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00:00:49.760 You are now entering the Stone Zone, and I'm your host, Roger Stone.

00:00:56.520 So tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern, Americans will hear from President Donald Trump as he delivers the first official State of the Union address of his improbable second term.

00:01:09.800 He'll be talking about the momentum that has culminated behind the new American renewal.

00:01:14.420 The White House is signaling a confident, forward-looking speech centered on economic stability, affordability, and national strength.

00:01:24.080 Listeners can expect the president to highlight the administration's work against inflation, improving markets, and a labor climate that is helping working families make ends meet again.

00:01:35.780 The tone will likely emphasize that after a turbulent decade, the country is finally moving forward, predictably and towards normalcy, including lower energy costs and renewed domestic investment.

00:01:50.240 Immigration and border policy will be another pillar of the president's speech, I predict.

00:01:54.640 The president is expected to point out that border enforcement policies have dramatically reduced illegal crossings and restored law and order, not only an economic achievement, but also an extraordinary feat in terms of humanitarianism.

00:02:10.640 The president is also expected to promote election integrity legislation and culture war issues that energize his MAGA base.

00:02:19.880 Foreign policy could take a larger role than usual, considering the advent of the Don Roe Doctrine in the Americas and the potential for conflict with Iran abroad.

00:02:32.760 I expect the president to issue yet another warning to the Iranian regime in tonight's remarks. 1.00

00:02:39.320 The administration wants Americans to see a stronger negotiating posture, meaning pressure on our adversaries, support for our allies, and targeted operations against cartel violence, which will restore deterrence without causing long, endless foreign wars.

00:02:57.640 This is vintage peace through strength.

00:03:00.680 This is vintage peace through strength.

00:03:30.660 And billions of billions of dollars of expenditures.

00:03:34.200 This whole peace through strength is an important hallmark of conservative rather than neoconservative foreign policy.

00:03:42.840 Inside the chamber, of course, he'll stand behind Vice President J.D. Vance and House Speaker Mike Johnson, with the trio, I think, projecting party unity towards the upcoming midterms.

00:03:55.440 I expect a long speech.

00:03:57.980 Well, that's Donald Trump and an optimistic one as we look forward to the next chapter of the MAGA revolution, which, again, was defined by stability at home, leverage overseas and a pitch that the administration's policies are delivering measurable results for everyday Americans.

00:04:18.800 Meanwhile, in the Garden State, New Jersey Democrats are escalating their fight against ICE, and they're not sugarcoating their immense hatred for federal law enforcement.

00:04:30.180 Lawmakers in the state assembly introduced the Fight Unlawful Conduct and Keep Individuals and Communities Empowered Act.

00:04:39.280 I'll let you determine what vulgar acronym that might stand for. 0.54

00:04:44.520 This bill targets immigration and customs enforcement by allowing individuals to sue in state court over alleged constitutional violations tied to federal immigration arrests.

00:04:56.400 What's disappointing me is the F-ICE Act is a simple attempt to intimidate federal agents and obstruct enforcement of national immigration law.

00:05:07.100 What's even more disappointing is a substantial number of Republican assemblymen and Republican state senators in the Garden State who are supporting this outrageous legislation.

00:05:19.620 These are what we call RINOs, Republicans in name only.

00:05:23.760 The bill is part of a broader package designed to block cooperation with immigration authorities.

00:05:31.080 Other measures would bar former federal immigration agents from state employment, tax detention facilities that house illegal immigrants, restrict federal agents at crime scenes, and even prohibit the use of state property for enforcement operations.

00:05:47.480 New Jersey's new governor, Mickey Sherrill, issued an order of preventing ICE from using state property and encouraged residents to film interactions with federal officers.

00:06:02.700 The Department of Homeland Security says elected officials are blaming officers instead of addressing the consequences of illegal immigration.

00:06:10.800 The legislation follows recent arrests near a transit station where local officials have openly confronted federal authorities.

00:06:20.520 This is part of the nationwide effort by Democrats to help illegal aliens break the law. 0.85

00:06:26.880 They want them here so they can ultimately give them amnesty, allow them to swindle the taxpayers, as we've seen in Minnesota, hook them up with benefits galore,

00:06:36.040 so they will openly, ultimately vote for Democrats in perpetuity.

00:06:41.440 That's the plan, and it will mean the death of the republic.

00:06:45.000 This must be stopped at all costs.

00:06:47.600 Deport them all and start treating Democrat leaders who aid and abet illegal immigrants as enemy combatants. 0.98

00:06:54.160 I think that is the only answer.

00:06:56.320 Meanwhile, former U.S. pandemic advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci is scheduled to headline the Health Tech Global Summit in Basel, Switzerland,

00:07:06.960 a corporate-sponsored industry conference backed by pharmaceutical giant Roche.

00:07:12.380 This business gathering features executives from J&J, Novoritis, GlaxoSmithKline, Bayer, Merkin Company, Sandoz, and other companies

00:07:24.540 that all played major commercial roles during the COVID-19 pandemic through the proliferation of vaccinations, testing, treatments, and supply contracts.

00:07:36.020 Roche alone received multiple emergency authorizations for COVID-diagnostic tests.

00:07:42.380 J&J produced a federally authorized vaccination.

00:07:47.140 Merck developed antiviral treatments, other manufactured therapies, antibodies, and pandemic medical infrastructure,

00:07:55.120 soaping up historic government spending and benefiting from the mass hysteria pushed by bureaucrats like Fauci.

00:08:03.560 To this day, I don't understand how it is legal, but evidently it is.

00:08:07.620 For Dr. Fauci and his wife, who was also a federal health official,

00:08:12.520 to make millions of dollars on the very vaccinations that they attempted to mandate for the American people.

00:08:21.000 Fauci, of course, led the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases during the COVID crisis,

00:08:27.020 which he created through his support of gain-of-function mad science that was at first officially denied under oath,

00:08:34.740 considered a conspiracy theory, and banned from social media, but is now pretty widely accepted as a fact.

00:08:42.720 Now, Dr. Fauci is set to speak on the lessons from COVID and the future of artificial intelligence and medical surveillance and diagnostic.

00:08:53.120 Technology is expected to become the next major profit center for these global pharmaceutical firms.

00:08:59.980 The public face of sweeping lockdowns, mandates, and emergency powers is appearing alongside corporations that are more powerful than ever.

00:09:11.240 It's clear to me that they're receiving marching orders from the Mengele of our area. 1.00

00:09:16.880 This is not acceptable.

00:09:18.880 Dr. Fauci needs to be brought up on charges of crimes against humanity,

00:09:22.340 and, I believe, obviously, lying under oath to Congress,

00:09:26.780 and, if convicted in a court of law,

00:09:29.880 imprisoned for the rest of his life for his cause in causing the COVID-19 and its brutal aftermath.

00:09:36.440 Anything less?

00:09:38.160 Well, we'll be inviting another nightmare like the lockdowns that happened before.

00:09:44.060 Meanwhile, four years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine,

00:09:47.580 the war grinds on and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky refuses to admit reality.

00:09:55.220 In a weekend interview that I saw,

00:09:57.880 Zelensky declared that he will not surrender any territory in the eastern Donbass region

00:10:03.460 and still considers victory to mean restoring Ukraine's 1991 borders,

00:10:09.500 reclaiming every inch seized by Russia since 2022.

00:10:13.480 Zelensky insists that Ukraine will take the land in time,

00:10:18.820 but admits that his country lacks the manpower and the weapons to do so today

00:10:23.060 and is demanding more Western support to make it possible.

00:10:27.420 Meanwhile, President Donald Trump has repeatedly urged Kiev to face the grim reality.

00:10:33.600 Prolonging this war could cost hundreds of thousands of more lives,

00:10:37.720 while the battlefield situation continues, sadly, to favor Moscow.

00:10:43.400 Of course, this does not matter to Zelensky,

00:10:45.700 as he was installed by the globalists and not backed by popular elections.

00:10:50.120 Again, he's an actor-comedian who I believe was essentially hired to play the role of a Ukrainian president.

00:10:57.840 He doesn't have to worry about the people,

00:10:59.800 because he barks orders while standing in front of a green screen.

00:11:03.620 And don't let them tell you it's about democracy,

00:11:07.440 because he has repeatedly postponed elections.

00:11:10.440 At the same time, he arrests journalists, closes down newspapers, closes down radio stations.

00:11:16.800 He's even outlawed the single largest church in the country.

00:11:21.560 Zelensky is also pushing for sweeping concessions from the West,

00:11:25.300 including NATO troops stationed in Ukraine, backed by U.S. air power,

00:11:30.240 and a 30-year American security guarantee, before holding any elections.

00:11:36.140 Russian officials have flatly rejected those demands and maintained

00:11:39.500 any peace deal requires Ukraine to abandon contested territories

00:11:44.100 and permanently rule out NATO membership.

00:11:47.820 That's the heart of this entire issue, really.

00:11:50.800 Talks in Geneva last week produced no progress.

00:11:54.440 Zelensky's position amounts to an open-ended war financed by U.S. taxpayers.

00:11:59.520 He wants more money, more weapons, more foreign troops, and decades-long guarantees,

00:12:06.020 all while refusing any territorial compromise,

00:12:09.380 despite his very limited military leverage.

00:12:13.320 This man is a deranged dictator, and he should receive no more support from the United States.

00:12:18.940 In my opinion, it's time to cut Zelensky loose 0.99

00:12:21.220 and let him receive the Cheskiew treatment from his own people in the streets, 0.87

00:12:25.760 because I think that's what he so richly deserves.

00:12:29.660 There's a reason why he doesn't call for an election.

00:12:32.780 He knows he cannot win one.

00:12:34.980 Many Americans have lost the entire point here, but it's a very simple one.

00:12:39.500 Back when East and West Germany were allowed to be unified by the Russians, 0.66

00:12:44.660 we signed an agreement, the Budapest Memorandum,

00:12:48.160 in which we agreed not to push Ukraine into NATO.

00:12:51.680 We reaffirmed that in yet another signed agreement with the Soviets, the Minsk Accords.

00:12:58.720 We are now in violation of both of those,

00:13:01.120 as Joe Biden and his foreign policy pushed Ukraine into NATO,

00:13:06.680 which really means putting NATO missiles,

00:13:10.120 financed by the United States taxpayers,

00:13:12.640 on the ground in Ukraine, pointed at Russia.

00:13:16.340 This has always been Putin's line in the sand.

00:13:20.780 It is the reason why this war grinds on,

00:13:23.880 why so many thousands of lives have been lost,

00:13:26.820 why so many millions of dollars have been squandered.

00:13:29.920 Every American, regardless of party, every American prays for peace.

00:13:35.540 It'll be interesting to see if President Trump raises the question

00:13:39.160 of the Ukraine-Russian conflict tonight in his State of the Union address.

00:13:43.860 I think it is time to call Zelensky's bluff and be done with this.

00:13:49.580 The American people are tired of paying for an endless foreign war with no end in sight,

00:13:54.540 and now you know the history of it.

00:13:56.680 I'm Roger Stone.

00:13:57.720 You're listening to The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.

00:14:00.740 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative.

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00:14:33.780 For more than two decades, America has run a massive education experiment.

00:14:38.560 Unfortunately, our kids are paying the price.

00:14:41.120 Since the early 2000s, starting with programs like Maine's laptop rollout,

00:14:45.840 schools across the country have replaced traditional textbooks with computer screens.

00:14:50.240 By 2024, taxpayers had spent roughly $30 billion putting laptops and tablets into classrooms.

00:14:58.180 The promise was efficiency and modernization.

00:15:00.860 But test scores for children have been in free fall as a result.

00:15:05.820 Researchers now report that Generation Z is the first generation in modern history

00:15:11.300 to show lower cognitive performance than the previous one.

00:15:15.600 Standardized testing data demonstrates this sad reality is refutable.

00:15:21.000 Instead of sharpening minds, constant screen exposure is actually weakening attention,

00:15:26.420 comprehension, and memory formation.

00:15:28.980 Experts testifying before Congress have stated the obvious,

00:15:33.360 that children do not learn best through endless digital stimulation.

00:15:37.820 Human brains develop through focus, repetition, and deep reading,

00:15:41.960 not notifications, multitasking, and constant scrolling.

00:15:46.860 Policymakers embraced Silicon Valley's marketing,

00:15:49.860 which of course included lots of wooing by lobbyists

00:15:53.560 and huge campaign contributions from special interests.

00:15:57.000 And by doing so, they did a great disservice to our nation's children.

00:16:02.340 The consequences don't stop at school, actually.

00:16:05.280 Early research that I just read from Stanford

00:16:07.860 suggests that artificial intelligence is already hitting

00:16:11.320 entry-level workers the hardest.

00:16:13.380 The very generation raised on these devices instead of disciplined learning.

00:16:19.280 We're training young Americans for a future that demands critical thinking,

00:16:22.760 while systematically undermining their ability to think critically.

00:16:27.480 America faces complex challenges, such as economic competition,

00:16:32.020 national security threats, cultural instability, and so on.

00:16:35.680 We need resilient, capable citizens, not distracted consumers of digital content.

00:16:42.240 It's time, in my opinion, to get back to the basics.

00:16:45.220 Reading, writing, and arithmetic.

00:16:47.380 If we don't do so, and do so quickly, our future may well be doomed.

00:16:52.680 A disturbing new report out of Canada is fueling growing concerns

00:16:56.040 that government-approved assisted suicide is moving faster than basic medical care,

00:17:01.940 and is ending lives that could have been saved.

00:17:05.160 According to Ontario's Medical Assistance and Dying Review Committee,

00:17:09.280 at least 65 people in 2023 were put to death the same day they requested it.

00:17:15.360 Another 154 people died the very next day.

00:17:19.580 One case involved an elderly woman recovering from heart surgery,

00:17:23.060 who initially asked about assisted death,

00:17:25.560 then withdrew her request on religious grounds,

00:17:28.480 and sought hospice care instead.

00:17:30.380 She was then denied hospice care and was quickly approved for euthanasia,

00:17:36.140 then, sadly, was put to death.

00:17:38.540 Even after one medical profession warned of the possible coercion

00:17:42.100 and questioned the urgency,

00:17:43.700 two authorizations approved the procedure.

00:17:46.760 Let us pray that this does not come to the United States.

00:17:50.520 I'm Roger Stone.

00:17:51.780 You're listening to Stone Zone.

00:17:53.200 Whatever you do, don't go away because, well, we'll be right back.

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00:18:10.780 President Donald Trump only yesterday signed a proclamation

00:18:14.440 designating February 22nd as National Angel Family Day.

00:18:20.060 This is a day honoring Americans whose loved ones were killed by illegal immigrants 1.00

00:18:25.000 and bringing their families to the White House

00:18:27.700 to tell their stories that many say the media has long ignored.

00:18:32.280 Standing beside grieving parents and relatives,

00:18:36.280 President Trump called the gathering a solemn occasion,

00:18:39.360 putting to years of open border policies as the cause of these senseless tragedies.

00:18:44.700 According to President Trump,

00:18:46.340 thousands of violent offenders were allowed into the country in recent years,

00:18:50.680 placing politics ahead of public safety.

00:18:53.840 The president said the victims' families were not only harmed by criminals,

00:18:56.980 but by leaders who put the comfort of foreign criminals before the safety of American citizens.

00:19:04.600 Military and border officials that I respect tell me that as many as 36 million illegals

00:19:11.420 may have entered the country.

00:19:13.620 That's substantially higher than the public estimates.

00:19:17.180 Among those speaking at the White House were Allison Phillips,

00:19:21.040 mother of Georgia nursing student Lincoln Riley,

00:19:24.300 murdered senselessly by an illegal while jogging.

00:19:28.520 Phillips praised stronger border enforcement efforts,

00:19:31.840 warning the nightmare that she's undergoing could be,

00:19:34.920 well, for any family.

00:19:36.860 Steve Ronnebeck, whose son Grant was killed during a robbery

00:19:39.900 by an illegal immigrant in Arizona,

00:19:42.260 said families finally feel heard after many years of silence.

00:19:46.580 Other relatives described similar losses,

00:19:49.500 including the family of Marine veteran Javier Vega Jr.,

00:19:54.860 all arguing that deaths were preventable

00:19:56.980 if immigration laws had simply been enforced.

00:20:00.360 Remember when Joe Biden argued that he needed a new law

00:20:04.480 in order to seal our border?

00:20:06.540 President Trump has not needed any new law.

00:20:09.320 He has simply enforced the laws that were already in place.

00:20:12.900 Illegal border crossings have dropped to almost nothing.

00:20:16.040 President Trump also accused major media outlets

00:20:19.100 of downplaying the stories to protect these open border policies.

00:20:23.320 The fake news does everything they can

00:20:25.140 to ignore the victims of illegal immigrant violent crime

00:20:28.460 because, frankly, they want the illegals to invade

00:20:31.280 so that Democrats can get their permanent majority

00:20:34.440 through the demographic avalanche that is underway.

00:20:37.620 We as Americans cannot let that happen.

00:20:40.020 We must therefore deport every illegal, dangerous immigrant 1.00

00:20:44.420 to save our nation and keep these tragedies

00:20:47.480 from repeating themselves.

00:20:49.780 Yes, I do think the priority must go to those illegals 1.00

00:20:53.960 who are in the country who have a criminal record

00:20:56.600 either in their nation of origin or here in the United States

00:21:01.080 or those who are awaiting trial in the U.S.

00:21:05.340 Yes, I do think that there should be some system

00:21:07.900 where if an illegal is in the country for 25 years,

00:21:11.760 has an unblemished record of paying taxes,

00:21:14.420 working and violating no laws, perhaps they could be monitored

00:21:18.420 without being deported.

00:21:20.740 I know that some of my friends will say that I'm soft,

00:21:24.040 but I also think that is realistic.

00:21:26.180 Any way you look at it, though, violent, illegal gangbangers

00:21:29.560 and criminals must continue to be deported,

00:21:32.620 and in this, I support the president.

00:21:35.080 Meanwhile, media giant Paramount Global

00:21:38.080 has sweetened its offer to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery,

00:21:42.240 escalating a corporate fight against woke streaming leader Netflix.

00:21:47.100 According to reports, Paramount's improved bid

00:21:50.260 addresses financial concerns

00:21:52.500 and offers shareholders stronger cash certainty

00:21:55.700 than its earlier $30 per share proposal.

00:21:59.100 The stakes, of course, are massive.

00:22:01.120 Warner Brothers had already agreed in principle

00:22:03.000 to sell its film and television studios,

00:22:06.180 including the HBO Max platform,

00:22:09.060 to Netflix for $27.50 a share,

00:22:13.020 while spinning off legacy cable outlets like CNN and TNT.

00:22:17.720 But now Paramount's higher, more secure cash offer

00:22:21.680 could derail that deal

00:22:23.200 and keep iconic Hollywood assets

00:22:25.940 in more traditional media hands,

00:22:28.440 instead of consolidating even more cultural power

00:22:31.820 behind Netflix,

00:22:33.400 which has deep, deep ties to the Obama network.

00:22:37.260 Netflix leadership insists their agreement will hold,

00:22:40.020 accusing Paramount of spreading speculation

00:22:43.100 to disrupt the process.

00:22:44.620 Still, the fact that Warners reopened the negotiations

00:22:47.860 signals that shareholders may prefer

00:22:50.400 a stronger immediate return

00:22:52.680 over a long-term tech takeover.

00:22:55.400 President Trump publicly urged Netflix

00:22:57.860 to remove board member Susan Rice,

00:23:01.460 criticizing the company's ideological bias,

00:23:04.180 after Rice stated that vengeance would be coming

00:23:07.480 against any conservative

00:23:09.300 who supports President Trump's agenda

00:23:11.160 from a reconstituted federal deep state

00:23:14.460 should the Democrats secure power again.

00:23:17.620 So this battle for HBO Warner Brothers

00:23:20.200 will determine whether competitive free markets remain

00:23:23.560 or whether liberal tech monoliths

00:23:26.400 will continue to swallow up

00:23:28.340 the entertainment industry

00:23:30.200 and dictate public opinion.

00:23:33.020 If Paramount and their better offer is shut out,

00:23:36.440 the Trump administration should take a page

00:23:38.180 from Teddy Roosevelt

00:23:39.440 and consider trust-busting Netflix

00:23:41.900 and putting an end

00:23:43.420 to their monopolistic business practices.

00:23:47.340 Meanwhile, a major scandal

00:23:49.100 is rocking the political establishment in Norway.

00:23:51.800 former Prime Minister Thorborn Jadland,

00:23:56.580 the same official who awarded a Nobel Peace Prize

00:23:59.600 to Barack Obama several months into Obama's presidency,

00:24:03.860 has been hospitalized following a reported suicide attempt.

00:24:08.400 The incident came days after he was formally charged

00:24:11.980 with gross corruption tied to convicted pedophile

00:24:15.220 Jeffrey Epstein.

00:24:17.140 Norwegian investigators say that Jadland

00:24:19.620 and his family repeatedly used Epstein's properties

00:24:23.000 in Paris, New York, and Palm Beach

00:24:25.440 between 2011 and 2018

00:24:27.640 with travel allegedly financed by Epstein himself.

00:24:32.000 Authorities went so far as to request

00:24:33.820 the lifting of Jadland's diplomatic immunity

00:24:36.600 from the Council of Europe,

00:24:38.720 which was revoked just before the police raids.

00:24:42.340 Emails reportedly show Epstein discussing

00:24:44.540 possible black back-channel communications

00:24:47.800 involving Russian officials

00:24:49.760 raising serious geopolitical concerns.

00:24:53.260 But the scandal doesn't just stop there.

00:24:56.140 Additional scrutiny is now falling on

00:24:57.860 other elite figures,

00:24:59.340 including Crown Princess Mehta Marit, 0.94

00:25:02.600 Borg Brinde,

00:25:04.080 now head of the World Economic Forum,

00:25:06.580 and diplomat Mona Jewell,

00:25:09.460 who abruptly resigned.

00:25:11.000 Prime Minister Jonas Gar-Stor

00:25:13.800 says he supports an independent inquiry.

00:25:17.260 Members of the Epstein network 0.92

00:25:19.020 are finally having to suffer the consequences

00:25:21.240 for their actions.

00:25:23.280 Many of the world's elite openly conferred

00:25:25.360 with Epstein when they knew he was a

00:25:27.780 child sex trafficker and a pedophile.

00:25:30.180 They looked the other way

00:25:31.780 and they accepted Epstein's blood money

00:25:34.160 as he continued to traffic and abuse women.

00:25:37.940 They were his collaborators and his enablers.

00:25:40.580 Jagdlin apparently could not take the shame

00:25:43.740 and tried to off himself,

00:25:45.460 unless, of course,

00:25:46.260 even more powerful figures than he

00:25:47.860 wanted him to silence him.

00:25:50.860 That is always a possibility

00:25:52.180 in these disgustingly corrupt world geopolitics.

00:25:55.220 That's even too ugly for me to fathom.

00:25:58.680 The Democrat Party promised transparency

00:26:01.040 after his 2024 defeat.

00:26:03.120 Instead, it delivered, well, a cover-up.

00:26:05.820 Following President Donald Trump's return

00:26:07.640 to the White House, the Democrat National Committee

00:26:10.380 conducted a detailed autopsy

00:26:12.980 analyzing why voters rejected their agenda

00:26:16.240 and their candidates.

00:26:17.960 Party leaders assured donors and activists

00:26:20.440 the report would be released.

00:26:23.380 Then suddenly, it was buried.

00:26:26.020 Officially, Democrats claim they want to focus

00:26:28.160 on winning Congress in 2026,

00:26:30.580 but even insiders admit that explanation

00:26:33.060 doesn't hold water.

00:26:34.520 Several party strategists say the real motive

00:26:37.440 was protecting top figures

00:26:39.440 and consultants from accountability

00:26:42.320 and shielding future presidential hopefuls

00:26:45.480 from political damage.

00:26:47.100 Now we're learning what the party

00:26:48.420 didn't want voters to see.

00:26:50.300 According to reporting

00:26:51.560 confirmed by multiple participants,

00:26:54.260 DNC officials privately acknowledged

00:26:56.540 their position on the Israel-Gaza war

00:26:59.460 hurt them at the ballot box.

00:27:02.100 Party analysts conclude

00:27:03.340 the administration's support for Israel

00:27:05.220 was viewed negatively

00:27:06.680 by key activist blocs

00:27:08.380 within the Democrat voter coalition.

00:27:11.000 In other words,

00:27:11.760 the political problem

00:27:12.540 wasn't that Democrats alienated moderates,

00:27:15.620 it's that they didn't distance themselves

00:27:17.380 from Israel enough 0.98

00:27:19.080 to satisfy the radical left

00:27:21.320 that has hijacked their party.

00:27:23.460 Even former Vice President Kamala Harris

00:27:25.780 has hinted as much,

00:27:27.260 saying that the administration

00:27:28.340 should have publicly criticized Israel more 0.79

00:27:31.380 and that the White House's

00:27:32.960 blank check perception

00:27:34.480 damaged her campaign for president.

00:27:36.980 So the implication here is clear.

00:27:39.460 Rather than reconsider progressive policies

00:27:41.660 rejected by working class voters,

00:27:44.720 party leaders appear ready to move

00:27:46.600 further towards the demands

00:27:48.340 of their activist and extremist base,

00:27:51.400 even on foreign policy.

00:27:53.260 The suppressed report reveals a party

00:27:55.480 not moderating after defeat,

00:27:57.660 but drifting even further left

00:28:00.080 while hiding the evidence.

00:28:02.360 The Democrats' embrace of extremism

00:28:04.380 may satisfy their base,

00:28:06.660 but will only alienate independents

00:28:08.740 heading into the midterm elections.

00:28:11.900 Meanwhile, Mexico is descending

00:28:13.540 even deeper into cartel barbarism,

00:28:16.480 and anyone pretending otherwise

00:28:18.060 is lying to the American people.

00:28:20.260 The killing of El Mencho,

00:28:22.960 the longtime leader of the Jalisco

00:28:25.120 new generation cartel

00:28:27.500 has not brought stability or peace.

00:28:30.740 It has ignited a new wave of chaos,

00:28:33.260 arson, blockades, and mass terror

00:28:36.000 that now reaches far beyond border towns

00:28:38.720 and rural smuggling corridors.

00:28:41.060 It's reached airports.

00:28:42.440 It's reached resort cities.

00:28:44.280 It's reached the very places

00:28:45.820 Americans have long been told are safe.

00:28:48.940 For years, politicians, tourism boards,

00:28:51.940 and multinational corporations

00:28:53.700 have promoted the fiction

00:28:54.920 that Mexico's cartel war exists

00:28:57.320 in contained zones

00:28:59.200 far from vacation beaches

00:29:01.100 and luxury hotels.

00:29:03.300 That illusion has now collapsed

00:29:04.800 in full public view.

00:29:06.200 El Mencho is not simply

00:29:07.540 another criminal kingpin.

00:29:09.540 He built the CGNG

00:29:11.120 into one of the most powerful

00:29:12.880 and violent transnational

00:29:15.320 criminal organizations on Earth.

00:29:17.700 His cartel controls

00:29:19.080 vast fentanyl, methamphetamine,

00:29:21.780 and cocaine distribution networks

00:29:23.780 that flood America's streets

00:29:25.500 with poison.

00:29:26.800 His organization pioneered

00:29:28.080 the use of military-style tactics,

00:29:30.980 armored vehicles, drone explosives,

00:29:33.880 and coordinated mass attacks

00:29:35.660 against police and the military.

00:29:38.400 The United States government

00:29:39.540 placed a $15 million bounty on his head.

00:29:43.160 Mexican government labeled him

00:29:44.440 as the most dangerous fugitive alive.

00:29:46.580 Yet despite years of manhunts,

00:29:48.660 he remained operational,

00:29:50.580 protected by layers

00:29:51.720 of corrupt officials,

00:29:53.740 corrupt local politicians,

00:29:55.660 corrupt police commanders,

00:29:57.400 and compromised institutions.

00:29:59.420 When Mexican security forces

00:30:01.080 finally located

00:30:02.120 and killed El Mencho,

00:30:04.260 that was on February 22nd,

00:30:06.260 officials quickly declared victory.

00:30:08.340 But within hours,

00:30:09.840 Mexico had erupted.

00:30:11.560 Cartel gunmen

00:30:12.460 set entire highways ablaze.

00:30:14.880 Tractor trailers

00:30:15.720 and fuel tankers

00:30:16.840 were torched

00:30:17.480 and used as burning barricades.

00:30:20.240 Gun battles broke out

00:30:21.420 across multiple states.

00:30:23.140 Businesses were firebombed.

00:30:24.820 Civilians were ordered 0.98

00:30:25.780 off roads at gun points.

00:30:27.740 Entire cities went into lockdown.

00:30:30.180 This is not just random violence.

00:30:32.420 It is routine cartel violence.

00:30:35.520 The cartels were sending a message

00:30:37.020 to the Mexican state

00:30:38.200 and to the world.

00:30:39.860 Kill our leaders

00:30:40.800 and we will burn your country. 0.93

00:30:42.500 Their message clearly was received.

00:30:46.240 In cities like Puerto Vallarta

00:30:48.020 and Guadalajara,

00:30:49.720 areas long marketed

00:30:50.880 as safe tourist havens,

00:30:53.600 terrified visitors

00:30:54.560 were ordered by authorities

00:30:56.380 to shelter inside hotels.

00:30:58.520 Roads leading to international airports

00:31:00.540 were blocked by flaming vehicles.

00:31:03.140 Flights were diverted.

00:31:04.540 Others were canceled outright.

00:31:06.560 Thousands of travelers

00:31:07.660 have been stranded.

00:31:08.940 Let that sink in for a minute.

00:31:10.380 Major resort corridors

00:31:12.360 and airport infrastructures

00:31:13.880 were directly affected

00:31:15.280 by cartel retaliation.

00:31:17.640 The notion that tourists

00:31:18.760 exist inside some

00:31:19.920 invisible bubble of protection

00:31:21.860 is now dead.

00:31:23.720 The cartels no longer respect

00:31:25.280 imaginary red lines.

00:31:27.300 They no longer pretend

00:31:28.420 to avoid economic disruption.

00:31:31.580 They understand leverage.

00:31:33.260 Tourism is one of Mexico's 0.97

00:31:35.820 largest sources of revenue.

00:31:38.180 Targeting applies pressure

00:31:39.500 on the government.

00:31:40.480 That's why they do it.

00:31:41.480 This is what a narco state 1.00

00:31:43.280 looks like.

00:31:44.380 And Mexico has long been 0.92

00:31:45.900 a narco state.

00:31:47.820 The killing of a cartel boss

00:31:49.240 does not dismantle an empire,

00:31:51.220 but it is a beginning.

00:31:52.700 It fragments it.

00:31:53.920 Fragmentation produces

00:31:55.300 splinter factions.

00:31:56.960 Splinter factions will now

00:31:58.180 fight for territory.

00:31:59.920 Turf wars generate 1.00

00:32:00.980 mass murder.

00:32:02.540 This pattern has repeated

00:32:03.700 itself for decades.

00:32:05.340 Every time a kingpin falls,

00:32:07.400 violence spikes.

00:32:08.620 Civilians pay the price. 1.00

00:32:10.840 Journalists pay the price.

00:32:12.280 Small business owners

00:32:13.220 pay the price.

00:32:14.380 Now tourists are beginning

00:32:15.860 to pay the price as well.

00:32:17.820 We'll be back with more

00:32:18.760 about the cartels

00:32:19.820 and the president's effort

00:32:21.280 to end the deadly flood

00:32:22.780 of drugs in the United States

00:32:24.560 on the other side.

00:32:26.220 I'm Roger Stone.

00:32:27.240 You're listening to Stone Zone.

00:32:28.660 Whatever you don't go away

00:32:29.880 because, well,

00:32:30.940 we'll be right back.

00:32:32.300 The Stone Zone.

00:32:37.800 Entertaining and informative

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00:32:43.000 And we're back in the Stone Zone

00:32:44.760 for our final segment.

00:32:46.580 The American Republic today,

00:32:48.160 in my opinion,

00:32:48.960 stands at a civilizational crossroad

00:32:51.540 suspended between ordered liberty

00:32:53.140 and administrative anarchy,

00:32:55.180 between a constitutional architecture

00:32:57.160 painstakingly erected by geniuses,

00:33:00.020 the founding fathers,

00:33:01.480 and a creeping ideology

00:33:03.700 imposed by opportunists

00:33:05.340 who prefer procedural murkiness

00:33:07.500 to transparent law.

00:33:09.540 The Save America Act

00:33:11.060 emerges in this moment

00:33:12.540 not as some partisan bauble,

00:33:15.040 but as a civilization instrument,

00:33:17.080 a keystone

00:33:17.780 placed beneath a sagging arch

00:33:20.680 to prevent the entire structure

00:33:22.320 of the United States

00:33:23.560 from collapsing

00:33:24.540 in historical oblivion.

00:33:26.740 What is the Save America Act,

00:33:28.300 if not a reaffirmation

00:33:30.140 of our first principles?

00:33:32.120 What is citizenship,

00:33:33.920 if not a sacred threshold,

00:33:35.840 that separates participants

00:33:37.320 from spectators

00:33:38.400 in the grand drama

00:33:40.020 of self-government?

00:33:41.760 What is a vote,

00:33:42.820 if not a sacrament of sovereignty,

00:33:45.260 a solemn attestation

00:33:47.180 that an individual casting it

00:33:48.700 is a lawful member

00:33:50.140 of a political body?

00:33:52.400 The Save America Act,

00:33:54.080 formally entitled

00:33:54.900 the Safeguard American Voters 0.62

00:33:57.060 Eligibility Act,

00:33:58.520 was introduced

00:33:59.200 in early February 26th

00:34:01.860 in the 119th Congress.

00:34:04.080 It builds upon

00:34:04.980 earlier incarnations

00:34:06.420 of the Save Act,

00:34:07.420 which successfully

00:34:08.400 passed the House

00:34:09.260 in prior sessions,

00:34:10.720 but stalled

00:34:11.380 in the U.S. Senate,

00:34:13.200 a familiar graveyard

00:34:14.360 where common sense reforms

00:34:15.880 often go to die. 0.54

00:34:18.460 The Save Act

00:34:19.080 is really very simple.

00:34:20.600 It says two very simple things.

00:34:22.200 One must be a U.S. citizen 1.00

00:34:25.720 in order to vote,

00:34:27.060 and one must have an ID

00:34:28.660 in order to do so.

00:34:30.300 Now, that has 50 votes today

00:34:32.960 in the U.S. Senate,

00:34:34.360 but under the cultural rules

00:34:36.100 of the U.S. Senate,

00:34:37.400 with 50 votes,

00:34:39.080 it cannot be brought up

00:34:40.400 for a vote

00:34:40.900 where Vice President J.D. Vance

00:34:43.320 could break a tie

00:34:44.840 and the Save Act

00:34:46.320 would become law.

00:34:48.300 To me, this is just common sense.

00:34:50.800 The U.S. House of Representatives

00:34:52.520 already demonstrated

00:34:53.400 its willingness

00:34:54.140 to advance this reform

00:34:55.780 in earlier visions.

00:34:57.560 So, why is the U.S. Senate

00:34:59.540 dithering?

00:35:01.240 Why does the so-called

00:35:03.260 filibuster rule

00:35:04.520 stop us from saving the nation?

00:35:07.180 The U.S. Senate must pass this,

00:35:08.920 and the relevant committees

00:35:09.940 in both chambers,

00:35:11.540 including those

00:35:12.320 overseeing election administration

00:35:13.720 and constitutional affairs,

00:35:15.820 must complete their review

00:35:17.220 and their reporting process.

00:35:19.040 At its core,

00:35:20.860 the Save America Act

00:35:22.040 would amend

00:35:22.740 the National Voter Registration Act

00:35:25.120 of 1993,

00:35:26.760 and once again,

00:35:27.760 it simply requires

00:35:28.920 documentary proof

00:35:30.200 of United States citizenship

00:35:31.980 when an individual registers

00:35:34.040 or upgrades their registration

00:35:35.580 to vote in federal elections.

00:35:38.180 This isn't radical.

00:35:39.640 This isn't exotic.

00:35:41.140 This isn't draconian.

00:35:42.940 It's the equivalent

00:35:43.620 of requiring a ticket

00:35:44.800 before boarding a train.

00:35:46.960 Acceptable documentation

00:35:48.040 would include a real ID,

00:35:50.600 compliant identification,

00:35:52.180 indicating citizenship,

00:35:53.520 or a valid U.S. passport,

00:35:56.120 a military identification

00:35:57.580 paired with service records

00:35:58.920 showing United States birth,

00:36:00.860 or other government-issued

00:36:02.320 photo identifications,

00:36:03.700 including birth certificates,

00:36:05.120 which confirm citizenship.

00:36:07.420 States would be required

00:36:08.480 to verify citizenship,

00:36:10.160 accepting registrations,

00:36:11.280 and to maintain

00:36:12.680 ongoing programs,

00:36:15.420 ensuring that only citizens

00:36:16.840 remain on voter rolls.

00:36:19.360 Recent versions

00:36:20.140 also emphasized

00:36:21.140 a nationwide photo identification

00:36:23.340 required for federal elections,

00:36:25.720 stricter standards

00:36:26.560 for mail-in voting,

00:36:27.840 and the creation

00:36:28.900 of a pre-election

00:36:30.300 citizenship confirmation system.

00:36:33.300 These provisions

00:36:34.040 are not instruments

00:36:35.380 of exclusion.

00:36:36.660 They're actually instruments

00:36:37.740 of clarification.

00:36:38.740 The republic is not

00:36:41.080 a house of mirrors.

00:36:41.960 This populace

00:36:43.300 is not conducting

00:36:44.180 a seance

00:36:45.060 where invisible hands

00:36:46.500 shuffle ballots

00:36:47.600 behind closed curtains

00:36:49.000 or under tables.

00:36:50.820 It's a courthouse,

00:36:51.840 not a carnival.

00:36:53.580 President Trump

00:36:54.140 has publicly endorsed

00:36:55.060 the Save America Act,

00:36:56.720 framing it correctly

00:36:57.780 as an essential pillar

00:36:59.200 in a broader effort

00:37:00.580 to nationalize

00:37:02.220 baseline American standards,

00:37:04.300 requiring voter identification

00:37:06.300 and curtailing

00:37:08.840 the internationalization

00:37:10.560 of mail-in voting,

00:37:11.860 except for in narrow

00:37:13.000 and legitimate circumstances.

00:37:15.200 Like all Americans,

00:37:16.540 I pray for passage

00:37:18.020 in the U.S. Senate.

00:37:19.740 I pray for an end

00:37:20.700 to the filibuster

00:37:21.640 and the passage

00:37:22.660 of a simple law

00:37:23.820 requiring that one

00:37:25.220 be a U.S. citizen

00:37:27.040 in order to vote

00:37:28.360 and have an identification

00:37:30.060 of approval.

00:37:31.320 Thanks for joining us today

00:37:32.360 in the Stone Zone.

00:37:33.200 Until tomorrow,

00:37:34.240 God bless you.

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