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00:00:00.000 this is the stone zone with roger stone people love him and respect him roger stone now

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00:00:27.100 the big news. White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, the first woman chief of staff in history

00:00:33.900 who very ably helmed Donald Trump's combat bid for the presidency in 2024, has been diagnosed

00:00:42.660 early, thank God, with breast cancer. The president putting out a statement saying that Susie Wiles,

00:00:50.540 an incredible chief of staff, a great person, and one of the strongest people I know, but

00:00:55.200 unfortunately has been diagnosed with early breast cancer and has decided to take this challenge

00:01:01.100 immediately as opposed to waiting. She has a fantastic medical team and her prognosis is

00:01:07.260 excellent. During the treatment period, she will be spending virtually full time at the White House,

00:01:13.220 which makes me, as president, very happy. Her strength and her commitment to continue

00:01:19.760 doing the job she loves and does so well while undergoing these treatments tells you everything

00:01:25.820 you need to know about Susie Wiles. Susie, as one of my closest and most important advisors,

00:01:32.320 is tough and deeply committed to serving the American people. She will soon be better than

00:01:38.220 ever. Melania and I are with her in every way and we look forward to working with Susie on the many

00:01:44.200 big and wonderful things that are happening for the benefit our country, signed President Donald

00:01:49.980 Trump. Now, Susie Wiles has a long and fabled political history. She's, of course, the daughter

00:01:55.820 of the famous sportscaster Pat Summerall. But she really first came to political prominence when she

00:02:03.360 successfully elected outsider Rick Scott to the governorship of Florida. Rick Scott

00:02:09.520 was a hospital executive who wanted to serve. The party favorite was Attorney General Bill

00:02:16.060 McCollum. But Rick Scott, with the able help of Susie Wiles, came out of nowhere to win not only

00:02:25.220 the nomination, but then to elect Rick Scott, who went on to become both a great conservative

00:02:30.720 governor of Florida and later on a U.S. senator. That brought Susie Wiles to the attention of 1.00

00:02:37.760 Donald Trump. 2016, Suzy Wiles could have worked for Marco Rubio, could have worked for Governor 1.00

00:02:43.880 Jeb Bush of her homestead of Florida. Instead, she went to work for Donald Trump. And frankly,

00:02:49.900 if she had not been parachuted into Florida in the closing days of the 2016 race, I doubt that

00:02:56.580 Trump would have carried the state. Then, of course, the president asked Suzy Wiles to go 0.99

00:03:03.020 into the campaign of Ron DeSantis because it was a fiasco. DeSantis had been endorsed by Donald

00:03:12.580 Trump in 2018. Now, what Donald Trump never knew was that in 2016, when they were both on the

00:03:19.020 ballot, Ron DeSantis refused to endorse Donald Trump, fearing that Trump would somehow pull the

00:03:24.520 ticket down. In fact, in the end, Trump won bigger in DeSantis' district than DeSantis won. But once

00:03:32.460 Trump became president, DeSantis decided to reinvent himself as a stout defender of Donald

00:03:38.460 Trump in the Russian collusion hoax. And a last minute endorsement by Donald Trump

00:03:45.200 actually catapulted Ron DeSantis to the governor's nomination. Virtually every Republican county

00:03:53.540 chairman, every Republican state senator, every member of the House, all the members of Congress,

00:04:00.340 other than my friend Matt Gaetz, had endorsed Adam Putnam, who was the favorite. But Putnam

00:04:08.240 himself said the endorsement by Trump of Ron DeSantis was like a seismic nuclear explosion.

00:04:16.540 And of course, then President Trump had to come to Florida to drag Ron DeSantis over the finish

00:04:22.340 line by a mere 15,000 votes out of, I think it was five and a half million cast. But it was

00:04:31.000 at the request of Donald Trump that Susie Wiles joined the DeSantis entourage, and she was really

00:04:38.440 the one who engineered DeSantis' narrow victory. Only several months later, to be thrown to the

00:04:47.420 curbs. Susie Wiles was working quite ably as an advisor to the State Republican Committee, to 0.97

00:04:54.740 Ron DeSantis' super PAC, to President Trump's re-election campaign, and holding down a full-time

00:05:00.820 job as a public affairs consultant and lobbyist, when, for reasons no one has really understood,

00:05:11.580 Casey DeSantis went on a rampage, and Susie Wiles was dismissed from all of those jobs on the same day.

00:05:20.000 Not many Republicans wanted to defend Susie Wiles then, but if you look it up in Politico, I said, and I quote,

00:05:25.560 Ron DeSantis will rue the day he did this, and indeed it was so.

00:05:31.560 When Donald Trump decided that he was going to run for the White House again, the first person he called was Susie Wiles.

00:05:38.480 Susie Wiles eagerly signed on what on paper I think should have looked like a near impossible task. 0.84

00:05:45.640 But then teaming with the extraordinarily capable Chris LaCivita and with the help of, in my opinion, the best pollster today in the Republican Party, the best survey researcher, among the best strategists, New York's own Tony Fabrizio.

00:06:02.120 They ran a near-perfect campaign, and during the campaign, Susie Wiles was also much maligned. 1.00

00:06:13.000 People kept insisting we weren't prepared for election integrity when we were.

00:06:16.900 People kept insisting that the party, that the campaign didn't know what they were doing.

00:06:23.440 Corey Lewandowski launched at least one failed attempt, coup attempt, to take over the campaign.

00:06:29.480 That was slapped down relatively quickly, and of course, Suzy Wiles emerged a winner. 1.00

00:06:35.840 Now, I must tell you, as someone who has known Donald Trump for over 50 years, Suzy Wiles has that elusive quality in that she knows her client.

00:06:46.300 You see, Donald Trump is not handled, he's not managed, he's not scripted, he's not cajoled, he's not led anyplace.

00:06:54.760 He asks for information, but he's very much his own man.

00:06:59.480 The only thing that you can say, the only thing I like to say, the only thing predictable about Donald Trump is he's completely unpredictable.

00:07:08.620 And Susie Wiles has brought order into what in the 2016 and the 2020 campaign was chaos.

00:07:17.480 So there's a system in place for information to be synthesized, for the president to be given options.

00:07:25.140 Susie Wiles, I think, like every presidential chief of staff, she takes the heat for things she had nothing to do with. 1.00

00:07:30.720 No one ever wants to say, oh, the president made a stupid mistake here. 0.98

00:07:34.440 So instead they say, well, the president must be getting bad advice. 1.00

00:07:38.440 That's part of the job.

00:07:41.620 But people need to understand if there had been no Susie Wiles, there would never have been the great alliance with RFK and the Maha movement.

00:07:50.720 And Susie Wiles was one of the earliest advocates, told me all about the books of Casey and Callie Means and how your diet can change your life.

00:08:00.740 And indeed, in my case, it has. Susie Wiles has been a major supporter of the Maha agenda.

00:08:06.980 But most specifically, it was Susie Wiles who negotiated the alliance in which Donald Trump and at that point, Robert F. Kennedy, who had qualified on many ballots to run as independent, teamed up.

00:08:20.720 post-Butler. It was Susie Wiles who negotiated that deal. Now, as someone who is very early

00:08:28.460 into the health choice movement, my family and I are praying for Susie Wiles. What the president

00:08:34.420 said is true. She's the toughest person I know. When Susie Wiles looks at you, you don't know

00:08:39.620 whether she's about to break your kneecaps or bake you a casserole. She's been a friend of mine for

00:08:46.040 30 years. We worked together in Ronald Reagan's campaign for president in 1980. We worked together

00:08:51.040 in Jack Kemp's campaign in 1988. She is an incredibly capable and organized woman. And I

00:09:00.320 hope that she will avail herself of some of the alternative treatments. My wife is a cancer

00:09:05.160 survivor. I've talked about it here in the Stone Zone. I'm convinced that her life was saved by a

00:09:10.100 combination of both Eastern and Western medicines. I also think that there are, and I'm not a doctor

00:09:16.580 and I'm not giving any medical advice to anyone, but there are drugs like menbendazole, which is

00:09:22.460 a derivative of fenbendazole, which is an FDA approved drug. I think it is, this would be an

00:09:28.880 off-label use. It's approved for use with animals. So it was with ivermectin. Ivermectin, of course,

00:09:35.100 won a Nobel Peace Prize. It saved so many lives. Also, I believe studies show it quite effective

00:09:41.060 against cancer. So I pray for Susie Wiles. I know she will beat this. She's the most effective

00:09:48.160 White House chief of staff in history because she understands Donald Trump and she understands how 0.76

00:09:54.640 he wants the flow of information to go. She has the hardest job in the world because, as I say, 1.00

00:10:00.360 Trump is not some marionette. He is very, very much his own man.

00:10:07.680 She ran, in my opinion, probably the best Republican campaign for the presidency in American history. 1.00

00:10:13.740 And we here at the Stone Zone wish her a speedy recovery, although it sounds like she's going to stay on the job.

00:10:22.720 I'm glad I was able to clear up some of the false attacks on her, this idea that she was a lobbyist for Pfizer.

00:10:29.060 That's another one of my favorite ones. She worked for a short time as a partner, not a stakeholder or an equity holder. In a 346-person firm, she did not represent Pfizer. Someone else in the firm did. That was for a brief period.

00:10:42.980 So this idea that she's a big pharma agent, that's a slur, and it's a falsehood.

00:10:50.820 I don't think Trump would have won this election without her and her excellent judgment.

00:10:57.560 So I'm enjoying watching what's happening in Cuba as Donald Trump puts on the economic pressure.

00:11:05.600 The communist government there is now preparing for a major economic shift that would allow Cuban Americans to invest in private businesses on the island.

00:11:15.580 This is an apparent response to mounting pressure from the United States, an apparent response to the fact that they have lost about 80 percent of their oil with Trump taking control of Venezuela.

00:11:29.760 So short on food, short on oil, short on everyday necessities, a pair of tires for a car non-existent in Cuba.

00:11:39.100 Socialism is failing, and the Cubans are very clearly cognizant of what just happened in Venezuela.

00:11:46.480 There are reports that officials could soon announce these reforms, which would allow Cubans living abroad, including many who live in South Florida, own and invest in small companies.

00:11:57.220 In other words, they need a dose of capitalism to save the communist utopia.

00:12:02.740 The embargo works because, you see, if you're, say, a Spanish company and you partnered with somebody in Cuba to do business, you had to partner with the government.

00:12:12.400 You paid the government dollars, they paid the workers pesos, and they used the overage to pay for the police state and the authoritarian state that spies on and oppresses the Cuban people.

00:12:23.800 This is a much, much better idea in terms of opening Cuba up. 1.00

00:12:29.040 Donald Trump, very consistent on this.

00:12:31.100 They begged him to build hotels and casinos there in the 80s.

00:12:34.740 And he said that he would love to do so, but not until the Cuban people were free.

00:12:39.640 It looks to me like that's going to be sooner rather than later.

00:12:43.240 There will be great celebration in the Stone household because my wife, Nidia Bertrand de Espinosa Stone,

00:12:50.640 is a proud Cuban-American

00:12:52.940 and a longtime foe of the Castro regime.

00:12:56.940 Overall, I think Marco Rubio

00:12:58.760 and President Donald Trump

00:13:00.080 have to be given enormous credit

00:13:01.800 for taking on narco-Marxism

00:13:05.260 in our hemisphere.

00:13:06.540 They did it in Honduras.

00:13:08.040 They did it in Venezuela.

00:13:09.980 Now they're in the process

00:13:11.220 of doing it in Cuba.

00:13:14.080 It is a delight to see.

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00:13:20.160 with prayers for our good friend, Susie Wiles, probably the most effective campaign manager 0.77

00:13:25.420 and the White House chief of staff in American history.

00:13:29.000 And she's very tough.

00:13:30.600 She'll be back.

00:13:31.340 And so will we.

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00:14:05.220 Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.

00:14:09.140 Roger Stone was persecuted.

00:14:10.360 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.

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00:14:15.280 It's The Stone Zone.

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00:14:21.900 We're watching events unfold in communist Cuba, just 90 miles from our shores.

00:14:27.420 The Cuban leader, Miguel Diaz-Canel, actually confirmed Friday that officials of his government in Havana are holding formal talks with Washington

00:14:36.940 and suggested that the government is looking for ways to involve Cubans living abroad in rebuilding the struggling economy.

00:14:45.160 Translation, they're out of cash.

00:14:47.240 After decades of social mismanagement, Cuba's economy is a basket case.

00:14:53.140 Infrastructure is crumbling, shortages are widespread, there are rolling blackouts of power.

00:14:59.260 Nearly two million Cubans, both young and educated, have fled the country for lack of opportunity.

00:15:06.060 Supporters of reform say Cuban Americans could provide the investment, the skill and expertise needed to revive the island's private sector.

00:15:13.980 Now, Havana has a very long history of renouncing reforms only to reverse themselves.

00:15:20.100 But there's a new sheriff in town.

00:15:21.860 That's Donald J. Trump and his able deputy secretary of state, Marco Rubio.

00:15:28.360 And if they know that if they back off, the Maduro treatment is entirely possible.

00:15:35.340 This is an incredible success of President Trump's peace through strength foreign policy that is quickly remaking Latin America.

00:15:42.520 If you look across the region, whether it is in Argentina, whether it is in Chile, or whether it is in Honduras, or whether it is any place in this hemisphere, freedom is on the march.

00:16:00.460 And the Lula regime seems to me to be teetering, the last large Marxist regime in the region.

00:16:11.940 Much of this can be given, I think, can be attributed to the strong leadership of President Trump in this hemisphere.

00:16:20.080 At the same time, he is warning our American allies that the future of NATO could be at stake if they refuse to help secure the vital Straits of Hormuz.

00:16:30.240 You know, the Straits of Hormuz up there by Iran, about 40 percent of the nation's oil passes through there on any given day.

00:16:40.720 And the president says it's only fair that nations who benefit from that sea lane of trade also pay to defend it.

00:16:48.100 He called on China, France, Japan, South Korea, and the United Kingdom.

00:16:52.500 Well, the Chinese support the Iraqis, so I don't think they'll be coming to play. 1.00

00:16:57.760 Pardon me, the Iranians, but I don't think they'll be coming to play. 1.00

00:17:00.600 But the president's calling on others to deploy their naval forces to the region to help guarantee free passage.

00:17:07.020 Now, oil prices have bubbled up.

00:17:10.860 John Katsimatidis of United Refining gave a great interview the other day, which he said he thinks it is temporary and a small price to pay.

00:17:18.680 General Michael Flynn also told us right here in the Stone Zone, he thought the U.S. Navy would ultimately prevail and keep the waterways open.

00:17:27.220 So I think this is a blip.

00:17:30.300 Outrageous is the way Democrats are pointing to it and cheering.

00:17:33.520 You'd think they would love their country and want low gas and oil prices.

00:17:37.020 But instead, they just want anything that Trump has done to fail.

00:17:41.820 That's called Trump derangement syndrome.

00:17:44.680 See it every single day.

00:17:46.300 Right here on the Stone Zone, Roger Stone, calling him as he sees him.

00:17:50.480 Please stay with us. We'll be right back.

00:17:52.580 We'll get more politics on the other side.

00:17:54.600 this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest

00:18:11.940 political minds rogerson was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant

00:18:16.720 political analyst now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone

00:18:23.380 And we're back in the Stone Zone.

00:18:26.720 So far, President Donald Trump's foreign policy has not been recycled neoconservatism.

00:18:33.260 He has used American power in a very limited, very focused, but very lethal way.

00:18:40.560 First in Iran, then of course in Venezuela, now once again in Iran.

00:18:47.360 No boots on the ground, no heavy American casualties, no multi-billion dollar contracts for defense contractors like Halliburton and General Dynamics and others.

00:19:03.360 He and his generals insist this war will be short.

00:19:07.720 We pray that they are correct about that, in which case I think the American people will continue to support it.

00:19:16.480 And despite the fact that Donald Trump was elected as a non-interventionist, on the issue of action specifically against Iran, he has been consistent since as early as 1988.

00:19:30.820 So those who think this is some new gene really doesn't understand him.

00:19:37.500 The Iranians have killed thousands of Americans. 1.00

00:19:41.120 There was those murdered at the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1981.

00:19:46.480 One, there was, of course, the attack on the USS Cole, the attack on the World Trade Center.

00:19:54.280 This is a long and bloody history.

00:19:58.880 And the treatment of their own people, the brutality of the way they held power, I think, hastened these attacks.

00:20:08.740 On the other hand, they continue to have the capacity to fire both drones and rockets.

00:20:17.700 So while we may have wounded them, perhaps fatally, as the velocity of their attacks are down substantially,

00:20:28.700 they are still capable of launching both drone and missile attacks at their Arab nations and specifically at the Straits of Hormuz.

00:20:38.600 I think the straits are crucial here. The president knew that they would move immediately as they promised to try to close the straits.

00:20:47.700 Right here on this show, General Michael Flynn assured us that he believed the U.S. Navy had the capacity to keep the straits clear.

00:20:56.060 President Donald Trump, as I said earlier, called on other nations who have the same interest that we have on the free flow of commerce, particularly energy, through the straits.

00:21:08.660 Before long, the Iranian Navy, I think, will be so degraded that they'll no longer be able to cause us problems there. 1.00

00:21:21.400 I was happy to see John Katsimatidis, who owns United Refining, knows a great deal about energy.

00:21:28.420 He's one of the businesses he's in, say that he thought that this increase in oil prices was temporary

00:21:34.240 and it would be a blip and worth paying for for the larger benefit of liberating the people of Iran.

00:21:44.440 New intelligence suggests there's deep turmoil at the top of the current ruling regime

00:21:49.640 following the death of the longtime Supreme Leader,

00:21:53.560 ala Khomeini, who was essentially vaporized by a drone

00:21:58.160 along with 40 of his henchmen

00:22:00.620 during one of the opening strikes

00:22:02.600 of the U.S.-Israel conflict during this month.

00:22:05.520 It's really quite interesting the way

00:22:07.080 the Trump administration seems to have lured

00:22:09.740 all of them to one location 0.99

00:22:11.900 where they could decapitate the head of the snake,

00:22:16.220 but it appears that's exactly what they've done.

00:22:19.640 It is now reported that the late Ayatollah Khomeini, not to be confused with the Ayatollah Khomeini, that's the guy who seized and held 254 American hostages in 1979.

00:22:35.780 That's not to be confused with the current Khomeini, who is Mojit Bah Khomeini, the Supreme Leader's son, who's now the top man.

00:22:48.320 And there's a lot of questions about his inexperience, whether he's prepared to leave. 0.91

00:22:53.680 There are even some rumors, unfounded or I should say unverified, that he is a closeted homosexual, which, of course, in that culture would mean death.

00:23:05.340 Despite the aforementioned problems, Ali's ruling clerical council moved very quickly after Trump zapped Ali Khamenei's death to name the sun as the country's new leader.

00:23:18.660 That decision marks a controversial moment in Iran's political history since 1979, led by the Ruhala Khomeini, was supposed to end heredity-style rule.

00:23:32.160 That was part of the argument of the Mullers, that the Pavlavis was a monarchy and the monarchy was bad.

00:23:41.400 U.S. officials believed that the son now in charge may have survived the initial attacks by the U.S.

00:23:50.260 U.S. officials believe that he was, however, severely injured in the Israeli missile strike that killed his father.

00:23:57.860 He's believed to be essentially a figurehead with real authority now resting in Iran's super hardline Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is directing the regime responses as the conflict continues.

00:24:13.460 President Trump has publicly dismissed a young Khomeini who has supposedly injured one of his legs.

00:24:21.880 The reports are that he has been hospitalized and suggested that Iran's leadership structure is collapsing under pressure from the United States.

00:24:31.580 The U.S. government has now offered a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the location of the current leader, Khomeini, and other senior Iranian officials.

00:24:46.920 My guess, of course, is that our intelligence officers and the Israelis know exactly where they are. 0.99

00:24:53.220 This is a pressure tactic on the regime.

00:24:56.820 They're constantly looking skyward, as you might imagine.

00:25:00.680 The chaos inside Iran shows the regime is increasingly unstable.

00:25:05.200 It appears to be on the verge of breaking.

00:25:07.780 The Iranian people may be fully liberated before long, but this is very far from over, those who believe it is over.

00:25:16.060 Politically, it has to be a short engagement, but Donald Trump has demonstrated his skillful use of overwhelming force.

00:25:24.380 On the other hand, he says there are no more targets to hit.

00:25:27.060 I don't know if that's entirely accurate, but he has remade our military into a lethal fighting force.

00:25:34.580 They proved that in Venezuela, and we have to see how this plays out.

00:25:41.020 I think that the American people have no appetite for a long-drawn-out war,

00:25:46.260 but I think Donald Trump, of all people, understands that.

00:25:49.440 The platform on which he was elected has been a watchword of his political career.

00:25:57.060 particularly those wars that he criticized as being about regime change.

00:26:02.000 He's explained why Venezuela is not about regime change,

00:26:04.940 why Iran is not about regime change.

00:26:10.840 And I think the American people are with him in this end to these deadly maniacs.

00:26:17.440 They were playing for time.

00:26:18.500 I think it is absolutely accurate that they were building nuclear weapons.

00:26:21.940 I think we set them back with our earlier attacks,

00:26:24.560 But they're now confirmation they had enough enriched uranium to build 11 devices, and their Chinese friends most likely would provide them the ability to propel that to most American cities. 0.94

00:26:39.460 It is a threat that is very, very real.

00:26:43.880 You know, I used to really enjoy watching the Oscars.

00:26:46.560 Oscars. I'm not a giant movie fan, but I like to see what people wore when they show up,

00:26:53.420 particularly the gentlemen. There was a day when every movie star went to the Oscars wearing a

00:27:00.880 resplendent dinner jacket, what plebeians call a tuxedo, and of course a black tie.

00:27:08.020 And you saw all your favorite stars completely decked out, the women wearing, of course, 1.00

00:27:12.820 long gowns. Hollywood gathered for the 2026 Oscars this week, but the ceremony served mostly as a

00:27:21.060 reminder that the entertainment industry is increasingly out of control and out of touch

00:27:26.460 with the American people and really functions as a propaganda arm for the deep state. Since 2019,

00:27:34.520 inflation-adjusted box office revenues have reportedly dropped by almost 40 percent,

00:27:40.040 while theater attendance has been cut in half.

00:27:42.980 That's because people are rejecting the godless, pornographic, woke fare

00:27:51.520 being served up by the big studios in Hollywood.

00:27:55.520 I think the decline reflects the growing frustration with an industry

00:27:59.420 that prioritizes political messaging over storytelling,

00:28:04.100 fueling the familiar refrain of,

00:28:06.200 Go woke, go broke, as others before me have said.

00:28:11.160 Comedian Conan O'Brien, of course, hosted the ceremony and quickly took shots at conservatives.

00:28:17.480 His monologue, including jokes aimed at alternative entertainment events, promoted by Turning Point USA.

00:28:24.980 Thanks for the free advertising, Conan.

00:28:28.360 He also, throughout the night, took many, many pot shots at Donald Trump and U.S. foreign policy.

00:28:35.460 Several winners, of course, took their 15 minutes to criticize military action involving Iran while conveniently glossing over the Iranian government's violent crackdown on its own citizens that did not seem to bother them.

00:28:50.240 Among the night's biggest awards, Beck's picture went to one battle after another, a film lionizing far-left Antifa domestic terrorism.

00:29:02.320 Despite receiving the fawning praise from Hollywood insiders,

00:29:06.100 the movie has reportedly lost about $100 million at the box office.

00:29:11.880 Yes, that's the film that got Best Picture.

00:29:15.020 It's lost $100 million.

00:29:17.480 What does that tell you about where America is headed?

00:29:20.720 It's clear to me that Hollywood's value is no longer aligned with those in the middle.

00:29:25.860 We saw this during the Super Bowl when the NFL offered us Bad Bunny.

00:29:31.520 a neo-pornographic, I guess, maybe we call that a reggaeton singer whose lewd lyrics I couldn't

00:29:41.940 let my granddaughter hear when it was translated around our dinner table. So they have very much

00:29:49.940 lost touch with their constituencies. And you could see the narcissism in the room. They see

00:29:58.280 the Oscars as an opportunity to promote a politically correct agenda. I think it is a

00:30:06.060 tragedy. Meanwhile, I read about a grieving California family taking legal action now against

00:30:11.740 the Los Angeles Unified School District, accusing the school officials of hiding critical information

00:30:17.820 about their son's gender identity from them. Decisions they say contributed to a tragedy

00:30:24.020 that destroyed their family.

00:30:26.100 According to a federal lawsuit, Dylan Parker,

00:30:30.200 a student at Palisades Charter High School,

00:30:33.320 told staff during the 2019-2020 school year

00:30:37.520 that he wanted to be called Aria and use female pronouns

00:30:42.120 as he began identifying as transgender.

00:30:45.120 His parents, Kathleen Mulligan and Andrew Park,

00:30:48.780 say school staff deliberately kept that information from them.

00:30:52.600 The parents say their son had already been diagnosed with depression and was especially vulnerable to outside influence.

00:31:00.320 In an email to the school, Mulligan expressed concerns that their son, Dylan, might be struggling with deeper mental health issues and could be easily influenced by peers.

00:31:12.700 She stressed that she was not opposed to transgender individually, but believed her son needed careful support and permanent involvement.

00:31:19.680 According to the lawsuit filed against the school district, the school district ignored the parents and instead affirmed the transition without notifying either parent or including them in any of the decisions about their minor child's treatment.

00:31:35.640 The complaint alleges staff even provided information about housing resources for LGBT youth, further distancing the teenager from his family.

00:31:46.400 Dylan Park sadly died by suicide on March 2024 at the age of 19.

00:31:52.680 His parents say the secrecy created division at their home, and that is why they brought the lawsuit.

00:31:59.460 Now, this is not an anti-LGTB story.

00:32:04.020 It is about parents being involved in every decision of a minor child's life.

00:32:08.740 I think that is only right.

00:32:10.180 The lawsuit comes as the courts continue to scrutinize California's policies that actually restrict schools from informing parents about children's gender identity activities.

00:32:22.440 These seem to me to risk sideline families, but put vulnerable children at greatest risk to predators.

00:32:28.520 School administrators have drunk their Kool-Aid and they're putting the health of our children in jeopardy.

00:32:33.820 I think it is outrageous, but then it is, after all, Gavin Newsom's California.

00:32:38.720 Just remember, Gavin Newsom, he would do for America what he's done for California, which is to say, drive it into the toilet.

00:32:48.500 I don't know how this guy thinks he's running for president on his record of failure, but coming up soon, massive revelations about missing money.

00:32:57.020 Millions and millions and millions of state funding disappearing into thin air, disappearing into Gavin Newsom's political machine.

00:33:05.320 I'm Roger Stone, you're listening to The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.

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00:33:57.940 in the stone zone a new government report reveals just how costly new york city's

00:34:03.240 homelessness crisis has become, and taxpayers are footing the bill. According to a report by the

00:34:08.820 office of Thomas P. DiNopoli, the state controller, the city spent roughly $81,000 per homeless person

00:34:18.340 last year through the programs run by New York City's Department of Homeless Services. So in total,

00:34:23.580 the city spent around $368 million on services aimed at people living on the streets. More than

00:34:32.700 tripled the $102 million spent in 2019. Despite the massive increases in spending, the number of

00:34:40.820 unsheltered homeless individuals actually rose by about 26% during the same period,

00:34:47.140 climbing from roughly $3,600 in 2019 to more than $4,500 in 2025. The report highlights the

00:34:57.240 troubling reality. New York taxpayers are now spending nearly twice as much per homeless person

00:35:03.860 as the city spends educating a public school student. Much of the new spending is going

00:35:09.320 towards so-called low-barrier shelters and drop-in centers. Programs allow individuals to come in

00:35:15.820 and eat and go freely, get a shower, sometimes providing temporary sleeping space. Critics argue

00:35:22.960 The system offers services without addressing the root causes of homelessness.

00:35:28.380 Former city controller Scott Stringer said the numbers raise serious questions about accountability.

00:35:35.000 With this level of spending, even Stringer, a liberal Democrat, argued the city should be seeing far better results.

00:35:42.840 Meanwhile, New York's overall homeless population has surged during 80 percent during 2019,

00:35:48.840 Driven in part, of course, by migration and the ongoing housing crisis, with costs expecting to climb to $456 million by 2026, thanks to Socialist Mayor Zoran Mandami, the homeless situation will only be getting drastically worse in the years to come.

00:36:11.020 This is what the people of New York have voted for, and it is very clear that we are going to experience both a crime crisis and a homeless crisis under this administration.

00:36:26.580 We're also going to have a massive housing crisis because of the legislation that prohibits a landlord from selling his property without first offering it to the city.

00:36:36.880 And then even when the city allows him to put it on the market after taking a pass, he has to give the city, the landlord has to give the city like last look.

00:36:48.120 This is insanity.

00:36:49.840 I also think it's unconstitutional.

00:36:52.680 It is an unconstitutional control of private property rights.

00:36:59.260 But then property rights don't really matter much to this mayor.

00:37:03.840 I think you've just seen the beginnings of these problems as they attempt to drive a woke agenda in New York City.

00:37:14.600 And it remains to be seen how much Mayor Mandami is going to step up for Kathy Hochul.

00:37:20.400 They seem to have a mutual non-aggression or I should say mutual endorsement pact that will make any Republicans' success in the governor's race far, far more difficult.

00:37:32.980 But we'll be covering all of it right here at the Stone Zone at the Red Apple Audio Networks, whether it's New York politics or national politics or New Jersey politics or California politics.

00:37:46.160 You get it all right here in the Stone Zone.

00:37:48.560 We talk politics, news, history, culture, say that advisedly, and style.

00:37:56.620 Thanks for joining us today until tomorrow.

00:37:58.420 God bless you and Godspeed.

00:38:02.980 We'll be right back.

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The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - March 17, 2026

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