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00:00:04.460 The one question, Bob, everyone's asking is, are we in an artificial intelligence bubble?

00:00:10.080 You've been through boom and busts. What do you think?

00:00:12.860 No hype, no myths, just what actually matters to your money.

00:00:17.440 Does feel very similar to what we experienced in the 90s. Where are we,

00:00:21.460 though? Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?

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00:00:52.060 You are now entering the Stone Zone, where you can always get the inside skinny

00:00:57.680 on American politics.

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.

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00:33:05.020 dial because we'll be right

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00:33:12.740 Entertaining and informative.

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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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00:38:35.140 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?

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