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00:00:48.740 Because for the first time in American history, she and her husband are going to be held responsible and accountable for their many illegal deeds.

00:00:59.440 She's very ramped up about the fact that the House Oversight Committee has issued a subpoena for she and her husband.

00:01:06.800 They have both agreed to testify.

00:01:09.260 They've made a great show of saying that they have no links to Jeffrey Epstein, which is laughable.

00:01:13.980 Jeffrey Epstein was at the Clinton White House 17 times based on the records released by the DOJ.

00:01:20.620 And, of course, Epstein was the seeding funder of the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation.

00:01:29.760 Now, back in 2015, I exposed Hillary Clinton as the short-tempered, foul-mouthed, entitled kleptocrat who would actually steal a hot stove. 1.00

00:01:41.360 She and her husband, I think, are the penicillin-resisted syphilis of the American public. 0.85

00:01:47.400 And I wrote it in my book, The Clinton's War on Women.

00:01:50.600 And that was in 2015.

00:01:52.700 I paid a terrific price for that, I'm convinced.

00:01:55.120 Since every single prosecutor on Mueller's hit squad that went after me had previously worked for Hillary Clinton, I think it was a retribution.

00:02:05.200 So I thank God for President Donald Trump, who could see that I was being politically persecuted, squeezed to testify falsely against him, and gave me a full and unconditional presidential pardon.

00:02:17.040 But I suspect that the Hillary Clinton we're going to see on the stand is going to be the same short-tempered one we saw when she was questioned before the U.S. Senate as Secretary of State regarding the 2012 attack on Benghazi.

00:02:30.100 That, of course, took place on September 11, 2012, in Benghazi, Libya.

00:02:35.160 It involved coordinated assaults by Islamic militants on two government facilities, a diplomatic compound referred to as the U.S. Special Mission,

00:02:45.680 and a nearby CIS annex about one mile away.

00:02:50.620 Hillary Clinton has never been honest about this.

00:02:53.160 And when we asked her about, when she was asked about it, she said, quite famously, what difference does it make?

00:03:00.660 It makes a huge difference because Hillary Clinton and her State Department sold us a false narrative.

00:03:08.160 They claimed that this was a spontaneous uprising of insurgents who were spurred on because they had seen a video disrespectful to Islam shown in the country.

00:03:22.100 That is, of course, a completely made-up story.

00:03:26.180 This was a precision military attack.

00:03:28.000 The first attack began around 9.40, 9.45 p.m. local time on September 11, when heavily armed militants estimated to be between 20 and 150 associated with the group in Saar al-Sharia and al-Qaeda affiliates stormed the U.S. diplomatic compound.

00:03:43.960 The attackers very clearly had a blueprint of the property, knew exactly where the safe room was.

00:03:49.600 The attackers breached the main gate, overran parts of the compound, set fires, including to the main building, that would be Villa C, using fuel cans, and used firearms and other weapons.

00:04:01.280 The U.S. ambassador to Libya, you may remember, J. Christopher Stevens, Foreign Service Information Manager-offer Shane Smith, were sheltered in a safe room but ultimately died of smoke inhalation,

00:04:11.940 which did not stop the radicals from dragging their bodies out into the streets and publicly defiling them.

00:04:17.960 This is what Hillary Clinton had wrought. 1.00

00:04:21.520 The diplomatic security agents and others attempted a rescue amid what was reported to be heavy smoke and chaos.

00:04:28.880 The second phase involved attacks on the nearby CIA annex starting around midnight.

00:04:34.260 This is all on Hillary Clinton's watch, but there were no immediate casualties there.

00:04:38.220 A third, more intense, mortar- and rocket-propelled grenade attack on the annex occurred around 4 to 5 o'clock on the following day,

00:04:46.680 killing two CIA security contractors, both former Navy SEALs Tyrone Woods and Glenn Doheny.

00:04:53.960 So four Americans were killed, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Sean Smith, Tyrone Woods, and Glenn Doheny.

00:05:00.360 There were additional injuries as well.

00:05:02.880 An unknown number of Libyan attackers were killed.

00:05:05.600 The attacks were carried out by members of Ansar al-Sharia.

00:05:09.080 Why did Hillary Clinton insist that we had somehow instigated this through the leak of a video and then refused to answer questions about it? 1.00

00:05:18.780 Investigations later concluded the assault was completely premeditated,

00:05:22.300 and that Hillary Clinton and Valerie Jarrett, Susan Rice, and those around her just stoutly lied to the U.S. Senate.

00:05:30.580 I think you get the picture here, but I found that Hillary Clinton was really the one running the show.

00:05:37.120 She very clearly, as I establish in my book, first of all, her husband's presence on Epstein's Island,

00:05:44.260 which is proven in the sworn testimony of at least three of his victims,

00:05:47.980 including Virginia Roberts-Gufresne, who we're supposed to believe committed suicide,

00:05:52.920 puts him in Epstein's Island.

00:05:54.300 This is not really surprising.

00:05:56.360 In my book, I document multiple cases of sexual assault and rape by Bill Clinton.

00:06:03.320 Many of these cases are well known.

00:06:05.500 Now, Jennifer Flowers, that was a long-term consensual relationship,

00:06:09.660 and Monica Lewinsky, I think, was not grounds for impeachment, as disgusting as it may have been. 0.99

00:06:16.220 But Bill Clinton's extraordinary attack on Juanita Broderick, a woman who has become a major voice on the Internet for freedom

00:06:24.480 and a major critic because the pain never goes away.

00:06:28.400 Bill Clinton was then the attorney general.

00:06:30.980 He was preparing to run for governor.

00:06:32.680 She was working at a nursing home. 0.70

00:06:34.520 He invited her to his room.

00:06:36.880 She had been volunteering for his gubernatorial campaign when he assaulted her. 1.00

00:06:41.500 He would famously bite through her upper lip as a technique. 0.92

00:06:48.060 A woman trying to cover her bleeding lips cannot cover her genitals. 1.00

00:06:53.960 There's at least two other reports by Yahoo.com of Clinton using this same disgusting technique. 0.98

00:07:02.020 Then there's Kathleen Willey.

00:07:03.180 She wrote the opening, the foreword, I guess I should say, for my book, The Clinton's War on Women.

00:07:09.300 She was alleged that during 1993, when she worked as a House volunteer, Clinton groped her, fondled her during a meeting in the Oval Office.

00:07:21.600 She detailed this in 1998 on 60 Minutes and in her own book, as well as mine.

00:07:28.360 Pauly Jones, she was paid $800,000 to settle a lawsuit for sexual harassment. 0.98

00:07:36.300 So that essentially stands as an admission of guilt.

00:07:40.380 But the point here, of course, is that it was Hillary Clinton who runs the cover-up. 0.85

00:07:45.920 It's Hillary Clinton who hires the heavy-handed private detectives and the mean lawyers to threaten these women into silence. 1.00

00:07:54.300 I recall also the case of Leslie Milwe, a former TV reporter who came forward in 2016,

00:08:00.260 alleging that Clinton sexually assaulted her three times in 1980 when she was working in Arkansas.

00:08:05.300 In fact, there is substantial evidence that Bill Clinton, who attended Oxford very famously as a Rhodes Scholar,

00:08:12.820 very interestingly never got his certificate.

00:08:17.640 He would later be given an honorary degree at Oxford, but he would withdraw very suspiciously from the Oxford program.

00:08:25.680 Now, the U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas was incredibly powerful in the U.S. Senate.

00:08:34.200 In fact, the scholarship that Bill Clinton got is known as the Rhodes Scholarship.

00:08:41.120 The very powerful Senator J. William Fulbright pulled strings to get Bill Clinton into Oxford.

00:08:48.520 But he very interestingly, he was accused there of sexually assaulting a woman named Eileen Wellstone.

00:08:55.640 Wellstone reported the complaint with Oxford University authorities at the time, alleging assault,

00:09:00.980 though some retellings say rape, but no charges were ever brought, no action ever taken against Clinton.

00:09:06.340 Clinton claims that he withdrew because he was accepted at Yale Law School,

00:09:12.420 but I believe that that, too, is a cover-up. 0.90

00:09:15.540 So you have here two epic liars. 0.98

00:09:18.740 The only thing the Clintons do better than lying is stealing. 0.98

00:09:22.380 We know, for example, that during Barack Obama's time,

00:09:25.920 that an investigation by the FBI into the pay-for-play operations of the Clinton Foundation

00:09:34.080 were stopped cold.

00:09:37.760 So the question here is, will they ever really be completely held responsible?

00:09:42.900 Hillary Clinton says they have no links.

00:09:44.700 She says her husband was on the plane a few times.

00:09:46.960 Turns out that number is 27 times.

00:09:50.860 It is high time that these folks are questioned under oath.

00:09:55.900 And as I say, I paid a very high price because I feel like I was targeted by telling their epic story.

00:10:01.460 It is a story of extraordinary greed, hubris.

00:10:08.380 I really think that she's the one with the drive.

00:10:11.580 The most interesting thing about it, of course, is if you think you dislike the Obamas,

00:10:16.560 no one dislikes them more than the Clintons.

00:10:18.860 In fact, the two couples cordially dislike each other,

00:10:22.240 although they have to cover for each other because they know each other's secrets.

00:10:26.740 Hillary Clinton never quite got over the fact that the party passed her up 1.00

00:10:30.260 to elect and nominate a little-known U.S. Senator, Barack Obama, in 2008.

00:10:36.220 This causes enormous bitterness.

00:10:38.960 The Clintons really could not understand how they could be denied a presidential nomination.

00:10:43.980 After all, Hillary Clinton had been the first lady and the secretary of state.

00:10:50.640 So Barack Obama kind of catches a wave here, realizing that the people don't like dynasties.

00:10:59.760 They don't want any more Bushes, and they don't want any more Clintons.

00:11:02.440 And they're tired of the scandal of weak under Bill and Hillary.

00:11:06.540 That causes enormous bitterness.

00:11:09.660 Bill Clinton actually says to Ted Kennedy,

00:11:12.140 with amazement at Obama's ability to beat his wife and says,

00:11:18.440 you know, Ted, back in the old days, this boy would be fetching us coffee.

00:11:23.340 To which Senator Ted Kennedy was so outraged, he immediately endorsed Barack Obama for president.

00:11:30.900 So there's probably no love lost as this moves forward.

00:11:36.100 Barack Obama, of course, because he was president under the same Supreme Court decision

00:11:40.720 that shields Donald Trump from frivolous attacks,

00:11:44.100 he too would have that same constitutional protection.

00:11:48.480 In the meanwhile, President Donald Trump today honoring Rush Limbaugh.

00:11:52.760 It's appropriate here we are on radio to talk about the great L. Rushbow.

00:11:56.720 President Trump honored the conservative broadcasting legend.

00:11:59.340 It was the fifth anniversary of his passing,

00:12:01.640 remembering Rush as the patriot who helped shape modern American conservatism.

00:12:06.480 I remember that we would constantly text ditto, ditto.

00:12:09.980 We were ditto heads, those who agreed with the great Rush Limbaugh.

00:12:14.740 President correctly recalls Limbaugh endorsed him in 2015

00:12:17.980 before the two had ever even personally met.

00:12:21.160 According to the president, that early support signaled a turning point

00:12:24.520 in the Republican primary and nomination process

00:12:27.420 and energized grassroots voters across the country

00:12:30.940 as the mainstream media tried to delegitimize Donald Trump's candidacy.

00:12:36.460 Limbaugh passed away now.

00:12:37.800 It was February 17, 2021, at age 70.

00:12:41.100 After battling lung cancer, he was famously a cigar smoker.

00:12:45.380 For more than three decades, Rush Limbaugh's nationally syndicated program

00:12:49.360 literally educated millions of Americans,

00:12:52.540 redefining talk radio as the political force it is.

00:12:55.440 I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing right now

00:12:57.560 if Rush Limbaugh had not gone before me.

00:13:00.880 To conservatives, Limbaugh wasn't just a commentator.

00:13:03.380 He was a counterweight to the mass hysteria of the liberal media establishment

00:13:08.500 who very rarely told us the truth

00:13:11.320 and were entirely hostile to traditional conservative values.

00:13:15.480 I loved Rush Limbaugh's wit, his unapologetic patriotism,

00:13:19.180 his defense of free markets, limited government,

00:13:21.320 and American exceptionalism, built one of the most loyal audiences in broadcast history.

00:13:26.260 President Trump awarded Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

00:13:29.740 That was in 2020 at the State of the Union,

00:13:32.280 calling it the recognition of a career spent defending the country

00:13:35.700 and its founding principles.

00:13:38.500 On this day, we honor Rush Limbaugh.

00:13:41.880 The president offered condolences to his family,

00:13:44.580 saying his influence remains deep, felt across the movement he himself helped build.

00:13:49.560 Yes, right here on The Stone Zone.

00:13:51.720 Rush Limbaugh, rest in peace.

00:13:53.900 We'll be right back.

00:13:55.320 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

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00:17:29.780 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:17:42.560 Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.

00:17:46.620 Roger Stone was persecuted.

00:17:47.840 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.

00:17:50.940 Now, get in the zone. 0.94

00:17:52.740 It's the Stone Zone.

00:17:54.780 Here's Roger Stone.

00:17:56.340 Amber jumping right back into the Stone Zone. 1.00

00:18:00.520 CNN has done it again.

00:18:01.940 Now, I don't get my news from CNN for the same reason I don't drink out of the toilet.

00:18:06.180 But the fake news network, or she would call it the Clinton News Network, never ceases to amaze me.

00:18:12.680 Now, CNN anchor Pamela Brown announced that an upcoming hour-long documentary

00:18:17.860 warning Americans about the alleged rise of Christian nationalism,

00:18:21.920 tying it directly to the September 2025 assassination of my good friend, Turning Point founder, Charlie Kirk.

00:18:28.600 Once again, they continue to smear Charlie Kirk as a racist, as a bigot, or as a militant,

00:18:34.980 when what Charlie was, was a Christian.

00:18:37.380 In a preview, Brown describes Kirk's murder as a rallying call that supposedly mobilized Christians

00:18:43.320 and aligned them politically with the Trump administration.

00:18:46.180 This demonstrates how fake the news is.

00:18:47.920 The young conservative activist was gunned down in cold blood, in broad daylight,

00:18:52.700 merely for speaking his mind.

00:18:54.240 And the media response is not to be concerned about political violence from the radical left,

00:18:58.180 but rather suspicious towards the people who mourn him.

00:19:01.000 This is outrageous.

00:19:02.560 Charlie Kirk was known for encouraging civic engagement among young conservatives,

00:19:06.540 but he spoke openly about his Christian faith.

00:19:08.900 He became a major advocate for my final pardon, unconditional presidential pardon.

00:19:14.780 He told me to pray for it.

00:19:16.540 He knew that I had achieved no crime.

00:19:18.920 Charlie Kirk didn't really run in my circles.

00:19:21.620 He reached out to me immediately after the FBI raided my home

00:19:25.300 and told me that he would talk to the president on my behalf,

00:19:29.700 but more importantly, he would pray, and he urged me to pray.

00:19:33.260 We are all the poorer for Charlie not being with us.

00:19:37.740 It's outrageous that CNN is back to trying to smear him again.

00:19:41.260 This is part and parcel of what we've seen where teachers and other people on the public payroll

00:19:48.400 have actually celebrated his death.

00:19:52.260 It continues to haunt me and to aggravate me.

00:19:55.900 He has rightfully become the martyr for a cause of Christianity and conservative in the aftermath.

00:20:00.400 By this documentary by CNN, attempts to denigrate Charlie Kirk's legacy

00:20:04.200 by claiming that the moral services and the public grief that we all felt

00:20:07.820 was radicalizing among some segment of the population.

00:20:12.200 The reality is very, very different.

00:20:14.820 Faith leaders reported 15% increase in church attendance after the tragedy,

00:20:19.160 a healthy spiritual response to violence by people looking for answers in the Bible.

00:20:23.760 These are the people who want peace.

00:20:25.760 We are not the problem.

00:20:26.980 The fake news wants us to be on the target list.

00:20:29.340 No doubt many of these media attacks were secretly happy when they heard Kirk was slain.

00:20:33.800 These are true fish-faced enemies of the people.

00:20:37.860 Continuing to kick, in this case, a corpse, is nothing short of vile.

00:20:43.160 But over at CNN, ratings are slipping.

00:20:45.780 The money is tight.

00:20:47.480 The talent has mostly been fired.

00:20:49.880 And this is what they come back with.

00:20:52.300 You're listening to The Stone Zone right here on the Red Apple Audio Networks.

00:20:56.820 When we come back, well, that cryberry Stephen Colbert is whining again

00:21:01.160 about being canned at CBS.

00:21:03.380 I never thought he was particularly funny.

00:21:06.400 I did like when he did Daft Funk's Get Lucky as a long-form dance number.

00:21:12.280 But his political shtick never really got to me.

00:21:16.180 And then as time went on, he got more viciously anti-Trump and more nasty

00:21:20.260 about attacking those with whom he disagreed.

00:21:22.860 I don't mind liberal commentary,

00:21:24.580 but there's no reason to launch the kind of personal invective

00:21:28.520 that Stephen Colbert seemed to trade in.

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00:22:11.100 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:22:14.880 Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.

00:22:18.780 Roger Stone was persecuted.

00:22:20.000 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.

00:22:23.060 Now, get him a zone.

00:22:24.640 It's The Stone Zone.

00:22:26.540 Here's Roger Stone.

00:22:28.960 And we're back in The Stone Zone.

00:22:31.280 Whatever happened to late-night comics and late-night talk shows?

00:22:34.980 I'm talking about people like Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Jay Leno.

00:22:40.400 They didn't come with some heavy political agenda,

00:22:43.740 but Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, and their ilk.

00:22:49.100 All you get is vicious, anti-Trump, nasty politics,

00:22:53.120 and disrespect for anyone who has traditional values.

00:22:57.440 Late-night host Stephen Colbert, he used to be funny.

00:23:01.100 But as time went on and he moved over to CBS,

00:23:04.760 where he was fired only two weeks ago for lack of public interest,

00:23:09.460 he got increasingly vicious.

00:23:11.920 Now, he's feuding with his own network because CBS declined to air an interview that he conducted

00:23:17.940 with a Democrat U.S. Senate candidate in Texas named James Tallarico.

00:23:23.280 Tallarico is a state legislator with very little money and little prospect of winning that race.

00:23:29.200 Democrats are hoping to astroturf this guy Tallarico as kind of their next superstar,

00:23:36.320 citing federal broadcast rules requiring equal time for opposing candidates.

00:23:41.420 So now, in histrionic fashion, Colbert mocked the network on the air,

00:23:45.620 wrapping the company's statement in a dog waste bag and throwing it away,

00:23:49.640 then posted in the interview online where it got millions of views.

00:23:54.020 You see, the dispute centers on the Federal Communications Commission's equal time rule,

00:23:59.080 designed to prevent broadcasters from using public airways for favoring one political candidate over another.

00:24:05.540 So, in other words, if Colbert wants to interview Mr. Tallarico,

00:24:10.140 he would have to interview all of the federally registered candidates for the U.S. Senate.

00:24:16.940 The CBS lawyers are right.

00:24:18.460 They warned the segment could trigger legal obligations to provide airtime to all of the opposing candidates,

00:24:25.160 something networks, of course, historically avoid by staying clear of all these candidate interviews.

00:24:30.660 Colbert, however, thinks he's bigger than all that.

00:24:33.080 He complained that the rule is rarely enforced against late-night shows

00:24:37.200 and accused the network of not standing up to regulators.

00:24:41.200 But the controversy exposes a longer-standing double standard.

00:24:44.760 Entertainment programs that function as partisan platforms, like Kimmel and his ilk,

00:24:52.460 while claiming exemption from legal accountability.

00:24:55.240 For years, late-night television targeted our president,

00:24:59.280 constantly attacking him, rarely having any pushback.

00:25:03.620 The equal time rule exists precisely to prevent taxpayer-licensed broadcasters

00:25:08.340 from becoming campaign vehicles.

00:25:11.120 CBS is owned by Paramount Global,

00:25:13.260 which has already announced Colbert's show will end in May for financial reasons,

00:25:18.800 even though the host has hinted that politics played a role.

00:25:22.140 But Colbert could be planning a second career,

00:25:25.300 like Ronald Reagan, who was a movie actor.

00:25:28.420 Colbert, who's basically an entertainer,

00:25:30.520 has joked about the possibility of running for president.

00:25:35.440 Given the paucity of the Democrat field,

00:25:38.900 it's not the worst idea I've ever heard.

00:25:41.260 Pat Paulson, who was, like Colbert, a comedian,

00:25:46.340 ran famously a faux candidate for president back in the 1900s and 2000s,

00:25:52.900 and got a huge amount of publicity doing so.

00:25:56.260 The late-night talk show format will be obsolete very long.

00:25:59.480 In the age of YouTube, it was a long-form podcast.

00:26:02.260 It really serves no purpose.

00:26:03.540 This was one of the reasons why Colbert's ratings were down.

00:26:06.960 Now, Colbert is now talking openly about his next career. 0.99

00:26:12.500 He would certainly fit right in with the men are liars, dirtbags, 0.97

00:26:15.740 and lowlives within the Democrat politics, 0.98

00:26:17.680 but he does have name ID,

00:26:19.940 and name ID in today's political world is worth a fortune.

00:26:24.440 He brings that to the table.

00:26:26.480 Beyond that, their field, I think, is pretty thin.

00:26:29.480 You have Gavin Newsom, whose scandals grow by the day.

00:26:34.220 Literally tens, if not hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer money

00:26:38.960 just literally disappearing into housing projects,

00:26:42.600 and homeless projects, and social projects.

00:26:46.240 The greatest theft I've ever seen.

00:26:49.620 Dwarfing what we're seeing in Minnesota.

00:26:52.100 You have J.B. Pritzker.

00:26:55.140 He funds the entire Democrat Party of Illinois, top to bottom.

00:27:01.440 Pritzker famously didn't want to live any place,

00:27:04.500 so he bought the mansion next door to his in the very tony suburbs of Chicago.

00:27:11.280 But he had all of the toilets ripped out of the house,

00:27:15.080 so it had a different tax classification,

00:27:17.300 allowing him to save tens of thousands of dollars on property taxes.

00:27:23.220 He, of course, has presided over the crime fest that is Chicago.

00:27:29.260 When confronted about Chicago's zoaring crime rates in every category,

00:27:34.940 the governor simply lies and said,

00:27:38.820 no, no, things are going well.

00:27:41.000 He and the mayor of Chicago, Brandon Johnson,

00:27:44.280 he's got an approval rating of 6,

00:27:47.500 which is probably also about his IQ,

00:27:50.340 have done everything possible to prevent the Chicago police

00:27:54.240 from coming to the aid of ICE agents

00:27:57.180 who are legally performing arrests in the city of Chicago.

00:28:05.560 AOC is not the improbable candidate you might think she is. 0.67

00:28:10.240 She has instant name ID.

00:28:12.180 She has a multi-million dollar, million followers, social media following.

00:28:18.860 She's not terribly bright, but I'm not sure the Democrat Party that means.

00:28:23.640 And she would be a magnet for low-dollar online contributions,

00:28:28.140 probably through ActBlue,

00:28:30.300 the very controversial Democrat payment processing company online,

00:28:37.140 which is currently under federal investigation by the Trump administration.

00:28:41.180 Some Democrats dream of a moderate governor out of, say, North Carolina or Tennessee.

00:28:49.260 I think that is unlikely to happen.

00:28:51.680 The Democrat Party that could produce such a nominee, I think, is dead.

00:28:56.580 The old Democrat Party of Harry Truman and John F. Kennedy.

00:29:00.400 I think you've got to look for the center of gravity,

00:29:03.360 Mamdami, Bernie Sanders.

00:29:06.140 She's amazing to watch Bernie.

00:29:08.140 Now, Bernie used to vilify millionaires and billionaires.

00:29:11.400 He hates anybody with money.

00:29:13.080 Now he only vilifies billionaires.

00:29:16.380 Why is that?

00:29:17.320 Well, it's because Bernie Sanders and his wife became millionaires

00:29:20.680 by receiving media placement fees

00:29:24.320 from both of Bernie's extremely well-funded campaigns for president.

00:29:29.180 Is that illegal?

00:29:30.360 No.

00:29:31.180 Is it unethical?

00:29:32.260 Well, I think that it is unethical if you don't inform your donors.

00:29:36.620 So with Bernie Sanders, he wants you to wear sandals and sleep on the floor.

00:29:42.880 But he, of course, has multiple vacation homes.

00:29:46.320 He's driving a top-of-the-line Mercedes.

00:29:49.440 He's kind of like communism for thee, but not for me.

00:29:53.920 But that's where the center of gravity is in the Democrat Party today.

00:29:59.480 Other than that, I don't think they have a bench.

00:30:01.720 Republican Party has an extraordinary bench.

00:30:04.060 I think that's becoming clearer and clearer.

00:30:06.080 Vice President J.D. Vance would have to be considered the favorite

00:30:09.560 in any contest for the Republican nomination,

00:30:11.760 given the great traditions of our party.

00:30:14.300 But no one can deny that Marco Rubio is making an enormous mark

00:30:19.200 on the American public and certainly on the Republican Party.

00:30:22.340 President Trump has openly called for a Vance-Marco ticket,

00:30:27.520 although Marco continues to say at this time he's really just focused

00:30:31.220 on doing the job he has.

00:30:33.500 Of course, Tulsi Gabbard has emerged as a star,

00:30:36.720 first for her declassification of all of the Russian collusion proof

00:30:43.180 that Donald Trump was targeted in a seditious conspiracy by Barack Obama,

00:30:48.080 a seditious conspiracy that began in the Oval Office in 2016,

00:30:53.420 continued through the Russian collusion hope based on two pieces of falsified evidence.

00:30:58.740 The Steele dossier and the false claim to the Democrat National Committee

00:31:03.740 had been the target of a hack by Russian intelligence.

00:31:08.160 morphs into the Mueller investigation, which is never rationalized.

00:31:15.240 Also, the same fake information is used to justify a FISA warrant,

00:31:21.380 allowing the Obama administration to spy on Donald Trump as a candidate

00:31:27.880 and to continue to spy on him after he was president-elect.

00:31:32.900 President Trump, of course, exposed them.

00:31:35.760 He went public saying that they spied on his campaign.

00:31:39.400 The mainstream media continues to deny it.

00:31:42.100 They deny it to this day.

00:31:43.840 I love that interview with Leslie Stahl when he just shuts her down and says,

00:31:48.860 there is no proof.

00:31:49.900 Actually, the proof is overwhelming.

00:31:52.600 And now, just in the last week, we learned incredibly this is not the first time.

00:31:57.220 See, after Richard Nixon was pardoned,

00:31:58.760 He was legally required to sit for six hours of grand jury testimony about various issues.

00:32:06.900 And at the very end of that testimony, there is a section that has been sealed

00:32:11.180 and has been classified until very recently.

00:32:15.100 It has now been made public.

00:32:17.940 In it, Richard Nixon discloses that when he was president,

00:32:21.400 he learned that the deep state, specifically the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

00:32:25.980 were spying on his administration, specifically that a naval yeoman named Radford

00:32:32.140 was actively copying documents from files, briefcases, desktops, desk draws,

00:32:40.260 throughout the NSA operation.

00:32:43.120 Also, sometimes traveled with General Al Haig, was able to get information there.

00:32:48.140 And those photocopies went immediately to Admiral Wielander,

00:32:54.940 who would then index them and send them to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chairman Thomas Moore.

00:33:01.140 Now, when Nixon learned about this, he correctly said it was treason,

00:33:04.780 and he wanted to prosecute.

00:33:07.460 What was their motive?

00:33:08.900 Very simply, Nixon wanted to end the war in Vietnam.

00:33:12.620 The deep state did not.

00:33:14.060 Nixon wanted to achieve a nuclear arms agreement with the Soviets,

00:33:19.760 a strategic arms limitation agreement with the Soviets.

00:33:23.140 The deep state opposed that.

00:33:25.620 Nixon would be successful.

00:33:27.560 Nixon had decided to reach out to China in an effort to try to use them as leverage

00:33:35.380 in his negotiations with Russia.

00:33:37.900 Nixon understood something Joe Biden never understood,

00:33:40.300 which is that the Chinese and the Russians, although they are both technically communists

00:33:45.120 and in autocratic systems, they have a long mutual border and many decades of distrust between them.

00:33:52.380 So Nixon skillfully drove a wedge in order to end the war in Vietnam

00:33:58.220 and in order to open the door to China.

00:34:02.260 Those who criticize Nixon for the China move really don't get it.

00:34:06.720 At the time that Nixon did the formal outreach to Red China,

00:34:11.320 they were a dirt-poor, backwards, agrarian society where very few people had indoor plumbing. 1.00

00:34:18.620 Rural areas did not yet have electricity.

00:34:21.820 They were extremely low-tech.

00:34:25.240 Their military was not thought to be harmful, or I should say not to be worthy,

00:34:30.900 of a clash with the United States.

00:34:32.440 Today, they are the malignant problem they are because President Bill Clinton gave them

00:34:39.160 most favored nation trading status.

00:34:42.500 Bill Clinton gave them that status in return for illegal campaign contributions.

00:34:48.800 Clinton also, I believe, and I say this in my book, The Clinton's War on Women,

00:34:52.820 I think he sold the Chinese missile-targeting technology in return for Chinese funny money 0.85

00:35:00.640 in his 19, I guess it would be his first re-election, a race that he began behind.

00:35:08.440 So I think that the sins of the Clintons are about to spell out for us.

00:35:15.380 We're all going to see this because Hillary Clinton is not happy that she's being held to account. 1.00

00:35:20.620 Meanwhile, the Trump administration is moving to protect the rapidly growing prediction market economy

00:35:26.720 from state-level regulation meant to put it out of commissions.

00:35:30.240 These are websites in which people can bet on outcomes of public issues.

00:35:35.200 The Trump administration's Commodities Future Trading Commission announced

00:35:38.280 that it would defend federal authority over betting-style derivative markets

00:35:42.980 and warn states that it's prepared to sue if the states attempt to ban them.

00:35:47.500 These should be correctly regulated at the federal level.

00:35:51.820 The chairman of the Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Mike Seelig, a Trump appointee,

00:35:59.180 said the agency filed a legal brief asserting its exclusive jurisdiction,

00:36:04.920 arguing prediction markets have existed for decades.

00:36:07.500 These are really not new.

00:36:08.840 And serve legitimate economic purposes.

00:36:10.960 According to the CFTC, these markets allow Americans and businesses to hedge real-world risks

00:36:17.260 from energy prices to weather outcomes, while also acting as a market-based check

00:36:22.460 on media narratives and public forecasting.

00:36:25.780 I'm not talking about corruption where people who are inside the system know that there's going

00:36:30.380 to be some public revelation or decision or event and cash in on it.

00:36:35.060 We saw somebody at the FBI do that when it came to the arrest of Nicolas Maduro,

00:36:40.020 and they were very quickly apprehended.

00:36:42.540 But several states now, like Nevada, Massachusetts, and, of course, New York,

00:36:46.520 have launched legal challenges largely tied to sports-related events offered by prediction market platforms.

00:36:53.580 The Utah's Republican Senator Spencer Cox, one of the weakest sisters among the anti-Trump moderates,

00:37:00.760 blasted the move, calling the products gambling and vowing a constitutional court fight.

00:37:06.900 Not surprising that Spencer Cox, who is a never-Trumper to his core, 0.92

00:37:12.400 would be opposed to these free market innovations that are making people money

00:37:17.700 and providing some hedge against the future.

00:37:21.300 I'm Roger Stone.

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00:37:57.860 Roger Stone was persecuted.

00:37:59.420 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.

00:38:02.480 Now, get him a zone.

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00:38:10.600 Well, he's added, again, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky,

00:38:15.460 the actor-comedian who the oligarchs in Ukraine have selected to act as their president.

00:38:21.620 He's criticizing President Trump's peace approach as negotiations to end the war with Russia continue right now in Switzerland.

00:38:30.220 Zelensky is complaining that it's not fair that the United States is urging Ukraine to consider compromises

00:38:35.740 rather than placing all the pressure on Moscow.

00:38:38.260 Yet, behind closed doors, Ukrainian officials are acknowledging a workable agreement will almost certainly require territorial concessions significant enough to require a national referendum.

00:38:49.180 You see, the last thing Zelensky wants in his country is an election.

00:38:52.820 So, all of those neokines and all of those Ukrainian enthusiasts who love shipping billions of dollars to Ukraine will tell you it's about democracy with a small d.

00:39:05.980 But the truth is, Volodymyr Zelensky is no Democrat, small d.

00:39:10.500 He has postponed elections now indefinitely because of the war.

00:39:14.600 But he also arrests reporters.

00:39:17.280 He shuts down newspapers.

00:39:19.540 He shuts down radio stations.

00:39:22.120 They've even outlawed the largest church in the country.

00:39:25.720 So, this is not in any way about democracy.

00:39:29.080 And the NATO countries that are pushing Zelensky forward in this war against Ukraine are well aware of the fact that the United States signed an agreement with Russia,

00:39:42.140 the Budapest Memorandum, in which we specifically agreed not to push Ukraine into NATO,

00:39:49.420 which more precisely means not to allow Ukraine to have NATO-financed missiles that were paid for by you and I on the ground pointed at Russia.

00:40:01.040 We reaffirmed our agreement not to push Ukraine into NATO in the Minsk Accords, additional documents that we signed with the Soviets,

00:40:12.220 but we have not honored either one of them.

00:40:14.340 This is really about money because, you see, through the EU, all of these nations that are pushing Zelensky forward get a huge infusion of cash, theoretically, to rebuild their military strength.

00:40:27.820 Now, sources tell me that a lot of graft will come out of this.

00:40:32.520 Elon Musk and Congressman Tim Burchett have both said they have seen evidence that a lot of the money that we paid for the war in Ukraine

00:40:41.820 made its way back to the pockets of American politicians, and Elon intimated that some politicians actually have unnumbered Swiss bank accounts.

00:40:52.140 Now, I have my ideas in mind.

00:40:55.660 I don't want to say any names, Lindsey Graham, but this guy is so eager for war, it's unbelievable.

00:41:00.780 He wants to bomb first and ask questions later.

00:41:03.940 He's the very definition of a warmonger.

00:41:07.940 He will go to war for any reason.

00:41:10.420 He was a major cheerleader for the war in Iraq.

00:41:13.700 He was a major cheerleader for the war in Ukraine.

00:41:16.900 He was only mildly satisfied with President Trump's lightning-like limited strikes on Iran to take out their nuclear weapons facility.

00:41:28.780 Lindsey Graham was cheerleading for a full-scale invasion. 1.00

00:41:32.920 I've never seen anyone get so excited with bloodlust as Lindsey Graham.

00:41:38.020 So if there is a senator taking bribes, and I'm not saying there is, I'm saying it has been reported by an eminent congressman and Elon Musk.

00:41:47.320 Elon Musk, the first guy to call out Steve Bannon, correctly saying that Bannon would be embarrassed by the Epstein files,

00:41:54.240 and now Bannon caught in that web.

00:41:56.120 Bannon, more bad news for him, being sued over his management of a Bitcoin company, the FJB Bitcoin.

00:42:05.440 That is a class action suit. 0.99

00:42:08.380 That could be big problems for Big Steve, who's trying to justify his advising a serial child rapist and sex trafficker,

00:42:18.300 claiming it's all about a movie he's never produced. 0.89

00:42:22.520 It really isn't going to wash. 1.00

00:42:24.000 This is the same Steve Bannon who says in his vile emails to Epstein that Trump is stupid, 1.00

00:42:29.380 that Trump should be removed by the 25th Amendment, 0.99

00:42:32.880 and that he, not Donald Trump, but he, Stephen J. Bannon, is the center of the movement.

00:42:39.100 You're listening to The Stone Zone, and we'll be back tomorrow with more politics and more of the inside skin.

00:42:46.900 Ta-ta! 0.99

00:43:16.900 It does feel very similar to what we experienced in the 90s.

00:43:20.640 Where are we, though? Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?

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