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00:00:31.400 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative.

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00:00:38.020 You are now entering the Stone Zone.

00:00:41.260 It's only the hottest political show on radio today.

00:00:45.600 Only yesterday, President Donald Trump lashed out at three of his critics,

00:00:50.040 all at least two of which are former supporters.

00:00:53.700 Alex Jones, the famous podcaster, Tucker Carlson, formerly of Fox News, and of course,

00:01:00.680 Megyn Kelly. 1.00

00:01:01.860 Now, Megyn Kelly, of course, did try to stick a shiv in Trump's back in the presidential 1.00

00:01:06.640 debates when he ran for his first term. 0.88

00:01:10.100 But in more recent years, she had become a podcaster and become more pro-Trump.

00:01:16.440 I think she thought she was losing her audience.

00:01:19.580 Then Alex Jones challenged me to come on his show today, midday, and defend the president.

00:01:27.440 And I checked in with the president, asked him what he thought.

00:01:30.160 And he said, take him on.

00:01:31.400 And I did. 1.00

00:01:32.200 It was a mudder. 0.72

00:01:34.300 It was a brawl.

00:01:36.280 The champ here remains undefeated.

00:01:39.740 What upset me about Alex Jones is that he called for the replacement of President Donald Trump

00:01:45.980 under the 25th Amendment when he was certain that the president was careening towards World War

00:01:53.000 III in Iran. Little did he know that Donald Trump put so much pressure on the Iranians

00:01:59.200 that they blinked and they submitted a 10-point peace plan reopening the talks. Donald Trump will

00:02:06.180 always prefer talks to war. And this weekend, J.D. Vance heads a negotiating team along with

00:02:14.020 presidential son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and Steve Whitcoff to try yet again to reach a

00:02:21.600 peace agreement with the Iranians. The case that I made was very simple. Let's review President

00:02:28.180 Trump's record, if we may. First and foremost, the president has completely restructured the

00:02:35.600 U.S. military, done away with the DEI nonsense, gotten rid of the globalist generals, put America

00:02:43.020 back on a war footing with a lethal national defense. That means that the military cannot

00:02:51.780 be weaponized against the American people in the case of a future constitutional crisis.

00:02:57.460 The president also ended the war on cryptocurrency and Bitcoin. Joe Biden hated this alternative

00:03:06.020 monetary system because the government can't control it. In fact, they prosecuted a number

00:03:11.360 of people claiming that Bitcoin was a security and those selling it needed a security license.

00:03:17.920 Nonsense. Trump also outlawed men playing in women's sports. Now you see the president and

00:03:25.660 the vice president cracking down on the millions of dollars of fraud in federal programs and ending

00:03:31.920 the use of USAID to finance color revolutions and other political dirty tricks. In his first term,

00:03:39.520 the president gave us the largest tax cut in American history, and now that tax cut has been

00:03:45.680 renewed, plus 88 percent of those current receiving Social Security benefits will pay

00:03:52.640 no taxes at all. He also ended the moratorium on exploration of gas and oil, which had begun

00:03:59.680 under Joe Biden. At the same time, he was ending the tax on tips. He appointed three Supreme Court

00:04:06.580 justices, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett, who have created a sometimes durable conservative

00:04:12.860 majority, but he appointed 200 young conservative federal judges to the bench. His appointments

00:04:20.580 eventually allowed for the overturning of Roe v. Wade, which does not outlaw abortion,

00:04:26.080 but returns that decision where it belongs to the states. He passed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

00:04:32.320 of 2017. Those are major reductions for both individuals and corporations. Reduced regulations

00:04:38.240 across all industries, energy, finance, and business. Pre-COVID, we had low unemployment,

00:04:45.360 rising wages, strong stock market, and trade and industrial policy. He renegotiated NAFTA

00:04:51.200 and the U.S.-Mexican-Canada agreement, making it more affordable to U.S. manufacturing. He imposed

00:04:58.220 tariffs on China, reshaping global trade dynamics. He pushed the Buy American, High American Energy

00:05:04.980 Independence Policy, expanded domestic oil and gas production. For the first time ever, the United

00:05:10.960 States became a net energy exporter. He rolled back Obama-era environmental regulations, and when

00:05:18.280 it came to the border and immigration, he closed our open border. He re-implemented the Remain in 0.84

00:05:24.600 Mexico policy, and he has now reduced illegal crossings in certain sectors to almost zero. 0.74

00:05:31.300 He defeated the ISIS territorial caliphate and, of course, brought into place the Abraham Accords,

00:05:39.920 a peace agreement between Israel and our other Arab state allies.

00:05:44.580 Took a much harder stance on Iran by withdrawing from the nuclear weapons deal in which Barack

00:05:52.680 Obama was actually paying the Iranian politicians with cash, pallets of cash on the side that

00:05:58.820 weren't even in the agreement. Cut funding and got us out of the World Health Organization

00:06:04.660 entirely. It looks to me like we're headed for the exits on NATO as well. Promoted religious

00:06:11.300 liberty protections. In the second term, you have even greater accomplishments. He issued a record

00:06:18.740 number of executive orders early in the term, revoking and reversing over 100 of Joe Biden's

00:06:25.080 brainless policies. He pardoned all of those victimized on January 6th. He also, as I say,

00:06:33.200 introduced the no tax on tips and no tax on overtime tax deductions, as well as new tax

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

00:06:45.380 of dollars to the bottom line. We have multiple trade deals and industrial investments announced

00:06:52.020 already. He's now focusing on supply chain, independence and national industry, border

00:06:57.420 security and immigration. Major enforcement expansion, of course, masked a portion of

00:07:02.100 illegal immigrants, increasing ICE operations, reported sharp declines and illegal crossings

00:07:08.420 almost down to zero on our southern border. Apologies are now aimed at asylum loophole

00:07:14.340 was being closed and reinstating America's first doctrine globally. Once again, he withdrew us from

00:07:21.720 the Paris Climate Agreement. I'm not sure if you know that, but the world's greatest polluter is

00:07:26.840 China. Under the Paris Climate Accords, the Americans would have paid $325 million a year.

00:07:34.140 China would have paid zero. Donald Trump said, we're out of there. He's increased our military

00:07:40.000 involvement and more aggressive posture in the Middle East to protect our interests there.

00:07:44.860 He's also playing catch up when it comes to rare earth minerals with deals in Ukraine,

00:07:50.420 Vietnam and across the globe. New Deal just announced in Congo, a deal in Nigeria expected

00:07:56.280 to be announced shortly. He's gone back to expanding fossil fuel exploration and production,

00:08:03.980 rolled back environmental restrictions against both. They put out an executive order aimed at

00:08:10.320 ending federal censorship. Of course, the moves against the DEI programs and the whole federal

00:08:16.260 work policies and other various actions, including those service members who were required against

00:08:23.300 their will to take the COVID-19 vaccination, are now eligible for back pay and for their medical

00:08:31.100 expenses. At the same time, he's attempting to reshape the education and federal workforce,

00:08:36.340 cracking down on the drug cartels and fentanyl trafficking, expanding enforcement operations

00:08:42.000 on both domestically, increased coordination with foreign governments on crime. So whether

00:08:47.840 it's courts, tax reform, deregulation, trade reset, border framework, Middle East diplomacy,

00:08:54.480 second term, the expansion and enforcement of all of the above, aggressive action,

00:08:59.740 harder immigration enforcement, expanded tariffs and industrial policy,

00:09:05.540 more aggressive foreign policy for the first time puts America first. 0.55

00:09:10.420 Of course, his moves in Iran and Venezuela very cleverly cut off China's access to cheap oil.

00:09:18.380 This is the brilliance of the art of the deal.

00:09:21.200 So I really hit Alex Jones pretty hard.

00:09:24.540 To my surprise, rather than hitting back, he reaffirmed his support for President Trump.

00:09:29.740 He pointed out that he's disagreed with him from time to time, but thinks he's a heck of a lot

00:09:34.340 better than Kamala Harris would have been. To me, it was an overall win. We did have to visit the

00:09:41.000 role of investigative journalist, Laura Loomer. This woman's a menace. First of all, 1.00

00:09:47.140 when people are paying you to write and say things, you're not an investigative journalist,

00:09:52.700 you're a paid propagandist. Laura Loomer should make the public a list of everyone who's paying 1.00

00:09:59.120 her because, well, nobody's all that interested in the future of Chevron's oil leases in Venezuela.

00:10:05.780 She brings it up three times a week. And of course, I busted her this week, as was reported

00:10:11.420 in Axios early this morning. You see, you know how when you were younger and you heard that your

00:10:16.680 boyfriend or your girlfriend was going to break up with you, so you preemptively would break up

00:10:21.040 with them so that they couldn't say they broke up with you? What Laura Loomer here did was very

00:10:26.160 clever. She tried either directly or through intermediaries to convince President Trump

00:10:31.260 that Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, was going to resign in protest

00:10:37.260 of his actions in Iran, and therefore he needed to move quickly to fire her. Fortunately, the

00:10:43.180 president called me and I told him that that was categorically false, having talked to Tulsi Gabbard

00:10:49.220 that very morning. And I also explained that Tulsi Gabbard had done nothing to merit being terminated.

00:10:56.160 She testified before the Congress where Laura Loomer said she backstabbed the president. No,

00:11:01.520 I don't think so. What she said was, as the head of ODNI, she was responsible for getting the very

00:11:08.000 best intelligence and giving it to the president. That's what she did. The president then decided 0.50

00:11:13.460 to move on Iran, and she supported that move. But because it is reported that she has reservations

00:11:20.200 about the war against Iran, as reportedly as does Vice President J.D. Vance. She's not popular with

00:11:27.600 the Israel First Lobby. So I called out Laura Loomer. I said she was lying. She thought it

00:11:33.860 would become a self-fulfilling prophecy. And she's been calling me names ever since. And we found out

00:11:40.620 quite sadly that, well, Laura has been mentally institutionalized at least twice before over

00:11:47.560 regarding her mental stability. I'm actually worried about whether she's a danger to herself

00:11:53.080 or others. But this idea that she's a journalist, we have to dispose of that quickly. Journalists

00:11:59.660 aren't paid to take any particular point of view. Laura and I were friends for many, many years,

00:12:07.720 but it seems to me like she's joined the Bushes and the Cheneys and the Clintons and the Obamas

00:12:15.540 and the Bidens as a war hawk.

00:12:18.820 She might be more comfortable now dining with Lindsey Graham

00:12:22.340 than she is dining with me. 1.00

00:12:25.420 This is an epic Twitter war.

00:12:27.260 If you haven't checked it out, we're going back and forth.

00:12:31.700 And, you know, she's dealing with the OG here,

00:12:34.120 so she shouldn't expect to win this fight.

00:12:36.580 But she keeps insisting she's an independent journalist,

00:12:39.580 and I keep laughing in her face. 0.99

00:12:42.460 still like to know how she ran for Congress in two races. Now, the first one, in all honesty, 0.94

00:12:48.000 I give her credit. She took on a very tough race in the Democrat district. It was the district 0.97

00:12:52.280 Mar-a-Lago was in, ran against Democrat Lois Franco, ran a pretty good race, all things

00:12:57.400 considered. But her second race for Congress, in all honesty, well, my dog Pee Wee 2.0 could have 0.96

00:13:03.560 won that race. She was against a weak incumbent who was too ill to campaign, had less than $325,000

00:13:10.180 in the bank. She raised almost three quarters, a little more than three quarters of a million

00:13:14.740 dollars, but none of that money got spent on radio commercials or cable commercials or 0.83

00:13:20.680 television commercials or mailings or blast emails or blast text messages. In fact, I couldn't find

00:13:30.300 any evidence of voter contact at all. So my question is a simple one. Laura, what happened

00:13:36.380 to the money. I'll wait. Thanks for tuning in today from The Stone Zone. We'll be right back

00:13:41.720 on the other side with more hot politics, including a roundup of what's happening in the Iran war.

00:13:51.460 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:13:58.460 Welcome back to The Stone Zone. Anyone who knows me knows I love great pizza and there is a trend

00:14:04.220 in the country I really approve of, New Haven-style pizza. The pizza I grew up with is back. I was

00:14:10.600 born in Norwalk, Connecticut. There was a restaurant there called Phil Baker's, named for a prize

00:14:16.320 fighter who owned the place. It is the pizza of my childhood. I still can smell it. I can still

00:14:21.060 taste it, but I've never found it duplicated any place. But the big three in New Haven were always

00:14:27.240 Sally's Frank Pepe's and a place called the Modern. Now, very recently, Frank Pepe's and

00:14:34.960 Sally's both announced that they would be moving towards franchising. And they, in the case of

00:14:41.280 Frank Pepe's, opened several stores here in Florida. The problem is that the style of New

00:14:48.260 Haven Pizza requires an 860 degree oven. And they decided to open locations in Palm Beach and other

00:14:58.500 places. But one place they opened was Plantation, Florida. Problem is that the liberals on the city

00:15:05.980 council and plantation have a health ordinance that doesn't allow you to have a commercial oven

00:15:11.040 that burns any hotter than 680 degrees. Well, that requires the pizzaiola to cook the pizza

00:15:20.160 longer. And that makes the bottom of the pizza drier and harder, kind of like a cracker. So the

00:15:26.740 pizza doesn't have that appropriate flop. People in New York, they know what I'm talking about.

00:15:32.260 Also do the people in Connecticut. So Frank Pepe's first location announced last week,

00:15:39.200 quite sadly, that it would close. In the meantime, there's a new contender called

00:15:44.020 A-Beats, because of course in New Haven they spell pizza A-P-I-Z-Z-A, A-Beats, that is open

00:15:52.080 locations in several locations here. So this is the pizza of my youth. This is the pizza I

00:15:58.720 dream about. This is the pizza that may very soon be available near you. Now pizza is like sex.

00:16:07.400 when it's bad well it's still pretty good nothing better than a slice at three o'clock in the morning

00:16:13.960 after you shall we say had a few cocktails so uh keep an eye out for all these places i i i have

00:16:21.500 my preferences and i'm not going to tell you locations unless they want to pay for advertising

00:16:25.900 here on the show but keep an eye out for new haven style pizza it's a generic style of pizza

00:16:32.900 I think you'll love it. No, by the way, when we talk about pizza here in the Stone Zone,

00:16:38.160 it's not some coded language pertaining to child sex trafficking. Who do you think I am,

00:16:44.180 John Podesta? I should also mention that Patsy's Pizza, a venerable New York tradition that started

00:16:51.100 up in Harlem, they have just opened stores across the country, including here in Florida.

00:16:56.980 So I look, the more pizza, the better. I could eat it for breakfast. In fact, this morning,

00:17:02.140 I had pizza with a sunny side up egg on it

00:17:06.420 that my mother used to do.

00:17:08.600 My wife cooked for me this morning.

00:17:10.540 The first time I had that was in the streets of Nice,

00:17:13.540 which is actually in France.

00:17:15.400 You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:17:16.660 I'm Roger Stone,

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00:17:47.000 And we're back in the Stone Zone.

00:17:49.280 It's only the hottest political radio show on the air today anywhere in the United States.

00:17:54.180 Well, a fragile calm is emerging in the Middle East,

00:17:56.980 but tensions remain high as the United States pushes for a lasting ceasefire with Iran while

00:18:02.460 standing firm against any ongoing threats. President Donald Trump says he's optimistic

00:18:07.360 of deals within reach, with Vice President J.D. Vance set to head high-stakes negotiations in

00:18:12.920 Pakistan this weekend. The move signals serious U.S. commitment to restoring stability through

00:18:17.800 strength and diplomacy. At the same time, Israel, under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is

00:18:23.500 pursuing possible ceasefire talks with Lebanon, even after launching major strikes against Hezbollah

00:18:28.880 targets there. Those operations came at a high cost, with reports of more than 250 killed and

00:18:34.520 over 1,000 wounded, drawing international criticism and making the fragile peace process,

00:18:40.240 well, even more tenuous. Israeli officials maintain their actions are necessary to defend

00:18:45.160 the thousands of rockets fired by Hezbollah in recent weeks. Meanwhile, Iran continues to test 0.82

00:18:50.480 the limits of the ceasefire. The regime still effectively controls the critical strait of Hormuz,

00:18:56.240 restricting global shipping to a small number of approved vessels and raising concerns about

00:19:02.180 potential fees and interference. President Trump has warned Tehran in no uncertain terms,

00:19:07.720 honor the agreement, which includes free passage through the straits of Hormuz or face renewed U.S.

00:19:13.920 military action. The president has continued to array our military assets in the region.

00:19:18.880 he's not afraid to use them if he has to. They're about to find out that Donald Trump is not somebody

00:19:24.000 to trifle with. Despite some violations and last minute strikes, bombs have largely gone quiet

00:19:29.480 across most of the region, a sign that deterrence may actually be working. Energy markets remain on

00:19:35.060 the edge with oil prices rising amid uncertainty, while global leaders watch closely. Much is still

00:19:40.440 up in the air at the present time, but the Trump administration is dedicated to making sure that

00:19:45.200 Iran doesn't become a nation-building exercise, similar to this country's failures in Iraq or

00:19:51.220 Afghanistan. We've achieved regime change, sent a strong message, taken out their nuclear capacity, 0.91

00:19:56.600 and now we're working very quickly towards getting out of there. Meanwhile, First Lady Melania Trump

00:20:01.380 very forcefully pushed back yesterday against false and malicious claims tying her to deceased

00:20:06.740 pedophile and Clinton intimate Jeffrey Epstein. In a statement yesterday made from the White House,

00:20:12.520 Melania Trump made it clear that 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 pair.

00:20:26.040 Melania said the rumors circulating online are mean-spirit attempts to defame her reputation.

00:20:31.480 Mrs. Trump acknowledged that she and former President Donald Trump attended some social events where Epstein was present.

00:20:37.240 something she noted was not unusual given overlapping social circles in places like

00:20:42.080 New York City and Palm Beach, but she emphasized she had no knowledge of Epstein's criminal

00:20:46.920 activities at the time and no personal connection to him. Now, I was around in those days when

00:20:51.980 Donald Trump was a bachelor between wives when they were dating, and I found Melania to be an

00:20:58.040 extraordinary, gracious, kind, cultured individual who would end up being one of our greatest first

00:21:03.360 ladies in terms of her leadership and her courage. She had to stand by while attempts were made to

00:21:10.400 keep her husband off the ballot, to destroy them financially, to put Donald Trump in jail. She

00:21:15.700 warned that Americans should be cautious about misinformation, calling many of the circulated

00:21:20.460 images and stories online completely false. I was shocked last night to see a number of

00:21:25.400 nude images on her, so I ran them through one of those AI detection programs. Yep,

00:21:31.740 they were completely fraudulent, manipulated, artificial intelligence. The First Lady did not 1.00

00:21:37.100 hold back in criticizing those spreading the allegations, accusing politically motivated 0.90

00:21:41.400 actors of trying to damage her reputation for personal, political, or financial gain.

00:21:47.180 At the same time, she called for transparency and justice for actual victims, urging Congress to

00:21:52.100 hold public hearings so that survivors can share their stories on the record. This is just another

00:21:57.240 phase of the Epstein hoax, where President Trump, his families, and his associates are being smeared

00:22:02.700 mercilessly, while the actual Epstein associates, like Bill and Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary

00:22:10.580 Larry Summers, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell, former Governor Bill

00:22:17.380 Richardson, no focus on them. There were certainly politicians who went to Epstein's island and may

00:22:23.460 have partaken in Epstein's depravity, but none of them were Republicans. The Democrats won't let

00:22:30.240 this go, continuing to smear the president mercilessly about false connections to Epstein,

00:22:36.860 while those elites who actually did partake in these disgusting child sex operations are

00:22:42.120 glossed over. At the same time, we found out that just as I predicted back in 2018, Steve Bannon,

00:22:47.820 who on his show The War Room Every Day pretended to be a Trump supporter, was secretly denigrating

00:22:53.740 Trump in a series of emails, calling for Trump's removal under the 25th Amendment, referring to the

00:23:00.040 president as stupid, talking openly about undermining his China trade policy. It's not

00:23:06.500 surprising Steve Bannon pled guilty in Manhattan to embezzling $15 million from the Build the Wall

00:23:13.940 Foundation, but very curiously, he received no jail time whatsoever. He was actually, that trial

00:23:20.920 was originally before one of the judges who sat in judgment of President Donald Trump in the law

00:23:26.500 fair against him. Now we learn that Bannon was involved in a $1 billion fraud operation with

00:23:33.040 Chinese national names Miles Guo. Now when Miles Guo was prosecuted, he was asked repeatedly

00:23:39.540 whether his money came from the Chinese Communist Party and about his connections to a mysterious

00:23:45.360 William G. You can go online. William G. is a Chinese Communist Party operator. I now have

00:23:51.720 and very soon will release a list of all the so-called influencers that Steve Bannon was

00:23:57.380 paying. The double game here is one that is shocking, but Bannon, who just a few months ago

00:24:02.280 was talking about running for president himself, I think is now no longer a credible spokesman for

00:24:08.860 the MAGA movement. The number of people watching his war room, kind of ironic, that used to be the

00:24:14.300 name of my old show on InfoWars until Bannon ripped it off. I think the number of people

00:24:19.720 watching his show has dropped precipitously. Now, it's hard to understand because this is a guy who

00:24:26.300 literally doesn't bathe, doesn't wash his hair, doesn't shave, doesn't brush his teeth. He's kind

00:24:31.900 of got the toothless hobo thing going on. I just don't understand why he thinks that that would be

00:24:36.960 politically attractive to anyone. Frankly, he's starting to look more and more like, well, Eric

00:24:42.000 Swalwell. Speaking of Eric Swalwell, more women coming forward today claiming that the congressman

00:24:48.080 made inappropriate sexual advances against them, pressured them for sex. There are evidently a

00:24:54.760 number of text messages. I predicted all of this last night online. Therefore, tomorrow I'll be

00:24:59.840 blamed for all of it. Same thing happened with Al Franken. I had a friend at Fox that told me that

00:25:04.940 Franken would be exposed as a sexual predator. I posted it online. Next thing I know, all kinds

00:25:11.520 of crazy lefties are claiming that I set Al Franken up and that I was somehow coaching the

00:25:17.260 woman whose accusations would blow him out of the Senate. No, sorry to disappoint you, but then I

00:25:24.200 get blamed sometimes when it's raining. Early polling shows that Kamala Harris is now thinking 0.54

00:25:31.140 very seriously about another presidential run as she ramps up her public appearances and her

00:25:35.780 sharp criticism of President Trump. Harris, who lost the 2024 election, is re-emerged on the

00:25:40.880 national stage, speaking out on foreign policy, particularly the conflict with Iran,

00:25:45.640 attempting to portray herself as a peacemonger in a pathetic gambit that's really fooling nobody.

00:25:51.720 Her upcoming appearance at Reverend Al Sharpton's National Ashken Network Convention is seen as a

00:25:57.800 pivotal moment, with many Democrats viewing it as an early test of her political strength.

00:26:03.540 Party insiders say Harris appears to be testing the waters, especially as Democrats struggle with

00:26:08.640 a leadership vacuum ahead of their own midterms. Now, I think she made a wise decision to sidestep

00:26:14.100 the governor's race in California. She could have been elected governor had she wanted to. 0.89

00:26:19.040 My old mentor, Richard Nixon, made that mistake after losing very narrowly to John F. Kennedy,

00:26:24.220 an election that I believe and say in two books document was stolen. He was Dwight Eisenhower and

00:26:31.580 New York Governor Tom Dewey talked Nixon into running for governor of California to keep his

00:26:36.560 political prospects nationally alive. Nixon had no interest or passion in state issues like water or

00:26:43.080 mental health and so on. His expertise was in federal and foreign policy issues.

00:26:49.360 And then surprisingly, he lost that gubernatory election when the Cuban Missile Crisis broke out

00:26:54.100 just days before the election. And of course, voters rallied around the president, John F.

00:26:59.720 Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy headed to California to campaign for incumbent Pat Brown. Richard

00:27:04.900 Nixon was considered washed up after that. In this case, Kamala Harris ran that very same risk. 1.00

00:27:12.160 She has no interest in being governor of California. Probably a good thing she didn't run. 1.00

00:27:17.380 Now, when Harris whines, it just comes off like sour grapes from a loser. However, this ego

00:27:22.680 maniacal narcissist will probably run again in 2028, but don't expect her to make it past the 1.00

00:27:27.780 primaries. Remember last time, the people of no kings, the people whining about no kings,

00:27:32.720 they nominated a queen who no one had ever, ever voted for. No Democrat primary voter,

00:27:39.320 no Democrat caucus voter, no Democrat delegate. Hypocrisy in today's Democrat party? Wow,

00:27:45.920 that's a surprise. One guy who's not a hypocrite and a major break from his party,

00:27:50.040 U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, is backing President Trump's military strikes in

00:27:55.620 Iran, saying that they've made the world a safer place. Fetterman argued that Iran responds only

00:28:01.040 to strength and that recent U.S. and Israeli actions have dealt a serious blow to the regime's

00:28:09.160 nuclear ambitions. Fetterman pointed out the destruction of key facilities and the targeting

00:28:14.300 of nuclear scientists is evidence that Iran's capabilities have been significantly degraded.

00:28:20.720 While acknowledging concerns about remaining in reach uranium,

00:28:24.860 still Fetterman maintained the overall impact has improved global security. 0.85

00:28:29.620 He also didn't hold back in condemning Iran, calling its actions war crimes

00:28:34.200 and emphasizing the United States continues to stand as a force of good.

00:28:38.980 Importantly, Fetterman rejected calls from his fellow Democrats to

00:28:42.480 rein the president in through a new war powers vote.

00:28:46.780 He warned that such efforts would undermine the mission

00:28:49.020 and send the wrong message while U.S. forces are still engaged.

00:28:52.880 That stance put him at odds with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,

00:28:57.200 a man already in deep trouble both in the state of New York,

00:29:01.080 where he fears a challenge from AOC,

00:29:03.420 and within his own Senate caucus where whispers about his age

00:29:07.700 and his weakness have compelled Mendy to believe

00:29:11.000 that Elizabeth Warren will challenge him.

00:29:13.440 The Senate from Massachusetts, also known as Focahontas,

00:29:17.300 the fake Indian, will challenge him for the leadership of the Democrat Party.

00:29:22.460 Schumer has argued that the U.S. is worse off now and claims without evidence that Iran's

00:29:28.660 nuclear program remains intact. What would he know? The divide highlights a growing split

00:29:34.400 within the Democrat Party between those recognizing the effectiveness of strong

00:29:39.260 pro-Israel leadership and those continuing to oppose it in a cynical partisan ploy for

00:29:45.460 nothing other than political power. Fetterman is one of the few Democrats who continues to make

00:29:50.040 sense and who understands that projecting American strength abroad deters threats and keeps America

00:29:55.700 and the world safer. Here's a message to John Fetterman. If the Democrats who are in Pennsylvania

00:30:01.640 are extremely liberal, particularly under little Governor Josh Shapiro, if they have a problem

00:30:07.100 with John Fetterman, maybe he should run for the Republican nomination for the Senate when his seat

00:30:11.780 comes up. I think he could win it. He's a man of incredible common sense, if not any sartorial

00:30:17.180 style. But to his credit, he did wear a suit and tie to the State of the Union address. So he's

00:30:23.400 stepping up in the world. CBS News is now trying to cover for Eric Swalwell, the candidate for

00:30:30.320 Congress. He's facing criticism after running a weak and politically motivated campaign. The

00:30:35.860 controversy stems from allegations reportedly being circulated by left-wing activist Cheyenne

00:30:41.100 Hunt, who claims multiple women will soon come forward with additional allegations of sexual

00:30:46.740 misconduct against Swalwell. So far, none of the accusers other than wanting to publicly step

00:30:51.380 forward. That is expected to happen today or tomorrow at the latest. We are holding our

00:30:57.020 breath. Swalwell has denied the accusations outright, also rejecting claims that his office

00:31:01.960 required staff to sign non-disclosure agreements. His campaign has blamed political opponents for

00:31:07.560 spreading unverified rumors. I guarantee you by the end of the day, he'll be blaming me.

00:31:12.840 Despite the lack of confirmed allegations, CBS News published a report attempting to connect

00:31:17.880 Hunt to one of Swalwell's political rivals, former Congresswoman Katie Porter, I mean Porter, 0.92

00:31:23.260 who is also running for governor in an attempt to cover for Swalwell or at least debunk the 0.99

00:31:28.820 reports. The CBS report pointed to indirect links such as attending the same university

00:31:34.100 or appearing in a photo together, but offered no concrete evidence that the charges against

00:31:40.640 Swalwell had been orchestrated by Porter's campaign and that they were in cahoots.

00:31:46.480 The irony here is the Democrats now find themselves caught in the same kind of unverified

00:31:50.540 allegation cycles that they often have promoted in the past, such things as the Me Too movement

00:31:55.980 and the Believe All Women witch hunts of the not too distant past.

00:32:00.180 But CBS News should be ashamed of themselves for covering up for someone as reprehensible as the pothead weirdo, Eric Swalwell.

00:32:09.500 You're listening to The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. We'll be right back.

00:32:16.980 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:32:23.880 And we're back in the Stone Zone.

00:32:26.220 The Department of Justice reportedly launched an antitrust investigation into the National Football League,

00:32:31.680 raising new concerns about how America's most popular sport is being delivered and how much fans are being forced to pay.

00:32:38.280 According to reports, federal officials are examining whether the NFL's increasingly complex broadcasting deals

00:32:44.240 are driving up costs and limiting access for everyday viewers.

00:32:47.920 Games are now spread across multiple streaming platforms, often requiring fans to juggle several paid subscriptions just to follow their favorite teams.

00:32:56.480 One government official said the probe is focused on affordability and ensuring fair competition among media providers.

00:33:03.140 The issue has drawn bipartisan attention, but conservatives have been especially vocal about the burden placed on working families.

00:33:09.960 I myself have disgusted by NFL head Roger Goodell several years ago the NFL reached a legal agreement with its veterans players all of them over predominantly overwhelmingly African-American some Hall of Famers remember the equipment was not as sophisticated in those days and many many of them suffered injuries.

00:33:33.960 There's a $365 million settlement with those players, but almost all of that money went to monitors and lawyers with the individual players getting almost nothing.

00:33:44.940 This is racist and it's wrong.

00:33:47.600 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.

00:33:56.260 It's time for them to pony up and pay those veteran players who made this sport great again.

00:34:03.080 While we're at it, it's time for former New York Congressman Jack Kemp to be added to the football hall of flame.

00:34:11.180 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,

00:34:27.000 took the party from being the party of austerity and hard times to being the party of economic growth and hope.

00:34:33.080 It's a message that Ronald Reagan adopted from Kemp.

00:34:36.260 It is the message that Donald Trump adopted from Reagan.

00:34:39.280 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.

00:34:50.900 Frankly, I think President Donald Trump should consider giving him the Medal of Freedom, along with former Congressman Ron Paul.

00:35:00.320 They'd be on my short list.

00:35:01.900 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.

00:35:20.160 The model, known as Mythos, is reportedly capable of identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities across virtually every major operating system and web browser.

00:35:30.200 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.

00:35:44.380 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.

00:35:58.260 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.

00:36:13.060 Once again, innovation appears to be outpacing regulation and preparedness.

00:36:18.240 Anthropic says it is proactively informing federal officials before unveiling mythos,

00:36:23.340 but questions remain about oversight, accountability, and the potential for misuse.

00:36:29.440 At the same time, when Americans are already becoming wary of digital vulnerabilities,

00:36:33.960 AI is extraordinarily dangerous.

00:36:36.060 Just this week, the so-called journalist, Laura Loomer, posted a number of videos online that were not very favorable to me.

00:36:45.220 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.

00:36:54.040 As George C. Scott said, playing George Patton in that movie, God, I love war.

00:37:01.800 I love it.

00:37:03.100 I love it more than life itself.

00:37:06.060 If you want to get down in the gutter with me, Laura, you're going to lose.

00:37:10.120 Check it out online.

00:37:11.240 I think you'll like it.

00:37:12.140 It's a slugfest, the kind of politics that I love.

00:37:15.460 I'm Roger Stone.

00:37:16.280 You're listening to Stone Zone until tomorrow.

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