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00:00:30.000 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:00:40.760 People love him and respect him. Roger Stone.

00:00:43.540 Now, get him a zone. It's The Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone.

00:00:50.020 We're jumping right into The Stone Zone.

00:00:53.040 Now, it's amazing to me that after 62 years, we're still not exactly certain

00:00:59.020 who murdered President John Fitzgerald Kennedy on November 22, 1963, and why.

00:01:07.820 Despite the fact that when he became president, Donald Trump issued an executive order

00:01:12.420 to the National Archives to release all of the classified documents in their possession

00:01:18.140 pertaining to the assassination of John F. Kennedy,

00:01:21.840 the assassination of his brother, then-New York Senator Robert F. Kennedy Sr.,

00:01:28.000 father of the current secretary of HHS, and Dr. Martin Luther King.

00:01:34.200 There's reason to believe in all of those cases that the American people haven't been told the entire truth.

00:01:40.520 The Warren Commission, the commission appointed to cover up the murder of JFK,

00:01:45.680 has been demolished by critics over the years.

00:01:49.520 But Anna Polina Luna, the crusading congresswoman from Florida, 1.00

00:01:53.540 who chairs the House Oversight Committee,

00:01:56.280 examining all of these documents that President Trump declassified

00:02:02.940 and calling key witnesses,

00:02:05.900 exposed something the CIA has been hiding for decades,

00:02:10.280 and that is the files of one George Joannides.

00:02:14.040 Joannides was essentially acting as a tracker, if not the handler, of Lee Harvey Oswald,

00:02:20.960 who the Central Intelligence Agency has long denied having knowledge of in November 22, 1963.

00:02:30.020 In fact, Oswald went to a CIA language school in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,

00:02:36.000 which is where he spoke Russian.

00:02:37.640 We also know, in one of the earlier document dumps ordered by President Trump,

00:02:43.500 that they withheld his tax records because, well, there was a 1099 for Lee Harvey Oswald from the FBI,

00:02:51.880 where he also worked as an informant.

00:02:55.500 So it's amazing in every one of these cases, the case of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

00:03:01.180 once again, Sirhan Sirhan, the man convicted of his murder,

00:03:04.980 is always in front of Kennedy.

00:03:07.640 He gets off, depending on what you believe, a lot of this information is redacted in the public records,

00:03:13.780 but six or eight shots, I think it is six, all six are accounted for,

00:03:18.720 none of them Senator Robert Kennedy,

00:03:21.460 and the longtime Los Angeles coroner, who is very renowned,

00:03:29.520 insisted in the autopsy that Robert F. Kennedy was shot at point-blank range in his left rear of his skull,

00:03:38.060 which would indicate that Sirhan Sirhan could not have been the killer.

00:03:42.200 In the case of Dr. Martin Luther King, James Earl Ray confessed, later recanted that confession.

00:03:49.840 The King family brought a civil action suing the federal government, the FBI, the Secret Service,

00:03:58.160 the Memphis police in civil court in a long trial in which they charged that the federal government had been involved in King's murder,

00:04:07.560 and they won that case.

00:04:09.580 So the upcoming hearings that Chairwoman Luna will run,

00:04:16.980 continuing on JFK, but now drilling in on RFK, and then Dr. King,

00:04:23.380 as long as the Republicans remain in the majority,

00:04:26.480 we will learn more and more.

00:04:29.040 If the Democrats won the House, all of these investigations and all of these hearings would end

00:04:34.760 because they would come back and try to reinforce the deep state narrative about these decisions.

00:04:41.460 But now, as I have long predicted,

00:04:43.920 a long-lost home movie from the actual day that President Kennedy was shot

00:04:48.720 could finally force the federal government to answer decades of unanswered questions.

00:04:53.840 Many people are familiar with the Zapruder film,

00:04:57.200 which purports to show that Kennedy was shot three times from the back,

00:05:03.560 but I got Arlen Specter, who was the chief investigator for the Warren Commission,

00:05:08.500 later the U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania,

00:05:10.800 to admit, when I showed him, that frames had been removed from that film.

00:05:16.020 Zapruder was a citizen.

00:05:18.840 His camera was immediately seized, first by the Dallas police,

00:05:21.940 and then by the FBI.

00:05:24.060 They sent the film to Rochester, New York, for quote-unquote processing for some reason,

00:05:29.860 and it came back with missing frames.

00:05:33.420 But it is interesting that Dan Rather insisted,

00:05:37.080 he was the last journalist to see this video,

00:05:40.840 before Time Life bought it from the federal government

00:05:43.340 and locked up access to it for over 50 years.

00:05:47.520 But Dan Rather insisted that in the video he saw,

00:05:51.580 Jack Kennedy's head snapped forward, sharply forward,

00:05:55.420 as if being hit from behind.

00:06:00.000 And of course, now that we've seen the actual film,

00:06:03.480 thanks to Oliver Stone and others,

00:06:06.020 and Napolina Luna among them, 0.96

00:06:07.500 we see that Kennedy's actually head snaps back and to the left,

00:06:13.600 back and to the left.

00:06:15.840 This second film now could answer the question of multiple shooters.

00:06:20.280 I think it's abundantly clear,

00:06:22.180 based on the recent documentary by Paramount,

00:06:26.600 what the Parkland doctors saw.

00:06:30.340 It's apparent that Kennedy was shot from both the front and the back,

00:06:35.060 but this new film could really shed huge light on it.

00:06:38.700 A federal judge just ruled a lawsuit

00:06:41.000 over the missing 8mm film shot by a Dallas resident by the name of Orville Nix

00:06:48.940 can move forward.

00:06:50.620 Nix was an air conditioning repairman

00:06:52.560 who just happened to be filming that day,

00:06:55.020 but from an angle opposite of Zap Rudder,

00:06:58.260 so from the other side.

00:07:00.340 Many believe that this footage would challenge

00:07:03.660 the long-time lone gunman narrative.

00:07:06.020 See, unlike Zap Rudder's film,

00:07:07.900 Nix's camera was pointed directly at the grassy knoll,

00:07:11.340 where numerous witnesses said shots may have originated on that day.

00:07:16.580 I certainly say that in my book,

00:07:18.400 The Man Who Killed Kennedy, The Case Against LBJ.

00:07:22.640 This film has not been seen since 1978

00:07:26.260 when it was sent for analysis

00:07:28.640 to the House Select Committee on Assassinations

00:07:33.340 and promptly disappears.

00:07:35.920 Now the government claims they don't know where the original copy is.

00:07:39.700 So, Nix's granddaughter has sued the government,

00:07:43.420 arguing the film was effectively seized without compensation,

00:07:47.680 violating the Fifth Amendment being an illegal taking,

00:07:50.580 and demanding transparency about how the government handled this critical assassination evidence.

00:07:56.940 Now, legal experts have told me that modern optics and AI technology today

00:08:03.500 could extract details from the original film

00:08:06.740 that were impossible to analyze decades ago.

00:08:09.540 This potentially reinforces the conclusions of that 78 House Select Committee on Assassinations

00:08:20.820 that Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy.

00:08:26.520 Talk about a non-starter.

00:08:28.620 The House Select Committee, first of all,

00:08:30.600 was staffed with people who were experts on organized crime.

00:08:34.020 Secondarily, the CIA stonewalled that investigation,

00:08:37.380 refusing to provide any documents or a testimony from any CIA officials,

00:08:43.380 basically playing rope-a-dope with their subpoenas.

00:08:49.080 Over the years, I've talked about the Nix film

00:08:52.060 because it reportedly passed through the hands of the FBI, Congress,

00:08:56.540 various media organizations, federal contractors,

00:08:59.480 before disappearing into the National Archives' bureaucratic maze,

00:09:03.580 where the government now says they don't know where it is.

00:09:06.600 So how did all of these other entities get pieces of it?

00:09:10.260 You see, we need to see the entire film.

00:09:13.040 And the entire film is not available anyplace but, well,

00:09:16.020 wherever the government put it or lost it.

00:09:18.400 Families say the case isn't about money.

00:09:20.900 It's not money they want.

00:09:22.420 It's accountability and uncovering what else the government may have misplaced,

00:09:26.600 including the autopsy materials and internal police recordings.

00:09:30.540 This has always been one of the fascinations.

00:09:33.380 The Warren Commission was never shown the actual x-rays or the x-ray photos of JFK.

00:09:41.260 They were shown an artist's rendering of them.

00:09:47.480 Now, when I raised this point in a debate with a colleague of mine,

00:09:54.600 he said that was at the request of a Kennedy family.

00:09:57.600 But where are those documents today?

00:10:01.160 Have they gone missing?

00:10:02.800 Are they classified?

00:10:04.820 They were withheld from the Warren Commission, I think,

00:10:08.160 to prop up the false narrative of the single-bullet theory.

00:10:12.180 This film, I think, could put to bed the fact that that theory was essentially designed

00:10:20.140 to support the idea of no conspiracy.

00:10:23.140 In other words, if Kennedy was shot from the front and the back,

00:10:27.300 well, then that would be a conspiracy,

00:10:28.920 which means Lee Harvey Oswald was not a lone nut acting alone.

00:10:33.900 Pinning the blame on Oswald is really pretty laughable on a number of fronts.

00:10:38.420 First of all, Oswald is seen, after allegedly shooting from the six-story window

00:10:45.900 of the Texas School Book Depository building,

00:10:48.420 he is seen casually eating an apple and drinking a Coke at the end of his lunch

00:10:52.600 in the second-floor cafeteria by a Dallas police officer.

00:10:58.520 So in order for Oswald to have been the shooter, as the government wants us to believe,

00:11:02.540 he would have had to get off three perfect shots, which no marksman in the U.S. military

00:11:09.020 has been able to duplicate in the required time sequence,

00:11:12.980 because you see a Dallas motorcycle police officer accidentally left his microphone on,

00:11:18.820 so we have the exact time sequence of the shots,

00:11:22.380 and hid the rifle, run down, at this point, four flights of stairs

00:11:28.680 without being seen or heard.

00:11:31.540 A woman named Victoria Adams was on the wooden staircase between those floors at that exact time. 0.88

00:11:39.360 She neither saw nor heard Lee Harvey Oswald.

00:11:44.320 Yet another reason why Oswald could not possibly be the shooter.

00:11:48.660 Oswald also has no powder burns, no nitrate burns on his hands or his arms and his face,

00:11:55.020 yet they tell us that he fired a leaky Carcano rifle that day,

00:12:00.620 a $26 World War II vintage, very cheap weapon that he theoretically bought through the mail

00:12:10.680 under an alias when in Texas in 1963 you could walk into any pawn shop or any gun shop

00:12:18.180 and buy that cheap a weapon.

00:12:20.880 None of this has ever added up.

00:12:23.480 I still think that what we're looking at here in 1963 is the beginning of the control

00:12:31.080 of the military-industrial complex, as Dwight Eisenhower called them, or the deep state.

00:12:36.480 It's with the murder of Kennedy that this unelected elite,

00:12:41.580 the people deep in the bowels of government who are permanent,

00:12:46.660 the appointees, those in the think tanks,

00:12:49.440 those in the defense contracting companies, those in our military,

00:12:54.640 deep within the bureaucracy of our foreign policy apparatus.

00:12:59.040 That is the deep state.

00:13:01.580 They killed Kennedy.

00:13:03.260 They removed Nixon in a nonviolent coup.

00:13:07.160 They tried to assassinate Ronald Reagan and they failed.

00:13:10.560 And then, of course, they first tried to break Donald Trump financially.

00:13:14.780 They tried to keep him off the ballot in all 50 states.

00:13:18.440 They tried to impoverish him.

00:13:20.860 They tried to send him to prison.

00:13:23.340 And they failed.

00:13:24.380 He scored the greatest political comeback in American history.

00:13:28.000 And now the American economy is coming back.

00:13:30.480 Inflation is down.

00:13:31.860 Food prices are down.

00:13:33.260 Gas prices are way down.

00:13:34.660 Once we get an honest Federal Reserve, a nonpolitical Federal Reserve,

00:13:39.480 unlike the politicized Federal Reserve run by Jerome Tule-Powell,

00:13:45.000 now replaced by Kevin Warsh, who is pro-growth and, I think, pro-interest rate cut.

00:13:50.920 You see, the interest rates are supposed to be based on the unemployment rate and the inflation rate.

00:13:56.240 Both are lower today than the last time the Fed went for a deep cut when they tried to rescue the political career of one Joe Biden and failed.

00:14:07.760 He bounced out of the race anyway.

00:14:09.960 So once we get that interest rate cut, which is coming, the housing market will really take off.

00:14:16.080 The director of federal housing and finance, Bill Pulte, an innovative guy doing more and more to make housing affordable and more available in America,

00:14:26.580 working in tandem with Secretary Scott Besson, who I think is among the greatest secretaries of the Treasury.

00:14:35.780 I compared him once to Alexander Hamilton, and then people said that was a criticism.

00:14:39.660 So I think he's as great as Bill Simon, and Bill Simon was a great growth advocate who opposed Nixon's move to close the gold window

00:14:48.500 and opposed Nixon's decision for wage and price controls within the debates in the Nixon cabinet.

00:14:56.660 That's how great Scott Besson is.

00:14:58.440 We'll be right back.

00:15:02.960 So with Roger Stone.

00:15:05.120 That is a great, great person, Roger Stone.

00:15:08.200 The Stone Zone.

00:15:20.660 Every week, the Payne family cuts straight to the real financial story.

00:15:25.040 The one question, Bob, everyone's asking is, are we in an artificial intelligence bubble?

00:15:30.880 You've been through boom and bust.

00:15:32.800 What do you think?

00:15:33.680 No hype, no myths.

00:15:35.860 Just what actually matters to your money.

00:15:38.200 It does feel very similar to what we experienced in the 90s.

00:15:41.740 Where are we, though?

00:15:42.420 Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?

00:15:46.100 Listen to the Payne Points of Wealth on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:15:50.060 This is the Stone Zone.

00:16:03.760 Now, get him a zone.

00:16:05.680 It's the Stone Zone.

00:16:07.200 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.

00:16:14.600 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.

00:16:17.220 Roger Stone.

00:16:18.260 Where's Roger Stone?

00:16:19.600 Here's Roger Stone.

00:16:21.060 There's a new focus on the 2020 election.

00:16:25.520 President Trump has long held that the numbers don't add up.

00:16:29.220 And for anybody who's interested, we now know that 205,000 more votes were counted in Pennsylvania than our registered two-vote.

00:16:38.500 Over 1.5 million fraudulent votes were counted, and that spread is less than 82,000 votes.

00:16:45.860 Those fraudulent votes came from dead voters' ballots that were received before they were supposedly mailed out.

00:16:51.340 There were over 330,000 electronic spikes from the voting machine.

00:16:56.500 That's a giant jump in the votes for Joe Biden.

00:16:59.940 682,000 ballots that were illegally processed without any oversight whatsoever.

00:17:06.380 And more than 1.5 million votes in Pennsylvania, apparently what it took for Joe Biden to steal that state.

00:17:12.040 In Georgia, 66,240 underage voters voted in Georgia.

00:17:17.860 10,315 dead people voted.

00:17:21.440 2,500 convicted felons voted.

00:17:24.600 Nearly 200,000 votes were fraudulently inserted into the vote count date simultaneously.

00:17:30.520 There's a computer record to prove that.

00:17:32.700 4,500 votes came from unregistered voters.

00:17:36.660 And, of course, Fulton County Election Board officials admitted, pardon me, as, yes, the Fulton County Election Board officials admitted to the Georgia State Election Board,

00:17:48.600 some 315,000 votes were counted without signatures or ID numbers connected to the voter tape.

00:17:59.020 Donald Trump lost the state by 11,000-some-odd votes.

00:18:03.340 So, you see why Tulsi Gabbard is on the scene in Fulton County.

00:18:09.660 She's also investigating the security and manipulability of these electronic voting machines.

00:18:16.380 Because, just like with the Russian collusion hoax, the truth was hidden from us for so long.

00:18:21.720 But now Donald Trump, I think, is on the trail of the truth.

00:18:25.320 The big media, they want to dismiss this.

00:18:27.940 Nothing to see here.

00:18:28.980 Keep moving.

00:18:29.900 And they keep telling the lie.

00:18:31.040 Trump brought 60 lawsuits and he lost them all.

00:18:33.780 No.

00:18:34.320 Trump brought 60 lawsuits and not one of them was heard.

00:18:37.680 They were all dismissed on a technicality, usually standing.

00:18:41.940 So, we're going to get to the bottom of what happened in 2020.

00:18:46.040 I'm Roger Stone, and we'll be right back.

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00:19:18.240 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:19:28.800 Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.

00:19:32.740 Roger Stone was persecuted.

00:19:33.940 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.

00:19:37.020 Now, give him a zone.

00:19:38.840 It's the Stone Zone.

00:19:40.900 Here's Roger Stone.

00:19:42.420 You know, Stephen Colbert, to me, used to be funny before he went to CBS.

00:19:50.220 And I understand he was a parody of what they thought a right-winger would be like.

00:19:56.800 But he became one of the most caustic, belligerent, and extreme left-wing voices after moving to CBS.

00:20:02.980 Yes, the man is not without talent.

00:20:04.940 His online dancing and singing to Daft Punk's Get Lucky is one of the best pieces of television I've ever seen.

00:20:15.120 But now, after appearing on NBC's late-night show with Seth Meyers, another guy who's no longer funny,

00:20:23.100 Colbert confirmed that The Late Show with Stephen Colbert will air its final episode on May 21st of 2026,

00:20:30.480 after CBS declined to renew the program, citing what the network called a financial decision.

00:20:37.320 That means Colbert's show was declining in ratings and was costing the network tens of millions of dollars.

00:20:43.840 Colbert admitted the cancellation is finally sinking in, go woke, go broke, saying now it feels real.

00:20:51.400 He also joked that his dream final guest would be the Pope,

00:20:55.080 which is not likely, considering Pope Leo is taking the Catholic Church in a more conservative direction than his predecessor,

00:21:02.480 although he, too, is not perfect.

00:21:04.380 During the interview with Colbert, Myers read rumors that Colbert might run for office.

00:21:10.000 That means it was a planted question between friends, possibly even for president.

00:21:14.660 Now, Pat Paulson, who was, like Colbert, a comedian, ran for president as kind of a spoof, which made him a national figure,

00:21:23.680 and he actually was getting a decent percentage in the polls, although it was really just a comedy act,

00:21:30.600 and Colbert may be getting a second 15 minutes.

00:21:34.900 It's kind of like Don Lemon, and I hate to say this, but in a way, Don Lemon, while he's being prosecuted for federal crime,

00:21:42.740 his name is back in the news, and he's irrelevant again when he had to break the law in order to achieve irrelevancy.

00:21:51.400 So Colbert could be considering kind of a spoof run for president.

00:21:57.260 Instead, he also said he'd consider serving the American people in a way greater than late-night television,

00:22:04.400 pending conversations with family and faith leaders.

00:22:07.660 That's pretty laughable because this guy has never evidenced any reverence for God.

00:22:13.560 So after years of lecturing us from behind a desk, mocking voters, calling me a Russian spy multiple times,

00:22:20.800 mocking my manner of dress, which I admit is distinctive, attacking President Trump, and carrying water for Democrats,

00:22:29.420 Colbert could actually be eyeing not a joke run for president, but a serious run for public office.

00:22:36.880 Maybe he's hoping to follow in the footsteps of Al Franken, the former Minnesota senator who got his start as a left-wing humorist

00:22:44.480 before he made the jump into politics.

00:22:46.960 Franken, of course, was disgraced and forced to resign after an image of him accosting a woman resurfaced during the height of the Me Too era.

00:22:56.660 The supporters of Franken have long blamed me for that because I heard that such a photo existed from a producer in Fox, at Fox,

00:23:08.780 and I tweeted about it, but that doesn't mean I worked for months with the woman to coach her in a set-up of the former Minnesota senator who was driven from the Senate.

00:23:20.960 Anyway, Colbert would be an embarrassment should he choose to run, but if he picks the right district, unfortunately, he could actually win, and that's a scary thought.

00:23:32.200 On the other hand, the Democrat Party has no strong candidate for president.

00:23:37.520 Kamala Harris wisely decided not to run for governor of California.

00:23:42.280 That preserves her option.

00:23:43.760 She's still the best-known Democrat in the party, and she just spent, overspent, hundreds of millions of dollars running for president. 1.00

00:23:51.760 You have AOC, who could most certainly have the low-money Act Blue-generated base to raise tens of millions of dollars for a bid.

00:24:05.060 You have another Californian, Gavin Newsom, he of the great hair, who they wouldn't let speak in Davos.

00:24:12.900 I'm not sure why he went, but he's trying to reinvent himself as both Donald Trump's harshest critic and a guy doing a good job while his state is a basket case.

00:24:24.700 While millions of dollars of fraud and corruption is crashing around his knees, this was predicted to me, by the way.

00:24:33.200 An old colleague of mine, Lou Barnett, longtime Republican operative and activist, was actually treasurer of the Young Republican National Federation from 77 to 79 when I was national chairman, told me months ago that the level of corruption and just outright theft, millions of dollars disappearing, housing money and so on, this has turned out to be extraordinarily accurate. 0.51

00:25:01.340 So I guess if Gavin Newsom runs for president, his slogan would kind of be like Mike Dukakis' slogan.

00:25:09.540 Remember, he said he'll do for America what he did for Massachusetts, which was a basket case.

00:25:17.180 Between taxes, crime, and environmental problems, homelessness, and drug addiction, California is the world's largest outdoor toilet,

00:25:29.400 which is sad given the great natural beauty and perfect climate of state.

00:25:35.100 I used to go there every summer.

00:25:36.980 My wife and I would spend two weeks in Northern California, usually in La Jolla at the beach, and two weeks in Southern California, usually Los Angeles.

00:25:49.280 I always loved the Four Seasons on Doheny.

00:25:52.280 It was a great, great hotel.

00:25:54.000 And there's a lot of used bookstores there that I would scour in the summer times.

00:26:01.200 But now I wouldn't go back there on vacation.

00:26:04.020 It's extraordinary what's happened to the Sunshine State.

00:26:07.020 Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was a lifetime Reagan Republican, very close to Ronald and Nancy Reagan, a solid conservative,

00:26:13.720 after he became governor, of course, he lurched far to the left.

00:26:17.580 He retained most of the people around Gray Davis, his extraordinarily unpopular predecessor.

00:26:24.200 And it appears that his then wife, Maria Shriver, was actually governor, driving the state further and further to the left.

00:26:33.360 Ultimately, in order to be accepted in Hollywood society, Arnold Schwarzenegger would go hard left,

00:26:39.120 becoming an outspoken advocate for mandatory vaccinations.

00:26:43.560 This is a guy who said that he believed in freedom.

00:26:48.120 Meanwhile, speaking of Hollywood, Hollywood elitists and the entertainment media are forced to eat crow after First Lady Melania Trump's documentary,

00:26:57.260 Melania, shattered all box office expectations during its opening weekend, hauling in an impressive $7 million across the United States and Canada.

00:27:07.680 That makes it the strongest theatrical documentary debut since 2012 and one of the biggest surprise hits of the year.

00:27:15.940 The project left entertainment insiders openly stunned.

00:27:19.900 Pre-release projections had pegged the film at somewhere between $3 and $5 million,

00:27:24.940 and critics rushed to dismiss it preemptively due to their political bias.

00:27:29.500 Rotten Tomatoes' professional reviewers, of course, left-wingers, slammed the documentary, handing it a miserable 10 score.

00:27:37.140 But the fact that it racked up $7 million in sales shows that the American people feel quite differently about it.

00:27:43.680 Audience obviously told a very different story.

00:27:46.320 Viewer approval zoared to 99% on Rotten Tomatoes with an A rating from CinemaScope exit polls and five-star reviews from Post Track.

00:27:57.860 So all of the other media analysts played it straight.

00:28:01.080 Analysts noted that anything over $1 million for any documentary today is considered a major success.

00:28:07.960 Melania cleared that bar several times over. 1.00

00:28:10.940 Even Get Me, Roger Stone, put out there by Netflix, has grossed them, I believe, somewhere close to $12.5 million over time.

00:28:21.680 The film, Melania, ranked third overall at the box office for the weekend, outperforming most of the other major studio releases.

00:28:30.460 Nearly half of the ticket sales came from rural theaters.

00:28:33.380 This is interesting.

00:28:34.680 An unusually high share with Republican-leading counties, according for a majority of the attendees.

00:28:40.280 See, the American people love Melania.

00:28:42.980 Melania, I've known Melania since she was dating then-bachelor, single Donald J. Trump. 0.76

00:28:50.420 He was living in Trump Tower.

00:28:52.600 I had many dinners with her.

00:28:55.160 She and I traveled together during President Trump's, then Donald Trump's, exploratory tour, looking at a potential presidential bid in 2000.

00:29:06.400 And I'm happy to say that my wife and I were at the Bethesda at the Sea Church in Palm Beach when Donald and Melania were married.

00:29:20.540 It was an amazing day because I remember that Chris Matthews and his wife today, a man who viciously attacks Donald Trump, were in the same pew at the church as I was.

00:29:33.000 It is outrageous that Melania Trump, who is a woman of culture and grace and discretion, highly educated, speaks five languages, is a terrific and, I think, appropriately protective mother, and the president's, without any question, the president's closest advisor.

00:29:56.840 There's no one who has more quiet influence, the president respects her, as he should.

00:30:04.600 But the documentary is knocking him dead in places like Florida, Texas, and Arizona, but more women than men are attending, which is also interesting.

00:30:13.780 There's been a lack of Melania-related media content, despite the fact she's the most glamorous first lady in history, certainly since Jackie O. 0.71

00:30:25.240 She hasn't gone and done a podcast like Michelle Obama.

00:30:29.260 Michelle Obama's podcast is a mystery to me.

00:30:31.460 How do people with this many millions of followers on X and every other social media platform get so few views for their racist and vicious podcast?

00:30:45.300 It makes me wonder whether the entire Obama phenomena was largely astroturf, because the bloom is off that rose.

00:30:55.080 You can see it in the off-year elections, the campaigning, even today, the statements of Barack Obama, who, by the way, deported 2.6 million people from the United States during his presidency, without anyone complaining about ICE or the entire process.

00:31:16.280 So I wonder whether they have lost their political punch.

00:31:21.140 I still think it is outrageous that Melania, who is, without any question, one of the kindest, most gentle cultured people I know, but who is an incredible dresser.

00:31:33.400 She's been on my annual international best and worst dress list.

00:31:38.940 She's been in the best dress list for several years.

00:31:42.720 This year, we moved her to the Hall of Fame category, along with Larry Kudlow and Greg Kelly, Josh Mankiewicz of NBC, and a number of others.

00:31:58.680 Sophia Loren, some of the most sharply dressed people in the world.

00:32:06.820 I think she deserved that honor, in all honesty.

00:32:10.120 Meanwhile, ICE has become ground zero.

00:32:14.040 I should say, Arizona has become ground zero in the Trump administration's renewed push to restore border enforcement and reclaim national sovereignty.

00:32:22.380 It's important to note that those who said the president blinked or that he stepped back or he stepped down in Minnesota must not be watching the news,

00:32:31.380 because the arrests of dangerous, illegal criminals, people who are here illegally with criminal records, either in their home of origin, state, country of origin, or here in the United States,

00:32:43.580 or facing trial for uncharges or newly arrested uncharges, are continued to be deported.

00:32:51.280 And the conditions that the president gave Tim Waltz, I can't imagine Waltz will ever agree to.

00:32:57.660 Start by turning over everyone in your custody who is illegal.

00:33:01.660 Start by committing that when you arrest a new illegal on some other crime other than their illegal entry to the country,

00:33:08.000 that you'll turn them over immediately to ICE.

00:33:09.940 In Arizona, federal immigration authorities have spent $70 million on a massive new 418-square-foot warehouse in Surprise, Arizona,

00:33:28.540 roughly the size of seven football fields, to be converted into a 1,500-bed ICE processing and detention center.

00:33:36.560 This is very much like what was done in El Salvador, where that president, Nayib Bukele, saved his country with these tough-minded tactics.

00:33:48.200 This cash purchase, which was finalized in January, is part of a broader effort to expand the detention capacity

00:33:54.360 and should accelerate deportations before the end of the year, despite the chaos under Democrat leadership.

00:34:02.040 Predictably, of course, Arizona Democrats were triggered, erupted over the announcement,

00:34:06.940 with one state senator calling the facility abhorrent, absurdly claiming that enforcing immigration law

00:34:13.040 somehow threatens the Constitution, even though it has been upheld.

00:34:17.900 Even more alarming, of course, was the Democrat Attorney General, Chris Mays,

00:34:22.180 who suggested citizens were justified in using lethal force against masked federal agents

00:34:28.040 under Arizona's stand-your-ground law. Absurd.

00:34:32.140 Those are reckless comments, and they are the ones ramping up the temperature.

00:34:36.800 I'm Roger Stone. We're talking about the deportation efforts and illegal immigrants, 1.00

00:34:42.180 and those with criminal records, 70% of those who have been arrested, and we'll be right back.

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00:36:38.000 You know, it's abundantly clear to me that the people who run the National Football League have no idea who their viewers and fans are.

00:36:45.620 I'm a longtime critic of the NFL and Roger Goodell because for many years they cheated their veteran players, people who played in the early days of football, many of whom sustained serious injuries.

00:36:59.680 A class of people, some of them Hall of Famers, that was disproportionately African-American.

00:37:06.280 And although there was a settlement, most of the money ended up going to the lawyers, and almost none of it went to the players.

00:37:12.320 I think this is disgraceful and continues to be.

00:37:14.960 But now it looks like the NFL has gone full woke with its anti-Trump, ghettoized, Latin gibberish Super Bowl half-time performer Bad Bunny, who's a man but has announced that he'll be wearing a dress. 0.89

00:37:28.420 And that is their new half-show time for the upcoming Super Bowl.

00:37:33.080 I just can't see your average football fan, an all-American type, thinking this is great entertainment.

00:37:40.640 The good news is that there will be an alternative because Turning Point USA, where I've spoken many times, the organization founded by my good and late friend, Charlie Kirk, has announced its lineup for an all-American halftime show, which will air February 8th.

00:37:58.640 This family friendly event will feature Kid Rock, Brantley Gilbert, Lee Bryce, and Cabby Barnett, all artists known for celebrating patriotism and more traditional American values.

00:38:11.420 The Turning Point spokesman, Andrew Colvett, said the goal is simple, to provide Americans with an entertainment option that celebrates faith, family, and freedom without any displays of political propaganda, cultural degeneracy, and worse.

00:38:28.780 Their show will stream live around 8 p.m. during halftime, directly competing with the NFL's official broadcast featuring Bad Bunny, whoever that is.

00:38:40.100 Kid Rock framed the effort as a David vs. Goliath moment, specifically taking aim at the league's decision to feature the rapper Bad Bunny at Super Bowl 60.

00:38:50.280 Bad Bunny has previously attacked President Trump, refused to perform in English, promoted all this crazy gender-bending and queer icon stuff, even going so far as to say he was planning to wear a dress again during the halftime show. 1.00

00:39:05.000 But despite the backlash, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, son of former New York U.S. Senator Charles Goodell, dismissed any concerns, insisting controversies unavoidable, and defending the league's very poor choice.

00:39:22.480 Millions of Americans, I predict, are going to tune out.

00:39:24.860 This is going to be very interesting to see.

00:39:26.140 The All-American Halftime Show will stream across TPUSA's YouTube, their acts, and their Rumble channels.

00:39:32.280 I think they have additional distribution on Sinclair Broadcast, OTT Platform, YouTube TV, Hulu, Sling, and other outlets, including the Daily Wire, TBN, Real America's Voice, NTD, ONN, who knows, we may even run it here.

00:39:48.880 Make sure to tune in.

00:39:50.200 I like to see as many Americans as possible go for the wholesome entertainment alternative and say, no, we need to win the culture war.

00:40:00.020 This is a perfect example where people can stand up and be counted.

00:40:06.180 They're on network.

00:40:07.920 We know, based on the rate that people pay for commercials, how many millions of viewers they will traditionally have.

00:40:14.620 So it will be a very interesting test of the old media versus the new media.

00:40:20.040 I'm Roger Stone.

00:40:20.960 Thanks for joining us in the Stone Zone.

00:40:23.040 Until we meet again, God bless you, and Godspeed.

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