The StoneZONE with Roger Stone

00:00:00.000 this is the stone zone with roger stone people love him and respect him roger stone now get

00:00:17.220 in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone and you're back in the stone zone with me

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00:00:33.480 republicans and democrats and just about everybody else president donald trump made it clear sunday

00:00:40.420 that he would not be following joe biden's practice of celebrating indigenous people's day

00:00:46.600 alongside columbus day in october i'm bringing back columbus day from the ashes said president

00:00:53.820 trump on true social the democrats did everything possible to destroy christopher columbus

00:00:59.620 his reputation and of all of the italian americans that love him so much they tore down his statues

00:01:06.920 put up nothing but woke or even worse nothing at all well you'll be happy to know that christopher

00:01:13.560 is going to be making a major comeback i am hereby reinstating columbus day under the same rules

00:01:20.540 dates and locations as it has had for all the many decades before it was the lynching of 11 italian

00:01:28.500 american immigrants in new orleans in 1891 that led to the first columbus day celebration in the united

00:01:34.760 states which was declared by president benjamin harrison president franklin roosevelt designated

00:01:41.480 columbus day as a national holiday in 1934 president trump has long complained about democrats tearing

00:01:49.580 down statues of columbus in 2020 trump's administration paid to restore a statue in baltimore

00:01:56.500 maryland that was dumped in the harbor during protests against the police murder of george floyd

00:02:02.900 in minneapolis joining me now to talk about it is my friend mike crispy mike welcome to the stone zone

00:02:11.320 roger an honor to be with you great to be back and it's been great 100 days under president trump and

00:02:17.340 this columbus day news was just another cherry on top of what's been an amazing ride so far

00:02:22.020 it is mike i invited you because you are one of the founders of the italian american civil rights league

00:02:30.300 that is a non-profit organization you can find it at iacrl.org you and i are both affiliates

00:02:40.340 it is a non-profit with no overhead everybody involved is a volunteer but our specific purpose

00:02:48.180 is to preserve italian american culture and the proud heritage of italian americans who have

00:02:55.400 contributed mightily to the greatness of this nation so i think the president's action today is very much

00:03:02.080 in keeping uh with uh the principles and mission of the italian american civil rights league

00:03:08.960 now 100 you know president trump had said over the course of the campaign trail several times that he

00:03:14.800 would save columbus day he made that distinction very clear and we were running in the race in the

00:03:19.340 2024 election with kamala harris and tim waltz candidates on the democrat side who said that they

00:03:24.560 wanted to abolish columbus day get rid of every statue and create indigenous people's day far and wide 0.98

00:03:30.060 so president trump made that promise he actually had a phenomenal performance in all of the major

00:03:35.660 italian counties uh in the united states all the top 10 italian american counties uh there was a shift

00:03:41.620 to the right by three to eight points in each of those respective counties so president trump has a

00:03:46.960 great base of support with italian americans for years to come roger this was a great move by him

00:03:51.780 and i'm looking forward to this columbus day under his presidency uh mike tell us about your show

00:03:56.980 because your show is red hot and uh i don't want anyone to miss it well thank you roger so um on

00:04:04.400 real america's voice tv our last call with mike crispy uh we're having a good time on weekends now you

00:04:09.880 know we're celebrating the golden age of america so we have a show on saturday nights it's a little

00:04:14.600 bit fun but it's obviously very entertaining and uniquely uh you know fast paced and hard hitting

00:04:20.960 we have that italian american energy going on and it's been really great we've been doing it for a

00:04:25.960 month on real america's voice a channel that you know many people know and we have great people who

00:04:30.500 come on great panelists and you know we're trying to cover um president trump's first 100 days and

00:04:35.840 then his four years subsequent uh while celebrating the successes uh laughing at the peril of the leftist

00:04:42.620 and also giving people a fun uh new alternative to watch on saturday night when the leftist put out

00:04:49.000 their mindless content they can now watch last call and they can get informed and get entertained and

00:04:54.500 never been a funner way to spend your weekend so we look forward to having you on soon roger

00:04:58.320 i appreciate that uh so mike let's talk some new jersey politics because uh you made a valiant and

00:05:06.220 very strong race for congress two years ago i know many many republicans conservatives maga supporters

00:05:13.680 are urging you to take another stab at it on the other hand you're a you're a young man you have a

00:05:20.600 great future you're building a very very substantial media following i think anybody who is paying

00:05:27.680 attention really credits you beyond president trump himself of course with the president's incredibly

00:05:34.120 strong showing in the garden state in the last election i mean new jersey was not a targeted state

00:05:40.840 the trump campaign candidly wisely uh sent their their funds to targeted swing states that were

00:05:49.960 absolutely crucial to the president's victory in no one's count were new jersey's electoral votes

00:05:57.800 counted in the 270 likely for donald trump yet the president ran incredibly strongly uh in the garden

00:06:05.500 state i think that is due very much to the grassroots shoe leather effort that you and others in new jersey put

00:06:13.300 forward you know it was pretty amazing because they were trying to kick president trump off the ballot in new

00:06:19.760 jersey in january of 2024 and we formed our group the america first republicans in new jersey out of

00:06:25.680 that fight we said they're not going to kick off president trump uh from the ballot this guy is

00:06:31.000 extremely popular in new jersey and that actually kicked off a 32 stop rally tour that we held from

00:06:37.860 january all the way up until november um holding events for president trump's campaign all around the

00:06:44.220 state we would be in the most red counties we'd be in the most blue areas such as newark

00:06:49.400 and no matter where we went roger we would have over 100 to 300 people coming out to learn how to get

00:06:55.580 involved we didn't have any fancy speakers or guests or anything like that it was just grassroots

00:07:00.720 patriots coming together whenever we had an event to talk about the future of new jersey and talk about

00:07:06.480 what we could do together to maximize the output for president trump so 32 events uh we got 2 000

00:07:12.680 volunteers signed up we did 1.5 million voter contacts through uh text digital and door knocking

00:07:19.180 all throughout the state and president trump obviously had a historic rally in new jersey in

00:07:23.840 wildwood where he had 107 000 people they said that was perhaps his biggest or one of the biggest

00:07:29.860 rallies that he had all 2024 campaign season long so nobody was expecting it in new jersey you know he

00:07:36.360 had lost the state uh in 2016 and 2020 uh by 16 points both times this time only losing it by five

00:07:43.220 and a half it shows that he has totally changed the whole paradigm in this state and he has set it up

00:07:48.840 for the future for it to turn red i think that's gonna be a big part of president trump's legacy

00:07:53.480 in the garden state in the future that he changed this state and i think in the future 2028 and beyond

00:08:00.080 we can flip it red that's going to be thanks to the groundwork uh that president trump put in

00:08:04.740 awaking so many of the masses and obviously our volunteers and helping spread that message

00:08:08.500 uh looks to me mike like you may have a uh presidential candidate from new jersey uh senator cory booker a

00:08:17.740 former mayor of newark whose last campaign for president uh fizzled badly uh seems to have kicked off

00:08:26.540 his campaign uh first he gave a a filibuster on the u.s senate speaking for 24 hours plus

00:08:34.420 breaking the previous record uh which was held i think in 1958 by senator j strom thurmond uh and i

00:08:43.000 noticed uh that while he did have a lot to say the one thing he did not address is why as the mayor of

00:08:51.180 newark uh he received a two hundred thousand dollar payment from the new york city water authority

00:08:58.320 essentially called watershed uh that went immediately to his law firm and from his law firm

00:09:04.940 to his pocket now when he was confronted by those very few souls in the new jersey media who are not

00:09:15.440 in the tank uh about how this was possible uh then mayor booker said well uh i am an ex-officio member

00:09:24.060 of the board of the watershed authority but i wasn't present and i didn't vote to award the money

00:09:30.640 to my own law firm the problem is that i dug up the official minutes and they show him present and

00:09:37.660 voting yes two of the top officials of the water authority went to prison but cory booker went to

00:09:45.600 the u.s senate uh will he face this kind of scrutiny if he runs for president well you know roger you're

00:09:52.820 one of the first people to blow it out in the open with your book that you wrote about cory booker

00:09:57.280 spartacus as we call him in new jersey and i believe that cory booker uh right now is totally setting up

00:10:03.100 to run for president the stunt that you mentioned with 24 hours and then there's that footage of him

00:10:07.900 uh over the weekend sitting on the steps he was sitting on the steps for 10 hours

00:10:11.800 on washington dc outside the capitol or something like that and he was talking about what a courageous

00:10:16.740 effort he was undertaking him and hakeem jeffries so this is what a democrat on the rise looks like

00:10:21.860 i like our chances for 2028 he's not going to have an easy time i don't think he's going to be top

00:10:28.000 five when it's all said and done in the democrat nominations there's a lot more candidates that

00:10:32.240 have a lot more money and frankly a lot more political savvy and skill and a little bit smarter

00:10:36.760 than cory booker so he's going to try uh but he's going to fail and our two senators in new jersey have

00:10:42.300 been just an utter disgrace andy kim and cory booker every single time they're the loudest mouths 0.96

00:10:48.140 who are inhibiting progress to this country whether it be speaking in favor of illegal immigrants or

00:10:54.260 speaking in favor of tanking the economy these people don't want america to be made great they're

00:11:00.480 the biggest loudmouth cronies of the left and cory booker is going to go no place uh when he

00:11:06.120 inevitably declares his candidacy look forward to seeing him flop yeah i i saw him on the steps of

00:11:12.640 the capitol candidly looks like he's put on a few pounds uh so here's another question for you mike

00:11:18.860 the other u.s senator who was forced to resign senator menendez this was his second brush with

00:11:26.540 the law but now convicted of far worse than bribery convicted of taking national security information

00:11:33.980 and leaking it to a foreign enemy uh putting american lives in danger uh accepting gold bars along with

00:11:43.180 his wife uh it is rumored uh that he or some of his supporters are furiously uh lobbying president

00:11:53.260 trump for a pardon either for himself or his wife separately there's a rumor that the gentleman who

00:12:00.080 actually bribed the senator is also lobbying for a pardon should the president consider

00:12:07.060 pardoning any of these people absolutely not absolutely not we have a rule law in this country

00:12:12.980 uh the democrats for the last decade have totally flaunted it they have made a joke quite frankly

00:12:18.420 the rule of law and anytime there is any exercise of power they've used it against innocent

00:12:23.660 conservatives so when a democrat does something illegal which many of them have over the last decade

00:12:29.420 they usually don't face any consequence the reason that menendez was caught red-handed

00:12:34.140 is because his crimes were so egregious egotistical and out there that it was right there in everybody's

00:12:40.940 face i goes to show you the status of the modern day leftists and democrats is that they think they

00:12:46.280 can get away with anything so bob menendez dead to right him his wife the one who was uh paying off 0.56

00:12:52.740 the bribe you know these people operated like an organized crime racket and menendez quite frankly

00:12:58.140 it's treasonous activity i mean putting the interest of foreign countries over the interest

00:13:03.100 of america which he very much is guilty of when you read through the case in the file i mean that's

00:13:08.480 horrible that is the exact opposite of what we elect our members of congress to do we elect them

00:13:14.520 to advocate at the very least even though they have a different worldview of us to advocate for the

00:13:19.340 people of the state in the country menendez is such an egregious case because everything he did

00:13:24.780 was to advocate for essentially foreign countries uh and that's where that money was coming from it

00:13:30.500 was to advocate for the interest of the egyptians over the interest of the people in new jersey it's

00:13:35.940 an insane case and there needs to be an example made out of him that if you're going to act like this

00:13:40.700 you need to face the consequences because members of the senate even on both sides are getting really

00:13:46.080 kind of out of line on stuff we need to bring it back we need to have more people who are transparent

00:13:50.480 um and advocating for the constituents so menendez uh i don't think he's going to get a part of them

00:13:55.260 and i sure hope not roger all right uh if you're just tuning in we're talking to mike crispy this is

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00:14:35.980 this is the stone zone with roger stone they went after a guy named roger stone who's sitting in the

00:14:53.060 office and i'll say this in front of roger he's no baby and right now he's cleaner than anybody in

00:14:58.180 this place now as i treated him very unfairly now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone

00:15:07.780 and we're back in the stone zone we're talking to mike crispy mike you still have your show on rumble yes

00:15:16.080 yes uh every day people could check me out 10 a.m eastern rumble.com slash crispy or we're talking

00:15:22.460 about national politics with a little new jersey flair of course so people got to go check that out as

00:15:27.440 well excellent so mike i want to ask you about this upcoming republican primary new jersey one of only

00:15:34.080 two states in the nation that have their gubernatory election in the off year often read as a as an

00:15:41.140 indicator of how the new president is doing but you have i think a spirited but although it appears to

00:15:47.840 be one-sided republican primary for governor many many conservatives and maga supporters trump supporters

00:15:54.480 urged you to run i know you thought about it seriously but elected not to run because you

00:15:59.820 thought you could make a greater contribution doing what you're doing now but how do you see this

00:16:04.560 contest well you know it's coming down in uh less than 45 days at this point and it looks like the

00:16:11.720 field is starting to narrow i think the campaign of bill spadia who people say is a maga guy starting to

00:16:19.100 fizzle out his campaign has run out of money uh spent almost a million dollars and he can't break

00:16:23.880 11 percent in the polls so people who have been talking about his candidacy it looks increasing by

00:16:29.640 the day that it's effectively over can't run out of cash and not move in the polls that's a recipe

00:16:34.380 for disaster so that really leads us uh with three other candidates john bramnick is in the race he's

00:16:39.820 an avowed trump hater so his candidacy was kind of dead on arrival and the other two candidates on the

00:16:44.880 ballot are mario kranjack and jack cittarelli uh i'm hearing from sources mario kranjack who is the

00:16:50.940 most pure maga candidate in the race is ready to do a pretty substantial ad spend um you know they

00:16:57.740 say half a million to a million dollar ad spend in late bush because people are looking for a maga

00:17:02.880 alternative and he's starting to add some fire so that's mario kranjack uh the former mayor of

00:17:08.220 inglewood cliffs and an ally of president trump and then we have jack cittarelli who was at bedminster a

00:17:13.340 couple of weeks ago he had a conversation uh with president trump and he has moved his message

00:17:17.920 uh more towards the uh trump angle um obviously known as more of a moderate but attempting to

00:17:24.720 uh rehab his image a little bit and and look more to trump and he looks like he's leading in the polls

00:17:30.000 right now so it's going to be a very interesting finish and i really truly hope roger that whoever

00:17:34.860 wins this primary embraces president trump's message because you it's proven you could only win

00:17:41.100 new jersey if you embrace the maga message president trump had an incredible finish here

00:17:45.780 2024 every candidate running right now needs to run to that message not run away from it and all of the

00:17:52.120 fake uh trump people who are running those people well uh the voters are smart they know it they realize

00:17:58.240 that people like spadia are phonies who only want to jump on the trump bandwagon when it's convenient

00:18:03.080 we need people who are real and disciplined so we could actually turn this state around yeah i recall

00:18:07.720 spadia supporting first ron desantis and then nikki haley find the landing of donald trump if i had to 0.80

00:18:13.180 call this i think jack cittarelli is going to win the primary and then it is uphill for any republican

00:18:19.620 in the garden state but nothing is impossible i want to thank our guest mike crispy for joining us today

00:18:24.880 in the stone zone and ask our listeners don't go anywhere because we'll be back because jb pritzker

00:18:30.720 thinks he's running for president

00:18:32.060 this is the stone zone with roger stone they went after a guy named roger stone who's sitting in the

00:18:50.240 office and i'll say this in front of roger he's no baby and right now he's cleaner than anybody in this

00:18:55.640 place now as i treated him very unfairly now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone

00:19:04.940 and we're back in the stone zone now we're joined by mark vargas he is the publisher

00:19:12.820 and editor of the illinois review mark welcome to the stone zone great to be with you roger thank you so

00:19:20.760 much so uh the governor of illinois jb pritzker uh if he was in new york they'd want to make him his own

00:19:29.860 borough uh this guy says and i quote uh it's time to fight the trump agenda it's time to fight everywhere

00:19:39.360 all at once uh he goes on to say to get try to get the exact quote here that republicans should have

00:19:47.460 no peace uh this sounds to me like a call for for insurrection and violence how did you read this

00:19:55.600 there's no question about it roger this is inciting an insurrection this was a hate-filled speech that

00:20:03.620 illinois governor jb pritzker delivered on sunday night in new hampshire as he teases a potential

00:20:10.640 presidential campaign uh but after president trump's not one but two assassination attempts

00:20:17.960 and one in butler pennsylvania that nearly took his life by uh hitting his ear this type of rhetoric

00:20:24.860 is dangerous and it's now putting the lives of everyday americans in grave danger because

00:20:32.200 governor pritzker has called for republicans to have no peace as he attacks the trump

00:20:40.380 uh maga agenda roger he also calls for which is very interesting he also calls for should

00:20:47.740 democrats win majority of congress this upcoming midterm elections he's calling on his democratic

00:20:54.440 counterparts to immediately launch investigations on their political enemies but uh this type of

00:21:02.500 rhetoric is dangerous it's wrong and you were absolutely right in your post on x earlier this

00:21:09.160 morning that if this were a republican using this type of rhetoric there would be insurrectionists uh

00:21:14.380 uh they'd be calling it an insurrection uh and uh there'd be investigations launched immediately

00:21:19.700 yeah it really is quite extraordinary i seem to have read about uh a recent scandal in illinois where

00:21:25.960 the governor who as we both know he and his family are fabulously wealthy uh actually cheated on their

00:21:32.740 property taxes by removing a certain number of toilets from their home can you explain this to us

00:21:38.740 yeah that's exactly right we've got a mansion in downtown chicago and he wanted to buy

00:21:43.760 the mansion next door but he didn't really want to pay for it because he didn't want to use it he just

00:21:48.700 didn't want to have any neighbors around him so what he did is he ordered all of the toilets about

00:21:55.000 seven or eight bathrooms he ordered all of the toilets to be removed from the home so that could

00:22:00.500 legally be called in an uninhabitable and therefore he would get a uh a property tax decrease because

00:22:09.020 the home wasn't livable when it was finally discovered the governor uh candidate pritzker then

00:22:16.660 scrambled paid the difference and then claimed to have uh no knowledge of it uh and so uh that has

00:22:24.880 dogged him uh his last two campaigns yeah kind of rules for the but not for me it's a very common thing

00:22:32.840 we see among democrats uh i i look this guy he's so fat when he walks down the street the cops say break

00:22:40.420 it up uh but i don't see him as a viable presidential candidate uh because i assume he would do for america

00:22:49.300 what he's done for illinois how is illinois doing these days in terms of crime and the quality of life

00:22:56.880 uh and the economic climate

00:22:59.680 horrific in every aspect of it and roger this is a man who doesn't have any friends because he

00:23:08.400 inherited billions of dollars from his family who owns the hyatt hotels and he did so what he did is

00:23:14.780 he bought his camp he bought the governor's seat to the nearly spending 400 million dollars of his

00:23:20.300 own money in his last two elections for governor and so this is a man who doesn't know how to run for

00:23:26.260 office he just knows how to pay for it and this thought of him running for president is laughable

00:23:31.660 i mean he's going to make i would make howard taft look like a supermodel uh at a 450 pound man who

00:23:38.160 during the pandemic we used to refer to as the health czar but chicago is an utter disaster

00:23:44.540 think about this for your listeners roger chicago is the crime capital of the nation we in fact

00:23:50.360 lead all major u.s cities in both murders and mass shootings every year in 2023 and this is a horrific

00:23:58.760 statistic 76 school-aged children 15 years or younger were murdered in the city in chicago that's more

00:24:07.600 than any other major city uh in the country in addition to that another horrific statistic is i don't

00:24:14.440 are we losing school-aged children to murders at in very large numbers but we also lead the nation

00:24:19.780 in murders committed by uh youth we're facing a domestic violence pandemic uh crisis here and at

00:24:27.940 a time when crime is skyrocketing when over the last four years they've welcomed violent and dangerous

00:24:34.760 migrants into our city we're facing a police shortage in fact two we're the city of chicago is short

00:24:41.200 2 000 police officers and think about this roger in 2023 225 000 high priority 9-1-1 calls like shots

00:24:52.260 fired assault in progress they went unanswered why because we have a police officer shortage and so

00:24:59.420 if chicago is any idea in the city in the state of illinois is any idea of what pritzker's leadership

00:25:05.900 looks like i can't imagine this guy coming anywhere close to winning a democratic primary for president

00:25:12.360 i see that he has now jumped into the controversy regarding kilmar garcia abrigo who is of course an

00:25:21.520 el salvador citizen who was quite legally deported to his home country of el salvador uh he is uh

00:25:30.960 without any question a ms13 terrorist who also has a history of beating his wife uh the president

00:25:38.760 demonstrated that uh abrigo actually had m13 tattoos on his hands uh but for some reason the democrats

00:25:48.860 have decided to die on this hill they keep insisting that he is a quote-unquote maryland man

00:25:54.980 because he lived illegally in the state of maryland when he was here but now uh the illinois sanctuary

00:26:02.140 state governor jb pritzker has directed all state agencies to take actions against the country of

00:26:09.240 el salvador uh because el salvador refuses to ship abrigo illegally back to the united states

00:26:18.720 pritzker's asking state agencies to boycott and divest from companies controlled by el salvador

00:26:24.600 cancel state contracts with salvadorian companies and analyze trade between illinois and the country

00:26:32.740 of el salvador first of all i don't know how much such trade there could be uh and i don't know to

00:26:38.540 what extent that this is largely a press release but when abrigo garcia was arrested in 2019 he was

00:26:45.560 with two other members of ms13 he was known by investigators to be affiliated with the gang

00:26:51.680 he was further detained in december 2022 investigated for human trafficking by the

00:26:57.720 tennessee highway patrol until the fbi ordered his release but this hasn't stopped radical democrats like

00:27:05.640 pritzker from glorifying this deported illegal alien attempting to bring him back to america from el

00:27:12.600 salvador where the governor government has him imprisoned for his crimes mark you're a shrewd

00:27:19.120 political analyst where are the votes in this for democrats you know this is uh pritzker's he has

00:27:27.720 gone so far left this is a 90 10 issue and roger we shouldn't be surprised because under pritzker's

00:27:33.960 leadership here in illinois they the illinois democrats that have super majority control in

00:27:39.700 our state capitol springfield they've introduced a bill to allow illegals to change their name

00:27:44.900 in order to evade ice that's point number one so we shouldn't be surprised what but pritzker's

00:27:50.880 trying to champion and and support and protect a ms13 gang member when he can't even protect

00:27:56.740 his own citizens his own legal residents the state legislature has also tried to pass a bill

00:28:03.360 to allow illegals to vote in local elections think about that so it really is remarkable that uh under the

00:28:11.080 last you know four years of pritzker's leadership in in illinois as governor they have coddled to

00:28:18.180 the migrants the most vicious and dangerous migrants they have they have completely ignored 1.00

00:28:22.760 their own residents as black and latino residents continue to live in poverty roger they even asked 1.00

00:28:29.620 chicago public school teachers to give migrant children passing grades now how fair is how fair

00:28:37.520 is that regardless of what their test scores are regardless of how well they do on their homework

00:28:41.760 you must give migrant children passing grades this is all under jb pritzker's leadership and this is why 1.00

00:28:51.420 the the democrats in chicago particularly the blacks are have turned on governor pritzker and on chicago

00:28:59.140 mayor brandon johnson who has a six percent approval rating by the way and it continues to go down

00:29:03.680 because they have continued to prioritize vicious and dangerous migrants over law abiding residents

00:29:09.660 now it's interesting because new york state uh under andrew cuomo and then under governor kathy

00:29:15.980 hochel uh really pioneered the bail reform which is really just a turnstile that puts violent criminals

00:29:23.720 back out on the streets uh the experience in new york has been horrific where despite the fact that

00:29:29.440 they try to cook the crime statistics crime is very definitely up in every category across the

00:29:35.560 board both in the cities but also in the suburbs uh and in upstate rather than take this as a cautionary

00:29:43.640 tale jb pritzker and the illinois democrats have essentially copied the new york democrats to put in

00:29:51.900 place the same system of bail reform in which all but uh but murderers the most violent criminals

00:29:59.100 are put back out on the streets within hours of their arrest uh there there is no more common

00:30:06.020 sense in this party and roger i'd be remiss if i didn't mention that under jb pritzker's leadership

00:30:13.120 the state allows high schools middle schools and high schools allows boys to participate in girl

00:30:21.100 sports under pritzker's leadership uh they also force uh young girls to change in middle school 0.84

00:30:28.220 locker rooms in front of uh trans identifying boys uh pritzker wants to make illinois the disney

00:30:35.520 world for gender transition services you can get an abortion as a young girl underage young girl

00:30:42.120 without asking for permission from your parents uh you could take medication from your school nurse

00:30:48.060 in order as hormone blockers without permission from your parents this is the type of chaos this is

00:30:54.280 the type of uh uh united states of america that pritzker envisions uh under a uh under his own

00:31:01.480 under his presidency uh i guess i have to ask this question it's a hard one but uh it's been a long

00:31:07.660 time since illinois has been uh competitive in a presidential race been a long time since they've

00:31:12.900 been competitive in a gubernatorial race yet there's a lot of very good people uh very a large number of

00:31:19.760 common sense voters uh mark what's wrong with the illinois republican party it is uh in total chaos

00:31:28.360 you it's led by a bunch of never trumpers uh who never supported trump from day one uh and they like

00:31:35.320 to target these to use their funding and mailers to target conservative grassroots trump uh republican

00:31:42.380 candidates throughout the state uh and because they are so fractured they have no idea what it's like

00:31:47.060 to win but here's the the strength of president trump he didn't spend one cent in illinois during

00:31:52.140 this last presidential election he didn't even visit illinois and yet he gained nearly a million

00:31:57.340 new votes from 2020 and got 45 percent of the vote i mean imagine if the president had spent just a

00:32:05.220 little bit of time and a little bit of money in in the state i think uh we could have seen uh a whole

00:32:11.080 i think we could have seen a uh a much different situation here in illinois and i hope uh in the future

00:32:16.620 that they begin to focus on this state because the failed leadership is finally catching up with the

00:32:20.860 democrats they've got nowhere to go but to hide uh excellent analysis uh from illinois i want to thank

00:32:27.840 my friend uh mark vargas the publisher and editor of the illinois review uh mark where can folks find

00:32:35.420 you on social media and where could they read the stuff that you write thank you roger you can follow

00:32:41.220 me on x at mark a vargas and you can go to our website illinoisreview.com illinoisreview.com thank

00:32:50.240 you roger god bless you my friend one final question for you some polls i doubt this show uh a substantial

00:32:57.700 dip in the president's approval rating but anecdotally as i talk to people on the streets it's not what i'm

00:33:03.800 finding at all i have yet to find one person who says they voted for donald trump but they now regret

00:33:09.240 doing so what are you hearing on the streets i'm hearing the same thing here on the streets of

00:33:15.060 chicago they're they're they're thrilled with president trump but as as tough on crime is shutting

00:33:21.340 down the border deporting vicious and dangerous migrants they know that the economy has needed some

00:33:26.820 help and a boost and that they have confidence in president trump and his in his team like the

00:33:30.960 treasury secretary and the commerce secretary that i think that uh everyday hard-working americans

00:33:36.880 who don't listen to the mainstream media they love what president trump has done in what a hundred

00:33:41.400 days starting tomorrow yes i would remind people these are the same polls that showed that kamala

00:33:47.540 harris was leading or she was closing fast or she was in a competitive race all of which was a

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00:34:29.780 this is the stone zone with roger stone they went after a guy named roger stone who's sitting in the

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00:35:03.920 and we're in the stone zone we're joined yet again by my good friend mark vargas the publisher and

00:35:12.320 editor of the illinois review uh mark as you know everybody in the political business loves to handicap

00:35:19.220 the horse race and although it's very early i noticed that president trump was asked the other

00:35:24.980 day whether vice president jd vance would succeed him now i think jd vance is doing a very good job

00:35:31.860 uh i also think he is uh understands that you don't upstage the president of the united states

00:35:37.540 particularly this president but he played a very key behind the scenes role uh in winning the

00:35:43.720 confirmation votes for tulsi gabbard and robert kennedy for scott besant the treasury secretary

00:35:50.200 for cash patel for the the fbi director uh on the other hand donald trump broke the mold i mean he

00:35:57.800 changed all the rules uh before him every president had been a governor a senator a congressman or a general

00:36:05.160 uh how do you handicap the race in 2028 yes i know it's early it is it is very early and you know

00:36:13.760 in true trump fashion i think you know he's not gonna endorse anyone early on uh it's still wide open

00:36:20.520 as you know roger better than anybody else a day is a thousand years in politics and we'll see what

00:36:25.540 happens but that's what one of trump's president trump's strengths is he's is he's predictably

00:36:30.300 unpredictable but vice president vance has done a a terrific job and i think sometimes this is

00:36:36.120 some of the media just trying to create a little bit of division and distract from president trump's

00:36:41.140 historic record in his first 100 days in office and just the difference that it has made in people's

00:36:49.080 everyday americans lives whether it's securing our border whether it's fixing our economy and his

00:36:54.560 america first policies i mean look at the hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars in investment

00:36:58.660 that's coming back to the united states because of what president trump has done china's on its heels

00:37:04.040 uh america is back just look at what president trump just look at what the audience looks like when

00:37:09.220 president trump was at either pope francis's funeral when he's overseas all eyes are on him you know who

00:37:16.180 the leader of the free world is when he walks in as president donald trump while joe biden's walking in

00:37:21.780 still seeking assistance and holding on to people's arms and not even sure where he's at to be honest

00:37:26.880 yeah i couldn't believe how much criticism president trump got for wearing a dark blue suit instead of a

00:37:33.300 black suit uh he was wearing a somber tie uh but you're right all eyes were on him uh it's because he has

00:37:42.060 that elusive quality that i first saw in 1988 charisma magnetism confidence uh he exudes it and it

00:37:50.840 represents the country well i saw him at dinner two fridays ago and i must tell you he's never looked

00:37:58.580 happier he's never looked more satisfied he's never looked more determined uh he was in a great mood

00:38:05.620 lost a little weight uh he looked terrific he feels terrific uh he's best in conflict in all honesty

00:38:12.780 he loves a good fight and when it comes to america he'll never stop fighting uh they can attack him

00:38:19.200 they can try to undermine him uh but uh his late night true social postings are just extraordinarily

00:38:26.500 entertaining for those who don't watch them uh particularly when he goes to all caps you know

00:38:33.440 he's he's really really serious uh once again mark tell folks where they can find uh you on social

00:38:40.300 media and the illinois review yeah i appreciate that roger you can find me on x at mark a vargas and you

00:38:46.800 can visit us online at illinoisreview.com spelled out illinoisreview.com all right i want to thank our

00:38:55.740 guest uh mark vargas i urge you to check out uh his uh his social media postings uh and for those of you

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