The StoneZONE with Roger Stone

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

00:00:16.720 in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone welcome to the stone zone here on the red

00:00:26.200 apple audio networks do you remember when president ronald reagan warned us of the folly

00:00:34.440 of giving away control of the panama canal at that time of course he was just former california

00:00:42.220 governor ronald reagan running for the presidency this issue revitalized his campaign against

00:00:50.440 gerald ford who had ascended to the presidency after being appointed vice president upon the

00:00:59.180 resignation of vice president sparrow agnew and then of course ford became president

00:01:05.760 upon the resignation of richard milhouse nixon but reagan challenged ford in 1976 it was a

00:01:15.220 as they say a close run thing and he revitalized his campaign for president by raising the secret

00:01:24.020 deal that gerald ford and secretary of state henry kissinger were engaged in to give away control

00:01:31.980 of the panama canal for the princely sum of one dollar to the tin pot dictator omar torreos

00:01:42.080 then in control of panama well it turns out ronald reagan was right although it wasn't ford who gave

00:01:51.540 away the canal he supported the canal giveaway only to be defeated in the following election by jimmy

00:01:58.920 carter who consummated the deal to give away this vital asset which was both a national security

00:02:08.280 uh and a commercial question that put this country in danger listen to president ronald reagan

00:02:15.900 if these reports are true it means that the american people have been deceived

00:02:22.440 by a state department preoccupied with secrecy the panama canal zone is sovereign united states territory

00:02:29.540 just as much as alaska is as well as the states carved from the louisiana purchase

00:02:34.860 we bought it we paid for it and general torreos should be told we're going to keep it well we

00:02:42.940 didn't keep it and ronald reagan is right now the panama canal has come under the control of the

00:02:51.760 chinese communist government which is why earlier this month blackrock a u.s based company secured

00:03:00.700 control at least on paper over key ports near the panama canal stripping away chinese linked influence

00:03:08.480 over one of the world's most crucial chinese uh shipping routes the 23 billion dollar deal which

00:03:16.820 includes five billion in debt would effectively place the strategic ports under american control

00:03:23.300 this is a move advocated by president donald trump and the national security hawks concerned about

00:03:29.920 china's grip on our global infrastructure the transaction that was announced last tuesday involves

00:03:36.600 hong kong-based ck hutchinson holdings selling its controlling stock stock in hutchinson port holdings and

00:03:45.080 hutchinson port group holdings to a u.s led consortium spearheaded by blackrock

00:03:52.060 this historic acquisition is set to grant control over 43 ports in 23 countries including major sites in

00:04:00.800 mexico the netherlands egypt australia pakistan and panama's critical ports of balboa and cristobal

00:04:09.680 the two primary gateways to the panama canal now president donald trump has vowed to take back the

00:04:16.700 panama canal arguing that panama has violated its neutrality pledge and allowed china to gain control

00:04:24.940 of that crucial waterway emphasizing the canal's strategic importance which is a vital trade route

00:04:33.080 built by the united states to connect the atlantic nations he warned that it must not be allowed to 0.99

00:04:39.540 fall into the wrong hands you see the panamanians are in violation of the agreement that they signed 0.60

00:04:48.120 in which we turned over control of the canal to them as i said for the princely sum of one dollar

00:04:56.220 the panama canal zone has been under u.s control for 75 years until of course as i say jimmy carter

00:05:04.560 gave it back to panama in 1977 signing treaties with panama's then leader general omar turrios

00:05:11.360 almost 38 000 workers risked their lives during its construction due to diseases like malaria and in 2004

00:05:20.720 america spent nearly 287 million dollars to build the canal that is equivalent to well over 10 billion

00:05:31.900 dollars today 6 500 americans lost their lives during the construction of the panama canal

00:05:41.600 the stretch of 50 miles long and 10 miles wide in the middle of the panamanian isthmus

00:05:48.360 had been given under u.s control since 1903 but jimmy carter gave it all the way for a buck

00:05:56.120 and since then the crucial transportation route has come under the complete and total control

00:06:01.700 of the communist chinese two chinese companies operate the two huge ports on both ends of the

00:06:08.680 panama canal and the concession for these ports were extended to 2021 for a 25 year period without

00:06:17.020 any bidding or notice to the united states chinese communist party officials are well known to bribe

00:06:24.260 other officials in countries all around the world in addition the government of panama is violating the treaty

00:06:33.780 which they got for the princely sum of a hundred dollars panama has been unwilling and unable as well

00:06:42.900 to close the darien gap where millions of immigrants have come across to invade the united states this is yet 1.00

00:06:52.340 another violation of u.s sovereignty and a hostile act against our nation by panama once more both the

00:07:00.200 chinese control over canal infrastructure and the exorbitant fees they're currently charging for canal 0.89

00:07:06.760 transits are a violation of the neutrality treaty between the united states and panama if the united

00:07:14.440 united states under president donald trump determines that panama panama is in violation of the treaty

00:07:20.900 we may yet decide to use the military to take back control of the canal and that may be the appropriate 1.00

00:07:29.260 remedy in a senate hearing in january professor and executive director of the antonin scalia law school

00:07:37.340 eugene konturovich testified and i quote it may be shocking to people to hear today but when one goes

00:07:46.220 over the ratification history and the debates and discussions in this senate body over the treaty it's

00:07:53.540 clear that the treaty was understood as giving both sides separately the right to resort to use armed

00:08:00.900 force to enforce the provisions of the treaty now of course armed force should never be the first

00:08:07.240 recourse for any kind of international dispute and should not be arrived at rashly or before negotiations

00:08:15.460 or any other kind of good offices are exhausted however it's quite clear that the treaty contemplates that

00:08:23.560 as a remedy for violation president trump will very soon have to make a decision with china blocking the

00:08:32.220 transfer of critical ports to a blackrock owned company chinese regulators are investigating the deal for

00:08:40.440 the two ports in panama canal zone delaying the deal's closing as it was originally set for last week

00:08:46.980 president donald trump has previously threatened to take control once again of the canal as ronald reagan

00:08:55.260 one of our greatest presidents said we built it we paid for it and it's ours i think you can count on

00:09:04.540 president donald trump to take back the panama canal why because it puts the interests of america first

00:09:13.380 speaking of the interests of america first today is a liberation day this is the day that president

00:09:21.940 donald trump has marked for the beginning of putting reciprocal tariffs on any country charging our

00:09:30.480 country tariffs for the goods and services that they sell in our nation folks this is far bigger than

00:09:38.120 perhaps you think it is it's not just about the united states it is about the world economy let's listen to

00:09:45.220 a little bit of donald trump declaring what is an action that i think brings us into the golden age of peace

00:09:53.280 prosperity security and justice that president trump has been talking about let me offer just a few examples

00:10:01.860 of the vicious attacks our workers have faced for so many years the united states charges other countries

00:10:09.980 only a 2.4 tariff on motorcycles meanwhile thailand and others are charging much higher prices like 60

00:10:20.400 india charges 70 vietnam charges 75 and others are even higher than that likewise until today the united states

00:10:30.180 has for decades charged a 2.5 tariff think of that 2.5 percent on foreign-made automobiles the european

00:10:39.960 union charges us more than 10 10 tariff and they have 20 20 vats much much higher india charges 70

00:10:49.460 and perhaps worst of all are the non-monetary restrictions imposed by south korea japan and

00:10:55.700 very many other nations as a result of these colossal trade barriers 81 of the cars in south korea are made in

00:11:04.860 south korea 94 of the cars in japan are made in japan toyota sells 1 million foreign-made automobiles into

00:11:14.440 the united states and general motors sells almost none ford sells very little none of our companies are

00:11:21.720 allowed to go into other countries and i say that friend and foe and in many cases the friend is worse than

00:11:28.960 the foe in terms of trade but such horrendous imbalances have devastated our industrial base

00:11:35.800 and put our national security at risk i don't blame these other countries at all for this calamity

00:11:42.160 i blame former presidents and past leaders who weren't doing their job they let it happen

00:11:46.660 and they let it happen to an extent that nobody can even believe that's why effective at midnight

00:11:52.140 we will impose a 25 tariff on all foreign-made automobiles there's going to be new investment

00:11:58.520 there's going to be new plants built and the uaw members and i brought 20 of them with me they're

00:12:04.500 sitting uh so donald trump is deadly serious about this you know when they ask him who is his favorite

00:12:12.360 president sometimes he says ronald reagan he's restored the portrait the oil portrait of ronald reagan

00:12:19.500 to the oval office uh but i think his real favorite president was william mckinley you see when william

00:12:27.600 mckinley was president we had no federal income tax america's government operations were funded

00:12:34.800 solely by the revenue from tariffs uh proving that it can be done when donald trump says he is serious

00:12:42.820 about phasing out the u.s income tax and closing down the irs he's not kidding folks his secretary of

00:12:51.220 state scott besant who could be the greatest secretary of state since al pardon secretary of the treasury

00:12:57.160 since alexander hamilton uh is quite serious about the real possibility of closing down the irs

00:13:05.560 uh and ending the federal income tax they often claim that we as conservatives want to turn back

00:13:12.840 the clock well i'd like to turn back the clock to the time that america had no federal income tax

00:13:18.920 and that we ran our entire country on the basis of tariff revenues by the way under president william

00:13:27.220 mckinley we also liberated cuba that wouldn't be so bad either you're listening to the stone zone

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00:14:26.600 this is the stone zone now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone

00:14:46.880 and you're back in the stone zone i'm so happy to be back after five days of laryngitis i want to

00:14:56.800 thank the literally hundreds by now it may be thousands of folks who emailed or text me uh missing

00:15:03.780 me here in the stone zone it's so great to be back in the zone i want to thank you all for your prayers

00:15:08.320 and best wishes imagine my surprise watching the congressional hearings led ably i might add by

00:15:17.480 congressman anna polina luna looking into the release of the documents pertaining to the assassination

00:15:25.640 of president john f kennedy when congresswoman lauren bobert from colorado seemed to confuse me with

00:15:36.320 oliver stone the director of the film jfk take a listen

00:15:41.660 thank you madam chair thank you to our witnesses for being here today uh hopefully we can stay on

00:15:48.520 topic for the rest of this hearing we seem to be wrapping up pretty um close here mr stone um

00:15:55.680 you wrote a book accusing lbj of being involved in the killing of uh president kennedy uh did these

00:16:06.960 did these most recent releases uh confirm or negate your initial charge

00:16:11.580 being involved in the assassination

00:16:17.020 of president kennedy

00:16:20.500 no no i didn't uh if you look closely at the film there's no look it it accuses the president

00:16:31.660 johnson okay of part being part of a complicit in a cover-up of the case but not in the assassination

00:16:39.420 itself which i don't know what what do you think that he was complicit with yes sir i'll get to you

00:16:43.200 cover up well how about for starters appointing alan dulles the head of the cia who was fired by

00:16:48.940 kennedy to the commission itself to the warren commission and he goes to almost every meeting and

00:16:54.080 he's pretty much in charge of the warren commission from the beginning alan dulles that's uh part of the

00:17:00.260 evidence that points to president johnson's either incompetence or involvement mr morley i think you had

00:17:07.940 something to add on that i think you're confusing uh mr oliver stone with mr roger stone

00:17:13.240 yes sorry it's roger stone who implicated lbj in the assassination of the president it's not

00:17:20.000 my friend all the whispers were there i may have i may have misinterpreted that and i apologize for

00:17:24.720 that but there there's seems to be some alluding of like you said incompetence or or some sort of

00:17:31.280 involvement there on the back end but there you're not not sorry i'm going to move on mr morley um

00:17:37.360 i would like to um talk more about uh there you have it you can't pay for publicity like that yes i

00:17:44.460 wrote the new york times bestseller the man who killed kennedy the case against lbj the only difference

00:17:50.100 between oliver stone and me is i believe that lbj planned and orchestrated the murder of jfk and i

00:17:58.320 prove it in my book where oliver stone who dropped me a nice note telling me he wished he had read my

00:18:04.100 book before he made his film concedes that lbj was involved in the cover-up you're listening to the

00:18:11.060 stone zone and we'll be right back to talk about the strategic importance of the panama canal

00:18:15.880 and why president ronald reagan was absolutely right we should never have given it away and why

00:18:21.780 president donald trump is right when he says perhaps it's time to take it back whatever you do

00:18:27.660 don't touch that dial

00:18:29.000 this is the stone zone now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone

00:18:49.180 and we're back in the stone zone joining me now retired colonel rob manis rob manis has a lifelong

00:18:59.820 record of providing dedicated service to our country he made the decision as a 17 year old

00:19:06.340 high school senior to enlist in the united states air force and has served in uniform as the country

00:19:12.360 faced multiple crises around the world he worked his way up from the enlisted ranks to be a full

00:19:19.160 colonel and retired from active duty in 2011 ending his military service of more than 32 years now

00:19:26.340 we only have about 15 minutes in this segment if i read his entire biography and all the service he

00:19:33.640 has rendered to this country uh well we'd use the whole segment and we wouldn't get to talk to

00:19:38.300 colonel manis so i'm going to skip through this other than to say that rob manis is one of the

00:19:44.220 gentlemen that i look to for analysis of any geopolitical or geo military question someone

00:19:52.080 who has my enormous respect he is as a private citizen also an outspoken supporter of president

00:19:59.460 donald trump and his america first agenda uh and it is a great honor to have him today in the stone

00:20:06.320 zone uh colonel manis welcome hey roger thanks for having me so uh in our earlier segment we focused

00:20:16.460 on the strategic and commercial importance of the panama canal now i worked in three presidential

00:20:24.100 campaigns uh on the staff of ronald reagan in 1976 when he challenged gerald ford for the republican

00:20:31.900 nomination i was the national director of youth for reagan uh working directly for senator paul

00:20:39.860 laxalt the national chairman of our campaign uh in 1980 when i was the northeastern regional director

00:20:47.560 for ronald reagan's presidential campaign handling new york new jersey and connecticut uh and then in

00:20:54.320 1984 uh when i handled those three states uh plus all the states in new england all the way to the

00:21:01.780 canadian border plus at the recommendation president of president nixon uh the reagan campaign also

00:21:09.080 assigned me ohio on the theory that if you took one large state and you kept it out of uh walter

00:21:18.500 mondale's clutches uh that he could not possibly win remember it very well uh nixon told reagan

00:21:25.660 assign ohio to stone he said stone's an animal i always considered that a compliment but ronald reagan

00:21:33.460 was right when he warned us that this day would come uh tell us what's going on today in panama

00:21:39.640 and about the strategic importance of the canal and the canal zone

00:21:44.080 well from a national security perspective uh you know i think most people know but especially those of

00:21:52.680 us have practiced that as a profession that it's the largest choke point uh for navy traffic uh u.s navy

00:21:59.980 and international navy traffic in the world uh you know and uh we're we're risking lives to protect the

00:22:06.880 international traffic and the dead in the red sea uh because this is a critically important shipping

00:22:13.980 lane the panama canal is probably to the united states a hundred times more important than that uh

00:22:20.480 not but not but it goes way beyond just navy traffic uh you know china controls the companies

00:22:27.500 at each end of the canal the port companies at this point and every company that's chinese

00:22:33.160 uh has a part of it if not wholly owned by the communist chinese party or the people's liberation army

00:22:39.540 and navy uh so it's extremely important that uh we get control of that back uh and i think the

00:22:48.160 president had lined up president trump had lined up to have a company uh buy those ports uh but china's

00:22:54.580 uh obviously pushing back against that deal but you know what else is going on uh economically uh i don't

00:23:01.960 know if you guys talked about this in your last segment but uh we're trying to expand our liquefied

00:23:07.500 natural gas lng marketing uh out to new markets and the panama canal is crucial to that because the lng

00:23:16.300 exporter capability in the united states it's on the gulf coast and louisiana and places like that

00:23:23.760 uh so that canal uh has to be able to carry that type of energy type product uh for us so that we can

00:23:32.480 easily get through there get to the uh to the pacific theater of operations and deliver that uh to

00:23:38.920 potentially new customers so it's very much uh tied together from a national security and an economic

00:23:46.580 security perspective uh and obviously with everything that's going on in the world the more

00:23:52.360 that we can have direct control over from a trade perspective the better off our country's going to

00:23:58.240 be and i think the president's done the exact right thing with the tariff issue uh i was pleased to see

00:24:04.020 liberation day yesterday i still have a smile on my face with that because uh because it puts

00:24:10.080 the manufacturing capability is going to come back to the united states uh that we have been

00:24:16.360 offshoring for decades now and it's made us weak you know china controls 90 percent of the 1.00

00:24:22.840 precursor materials for antibiotics uh we can't make antibiotics on our own without the chinese 1.00

00:24:29.240 communist party so we have to bring that type of manufacturing back but we also need the canal

00:24:33.760 for free flow of our goods especially with this lng exporting effort to expand that going on

00:24:41.220 uh as someone who served his country at the highest levels of our military i have to ask you about what

00:24:49.180 has become known as signal gate now i'm amused to see uh senators uh like uh mark warner of virginia who

00:24:59.980 i went back and looked uh he had no problem whatsoever when robert malley a high level

00:25:07.220 biden state department official was sharing classified documents with the iranians uh he actually never even

00:25:14.260 got fired they just they just suspended his security clearance they also left let his confederates who

00:25:21.280 were involved uh in the in the uh transfer of these classified documents to iran uh continue in their

00:25:28.980 positions uh at state he never said a word uh when hillary clinton got caught sending 30 plus

00:25:36.380 thousand classified documents over an illegal computer server located in her bathroom once again not a peep 1.00

00:25:44.920 from mark warner but now he's in a lather uh about uh a signal uh exchange in which based on what i've seen

00:25:55.960 no classified information was exposed give us your take on uh on signal gate if you will

00:26:03.920 well let's talk about the information itself there's been a lot of uh uh uh angst about that

00:26:11.380 and lathering up as you said uh with senator warner uh and his ilk over that information none of that

00:26:18.640 information was classified not one iota of it uh there were not enough specifics in that thread

00:26:27.100 uh for anything to be classified but but even if secretary hegg said and that's the information

00:26:32.800 that most people are talking about is what he put into the chat or his phone did uh is uh put in he is

00:26:39.580 the original classifying authority on there just like president trump is the overall original

00:26:44.480 classifying authority for every single piece of classified uh secretary hegg said the defense

00:26:49.620 secretary is the oca for that information and even if it had been classified if he chose to put that

00:26:56.740 in there it's declassified uh from that perspective so now let's talk about signal uh itself it's an

00:27:03.120 in the end-to-end encrypted chat and this is one of the areas that i'm concerned about is that

00:27:07.500 the national security team and national security council team especially under mike waltz

00:27:11.440 they got to get that that stuff together they have to investigate how that reporter goldberg 0.97

00:27:17.720 from the atlantic i mean the worst uh fake news guy russiagate all of it the suckers and losers lie 0.88

00:27:26.060 all of that that they tried to use to hurt president trump and the team uh was due to that one guy so

00:27:31.760 that's a major issue and i'm not seeing anything yet that makes me satisfied that that team is cleaned up

00:27:37.620 uh uh internally and that they don't have people that have access to their information threads like

00:27:43.480 the signal chat uh that shouldn't have access to it so waltz has got to get that fixed now let's talk

00:27:48.900 about the senators because you didn't mention the republican senator that has also joined in with warner

00:27:53.880 and is demanding a dod inspector general investigation of hegseth uh over the signal thing uh you know my

00:28:00.540 senator roger wicker i agree with him on a lot of things like increasing shipbuilding and uh get

00:28:05.880 returning to peace through strength instead of being in endless war policies when it comes to

00:28:10.300 china but i disagree with him on a lot too on this i disagree with him it's absolutely unnecessary

00:28:16.380 number one because the national security council is the team that set that chat up it wasn't the

00:28:22.220 department of defense uh so there is no reason whatsoever to investigate secretary hegseth or the

00:28:28.940 department of defense over that particular issue look i'm all for investigating the government i don't

00:28:34.280 trust hardly anybody in the government but i do trust president trump's appointees uh and that they

00:28:40.340 need the maximum flexibility uh possible so we can move forward and get the president's policies that

00:28:46.400 we all voted for in place and throttled up so that we're they're running uh uh appropriately and calling

00:28:54.660 for investigations when it's not necessary is just the wrong thing to do yeah i agree with that this

00:28:59.380 is beginning to look to me like an effort to get uh hegseth to oust hegseth yeah uh that's because

00:29:08.040 he was an outside the box anti-establishment choice uh he's the right choice i strongly supported the

00:29:15.020 president's nominee uh when i defended this uh uh in a on a show with chris cuomo uh it was amazing the

00:29:23.880 way they twisted what i said see i don't trust any online uh service encrypted or unencrypted i frankly

00:29:32.380 think they're all vulnerable to being uh hacked they're all vulnerable to being monitored so i always

00:29:38.840 operate on the assumption that anything you put in writing online you should have seen that someone

00:29:43.560 else is going to have the ability to see it so don't say stupid things online that's kind of my attitude

00:29:49.460 right uh i was defending these people but if you read their story it makes it appear like i was

00:29:54.580 criticizing them which i was not uh but the democrats have spun this up because frankly they don't have

00:30:03.280 anything else to talk about it was interesting to see cory booker the senator from new jersey

00:30:08.760 breaking the previously held uh filibuster record held by uh senator strom thurman of south carolina who

00:30:17.680 spoke for 24 hours and 18 minutes without a bathroom break i might add uh uh back in 1957

00:30:27.720 cory brooker has now broken that record he spoke for slightly longer but strangely enough with all that

00:30:36.060 time he never explained why when he was the mayor of newark new jersey he authorized the new york city the

00:30:44.460 new york newark city water authority known as watershed to pay 200 000 to his law firm which he then put in

00:30:52.920 his pocket and when confronted by reporters he said that he didn't vote for that yet uh if you and

00:31:01.020 they're hard to find but when i found the actual formal minutes of the meeting he was not only in the chair

00:31:07.520 but he also voted for the disbursement then he came up with three different explanations as to why

00:31:13.940 he got that money once he said it had no connection uh to watershed that it was the buyout of his uh and

00:31:22.520 his uh uh portion of the law firm another point he said it was deferred compensation i'll tell you what it

00:31:29.760 was it was graft that's what it was and he's never been never answered that question i actually wrote

00:31:36.920 a biography on him it's called spartacus the real cory booker story it's now out of print but i might

00:31:43.440 bring it back to tell you the truth uh it may be time to put it back in truth by the way what you saw

00:31:49.060 there was the launch of cory booker's presidential campaign uh because he sees himself as a presidential

00:31:56.980 candidate by the way he is the senator from greenwich village he doesn't even live in new jersey

00:32:03.140 uh could sorry i hope to get a copy of that book sir uh i'm gonna i gotta pull it out of mothballs

00:32:11.240 i i published it when he was running for president but his campaign was such a flop didn't sell many

00:32:16.980 copies but if he's gonna run again i may have to republish it again when we come back i'm gonna ask

00:32:22.960 colonel manis about cuba and the fact that the chinese have a very sophisticated spy station set

00:32:32.460 up in cuba but i also want to know do they have missiles and if they have missiles are they offensive

00:32:39.100 missiles or defensive missiles and do they pose the same danger that russian missiles uh posed to this

00:32:46.920 nation in 1962 when the russians put them in cuba we'll be right back with colonel rob manis right

00:32:54.320 here in the stone zone so don't go away this is the stone zone with roger stone the stone zone

00:33:03.480 this is the stone zone now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone

00:33:28.400 and we're back with colonel rob manis a retired colonel manis led numerous combat operations

00:33:36.820 during his military service including as a bomb squadron commander in operation enduring freedom

00:33:43.340 and operation iraqi freedom colonel manis also served as an enlisted bomb disposal technician in

00:33:50.340 three assignments countering terrorism before being commissioned and selected for flight training

00:33:57.200 uh he is a man who's put his life on the line for his country and we are honored to have him with

00:34:03.180 us today i want to focus on that question uh regarding cuba that i raised before the break

00:34:09.520 my wife is a cuban american she is one of those who fled the castro regime her family uh and she as a child

00:34:18.940 uh and um therefore i have a special interest in the the uh the regime 90 miles off of our shore

00:34:27.960 uh cuba was a great danger to the united states then with the fall of the iron curtain uh and the

00:34:37.140 collapse really of the russian economy when they could no longer subsidize uh their comrades in cuba

00:34:43.860 uh they became less of a danger to us uh but now they seem to have been scooped up by the chinese 1.00

00:34:50.540 uh it is indisputable that joe biden's administration knew they had a sophisticated

00:34:55.960 spying operation set up on the cuban island about which he did nothing and some military experts tell

00:35:03.080 me that they also have missiles uh and that all those missiles although those missiles may be defensive

00:35:09.140 with a very slight technological fix they could be offensive missiles what is the situation going on

00:35:15.660 today uh between us and cuba well i think uh with president trump coming into office uh you're going

00:35:24.300 to see the view of the united states from a an official perspective change back to one of questioning

00:35:32.260 why are uh why are the chinese armed forces allowed to have bases on the island uh why are they being

00:35:42.760 allowed to run these surveillance operations uh on the island they're so close as you reminded us you

00:35:50.800 know it's 90 miles away uh so electronic surveillance uh capability that we have today uh is uh much more

00:35:59.100 effective than it would have been even 10 years ago uh not just that but uh there are uh cable lines

00:36:06.520 that they give them access to the digital networks inside the united states that they are able to get

00:36:12.940 access to uh being in such close proximity and uncontrolled uh and i think uh and i hope that i'm

00:36:20.320 we're going to see the national security team uh start putting pressure on the cuban government

00:36:25.520 again to get those forces removed uh uh but uh you know one of the one of the conflicting issues

00:36:33.980 though is the russia ukraine war roger and as the president tries to stop the killing over there

00:36:39.660 uh and uh i wish it could happen tomorrow uh because that's going to be a conflicting issue uh when

00:36:48.180 every time we talk about china being 90 miles away uh the other side gets to talk about what we're

00:36:54.860 letting uh you know uh russia expecting russia to allow uh nato to be right up against its border

00:37:02.340 and so that kind of debate uh will get generated out of that but uh knowing president trump he'll

00:37:08.560 ignore that and push through uh to take care of the interests of the united states of america in both

00:37:13.920 of those situations and uh i'm so glad that he's in office because we're going to stop we're going to

00:37:19.260 get the killing stopped uh in europe uh and get that situation resolved yeah i don't think it's

00:37:24.520 an illegitimate argument by the way we signed the budapest memorandum in which we promised when the

00:37:30.820 russians united east and west germany or they allowed us to have it reunited we agreed not to push

00:37:36.780 ukraine into nato which means not to mount nato missiles on the ground in nato aimed at russia

00:37:42.420 we reaffirmed that in the minisc accords we are in violation putin has made it abundantly clear

00:37:48.720 that that was his line in the sand no i'm not pro-putin i have many of my own family relatives

00:37:55.360 mowed down by russian tanks in budapest in 1956 uh so they'll they'll say oh roger stone's a rollover

00:38:01.700 for putin he's a pro-russian no not not not not even an iota yeah uh but i understand uh why the

00:38:08.900 russians might not want uh intercontinental ballistic missiles on their border pointed

00:38:16.400 at the nation all right we're out of time i want to thank my special guest retired colonel rob

00:38:21.540 manis he has a killer uh uh substack that you might want to check out uh but i appreciate your being with

00:38:29.080 us colonel and i appreciate your bringing your real world defense and national security expertise

00:38:36.500 to my listeners here in the stone zone my friend thank you for being with us and god bless you

00:38:41.780 thank you sir and i hope to get you on the show to spend an hour with me talking about who killed

00:38:47.020 john f kennedy uh now that all these documents have been released i would be most honored to do so

00:38:53.520 for you out there listening to the stone zone i want to thank you as well until we meet again

00:39:00.260 god bless you and god speed and yes god bless america

The Stone Zone ｜ 04-03-25

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