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00:00:45.320 All right, ladies and gentlemen, I'm sorry for our technical difficulties.

00:00:48.060 I'm Jake Novak in for Roger Stone.

00:00:49.840 This is the Stone Zone, and we are starting with breaking news.

00:00:53.340 I'm sorry to keep you on the edge of your seats there.

00:00:55.200 But, of course, the big story that I talked about last night, still a big story tonight, they are counting the votes and they don't have a decision yet.

00:01:03.200 They are counting the votes in Virginia on that big referendum to decide whether they are going to allow this massive radical Democrat redistricting of the state.

00:01:14.720 Remember, Virginia, especially in its congressional districts, is a very purple state.

00:01:19.360 Currently, there are six Democrat districts, six Democrat members of the House from Virginia, and five Republican.

00:01:26.600 This redistricting would turn it into most likely a 10-to-1 in the favor of Democrats' congressional delegation,

00:01:33.960 if you can believe that they would try such a radical thing.

00:01:36.540 When Governor Abigail Spanberger promised that this would not be a priority for her, of course it was.

00:01:42.660 So far, right now, on this yes or no vote, now the Democrats want people to vote yes for this redistricting.

00:01:48.160 the Republicans want people to vote no right now at 8 11 p.m. here on this Tuesday night the polls

00:01:55.940 closed at 7 p.m. they have 64 percent of the vote counted and right now the no votes are ahead

00:02:01.720 by an even four percentage points 52 percent to 48 percent they have roughly 82,000 more votes

00:02:10.080 at 1,500,000 to about 970,000 votes for yes.

00:02:16.540 So no is still ahead, but it's getting closer and closer.

00:02:21.440 And we'll have to see how this goes.

00:02:23.300 Remember, there could be a big ballot dump

00:02:26.340 from someplace up in Northern Virginia

00:02:27.960 and could change this.

00:02:29.260 So we'll see what happens.

00:02:31.260 But I wanted to get you updated on that breaking news

00:02:33.540 because this is a huge story in America.

00:02:36.420 This would very much make it difficult

00:02:38.600 for the Republicans to hold on to the House, not only now, but for many, many years to come.

00:02:44.620 Now, there are a lot of people who are holding out hope that if this vote doesn't go the right

00:02:49.000 way for the Republicans, they could defeat it in court, because there were a lot of legal

00:02:54.940 questions about this referendum and how it was rushed before the voters, etc., etc.

00:03:00.820 But, you know, that'll take time, and you don't know. I mean, it would obviously be better if

00:03:05.120 this thing just gets defeated. But the margin is getting smaller by the moment right now. I don't

00:03:11.480 know if this is going to hold up, but right now the no vote's still leading, but right now they

00:03:16.060 only have a 3.8 percentage point lead. It's gotten narrower just since I've spoken to you.

00:03:20.960 65% of the votes counted, and about 78,000 more votes for the no side. We'll see if that continues.

00:03:29.820 I'm watching it for you live right now. I didn't want to get into any of the other issues of the

00:03:34.300 day until we talked about this because this is a big issue so i'm watching this closely i will keep

00:03:40.000 you updated by the minute and make sure that you're updated now the other big story of the

00:03:45.900 last several hours is that president trump has decided to extend the ceasefire in the war with

00:03:53.100 iran and i have to tell you and this is something that i said on many of the stations that you're

00:03:58.480 listening to this program on now something that i said on sunday i said it again on monday and i'll

00:04:03.260 say it again now. For the most part, the status quo with Iran, I'm kind of okay with.

00:04:12.600 The only thing that gives me a huge amount of pause on this situation now, just kind of holding 0.90

00:04:17.920 where we are now with the blockade, etc., are these executions that Iran has been carrying out

00:04:23.880 the last couple days of people who simply just protested against the regime. Now, I don't know

00:04:30.960 what these people are thinking in Iran right now by carrying out these executions. I was just

00:04:35.600 talking with Rita Cosby here on many of these stations as well. You know, at the Nuremberg

00:04:40.600 trials, one of the things that was so shocking about the Nazi war criminals is that so many of 0.70

00:04:45.900 them committed a lot of their crimes after D-Day. What were they thinking? Certainly after D-Day and

00:04:51.380 certainly after the Allies really were able to make major incursions into France and then moving

00:04:56.120 on into Germany anybody would have a brain knew that the war was effectively over or at least

00:05:02.340 that Germany wasn't going to win why would you commit blatant war crimes and that in that period 0.63

00:05:09.080 of time and this is the same thing with Iran it's and and to make it even worse for these people

00:05:14.520 it's it's so much more obvious now who's doing this is not under as much of a fog of war as we

00:05:20.080 saw with those massive executions a couple of months ago. These are really very easy to pinpoint.

00:05:28.220 Each and every one of the victims is being memorialized on social media. We know who's

00:05:33.680 committing these crimes. What are they doing? I mean, the simple answer is these people are just

00:05:37.840 so evil that they don't know how to restrain themselves. So this, of course, is not an easy

00:05:44.780 thing for me to say, well, this is the one thing I don't like about the status quo. So I'm certainly

00:05:49.160 not brushing it off. I'm infuriated by it in a huge way. But other than that, make no mistake,

00:05:57.100 as long as this blockade is going on, as long as there's clearly chaos and confusion among what's

00:06:03.120 left of the leadership of Iran, Iran is only getting weaker. And their bargaining power

00:06:09.780 in the coming months and days will only get weaker every day. And so it makes sense for

00:06:15.360 president trump a lifelong negotiator a lifelong deal maker to look at the people across the table

00:06:21.120 from him at their deteriorating situation and just let the things play out and to his credit

00:06:27.720 president trump called out the iranian regime today denouncing these executions urging them

00:06:33.880 not to carry them out and we'll see if that gets it gets us anywhere all right 816 here on the east

00:06:40.400 Coast. This is the Stone Zone. I'm Jake Novak, in for Roger Stone, going to give you one more

00:06:45.260 check before we go to the break. And it continues to narrow this referendum in Virginia. They now

00:06:50.680 have 66 percent of the votes counted, and the margin in favor of the no voters, that's the

00:06:56.640 pro-Republican anti-redistricting vote, has now been whittled down to just 59,000. They have 51.4

00:07:04.300 percent of the vote is no. Forty eight point six percent of the vote is yes. It has been narrowing

00:07:10.060 by the minute. It is unclear whether those no votes and that lead will hold for them. We shall

00:07:15.260 see. We're going to come right back and talk more about the Iran situation and something and other

00:07:20.720 major breaking news items in the news, because there is something very big that happened.

00:07:23.980 And I'll be right back with that. It has to do with speak. Another thing in Virginia,

00:07:27.780 remember that unite the right rally in Charlottesville, those very fine people.

00:07:32.160 We had a very major big breakthrough in that story today, and I want to make sure you know about it.

00:07:36.900 We'll be right back.

00:07:38.120 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:07:41.780 He likes politics and he's a professional at the highest level.

00:07:46.540 Roger Stone.

00:07:47.720 Where's Roger?

00:07:48.240 so alan dershowitz is finally leaving the democratic party for real and registering as

00:08:02.300 a republican he didn't mince words when he explained why he was doing so in an editorial

00:08:06.980 in the wall street journal he says the democratic party has just become too anti-israel and too

00:08:11.540 anti-semitic but he made the point that he still supports a lot of democratic party ideals

00:08:16.780 Sorry, Alan, you're missing a little bit of the forest for the trees here. 0.59

00:08:20.660 Ever since the Democratic Party made it clear that it was throwing out the idea of meritocracy, that it would consider anyone who was a success an enemy, it was a highway to anti-Semitism that very day. 0.52

00:08:32.640 When was that? 50, 60 years ago?

00:08:35.060 The fact is, if you're in favor of affirmative action, DEI, or wanting to tax the rich all the time even more at a higher rate than everybody else, that means you're giving up on the idea that the Jews brought to the world, which is we're going to judge you by your good deeds, your bad deeds, and your ability, and nothing else. 0.59

00:08:53.560 Thanks for listening.

00:09:00.880 This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

00:09:04.380 Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.

00:09:08.460 Roger Stone was persecuted.

00:09:09.680 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.

00:09:12.820 Now, get him his own.

00:09:14.600 It's the Stone Zone.

00:09:16.640 Here's Roger Stone.

00:09:18.740 And I'm Jake Novak filling in for Roger Stone this evening.

00:09:21.800 Got our technical difficulties fixed up, and I appreciate your patience there.

00:09:26.160 Want to first give you the latest from Virginia because they're still counting the votes.

00:09:29.880 69% of the votes counted, and it's still getting closer by the minute.

00:09:34.480 Right now, the no, the votes against the redistricting,

00:09:39.720 these would be the votes that would be more favorable for Republicans,

00:09:42.900 the votes against the redistricting are leading the yes votes by 40,000 votes.

00:09:48.540 That's it, with 69% of the votes counted.

00:09:52.400 So this is still very much up in the air, very much too close to call.

00:09:58.140 But the votes are getting counted.

00:09:59.700 We're moving up in that percentage number. We'll see if we have to do some kind of shenanigans with absentee ballots, but I hope not.

00:10:07.840 I don't know if that's a major factor in this particular referendum, but there you have it.

00:10:12.160 It is basically about a two percentage point lead, but 40,000 votes.

00:10:17.620 That's all that separates the no's and the yes's for people who want to stop this redistricting.

00:10:22.360 They're voting no. The people in favor of voting yes.

00:10:25.080 Democrats are yes. Basically, Republicans are no, just so you have the little shorthand there.

00:10:28.800 Big story breaking today, the indictment of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which for many, many years has been acting as a far left radical organization, doxing and endangering anyone who isn't far leftists.

00:10:45.700 I can tell you for me, the SLPC, I lost, SPLC, I lost all respect for them about 15 years ago when they decided that Ayaan Hirsi, a woman born as a Muslim who was abused for many years in the Muslim community, converted away from Islam and became a critic of her community, they decided to label her as a hate monger because they know better.

00:11:08.480 I mean, just to me, that was the end for them. But the incredible accusations and indictment against the SPLC announced by the Justice Department today include this major shocker.

00:11:20.880 For those of you, maybe you're not shocked, but you but this is still a big story.

00:11:25.740 This indictment says that the SPLC funded and helped coordinate the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

00:11:33.580 Remember that? You heard me right. No, not the leftist rally, but the supposedly white supremacist rally.

00:11:40.860 I'm going to play for you what Attorney General Todd Blanche, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, had to say.

00:11:46.460 Listen to this.

00:11:49.260 Good afternoon.

00:11:51.660 Today, a few minutes ago, in the Middle District of Alabama, a grand jury returned an 11-count indictment

00:11:59.300 charging the Southern Poverty Law Center with six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank

00:12:05.760 fraud, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering. According to the charges in

00:12:12.400 the indictment, the SPLC is a non-profit entity that purports to fight white supremacy and racial

00:12:20.740 hatred by reporting on extremist groups and conducting research to inform law enforcement

00:12:25.320 groups with the goal of dismantling these groups. As the indictment describes, the SPLC was not

00:12:33.020 dismantling these groups. It was instead manufacturing the extremism it purports to

00:12:38.360 oppose by paying sources to stoke racial hatred. That, my friends, is a horrific, horrific

00:12:48.960 accusation. And I have to tell you, as someone who watched very closely that so-called Unite

00:12:56.040 the Right rally all those years ago, 2017, I'm not in the least bit shocked because the

00:13:02.940 whole thing was so fishy. Remember when we found out that the lead coordinator of the

00:13:08.060 Unite the Right rally had voted for Barack Obama? How did that make any sense? The whole

00:13:14.280 thing was just so fishy from the beginning. Now, apparently this grand jury has seen enough

00:13:20.140 evidence to hand down an indictment on this, several indictments. And another reason why I'm

00:13:27.260 not shocked about this, because remember, we saw so many hoax allegations, real hoax allegations

00:13:34.380 against President Trump and Trump supporters during the year of the election in 2016. And

00:13:41.880 then after he was elected. It turned out so many of them, I mean, it was the Jussie Smollett

00:13:46.060 movement in America. Phony accusations, one after the other.

00:13:53.620 And I'm just not shocked. But it doesn't tamp down my outrage any bit, not one bit.

00:14:02.800 All right, when we come back, we're going to hear from the real host of this program. Roger Stone's

00:14:06.260 going to be calling in, tell us what's going on in D.C. But before we go, 72% of the most counted

00:14:11.320 of Virginia. Right now, it's just a 27,000 vote lead for the no votes on that redistricting.

00:14:17.460 I'll get you updated when we come back.

00:14:32.860 This is the Stone Zone. Now, get in the zone. It's the Stone Zone.

00:14:38.800 A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong, and people love him.

00:14:46.340 Not everybody, but people love him and respect him.

00:14:48.800 Roger Stone. Where's Roger Stone?

00:14:51.100 Here's Roger Stone.

00:14:53.480 And I'm Jake Novak filling in for Roger Stone.

00:14:56.200 But we have Roger Stone on the phone right now.

00:14:59.780 And Roger, if you could just indulge me for one minute.

00:15:01.500 I just want to get everyone updated on that referendum in Virginia.

00:15:04.540 Seventy five percent of the votes counted. And right now, the no votes lead by fewer than thirty one thousand votes.

00:15:12.740 It is going to come down to the wire there. I will keep you updated as we go on.

00:15:16.820 But I understand, Roger, that you have been in Washington, D.C. in the last few days.

00:15:21.400 And what is going on? I mean, there's so much going on right there right now.

00:15:24.880 But I'm going to let you tell us what you think is the top the top scuttlebutt going on right now in our nation's capital.

00:15:31.080 Well, Jake, first of all, I want to congratulate you for being in the Stone Zone and for manning the fort while the president called me to Washington, D.C.

00:15:39.400 Of course, as soon as you get here, you're kind of sucked up by the vortex.

00:15:43.700 And therefore, I saw the president today for several hours to talk politics.

00:15:48.660 And some very monumental developments came from that.

00:15:54.180 I also saw Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

00:15:57.120 Of course, the entire time, the president is getting reports about the peace negotiations that are ongoing as he tries to wrap up this war.

00:16:05.240 But I must tell you, the president looked amazingly fit.

00:16:09.060 He looked very rested.

00:16:10.720 He was he was a bullion.

00:16:12.640 And of course, he's always warm with me.

00:16:14.700 We've been friends for 50 years.

00:16:16.700 He told Marco Rubio about how I first told him to run for president as early as 1988.

00:16:23.000 I saw the Trump magic before many.

00:16:27.120 And he wasn't ready by his own admission.

00:16:30.160 It was not the right time for him.

00:16:31.860 But we did take a historic trip to New Hampshire, and he kind of wanted to test drive the model, as it were.

00:16:40.520 I remember very distinctly because the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Chamber of Commerce had had Vice President George H.W. Bush the previous month.

00:16:50.180 He had about 500 people.

00:16:51.540 It was the largest dinner or lunch, I should say, that they'd ever had.

00:16:54.900 But there were over 1,500 people showed up to see Trump land in his black helicopter.

00:17:00.560 And it was vintage Trump.

00:17:02.120 I mean, I go back and I look at his speech in New Hampshire, and he talks about many of the same things he talks about today.

00:17:08.600 Our NATO allies ripping us off, not paying their fair share for the defense.

00:17:12.720 The lousy trade deals where, as the president said at the time, we send social workers, and they send their best and brightest, and the need to rebuild our national defense.

00:17:23.720 It's amazing how consistent Donald Trump has been, and he released an extraordinary endorsement today after our meeting.

00:17:33.860 The president made what the New York Post called a blockbuster endorsement in the Republican primary race to succeed the North Country Congresswoman, Elise Stefanik.

00:17:44.080 Elise Stefanik, a great American, in my opinion, a great Republican, somebody who was early for Donald Trump.

00:17:50.020 But the president threw his weight behind Anthony Constantino, who is an eccentric upstate entrepreneur, according to the New York Post, in his race against liberal Republican State Assemblyman Robert Smullen in this June primary.

00:18:05.140 The president said, quote, it is my great honor to endorse America's first patriot, Anthony Constantino, who's running to represent the fantastic people of New York's 21st district.

00:18:15.340 That's what the president said on the Truth Social.

00:18:21.240 He said, Anthony is strongly supported by many of our highly respected MAGA warriors in our movement,

00:18:26.120 such as Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Roger Stone.

00:18:29.780 Proud to say it.

00:18:30.780 I am a strong supporter of Anthony's.

00:18:32.940 Anthony has been such a great supporter, and people don't know this.

00:18:36.140 He put a large controversial sign on the roof of his printing company in Amsterdam, New York,

00:18:43.820 And the local Democrat mayor threatened to put him in jail.

00:18:47.380 Now, you would think that that's a First Amendment free speech issue.

00:18:51.500 But, of course, the local Democrats went completely and totally insane.

00:18:56.200 And that sign is still there, Jake.

00:18:59.440 And Anthony Constantino is paying a thousand dollar a day fine because he refuses to take the sign down.

00:19:06.240 That's three hundred and sixty five thousand dollars a year.

00:19:09.820 This is an epic endorsement.

00:19:12.020 It has upset the Republican establishment.

00:19:15.320 My good friend Ed Cox has thrown his support to Robert Smullin,

00:19:20.840 although Smullin was never really a Trump supporter.

00:19:24.100 The Conservative Party has endorsed him, but Smullin is not really a conservative.

00:19:28.680 He voted, for example, to recognize the Muslim holidays as official holidays in New York State. 1.00

00:19:36.040 He voted for some of this transgender nonsense. 1.00

00:19:38.580 It's very clear the president stands with those who stand with him. 1.00

00:19:42.300 This is an epic endorsement.

00:19:44.260 And, of course, it reverberated across the news today.

00:19:46.880 You know, Roger, we've got you here.

00:19:48.800 You have all of your experience as a strategist and as someone who understands the landscape.

00:19:55.580 What's your take on the midterms right now?

00:19:58.240 And are people making a mistake in saying that this Iran war is going to be the big key to the midterms?

00:20:03.960 I'm not on board with that. 0.99

00:20:07.160 Jake, I agree with you.

00:20:08.260 Look, the only thing predictable about Donald Trump is completely and totally unpredictable.

00:20:13.260 And therefore, the panicans, those who hit the panic button and assume that we are going to lose, don't understand, first of all, how volatile this electorate is,

00:20:22.180 how the underpinnings from the big, beautiful bill are the largest tax cut in American history, doing away with the tax on retirement, doing away with the tax on tips,

00:20:32.780 It's doing away with the tax on Social Security payments for 88 percent of the people.

00:20:37.800 So the underpinnings that I think very ably put in place by Secretary of the Treasury Scott Besson, who I think is one of the president's very best appointees.

00:20:47.960 And then there's the question of oil prices.

00:20:50.600 Now, John Katsimatidis, who is an oil man's oil man, did a great interview.

00:20:56.060 I played it in the stone zone.

00:20:57.180 It was so good where he basically pointed out that oil prices will come back down relatively quickly once this war is out of the way.

00:21:05.760 So I think Democrats are counting their chickens, as we used to say, far too early.

00:21:10.100 And for those who say, oh, the House is lost.

00:21:12.340 No, nothing is lost.

00:21:13.740 This entire thing is in play.

00:21:15.980 These results in Virginia are very encouraging.

00:21:18.500 Virginia used to be a reliably red state.

00:21:21.280 Then it has moved blue as the northern Virginia suburbs have become more and more liberal.

00:21:26.420 And as the Richmond suburbs have become more and more liberal, it is now a Democrat state.

00:21:31.520 The fact that Republicans are competitive today in this constitutional amendment regarding redistricting, congressional redistricting, where the Democrats want to take 10 congressional seats and leave the Republicans with two is very, very encouraging.

00:21:43.640 Now, it's not clear whether the Republicans will win tonight, but the fact that this is even close is very, very encouraging.

00:21:51.340 um you know again you know roger i talk a lot about how in the old days the tip o'neill maxim

00:21:58.800 all politics is local was always true but it was especially true of course in midterm elections we

00:22:03.940 don't really have actually there's no such thing as a national election in america at the best it's

00:22:07.820 state by state even our presidential elections are state by state that said um it does seem like

00:22:13.400 the democratic party the democrat party has moved away from that i have never seen a more central

00:22:18.440 office national party in this country than we see now it seems like the dnc controls everyone from

00:22:23.840 dog catcher up to governor in their party and i wonder how that i mean that can't play that great

00:22:30.360 in some of these midterm elections where you have to prove that you're for your district first

00:22:34.760 and and the party second i mean how is this even working for them no it really isn't because the

00:22:41.220 the term moderate democrat is an oxymoron their party has been taken over by a radical clique of

00:22:47.580 Marxist fanatics who want to push transgenderism as a key part of their agenda.

00:22:52.600 The truth is they don't have any agenda at all other than their hatred for Donald Trump.

00:22:56.780 Some would say their hatred for the country.

00:22:58.800 At the same time, Trump has secured the southern border like never before, achieving negative

00:23:03.560 net migration for the first time in 50 years, slashed the illegal border apprehensions by

00:23:08.520 over 95 percent, and he's removed 2.6 million illegal immigrants through very aggressive

00:23:14.840 deportation and self-deportation policies. 0.97

00:23:17.580 This is a win for the country.

00:23:20.040 Joe Biden's border policy was open borders,

00:23:23.040 and I think as many as 26 to 28 million illegals could be in the country.

00:23:27.540 We have no idea how many of them are terrorists, 0.92

00:23:30.120 how many of them are dangerous criminals.

00:23:32.700 The entire peace through strength policy,

00:23:36.140 these are the policies of Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan,

00:23:38.780 not the policies of the Bushes and the neocon Republicans.

00:23:43.440 The United States and Israel launched the decisive Operation Epic Fury, but no boots on the ground, not tens of thousands of American casualties.

00:23:53.420 We took advantage of our ballistic missile capabilities, and we attacked the terrorist proxies.

00:24:00.820 But it was a it was a very focused, very limited, but extraordinarily lethal and successful operation to date, following, of course, the the the Midnight Hammer, the first attack.

00:24:14.900 So the president, I think, has demonstrated that he will defend the country.

00:24:20.360 And he these policies, I think, are counting among the voters.

00:24:24.960 You know, it makes so little sense to me, Roger, as much as it would be reprehensible for people in a political party, in the opposition party, to try to make hay out of a losing war situation when there is so much justification for this war, that that would be bad enough.

00:24:43.020 But they're trying to make, you know, to take advantage of a war that we're winning.

00:24:47.200 I mean, the score is 126 to one.

00:24:49.100 I mean, they're literally going into the stands on the home side and saying, aren't you upset about this game that we're winning by 100 points?

00:24:54.960 I mean, it's just incredible the delusions that you have to go through to say that this is an actual good strategy for them.

00:25:02.940 Well, what's so odd is when the president would not act, they said that he backed down when, in fact, he was trying to give peace a chance.

00:25:10.420 Then when he did act, they said he was a warmonger.

00:25:12.560 So which is it?

00:25:13.700 I mean, the Democrats have no strategy other than their rabid opposition to the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln.

00:25:20.540 And I must tell you, Trump, he was in really fine form today.

00:25:24.280 When I came in, he was going over the designs for the D.C. waterfront, which he's going to completely transform into a showcase for America.

00:25:34.620 It was kind of Trump the developer. He said, I want stadium lights here. I want a tree line here. I want infinity stairs here.

00:25:43.220 No, move the restaurant over here. Move the amphitheater over here. 0.96

00:25:46.820 It really is Trump doing what he does best. And she said to me, he looked up and he said, you can never go wrong investing in waterfront property.

00:25:54.280 You know, I think it's great that you mentioned Lincoln and then you mentioned the other context because few people understand, and I know you know this as a historian and as well as I am, the – Abraham Lincoln, first of all, through most of the Civil War, he was doing all the strategy.

00:26:07.980 I mean it wasn't until he got Grant on board doing someone – finally someone to execute his strategy.

00:26:12.620 But he was doing a lot of other stuff during that war too, not the least of which being basically getting the whole transcontinental railroad going.

00:26:19.220 I mean, I know we didn't finish that project until four years after the war, but Lincoln was a – really, we haven't had a man this busy in the Oval Office at least since Lincoln. 0.99

00:26:29.620 And yet at the same time, talk about delusions, I'm seeing commercials out of the corner of my eye for that idiot George Conway talking about how the president is mentally unstable. 0.93

00:26:38.940 I mean, the guy – you had to have clarity in mind to be as busy as this man, Roger. 0.99

00:26:43.060 Well, and it's interesting that you talk about Conway. He's, of course, seeking the seat currently held by Congressman Gerald Nadler, probably one of the most liberal districts in the country. The Republican nominee, Lucian Wintrich, is an eccentric and very colorful figure. He's going to make this a race before it's over. The Democrats have to go through a primary. I believe he's got a Kennedy relative running there, a John Kennedy relative.

00:27:09.180 I'm watching that race very, very closely. Conway is essentially a clown who used to be used to call himself a conservative was in the federal society. But again, driven solely by his hatred for Donald Trump. And what they particularly hate is Trump's success. You would think that they would put the partisanship aside because they love the country, but they're so driven by hatred. It's not good for our country. And it is a huge concern. 0.83

00:27:36.720 Roger, I always say the one thing an arrogant man hates the most is another arrogant man. 0.80

00:27:42.540 And, you know, look, to be a president, to run for president, you need to have a certain level of cockiness and arrogance.

00:27:48.260 I don't see how that is really such a bad thing.

00:27:50.680 But if you can't put aside your personal sensitivities and self-importance, I mean, I know I'm asking a lot of politicians because that's really and bureaucrats and things like that.

00:28:01.120 But if you can't put it aside that for these incredibly tangible results, I'm sorry.

00:28:06.600 I mean, we have a stronger nation by so many different measures.

00:28:11.580 And I can understand that the Democrats are going to be deranged about this.

00:28:14.720 But for fellow Republicans who are just so arrogant to not be able to get on board, I mean, just take a moment here and join a team.

00:28:21.340 It's really it's frightening. You can only imagine what else is bothering these guys.

00:28:25.740 Yeah, you know, I think I posted this earlier in the week on my social media.

00:28:29.400 Our problem is not smart people who know they're smart. 1.00

00:28:32.820 Our problem are not dumb people who know they're dumb. 1.00

00:28:34.580 Our problem are dumb people who think they're smart. 0.99

00:28:38.140 Also, one of my other famous maxims is the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. 0.99

00:28:44.480 And the fact that I was in the Oval for two hours today, I was upset a lot of New York rhinos who were upset about the president's epic and historic endorsement of fellow businessman and entrepreneur Anthony Constantino.

00:28:58.520 This is historic. As the president said to Constantino on the phone, well, now you're going to be a congressman. 0.94

00:29:05.100 Well, that's amazing. You know, is this the answer, though, Roger, that we need to find we need to basically re-recruit this whole team?

00:29:12.360 It's kind of like almost like a sports team metaphor. We need to get rid of the entire roster.

00:29:17.240 And if there are some people on the roster currently who predate President Trump's presidency, the first one, I mean, obviously they can sort of, quote, reapply.

00:29:25.540 I mean, I understand. This is what Chuck Knoll did with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

00:29:28.540 He told the whole team in 1969, you're all basically fired, and I'll reconsider some of you to come back.

00:29:34.640 I mean, is this really kind of what we needed to do in the Republican Party?

00:29:38.480 I think this is a new Republican Party.

00:29:40.560 The Republican Party used to be the party of the wealthy, the elite, the country clubs, Wall Street.

00:29:45.520 That is no longer true.

00:29:46.700 We are the party of working-class Americans.

00:29:48.660 We're the party of the hard-pressed American taxpayer.

00:29:52.500 And I think the Democrats are now the party of the wealthy elite.

00:29:56.320 So I think you have a complete juxtaposition here.

00:29:58.980 You have a realignment in which sane Democrats like Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the former Democrat, Tulsi Gabbard, who, by the way, had an incredible week.

00:30:08.680 This week, she declassified all the documents that proved that the two impeachments of Donald Trump were a hoax.

00:30:14.680 The entire thing was contrived.

00:30:17.420 And the real question I think many Republicans are asking is whether it's Russian collusion, which has now been completely exposed by Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, or whether it is the two fake impeachments.

00:30:29.000 Is anybody going to be held accountable?

00:30:31.720 Were the people who tried to destroy Donald Trump and his family, tried to destroy me, tried to destroy my good friend Mike Flynn, tried to destroy Rudy Giuliani?

00:30:39.760 Will these people be held accountable?

00:30:41.820 Do we have a two-tier justice system?

00:30:43.660 It was there one set of rules for leftist Democrats and a different set of rules for supporters of the president.

00:30:49.520 That, I think, and the issue of election integrity, people want to know about the 2020 election.

00:30:55.060 I'm sorry, but the idea that Joe Biden, who is a virtual vegetable in diapers, who is heavily sedated through much of his presidency, won 81 million votes and got on average 20 percent more in the African-American precincts across urban America is just not credible.

00:31:12.660 People want to know about that these are paper ballots that dropped in the middle of the night.

00:31:16.220 People want to know about whether these electronic voting machines are secure or whether they can be hacked and manipulated.

00:31:23.200 The president has put Tulsi Gabbard on that mission, and we shall learn the truth very soon.

00:31:28.420 Roger, I want to thank you so much for joining us.

00:31:30.680 I have some bad news to pass along, though, at least according to the AP.

00:31:34.700 The AP is now calling this referendum vote in favor of the yes votes by a very small – only 81 percent of the votes have been counted, but they're calling it now, now that the yes votes have taken a 14,000 vote.

00:31:47.220 It just flipped. It was 14,000 for the no's, and it flipped over. Again, this is going to be challenging the courts, though, right, Roger? I mean, this isn't a done deal.

00:31:55.320 Yeah, I think the manner in which they put it on the ballot is probably illegal and unconstitutional, so I think it will be challenged.

00:32:01.540 But, look, the Democrats will cheat any place they can.

00:32:05.000 The truth is they're already gerrymandering, you know, California, Illinois, a number of states.

00:32:13.040 It'll be very interesting to see what happens in Florida this week.

00:32:16.260 Florida is ready for a congressional redistricting.

00:32:18.680 You could get up to five new Republican-leaning seats in the Sunshine State

00:32:23.760 if the Republicans will stick to their agenda and have the courage to do it.

00:32:28.320 Democrats have no problem with grabbing these congressional districts.

00:32:32.440 I think Florida, which used to be a purple state, you now have a 1.3 million Republican registration advantage in Florida.

00:32:41.480 And, of course, many New Yorkers are fleeing the policies of Zoran Mamdami and Kathy Hochul because you have a high tax, high crime state in New York.

00:32:50.960 People are moving to the Sunshine State.

00:32:53.360 Before I let you go, what's going to happen in the governor's race?

00:32:55.920 Does Byron Donalds have this thing wrapped up or no?

00:32:59.660 I think that he's got $60 million in the bank, which is extraordinary.

00:33:04.060 He has the strong endorsement of Donald Trump.

00:33:06.600 He will not be defeated in the Republican primary.

00:33:09.020 The lieutenant governor, who's not a bad guy, is running at about 3%.

00:33:12.920 Donalds is in the high 50s.

00:33:15.160 So I think he easily rolls to the nomination.

00:33:18.280 And the problem here with the Democrats is they have no candidates.

00:33:21.100 So the party of Ruben Askew, the party of moderate Democrats, can no longer produce a moderate.

00:33:30.200 They have a former Republican congressman who's now a lobbyist seeking the Democratic nomination.

00:33:35.380 They have a corrupt former mayor of Orange County, that's Orlando.

00:33:40.740 These are really weak nominees.

00:33:42.740 So I think Byron Donald rolls to this nomination, and then Donald Trump helps put him over the top in the fall.

00:33:49.680 Roger Stone, thank you so much for calling, and thank you for lending me the mic this evening.

00:33:54.300 We'll hear from you soon, and thanks for all your insider information, what was going on.

00:33:59.220 You were more than a fly on the wall.

00:34:01.760 You were an active participant in the Oval Office today, so thank you so much for that.

00:34:05.660 Well, it's delightful to be on the most powerful radio station in America and the best radio show in the country, the Stone Zone.

00:34:13.920 Thank you so much.

00:34:14.740 All right, we're going to take a break, and I will give you again a little bit more of those disheartening results, in my opinion, from Virginia.

00:34:20.680 We'll be right back.

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