The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - March 06, 2026


The Stone Zone ｜ 03-05-26

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Trump Republicans John Fetterman Donald Trump Ken Paxton Mark Wayne Mullen Absinthe Joseph Bernie Sanders Corey Lewandowski Kristi Noem Dan Crenshaw Jasmine Crockett Dick Cheney JD Vance Tom Homan George W. Bush Nancy Pelosi Steve Toth J. Strom Thurmond Anna Paulina Luna Benjamin Netanyahu and 23 more
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Roger Stone explains why Kristy Noem is the perfect choice to replace Kirstjen Nielsen as Homeland Security Secretary, and why her replacement, Mark Wayne Mullen, is a better choice than anyone else in the running to replace her.

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00:00:58.540 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
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00:01:26.800 Well, President Donald Trump has announced the first major shakeup in his cabinet,
00:01:32.320 terminating the Department of Homeland Security Secretary, Christy Noem,
00:01:37.740 and replacing her with Oklahoma Senator Mark Wayne Mullen. 0.68
00:01:42.980 From the beginning, there have been concerns about Noem's leadership and questions surrounding
00:01:48.860 federal contract decisions involving her close personal advisor and reported paramour,
00:01:55.940 Corey Lewandowski.
00:01:58.020 Noem testified before the Senate just days ago, saying that Lewandowski, a longtime personal
00:02:04.320 and political ally, played no role in the awarding of federal contracts.
00:02:09.240 But ProPublica reported that there were documentation proving otherwise.
00:02:14.180 She testified before the Senate, saying that he'd played no role.
00:02:18.160 There's a great deal that demonstrates that that's wrong.
00:02:20.940 But technically, he wasn't even a government employee, and he had no real authority.
00:02:26.240 The greatest controversy surrounded a $220 million television advertising campaign,
00:02:34.280 which featured Christy Noem.
00:02:36.940 Perhaps you've seen those ads.
00:02:38.940 The campaign, which was announced in early 2025, involved national and international ads
00:02:45.300 urging illegal immigrants to self-deport or face consequences. 0.72
00:02:49.600 Noem appears in the ads on horseback, and they were filmed at Mount Rushmore.
00:02:56.940 The issue here pertains to the no-bid nature of this contract and the completely bypassing
00:03:03.460 the competitive bidding process.
00:03:05.620 The Department of Homeland Security invoked the border, quote, national emergency to award
00:03:11.440 contracts without the standard competitive processes, which raised concerns about waste,
00:03:16.560 corruption, and a total lack of transparency.
00:03:20.560 The major portion of that $220 million went to firms with close personal and professional
00:03:29.680 connections to Noem and her sidekick, Corey Lewandowski, notably a company called Safe America Media,
00:03:38.400 which was only created days before they received $143 million.
00:03:43.540 Then Subcrack contracted that work to the Strategy Group.
00:03:48.860 This firm has longstanding ties to Noem, actually ran her gubernatorial campaigns in South Dakota,
00:03:56.700 and its CEO is married to Noem's former DHS chief spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, who resigned last week.
00:04:06.480 The subcontracting was not publicly disclosed initially, leading, as you might expect,
00:04:11.320 to accusations of favoritism and self-dealing.
00:04:15.420 Critics, including both Republicans and Democrats, questioned why taxpayer funds were being used for ads
00:04:21.880 that promptly featured Noem herself, arguing that it boosted her personal visibility rather than solely serving border security goals.
00:04:32.260 In fact, I remember a hearing in which Senator John Kennedy, who's kind of like Foghorn Leghorn from Louisiana, he's a sly one,
00:04:42.080 called it terribly awkward in light of the administration's waist-cutting rhetoric and suggested it primarily enhanced the Secretary's name recognition.
00:04:51.700 Then there was the constant costume changes.
00:04:55.540 They called her Ice Barbie, but that's because instead of sitting behind a desk and doing her job, she was showing up on patrol. 0.96
00:05:04.100 I think that was image-making by her would-be political advisor and live-in boyfriend, Corey Lewandowski.
00:05:13.200 Somehow they had the idea that she would be an ultimate candidate for president or vice president. 1.00
00:05:19.140 Now, she has been named or given the title Special Envoy to the Shield of the Americas by President Trump, whatever that means.
00:05:28.500 I think there's some possibility that she could drop back now and challenge Senator Rounds of South Dakota. 1.00
00:05:35.680 Rounds is, strangely enough, for a state that is so overwhelmingly pro-Trump.
00:05:40.080 He's kind of a flabby rhino Republican, and there are polls that show that he is vulnerable. 0.73
00:05:47.340 So I actually predicted a week ago that before she was canned at DHS, she would announce that she was leaving to seek the Senate seat. 0.98
00:05:57.900 That would have been, I think, a more fitting way for her to go without much political damage. 0.91
00:06:03.780 How much political damage she will sustain from this remains to be seen. 0.96
00:06:09.180 In her place, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, very interesting choice.
00:06:14.480 He is an undefeated professional MMA fighter.
00:06:17.740 He's also the only Native American currently serving in the U.S. Senate.
00:06:22.640 He is a staunch Trump Republican, although he's actually managed to kind of be, as a former House member and a senator,
00:06:32.480 he has breached the division between establishment Republicans and MAGA Republicans.
00:06:37.640 I don't know if you saw it about a week ago, but he really humiliated Bernie Sanders in a Senate back and forth.
00:06:47.800 It was interesting because Sanders attacked Mullen, and Mullen pointed out that Bernie Sanders,
00:06:55.200 who was complaining about whatever problem it was, has been in the Senate longer than Mark Wayne Mullen himself has been alive.
00:07:04.880 So it was a great exchange.
00:07:07.500 I'm really, I grow tired of Bernie Sanders. 0.97
00:07:10.400 He is, to me, kind of the most pompous, loudmouthed blowhard in the U.S. Senate. 0.51
00:07:16.620 Notice how he used to criticize millionaires and billionaires. 0.84
00:07:20.380 Now he just criticizes billionaires.
00:07:21.880 That's because Bernie Sanders and his wife collected millions of dollars in media placement fees from his two very well-funded but unsuccessful campaigns for president. 0.99
00:07:34.600 Now that is not illegal, although I think without informing your donors that you are personally benefiting from their campaign contributions, it is highly unethical.
00:07:45.520 So Bernie has three homes.
00:07:47.740 He's driving a top-of-the-line Mercedes.
00:07:49.720 You see, it's socialism for thee, but not for me.
00:07:55.140 It was only a matter of time here when I thought that the contracting issues, the corruption issues,
00:08:02.960 would cost both Corey Lewandowski and Kristi Noem her position.
00:08:09.180 But there's also the optics of the ongoing effort to deport dangerous illegal criminals in this country.
00:08:17.520 You see, that is a joint effort of ICE as well as the Border Patrol.
00:08:23.100 Now the ICE agents, under the direction of Tom Homan, tend to be more experienced law enforcement officers.
00:08:31.300 They tend to have far more training, a lot more judgment in terms of de-escalating,
00:08:37.740 whereas the Border Patrol agents, many of whom were recruited for this operation,
00:08:45.240 come to it with substantially less law enforcement experience, substantially less training,
00:08:52.680 and I think less sensitivity to the optics.
00:08:55.540 Now, theoretically, when an arrest of an illegal is made, the team is supposed to involve three ICE agents
00:09:04.200 and three Border Patrol agents, but that was not the case when Alex Petty,
00:09:10.600 who I do think was a terrorist, who was armed but wasn't carrying his ID,
00:09:16.600 was unfortunately shot and killed in an altercation.
00:09:20.180 But those were six Border Patrol agents and none of them professional and more experienced ICE agents.
00:09:28.780 So I also think that Noem paid some price here for those mistakes.
00:09:35.780 That is not to say that we, at this point, can let up on the effort to deport dangerous illegal criminals.
00:09:46.120 Now, I do think this is a key point, and that is that the idea of deporting 36 million people, 0.95
00:09:55.500 I think, is both logistically and financially probably unrealistic.
00:10:00.960 And without any question whatsoever, as Tom Homan has insisted,
00:10:05.900 the priority has to go to deporting those who have a criminal record either in their country of origin
00:10:12.000 or a criminal record here or are awaiting trial here.
00:10:16.680 But the idea of deporting 36 million people, I think, is, even for a hardliner like myself, unrealistic.
00:10:24.380 So in my view, if you had somebody, let's say an illegal, who had been in the country for 20 years, 0.99
00:10:32.380 had been gainfully employed that entire time, had paid taxes for 20 years,
00:10:37.060 had never violated any laws, was a model citizen,
00:10:41.180 I think there are some instances in which the government should keep track of them
00:10:45.020 through some kind of a tracking device.
00:10:47.360 Perhaps it is a device you put in your wallet or in your purse
00:10:51.100 so the government knows where you are,
00:10:53.800 but you are continuing to obviously be a productive member of society
00:10:58.760 in the event that one of those people violated the law.
00:11:02.760 Sure, they then, too, should also be deported.
00:11:05.180 I think that's just my own political opinion.
00:11:08.480 That is not the view of this administration.
00:11:11.960 I do think that the effort to deport the most dangerous illegals has to continue to move forward. 1.00
00:11:20.560 Regardless of this controversy regarding,
00:11:23.380 the Kristi Noem administration says their mission will stay the same,
00:11:27.140 that is to secure the border, to stop migrant crime,
00:11:30.320 and combat the flow of deadly drugs into the United States.
00:11:33.860 With Mullen now tapped to lead the Department of Homeland Security,
00:11:38.420 and Tom Homan, who I think is enormously capable at ICE,
00:11:42.080 the White House signals it intends to be more surgical in pursuing those priorities.
00:11:47.060 I think that is the right direction.
00:11:49.580 Meanwhile, there is no question that President Donald Trump has once again
00:11:55.600 used American strength and used American strength and power in a very limited and surgical way,
00:12:01.540 as he did the first time in Iran, as he did in Venezuela,
00:12:09.280 and as he did yet again.
00:12:11.820 No endless foreign war, no boots on the ground, 0.71
00:12:15.380 no mass American casualties,
00:12:17.540 no big ramp up in defense spending and war-related defense contracts.
00:12:24.160 This is not neocon regime change.
00:12:28.900 This is projecting America's strength in a very limited, surgical, and targeted way,
00:12:35.000 and I think, therefore, most effectively.
00:12:37.740 What's really amazing is the way President Trump has used both our military strength,
00:12:44.460 but also our economic leverage and our diplomatic leverage
00:12:48.700 in a way that hasn't been seen since, well, Richard Nixon played the Russians off against the Chinese
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00:15:51.840 The United States and its allies are expanding their military operations
00:15:55.260 to defeat the Iranian threat as Operation Epic Fury heats up. 1.00
00:16:00.040 The Trump administration is intent upon destroying Iran's missile forces,
00:16:04.560 dismantling its military infrastructure,
00:16:07.200 and ensuring the radically Islamic regime in Tehran never obtains nuclear weapons.
00:16:12.280 We were shocked to find last week that the negotiators
00:16:16.040 at the table who were talking to those designated to represent the United States bragged about having enough enriched uranium
00:16:28.660 to build 11 nuclear bombs.
00:16:32.140 A source at the Pentagon confirmed to me that technology used by that body confirmed that that was a real number,
00:16:42.280 and that they had both enriched and unenriched uranium, again, enough to make 11 devices.
00:16:49.000 The president has defended the initial success of the operation this week,
00:16:53.700 warning that failing to act would have allowed Iran to threaten the region with nuclear war.
00:16:58.960 So far, U.S. and Israeli forces have struck military command centers,
00:17:03.840 state media facilities, and leadership compounds across Iran.
00:17:07.940 Hundreds of Iranian casualties have been reported as the regime's air defenses and naval capabilities
00:17:13.260 both suffered major damage.
00:17:15.660 Iran has responded with waves of drone and missile attacks across the region,
00:17:20.420 which shows you that while the regime may be wounded, may be crippled, it is far from dead.
00:17:27.080 A suspected Iranian drone strike hit the U.S. embassy in Riyadh, damaging the roof,
00:17:32.920 while American bases and energy facilities in Gulf states have also been targeted.
00:17:37.920 The administration is now evacuating American citizens from parts of the Middle East to protect them from potential backlash.
00:17:46.120 At the same time, intelligence sources say the CIA is exploring support for Kurdish forces
00:17:52.680 and other opposition groups inside Iran, part of a broader strategy to pressure the regime from within
00:17:59.220 rather than committing U.S. ground troops.
00:18:02.240 You see, that is the fundamental difference.
00:18:04.100 I think this is, once again, Donald Trump using American power in a limited, controlled, but extraordinarily lethal way.
00:18:15.160 But no boots on the ground, no hundreds of thousands of American casualties,
00:18:20.640 and no substantial ramp-up in our military costs.
00:18:26.040 Not the kind of profiteering you saw, for example, in the Iraq War,
00:18:31.160 where President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney lied us into war,
00:18:38.700 telling us that Iraq, pardon me, that Iraq had been involved in the attacks on America on 9-11,
00:18:46.360 that they had weapons of mass destruction, in fact, that they had yellow cake uranium.
00:18:52.140 I never understood how Dick Cheney went from being the head of Halliburton, a major defense contractor,
00:18:59.480 putting his Halliburton stock into a blind trust while he was vice president and lied us into war.
00:19:07.800 Halliburton literally made billions of dollars in profit after that war,
00:19:12.540 but how could Vice President Dick Cheney's blind trust be blind if he knew that the Halliburton stock was in the blind trust?
00:19:23.020 Kind of strange the way that worked out.
00:19:25.160 It is also the ongoing threat, of course, the regime, that they would close the Straits of Hormuz
00:19:32.800 through most of, I think, over half the world's oil flows.
00:19:38.020 The problem with that, of course, is that we virtually decimated the Iranian Navy with our initial attacks,
00:19:45.360 and now General Michael Flynn told us on this very show last week
00:19:48.960 that the U.S. Navy could easily clear a safe lane through the Straits of Hormuz.
00:19:57.760 Again, we could have some turbulence along the way, but ultimately the world would be better off,
00:20:02.120 and the global markets would be more stable with the Iranian terrorist regime dispatched without any need.
00:20:08.020 For a Bush-style, forever, endless war. 0.59
00:20:10.880 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.
00:20:14.440 This is The Stone Zone.
00:20:38.840 Now, get him a zone.
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00:20:42.300 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.
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00:20:56.160 I can't tell you how much I appreciate those kind words from earlier on, Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:21:03.120 But now from President Trump, I was with the President Saturday night for dinner.
00:21:07.280 I must tell you it was a somber rather than a celebratory night.
00:21:10.880 Saturday night was, of course, when he made the decision to attack the assets, the nuclear assets in Iran.
00:21:19.440 The President seemed confident, looked fit, surprisingly for a weekend, not tired, given the incredible hours that he put in.
00:21:28.740 I think the President has struck a balance between the neocons in our party, those who like to go to war, endless foreign war,
00:21:37.120 and those who realize that we have to use American power in a very strategic and limited basis and do so effectively.
00:21:45.280 And thus he holds both wings of his party together.
00:21:48.400 I saw a polling today that was featured on CNN that showed that among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents,
00:21:56.840 President Trump is far more popular than any previous Republican president.
00:22:01.400 Even the great Ronald Reagan, for whom I worked in three presidential campaigns,
00:22:06.220 and who was an extraordinarily popular figure within our party and movement,
00:22:10.940 did not have the kind of approval ratings that Donald Trump continues to have.
00:22:15.760 For those who are ready to concede the 2026 elections, I say, not so fast.
00:22:22.000 In politics, a week is a lifetime.
00:22:25.320 Our politics is exceedingly volatile.
00:22:28.260 And it is true that the electorate is very, almost evenly divided.
00:22:34.240 That was the case going into the last presidential election as well.
00:22:38.760 In the meantime, I was glad to see Senator John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
00:22:42.580 actually wearing a suit and tie on the floor of the U.S. Congress during the State of the Union address.
00:22:50.340 It was a great upgrade from the hoodie and sweatshirt and cargo pants the senator from Pennsylvania wears often on the floor of the U.S. Senate,
00:23:01.360 which I think is an inappropriate kind of an assault to the decorum of the U.S. Senate.
00:23:06.700 But in a break from his own party, Senator Fetterman is actually defending President Trump and the recent U.S. military strikes against Iran
00:23:15.780 while accusing fellow Democrats of putting politics ahead of national security.
00:23:21.940 This is why I agree with Fetterman.
00:23:23.840 Appearing on Jesse Waters' Primetime, Fetterman argued that many Democrats privately tell him
00:23:29.540 that Iran must never obtain a nuclear weapon but refuse to publicly support Trump even when they know that his policies are right for America.
00:23:37.260 According to Fetterman, the strikes significantly weakened Iran's nuclear capabilities
00:23:42.000 and dealt a major blow to the regime's military leadership.
00:23:46.760 We know the supreme leader was liquidated along with 40 of his top henchmen.
00:23:53.080 I would remind you that the Iranians have a long history of killing Americans 1.00
00:23:58.120 at the Marine barracks in Beirut, at the World Trade Center, on the USS Cole.
00:24:06.660 And of course, they took 264 of our fellow Americans hostage back in 1979 after the fall of the Shah. 0.59
00:24:17.560 So this is not a benign regime.
00:24:20.900 According to Fetterman, he questioned why we cannot celebrate the fall of the Iranian theocracy
00:24:28.600 and their being defanged, pointing to footage of Iranian military assets being destroyed.
00:24:34.880 Fetterman said the reality inside Congress is that lawmakers from both parties actually privately agree
00:24:41.560 that Iran can never be allowed to obtain nuclear weapons.
00:24:46.780 The difference, he argued, is that Democrats are reluctant to acknowledge any success
00:24:52.180 if it came under the Trump administration.
00:24:54.980 I'm reminded of the First Step Act and the Second Chance Act, 0.95
00:24:59.060 the two most significant pieces of criminal justice reform legislation in my lifetime.
00:25:06.660 These are reforms in which the corrections were made to the 1994 Crime Bill,
00:25:13.800 which took the war on drugs and for the first time focused it on the end user.
00:25:20.400 In other words, harsh mandatory penalties were provided for first-time nonviolent crimes,
00:25:27.280 including the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use.
00:25:31.620 Now, in my view, people who have a drug addiction problem believe in belonging drug treatment facilities,
00:25:38.880 not in mandatory incarceration.
00:25:41.500 But judges have to have some discretion in sentencing to take a family situation into consideration.
00:25:48.900 If a husbandless mother of three is caught with a small amount of marijuana in her purse,
00:25:58.200 should she be relegated to a mandatory 15-year sentence?
00:26:02.480 I think not.
00:26:03.840 President Trump is the first president in my lifetime to bring significant criminal justice reform legislation,
00:26:11.500 but the Congressional Black Caucus, which has long championed the very reforms that Trump is pushing,
00:26:18.740 to a person refused to vote for the Trump package simply because it was put forward by Donald Trump.
00:26:26.360 Fetterman is talking about the same criteria when he says he's always going to pick his country over his party,
00:26:32.880 stating that the world is safer when Iran's nuclear ambitions are stopped. 0.57
00:26:36.820 He also criticized the broader direction of the Democrat Party on Middle East policy
00:26:41.960 since the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel.
00:26:45.120 Fetterman argues calls for many Democrats for immediate ceasefires would have allowed groups like Hamas and Hezbollah
00:26:53.040 to remain powerful threats while Iran continued to pursue nuclear weapons.
00:26:58.760 Instead, he actually credited the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu,
00:27:03.100 and U.S. action for weakening those terror networks and damaging Iran's military and nuclear infrastructure.
00:27:11.140 Fetterman concluded the results show that decisive leadership, not political posturing,
00:27:17.380 is what ultimately protects American interests and allies in the region.
00:27:21.660 Fetterman should just take the plunge, in my opinion, because the left of the Democrat Party is out to get him.
00:27:27.080 Progressives are already making noises about challenging for renomination.
00:27:30.200 I have a feeling, since he probably got the votes of many Republicans in the last Senate election,
00:27:35.700 he could probably win the Republican nomination.
00:27:38.340 That would be interesting to see somebody serve as a member of both parties.
00:27:42.520 I don't think it's happened since, well, J. Strom Thurmond, who served South Carolina,
00:27:46.580 first as a Democrat and then as a Republican, would be most interesting.
00:27:51.180 What is clear is that Fetterman does not have anything in common with the radicalized base of today's Democrat Party.
00:27:58.640 Fetterman is evolving, and frankly, the Republican Party would be smart to take him in,
00:28:03.240 as they did Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.
00:28:07.860 Well, because I'm a political junkie, of course, I was carefully watching the Texas primaries this week.
00:28:14.040 It was a great Tuesday in Texas.
00:28:15.660 As America, first Republicans made a great showing against their rhino counterparts. 1.00
00:28:21.220 As I predicted three days earlier, Representative Dan Crenshaw, dubbed Eyepatch McCain for his pro-war,
00:28:28.960 neocon, and anti-Trump perspective, was soundly defeated in the Republican primary for Texas' second congressional district,
00:28:37.300 ending the four-term congressman's tenure in Washington.
00:28:40.800 With roughly three-quarters of the votes counted last time I looked, businessman and state representative Steve Toth led decisively with about 58% to Crenshaw's 40%.
00:28:51.960 Now, incumbents are very rarely defeated in American politics, but this race was called shortly after midnight local time.
00:28:59.560 Crenshaw is, of course, a former Navy SEAL, whose first election in 2018 was the only incumbent Republican House member in Texas seeking re-election without an endorsement from President Donald Trump.
00:29:11.420 Toth, who was lesser known, framed the campaign as a referendum on ideological commitment, portraying Crenshaw as out of state with the district's increasingly conservative base following recent congressional redistricting.
00:29:25.020 It also didn't help that Crenshaw was one of the elected congressmen who suspiciously did extraordinarily well in his stock portfolio, suggested he was guilty of unethical insider trading.
00:29:38.600 Big disappointment this week, however, as the House rejected a bill by my good friends Tim Burchett from Tennessee and Anna Paulina Luna from Florida that would have ended insider trading of stocks and bonds by members of Congress.
00:29:55.020 This seems very simple to me, and why they can't get it done, well, a lot of people getting very rich.
00:29:59.800 I noticed that the Pachanga Indian tribe honored Nancy Pelosi last week.
00:30:06.780 Nancy Pelosi now worth $168 million on a yearly salary of $175,000. 0.89
00:30:14.540 It was actually $125 when she first became a speaker.
00:30:19.300 Extraordinary.
00:30:20.360 Meanwhile, the Republican primary for U.S. Senate appears to be headed to a runoff
00:30:24.340 between incumbent John Cornyn and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton after neither candidate surpassed the 50% threshold.
00:30:32.800 Cornyn, who is a pretty famous rhino, finished with about 43% of the vote,
00:30:37.760 while Paxton, a longtime Trump supporter, closely followed with a rough about 40%.
00:30:42.500 Congressman Wesley Hunt, who I'm very impressed with, placed third with about 13% of the vote.
00:30:48.080 Now, today, I saw something you very rarely see in American politics, and that is Attorney General Ken Paxton,
00:30:56.380 rather than put his party through a runoff, says that if the U.S. Senate will blow off the filibuster rules,
00:31:03.600 where there are today 50 votes for the SAVE Act, which would bring that act to the floor,
00:31:10.480 where Vice President J.D. Vance could break the tie, making the SAVE Act law.
00:31:15.940 The SAVE Act, if you're not familiar with it, President Donald Trump calls it the SAVE America Act,
00:31:21.000 he may well be right, requires that only U.S. citizens be allowed to vote in federal elections.
00:31:27.200 Also requires you to have a photo ID.
00:31:30.080 Now, those should not seem controversial to you and I, but under the filibuster rules of the Senate,
00:31:38.680 50 votes is not enough to bring that to a vote.
00:31:42.600 So, Ken Paxton says that he'll drop from the race if the Senate will agree,
00:31:47.700 the Senate leaders will agree to bring that to a vote,
00:31:51.000 in which case, I think J.D. Vance would very quickly break the tie.
00:31:56.040 We'll see what happens, but it's very rare when you see a politician put the national interest,
00:32:02.080 put the country's interest ahead of their personal political ambitions.
00:32:06.580 That's what Ken Paxton has done in this piece, in this case,
00:32:10.120 and it is an act of heroism, in my opinion.
00:32:13.880 Additionally, in the race between Republican Congressman Tony Gonzalez,
00:32:17.980 who was embroiled in a scandal after his former staffer killed herself
00:32:21.420 after an illicit affair with her former boss and a pro-Second Amendment activist,
00:32:27.700 Brandon Herrera, also seems to be headed to a runoff.
00:32:31.360 Both Paxton and Herrera were given great chances of winning these races,
00:32:35.180 if Paxton stays in the race.
00:32:38.160 This bodes well for primary races nationwide, in my opinion,
00:32:41.460 where America First challengers are rising up to defeat establishment candidates.
00:32:45.780 This should embolden every Trump supporter to get involved in shaping the party going forward.
00:32:54.180 In the meantime, the Democrats, I think, also made the right move.
00:32:59.460 Jasmine Crockett was soundly defeated in the Texas U.S. Senate race. 1.00
00:33:04.880 So in addition to primary victories for America First Republicans,
00:33:08.460 one of the most belligerent, low-IQ, ratchet, Trump-hating Democrats
00:33:13.220 also suffered an embarrassing loss in Monday's primary.
00:33:17.580 Texas Democrats chose State Representative James Tallarico in Tuesday's primary
00:33:22.620 over the better-known Representative Jasmine Crockett. 0.70
00:33:26.380 Crockett entered that contest with massive name recognition,
00:33:29.920 a national media platform, a huge amount of fundraising cash,
00:33:34.120 and strong backing from the Democrat base,
00:33:36.660 but her campaign was weighed down by a long string of inflammatory remarks
00:33:40.980 and headline-grabbing controversies that ultimately, I guess, just repelled the voters.
00:33:47.500 The Dallas Congresswoman has suggested Latinos who voted for President Trump
00:33:51.500 had a slave mentality, claiming Americans who welcome illegal,
00:33:56.680 should welcome illegal immigrants because we are done picking cotton, she said,
00:34:01.880 and her outspoken opposition to the ICE enforcement
00:34:05.680 to round up and deport illegals, 0.82
00:34:08.940 make her a frequent target of attacks by Republicans,
00:34:14.240 but last night's or last week's election results showed
00:34:18.640 they were not in a good way.
00:34:20.720 Now, some think Tallarico is a stronger candidate.
00:34:24.040 I tend to think that that is true,
00:34:25.880 and it is a mistake to think of Texas as a deep-red state like Florida.
00:34:29.880 Florida now has a one million Republican registration edge,
00:34:35.040 Republicans over Democrats,
00:34:36.880 whereas Texas is becoming a slightly pink state,
00:34:41.960 one in which I think the Senate race could be much, much closer.
00:34:47.580 So the Democrats probably nominated the stronger of the candidates,
00:34:51.480 not to say a strong candidate,
00:34:53.600 and Crockett's leaning heavily into identity politics,
00:34:56.560 accusing all of her critics of racism and claiming attacks
00:34:59.880 without providing a shred of evidence on her campaign,
00:35:03.080 were motivated mostly by discrimination.
00:35:05.340 The primary quickly devolved into bitter accusations over race,
00:35:09.560 social media attacks, and outside political spending,
00:35:12.560 and despite her high-profile Democrat voters ultimately turned to Tallarico,
00:35:17.100 an Austin lawmaker who ran on a more populist message
00:35:20.320 and campaigned heavily across the state.
00:35:23.420 Tallarico is going to have money problems.
00:35:28.920 It's a massive and incredibly expensive state to run for the U.S. Senate.
00:35:34.360 But we'll see whether Ken Paxton stays in this race
00:35:37.640 or whether the Senate leadership throws in the towel on the filibuster
00:35:41.780 and brings the Save America Act to the floor.
00:35:45.620 I'm Roger Stone.
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00:37:03.840 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:37:07.680 He likes politics and he's a professional.
00:37:10.440 At the highest level, Roger Stone.
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00:37:20.180 Welcome back to The Stone Zone.
00:37:22.500 We're diving right into the deep end for our final segment.
00:37:25.600 Major American tech companies are committing to pay their own way as the artificial intelligence boom drives massive new energy demands.
00:37:34.880 At the White House this week, leaders from companies including Google, Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, XAL, OpenAI, and Amazon signed a pledge agreeing to fund the electricity generation and grid upgrades needed to power their rapidly expanding data centers.
00:37:52.560 This agreement comes as demands for artificial intelligence computing explodes across the country, raising concerns that ordinary Americans could end up footing the bill through higher electricity rates.
00:38:06.160 President Donald Trump says the plan protects consumers while still allowing the United States to dominate the global AI race.
00:38:14.420 The company agreed to build or purchase the power needed for their facilities and even sell excess electricity back to the grid, which would help reduce the costs for average households.
00:38:25.840 White House AI advisor David Sachs, I'm very impressed with him, called the plan a common sense alternative to far-left proposals that would just halt new data centers altogether.
00:38:37.520 He argued that banning AI infrastructure would kill jobs and slow economic growth, particularly for blue-collar workers benefiting from the construction boom.
00:38:49.500 The sure sign here is the administration's approach is making sure these tech giants, not everyday Americans, pray for the infrastructure that their projects require.
00:39:03.540 The policy is already influencing state governments nationwide as lawmakers look for ways to prevent residential customers from subsidizing massive tech expansion.
00:39:14.040 The bottom line, America keeps leading the AI revolution without sticking working families with the bill. 0.63
00:39:22.080 Bravo, President Trump.
00:39:23.940 Meanwhile, a Somali man pled guilty to $6 million in autism-related fraud.
00:39:31.200 Absinthe Joseph, a Somali man operating in St. Claude, Minnesota, was pled guilty Monday to $6 million in wire fraud.
00:39:41.660 After admitting he ran a fake autism therapy business that billed U.S. taxpayers for services that were never legitimately provided.
00:39:52.280 Federal prosecutors say that Joseph opened the Star Autism Center in 2020, claiming it offered specialized therapy for children diagnosed with autism.
00:40:02.020 But instead, investigators said the operation was largely a front to siphon money from Medicaid.
00:40:07.820 According to court documents, Joseph targeted families in the local Somali community, encouraging parents to enroll their children in the program.
00:40:17.620 In some cases, children did not even have an autism diagnosis.
00:40:22.260 Prosecutors say Joseph worked with service providers to secure diagnoses so the children could qualify for taxpayer-funded treatment.
00:40:31.220 Once enrolled, Joseph then billed Medicaid for millions of services.
00:40:36.120 Here is a man who took advantage of his own community.
00:40:39.840 Records show that Joseph received more than $6 million in reimburses from Minnesota's Department of Human Services and the health care provider, U-Care.
00:40:49.740 Authorities say he then paid kickbacks to parents as an incentive for enrolling their children, turning the scheme into a cash-for-signups operation.
00:40:59.040 Prosecutors say he also used stolen funds to buy a $100,000 semi-truck and wired about $200,000 to radical groups back in Somalia.
00:41:11.900 The case is part of a wider investigation into fraud in Minnesota's welfare programs, including a $250 million Feeding Our Futures scandal.
00:41:21.820 The White House has since halted $259 million in federal Medicare funding to state and local governments over growing concerns about the widespread fraud.
00:41:32.820 Folks, this is just the beginning.
00:41:35.080 Before it is over, this scandal will pour into Ohio, into Michigan, into Pennsylvania, into New York, into virtually every state.
00:41:44.000 So those who say the 2026 election is over may not be paying attention to this issue.
00:41:49.500 I'm Roger Stone, here talking about politics right in the Stone Zone.
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