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

00:00:16.280 now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone welcome you are entering the stone

00:00:27.680 zone later on i'm going to be taking your questions you can send them to me at stone at stonezone.com

00:00:34.240 that's stone at stonezone.com i was at president donald trump's palatial mar-a-lago club saturday

00:00:42.940 night for dinner saw the president also my colleague on 77 wabc radio janine pierro as well

00:00:51.540 as secretary of state marco rubio it was a great evening i must say the president is fit as a

00:00:59.020 fiddle he he was happy he looked healthy he's lost a little weight i have noticed that his

00:01:05.800 hair color is increasingly blonde or so blonde that it is almost white in fact he's almost identical to

00:01:12.680 my hair color but i've never seen him in such a good mood of course the topic buzzing through the

00:01:20.440 club was who will be the next u.n ambassador as you know the president decided to withdraw the

00:01:29.160 nomination of elise stefanik the upstate new york congresswoman who had previously previously been

00:01:36.420 designated as the u.n ambassador she had actually been approved by committee in the senate but had

00:01:43.340 never submitted her resignation from the house because of the slimness of the republican majority

00:01:51.140 there after the president won back-to-back victories in two florida special elections the decision was

00:01:59.480 made to withdraw the nomination because the victory was not assured in this upstate new york district at

00:02:08.820 least stefanik could certainly be elected but a special election is a different animal doesn't

00:02:13.620 bring out the same electorate and frankly democrats are angry because the new world order is being taken

00:02:21.020 down and i guess they're unhappy that the u.s supreme court has now ruled that the most dangerous

00:02:27.500 violent extremists and terrorists and criminals can be deported they're unhappy that elon musk and his

00:02:35.220 doge are uncovering not millions not billions but trillions of dollars of our tax dollars going for

00:02:43.520 esoteric and political causes that well the american people never knew we'd be giving 140 million dollars to

00:02:51.420 the new york times or 90 million dollars to politico or five million dollars to reuters or 150 million

00:03:01.640 dollars to brown university uh why would we be spending money on these things why would we be

00:03:07.920 spending money to push the russian collusion hoax narrative or to push the covet 19 hoax narrative

00:03:16.980 so it is uh absolutely clear that the president did the right thing and hats off to elise stefanik who

00:03:26.080 put her personal ambitions on hold i think she's a great woman i think she would have been a great

00:03:31.940 u.n ambassador i think that her greatest days of public service lie yet ahead and i'm certain that

00:03:40.480 she will be appointed to a high level position in the future trump administration but a lot of names 0.88

00:03:48.120 buzzing uh first of all let me say the president himself was giving no hints so the the the mentions

00:03:55.460 here are what i picked up but not what he told me he's if he's chosen somebody he's keeping that to

00:04:02.000 himself if there's a front runner he's not telling you that either david friedman uh a banker from new

00:04:08.940 york is thought to be one of the front runners he was instrumental in the passage of the historic

00:04:15.780 abraham accords which highlights his diplomatic experience and his alignment with trump policies

00:04:21.940 rick grunnell uh i guess he'd be my personal favorite rick grunnell has a history of diplomatic

00:04:28.640 roles under president trump including ambassador to germany and the acting director of national

00:04:33.980 intelligence it was under rick grunnell that the crossfire hurricane documents were ordered to be

00:04:40.480 declassified something that actually never happened at the end of the trump administration trump gave the

00:04:46.340 order but the bureaucrats knew he was leaving office so they didn't care the president more recently now

00:04:53.600 in his new term has ordered yet again the release of the crossfire hurricane documents those are the

00:05:01.840 documents that tell us who was behind the russian collusion hoax and why if you want to know why the fbi

00:05:11.500 raided president trump's uh home at mar-a-lago same way they raided my home well it was because they

00:05:19.240 need to get the russian collusion crossfire hurricane documents back because it will show you exactly who

00:05:26.400 starting with barack obama and joe biden and national security advisor susan rice and fbi director

00:05:33.800 james comey and cia director john brennan uh andrew mccabe of the fbi all of them in an illegal cabal

00:05:44.340 i mean let's face it the russian collusion hoax was the greatest single dirty trick in american

00:05:52.000 political history it was nothing less than the use of the full authority of the united states government

00:05:58.840 and the extraordinary capability of our intelligence agencies uh utilizing two pieces of

00:06:06.320 quote-unquote evidence that they all knew were fraudulent the so-called steel dossier uh that was

00:06:13.500 a report commissioned and paid for illegally by hillary clinton's campaign she paid a fine for it

00:06:19.080 actually uh which falsely alleged that donald trump had dallied with prostitutes uh when he was in

00:06:27.540 moscow as a private businessman years ago and that he had witnessed them allegedly urinating on a

00:06:36.240 hotel bed that barack obama and his wife had once slept in total fiction in fact uh andrew weissman who

00:06:44.740 was the de facto head of the muller inquisition and also the single most corrupt federal prosecutor in

00:06:52.220 u.s history a man who got his start covering up mob murders right there in brooklyn the guy who

00:06:57.520 brought down enron and arthur anderson only to have the convictions that he won unanimously overturned

00:07:06.380 by the u.s supreme court for prosecutorial misconduct weissman knew all the way back to his days as

00:07:14.040 general counsel to the fbi that the so-called steel dossier was a fraud but nonetheless it was used as

00:07:22.160 the pretext uh to launch the entire russian collusion hoax which came very close to destroying

00:07:28.800 me and my family even though there was never evident any evidence produced that connected me to

00:07:35.820 russian collusion wikileaks collaboration or any other illegal act no folks i was prosecuted to pressure

00:07:43.120 me into testifying falsely against president donald trump which i of course refused to do but uh others

00:07:50.580 being mentioned for the u.n uh senator bill haggerty republican senator from tennessee previously served

00:07:56.920 as trump's ambassador to pan during his first term although his senate seat could affect uh his

00:08:02.840 availability due to the slim republican margins uh in congress there is also some discussion of

00:08:10.320 kerry lake uh kerry lake uh who ran for both governor and the senate in arizona both of those questions

00:08:17.360 elections have election integrity issues that are deeply troubling kerry lake is one of the most effective

00:08:25.220 communicators i've ever met she's a good friend she would be great at the u.n uh i like her uh as well

00:08:32.540 there's actually some outsider speculation about former casino mogul steve winn one of the president's

00:08:39.900 closest friends that would be an interesting choice but again as i say uh if the president has chosen

00:08:47.060 somebody or if there's really a front runner he hasn't tipped his hand by the way we're going to

00:08:52.800 be taking your questions by email later go to stone at stone zone dot com stone at stone zone dot com and

00:08:59.200 we will entertain your questions whether it's about news history politics style or culture uh be happy to

00:09:08.840 answer your questions uh the big news of course is donald trump's uh dogged insistence uh that our

00:09:18.840 trading partners are going to give us a fair deal and if that means hitting them with tariffs that are

00:09:26.280 larger pardon me hitting them with tariffs that are not as large as the tariffs that they are levying on

00:09:32.720 american products entering their countries well then so be it any idea that the president is going to

00:09:40.220 soften his line on tariffs well then you just don't know donald j trump uh what's going on in the stock

00:09:48.260 market and i'm not a financial expert but i think it needs to be investigated either the treasury

00:09:53.960 department or the sec or perhaps doge should do a forensic audit on the large trades which have caused

00:10:00.160 the stock market to crash this was done by institutional investors to purposely crash the

00:10:06.900 market in my opinion by the way that's treason if they're americans or maybe an act of war if done by

00:10:12.620 foreign actors it's definitely stock market manipulation it was done to try to force the

00:10:19.000 president to reverse the tariffs one thing i know about donald trump who i've known for 50 years

00:10:25.760 by the way he hates it when i say that because he says he just tells everybody how old both of us are

00:10:31.320 uh is that when he sets his mind on a goal he is the most stubborn person in the universe i don't say

00:10:38.240 that as a criticism i say it as a compliment uh he is dogged in his determination to make america first

00:10:47.980 again uh this is really not complicated the sec can find out who's involved within a day they can

00:10:54.660 track all of this stock market activity very closely due to their monitoring for insider trading

00:11:01.700 they just need to search the server to see who made the biggest trades and when

00:11:06.160 uh this again was not done by individual investors it was done by quote institutional investors

00:11:12.960 those are companies we need to see who they are because i for one smell a rat

00:11:20.520 uh in the meantime president trump's hard line on tariffs that began last wednesday already bringing

00:11:26.200 massive successful results the mexicans uh have announced that they will go to zero tariffs they

00:11:33.380 will drop all tariffs and therefore the president has said that we will drop all tariffs on mexico this

00:11:39.180 is what this is really about uh when i interviewed uh steven moore of the club for growth who in my

00:11:46.840 opinion is one of the most brilliant economists in the country he was a chief economic advisor to

00:11:52.360 president donald trump's 2016 campaign i interviewed him right here uh on the red apple audio networks

00:12:01.040 uh he said that he's not a fan of tariffs well you know either am i in fact in a perfect world i'm a

00:12:06.780 free trader guess what so is donald trump if we could have no tariffs between any of ourselves and

00:12:13.160 any of our trading partners well that's what the president would prefer but as long as they are

00:12:18.360 slapping prohibitive tariffs on us then we need to return the fire uh and uh it is having the

00:12:29.480 desired results the upran union has already offered the united states a flat deal of zero tariffs for

00:12:35.160 zero tariffs european commission president ursula von der lan said the u.n offered zero for zero

00:12:43.000 tariff for industrial goods because europe is always ready for a good deal so let's keep it on the

00:12:49.320 table this woman is starting to get donald trump on true social president trump said we have a massive 0.84

00:12:56.680 financial deficit with china the european union and many others the only way this problem can be cured

00:13:02.040 is with tariffs which are now beginning to bring tens of billions of dollars into the united states

00:13:08.440 they're already in effect and a beautiful thing to behold the per the surplus with these countries

00:13:14.200 has grown during the presidency of sleepy joe biden we're going to reverse that and we're going to

00:13:19.800 reverse it very quickly someday the american people realize that tariffs for the united states of america

00:13:25.480 are a very beautiful thing as i said earlier this is one but one leg of a three-legged stool the

00:13:34.600 other two are tax cuts no not tax cuts for the rich but the across the board tax cuts initially enacted

00:13:43.720 by president trump which need to be renewed before january if you are against the renewal of the tax

00:13:49.720 cuts well then you're for the greatest single tax increase in american history in the meantime you're in the

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00:14:56.600 this is the stone zone with roger stone they went after a guy named roger stone who's sitting in the

00:15:03.320 office and i'll say this in front of roger he's no baby and right now he's cleaner than anybody in this

00:15:08.760 place now as i treated him very unfairly now get him his own it's the stone zone here's roger stone

00:15:20.360 and you're back in the stone zone ignore the fake news media president trump's three-pronged strategy of

00:15:28.760 sweeping tariffs on those who put tariffs on our goods and services uh tax reduction and deep spending cuts

00:15:36.200 and the waste fraud and corrupt spending uncovered by elon musk is going to revive the american economy

00:15:45.080 as the president said yesterday don't be a panicking he's a new party the panicans those who are flipping

00:15:50.600 out hysterical apoplectic about the fact that finally we're going to get fair trade in this country now we

00:15:57.080 could have no tariffs at all if the our trading partners will go to zero we'll go to zero and that's uh

00:16:02.760 that's the desire because donald trump really wants to increase uh our prosperity and he will fight

00:16:10.760 for the middle class those who think you can cow him into backing down well they just don't know

00:16:17.480 donald trump the way i know him stock markets across asia cratered uh yesterday as a result of

00:16:24.200 president trump's sweeping tariffs triggered panic selling the chinese stock market was down

00:16:29.320 five point five percent in a major plunge now those who say that the tariffs cause inflation well that's

00:16:36.520 just false uh it's interesting china has uh the lowest tariff rate on other countries in the united

00:16:44.680 states yet they have no inflation whatsoever they have deflation uh so that whole notion that inflation

00:16:53.000 will be fed by the tariffs well that is once again liberal disinformation when it comes to

00:16:58.920 china trump said yesterday china issued retaliatory tariffs of 34 on top of their already record

00:17:05.400 setting tariffs non-monetary tariffs civil illegal subsidization of companies and massive long-term

00:17:12.680 currency manipulation despite my warning that any country that retaliate against the united states by

00:17:19.000 additional tariffs above and beyond their already existing long-term tariff abuse of this country

00:17:23.400 will be immediately met with new and substantially higher tariffs over and above those initially

00:17:28.600 set therefore if china does not withdraw its 34 increases above their already long-term trading

00:17:35.000 abuses uh by today the united states will impose additional tariffs on china of 50 i think he did

00:17:43.080 that this afternoon additionally all talks with china concerning their requested meetings with us will be

00:17:49.080 terminated negotiations with other countries which have also requested will begin taking place

00:17:53.800 immediately thank you for your attention to this matter to the president donald trump is open for business

00:17:59.160 folks he is a master negotiator all we have to do is remain steady remain focused on the target uh and

00:18:08.760 move forward we must continue and i'm comfortable with the leadership of the greatest president

00:18:15.240 since abraham lincoln that would be donald j trump you're in the stone zone and we'll be right back

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00:18:56.520 and we're back in the zone again taking your questions at stone at stone zone dot com stone at stone zone dot com

00:19:07.240 as promised today the trump administration increased tariffs to 104 on china that went into effect

00:19:14.760 today uh while president trump is correcting a decades-long problem with the economy talking

00:19:20.840 heads on cable news attempt to cause a panic over the stock market i talked of this earlier this is

00:19:27.320 stock market manipulation to this president trump said the united states has a chance to do something

00:19:32.680 that should have been done decades ago don't be weak don't be stupid don't be a panicking that's a 0.81

00:19:39.240 new party that he is uh that he has conjured up based on weakness and stupidity be strong courageous

00:19:46.360 and patient and greatness for america will be the result the white house also had to issue a statement

00:19:53.640 response to a false report that trump would announce a 90-day pause on the tariffs fake news the white house

00:20:02.040 rapid response account on x basically said wrong fake news i'd say they nailed it we're taking your

00:20:11.160 questions now uh lisa in canarsie says uh you have worked for at least four presidents who is the

00:20:19.720 greatest president of your lifetime now there is a complicated question for me uh of my lifetime well i

00:20:27.320 i was born in 1952 uh ironically my birthday is august 27th the same day as well linden baines johnson

00:20:37.080 the man who i argued in a 2013 new york times best-selling book the man who killed kennedy the case

00:20:43.640 against lbj uh planned and orchestrated the murder of president john f kennedy he did it uh with assistance 0.57

00:20:52.120 from the cia the mob big texas oil and banking interests among others uh and lyndon johnson was

00:21:00.040 certainly the worst president of my lifetime and that's saying a lot because it covers jimmy carter

00:21:06.200 i think jimmy carter by the way was a good man a fine uh patriotic american a good christian he was just

00:21:13.480 way in over his head he was not evil he was not corrupt uh but he was not up to the job he died a

00:21:23.000 happy man because well after joe biden he no longer goes down as the worst president in history

00:21:30.360 that title is reserved for for sleepy joe uh but it was lyndon johnson who first dipped into the social

00:21:37.720 security test fund to pay for other government expenses this is what endangers the future social

00:21:45.480 security payments of so many americans who have paid into the system through their payroll taxes and

00:21:52.520 they say by 2033 well the system will be bankrupt uh thank you lyndon johnson but as to who was the

00:22:02.680 greatest president in our lifetime well 1952 dwight eisenhower was president now ike was a far greater

00:22:09.720 president than most people realize because he was so low-key uh and because we were just coming into

00:22:17.240 the television age in the early 50s i don't think he gets the credit he deserved we had unprecedented

00:22:24.360 peace and prosperity under ike uh and uh he was a military man but he refused the demands of the

00:22:33.640 pentagon and the military industrial complex for deficit spending to pay for armaments that he

00:22:41.000 adjudged that we did not need we had the ability to kill everybody in the world three times over why

00:22:47.160 did we need to pay to be able to kill them 15 times over uh your last balance budget was under

00:22:53.640 dwight eisenhower i am of course uh a a protege and uh an unabashed admirer of one richard millhouse

00:23:03.800 nixon up until the time of donald trump he staged the greatest single comeback in american political

00:23:10.520 history uh he uh was cheated out of the presidency in 1960 i established that in my book uh tricky dick 0.74

00:23:18.840 the rise and fall and rise of richard m nixon and uh he was toppled by the cia in watergate don't take

00:23:27.720 my word for it look at the declassified documents that were released less than a year ago uh four of

00:23:35.960 the eight watergate burglars were still on the payroll of the cia by the way it's the same four who just

00:23:42.680 happened to be on the ground in dealey plaza on november 22nd 1963 how incredibly coincidental

00:23:51.320 under richard nixon we had a strategic arms limitation agreement with the soviets

00:23:58.920 we desegregated the public schools without any violence or incident but when nixon became president

00:24:06.680 uh almost 82 percent of the public schools in america were still segregated uh when he left office

00:24:13.880 that number was about 16 he gets no credit for that by the way richard nixon appointed more african

00:24:20.040 americans to federal office than lyndon johnson and john f kennedy combined some criticize nixon for

00:24:27.640 opening the door to china saying that it is his fault that china menaces this country today i think that 0.99

00:24:33.480 is a misreading of history when richard nixon uh brought china in out of the cold when he visited

00:24:41.000 peking uh in a daring gambit to force the russians to the table for strategic arms limitations

00:24:48.760 uh china was a dirt poor backward agrarian society very few people in china had indoor plumbing and the

00:24:56.920 rural areas had no electricity they had no military capability they had no nuclear weapons they

00:25:03.400 had no technology there was no way for richard nixon to know that 30 years later bill and hillary clinton

00:25:13.080 would give the chinese most favored nation trading status which is what made them the danger to this 1.00

00:25:20.120 country they are today made them an economic superpower it was also bill clinton who sold them

00:25:26.920 uh in the laurel scandal uh our most sensitive military secrets including our missile targeting technology in

00:25:36.040 return for illegal campaign contributions for his reelection that by the way is what he should have

00:25:42.280 been impeached for not his dalliance with an intern in the oval office uh it was richard nixon uh who

00:25:50.600 uh who unilaterally saved israel from complete annihilation uh in the 1973 yam kipper war

00:25:59.400 uh over the objections by the way of his national security advisor uh later secretary of state henry

00:26:07.320 kissinger uh over the objections of the joint chiefs of staffs over the objections of his entire

00:26:14.360 national security apparatus when golda meyer publicly called uh uh on president richard nixon and put out

00:26:22.760 the urgent sos the israelis had their backs to the sea they were out of ammunition after a surprise

00:26:30.840 attack by the syrians and the egyptians which was not uh predicted in advance by israelis wanted

00:26:38.920 intelligence services and it was nixon who airlifted 37 million dollars of lethal aid to israel allowing

00:26:49.560 them to survive uh it's amazing how many people don't know this there is a watergate area tape which

00:26:58.520 is almost never played uh those who work for nixon knew that sometimes when he gave an order if you

00:27:04.920 disagreed with it you could kind of wait him out and maybe the next day or the day off enter he would

00:27:11.640 reconsider and rescind the offer in this case he ordered the lethal aid be sent to the israelis as

00:27:18.760 quickly as possible when he saw his national security advisor henry kissinger the next day he said

00:27:25.480 so have the israelis gotten the aid yet and kissinger said no we we haven't been able to decide what kind

00:27:31.960 of plane to send it in nixon was furious he called admiral thomas moorer who was the chairman of the

00:27:40.360 joint chiefs of staff and he said uh if if uh send anything that will fly anything that will fly if

00:27:48.360 those planes are not in the air within the hour i'm gonna come over there and put my foot up your 0.61

00:27:53.800 well you can imagine the rest how come they don't play that watergate area era tape uh no uh whether

00:28:03.000 it is uh those accomplishments uh he was uh a above all a peacemaker uh and i i do think his history will

00:28:11.320 be very kind to richard nixon uh kinder than it has been uh when you look at watergate it looks like a

00:28:20.200 milk-fed puppy compared to the dirty tricks and abuse of power by barack obama in the russian collusion

00:28:28.760 hoax and then of course there is ronald reagan i spent a lot of time with ronald reagan i worked in

00:28:35.880 his 1976 his 1980 and his 1984 campaigns 76 when we challenged jerald ford he would go down in history

00:28:45.560 of his not one of our better presidents uh general ford of course was involved in the cover-up of john

00:28:52.280 f kennedy's murder as a member of the warring commission uh general ford then a congressman

00:28:57.400 from michigan actually at the request of fbi director j edgar hoover took a pencil and changed

00:29:06.840 the official diagram in kennedy's autopsy from his uh military doctor moving the depiction of the

00:29:16.760 wound in his upper back to the back of his neck to accommodate the single bullet theory uh this is uh

00:29:27.960 by the way you can find this in the new york times it was reported there ford was asked why he made this

00:29:33.240 crucial change he said well the country needed finality it needed closure you notice he didn't

00:29:40.200 say the country needed truth reagan was that rare thing you see in politics someone who was

00:29:49.080 the same in private as he was in public there were not two ronald reagan's there was only one

00:29:55.640 i can't say that of any of the presidents i have worked for they're all slightly different

00:30:01.000 in public than they are in private trump would be closest in that regard in fact trump and reagan

00:30:07.400 bear many similarities uh but reagan was affable easygoing genial optimistic uh he had boundless

00:30:18.280 energy but he conserved his energy was very very careful about getting enough rest very careful about

00:30:27.000 his diet he did not drink other than occasionally before a tv appearance he would have a small glass

00:30:33.080 of red wine to bring a kind of a pink glow to his cheeks when he was asked at the end of his presidency

00:30:42.280 by a reporter whether the fact that he hadn't come from the world of politics but had in fact come from

00:30:48.360 the world of entertainment uh had been an actor uh before being elected governor uh and then being

00:30:55.960 re-elected governor by almost a million votes before uh challenging carol ford in 1976 and then trouncing

00:31:04.120 george h w bush for president in 1980 and reagan said you know actually i don't know how a guy

00:31:12.920 guy who wasn't an actor could do this job when he said that what he meant was that people look to the

00:31:24.040 president uh and uh they want to see confidence they want to see strength they want to see leadership

00:31:30.840 trump uh pardon me reagan understood the american people looked to their president to see how things

00:31:37.320 were going if the president looked worried if the president looked scared well that did not give the

00:31:43.720 country a good feeling now without any question ronald reagan rebuilt our military strength he restored

00:31:49.400 respect for america in the world uh in the early parts of the reagan administration they said the tax

00:31:55.400 cuts were going to destroy the stock market that it was going to crash the national economy does this

00:32:00.760 sound familiar folks uh but stay the course was uh the slogan and it should be the slogan yet today

00:32:09.640 uh he also appointed scores of conservatives to the courts including the supreme court uh he was among

00:32:16.680 our greatest presidents uh and it would be very hard for me to choose and of course then there is

00:32:21.880 donald trump now donald trump who i have as i said earlier known for almost 50 years

00:32:29.000 is uh he's a phenomenon he's unlike any other political figure i have ever worked for he's not

00:32:36.360 a politician so don't call him one he's the head of a political movement but he will never be a

00:32:41.080 politician uh he has boundless energy he i think sleeps maybe three or four hours a night uh he is an

00:32:49.480 optimist but above all he is tough as nails he is the toughest person i've ever met i worked for richard

00:32:55.640 nixon i worked for senator bob dole he was a great american would have been a great president but

00:33:01.960 donald trump is tougher than both of them that is why those who think that he's going to fold on

00:33:07.560 tariffs because heads of big companies are calling him and begging him to back off he will never back

00:33:14.440 off he has the right formula by the way scott besant the secretary of treasury this guy may be the

00:33:21.000 greatest secretary of the treasury since alexander hamilton when you watch him on the morning shows

00:33:26.120 when you watch him in the media interviews he has a reassuring quality and a strength and a sureness

00:33:33.640 about the president's plan that i think gives the american people uh great confidence uh howard

00:33:40.840 lutnik the commerce secretary well not so much i say we need more besant and a little less lutnik

00:33:49.320 but uh donald trump has to be in my top two i mean i'm a nixon man i love reagan but i love

00:33:57.960 donald trump and of course without donald trump i wouldn't be with you today i'd either be dead or

00:34:02.280 still locked up in a federal prison even though i did nothing whatsoever wrong you're listening to

00:34:08.760 the stone zone whatever you do don't touch that dial we're going to come back and take more of your

00:34:13.080 questions on the other side up next keeping the live and alive with debbie nigro sponsored by native path 0.97

00:34:21.240 collagen this is the stone zone with roger stone

00:34:43.080 this is the stone zone with roger stone they went after a guy named roger stone who's sitting in

00:34:51.880 the office and i'll say this in front of roger he's no baby and right now he's cleaner than anybody

00:34:57.000 in this place now as they treated him very unfairly now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger

00:35:06.120 stone

00:35:09.080 and you're back in the stone zone with yours truly roger stone i love this story in the new york post

00:35:16.280 john catsman he's uh owner of the christides and d'agostino food chains as well as host of the cats

00:35:24.360 and cosby show and the owner of 77 wabc radio in new york uh has told the socialist candidate for

00:35:32.440 mayor zoran mamdani that he would let him use one of his grocery stores to test his socialist soviet

00:35:42.120 style theory about uh essentially free food for the people as long as the city of new york agrees to

00:35:49.720 pay the shortfall for shoplifting uh i love this story uh this is this is genius uh socialism doesn't

00:35:58.120 work folks it hasn't worked in russia hasn't worked in china won't work here here is a question from

00:36:05.400 annie in st louis missouri and he says is it true that richard nixon once trafficked marijuana well let

00:36:12.200 me let me tell the story uh louis armstrong was tapped to be a u.n goodwill ambassador did a several

00:36:19.880 tours of africa and asia uh with his trumpet uh was a granted ambassadorial status uh and therefore

00:36:28.840 never had to go through customs when he was leaving the country or when he was coming into the country

00:36:34.680 uh and on one particular occasion he was coming back into what was then idyllis airport now i believe it

00:36:41.560 is a kennedy airport uh in new york city outside new york city uh and to his surprise instead of

00:36:50.840 just being waved through customs as he had been previously he was put online to have his bags checked

00:36:58.600 well the problem with that was satchmo was uh traveling with three pounds of the finest marijuana

00:37:06.120 on earth because as many of the jazz musicians of the day uh satchmo was a it was a heavy marijuana

00:37:15.560 smoker this is in all of the written biographies of him uh and uh satchmo began to sweat he could see

00:37:23.400 the headlines uh u.s goodwill ambassador busted uh for mewling drugs uh at idylwild airport it was then

00:37:33.000 that the doors swung open wide and vice president richard nixon walked in uh and he said satchmo what

00:37:41.480 are you doing here and he said well pops and satchmo called everybody pops he said i was coming back

00:37:48.280 from asia and uh i was putting this line uh to go through customs and the vice president said that's

00:37:56.680 ridiculous you have ambassadorial status you don't need to stand in that line in fact let the vice

00:38:02.680 president of the united states take your bags to the curb so you can be on your way and vice president

00:38:09.160 richard nixon picked up satchmo's two suitcases one of them contained three pounds of probably the best

00:38:15.880 marijuana on earth uh took him to the curbside uh and the jazz great louie armstrong was on his way

00:38:24.520 little did richard nixon know that he was mewling drugs for one of the greatest jazz musicians that

00:38:31.480 ever lived the great louie armstrong uh i heard this story from member of satchmo's band and i

00:38:38.840 absolutely believe it to be true so there is the inside story as the one about the one time

00:38:46.360 that richard nixon mule drugs you've been listening to the stone zone here on the red apple audio networks

00:38:51.960 until we meet again god bless you and god speed

The Stone Zone ｜ 04-08-25

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