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00:00:40.840 It's only the hottest political show on radio today.

00:00:45.180 Only yesterday, President Donald Trump lashed out at three of his critics,

00:00:49.700 all at least two of which are former supporters.

00:00:53.020 Alex Jones, the famous podcaster, Tucker Carlson, formerly of Fox News,

00:00:59.020 and, of course, Megyn Kelly. Now, Megyn Kelly, of course, did try to stick a shiv in Trump's back 0.95

00:01:05.400 in the presidential debates when he ran for his first term. But in more recent years,

00:01:11.580 she had become a podcaster and become more pro-Trump. I think she thought she was losing

00:01:17.600 her audience. Then Alex Jones challenged me to come on his show today, midday, and defend the

00:01:26.040 president. And I checked in with the president, asked him what he thought. And he said, take him

00:01:30.580 on. And I did. It was a mudder. It was a brawl. The champ here remains undefeated. What upset me

00:01:40.200 about Alex Jones is that he called for the replacement of President Donald Trump under

00:01:45.800 the 25th Amendment when he was certain that the president was careening towards World War III in

00:01:53.560 Iran. Little did he know that Donald Trump put so much pressure on the Iranians that they blinked 0.61

00:02:00.340 and they submitted a 10-point peace plan reopening the talks. Donald Trump will always prefer talks

00:02:07.420 to war. And this weekend, J.D. Vance heads a negotiating team along with presidential son-in-law

00:02:16.160 Jared Kushner and Steve Whitcoff to try yet again to reach a peace agreement with the Iranians.

00:02:24.000 The case that I made was very simple. Let's review President Trump's record, if we may.

00:02:29.860 First and foremost, the president has completely restructured the U.S. military,

00:02:36.560 done away with the DEI nonsense, gotten rid of the globalist generals, put America back on a

00:02:43.440 war footing with a lethal national defense. That means that the military cannot be weaponized

00:02:52.420 against the American people in the case of a future constitutional crisis. The president

00:02:57.920 also ended the war on cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. Joe Biden hated this alternative monetary system

00:03:06.800 because the government can't control it. In fact, they prosecuted a number of people

00:03:11.440 claiming that Bitcoin was a security and those selling it needed a security license.

00:03:17.500 Nonsense. Trump also outlawed men playing in women's sports. Now you see the president and

00:03:25.240 the vice president cracking down on the millions of dollars of fraud in federal programs and ending

00:03:31.500 the use of USAID to finance color revolutions and other political dirty tricks. In his first term,

00:03:39.120 the president gave us the largest tax cut in American history. And now that tax cut has been

00:03:45.260 renewed. Plus, 88 percent of those current receiving Social Security benefits will pay

00:03:52.240 no taxes at all. He also ended the moratorium on exploration of gas and oil, which had begun

00:03:59.260 under Joe Biden. At the same time, he was ending the tax on tips. He appointed three Supreme Court

00:04:06.160 justices, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett, who have created a sometimes durable conservative

00:04:12.440 majority, but he appointed 200 young conservative federal judges to the bench. His appointments

00:04:20.160 eventually allowed for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which does not outlaw abortion,

00:04:25.660 but returns that decision where it belongs to the states. He passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

00:04:31.900 of 2017. Those are major reductions for both individuals and corporations. Reduced regulations

00:04:37.820 across all industries, energy, finance, and business. Pre-COVID, we had low unemployment,

00:04:44.940 rising wages, strong stock market and trade and industrial policy. He renegotiated NAFTA and the

00:04:51.480 U.S.-Mexican-Canada agreement, making it more affordable to U.S. manufacturing. He imposed

00:04:57.820 tariffs on China, reshaping global trade dynamics. He pushed the Buy American, High American 0.96

00:05:03.880 Energy Independence Policy, expanded domestic oil and gas production. For the first time ever,

00:05:10.260 the United States became a net energy exporter. He rolled back Obama-era environmental regulations,

00:05:17.620 and when it came to the border and immigration, he closed our open border. He re-implemented

00:05:23.380 the Remain in Mexico policy, and he has now reduced illegal crossings in certain sectors

00:05:29.020 to almost zero. He defeated the ISIS territorial caliphate and, of course, brought into place the

00:05:37.820 Abraham Accords, a peace agreement between Israel and our other Arab state allies. He took a much 0.92

00:05:44.920 harder stance on Iran by withdrawing from the nuclear weapons deal in which Barack Obama was

00:05:53.020 actually paying the Iranian politicians with cash, pallets of cash on the side that weren't even in

00:05:59.220 the agreement. Cut funding and got us out of the World Health Organization entirely. It looks to

00:06:06.340 me like we're headed for the exits on NATO as well. Promoted religious liberty protections. 0.97

00:06:13.360 In the second term, you have even greater accomplishments. He issued a record number

00:06:18.760 of executive orders early in the term, revoking and reversing over 100 of Joe Biden's brainless

00:06:25.660 policies. He pardoned all of those victimized on January 6th. He also, as I say, introduced the

00:06:33.620 no tax on tips and no tax on overtime tax deductions, as well as new tax deductions

00:06:39.440 for senior citizens. And of course, his tariff deals have brought billions and billions of

00:06:45.300 dollars to the bottom line. We have multiple trade deals and industrial investments announced

00:06:51.600 already. He's now focusing on supply chain, independence and national industry, border

00:06:57.000 security and immigration. Major enforcement expansion, of course, mass deportion of illegal

00:07:02.440 immigrants, increasing ICE operations, reported sharp declines and illegal crossings almost down

00:07:08.880 to zero on our southern border. Apologies are now aimed at asylum gloopholes being closed.

00:07:15.300 and reinstating America's first doctrine globally. Once again, he withdrew us from the

00:07:21.520 Paris Climate Agreement. Not sure if you know that, but the world's greatest polluter is China.

00:07:27.340 Under the Paris Climate Accords, the Americans would have paid $325 million a year. China would 0.83

00:07:34.220 have paid zero. Donald Trump said, we're out of there. He's increased our military involvement

00:07:40.100 and more aggressive posture in the Middle East to protect our interests there.

00:07:44.440 He's also playing catch-up when it comes to rare earth minerals

00:07:47.480 with deals in Ukraine, Vietnam, and across the globe.

00:07:51.820 New Deal just announced in Congo.

00:07:54.300 A deal in Nigeria expected to be announced shortly.

00:07:57.740 He's gone back to expanding fossil fuel exploration and production,

00:08:03.700 rolled back environmental restrictions against both.

00:08:06.620 They put out an executive order aimed at ending federal censorship.

00:08:12.300 Of course, the moves against the DEI programs and the whole federal work policies and other

00:08:17.760 various actions, including those service members who were required against their will to take

00:08:23.880 the COVID-19 vaccination, are now eligible for back pay and for their medical expenses.

00:08:31.900 At the same time, he's attempting to reshape the education and federal workforce,

00:08:35.440 cracking down on the drug cartels and fentanyl trafficking, expanding enforcement operations on

00:08:41.820 both domestically, increased coordination with foreign governments on crime. So whether it's

00:08:47.680 courts, tax reform, deregulation, trade reset, border framework, Middle East diplomacy, second

00:08:54.280 term, the expansion and enforcement of all of the above, aggressive action, harder immigration

00:09:00.500 enforcement, expanded tariffs and industrial policy, more aggressive foreign policy for the

00:09:07.200 first time puts America first. Of course, his moves in Iran and Venezuela very cleverly cut 0.52

00:09:14.760 off China's access to cheap oil. This is the brilliance of the art of the deal. So I really 0.72

00:09:21.620 hit Alex Jones pretty hard. To my surprise, rather than hitting back, he reaffirmed his

00:09:27.600 support for President Trump. He pointed out that he's disagreed with him from time to time, but

00:09:32.440 thinks he's a heck of a lot better than Kamala Harris would have been. To me, it was an overall

00:09:38.780 win. We did have to visit the role of investigative journalist Laura Loomer. This woman's a menace.

00:09:46.260 First of all, when people are paying you to write and say things, you're not an investigative 1.00

00:09:51.640 journalist. You're a paid propagandist. Laura Loomer should make the public a list of everyone

00:09:57.960 who's paying her because, well, nobody's all that interested in the future of Chevron's 0.99

00:10:03.260 oil leases in Venezuela. She brings it up three times a week. And of course, I busted her this

00:10:09.360 week as was reported in Axios early this morning. You see, you know how when you were younger and

00:10:15.620 you heard that your boyfriend or your girlfriend was going to break up with you, so you preemptively

00:10:19.940 would break up with them so that they couldn't say they broke up with you. What Laura Loomer

00:10:24.780 here did was very clever. She tried either directly or through intermediaries to convince 0.70

00:10:29.940 President Trump that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was going to resign

00:10:36.220 in protest of his actions in Iran, and therefore he needed to move quickly to fire her. Fortunately,

00:10:42.640 the president called me and I told him that that was categorically false, having talked

00:10:48.020 to Tulsi Gabbard that very morning. And I also explained that Tulsi Gabbard had done nothing to

00:10:53.860 merit being terminated. She testified before the Congress where Laura Loomer said she backstabbed

00:11:00.300 the president. No, I don't think so. What she said was, as the head of ODNI, she was responsible for

00:11:06.820 getting the very best intelligence and giving it to the president. That's what she did. President 0.50

00:11:12.340 then decided to move on Iran, and she supported that move. But because it is reported that she

00:11:18.980 has reservations about the war against Iran, as reportedly as does Vice President J.D. Vance,

00:11:25.900 she's not popular with the Israel First Lobby. So I called out Laura Loomer. I said she was lying.

00:11:32.640 She thought it would become a self-fulfilling prophecy, and she's been calling me names ever

00:11:38.500 since. And we found out quite sadly that, well, Laura has been mentally institutionalized at least

00:11:45.480 twice before regarding her mental stability. I'm actually worried about whether she's a danger to

00:11:52.140 herself or others. But this idea that she's a journalist, we have to dispose of that quickly.

00:11:58.760 Journalists aren't paid to take any particular point of view. Laura and I were friends for many,

00:12:06.140 many years. But it seems to me like she's joined the Bushes and the Cheneys and the Clintons and

00:12:14.460 the Obamas and the Bidens as a war hawk. She might be more comfortable now dining with Lindsey Graham

00:12:21.920 than she is dining with me. This is an epic Twitter war. If you haven't checked it out, 1.00

00:12:29.160 we're going back and forth. And, you know, she's dealing with the OG here, so she shouldn't expect

00:12:34.620 to win this fight. But she keeps insisting she's an independent journalist and I keep laughing in

00:12:41.260 her face. Still like to know how she ran for Congress in two races. Now, the first one, 0.99

00:12:46.580 in all honesty, I give her credit. She took on a very tough race in the Democrat district. 0.97

00:12:51.320 It was the district Mar-a-Lago's in, ran against Democrat Lois Franco, ran a pretty good race, 0.68

00:12:56.540 all things considered. But her second race for Congress, in all honesty, well, my dog Pee Wee

00:13:02.200 2.0 could have won that race. She was against a weak incumbent who was too ill to campaign,

00:13:07.860 had less than $325,000 in the bank. She raised almost three quarters, a little more than three

00:13:13.720 quarters of a million dollars, but none of that money got spent on radio commercials or cable 0.83

00:13:19.240 commercials or television commercials or mailings or blast emails or blast text messages. In fact,

00:13:29.200 I couldn't find any evidence of voter contact at all.

00:13:32.380 So my question is a simple one.

00:13:34.580 Laura, what happened to the money?

00:13:37.180 I'll wait.

00:13:38.500 Thanks for tuning in today to The Stone Zone.

00:13:40.440 We'll be right back on the other side with more hot politics,

00:13:43.900 including a roundup of what's happening in the Iran war.

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00:13:59.760 Anyone who knows me knows I love great pizza.

00:14:02.880 And there is a trend in the country I really approve of.

00:14:05.760 New Haven style pizza.

00:14:07.320 The pizza I grew up with is back.

00:14:09.920 I was born in Norwalk, Connecticut.

00:14:11.680 There was a restaurant there called Phil Baker's, named for a prize fighter who owned the place.

00:14:17.640 It is the pizza of my childhood.

00:14:19.280 I still can smell it.

00:14:20.280 I can still taste it, but I've never found it duplicated any place.

00:14:23.960 But the big three in New Haven were always Sally's, Frank Pepe's, and a place called the Modern.

00:14:32.340 Now, very recently, Frank Pepe's and Sally's both announced that they would be moving towards franchising.

00:14:39.100 And in the case of Frank Pepe's, he opened several stores here in Florida.

00:14:45.660 The problem is that the style of New Haven pizza requires an 860-degree oven.

00:14:52.060 And they decided to open locations in Palm Beach and other places.

00:14:59.120 But one place they opened was Plantation, Florida.

00:15:02.820 Problem is that the liberals on the city council and plantation have a health ordinance that doesn't allow you to have a commercial oven that burns any hotter than 680 degrees.

00:15:14.460 Well, that requires the pizzaiola to cook the pizza longer, and that makes the bottom of the

00:15:23.080 pizza drier and harder, kind of like a cracker. So the pizza doesn't have that appropriate flop.

00:15:29.700 People in New York, they know what I'm talking about. I'll show to the people in Connecticut.

00:15:34.060 So Frank Pepe's first location announced last week, quite sadly, that it would close.

00:15:41.220 In the meantime, there's a new contender called Ah Beets, because, of course, in New Haven,

00:15:46.500 they spell pizza A-P-I-Z-Z-A, Ah Beets, that is open locations in several locations here. So

00:15:54.800 this is the pizza of my youth. This is the pizza I dream about. This is the pizza that may very

00:16:02.280 soon be available near you. Now, pizza is like sex. When it's bad, well, it's still pretty good. 0.98

00:16:10.560 nothing better than a slice at three o'clock in the morning after you, shall we say, had a few

00:16:16.040 cocktails. So keep an eye out for all these places. I have my preferences and I'm not going

00:16:22.940 to tell you locations unless they want to pay for advertising here on the show. But keep an eye out

00:16:28.180 for New Haven style pizza. It's a generic style of pizza. I think you'll love it. I know, by the

00:16:35.240 way. When we talk about pizza here in the Stone Zone, it's not some coded language pertaining to

00:16:41.260 child sex trafficking. Who do you think I am? John Podesta? I should also mention that Patsy's

00:16:47.640 Pizza, a venerable New York tradition that started up in Harlem, they have just opened stores across

00:16:54.160 the country, including here in Florida. So I look at the more pizza, the better. I could eat it for

00:17:00.500 breakfast in fact this morning i had pizza with a with a sunny side up egg on it that my mother

00:17:06.620 used to do my wife cooked for me this morning the first time i had that was in the streets of

00:17:12.140 nice which is actually in france you're listening to the stone zone i'm roger stone and we'll be

00:17:17.920 right back with a report on the war the stone zone entertaining and informative on the red apple

00:17:28.520 Podcast Network. And we're back in the Stone Zone. It's only the hottest political radio show

00:17:35.080 on the air today anywhere in the United States. Well, a fragile calm is emerging in the Middle 0.99

00:17:40.340 East, but tensions remain high as the United States pushes for a lasting ceasefire with Iran

00:17:45.880 while standing firm against any ongoing threats. President Donald Trump says he's optimistic of

00:17:51.320 deals within reach, with Vice President J.D. Vance set to head high-stakes negotiations in

00:17:56.600 Pakistan this weekend. The move signals serious U.S. commitment to restoring stability through

00:18:01.480 strength and diplomacy. At the same time, Israel, under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is

00:18:07.160 pursuing possible sea fire talks with Lebanon, even after launching major strikes against Hezbollah

00:18:12.580 targets there. Those operations came at a high cost, with reports of more than 250 killed and

00:18:18.200 over 1,000 wounded, drawing international criticism and making the fragile peace process,

00:18:23.520 well, even more tenuous. Israeli officials maintain their actions are necessary to defend

00:18:28.840 the thousands of rockets fired by Hezbollah in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Iran continues to test 0.82

00:18:34.160 the limits of the ceasefire. The regime still effectively controls the critical strait of

00:18:39.020 Hormuz, restricting global shipping to a small number of approved vessels and raising concerns

00:18:45.520 about potential fees and interference. President Trump has warned Tehran in no uncertain terms,

00:18:51.200 honor the agreement, which includes free passage through the Straits of Hormuz, or face renewed

00:18:57.120 U.S. military action. The president has continued to array our military assets in the region.

00:19:02.940 He's not afraid to use them if he has to. They're about to find out that Donald Trump is not somebody

00:19:07.660 to trifle with. Despite some violations and last-minute strikes, bombs have largely gone

00:19:12.780 quiet across most of the region, a sign that deterrence may actually be working. Energy

00:19:17.340 markets remain on the edge, with oil prices rising amid uncertainty, while global leaders

00:19:22.660 watch closely. Much is still up in the air at the present time, but the Trump administration is

00:19:27.440 dedicated to making sure that Iran doesn't become a nation-building exercise, similar to this

00:19:33.180 country's failures in Iraq or Afghanistan. We've achieved regime change, sent a strong message, 0.81

00:19:38.460 taking out their nuclear capacity, and now we're working very quickly towards getting out of there.

00:19:42.920 Meanwhile, First Lady Melania Trump very forcefully pushed back yesterday against false and malicious claims tying her to deceased pedophile and Clinton intimate Jeffrey Epstein.

00:19:53.860 In a statement yesterday made from the White House, Melania Trump made it clear she was never friends with Epstein, never had any relationship with him or his associate, his lead Maxwell, was never a victim or a collaborator of this ghoulish predatory partner pair.

00:20:09.560 Melania said the rumors circulating online are mean-spirited attempts to defame her reputation.

00:20:15.140 Mrs. Trump acknowledged that she and former President Donald Trump attended some social

00:20:19.620 events where Epstein was present, something she noted was not unusual given overlapping social

00:20:24.460 circles in places like New York City and Palm Beach, but she emphasized she had no knowledge

00:20:29.700 of Epstein's criminal activities at the time and no personal connection to him. Now, I was around

00:20:34.560 in those days when Donald Trump was a bachelor between wives, when they were dating. And I found

00:20:40.800 Melania to be an extraordinary, gracious, kind, cultured individual who would end up being one of

00:20:45.900 our greatest first ladies in terms of her leadership and her courage. She had to stand by 0.57

00:20:52.540 while attempts were made to keep her husband off the ballot, to destroy them financially,

00:20:57.360 to put Donald Trump in jail. She warned that Americans should be cautious about misinformation,

00:21:02.200 calling many of the circulated images and stories online completely false.

00:21:06.640 I was shocked last night to see a number of nude images on her,

00:21:11.160 so I ran them through one of those AI detection programs.

00:21:15.180 Yep, they were completely fraudulent, manipulated, artificial intelligence.

00:21:19.660 The First Lady did not hold back in criticizing those spreading the allegations, 1.00

00:21:23.680 accusing politically motivated actors of trying to damage her reputation 0.90

00:21:27.260 for personal, political, or financial gain.

00:21:30.380 At the same time, she called for transparency and justice for actual victims, urging Congress to hold public hearings so that survivors can share their stories on the record.

00:21:39.900 This is just another phase of the Epstein hoax where President Trump, his families and his associates are being smeared mercilessly, while the actual Epstein associates like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, former Governor Bill Richardson, no focus on them.

00:22:03.020 There were certainly politicians who went to Epstein's island and may have partaken in Epstein's depravity, but none of them were Republicans.

00:22:12.120 The Democrats won't let this go, continuing to smear the president mercilessly about false connections to Epstein, 0.61

00:22:20.540 while those elites who actually did partake in these disgusting child sex operations are glossed over. 0.99

00:22:26.420 At the same time, we found out that just as I predicted back in 2018, Steve Bannon, who on his show The War Room Every Day pretended to be a Trump supporter, was secretly denigrating Trump in a series of emails, calling for Trump's removal under the 25th Amendment, referring to the president as stupid, talking openly about undermining his China trade policy. 0.99

00:22:49.400 It's not surprising. Steve Bannon pled guilty in Manhattan to embezzling 15 million dollars from the Build the Wall Foundation. 0.87

00:22:58.400 But very curiously, he received no jail time whatsoever.

00:23:02.820 He was actually that trial was originally before one of the judges who sat in judgment of President Donald Trump in the lawfare against him.

00:23:11.100 Now we learn that Bannon was involved in a one billion dollar fraud operation with the Chinese national names Miles Guo.

00:23:19.400 Now, when Miles Guo was prosecuted, he was asked repeatedly whether his money came from the Chinese Communist Party and about his connections to a mysterious William G.

00:23:30.580 You can go online.

00:23:31.480 William G. is a Chinese Communist Party operator.

00:23:34.760 I now have and very soon will release a list of all the so-called influencers that Steve Bannon was paying.

00:23:41.440 The double game here is one that is shocking, but Bannon, who just a few months ago was talking about running for president himself, I think is now no longer a credible spokesman for the MAGA movement.

00:23:53.720 The number of people watching his war room, kind of ironic, that used to be the name of my old show on InfoWars until Bannon ripped it off.

00:24:01.860 I think the number of people watching his show has dropped precipitously.

00:24:05.460 Now, it's hard to understand because this is a guy who literally doesn't bathe, doesn't wash his hair, doesn't shave, doesn't brush his teeth.

00:24:15.300 He's kind of got the toothless hobo thing going on.

00:24:18.580 I just don't understand why he thinks that that would be politically attractive to anyone.

00:24:22.040 Frankly, he's starting to look more and more like, well, Eric Swalwell.

00:24:26.220 Speaking of Eric Swalwell, more women coming forward today claiming that the congressman made inappropriate sexual advances against them, pressured them for sex.

00:24:37.140 There are evidently a number of text messages.

00:24:39.720 I predicted all of this last night online.

00:24:42.100 Therefore, tomorrow I'll be blamed for all of it.

00:24:44.600 Same thing happened with Al Franken.

00:24:46.040 I had a friend at Fox that told me that Franken would be exposed as a sexual predator.

00:24:52.120 I posted it online. 0.50

00:24:53.200 Next thing I know, all kinds of crazy lefties are claiming that I set Al Franken up and that I was somehow coaching the woman whose accusations would blow him out of the Senate.

00:25:05.460 No, sorry to disappoint you, but then I get blamed sometimes when it's raining. 0.62

00:25:10.120 Early polling shows that Kamala Harris is now thinking very seriously about another presidential run as she ramps up her public appearances and her sharp criticism of President Trump.

00:25:21.080 Harris, who lost the 2024 election, is re-emerged on the national stage, speaking out on foreign policy, particularly the conflict with Iran, attempting to portray herself as a peacemonger in a pathetic gambit that's really fooling nobody.

00:25:35.400 Her upcoming appearance at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Ashken Network Convention is seen as a pivotal moment, with many Democrats viewing it as an early test of her political strength.

00:25:47.240 Party insiders say Harris appears to be testing the waters,

00:25:50.680 especially as Democrats struggle with a leadership vacuum ahead of their own midterms.

00:25:54.780 Now, I think she made a wise decision to sidestep the governor's race in California.

00:25:59.920 She could have been elected governor had she wanted to.

00:26:02.740 My old mentor, Richard Nixon, made that mistake after losing very narrowly to John F. Kennedy,

00:26:08.480 an election that I believe and say in two books document was stolen.

00:26:13.080 He was Dwight Eisenhower and New York Governor Tom Dewey talked Nixon into running for governor of California to keep his political prospects nationally alive.

00:26:22.980 Nixon had no interest or passion in state issues like water or mental health and so on.

00:26:29.260 His expertise was in federal and foreign policy issues.

00:26:33.020 And then surprisingly, he lost that gubernatory election when the Cuban Missile Crisis broke out just days before the election.

00:26:39.800 And, of course, voters rallied around the president, John F. Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy headed to California to campaign for incumbent Pat Brown.

00:26:48.340 Richard Nixon was considered washed up after that.

00:26:52.080 In this case, Kamala Harris ran that very same risk. 1.00

00:26:55.820 She has no interest in being governor of California. 1.00

00:26:59.120 Probably a good thing she didn't run. 0.99

00:27:01.040 Now, when Harris whines, it just comes off like sour grapes from a loser. 0.98

00:27:04.760 However, this egomaniacal narcissist will probably run again in 2028. 0.96

00:27:09.800 but don't expect her to make it past the primaries. Remember last time, the people of no kings,

00:27:14.840 the people whining about no kings, they nominated a queen who no one had ever, ever voted for. No

00:27:21.260 Democrat primary voter, no Democrat caucus voter, no Democrat delegate. Hypocrisy in today's

00:27:28.100 Democrat party? Wow, that's a surprise. One guy who's not a hypocrite and a major break from his

00:27:33.440 party, U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, is backing President Trump's military

00:27:38.720 strikes in Iran, saying that they've made the world a safer place. Fetterman argued that Iran

00:27:43.840 responds only to strength and that recent U.S. and Israeli actions have dealt a serious blow

00:27:50.040 to the regime's nuclear ambitions. Fetterman pointed out the destruction of key facilities

00:27:57.100 and the targeting of nuclear scientists is evidence that Iran's capabilities have been

00:28:02.420 significantly degraded. While acknowledging concerns about remaining in reach uranium,

00:28:08.540 still Fetterman maintained the overall impact has improved global security. He also didn't

00:28:14.400 hold back in condemning Iran, calling its actions war crimes and emphasizing the United States 0.68

00:28:19.580 continues to stand as a force of good. Importantly, Fetterman rejected calls from his fellow Democrats

00:28:25.860 to rein the president in through a new war powers vote. He warned that such efforts would

00:28:31.740 undermine the mission and send the wrong message while U.S. forces are still engaged. That stance

00:28:37.340 put him at odds with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a man already in deep trouble, both in

00:28:43.760 the state of New York, where he fears a challenge from AOC, and within his own Senate caucus, where

00:28:49.340 whispers about his age and his weakness have compelled Mendy to believe that Elizabeth Warren

00:28:55.760 will challenge him. The Senate from Massachusetts, also known as Focahontas, the fake Indian,

00:29:02.540 will challenge him for the leadership of the Democrat Party. Schumer has argued that the U.S.

00:29:09.120 is worse off now and claims without evidence that Iran's nuclear program remains intact.

00:29:14.560 What would he know? The divide highlights a growing split within the Democrat Party between those

00:29:19.880 recognizing the effectiveness of strong pro-Israel leadership and those continuing to oppose it

00:29:25.860 in a cynical partisan ploy for nothing other than political power.

00:29:31.420 Fetterman is one of the few Democrats who continues to make sense and who understands

00:29:35.060 that projecting American strength abroad deters threats and keeps America and the world safer.

00:29:40.460 Here's a message to John Fetterman.

00:29:43.460 The Democrats who are in Pennsylvania are extremely liberal, particularly under little Governor Josh Shapiro,

00:29:49.880 If they have a problem with John Fetterman, maybe he should run for the Republican nomination for the Senate when his seat comes up.

00:29:56.060 I think he could win it.

00:29:57.420 He's a man of incredible common sense, if not any sartorial style.

00:30:01.860 But to his credit, he did wear a suit and tie to the State of the Union address.

00:30:06.320 So he's stepping up in the world.

00:30:09.080 CBS News is now trying to cover for Eric Swalwell, the candidate for Congress.

00:30:14.440 He's facing criticism after running a weak and politically motivated campaign.

00:30:19.020 The controversy stems from allegations reportedly being circulated by left-wing activist Cheyenne Hunt, who claims multiple women will soon come forward with additional allegations of sexual misconduct against Swalwell.

00:30:32.280 So far, none of the accusers, other than wanting to publicly step forward, that is expected to happen today or tomorrow at the latest.

00:30:39.420 We are holding our breath.

00:30:41.020 Swalwell has denied the accusations outright, also rejecting claims that his office requires staff to sign nondisclosure agreements.

00:30:49.020 His campaign has blamed political opponents for spreading unverified rumors.

00:30:53.120 I guarantee you by the end of the day, he'll be blaming me.

00:30:56.460 Despite the lack of confirmed allegations, CBS News published a report attempting to connect Hunt to one of Swalwell's political rivals,

00:31:04.020 former Congresswoman Katie Porter, who is also running for governor, in an attempt to cover for Swalwell or at least debunk the reports.

00:31:13.000 The CBS report pointed to indirect links, such as attending the same university or appearing in a photo together, but offered no concrete evidence that the charges against Swalwell had been orchestrated by Porter's campaign and that they were in cahoots.

00:31:30.160 The irony here is the Democrats now find themselves caught in the same kind of unverified

00:31:34.220 allegation cycles that they often have promoted in the past, such things as the Me Too movement

00:31:39.660 and the Believe All Women witch hunts of the not-too-distant past.

00:31:43.840 But CBS News should be ashamed of themselves for covering up for someone as reprehensible 0.97

00:31:49.320 as the pothead weirdo, Eric Swalwell. 0.95

00:31:53.180 You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:31:54.660 I'm Roger Stone.

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00:32:09.880 The Department of Justice reportedly launched an antitrust investigation into the National Football League,

00:32:15.360 raising new concerns about how America's most popular sport is being delivered and how much fans are being forced to pay.

00:32:21.820 According to reports, federal officials are examining whether the NFL's increasingly complex broadcasting deals

00:32:27.920 are driving up costs and limiting access for everyday viewers.

00:32:31.760 Games are now spread across multiple streaming platforms,

00:32:34.680 often requiring fans to juggle several paid subscriptions just to follow their favorite teams.

00:32:40.140 One government official said the probe is focused on affordability

00:32:43.400 and ensuring fair competition among media providers.

00:32:46.800 The issue has drawn bipartisan attention,

00:32:49.140 but conservatives have been especially vocal about the burden placed on working families.

00:32:53.640 I myself have disgusted by NFL head Roger Goodell several years ago the NFL reached a legal agreement 0.82

00:33:04.240 with its veterans players all of them over predominantly overwhelmingly African-American

00:33:10.460 some hall of famers remember the equipment was not as sophisticated in those days and

00:33:15.700 many many of them suffered injuries there's a 365 million dollar settlement with those players

00:33:21.160 But almost all of that money went to monitors and lawyers with the individual players getting almost nothing.

00:33:28.620 This is racist and it's wrong.

00:33:31.280 So I'm calling on Roger Goodell, son of former New York U.S. Senator Charles Goodell, to do the right thing by his veteran players.

00:33:39.940 It's time for them to pony up and pay those veteran players who made this sport great again.

00:33:46.780 While we're at it, it's time for former New York Congressman Jack Kemp to be added to the football hall of flame.

00:33:54.900 Not only was Jack Kemp a congressman, one of the foremost proponents of supply side economics, that's pro-growth, pro-job creation, pro-tax cut economics, which revolutionized the Republican Party,

00:34:10.660 took the party from being the party of austerity and hard times to being the party of economic growth and hope.

00:34:16.780 It's a message that Ronald Reagan adopted from Kemp.

00:34:19.920 It is the message that Donald Trump adopted from Reagan.

00:34:23.160 So, yes, upstate New York Congressman Jack Kemp who played for the Buffalo Bills as well as the San Diego Chargers should be added to the Football Hall of Fame.

00:34:34.220 Frankly, I think President Donald Trump should consider giving him the Medal of Freedom along with former Congressman Ron Paul.

00:34:44.000 They'd be on my short list.

00:34:45.580 In the meantime, the country's Secretary of Treasury, Scott Besson, and the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell convened an urgent closed-door meeting with major bank CEOs to address cybersecurity threats tied to a powerful new AI model developed by a company called Anthropic.

00:35:03.840 The model, known as Mythos, is reportedly capable of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities across virtually every major operating system and web browser.

00:35:13.880 While Anthropic has limited its release, the company itself admits the technology carries both offensive and defensive cyber capabilities, an acknowledgment that underscores exactly how serious this risk is.

00:35:28.060 Major banking leaders, including executives from firms like Citigroup, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs, were briefed on the potential for AI-driven cyber attacks that could threaten the stability of the United States' entire financial system.

00:35:41.920 So the message from federal officials was clear. Prepare now. The development highlights a broader concern conservatives have raised for years, whether government and industry are exercising enough caution as powerful technologies rapidly evolve.

00:35:56.720 Once again, innovation appears to be outpacing regulation and preparedness.

00:36:01.920 Anthropic says it is proactively informing federal officials before unveiling mythos,

00:36:07.020 but questions remain about oversight, accountability, and the potential for misuse.

00:36:13.100 At the same time, when Americans are already becoming wary of digital vulnerabilities,

00:36:17.620 AI is extraordinarily dangerous.

00:36:19.720 Just this week, the so-called journalist, Laura Loomer, posted a number of videos online that were not very favorable to me.

00:36:28.900 But all you got to do is run through a simple AI detection software program and you'll find that they are completely and totally false.

00:36:37.700 As George C. Scott said, playing George Patton in that movie, God, I love war.

00:36:45.400 I love it.

00:36:46.780 I love it more than life itself.

00:36:49.720 You want to get down in the gutter with me, Laura, you're going to lose.

00:36:53.800 Check it out online.

00:36:54.920 I think you'll like it.

00:36:55.820 It's a slugfest, the kind of politics that I love.

00:36:59.140 I'm Roger Stone.

00:36:59.960 You're listening to Stone Zone until tomorrow.

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