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

00:00:43.900 People love him and respect him.

00:00:45.360 Roger Stone.

00:00:46.620 Now, get in the zone. 0.94

00:00:48.560 It's the Stone Zone.

00:00:50.600 Here's Roger Stone.

00:00:54.520 You are now jumping headfirst into the Stone Zone.

00:01:00.000 Welcome to our very special President's Day show.

00:01:03.380 President's Day, which was originally Washington's birthday, is, of course, a U.S. federal holiday

00:01:08.800 honoring multiple presidents.

00:01:11.600 Originally, George Washington's birthday was the federal holiday.

00:01:14.940 That was February 22nd, 1732, originally.

00:01:19.220 After his death, I think it was in 1799, Americans began celebrating his birthday to honor the first

00:01:25.580 president and, of course, the Revolutionary War leader.

00:01:28.700 By 1879, Washington's birthday officially became a federal holiday.

00:01:34.380 But over time, Americans began to informally honor Abraham Lincoln, who was born on February 12th.

00:01:41.180 This was particularly true in the northern states.

00:01:43.700 Although Lincoln never got a separate federal holiday, his legacy blended into Washington's celebration to give us the modern-day President's Day.

00:01:54.700 It was back in 1968.

00:01:56.260 In 2008, Congress passed the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, moving several holidays to Mondays in order to create long weekends.

00:02:05.560 That was to accommodate America's families.

00:02:08.640 Washington's birthday shifted to the third Monday in February as a holiday, starting in 1971.

00:02:15.440 Because the date falls between Lincoln's and Washington's birthday, retailers and states popularized the commercial name, President's Day.

00:02:26.320 Although today is technically, officially, George Washington's birthday.

00:02:31.400 So the day now is somewhat changed, honoring all presidents.

00:02:36.160 I forwarded and reposted a great meme online.

00:02:43.280 It's a picture of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

00:02:45.440 And Bill Clinton says, Happy President's Day, Hillary.

00:02:48.500 And Hillary says, Up yours, Bill.

00:02:51.500 I wrote very extensively about their complicated relationship.

00:02:56.420 I am convinced that Bill Clinton was both brilliant but somewhat lazy.

00:03:01.660 And it was Hillary Clinton who provided the drive for him to both make a comeback after being elected governor of Arkansas, being defeated for re-election, largely because of what voters viewed as his arrogance, his return to the governor's mansion, and ultimately his successful drive for the presidency.

00:03:24.020 I'm also convinced that they had a marriage of convenience, not unlike Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. 0.99

00:03:31.700 And in my book, The Clinton's War on Women, I clearly exposed the fact that, well, in my opinion, there was overwhelming evidence that Bill Clinton was a serial sexual assaulter and rapist of women.

00:03:43.960 And I first pointed out that he had a strange relationship, they both did, with Jeffrey Epstein, all of which, of course, has now been documented in these most recent Epstein email file releases. 0.62

00:04:00.100 I do think, however, that Bill Clinton probably never really wanted Hillary to be president.

00:04:05.260 On the one hand, she did not use any of his advisers, the advisers who had successfully guided him first to the presidency, and then through to an uphill re-election in 1996.

00:04:21.960 Then secondarily, of course, there's the fact that Hillary Clinton had her own cabal, John Podesta, Robbie Mook, and others.

00:04:31.100 It always surprised me that they didn't use Bill Clinton more effectively in Hillary's campaign. 0.88

00:04:37.140 He was always much better liked, for example, in the African-American community.

00:04:42.960 He was also much better liked, generally speaking, among independents.

00:04:46.940 But they didn't utilize Bill, or I think, frankly, his advice in Hillary's presidential campaign.

00:04:53.580 And they were shocked when they lost to Donald Trump.

00:04:58.240 She made her own questions.

00:04:59.880 In the end, I think she ultimately got outworked and outfoxed by Donald J. Trump.

00:05:06.700 She should have made late trips to Wisconsin and Michigan, but she thought those states were in the bag.

00:05:13.480 Trump was barnstorming all of the swing states like a whirling dervish.

00:05:19.860 It kind of reminded me of when Harry Truman, who was running behind in 1948, running against New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, one of the great upsets in American political history.

00:05:33.320 And it was widely thought that Truman would lose.

00:05:36.800 Truman got on a train in Washington, D.C. and headed west to California.

00:05:43.780 Dewey had nominated California Governor Earl Warren as the candidate for vice president, whereas Truman refused to give in the national polls.

00:05:57.180 Polling was then in its infancy.

00:05:59.460 Polls showed that Truman would lose.

00:06:01.460 But as Truman moved west, he was doing stops at virtually every major population center right on the train tracks.

00:06:11.980 His attacks on Republicans got stronger and more vituperative.

00:06:16.140 He accused Republicans of sticking a pitchfork in the back of America's farmers in a recent farm bill.

00:06:23.980 He blamed all the problems of the country, not on his leadership as president, but on the do-nothing 89th Republican Congress.

00:06:33.680 And by the time he got to California, his crowds were massive.

00:06:37.640 He caught the public imagination and he won that election in an upset.

00:06:43.360 He also carried California, even with Earl Warren, the incredibly popular governor, who would later become Supreme Court Justice, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court as his running mate.

00:06:55.520 So as it was with Trump, Trump in the final days, because there is a federal regulation about how many hours a private pilot can fly without rest.

00:07:06.540 Trump was barnstorming Michigan, Florida, Wisconsin, all of them swing states, North Carolina, in the closing days of the 2016 campaign, long after Hillary Clinton had retired to her place in Chappaqua, where she was calmly looking at fabric swatches for the curtains in the Oval Office.

00:07:29.860 We know that the Clinton campaign planned a massive fireworks display and a huge party in New York City in what was a truly incredible and historic night, the most improbable election in American history.

00:07:46.840 So today, President's Day, we also celebrate our current president, Donald J. Trump.

00:07:53.200 When observing the conservative media landscape, there are countless rivalries and always disputes between so-called influencers.

00:08:00.440 But few have risen to the heat of the feud last year between the world's richest man, Elon Musk, and the now infamous Jeffrey Epstein associate, Steve Bannon of the War Room.

00:08:12.320 Bannon and Musk had what some would label an Internet war last year after Musk began to publicly call for the release of all of the Epstein files, which have since now been released by the Trump administration.

00:08:26.960 At least most of them have, a few with redactions.

00:08:30.180 The files reveal the darkest side of American politics, implicating the likes of Democrat megadonors like Reid Hoffman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and of course, Leslie Wexner of Scarlet's Secret, all in Epstein's sex trafficking operation.

00:08:51.980 Back then, Steve Bannon objected to the release of the files, desperately flinging any attack he could at Musk.

00:08:58.020 The podcast host even gave an interview to the New York Times in which he lied about Musk's immigration status.

00:09:04.740 Bannon told the Times that they should initiate a formal investigation of Elon Musk's immigration status because, Bannon said, he was of the strong belief that he is an illegal alien and he should be deported from the country immediately.

00:09:18.420 In addition to levying these false accusations, Bannon told additional lies, adding to false statements about Musk's illegal drug use, for which there is no proof whatsoever, and claiming that he was advising the president to cancel Musk's many federal contracts.

00:09:35.220 For those without context, Bannon's attacks seemed in line with his public support for Donald Trump.

00:09:41.160 Months later, since the files have been released, we now know the true reason why Steve Bannon so emphatically lied about Musk over the Epstein files.

00:09:50.000 Also implicated in the Epstein files, perhaps in the worst way of anybody within the release, is Steve Bannon himself, the host of the War Room.

00:09:58.040 Bannon and Epstein, it turns out, exchanged some 1,974 emails in the days leading up to Epstein's arrest on July 6, 2019, when he was indicted by the Trump administration for child sex trafficking, along with a second count of conspiring to engage in child sex trafficking.

00:10:19.880 Anyone who will read these shocking emails will see that Bannon was advising Epstein in terms of the rehabilitation of his public image.

00:10:31.240 This was after the time that Epstein had been arrested and prosecuted in Florida and the time he would be arrested and prosecuted in 2019 in New York.

00:10:42.200 It's also very clear that there's discussion of 15 hours of footage that was recorded with Epstein, of which to date only two hours have been released.

00:10:57.960 Portions of the interview were released within the DOJ files.

00:11:01.160 You can see them online.

00:11:02.220 What you'll see is Bannon fawning over Epstein, who he actually calls a god at one point. 1.00

00:11:08.120 Throughout the email addresses, you can see that Epstein is being advised by Bannon, but together they continue to denigrate Trump, actually calling Trump stupid. 0.88

00:11:21.480 I was shocked to see that Bannon actually advocated removal of Donald Trump from the presidency under the 25th Amendment in an email message with Jeffrey Epstein. 0.83

00:11:34.320 That's why when Elon Musk brudged this topic of releasing the Epstein files in a very public fashion, Bannon so viciously attacked.

00:11:43.400 See, he had a lot to hide.

00:11:45.660 In early June of 2025, Bannon and his cohorts in a live episode of The War Room echoed the statements from The New York Times calling for Musk to be deported, wrongly claiming that the billionaires not here legally.

00:11:58.180 But Bannon didn't stop there.

00:11:59.380 The Epstein associate went even further, claiming that the Trump administration should seize Musk's assets, that would be SpaceX and Tesla, over the billionaires' calls to release the Epstein files.

00:12:15.100 Cornered by the prospect of facing justice and public scrutiny over his own relationship with a billionaire sex trafficker, Bannon lashed out at Elon Musk.

00:12:24.480 But his attacks weren't based on truth, they were based on self-preservation.

00:12:28.880 Only now, with the full release of the Epstein files, can we understand the extent of Bannon's relationship with Epstein.

00:12:36.280 But I point out two things to you.

00:12:38.260 One, Bannon pled guilty to embezzling $15 million from the Build the Wall Foundation, charges for which his two co-conspirators serve long prison sentences.

00:12:49.880 He was pardoned by President Donald Trump for that, re-indicted in Manhattan for that crime, where he quietly pled guilty and then was sentenced to no jail time by one of the very same Tammany Hall judges who sat briefly on Donald Trump's own case.

00:13:08.280 Then additionally, in another case in which the government sued Bannon's Chinese financial patron, Miles Guo, in a $1 billion fraud, Bannon was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in that case, but no charges were brought against Bannon himself.

00:13:27.880 My beef with Bannon has always been clear.

00:13:29.840 He perjured himself at my trial, saying one thing to the House Intelligence Committee under oath, and the direct opposite in front of the jury in my trial.

00:13:40.560 But now the chickens have come home to roost for Steve Bannon, and people can read for themselves his various comments back and forth with Jeffrey Epstein.

00:13:50.280 The idea of Steve Bannon, of the war room, holding himself out as a supporter of Donald Trump, at the same time calling for Trump's removal, shows you who he really is.

00:14:02.940 There'll be a lot more about this, but we're going to be following it right here in the Stone Zone.

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00:14:21.020 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:14:33.560 I'm not your stepping stone.

00:14:35.720 Rural Americans deserve access to the best of what our nation has to offer, especially health care.

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00:15:27.940 But now, some in Congress are threatening access to care.

00:15:31.620 Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.

00:15:35.780 Don't cut rural health care.

00:15:38.940 Rural Americans deserve access to the best our nation has to offer, especially when it comes to health care.

00:15:45.300 Across every state and every community, America's rural hospitals are the first line of defense, protecting our families, neighbors, and loved ones.

00:15:53.320 No matter where you live, hospital care doesn't clock out.

00:15:55.880 They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

00:16:00.620 Each year, America's over 5,000 hospitals care for millions of patients, providing 24-7 emergency care, delivering babies, cancer treatments, and other life-saving care that patients rely on.

00:16:12.620 Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.

00:16:19.600 Hospitals are our community's lifelines.

00:16:21.840 They employ our neighbors and keep our families health.

00:16:25.440 But now, some in Congress are threatening access to care.

00:16:28.460 Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.

00:16:32.820 Don't cut rural health care.

00:16:35.260 Rural Americans deserve access to the best our nation has to offer, especially when it comes to health care.

00:16:41.240 Across every state and every community, America's rural hospitals are the first line of defense, protecting our families, neighbors, and loved ones.

00:16:49.120 No matter where you live, hospital care doesn't clock out.

00:16:52.060 They're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

00:16:56.720 Each year, America's over 5,000 hospitals care for millions of patients, providing 24-7 emergency care, delivering babies, cancer treatments, and other life-saving care that patients rely on.

00:17:08.580 Behind every one of those patients are doctors, nurses, and caregivers working tirelessly to keep people healthy and safe.

00:17:15.540 Hospitals are our community's lifelines.

00:17:17.780 They employ our neighbors and keep our families health.

00:17:21.380 But now, some in Congress are threatening access to care.

00:17:24.380 Tell Congress, protect patient care to keep America strong.

00:17:28.760 Don't cut rural health care.

00:17:37.720 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:17:41.520 They went after a guy named Roger Stone who's sitting in the office.

00:17:45.140 And I'll say this to Trevor Rodgers, he's no baby.

00:17:47.700 And right now, he's cleaner than anybody in this place.

00:17:51.320 Now, they treated him very unfairly.

00:17:53.860 Now, get him a zone.

00:17:55.720 It's the Stone Zone.

00:17:57.760 Here's Roger Stone.

00:17:59.300 And we're back in the Stone Zone.

00:18:03.620 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, who, make no mistake about it, is a highly likely candidate for president, 0.73

00:18:12.800 recently sparked controversy overseas this past weekend when she made remarks at the Munich Security Conference,

00:18:19.940 showing her utter disdain for Western civilization while elevating the so-called Global South worldview.

00:18:26.180 Speaking to German students, AOC described Western culture as thin and criticized Secretary of State Marco Rubio's highly acclaimed speech,

00:18:35.620 emphasizing shared American-European heritage.

00:18:39.340 Rubio had reminded leaders that the United States and Europe are bound by centuries of history,

00:18:45.600 Christianity, language, and sacrifice, calling them part of one Western civilization.

00:18:51.060 AOC rejected that idea, framing our historic alliance instead around class politics and internationalism.

00:18:59.360 She warned what she portrayed as nostalgia for tradition and argued that relationships should be built solely on democracy and international law,

00:19:10.740 not historical identity.

00:19:13.340 AOC's comments grew well-deserved ridicule after she mocked Rubio's reference to Spanish roots of the American cowboy,

00:19:21.060 despite the well-documented fact that Spanish explorers introduced horses to the Americas back in the 15th century.

00:19:29.360 The Congresswoman also called whiteness imaginary while simultaneously praising national identities such as German and Italian culture,

00:19:38.900 demonstrating she doesn't know what she's talking about.

00:19:41.460 The remarks come amid speculation about AOC's future presidential ambitions,

00:19:46.280 raising questions about how her views would resonate with American voters who still broadly identify with our Western heritage and our values.

00:19:55.980 Comparing Rubio's message delivered to Europe with AOC's words shows a massive intelligence gap,

00:20:03.340 one that should be demonstrable to the voters if the two would square off for the U.S. presidency in 2028.

00:20:11.940 Everybody seems to want to talk about the 2028 presidential contest,

00:20:16.740 but in politics, a week is a lifetime, and 2028 is a lifetime away.

00:20:23.280 All I have said is that AOC would be a viable candidate because she could raise millions and millions of dollars

00:20:29.100 of small and medium-sized donations through the Internet and through ActBlue,

00:20:34.720 which is currently under investigation.

00:20:36.720 That's the Democrat payment processing company that has been accused of generating fake contributions,

00:20:45.740 what's called smurfing. 0.99

00:20:47.780 In the meantime, I think Republicans would be wise to focus on 2026 before 2028,

00:20:54.160 but the reason I belong to the Italian-American Civil Rights League,

00:20:58.720 which you can find at IACRL.org,

00:21:03.120 is because we stand up for our traditional Italian-American heritage,

00:21:08.480 and we don't want them to erase the incredible role that Italian-Americans have played in making this country great.

00:21:16.600 I'm Roger Stone. I'm feeling very Italian today, and we'll be right back.

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00:21:49.700 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:21:53.260 They went after a guy named Roger Stone, who's sitting in the office.

00:21:57.200 And I'll say this in front of Roger, he's no baby.

00:21:59.580 And right now, he's cleaner than anybody in this place.

00:22:03.180 Now, they treated him very unfairly.

00:22:05.780 Now, get in the zone. 0.94

00:22:07.620 It's the Stone Zone.

00:22:09.660 Here's Roger Stone.

00:22:13.120 And you're diving back into the deep end of the Stone Zone.

00:22:17.880 U.S. Senator John Fetterman continues to surprise me.

00:22:21.440 I have been a critic of Fetterman's garb, the way he dresses,

00:22:25.860 because I think that the U.S. Senate requires more decorum than, say, a hoodie and cargo pants.

00:22:34.380 But he does surprise me in his distancing himself from the far, far left of his own party,

00:22:41.340 this time by refusing to demonize Trump supporters.

00:22:44.880 In a recent interview, Fetterman revealed that even members of his own family back President Donald Trump.

00:22:52.500 And that's precisely why he rejects rhetoric portraying MAGA voters as extremists.

00:22:58.200 He stated that he will not call millions of Americans Nazis or enemies of democracy

00:23:03.600 simply because of understandable political beliefs.

00:23:07.080 Fetterman also pushed back on repeated claims that Trump intends to defy courts or run indefinitely for office,

00:23:14.960 knowing that there's no evidence to support those fears.

00:23:17.820 The president does joke constantly about running again,

00:23:21.360 but he's well aware of the fact that despite what Steve Bannon says,

00:23:25.920 the U.S. Constitution prohibits any person from being elected to more than two terms.

00:23:31.740 Now, no place in the Constitution does it say that those two terms have to be consecutive.

00:23:38.380 And in fact, only one other American, one other president that we recognize on this President's Day,

00:23:45.560 Grover Cleveland, achieved the same thing President Trump has achieved,

00:23:50.040 which is to say, been elected, then failed to be reelected in a disputed reelection,

00:23:55.700 then come back to win the White House again.

00:23:58.460 That is precisely what has happened here.

00:24:02.560 President Trump is well aware of the fact that he's constitutionally ineligible to run for another term.

00:24:08.880 The problem with those on the left is they have Trump derangement syndrome, 0.87

00:24:13.700 and his joking alone drives them crazy. 0.84

00:24:17.100 Fetterman's comments have reportedly angered some progressive activists

00:24:20.400 who are already discussing a primary challenge against him.

00:24:23.640 Fetterman was previously warned that socialism and ideological purity tests

00:24:29.000 have hurt Democrats politically and alienated working-class voters.

00:24:33.520 This moment highlights a widening divide inside the Democrat Party

00:24:37.440 between the far-left Marxist activists demanding confrontation

00:24:42.060 versus a small and dwindling number of moderates

00:24:45.900 who have not drunk the Kool-Aid and still care about the whole of their country.

00:24:50.420 The balance of power, very sadly, with the election of Mamdami, 1.00

00:24:55.680 I think has shifted to this radical, progressive left.

00:25:00.400 The word moderate Democrat is almost an oxymoron.

00:25:05.700 Fetterman understands that many millions of Americans who vote Republican

00:25:09.080 are ordinary citizens and not extremists.

00:25:11.980 He also understands that Democrats embracing extremism

00:25:14.420 will mean future electoral losses in the midterms for them and in the future.

00:25:20.820 And if, and if, and this is just my opinion,

00:25:24.440 but if Fetterman were to be challenged in a legitimate Democrat primary,

00:25:29.040 he could probably switch parties and run as a Republican to win re-election.

00:25:34.400 At this point, my guess is that he could dominate a Republican primary contest

00:25:39.240 and go on to win the seat.

00:25:40.860 So the Democrats would only ruin their chances of holding the seat

00:25:45.980 for purposes of the caucuses.

00:25:48.940 It's clear to me that the old Democrat Party,

00:25:52.320 the party of John F. Kennedy, the party of Harry Truman,

00:25:55.400 the presidents that we celebrate today, President's Day,

00:25:58.940 no longer exists.

00:26:00.560 And that a radical clique has taken over that party

00:26:05.060 and that that party will continue to produce nominees

00:26:09.200 who are incapable of winning national general elections.

00:26:13.380 A recent international pandemic exercise

00:26:16.520 drawing renewed debate about government power

00:26:19.620 and global coordination in future health emergencies.

00:26:23.460 Earlier this month, South Korea hosted a large-scale simulation

00:26:27.960 designed to test how quickly regulators,

00:26:31.340 pharmaceutical companies, and international organizations

00:26:33.880 could develop and distribute vaccines

00:26:36.320 during a hypothetical outbreak.

00:26:39.060 The drill involved public health agencies,

00:26:42.060 manufacturers, and global partners

00:26:43.860 working through rapid approval and mass deployment procedures

00:26:47.240 with ties, unsurprisingly,

00:26:50.240 to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

00:26:53.240 Organizers described the exercise as

00:26:55.380 preparations for a future crisis

00:26:57.960 that they seem to know about, but we don't.

00:27:01.100 They identified supply chain bottlenecks

00:27:04.000 and they demonstrated how they can accelerate medical response.

00:27:08.860 But we've seen this kind of training before

00:27:11.980 during Event 201, which simulated a pandemic

00:27:16.000 that just so coincidentally happened months later

00:27:19.180 with the outbreak of COVID-19.

00:27:22.340 Government may again rely on sweeping emergency powers

00:27:25.900 and one-size-fits-all policies

00:27:28.300 without sufficient oversight

00:27:30.280 when the next public health emergency occurs.

00:27:33.180 The broader issue isn't preparedness itself.

00:27:36.040 I think we can all agree that planning matters.

00:27:38.680 I think it was Dwight Eisenhower who said

00:27:40.660 that plans are worthless,

00:27:43.460 but planning is indispensable.

00:27:46.080 What did Ike mean by that?

00:27:47.600 Well, what he meant was that a plan is static,

00:27:50.800 but the situation and conditions continually change.

00:27:53.960 Therefore, one's plan must have the flexibility

00:27:56.800 to change along with the facts.

00:28:00.400 That's what Eisenhower meant when he said

00:28:02.060 planning is indispensable.

00:28:04.140 The real question here is

00:28:05.360 how much authority should be concentrated

00:28:07.520 in these international institutions

00:28:10.060 and regulatory agencies

00:28:12.140 when a health crisis that is legitimate hits?

00:28:16.000 Pandemic policy must always balance health protection

00:28:18.920 with people's fundamental rights,

00:28:21.340 economic stability, and local decision-making.

00:28:25.120 Emergency systems designed entirely

00:28:27.460 around rapid pharmaceutical rollout risk

00:28:30.920 will trash any sort of safeguards

00:28:32.760 against corporate-driven authoritarianism.

00:28:36.180 When the motive is profit,

00:28:38.840 it will be extremely clear.

00:28:41.020 It's clear now that technocrats

00:28:42.660 have no respect for our civil liberties.

00:28:44.840 They made that clear during COVID-19.

00:28:47.280 Perhaps we should take a page

00:28:48.700 out of the Founding Fathers' book,

00:28:49.940 if they try anything like COVID-19 lockdown again.

00:28:53.160 Then maybe these scientific elitists

00:28:55.020 might get the picture and stop

00:28:56.380 with their megalomaniacal planning.

00:29:00.240 Meanwhile, Hillary Clinton himself,

00:29:01.980 speaking of President's Day,

00:29:03.820 if Donald Trump is to be honored

00:29:05.180 for anything at all,

00:29:06.760 it is from keeping Hillary Clinton

00:29:08.620 from the White House.

00:29:09.980 I've written extensively about him

00:29:11.700 and about her,

00:29:12.800 and found that she was a short-tempered,

00:29:16.380 highly entitled technocrat.

00:29:19.960 I would say somebody would steal a hot stove.

00:29:25.520 Earlier this year,

00:29:26.920 the Director of National Intelligence,

00:29:29.240 Tulsi Gabbard,

00:29:30.460 declassified documents from Russian intelligence,

00:29:33.900 which indicated that the Russians knew

00:29:35.760 that Hillary Clinton was very heavily medicated.

00:29:40.200 She had mental health issues 0.92

00:29:43.040 built around anger and resentment, 0.85

00:29:45.540 and she was probably psychologically unfit 0.99

00:29:49.340 to be president.

00:29:50.220 Of course, that information remains sealed

00:29:52.600 during the 2016 election.

00:29:55.280 There's no doubt in my mind

00:29:56.620 that she lays awake at night

00:29:58.100 dreaming about what may have been.

00:30:00.600 But we also know that Hillary Clinton 0.94

00:30:03.080 left Donald Trump a mess

00:30:05.000 in the wake of her defeat,

00:30:06.880 unable to accept defeat,

00:30:08.720 given the fact that she and her husband

00:30:10.460 had substantially more experience

00:30:12.800 at presidential campaigning

00:30:14.520 than the first-time candidate Donald Trump.

00:30:18.340 They had to invent the entire false narrative

00:30:21.540 of Russian collusion,

00:30:24.180 and that has now come home to roost.

00:30:28.420 Thanks to Tulsi Gabbard,

00:30:29.720 we now know that the entire Russian collusion hoax

00:30:33.160 was a perpetrated fraud,

00:30:36.220 perhaps the greatest single dirty trick

00:30:38.720 and abuse of power

00:30:40.220 in American political history.

00:30:43.360 It all started in August of 2016

00:30:47.680 in an Oval Office meeting

00:30:49.480 chaired by Barack Obama himself.

00:30:52.560 They utilized the Steele dossier,

00:30:55.760 which we now know is completely fraudulent.

00:30:58.120 That is a secret report that claims falsely 0.68

00:31:01.820 that Donald Trump dallied with Russian prostitutes

00:31:04.920 when visiting Moscow as a private businessman.

00:31:08.740 It had been completely and totally discredited.

00:31:11.460 The FBI was well aware of the fact

00:31:13.240 that it had been essentially formulated

00:31:15.960 by a former British intelligence agent

00:31:19.580 named Steele,

00:31:21.200 had been sold,

00:31:22.780 first, I think, to Paul Singer,

00:31:25.220 the owner of the Washington Free Beacon,

00:31:27.700 who was a supporter of Marco Rubio,

00:31:29.860 but never really utilized,

00:31:31.680 and then resold to Hillary Clinton's campaign

00:31:34.820 for president.

00:31:36.440 That, of course,

00:31:37.660 morphed into four years

00:31:40.000 of using the Steele dossier

00:31:43.100 as the rationale

00:31:44.560 for the appointment of Robert Mueller

00:31:46.980 as a special prosecutor

00:31:50.680 with sweeping legal powers

00:31:52.180 that was used against me

00:31:53.940 in an effort to squeeze me

00:31:56.080 to get me to testify falsely

00:31:58.320 against Donald Trump.

00:31:59.760 See, when they could find

00:32:01.440 no evidence of Russian collusion,

00:32:03.220 they sought to create it.

00:32:05.700 That, in turn,

00:32:07.720 goes into the entire Russian collusion efforts

00:32:10.000 to unseat Donald Trump.

00:32:12.420 A coup d'etat,

00:32:14.120 if there ever was one,

00:32:15.740 continues into two phony impeachments.

00:32:18.920 The first one,

00:32:20.140 based on January 6th.

00:32:22.060 The second one,

00:32:23.200 based on the so-called wrap-up smear.

00:32:25.860 In other words,

00:32:26.660 a completely fabricated impeachment case

00:32:29.840 in which the Vindman brothers,

00:32:31.920 remember them?

00:32:32.940 Eugene and Alex,

00:32:34.240 both in the U.S. Army,

00:32:35.740 so cute in their little uniforms.

00:32:38.000 Eugene's now a congressman.

00:32:39.340 And Alexander's running for the Senate in Florida.

00:32:42.880 They claim that they overheard a conversation

00:32:45.720 between President Donald Trump

00:32:47.940 and Ukrainian President Zelensky,

00:32:50.760 in which Trump was justifiably

00:32:53.160 inquiring about the corruption of Joe Biden.

00:32:56.920 In fact, Joe Biden himself went out there

00:32:58.860 and bragged about the fact

00:33:00.140 that he had threatened to withhold

00:33:01.920 $1 billion of U.S. aid to Ukraine

00:33:05.500 unless Zelensky fired the prosecutor,

00:33:08.780 who was then investigating Hunter Biden

00:33:11.900 and the energy company Burisma.

00:33:15.220 So the two Vindman brothers

00:33:17.460 then went to a third party,

00:33:18.840 in this case, Eric Sierra Mella,

00:33:21.500 who was a former CIA, future CIA,

00:33:25.160 but at that point working for Senator Adam Schiff,

00:33:28.760 and told him.

00:33:30.160 He then filed a formal complaint

00:33:32.280 with the inspector general,

00:33:33.440 becoming a quote-unquote whistleblower.

00:33:35.700 But, of course, the contents of that are sealed.

00:33:39.580 That's the wrap-up smear.

00:33:40.960 It's all based on a falsehood.

00:33:42.840 Then you leak that to the media.

00:33:44.880 They cover it the way,

00:33:47.320 for example, the Steele dossier was covered.

00:33:52.820 And that gives it legitimacy.

00:33:55.180 This, by the way,

00:33:55.740 is exactly what they're doing right now

00:33:57.020 to Tulsi Gabbard.

00:33:57.940 So, let me get this straight.

00:34:00.800 Two people on the Internet,

00:34:02.480 two foreign intelligence assets

00:34:04.360 whose names were not allowed to hear,

00:34:07.140 claimed that they overheard a conversation

00:34:08.920 between somebody

00:34:10.080 and a member of the Trump family,

00:34:13.040 and that Tulsi Gabbard was aware of this,

00:34:16.260 but never flagged it.

00:34:17.760 They never mentioned

00:34:18.560 that these claims were completely

00:34:20.720 and totally discredited

00:34:23.700 by a legitimate investigation.

00:34:25.280 This is the very definition

00:34:28.580 of the wrap-up smear.

00:34:31.340 Precisely what Trump was subjected to,

00:34:33.480 what Tulsi Gabbard is now subjected to.

00:34:37.400 It is amazing that some out there

00:34:40.740 in the public fall for it again.

00:34:43.480 But why this targeting of Tulsi Gabbard?

00:34:46.600 Well, it's because she's been appointed

00:34:48.780 by the president

00:34:49.580 to look into the question

00:34:50.760 of the security and integrity

00:34:52.760 of our election.

00:34:53.780 She's examining the use

00:34:56.240 of mail-in ballots.

00:34:57.840 She's also examining

00:34:58.760 the security

00:35:00.800 of the electronic voting machines.

00:35:03.820 And when she showed up

00:35:05.040 at the FBI raid

00:35:06.400 at the Fulton County Election Board warehouse,

00:35:10.260 after Fulton County Election Board officials

00:35:13.700 testified for the state election board

00:35:16.460 that more than 315,000 Georgia ballots

00:35:20.300 in 2020 were cast illegally

00:35:22.580 with no signatures

00:35:23.660 and matching serial numbers,

00:35:26.640 she became a target.

00:35:29.420 Tulsi Gabbard is extraordinarily dangerous

00:35:31.440 to the deep state

00:35:32.300 and to the Democrats,

00:35:33.520 and that's why they've unhinged

00:35:35.440 this attack on her.

00:35:37.360 But it is bogus.

00:35:39.600 Tulsi Gabbard did absolutely nothing wrong.

00:35:43.280 And even the Wall Street Journal,

00:35:44.920 when you get to paragraph 8

00:35:46.400 of this story,

00:35:47.220 they admitted.

00:35:49.020 Yes, I've admitted here

00:35:50.440 that I believe Tulsi Gabbard

00:35:51.900 will be our first woman president, 0.94

00:35:54.000 not necessarily in 2028,

00:35:56.540 but I think she has the chops. 1.00

00:35:58.760 She has the sure-footedness.

00:36:00.740 She has the military experience.

00:36:03.120 She has the bearing.

00:36:04.860 She has the big picture understanding

00:36:07.040 of the epic fight

00:36:08.740 for freedom in this country.

00:36:10.580 So yes, I believe

00:36:11.420 she will be president someday.

00:36:13.920 No, I didn't say 2028.

00:36:15.600 It's too early to talk about 2028.

00:36:18.300 Right now, Republicans,

00:36:19.760 if they're smart,

00:36:20.400 will focus on 2026.

00:36:23.100 You're listening to The Stone Zone

00:36:24.620 with Roger Stone

00:36:25.420 right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks,

00:36:28.500 and we'll be right back.

00:36:30.660 This is The Stone Zone

00:36:32.400 with Roger Stone.

00:36:33.920 This is The Stone Zone

00:36:57.140 with Roger Stone.

00:36:58.620 They went after a guy named Roger Stone

00:37:01.320 who's sitting in the office.

00:37:02.460 And I'll say this to Trevor Rodgers,

00:37:04.100 he's no baby.

00:37:04.960 And right now,

00:37:05.640 he's cleaner than anybody in this place.

00:37:08.580 Now, they treated him very unfairly.

00:37:11.160 Now, get him a zone.

00:37:13.000 It's The Stone Zone.

00:37:15.040 Here's Roger Stone.

00:37:18.900 And we're back in The Stone Zone.

00:37:21.360 At that Munich security conference

00:37:23.120 we spoke of earlier

00:37:24.160 where AOC kind of made a fool of herself, 1.00

00:37:26.560 an unexpected moment of agreement

00:37:28.720 actually emerged

00:37:29.760 in the global immigration debate.

00:37:32.100 After Secretary of State Marco Rubio

00:37:34.360 gave the highly acclaimed speech

00:37:36.520 in which he warned

00:37:37.200 that the United States and Europe

00:37:38.440 share a common Western heritage

00:37:40.580 and must confront

00:37:41.600 the dangers of mass migration,

00:37:44.260 former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

00:37:45.980 took the stage

00:37:46.720 and surprisingly acknowledged

00:37:48.140 the crisis herself.

00:37:50.180 Clinton admitted

00:37:50.780 large-scale migration

00:37:52.040 has been disruptive

00:37:53.720 and destabilizing to societies

00:37:55.700 and said the issue went too far.

00:37:58.100 She called for secure borders 0.98

00:38:00.280 and stronger family structures,

00:38:01.860 remarks that surprised many observers

00:38:04.100 given years of political message

00:38:06.240 downplaying border concerns.

00:38:08.600 Secretary of State Rubio

00:38:09.840 had earlier emphasized

00:38:10.940 that uncontrolled migration

00:38:12.920 threatens Western stability

00:38:14.520 and unity among its allies.

00:38:17.080 His comments reflect

00:38:18.280 growing concern across Europe

00:38:20.000 where nations face social tensions,

00:38:22.900 strained welfare systems,

00:38:24.100 and rise in crime

00:38:25.280 tied to unchecked border flows.

00:38:28.540 Clinton's comments

00:38:29.300 represent a rare recognition

00:38:30.980 of reality.

00:38:32.260 Border policy matters

00:38:33.560 and sovereignty still exists.

00:38:35.920 This, of course,

00:38:36.820 does not excuse Clinton

00:38:38.040 for making a mockery

00:38:39.240 of warnings about

00:38:40.480 mass immigration for years

00:38:41.900 while labeling enforcement advocates

00:38:44.040 as extremists.

00:38:45.480 She simply sees

00:38:46.400 which way the winds are now blowing.

00:38:48.800 There's now a major populist movement

00:38:50.900 rising up around the world

00:38:52.880 to put a stop to mass migration 0.61

00:38:54.980 and they are often hostile

00:38:56.640 to the ruling elites

00:38:57.800 who caused the problems

00:38:58.900 to begin with.

00:39:00.080 Clinton is hoping to get

00:39:01.120 on the right side of history

00:39:02.460 so she can co-opt the narrative 0.71

00:39:04.500 on behalf of the ruling elites

00:39:06.700 who we all know she serves.

00:39:08.660 But I think it is

00:39:09.500 too little too late.

00:39:11.680 Europe applauded

00:39:12.560 at the remarks made

00:39:13.460 by Secretary Rubio.

00:39:15.200 They did so because

00:39:16.380 they were, of course,

00:39:17.420 eloquently put,

00:39:18.480 but also because Rubio

00:39:19.760 and the Trump administration

00:39:21.540 have the credibility

00:39:22.940 to back it up.

00:39:24.580 Clinton has no such credibility 0.99

00:39:26.340 as a two-time presidential loser. 0.93

00:39:28.720 I believe her time has passed.

00:39:30.240 What I really don't understand

00:39:31.200 is why she was invited

00:39:32.960 to speak to the Munich

00:39:35.080 Security Conference

00:39:36.220 to begin with.

00:39:38.640 In the meantime,

00:39:39.560 I think America's push

00:39:40.480 for a nuclear energy comeback

00:39:41.920 is running into a hard reality.

00:39:44.420 The United States still depends

00:39:45.700 on foreign uranium.

00:39:47.020 energy officials warn

00:39:49.260 a fuel shortage

00:39:50.240 could hit as early as 2028,

00:39:53.520 just as new reactors

00:39:54.800 planned under the administration's

00:39:56.640 nuclear expansion strategy

00:39:58.220 begin coming online.

00:40:00.460 Despite billions

00:40:01.280 in federal investment

00:40:02.440 to revive domestic production,

00:40:04.520 less than 1% of the fuel

00:40:06.280 used by America's

00:40:07.780 commercial nuclear reactors

00:40:09.460 is produced at home.

00:40:10.880 Instead, the country relies

00:40:12.120 heavily on imports from abroad,

00:40:14.300 including suppliers

00:40:15.340 in Central Asia

00:40:16.280 and previously Russia.

00:40:18.900 A congressional ban

00:40:19.900 on Russian uranium imports

00:40:21.880 takes effect in 2028,

00:40:23.980 leaving a supply gap

00:40:25.580 unless domestic capacity

00:40:26.980 ramps up very quickly.

00:40:29.320 Industry leaders say

00:40:30.320 rebuilding enrichment capability,

00:40:32.660 once pioneered and dominated

00:40:34.280 by the United States,

00:40:35.780 is now a national security priority.

00:40:39.180 New federal funding

00:40:40.060 has been awarded

00:40:40.680 to companies building

00:40:41.560 enrichment plants

00:40:42.420 in Kentucky,

00:40:43.780 Tennessee,

00:40:44.120 and Ohio,

00:40:44.860 but large-scale production

00:40:46.020 may not reach full capacity

00:40:48.140 until early 2030.

00:40:50.320 The issue exposes

00:40:51.140 decades of policy mistakes

00:40:53.360 that outsourced

00:40:54.700 critical infrastructure

00:40:55.860 while energy demands

00:40:57.400 continue to rise.

00:40:59.080 Reliable baseload power

00:41:00.560 is essential

00:41:01.120 for manufacturing,

00:41:02.560 for artificial intelligence

00:41:04.400 development,

00:41:05.360 and, frankly,

00:41:06.180 for grid stability.

00:41:07.660 And we can't depend on

00:41:08.840 hostile geopolitical rivals

00:41:11.080 for energy.

00:41:11.960 Energy independence

00:41:13.500 is no longer

00:41:14.080 just about oil and gas,

00:41:15.640 but it's also

00:41:16.600 about nuclear fuel.

00:41:18.640 We must have

00:41:19.320 an American-first 0.87

00:41:20.360 nuclear policy,

00:41:22.020 and production

00:41:22.560 must go online

00:41:23.460 as quickly as possible.

00:41:25.080 When America

00:41:25.640 has the determination

00:41:26.820 to get something done,

00:41:28.420 we have shown

00:41:29.100 throughout our history

00:41:30.080 that we really are

00:41:31.420 unstoppable.

00:41:32.640 We need a nuclear policy, 0.97

00:41:34.760 just as Donald Trump

00:41:35.860 has moved us

00:41:36.480 to energy independence

00:41:37.460 when it comes to oil

00:41:38.560 and gas.

00:41:39.340 I'm calling it out

00:41:40.420 right now,

00:41:41.080 here in the Stone Zone.

00:41:42.520 Thanks for joining us today

00:41:43.860 in the Stone Zone.

00:41:44.720 Until tomorrow,

00:41:45.540 God bless you

00:41:46.340 and Godspeed.

00:41:47.660 We'll be right back.

00:42:17.660 Rural Americans

00:42:21.300 deserve access

00:42:22.220 to the best

00:42:23.120 our nation

00:42:23.900 has to offer,

00:42:24.760 especially when it

00:42:25.660 comes to healthcare.

00:42:26.660 Across every state

00:42:27.600 and every community,

00:42:28.760 America's rural hospitals

00:42:30.140 are the first line

00:42:31.380 of defense,

00:42:32.120 protecting our families,

00:42:33.440 neighbors,

00:42:33.900 and loved ones.

00:42:34.680 No matter where you live,

00:42:35.780 hospital care

00:42:36.340 doesn't clock out.

00:42:37.440 They're there

00:42:37.760 24 hours a day,

00:42:39.040 seven days a week,

00:42:39.980 365 days a year.

00:42:42.080 Each year,

00:42:42.720 America's over 0.56

00:42:43.640 5,000 hospitals

00:42:45.000 care for millions

00:42:45.880 of patients,

00:42:46.480 providing 24-7

00:42:47.920 emergency care,

00:42:49.080 delivering babies,

00:42:50.200 cancer treatments,

00:42:51.040 and other

00:42:51.520 life-saving care

00:42:52.500 that patients rely on.

00:42:53.980 Behind every one

00:42:54.740 of those patients

00:42:55.420 are doctors,

00:42:56.420 nurses,

00:42:57.020 and caregivers

00:42:57.620 working tirelessly

00:42:58.820 to keep people

00:42:59.720 healthy and safe.

00:43:00.940 Hospitals are

00:43:01.720 our community's lifelines.

00:43:03.440 They employ our neighbors

00:43:04.800 and keep our families' health.

00:43:06.720 But now,

00:43:07.340 some in Congress

00:43:08.040 are threatening

00:43:08.660 access to care.

00:43:09.760 Tell Congress,

00:43:10.440 protect patient care

00:43:12.260 to keep America strong.

00:43:14.160 Don't cut rural health care.

The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - February 16, 2026

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