Roger Stone has a cold, but as they say, the show must go on. Greg Kelly reviews the latest on the Iran deal, the latest in the Mueller investigation, and the recent declassification of top-secret documents from the CIA.
00:02:43.780used to pay off Iranian politicians to do a deal
00:02:49.220in which, of course, the truth is Iran moved forward0.57
00:02:52.240with their nuclear weapons development program
00:02:54.820while happily taking our cash and contending otherwise.
00:02:58.840Now the Trump administration is demanding real concessions.
00:03:01.660Mediators from Pakistan, Egypt, and Turkey
00:03:04.420are scrambling to broker some kind of phased-in deal,
00:03:08.680making the point to the Iranians that President Trump means business.
00:03:12.500The first step would emanate from these talks would include a temporary ceasefire,
00:03:16.640while longer-term issues like, well, reopening the Strait of Hormuz
00:03:20.520and dismantling Iran's enriched uranium stockpile are addressed.
00:03:25.200But as of right now, Iranian officials are refusing meaningful concessions,
00:03:29.340telling once again that the regime prioritizes its leverage over peace.
00:03:33.620The next 48 hours, of course, will be critical.
00:03:36.460Either Iran comes to the table in good faith or we will see the true wrath of Donald Trump and it won't be pretty.
00:03:42.960Meanwhile, however, my old friend Laura Loomer, she seems to be egging this on.
00:03:49.160She can't wait to see what parts of Iran Trump destroys tomorrow.
00:03:54.380She's somehow become a rabid neocon.1.00
00:03:57.300And I think she's just upset because last week she predicted in a social media post that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, that's the woman who declassified the documents that proved definitively that there was a seditious conspiracy known as the Russian collusion hoax that morphed into the two fake impeachments against Donald Trump.
00:04:23.980the theft of the 2020 election, the January 6th Fed-surrection, followed by the raid on Mar-a-Lago,
00:04:36.980and that it's odd that the current CIA director, John Radcliffe, had this classified information in Trump's first term,
00:04:45.840could have declassified it, which I think would have changed the result of the 2020 election,
00:04:51.840but for some odd reason did not do so. Tulsi Gabbard has done that. Tulsi Gabbard also a
00:04:58.660decorated war veteran serving the country in the war in Iraq. But Laura Loomer predicted that Tulsi
00:05:08.360Gabbard would either resign or be fired. I spoke to both the president and Gabbard that very day
00:05:15.000finding out that neither one was true. Tulsi Gabbard did not do what Joe Kent did. Joe Kent
00:05:20.940said in his confirmation hearings, he was like the number two, the head of the number two person at
00:05:27.280the Department of Intelligence. He said at the time of his confirmation that he believed that
00:05:32.900the Iranians were very close to the development of a nuclear bomb, only to resign after the
00:05:41.320president made a difficult decision to mount the attack on the Iranians after we determined they
00:05:46.680had at least enough enriched uranium to build seven bombs. But Tulsi Gabbard did not do that.
00:05:54.260Tulsi Gabbard said in her Senate testimony that she gave the best intelligence she had to the
00:06:01.220president. Her advice to the president, of course, would be covered under executive privilege. But
00:06:06.040she said, quite correctly, that once the president of the United States makes a decision, it is the
00:06:11.220job of everyone in his administration to support that decision. So we don't know what Tulsi Gabbard's
00:06:17.940advice to the president was. We also don't know what Vice President J.D. Vance's advice was. There's
00:06:22.280been speculation that he was not as hardline, but we don't know all of that. At this point,
00:06:29.820Laura Loomer kind of reminds me of Slim Pickens, you know, riding the nose of a nuclear warhead1.00
00:09:46.000Todd Blanche also is the individual who ordered the Missouri U.S. attorney who was given authority over the fruits of the Fulton County Board of Elections raid and also the documents taken from Maricopa, Arizona.
00:10:06.760It's Todd Blanche who has derailed all of those investigations.
00:10:11.420If it's anyone responsible for ordering the U.S. attorney in the Southern District of Florida who got the authority to prosecute the Russian collusion hoax because the seditious conspiracy ends at Mar-a-Lago, you see, and that's within the Southern District, it would be Blanche.
00:10:29.340So now Trump has fired Pam Bondi, and the search for a new attorney general goes on.
00:10:36.220Let's talk about who's not in the running, Judge Jeanine Pirro, who I think would be great, but she's too valuable where she is as the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.0.99
00:10:45.520Lena Habba, former U.S. temporary U.S. attorney in New Jersey, also a good woman, but not in the running.
00:10:52.180Ed Martin himself, I'm afraid that won't happen.
00:10:55.720Of course, the really good news is that Trey Gowdy, who was Lindsey Graham's candidate for attorney, he will also not be attorney general.
00:11:03.420Well, there's some speculation about former New York congressman and EPA director Lee Zeldin,
00:11:08.460who I think is a fine man and a great administrator.
00:11:11.600I hope that there's some truth to that, but somehow I doubt it.
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00:15:02.780this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:15:11.640political minds roger stone was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:15:16.420political analyst now get him a zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone
00:15:23.080and we're back in the zone you know yesterday here on the red apple
00:15:28.840networks, I gave out my Aunt Marie's recipe for traditional Eastern pie called pizza gain.
00:15:40.320Pizza gain is made with eggs, cheese, salami, cabagoule. You can throw a little ham in there.
00:15:47.980It's kind of like quiche, but it's not like quiche. I saw some people and I said, hey, this is quiche.
00:15:53.360I said, first, we ain't French, and I've never seen salami in quiche, but I promised to put the recipe online after the show, and I just realized I didn't do it.
00:16:04.080So you can go find me on X at Roger J. Stone Jr., and you can get the full recipe for this Easter treat.
00:16:13.320It is something that's a great tradition in our family household.
00:16:17.280A dramatic rescue mission over hostile territories, drawing attention not only for its military precision, but also for a powerful expression of faith under fire.
00:16:27.520According to reports, a U.S. Air Force weapons system officer shot down over Iran after his F-15 was struck on Good Friday radioed a simple message after rejecting God is good.
00:16:39.480President Donald Trump highlighted the moment, noting the officer's faith and calling the message a testament to his character.
00:16:45.760The aircraft was reportedly hit by a shoulder-fired missile, forcing both crew members to eject.
00:16:53.400While the pilot was recovered quickly, the second officer, wounded and alone, survived for more than 24 hours in mountainous terrain
00:17:00.840as hostile forces and even civilians searched for him with reported incentives being offered for his capture.
00:17:07.800Roughly 200 U.S. Special Operations Troops launched a very high-risk Easter morning mission to bring him home safely.
00:17:14.560Defense officials later confirmed the officer's survival and noted that those who knew him were not surprised by his public expression of faith in God.
00:17:22.860Secretary of War Pete Hegseth echoed the sentiment after the rescue, simply saying God is good.
00:17:29.600The story highlights both the bravery of our U.S. service members and the enduring role of faith in moments of crisis.
00:17:57.760I was redeemed in the blood of the cross, and God answered my prayers.
00:18:02.300Then when my wife, who went through this horrific two-year trial with me, was diagnosed with aggressive stage four cancer, once again we put our faith in the Lord, and I'm happy to say she is now five years cancer-free.
00:18:21.280So this kind of faith does not surprise me. This story highlights the bravery of our military, but also highlights the dangers that our troops face abroad and the strength, conviction and resilience that define those who serve.
00:18:36.960In an increasingly, I guess you'd call it uncertain world, this rescue stands as a reminder of American resolve and the values that continue to guide us as we fight against Islamic extremism.0.98
00:18:49.040When we come back, Tulsi Gabbard has done it again.
00:18:53.720U.S. intelligence accepted communications in which Ukrainian officials discussed a 2022 plot to divert approximately $200 million in American taxpayers' dollars through these phony clean energy projects to Joe Biden's re-election campaign.
00:19:10.220This is the Tulsi Gabbard that Laura Loomer thinks should be fired.1.00
00:19:14.340We'll tell you all about it when we come back in the Stone Zone, so don't go away.
00:20:29.600So, as I said, U.S. intelligence has intercepted communications in which Ukrainian officials actually discussed a 2022 plot to divert approximately $200 million in American taxpayers' dollars from phony clean energy projects to Joe Biden's 2024 re-election campaign and to the Democrat National Committee.
00:20:52.940The Director of National Intelligence, Tosi Gabbard, has directed USAID to review contracts, payments, and internal records to determine whether this alleged scheme involved unspecified U.S. government personnel through USAID in Kyiv.
00:21:09.200Find out whether it was actually ever carried out.
00:21:12.440Gabbard has ordered a review to determine whether this corrupt plan was carried out and if a referral to the DOJ is warranted.
00:21:18.600See, in 2022, during the Biden administration, U.S. intelligence officials captured communications in which Ukrainian officials and unspecified U.S. personnel via U.S. IDA in Kiev discussed this scheme to divert hundreds of millions of dollars in America's taxpayer dollars, originally allocated for Ukraine's clean energy and infrastructure projects, through a phony infrastructure project.
00:21:41.720The plan called for routing approximately 90% of the funds via two American subcontractors in a manner designed to obscure the money trail and direct it to Sleepy Joe's 2024 re-election campaign and the DNC.
00:21:55.620This, of course, was prior to Barack Obama deciding that Joe was not running for re-election and forcing him out of the race against his will.
00:22:04.580And then the party of no kings designated a queen for whom nobody voted, Kamala Harris, no Democrat primary voter, no Democrat caucus voter, no Democrat delegate.
00:22:15.640She was just foisted on them, perhaps the worst candidate for president since, oh, I don't know, George McGovern.
00:22:22.420In any event, despite the seriousness of these intercepts, the Biden administration took no action.
00:22:28.640They revealed messages exposed yet another familiar pattern of corruption.
00:22:32.700Ukrainian officials, working again with unspecified U.S. personnel,
00:22:36.700planned to fund a fake infrastructure project that would later be canceled as unnecessary,
00:22:41.700turning into a massive money-larnering operation against the American taxpayers.
00:22:46.760The report noted that participants believed the funds would be difficult or virtually impossible
00:23:16.140$100 million energy sector corruption scandal.
00:23:20.060The investigation also implicated Tomor Mindich, a longtime Zelensky business partner from his Kvartal 95 days, fled to Israel to evade accountability.
00:23:32.300Corruption at the highest levels of Zelensky's government remained an ongoing problem.
00:23:37.180Ukraine's longstanding reputation of one of Europe's most corrupt nations has only worsened with billions of dollars of aid, providing ample further opportunity for self-dealing.
00:23:48.180USA to Ukraine has totaled well over $175 billion since the war began, much of it in the form of direct budget support and infrastructure funding.
00:23:59.520Now, the Biden administration would have you believe that the Russians attacked Ukraine when, in fact, when East and West Germany were united and the Russians agreed to that, we signed an agreement in which we agreed not to push Ukraine into NATO.
00:24:17.720That is to say, not to mount NATO missiles paid for with our tax dollars on the ground in Ukraine, pointed at Russia.
00:24:27.180We signed the Budapest Memorandum signed by Secretary of State James A. Baker on behalf of President George H.W. Bush.
00:24:35.700We later reaffirmed that in the so-called Minsk Accords.
00:24:40.080So from the beginning, Vladimir Putin, who I am no fan of, made it very clear that was a line in the sand.
00:24:47.260This is very much like the Russians mounting missiles in Cuba 90 miles from our shore in 1963, something that President John F. Kennedy opposed.
00:25:00.120Now, we're told in one of the great falsehoods of history that brave Jack and Bobby Kennedy faced down the Russians and Nikita Khrushchev blinked and removed the missiles, when in fact that's not true.
00:25:13.580Declassified documents decades later prove that the Kennedys made a secret deal with the Russians to remove our NATO missiles from Italy and Turkey, changing the balance of power in Europe in return for a pledge from Khrushchev to remove the Cuban missiles.
00:25:33.300Our ambassador, our last ambassador to Cuba, Earl E.T. Smith, a great friend of Vice President and President Richard Nixon's, believed that the missiles were never actually removed.
00:25:45.980And indeed, the Cuban Missile Crisis Agreement contained no online inspection to determine whether those missiles were indeed there.
00:25:58.420So it is Joe Biden who started this war in violation of our treaties, proving once again that we don't live up to our obligations.
00:26:08.500In this case, these exposed messages uncovered by Gabbard show that the scandal threatens American taxpayers and their trust in U.S.-Ukrainian relations.
00:26:19.600with peace negotiations underway under President Trump,
00:26:22.700Zelensky's team faces uncomfortable questions
00:26:29.160American voters are already weary of this.
00:26:31.300Endless blank checks to Kiev deserve, I think, full transparency.
00:26:35.440Ultimately, Joe Biden's longstanding Ukrainian entanglements
00:26:38.280and Zelensky's persistent failure to combat corruption
00:26:41.420have shattered American trust in all foreign aid.
00:26:44.580The exposure by Gabbard of this scandal is yet another example.
00:26:51.720The American people have a right to know the truth, and we need to know who to hold responsible.
00:26:56.020My good friend Congressman Tim Burchett has said that he has seen documentation that much of the money that was sent to Ukraine was funneled back into offshore bank accounts of certain American politicians of both parties,
00:27:14.580Meanwhile, last week, a federal judge issued a ruling
00:27:18.380actually blocking further construction work on President Trump's
00:27:22.100privately funded $400 million ballroom at the White House,
00:27:25.680claiming that congressional authorization would be needed to complete the project.
00:27:30.020Judge Richard Leon, an appointee to the bench by George W. Bush,
00:27:34.780who has establishment bona fides going back to the 1970s,
00:27:38.340It ruled baselessly that the executive branch does not have the authority to proceed with a structural upgrade on federal property without approval from Congress.
00:27:47.320There's a separation of powers issue here.
00:27:49.960Jeff Clark, a former high-level Department of Justice official, joined us yesterday here on the Red Apple Network to talk about it.
00:28:07.680Congressional approval is never given on anything in these circumstances, big or small.
00:28:12.480Dwight Eisenhower, Barack Obama, Richard Nixon all changed the complex around the old executive office building and the White House.
00:28:24.380But what has really come to the fore is the fact that not only were we building a ballroom, a necessary facility,
00:28:31.620But there were all kinds of security apparatuses within this same structure, all of which, of course, is classified.
00:28:43.980Under Theodore Roosevelt, the West Wing was constructed as separate office workspaces from the family residence.
00:28:50.680That was a major structural addition, which Roosevelt framed as a functional improvement to an already overcrowded building.
00:28:56.820Ultimately, TR's addition was proven to be non-controversial over time as the West Wing is now perhaps the most noteworthy and famous part of the White House.
00:29:05.580Then Franklin D. Roosevelt, later expanded the West Wing further, added the modern Oval Office, which became an integral part of America.
00:29:13.220Again, no congressional approval for that.
00:29:15.580During World War II, FDR also caught construction of the East Wing, partly justified for security and operational needs, as Trump's expansion is.
00:29:25.620These projects were generally accepted as necessary alterations tied to presidential duties, very similar to what President Trump's proposal is in the current time.
00:29:34.040Then, of course, Harry Truman had the most dramatic transformation of the White House from 1948 to 1952.
00:29:41.780The interior of the executive mansion was completely gutted and rebuilt, leaving only exterior walls intact.
00:29:47.280The project was justified under maintenance and safety concerns as the building had become structurally unsound.
00:29:53.760Perhaps the critics would have been more happy if the building collapsed
00:29:56.440while Truman waited for piddling members of Congress to get around to approving their innovations.
00:30:02.040Subsequent presidents in the modern era have continued to make changes over the same legal authority.
00:30:06.300Ronald Reagan oversaw updates to wiring, security systems, and structural elements.
00:30:12.080Bill Clinton and George W. Bush implemented technological upgrades and security expansions after evolving threats.
00:30:18.300Barack Obama improved modernization, including energy efficiency upgrades and interior renovations.
00:30:24.740Of course, Richard Nixon very famously installed a bowling alley in the White House complex,
00:30:30.360and Barack Obama refurbished that bowling alley.
00:30:33.380So, you see, you only have to get approval if you're Donald Trump.
00:30:38.300The judge is wrong, and he will be overruled.
00:30:40.860President Trump took aim in particular at the National Trust for Historic Preservation,
00:30:44.920a group of infiltrated leftists that have developed Trump derangement syndrome
00:30:49.700and devised these petty rationales to undermine President Trump's achievements largely out of spite.
00:30:56.080The president said that the National Trust for Historic Prevention sues me for a ballroom
00:31:00.720that is under budget, ahead of schedule, being built at no cost to U.S. taxpayers
00:31:04.620and will be the finest building of its kind anywhere in the world.
00:31:08.100Then I get sued by them over the renovation of the dilapidated and structurally unsound former Kennedy Center.
00:31:14.920Yet the National Trust for Historic Preservation, a radical left group of lunatics whose funding was stopped by Congress in 2005, is not suing the Federal Reserve for their building, which has been decimated and destroyed inside now by the incompetent and possibly correct Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell.
00:31:36.360Powell has a $2.6 billion budget to rebuild the palatial headquarters for the Federal Reserve.
00:31:45.600Now, Powell, the chairman of the Fed, testified before the U.S. Senate, and he specifically said that the renovation included no private elevators for the board governors.
00:36:42.940Now, Judicial Watch has uncovered newly discovered internal documents that reveal that even within the FBI itself, there were grave doubts about the legal foundation for this extraordinary intrusion. Doubts that were brushed aside by Biden's Department of Justice determined to proceed with that raid.
00:37:01.480At the heart of the matter lies their Operation Plasmic Echo.
00:37:05.700I don't know who makes up these names, but that one's not very good.
00:37:08.220The code name for the FBI's secret investigation into Trump's handling of presidential records.
00:37:14.220Now, according to the Presidential Records Act, a current or former president has full authority to maintain and declassify any document that he pleases.
00:37:25.540But according to the internal communications, the FBI's Washington field office explicitly stated it did not believe that probable cause existed to justify a search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.
00:37:39.340The agents on the ground, the professionals entrusted with the solemn responsibility for safeguarding constitutional rights, concluded that the legal threshold had not yet been met.
00:37:49.040Yet the Department of Justice under Merrick Garland pressed for regardless, combing in an unprecedented raid in the home of a former president.
00:37:58.220We now know that they staged photographs to make it appear that Trump had maintained classified documents.
00:38:06.080Why were they so desperate to get these documents?
00:38:09.380I think it's because these are the documents that were declassified by Tulsi Gabbard.
00:38:14.760These are the documents that show that Obama, Biden, Comey, Clapper, Rice, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Rod Rosenstein, these people engaged in a seditious conspiracy.
00:38:29.960So one is compelled to ask, since when does the absence of probable cause become a mere inconvenience?
00:38:37.920An August 4th, 2022 email provides a chilling clue to that question.
00:38:42.180A senior FBI official expressed concerns over DOJ's handling of pre-search communications, quoting a DOJ official who said, frankly, they didn't give a damn about optics.
00:38:53.880Such a cavalier disregard for the perception of justice is not merely unseemly.
00:39:01.140Justice must not only be done, it must be seen to be done.
00:39:04.680When those we entrust with this execution dismiss optics entirely, they invite the very suspicion that now engulfs this case.
00:39:13.000The origins of the investigation are equally revealing.
00:39:16.000Plasmic Echo was opened as a sensitive investigation matter following coordination between FBI headquarters, the deputy director, the Office of General Counsel, and the Department of Justice.
00:39:27.180That's a sensitive investigation matter, or SIM.
00:39:31.480That's what allowed them to hide these documents.
00:39:33.860Yet what catalyzed this extraordinary mobilization of federal power?
00:39:38.660Not solely internal deliberations, but external agitation.
00:39:42.820In the file is a letter from an activist organization called Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
00:39:48.820By the way, they always give these organizations names that indicate the exact opposite of what they are doing.
00:39:55.380In this particular case, this operation ran by Norm Eisen, the epic criminal who staged the entire Russian collusion hoax, as well as the Ark Disfrost extra-constitutional effort to destroy Donald Trump, filed a complaint with the FBI, which was immediately acted on upon days.
00:40:14.300The implication is pretty unmistakable.
00:40:16.080So these left-leaning advocacy groups were not merely spectators, but they were actually participants in the genesis of a federal investigation targeting a former investigation.
00:40:30.040Will anybody be held accountable for these egregious violations of both the law and the Constitution?
00:40:35.540For those who think that acting Attorney General Todd Blanche is the answer, in fact, he has been the man preventing anybody from being brought to justice under the law.
00:40:47.140And I think his appointment to the Attorney General's office would be tragic.
00:40:51.420If the Democrats indicate they're willing to pass it, that tells you that the fix is in.
00:40:56.080Thanks for listening to Stone Zone. Talk to you tomorrow.