After spending a week in Washington, D.C., Roger Stone gives a detailed account of his visit to the White House and gives details of his meetings with President Donald Trump and other officials. He also talks about the recent ceasefire between Iran and the United States and talks about his trip to the National Museum of American History.
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00:00:30.000this is the stone zone with roger stone people love him and respect him roger stone
00:00:46.960now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone
00:00:52.980It is so good to be back in the Stone Zone after spending almost a week in Washington, D.C.
00:01:03.100I want to thank Jake Novak for very capably stepping in here and hosting the show,
00:01:08.320but I've been able to call in and give minute-to-minute reports on my visits to the Oval Office
00:01:14.840and the general tenor of things in Washington, D.C.
00:01:19.240When I went in to see the president, I guess it was Wednesday, although I was there a couple days,
00:01:25.340he was in the middle of a meeting with Doug Burgum, the Secretary of the Interior,
00:01:30.420and about four or five suits from the Interior Department.
00:01:34.860And there were on easels, there were all of these renderings of the Washington, D.C. waterfront.
00:01:41.180and spread across the president's desk
00:06:24.860But he is dead serious about the fact that he believes at this point
00:06:30.420Having the Straits of Hormuz closed is actually a good thing for us0.99
00:06:33.940Because others, including the Iranians themselves, need to get their oil through there0.97
00:06:39.680The U.S. has really increased exceptionally the military pressure under the orders of the Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, including orders to attack Iranian vessels.
00:06:52.200The Iranians have seized some ships and threatened to keep the straits closed, but it is, as you know, a huge global oil source.
00:07:00.420Earlier peace talks that were brokered by the Pakistanis and others essentially have collapsed.
00:07:06.720This escalation makes the deal less likely, I guess, in the short term.
00:07:10.920The internal politics in Iran, however, are complicating things.
00:07:14.040Hardline figures, like some of the military leadership tied to the Republican Guard,
00:07:21.000are reportedly blocking any kind of compromise and pushing a hardline stance.
00:07:25.660So the bottom line is we still don't have a finalized peace deal right now.
00:07:45.160If you're a political junkie like me, there was a hyper-partisan redistricting measure
00:07:49.640which was put on the ballot as a constitutional amendment in Virginia,
00:07:54.840which very narrowly passed in a move that was likely, if it had succeeded,
00:07:59.260to give Democrats more congressional representation in this year's midterms.
00:08:03.340They basically wanted to take what was a 6 to 5 balance of Democrats to Republicans and turn it into a lopsided 10 to 1 Democrat advantage.
00:08:18.340Now, the reason that that's interesting is that the Republicans waged virtually no effort whatsoever while Democrats worked hard, and it was extraordinarily close.
00:08:26.680That's a good sign in what is now a reliably blue state.0.90
00:08:32.440What makes the whole thing particularly controversial is their governor, Abigail Spanberger.1.00
00:08:41.020She's, of course, a former CIA officer.
00:08:44.940And she said during the camp repeatedly during the campaign for governor last year that she had no plans to redistrict.
00:08:51.560And then she turned around and led this movement that undermines voter confidence and really disproportionately sidelines the more rural communities of Virginia.
00:09:01.200Even more concerning was the ballot language itself, which may have violated state law by framing the proposal as, quote, restoring fairness.
00:09:09.780Who would vote against that? A phrase that is biased and meant to influence voters in itself.
00:09:15.480This is why in states like Florida, the ballot language has to be approved by the Supreme Court before any such question can on the ballot to do away with that ballot wording bias.
00:09:26.220Of course, Democrats look the other way as they work diligently to secure their power grab.
00:09:30.640Currents maps already closely reflect the voter preferences.
00:09:37.660But now, in a new development, a Virginia court stepped in to halt this deceptively worded referendum that passed last Tuesday.
00:09:46.760That gives immense political power to the Democrats if it passes.
00:09:49.800In a decisive ruling, Tazewell Circuit Court Judge Jack Hurtley blocked the state from certifying the results of the redistricting referendum that very narrowly passed on April 21st.
00:10:01.540The court found that the process behind the referendum violated multiple state laws.
00:10:06.720According to the ruling, for example, allowing certification would cause harm, particularly Republican lawmakers, by legitimizing what was an unlawful process.
00:13:37.340People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
00:13:40.240Now, get in the zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone.
00:13:46.920And we're back in the Stone Zone, the most exciting and I think influential political radio talk show in America today, right here on the Red Apple Audio Network.
00:13:57.920President Donald Trump actually heroically secured a last minute reversal from Iran that spared the lives of eight women facing execution.
00:14:05.460In a statement, President Trump confirmed that Iran had halted the planned executions.
00:14:11.080Four of the women will be released immediately, while the remaining four will remain to serve short one-month prison sentences.
00:14:18.560A massive shift from what had been expected.
00:14:21.380The women, identified by human rights advocates, were reportedly targeted for protesting against the regime.
00:14:28.020See, as people don't see how brutal this regime is,
00:14:31.000they killed in the streets as many as 46,000 of their own citizens who were merely protesting.
00:14:38.500But when you don't have food, that's a big motivator. The case quickly gained international
00:14:43.860attention, where once again President Donald Trump called on Iran to stand down, this time
00:14:49.760through his truth social account. This instance just shows how President Trump's approach to Iran
00:14:55.200is working towards bringing that country back to sanity. Other world leaders would attempt
00:15:01.320appeasement, but Donald Trump's approach to making clear demands backed by pressure
00:15:05.360has delivered immediate results. It's kind of interesting to me. It was a day before yesterday,
00:15:11.3001994, that President Nixon, my mentor, passed away. And not since the days of Nixon and
00:15:18.580Kissinger have we had a president who used not only focused American military power,
00:15:24.320but also economic leverage as well as diplomacy to try to move foreign policy forward.
00:15:32.120Trump is indeed playing 5D chess while the Chinese and the Ukrainians are playing checkers.
00:15:40.160This administration has made it clear that it will not rush into weak agreements0.66
00:15:44.080and refuses to lose focus on the entire goal of stopping Iran's ability to enrich enough uranium to make nuclear bombs.
00:15:51.640They actually bragged about this at the negotiation tables during the first Pakistan hearings.
00:16:00.300Vice President J.D. Vance himself told me that they said that they may have enough enriched uranium
00:19:08.060As I said earlier, the Department of Justice has filed sweeping criminal charges against the far-left agitators of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that had portrayed itself as a watchdog against extremism, but in actuality was anything but.
00:19:25.020See, the federal indictment issued by Attorney General Todd Blanche, the acting attorney general, actually, shows the SPLC included six counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, and one count of money laundering.
00:19:38.840The charges stem from allegations that the Southern Poverty Law Center secretly paid individuals tied to extremist groups, including white supremacists, to promote and amplify racial tensions.
00:19:51.600Federal prosecutors say the organization spent millions of dollars on so-called field sources,
00:19:57.100some of whom were deeply embedded into groups like the Ku Klux Klan and other neo-Nazi organizations.
00:20:02.600In one glaring example, an individual connected to the planning of the 2017 Charlottesville rally,
00:20:10.000where violence left one person dead, was allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars over several years.
00:20:15.900So this indictment claims that those paid sources actively promoted extremist activity, while the SPLC publicly condemned it, raising serious questions about whether the group was manufacturing threats for their own financial gain.
00:20:31.700Perhaps most troubling officials said that the SPLC never disclosed these payments to law enforcement, despite representing themselves as trusted sources of intelligence that work to train federal officials.
00:20:45.040This case, filed by the Trump Justice Department, will now move forward in federal court,
00:20:49.620where the organization will have to answer for what critics have long suspected,
00:20:53.320that it is a widely circulated hate map that they put out,
00:20:57.120and public accusations may have been built on deeply flawed and most likely completely false information.
00:21:04.680The threat of white supremacy in America has always been a red herring.
00:21:08.640The real racism coming from against white people, I think,
00:21:11.620as we saw during the Black Lives Matter programs of the 2020 era.
00:21:17.300It's time to lock up the leadership of the Southern Poverty Law Center once and all0.66
00:21:23.520As I told President Donald Trump when I met with him,
00:21:26.100Republicans have a real problem in U.S. Congressman Corey Mills.
00:21:30.060Corey Mills has lied to the president,
00:21:33.880went around the White House political operation,
00:21:36.440very ably led by James Blair, the deputy assistant to the president.
00:21:41.360I think he recently resigned to go on the outside and run the $5 billion effort to win the 2026 elections.
00:21:48.260But the very able James Blair, a good friend, to the White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.
00:21:56.540But Mills went around that process, calling the president directly in order to secure an endorsement for his re-election.
00:22:04.920He specifically lied to President Trump, who asked him whether there was a restraining order in place filed by an ex-girlfriend.
00:22:14.340Information has now come out that shows that Congressman Mills, as a matter of fact, lied to President Trump in a desperate attempt to save his own hide.
00:22:22.540In fact, in a decision made in the 3rd District Court of Florida, an injunction for protection against violence was filed on behalf of a former Miss USA, Lindsay Langston.
00:22:34.160which he filed against Mills. The injunction was approved by Judge Fred Koberlein Jr. and remained
00:22:41.320in effect until January 1st of this year, preventing Mills from committing any acts of
00:22:46.020domestic violence and stopping him from being within 500 feet of his victim. Why would he lie
00:22:51.940to the President of the United States about this? The case centers on Mills and Langston whose
00:22:57.140relationship, I think, lasted about a year before it started to deteriorate. That would have been
00:23:02.1602025. In court filings, Langston accused Mills of threatening to release explicit revenge-born
00:23:09.200material of her in an attempt to coerce her silence over alleged abuse, providing screenshots
00:23:16.280of text messages that indicated that all that was true. Langston also accused Mills of controlling
00:23:22.320and intimidating behavior, as well as repeated the unwanted contact after the relationship
00:23:27.280had ended. The court found sufficient evidence that there was a credible threat or fear on
00:23:34.280Langston's part for her safety and granted her the temporary restraining order that Mills very
00:23:39.440specifically lied to the president about when he said it didn't exist. This is far from an isolated
00:23:45.400example for Mills, who is a diminutive little character who poses as a tough guy. He's falsified
00:23:53.140his military record as well. He's been dogged by a variety of depraved and reprehensible scandals
00:24:00.160almost too bizarre to be believed. The sheer incredulousness of his offenses seems to be how
00:24:05.140Mills hopes to survive despite a resume of skullduggery that puts him among the most loathsome
00:24:11.340reprobates ever to serve in Congress. In the most recent publicized event caught on video
00:24:19.160from February 2025, Iranian-American activist Sarah Raviani, another girlfriend of Mills,
00:24:26.360called law enforcement at 4.30 in the morning in Washington, D.C. to report that she had been
00:24:31.100assaulted. Raviani told Officer Richard Malzoum that Mills had become very abusive during an
00:24:38.780altercation, grabbed her, shoved her, and then forced her out of his apartment. Officers saw
00:24:43.960Raviani with bruises on her arms and marks near her face that were consistent with a physical
00:24:49.860altercation. Raviani, crying while recounting her story, said she wanted the instances
00:24:55.920documented so it doesn't happen to anyone else. At that point, the police officer believed there
00:25:01.740was probable cause for arrest. While still with the police, Ms. Raviani received a phone call.
00:25:07.380After getting on the phone, Raviani quickly began to change her story with the officers,0.61
00:25:12.060believing that she did so after being coerced by Mills himself.
00:25:16.620She told officers that he wants me to say that the injuries came from a vacation
00:25:24.280Then Raviani claimed that both she and Corey Mills were physical during the altercation
00:25:29.400yet stating contradictorily that she did not quite remember what happened
00:25:33.660because she was too drunk and that the testimony she gave previously was issued under duress.
00:25:41.260Officer Malzum was not convinced about Raviotti's story and wished to arrest Corey Mills, the congressman from Florida's 7th District, as the injuries and the initial statement met the legal criteria for arrest.
00:25:55.480Mills was warned that he could be placed in handcuffs and that they were legally obliged to arrest him as they prepared to transport the congressman to be formally charged.
00:26:04.540Mills expressed concern that the situation could be weaponized against him politically,
00:26:10.060fearing that he could be held accountable for his violent, degenerate behavior.
00:26:14.580This is when a supervising lieutenant intervened, classifying the incident as a family disturbance,
00:26:19.960although Mills and Raviani were not even related.
00:26:24.580The Metropolitan Police Department formally requested an arrest warrant for Mills the next day,
00:26:28.900but the prosecutor refused to sign it and no warrant was ever issued.
00:26:32.660Now, Cory Mills is fighting a move by Nancy Mace and Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna, one of my favorites, to expel him from the House.
00:26:43.500If we are going to hold Eric Swalwell, the degenerate congressman, a former congressman now from California, for his behavior, then as Republicans, I think we have to be consistent.
00:26:56.320In addition to the serial abuse behavior against women, Mills was already subject to an inquiry in the U.S. House Ethics Committee.
00:27:06.120This is not your typical deep state witch hunt, but rather a legitimate investigation on whether Mills' unethical business endeavors are serious.
00:27:15.080Mills is accused of improperly benefiting financially from serving in Congress,
00:27:19.320failing to disclose key financial information and maintaining conflicts of interest tied to government contracts.
00:27:28.000Before entering Congress, Mills had founded and led Pachem Defense,
00:27:32.280a supplier of defense and security equipment, including such as selling rubber bullets to the Chinese Communist police
00:27:39.000that are oppressing the people in Hong Kong.
00:27:42.080Well, his firm has frequently done business with U.S. government agencies and foreign governments, a clear conflict of interest.
00:27:49.540But after Mills entered Congress, reports have indicated that companies connected to him continue to receive federal contracts estimated to be worth millions of dollars.
00:28:01.860Members of Congress are not only out like banned from owning businesses, but it is illegal to derive direct financial benefit from federal contracts.
00:28:10.300Pretty clear that's what Corey Mills did here.
00:28:14.380These situations create a conflict between public duty and private gain.
00:28:19.160Mills' activity potentially puts him in violation of 18 U.S.C. dash 431-432, as well as House rules.
00:28:28.020Investigators are examining whether Mills divested properly or whether he's obtained secret indirect financial benefits from these contracts.
00:28:36.520Now, the reason this is so important, of course, is that the Republicans currently have but a three-seat margin.
00:28:44.100The 7th District of Florida is a leans Republican, but it is not a deep red district.
00:28:52.340And if Corey Mills is the Republican candidate, the Democrats know everything I said, just said,
00:28:58.560not to mention questions about the shady financing of his campaigns
00:29:03.480and whether he, in fact, lied about receiving a Browns Star Medal.
00:29:09.100Mills was swept into Congress initially based on this alleged history as some kind of war hero.
00:29:14.800He did, in fact, serve in the U.S. Army from 1999 to 2003,
00:29:19.420claims that he received a bronze medal,
00:29:21.460but his fellow veterans attest that Mills' stories of his bravery
00:29:25.920and about his service have been largely exaggerated or outlawed forklifts.
00:29:30.680Mills claims that he helped evacuate hundreds of wounded soldiers while under enemy file.
00:29:36.100The problem is that none of those soldiers seem to remember that story.
00:29:42.240So this is a real problem for Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump
00:29:46.120because many in the House will not vote to expel Mills
00:29:51.380despite the fact that Congresswoman Nancy Mace of South Carolina
00:32:43.680The diminutive congressman from Florida needs to throw in the towel, and if not, well, then I call on Speaker Mike Johnson to call the question and expel him.
00:32:56.180This is becoming a flashpoint for the Republican Party.
00:32:59.260I've sent a research package on Corey Mills to every single Republican member of Congress by email.
00:33:05.440It was a massive project. I got a lot of help from my staff on that.
00:33:09.080And I'm going to keep talking about this until they throw him out the way we threw Eric Swalwell out.
00:33:15.080You're listening to Roger Stone right here on The Stone Zone, and we'll be right back.
00:33:20.480This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:33:24.060And he's a great, great person, Roger Stone.
00:34:21.760Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that the Justice Department
00:34:25.000will reclassify state-licensed marijuana from a Schedule I drug,
00:34:30.300where it currently is along substances like heroin that have no medicinal benefit,
00:34:35.560to the far less restrictive Schedule III category.
00:34:39.780Now, back in 2017, right after Trump was elected,
00:34:43.240I formed, with a number of others, the United States Cannabis Coalition
00:34:47.640to advocate for exactly this, and the president is now doing it.
00:34:52.740You see, the war on drugs, as it was first launched by President Richard Nixon,
00:34:57.340was focused at drug dealers and drug traffickers and drug kingpins,
00:35:02.240Whereas the 1994 crime bill, written by crazy Joe Biden, then chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and signed into law by Bill Clinton, essentially targeted the end user.
00:35:17.240So, in other words, you would get a harsh mandatory sentence for the first time, nonviolent crime of possessions of small amounts of drugs for personal use.
00:35:28.220This law has fallen disproportionately on people of color.
00:35:35.060I think it is indeed racist, and it is about time that we had reform.
00:35:40.220Now, Donald Trump, as president, formed the First Step Act and the Second Chance Act,
00:35:45.400the two most significant pieces of criminal justice reform since the Civil War.
00:35:51.480But members of the Congressional Black Caucus, all of whom had actually supported this, voted against it simply because it was proposed and passed by Donald Trump.
00:36:03.700This new decision should also help lawful marijuana businesses in states that have been legalized to have more access to banking services, which is crucial, as these businesses have now become trusted sources of revenue to fund services such as roads, fire, and police.
00:36:22.340The change in marijuana law will allow doctors and researchers to better study marijuana's safety and effectiveness, opening the doors to more informed medical choices for patients.
00:36:33.240I myself became a believer when my dad was dying of cancer,
00:36:37.380and he was a pretty chubby fellow, but once his appetite was gone,
00:36:42.680he withered down to about 145 pounds, and he was in horrific pain.
00:36:48.020I knew that the opioids the doctors were giving him were doing more damage than good,