:47.560 systematically
00:24:48.200 interviewed,
00:24:49.240 nor were
00:24:49.900 mental health
00:24:50.620 screenings
00:24:51.120 conducted
00:24:51.580 before their
00:24:52.280 entry.
00:24:53.220 These failures
00:24:54.140 directly endangered
00:24:55.200 Americans,
00:24:56.220 and the total
00:24:57.040 overall number
00:24:58.040 of Afghan
00:24:58.720 nationals
00:24:59.300 admitted to
00:25:00.140 the United
00:25:00.460 States may
00:25:01.520 actually exceed
00:25:02.440 over 200,000.
00:25:05.380 These are all
00:25:06.280 now potential
00:25:07.020 sleeper cells
00:25:07.800 waiting to
00:25:08.360 commit a
00:25:08.860 terrorist act
00:25:09.600 here on
00:25:10.280 American soil.
00:25:11.100 The November
00:25:12.280 2025 terrorist
00:25:13.820 shooting of
00:25:14.360 two National
00:25:15.220 Guardsmen
00:25:15.740 in Washington
00:25:16.300 carried out
00:25:17.460 by an
00:25:18.000 Afghani 1.00
00:25:18.660 let into
00:25:19.340 America
00:25:19.780 as part
00:25:20.260 of this
00:25:20.620 supposed
00:25:21.320 humanitarian
00:25:22.280 effort by
00:25:23.380 the Biden
00:25:23.760 regime
00:25:24.080 is proof
00:25:25.140 that these
00:25:25.700 risks are
00:25:26.300 real,
00:25:26.620 and it put
00:25:27.560 the safety
00:25:28.040 of Americans
00:25:28.720 in jeopardy.
00:25:30.060 Intelligence
00:25:30.540 officials have
00:25:31.320 since acknowledged
00:25:32.200 that at least
00:25:32.780 2,000 Afghan
00:25:34.340 nationals in the
00:25:35.060 United States
00:25:35.560 have direct
00:25:36.600 ties to
00:25:37.260 terrorism.
00:25:37.760 Democrats
00:25:38.840 predictably
00:25:40.500 dismissed the
00:25:41.260 hearing framing,
00:25:42.420 argued that the
00:25:43.080 problem lies in
00:25:43.980 counterterrorism
00:25:45.040 enforcement,
00:25:46.000 but not the
00:25:46.560 vetting of those
00:25:47.440 who were allowed
00:25:48.040 to enter the
00:25:48.680 country.
00:25:49.440 They're willing to
00:25:50.080 look the other
00:25:50.560 way because they
00:25:51.480 believe they will
00:25:52.060 get power from
00:25:53.300 the demographic
00:25:54.180 replacement of the
00:25:55.260 American people.
00:25:56.420 That much is
00:25:57.020 clear.
00:25:57.760 It's time to
00:25:58.500 deport all these
00:25:59.620 dangerous illegals 1.00
00:26:00.720 and hostile
00:26:01.720 foreigners and do 0.53
00:26:02.580 so as quickly as
00:26:03.440 possible in the
00:26:04.500 interests of
00:26:05.460 protecting national
00:26:06.740 security.
00:26:08.300 Canada is
00:26:09.700 rolling out the
00:26:10.540 red carpet for
00:26:11.520 Beijing's electric
00:26:13.120 vehicle industry
00:26:14.140 and potentially
00:26:15.460 hurting North
00:26:16.100 America's auto
00:26:17.160 sector in the
00:26:17.840 process.
00:26:18.780 Prime Minister
00:26:19.340 Mark Carney
00:26:20.460 has agreed to
00:26:21.340 slash Canada's 0.96
00:26:22.720 triple-digit
00:26:23.880 tariffs on
00:26:24.580 Chinese electric
00:26:25.560 vehicles,
00:26:26.460 opening the
00:26:27.180 door to a
00:26:27.800 surge of low-cost
00:26:29.160 imports from
00:26:29.860 China.
00:26:30.520 The move is
00:26:31.700 an obvious
00:26:32.600 rebuke of
00:26:33.580 President Donald
00:26:34.300 Trump's
00:26:34.780 America First
00:26:35.700 strategy to
00:26:36.460 rebuild domestic
00:26:37.880 manufacturing,
00:26:39.320 the domestic
00:26:40.060 auto industry,
00:26:41.300 and protect
00:26:41.960 U.S.
00:26:42.440 workers.
00:26:43.020 Under the
00:26:43.780 new Canadian
00:26:44.460 policy, the
00:26:45.640 100% tariffs
00:26:46.880 imposed by
00:26:47.520 former Prime
00:26:48.240 Minister Justin
00:26:49.420 Trudeau will
00:26:50.720 be replaced
00:26:51.400 with just a
00:26:52.280 6.1% rate
00:26:54.320 capped at
00:26:55.120 nearly 49,000
00:26:56.680 Chinese electric
00:26:58.040 vehicles every
00:26:59.180 year.
00:27:00.080 China exported
00:27:01.040 more than
00:27:01.500 41,000 electric
00:27:02.880 vehicles to
00:27:03.580 Canada in
00:27:04.500 2023 alone.
00:27:06.460 Carney, the
00:27:07.600 first Canadian
00:27:08.380 Prime Minister
00:27:09.200 to visit China
00:27:10.540 since 2017,
00:27:11.840 openly plays the
00:27:13.100 Chinese Communist 0.72
00:27:13.820 leadership,
00:27:14.620 lauding President
00:27:15.420 Xi Jinping,
00:27:16.740 signaling a major
00:27:17.680 thaw in
00:27:18.420 Canadian-Chinese
00:27:19.440 relations.
00:27:20.200 To me, it's
00:27:20.760 disgusting that
00:27:21.720 Canada, under
00:27:22.640 its liberal
00:27:23.100 government, would
00:27:24.140 prefer to work
00:27:24.900 with repressive
00:27:25.600 Chinese Communists 0.76
00:27:26.640 instead of
00:27:27.500 partnering with
00:27:28.240 proven North
00:27:29.040 American innovators
00:27:30.180 like Tesla,
00:27:31.100 Rivian, or
00:27:31.800 Lucid, not to
00:27:33.040 mention Detroit's
00:27:33.920 legacy automakers.
00:27:35.200 Prime Minister
00:27:35.920 Carney insists
00:27:36.680 that Chinese 1.00
00:27:37.200 supply chains
00:27:37.920 are essential
00:27:38.500 to building
00:27:39.020 Canada's
00:27:39.760 electric vehicle
00:27:41.480 future.
00:27:42.060 This myopic
00:27:42.880 argument ignores
00:27:44.420 Europe's hard-earned
00:27:45.580 lesson, where
00:27:46.260 markets are
00:27:46.960 flooded with
00:27:47.600 subsidized Chinese
00:27:48.920 products,
00:27:49.700 devastated local
00:27:50.620 manufacturers.
00:27:51.580 Conservative
00:27:52.000 Canadian leaders
00:27:52.940 are outraged
00:27:54.060 by this news,
00:27:54.840 of course.
00:27:55.840 Saskatchewan
00:27:56.540 Premier Scott
00:27:57.620 Moe visibly 0.99
00:27:58.540 bristled after
00:27:59.940 Prime Minister
00:28:00.780 Carney spoke
00:28:01.540 approvingly of
00:28:02.340 the New
00:28:03.120 World Order.
00:28:04.120 That phase, we
00:28:05.200 are sure, is
00:28:05.800 innocuous, but
00:28:06.560 it seems to
00:28:07.040 pop up everywhere
00:28:07.880 for some
00:28:08.660 strange reason.
00:28:09.940 This move
00:28:10.380 shows that
00:28:10.980 Canada is a 0.90
00:28:12.000 hostile nation
00:28:12.960 to America's
00:28:13.600 interests, and
00:28:14.500 after Greenland
00:28:15.200 is acquired,
00:28:16.000 perhaps President
00:28:16.660 Trump can focus
00:28:17.460 on our
00:28:17.920 neighbors to
00:28:18.860 the north.
00:28:19.400 At least two
00:28:20.120 Canadian
00:28:20.740 provinces,
00:28:21.980 Saskatchewan and
00:28:23.220 Alberta, are
00:28:24.280 seriously
00:28:24.800 considering declaring
00:28:26.020 their independence
00:28:26.840 from Canada.
00:28:28.360 Under their
00:28:29.240 constitution, any
00:28:30.500 province, by
00:28:31.500 simple vote of
00:28:32.400 the people, may
00:28:33.520 declare its
00:28:34.200 independence from
00:28:35.300 the Canadian
00:28:35.880 state.
00:28:36.500 That movement is
00:28:37.400 already underway in
00:28:38.760 Saskatchewan, which
00:28:39.800 by the way, is
00:28:41.380 one of the most
00:28:42.500 conservative and
00:28:44.640 smaller provinces of
00:28:46.640 Canada, but it is
00:28:47.820 also the richest when
00:28:48.880 it comes to oil,
00:28:50.660 gas, and rare
00:28:52.040 earth minerals.
00:28:53.280 I have seen the
00:28:54.400 polling, and if the
00:28:55.180 people of Saskatchewan
00:28:56.320 are given a vote,
00:28:57.620 they will vote
00:28:58.320 overwhelmingly to
00:28:59.720 leave Canada.
00:29:00.540 That, of course,
00:29:01.620 would make them
00:29:02.160 eligible to apply
00:29:03.620 to become
00:29:04.280 American states.
00:29:06.680 Could Saskatchewan
00:29:08.100 or the larger
00:29:09.240 but no less
00:29:09.960 conservative Alberta
00:29:11.200 become the 51st
00:29:13.040 and 52nd state?
00:29:14.360 I say it's
00:29:15.440 entirely possible.
00:29:16.780 Meanwhile,
00:29:17.460 Philadelphia's
00:29:18.320 far-left leadership
00:29:19.480 is escalating its
00:29:20.680 open defiance of
00:29:21.860 federal law
00:29:22.740 enforcement.
00:29:23.300 District
00:29:23.560 Attorney Larry
00:29:24.680 Krasner, he was
00:29:25.640 elected with
00:29:26.340 massive financial
00:29:28.520 support from
00:29:29.400 George Soros,
00:29:30.540 stood alongside
00:29:31.400 local officials
00:29:32.380 this week to
00:29:33.160 denounce
00:29:33.840 immigration and
00:29:35.020 customs enforcement,
00:29:36.480 even threatening
00:29:37.200 prosecution of
00:29:38.800 ICE agents simply
00:29:40.100 for doing their
00:29:40.960 jobs.
00:29:41.880 Krasner said,
00:29:43.060 this is ultimately
00:29:43.840 about good versus
00:29:44.920 evil.
00:29:45.620 That's what it is.
00:29:46.460 It's about good
00:29:47.140 versus evil.
00:29:48.280 Renee Nicole Good
00:29:49.560 is just part of
00:29:50.440 that good, and
00:29:51.460 she's up against
00:29:52.240 evil.
00:29:52.920 We will arrest
00:29:53.740 you.
00:29:54.020 We will handcuff
00:29:54.740 you.
00:29:55.180 We will close
00:29:55.880 those cuffs.
00:29:56.600 We will put you
00:29:57.280 in a cell.
00:29:58.100 We will set your
00:29:58.820 bail, and I'm
00:29:59.340 going to ask for it
00:30:00.120 to be appropriately
00:30:00.800 high.
00:30:01.300 We will take you
00:30:02.280 to trial, and I'm
00:30:02.980 going to do
00:30:03.320 everything in my
00:30:03.940 power to convict
00:30:04.680 you.
00:30:05.160 We will make sure
00:30:05.780 that you serve
00:30:06.320 your entire
00:30:06.780 sentence, because
00:30:07.860 Donald Trump,
00:30:08.920 according to the
00:30:09.840 Philly DA, has no
00:30:11.480 power whatsoever to
00:30:12.600 pardon you.
00:30:13.420 That's the way the
00:30:14.460 law works.
00:30:16.080 Krasner is truly a
00:30:17.280 disgrace.
00:30:18.260 Philadelphia Sheriff
00:30:19.260 Rochelle Belal went
00:30:20.500 further vowing to
00:30:21.460 smoke out ICE agents
00:30:23.400 and boasting that her
00:30:24.760 office would arrest and
00:30:25.880 jail them, an 0.97
00:30:26.740 extraordinary threat
00:30:27.740 against federal
00:30:28.520 officers tasked with
00:30:29.900 enforcing U.S.
00:30:30.980 immigration law.
00:30:31.760 The hostility extends
00:30:33.560 beyond the city of
00:30:34.740 Philadelphia.
00:30:35.980 In neighboring Bucks
00:30:36.940 County, Sheriff Danny
00:30:38.180 Seasler announced an
00:30:39.800 end to his county's
00:30:40.840 cooperation with
00:30:42.100 Immigrations and
00:30:42.880 Customs Enforcement.
00:30:44.120 So I think it's
00:30:44.820 abundantly clear that
00:30:46.160 Democrats are doubling
00:30:47.320 down against the rule
00:30:48.940 of law, hoping they can
00:30:50.480 turn ICE agents into the
00:30:51.900 bad guys for carrying out
00:30:53.740 President Trump's mandate
00:30:54.960 for mass deportations of
00:30:57.100 illegal immigrant
00:30:58.040 criminals.
00:30:59.180 This is nothing less
00:31:00.640 than a war for the soul
00:31:02.060 of our country, and we
00:31:03.480 must win.
00:31:04.440 We cannot lose our
00:31:05.420 resolve in this battle.
00:31:06.860 We must stand with the
00:31:07.920 men and women of ICE
00:31:09.060 fully and refuse to
00:31:10.380 waver during these
00:31:11.520 tumultuous and difficult
00:31:12.940 times.
00:31:14.360 Meanwhile, federal
00:31:15.240 prosecutors are cracking
00:31:16.320 down on a massive
00:31:17.500 Medicare fraud scheme
00:31:18.700 operating out of
00:31:19.760 Brooklyn, New York,
00:31:20.680 that has siphoned tens
00:31:22.000 of millions of dollars
00:31:22.920 from taxpayers.
00:31:23.740 And two more defendants
00:31:25.260 have now admitted to
00:31:26.320 their role in the scam.
00:31:28.680 Manal Wassef and
00:31:30.120 Elaine Antano, both 46,
00:31:33.260 pleaded guilty in
00:31:34.060 federal court to
00:31:35.260 conspiring to commit
00:31:36.640 health care fraud in a
00:31:38.380 scheme that allegedly
00:31:39.340 generated more than
00:31:40.520 $68 million in bogus
00:31:43.680 Medicare billings.
00:31:45.160 According to the U.S.
00:31:46.340 Department of Justice,
00:31:47.660 this pair acted as
00:31:48.880 large-scale recruiters
00:31:50.520 steering Medicaid
00:31:52.020 recipients to specific
00:31:53.420 adult care centers and
00:31:55.100 home health providers in
00:31:56.280 exchange for illegal
00:31:57.680 kickbacks, bribes, and
00:31:59.900 laundered cash.
00:32:01.160 Assistant Attorney General
00:32:02.600 A. Tyson Duva said that
00:32:04.900 the defendants bribed
00:32:06.080 patients with billed
00:32:07.500 Medicare for services that
00:32:08.780 were never actually
00:32:09.780 provided, using our federal
00:32:11.680 tax dollars as their own
00:32:13.700 personal piggyback.
00:32:15.380 Prosecutors say the fraud
00:32:16.920 spanned nearly seven years,
00:32:18.420 involved shell companies
00:32:19.980 used to watch the illicit
00:32:21.960 proceeds.
00:32:22.900 U.S. Attorney Joseph
00:32:24.040 Nocella Jr. said the case
00:32:26.080 reflects a broader crackdown
00:32:27.640 on schemes that funnel
00:32:29.160 patients for profit while
00:32:31.240 draining public resources.
00:32:33.140 Investigators tied the fraud
00:32:34.620 to multiple adult daycare
00:32:36.400 centers and a home health
00:32:38.520 intermediary, with payments
00:32:40.400 allegedly being made directly
00:32:41.780 to patients to justify false
00:32:44.380 claims.
00:32:44.820 So, you see, it's not just
00:32:46.780 in Minnesota.
00:32:48.200 And before it's over, this
00:32:49.320 scandal will boil over into
00:32:51.480 Michigan, into Ohio, into
00:32:54.040 Washington State, into Oregon,
00:32:56.280 into California, and yes, my
00:32:57.920 friends, into the Empire State
00:33:00.100 of New York.
00:33:01.000 I'm Roger Stone.
00:33:02.100 You're listening to The Stone
00:33:03.000 Zone.
00:33:03.300 Whatever you do, don't touch that
00:33:05.020 dial because we'll be right
00:33:06.920 back.
00:33:07.180 The Stone Zone.
00:33:12.740 Entertaining and informative.
00:33:14.900 On the Red Apple Podcast
00:33:16.400 Network.
00:33:17.900 Welcome back into The Stone
00:33:20.080 Zone.
00:33:20.880 President Donald Trump is
00:33:22.060 advancing on the most serious
00:33:23.620 and structured peace effort
00:33:25.000 Gaza has seen in decades.
00:33:27.120 On January 14th, presidential
00:33:29.120 peace envoy Steve Witkoff
00:33:31.100 announced the launch of Phase
00:33:32.940 Two of President Trump's Gaza
00:33:34.360 peace plan, moving from a
00:33:36.200 ceasefire into a full
00:33:37.720 demilitarization and
00:33:39.500 reconstruction.
00:33:40.700 According to Witkoff, the
00:33:41.820 second phase will dismantle
00:33:43.440 Hamas's military capabilities 0.78
00:33:45.560 and replace terrorist control
00:33:47.700 with a transitional non-parson
00:33:49.740 authority known as the
00:33:51.800 National Committee for the
00:33:53.080 Administration of Gaza.
00:33:54.860 The goal of this committee is
00:33:56.400 to remove weapons, restore
00:33:58.080 order, and begin rebuilding a
00:34:00.320 territory devastating by years
00:34:02.120 of conflict and Hamas
00:34:03.820 terrorism.
00:34:04.320 Trump has referred to the
00:34:05.960 interim governed body as the
00:34:07.640 Board of Peace and made it
00:34:09.560 clear that terrorism will no
00:34:11.000 longer be tolerated as a 0.53
00:34:12.560 governing model.
00:34:14.080 President Trump's 20-point
00:34:15.420 plan offers conditional
00:34:16.700 amnesty and safe passage for
00:34:19.040 Hamas members who surrender
00:34:21.000 their weapons, giving incentives
00:34:23.600 for a lasting peace.
00:34:25.260 The first phase of the agreement
00:34:26.440 focused on hostage recovery.
00:34:29.060 Hamas has now returned the remains
00:34:30.720 of 27 or 28 deceased Israeli
00:34:33.960 hostages.
00:34:35.180 We pray for them.
00:34:36.660 Witkoff issued a firm warning
00:34:38.340 that failure to return the final
00:34:40.020 hostage will result in serious
00:34:42.180 consequences, underscoring this
00:34:43.980 administration enforcing red lines
00:34:46.540 and will not accept deviation from
00:34:48.680 the agreed-upon plan with Hamas.
00:34:51.160 The United States Development Program
00:34:53.020 has estimated Gaza's damage at
00:34:55.080 roughly $70 billion.
00:34:57.060 cost borne because of Hamas terrorist
00:35:00.180 aggression against Israel.
00:35:02.440 The initiation of President Trump's
00:35:03.940 phase two sends a very clear
00:35:05.880 message.
00:35:06.760 There will be no reconstruction
00:35:08.020 without disarmament and no peace
00:35:10.400 without accountability.
00:35:13.000 Meanwhile, as Democrats head into
00:35:14.880 the 2026 elections, their carefully
00:35:16.740 crafted plan to reclaim suburban
00:35:19.180 voters with the buzzword
00:35:21.020 affordability is backfiring on them due
00:35:23.700 to President Trump's success on
00:35:25.300 immigration enforcement.
00:35:27.200 Under Trump, aggressment,
00:35:28.480 deportations, and tighter border
00:35:30.240 controls have sharply reduced the
00:35:32.560 number of illegal immigrants entering
00:35:34.100 the country, relieving the housing
00:35:36.160 pressure that exploded during the
00:35:37.720 open border years of sleepy Joe Biden.
00:35:40.520 According to economists at the
00:35:42.060 Brookings Institution, more immigrants 0.97
00:35:44.560 left the United States than entered
00:35:46.120 last year.
00:35:47.240 The first time that that has happened
00:35:48.820 actually in five decades.
00:35:51.720 The effects are already showing up in
00:35:53.700 real terms to help the American people.
00:35:55.820 In cities like San Antonio, for example,
00:35:58.460 developers who built expecting a wave
00:36:00.480 of migrant renters are now cutting
00:36:02.380 prices to fill vacant units.
00:36:04.680 In Lancaster, Pennsylvania, once dubbed the
00:36:07.540 refugee capital of America, landlords are
00:36:09.780 advertising months of free rent as demand
00:36:12.600 evaporates.
00:36:13.500 And mortgage rates have hit an all-time low.
00:36:18.000 This is simple supply and demand,
00:36:20.040 economics 101.
00:36:21.180 When fewer people compete for housing, rents
00:36:23.740 fall.
00:36:24.480 And that's exactly what happened after years
00:36:27.000 of record high prices that outpaced wages
00:36:30.960 under sleepy Joe Biden.
00:36:33.460 The Trump administration is now correctly
00:36:35.340 framing border enforcement as an economic
00:36:38.020 issue, not just a public safety issue.
00:36:41.220 Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who to my
00:36:43.960 mind is one of the president's very best
00:36:45.660 appointments, recently said the connection
00:36:47.940 between mass illegal immigration and skyrocketing
00:36:51.360 rents is as clear as day.
00:36:54.040 Add in falling rents, rising wages, and tax
00:36:56.760 relief to Trump's broader economic agenda.
00:36:59.740 The Republicans have flipped the script.
00:37:01.880 This is a winning message to Republicans in
00:37:04.100 2026's midterms, in my opinion.
00:37:07.000 President Trump's immigration policies have
00:37:08.860 worked.
00:37:09.500 The administration is putting America first,
00:37:11.720 and wages and prices, wages are rising while
00:37:16.620 prices are falling.
00:37:17.780 Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone,
00:37:20.640 where five days a week we talk politics, news,
00:37:24.680 history, and style.
00:37:26.660 The 2026 election is not something that I can see.
00:37:31.100 Those pundits who insist Republicans will lose the
00:37:34.400 House don't understand how the largest tax cut in
00:37:37.940 American history, the regulatory cuts, and the
00:37:41.120 coming cut in interest rates, once we get a
00:37:43.920 depoliticized Federal Reserve Board, could cause
00:37:47.580 the greatest single economic boom in American
00:37:50.700 history.
00:37:51.420 And to my mind, that is the backdrop for a
00:37:54.620 successful 2026 election.
00:37:57.120 I'm Roger Stone.
00:37:58.040 Thanks for joining us on the Stone Zone.
00:37:59.940 Until we meet again, God bless you, and Godspeed.
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00:38:07.180 Stone.
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00:38:35.140 to wonder.
00:38:35.800 What the heck is going on here?
00:38:38.020 Every week, the Payne family cuts straight to the real
00:38:41.060 financial story.
00:38:42.340 The one question, Bob, everyone's asking is, are we in an
00:38:46.140 artificial intelligence bubble?
00:38:48.020 You've been through boom and busts.
00:38:50.000 What do you think?
00:38:50.760 No hype, no myths.
00:38:52.980 Just what actually matters to your money.
00:38:55.380 Does feel very similar to what we experienced in the 90s.
00:38:58.860 Where are we, though?
00:38:59.500 Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?
00:39:03.220 Listen to the Payne Points of Wealth on the Red Apple Podcast
00:39:06.720 Network.