The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - May 17, 2025


The Stone Zone ｜ 05-16-25

Topics
Kennedy assassination investigation border patrol recruitment
Hosted by
Roger Stone Troy Smith Jake Novak
Mentioned
Donald Trump John Brennan John F. Kennedy Hunter Biden Kash Patel Theodore Roosevelt Ross Ulbricht Michael Collins Orville Nix Joe Biden Steele Anna Paulina Luna Lyndon Baines Johnson Napoleon Bonaparte Vladimir Putin Richard Nixon Barack Obama Kristi Noem John Anderson Bush and 32 more
The Stone Zone ｜ 05-15-25 The Stone Zone ｜ 05-19-25

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Brennan fires two of his own spies, a good friend of mine, and a CIA analyst, Michael Collins and Marie Langen-Reikhoff, who are two of the most accomplished, accomplished, and talented analysts in the entire U.S. intelligence community.

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00:00:00.340 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:07.400 You are entering the Stone Zone and I am your host, Roger Stone.
00:00:12.860 Last night I had dinner with Ross Albrecht and his wife, Caroline.
00:00:17.660 If you're unfamiliar with Ross Albrecht, he is the young man who invented the dark web.
00:00:23.300 He was charged and sentenced to life in prison, falsely claiming that he himself had sold drugs and guns on the dark web, which is untrue.
00:00:37.040 Actually, charging Ross Albrecht for inventing the dark web would be like charging Alexander Graham Bell for inventing the telephone because someone else later did a drug deal over the phone.
00:00:52.520 In fact, those who did sell illicit items over the dark web, guns, drugs, and so on, were never actually charged.
00:01:02.640 The government's hostility towards Ross Albrecht, who was rightfully pardoned by President Donald Trump, I was an advocate for that pardon, really has to do with the Biden administration's hostility to cryptocurrency.
00:01:17.400 Cryptocurrency is the alternative Bitcoin monetary system that has been embraced by President Donald Trump and his crypto advisor, Jeffrey Sachs, as well as his secretary of the treasury, Scott Besant.
00:01:34.800 In fact, Ross Albrecht very graciously invited me to join him at a Bitcoin conference in Las Vegas, May 27th through 29th.
00:01:44.960 I was honored that I will probably join him.
00:01:48.260 The Biden administration's hostility to crypto manifested itself in something called Chokepoint 2.0, in which many of the early entrepreneurs in this alternative currency system were framed for nonexistent crimes.
00:02:07.000 The Biden administration insisted that Bitcoins were a security and people were charged with selling and buying securities without a license.
00:02:18.120 Nonsense.
00:02:19.240 Now the cryptocurrency market is flourishing under President Donald Trump.
00:02:25.320 John Brennan, the former CIA director, has his panties in a twist.
00:02:32.220 He says he's appalled that the National Director of Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, has fired two of his spies who were still on the national security staff.
00:02:43.540 Frankly, I'm the one who's appalled.
00:02:45.220 This criminal, who orchestrated the Russian collusion oaks, lied to Congress about spying on a Senate committee that was investigating his illegal use of torture as the CIA director and violated both the law and, well, my constitutional rights, among others, including Donald Trump's, is incredible.
00:03:06.360 Brennan can be heard here whining about the fact that Tulsi Gabbard is cleaning house when it comes to deep state operatives.
00:03:15.960 Let's remember, she also referred several national security officials to the Department of Justice for illegal leaking.
00:03:24.360 Whether those are the same people she has fired, well, we don't know that yet.
00:03:28.360 Listen to John Brennan whine.
00:03:30.440 This whole thing just makes me livid.
00:03:31.940 It's appalling and outrageous and demonstrates why Tulsi Gabbard never should have been confirmed as Director of National Intelligence.
00:03:39.120 Michael Collins and Marie Langen-Reikhoff are two of the most experienced, accomplished, and talented analysts in the entire U.S. intelligence community.
00:03:48.980 With over 60 years of combined experience, they have worked for successive administrations since the 1990s.
00:03:56.440 They have demonstrated time and time again their capabilities, their competence, their integrity, and they have served as role models for a generation of intelligence officers inside of CIA.
00:04:07.360 They're CIA officers by background and by training.
00:04:10.180 And this is going to have real reverberations within the workforce because, as Congressman Hines pointed out, it's clearly a signal to tell analysts throughout the intelligence community, you tell the truth.
00:04:20.980 If you provide objective analysis as you're supposed to be doing, you are running the risk of getting fired.
00:04:26.860 And Michael and Maria are really the quintessential analysts that you want to have providing insight and information and analysis to policymakers so they make the right decisions for U.S. policymakers.
00:04:39.480 But this is a very tangible example of such dangerous and insidious corruption within the Trump administration.
00:04:46.480 This man is clearly delusional.
00:04:49.940 It was John Brennan who famously helped spread the phony Steele dossier back in 2016, which alleged that then-candidate Donald Trump was somehow compromised by Vladimir Putin and the Russians.
00:05:02.540 He is no stranger to attacking our 47th and 45th president with his greatest hits, including claims that President Trump committed acts of treason among dozens of other baseless claims.
00:05:14.040 It's important to remember that people like Brennan and his ilk are always guilty of exactly the thing they attacked Trump and his allies for.
00:05:23.300 These claims, of course, have been proven to be patently false and were likely known to have been fabricated at the time Brennan and his allies were disseminating him.
00:05:31.260 In fact, it was John Brennan who was the true manifestation of election interference in 2016.
00:05:38.120 Brennan knew that the Steele dossier, which was used to justify the FISA warrants that were used to spy on President Trump's campaign, as well as to justify the appointment of the special counsel, Robert Mueller, was a fraud.
00:05:52.420 In fact, a substantial forensic evidence that shows that the alleged hack of the Democrat National Committee, which Brennan insisted took place on the part of Russian intelligence, actually never took place.
00:06:09.000 In fact, forensic evidence demonstrated, based on the download times of the files that were purloined from the Democrat National Committee, that those were downloaded to a portable drive and taken out the back door.
00:06:23.820 Now, we know, according to the report by special counsel, John Durham, that Brennan cooked up the Russian collusion hoax with President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden.
00:06:37.060 They knew the Steele dossier was a fraud.
00:06:40.560 They also knew that no one had conducted an online hack of the Democrat National Committee.
00:06:46.760 But this was cooked up to allow Hillary Clinton's campaign to vilify Donald Trump as a pawn of Vladimir Putin. 0.57
00:06:56.500 It's also been confirmed that CIA Director Brennan identified over two dozen Trump advisors, including myself, and then went to the other English-speaking nation's intelligence communities, urging them to surveil them.
00:07:12.900 He did this, of course, without any probable cause.
00:07:16.240 Brennan's fingerprints are all over the alleged FISA warrants and the wiretaps that were used during the same time leading up to the 2016 presidential election, similarly targeting President Donald Trump.
00:07:29.060 It is also true that John Brennan and his cronies were in the forefront of those in the intelligence community who correctly were billed by the New York Post as spies who lied.
00:07:40.700 Remember, he was among the 51 former intelligence officials who officially penned a letter proclaiming that the contents of Hunter Biden's laptop were Russian disinformation and propaganda.
00:07:52.780 We now know, of course, what's amazing is that Brennan and his co-conspirators view themselves as a select group of insiders and elites who alone possess the intelligence and judgment to determine who the leader of the free world should be.
00:08:12.480 That power, however, thank God, lies solely with the American people. 0.86
00:08:18.320 A second term for Donald Trump actually threatens to take away Brennan's ability to abuse the powers of the intelligence community against their political opponents.
00:08:27.040 It actually threatens them to be put in the position of being held legally to account for their egregious criminal acts.
00:08:33.580 For those who don't know much about John Brennan, his anti-American leanings should come as no surprise.
00:08:39.420 In 1980, he confessed during a lie detector test that he had supported the Communist Party of America candidates in not just one, but four different elections.
00:08:51.200 Former FBI special agent John Guandolo also led counterterrorism efforts to the agency following 9-11, including investigating the attack on the Pentagon and developing the FBI's counterterrorism program, revealed that John Brennan, when he was the CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia, had actually converted to radical Islam.
00:09:13.820 Guandolo's assertion, I've interviewed him right here in the Stone Zone, was confirmed by another CIA station chief, a man named Brad Johnson, who confirmed it as both well-known and common knowledge that Brennan had converted to Islam.
00:09:28.440 In fact, John Brennan even got caught spying on a U.S. Senate committee that was investigating his illegal use of torture.
00:09:38.040 If you're spying on the U.S. Senate, what's the penalty for that?
00:09:42.220 Brennan and his CIA operators in Saudi Arabia have been accused of withholding information on several of the 9-11 hijackers that could have helped the FBI stop the Islamic terrorists, with Brennan himself actually approving the visas for four of the hijackers who would eventually crash American Airlines 577 into the World Trade Center.
00:10:05.320 The report that confirmed this also noted how the CIA used official resources to spy on fellow law enforcement officers.
00:10:14.820 How surprising.
00:10:16.640 I don't have to remind you, the CIA also worked with well-known terrorist-linked organizations, such as ISIS, which are linked with global terror finance organizations like Hezbollah and Hamas.
00:10:27.640 Brennan, under CIA director under Barack Obama, actually, infamously stated the ISIS members were, quote, not Muslims, not sure what planet this guy lives on.
00:10:42.700 Simply put, John Brennan's words deserve no weight when it comes to anything political, and he is now screaming.
00:10:48.840 Why? Because I think he himself fears prosecution.
00:10:52.980 Also demonstrates exactly why Tulsi Gabbard is exactly the right woman for the job she holds. 1.00
00:11:00.360 In the meantime, a real ID is coming to pass.
00:11:05.620 A real ID is this government-approved ID that you will need to get on a plane or get entry into a government building.
00:11:13.700 A real ID has actually been in the works since the Bush era as part of the war on terror reforms that included the Patriot Act, the FISA secret courts, and ubiquitous national security agency spying on American citizens without a warrant.
00:11:29.500 I didn't really realize I needed a real ID to board an airplane until I planned to go to the Italian-American Civil Rights League event in Queens this weekend.
00:11:42.480 And then I realized when I went to the airport, I would need such an ID to board a plane.
00:11:48.400 It's a terrible idea.
00:11:50.360 When we come back, I'm going to tell you exactly why.
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00:12:57.240 We were talking about the implementation of Real ID.
00:13:01.080 Real ID, as I said, began back in the Bush era.
00:13:05.480 That's when it was first approved by the Congress.
00:13:08.000 But ultimately, the movement was resisted by a number of states who said that they refused to comply because Real ID was a fundamental violation of their sovereignty.
00:13:19.900 The implementation of Real ID kept getting delayed, but it appears, unfortunately, that its time has finally come.
00:13:27.660 With a flooding of mass illegal immigration and major election integrity concerns, the idea of a Real ID is becoming more appealing to some conservatives in search to answers to these lingering national crises.
00:13:40.620 The Department of Homeland Security is telling Americans they must comply with Real ID mandates to board airplanes.
00:13:48.120 You will need Real ID to fly.
00:13:50.340 Real IDs makes identification harder to forge, thwarting criminals and terrorists.
00:13:54.720 If you plan to fly, make sure you get your Real ID so you won't be denied from your flight or to face travel delays.
00:14:01.440 That was what Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said recently on X.
00:14:07.440 These IDs keep our country safe because they help prevent fraud and they enhance security.
00:14:12.920 Please do your part to protect our community.
00:14:15.220 This announcement was met with a lot of opposition, including from yours truly, because we believe that Real ID is an unnecessary and a cumbersome bureaucratic requirement at best and a grave step closer towards a federal police state at worst.
00:14:30.780 Real ID, my view, is a Trojan horse that will slide into other forms of government access, monitoring and control over you.
00:14:39.220 Do you really eventually want to have a mandated social credit score and your accounts frozen if you refuse to fall in line?
00:14:47.240 I don't think that it's paranoia to think that this will ultimately morph into biometric tracking of every single American.
00:14:56.180 We elected Donald Trump to destroy the deep state and expose the truth about 9-11, not perpetuate the nightmare that was designed to foist upon us.
00:15:05.700 I actually favor abolishing the TSA.
00:15:08.080 I think we should flush Real ID.
00:15:10.660 The Real ID process came with a notification that my face will be logged into a facial recognition database.
00:15:17.880 No thanks.
00:15:19.220 Here's a better idea.
00:15:20.260 I'd say we get rid of the TSA starting May 7th and scrap this Real ID nonsense. 0.80
00:15:25.680 Less than five years ago, at the peak of COVID hysteria, the mandates were being widely proposed for individuals to submit their biometric data to be able to go to work, to worship in church, to shop at a grocery store.
00:15:37.440 The precedent has been set for these sort of actions to be taken during a crisis.
00:15:41.820 And Real ID, in my opinion, would be a powerful tool for bureaucrats to reinforce a ghastly new set of controls.
00:15:50.260 A real ID creates an information-sharing culture between the state and the federal government, where sensitive personal information about citizens is continually flowing back and forth.
00:15:59.900 This data will be stored and eventually harvested.
00:16:02.440 It's not difficult to imagine.
00:16:04.880 Personal health details eventually being stored on a Real ID card with individuals forced to submit their papers to show that they have submitted to a battery of experimental vaccinations in order to conduct basic transactions.
00:16:17.140 Real ID in the wrong hands could contain social credit scores to determine whether an individual is guilty of thinking wrong and subsequently then is frozen out of society.
00:16:28.700 Real ID, in my opinion, opens the door to many sinister possibilities without much potential upside.
00:16:34.140 The federal government is, after all, not known for its judiciousness when expanding their power and their authority.
00:16:40.020 The feds are happy to meticulously whittle down the people's liberties over an extended period of time using dubious pretenses.
00:16:47.860 We saw this with the Patriot Act, which we were told was put in place to protect us from Islamic terrorists, but ended up being used to spy on American citizens without a warrant,
00:16:58.600 which also allowed for permanent detention of a U.S. citizen in secret, again, without a public trial and ability to defend oneself.
00:17:09.860 Now, in my opinion, Real ID is a mistake.
00:17:14.380 And if Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem thinks that she has a future in national politics or a future as a national candidate, I think she should think twice.
00:17:27.820 We got a lot of mail on this, a lot of email.
00:17:32.180 I think most Americans agree with me.
00:17:34.420 Real ID is a bad idea.
00:17:37.800 When we come back, great news.
00:17:39.680 The Secretary of Veterans Affairs has confirmed that that department is going to end its testing on primates such as innocent dogs and cats.
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00:18:13.180 Based on an order by President Donald Trump, the National Archives has now released over six million pages of records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
00:18:23.800 This is part of the President John F. Kennedy Assassinations Records Collection that is kept by the National Archives.
00:18:32.980 While this does include over 80,000 pages of previously classified records, which were released on March 18th, based on Executive Order 14176, there seem to be a substantial number of records missing.
00:18:49.220 For example, the House Select Committee on Assassinations, which was formed in the late 70s and conducted an exhaustive investigation, concluded that organized crime had played a substantial role in Kennedy's murder.
00:19:04.680 Yet, none of the documents that had been released by the National Archives pertain to organized crime involvement in the hit.
00:19:14.260 Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna is not satisfied that we know everything.
00:19:21.700 And in fact, she has recently located six boxes of documents pertaining to the well-known gangster Carlos Marcello.
00:19:30.980 That information will become public shortly.
00:19:35.080 Additionally, there's a CIA operative named Joe Inaitis, who was well-known.
00:19:43.440 His material was reviewed by the Assassination Records Review Board back in the 90s.
00:19:49.280 But there's nothing regarding this CIA operative and what he was up to in the material that we have seen thus far.
00:19:57.900 Now I'm told that seven boxes pertaining to Joe Inaitis has been found and will be released.
00:20:06.500 Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna is doing a yeoman job of trying to get to the truth. 1.00
00:20:12.700 I do think that the president's initial order was a little narrowly drawn.
00:20:17.640 And as we are now learning, the Department of State, the Department of Defense, the CIA, the FBI, even the IRS, Army Intelligence, and others still have videos, audios, documents, and transcripts that have not been released to the American people.
00:20:38.860 I wrote a book on the Kennedy assassination, the man who killed Kennedy, the case against LBJ back in 2013.
00:20:47.460 Nothing that I have seen yet convinces me that I'm wrong, that there was a plot that involved the Central Intelligence Agency, the organized crime, big Texas oil, and the big enchilada himself, Lyndon Baines Johnson.
00:21:06.040 I mean, Cui Bono, who benefited.
00:21:09.300 Lyndon Johnson was under investigation in two of the hottest corruption investigations in the 1960s, the Billy Sal Estes investigation and the Bobby Baker investigation.
00:21:22.880 In fact, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, John Kennedy's brother, had begun telling people that LBJ would be dropped from the 1964 ticket and would be facing criminal charges.
00:21:33.980 There's his motive.
00:21:36.980 It was LBJ who convinced John Kennedy to visit Dallas.
00:21:40.980 It was LBJ's Confederate, Texas Governor John Connolly, who insisted that the motorcade, which was going from the Dallas Fort Worth Airport to the merchandise mart, both of them outside the city of Dallas, go into the city of Dallas and go through Daley Plaza, where, of course, the presidential limousine came to a full stop.
00:22:07.980 That's totally contrary to the Secret Service protocol manual.
00:22:13.980 I still am wondering, among the missing material is the video by a man named Orville Nix.
00:22:23.020 Orville Nix was an air-conditioned repairman.
00:22:26.200 Like Abraham Zapruder, he was filming with his own personal 8-millimeter camera, but his camera had a zoom lens.
00:22:34.820 We know that the Assassination Records Review Board set up in the late 1990s to look at the information regarding Kennedy's assassination had the Nix film, which presumably has a close-up of JFK, and could help shed light on whether Kennedy was, as a majority of the doctors at Parkland Hospital now say, shot from both the front and behind, meaning multiple shooters.
00:23:02.620 Meaning, of course, meaning, of course, a conspiracy.
00:23:05.740 So where is Orville Nix film?
00:23:09.420 I count on Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida to get to the bottom of these mysteries. 0.86
00:23:15.200 She's being ably assisted by Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, while deep state bureaucrats continue to play hide and seek with these documents.
00:23:27.320 We're going to keep you posted on these developments, but look for some bombshell revelations coming in next week's congressional hearings.
00:23:36.660 Meanwhile, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Doug Collins, has confirmed that his department will end much of its testing of innocent dogs, cats, and other primates, such as monkeys, before a deadline set by Congress.
00:23:53.880 Back in 2024, Congress enacted legislation to eliminate all tests on cats, dogs, and primates by 2026, but the VA is still conducting these horrific spinal cord injury-related experiments on monkeys in San Diego.
00:24:12.620 Collins confirmed the efforts to a congressional hearing about the budget this past Thursday.
00:24:17.780 The change has come after years of campaigning by the watchdog organization White Coast Waste.
00:24:24.860 We have had Justin from the White Coast Waste here on the show several times to talk about this.
00:24:34.680 They seek nothing less than the cruel and unnecessary taxpayer funding of this animal research.
00:24:41.340 Since 2016, that organization has worked to expose how the VIA was giving puppies heart attacks, injecting monkeys with angel dust, and crippling kittens, drilling into cats' skulls, and much, much worth.
00:24:54.760 Justin Goodman has come on the show several times from White Coast Waste to talk about this.
00:25:00.080 It was President Donald Trump who laid the groundwork for this end to animal testing during his first term when he issued a directive to the Environmental Protection Agency to prioritize reducing animal testing by 30% by 2025, and then they were supposed to completely eliminate it by 2035.
00:25:21.800 President Trump also ended a nicotine addiction study on monkeys at the FDA, and banned several dog experiments at the Veterans Administration.
00:25:34.660 Joe Biden upended all of these plans to phase out the testing, and he renewed testing in these cruel and horrific experiments, which I think, based on many doctors I've spoken to, have no scientific or medical value.
00:25:52.820 But the Trump administration has worked even harder to end this outdated practice.
00:25:59.580 The new administration has already begun ending animal testing at the FDA and EPA.
00:26:05.560 It's also canceled grants for many of these cruel research projects, saving taxpayers millions of dollars.
00:26:12.660 Now, although PETA keeps making media rounds claiming victory for many of the hard-won gains actually done by White Coast Waste,
00:26:24.720 they remain the only advocacy organization to shut down any government primate lab in nearly a decade, any government dog testing labs in the last 20 years, and any government cat lab in the last 40 years.
00:26:39.700 So, I think the credit belongs to the folks at White Coast Waste.
00:26:45.040 They are a nonprofit.
00:26:46.800 I have worked as a volunteer with them to end this horrific series of experiments on dogs and cats.
00:26:56.360 I urge you to check out their website.
00:26:59.720 Once again, I am merely a volunteer.
00:27:02.220 Meanwhile, recruits are flooding into the Border Patrol's ranks after years of difficulty and poor morale.
00:27:10.620 Customs and Border Protection has seen a massive boost in the recruiting numbers after Joe Biden left the presidency.
00:27:19.280 Under President Donald Trump, the Customs and Border Protection Agency has had a 44% spike in the applications from January to May of 2025,
00:27:29.920 compared to the same period in 2024, according to a report out yesterday.
00:27:35.840 Under Biden, the Customs and Border Protection struggled to stem the tide of millions of illegal immigrants,
00:27:43.640 while the administration mostly ignored its request for help, which caused even lower recruitment figures,
00:27:50.280 while low morale caused a record number of suicides among agents to spike.
00:27:55.620 During the Biden years, the Customs and Border Protection Agency tallied a whopping 8.5 million border encounters,
00:28:04.680 as well as 1.7 million known getaways.
00:28:09.440 More than 250 illegal migrants encountered at the southern border between 20 and 21 were known to be on a terror watch list.
00:28:18.040 How many slipped through the border that we cannot identify?
00:28:21.200 On his way out of the agency, former Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Chris Magnus said in 2022 that morale was the worst it's ever been.
00:28:31.700 Well, understandable.
00:28:33.700 Magnus was told to step down by former Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas,
00:28:38.700 or else he would have been fired for coming out and telling the truth.
00:28:43.400 Let's face it, the policy on our southern border of the Biden administration was one of open borders with as many as 20 million illegals flooding into the country.
00:28:57.340 President Donald Trump now struggling with the federal courts over his executive authority to expel and deport these people.
00:29:06.320 And he has talked openly about the possibility that he will suspend habeas corpus declaring a national emergency in order to secure his executive authority to crack down on illegal immigration immediately,
00:29:24.520 which he has been doing hampered by the courts.
00:29:28.280 Border apprehensions plummeted in the first month of his office, hitting a 15-year low in February, according to DHS.
00:29:35.920 Other divisions said they've seen marked improvement performance.
00:29:39.220 In fact, border crossings are down 93 percent since Donald Trump became president.
00:29:47.900 The U.S. Coast Guard has seen an uptick in drug seizures as well, capturing 11 percent more cocaine in fiscal 2025,
00:29:55.200 far more than they interdicted during the entire preceding year.
00:30:02.020 With over 4,250 new recruits having signed up in an increase of 1,200 relative to the same period in 2024,
00:30:11.220 the Coast Guard has seized over 110,000 pounds of cocaine and marijuana worth almost $1.5 billion.
00:30:19.980 Additionally, the Secret Service has had the recruitment spike as well, with 200 percent more applications so far this year.
00:30:28.800 For years, the previous administration demoralized and denied resources to our brave men and women in law enforcement,
00:30:35.780 including the Secret Service.
00:30:37.500 Now we finally see that we are reinvigorating the Secret Service and providing it with the resources our brave men and women need to do their jobs.
00:30:47.640 In the meantime, FBI Director Cash Patel has announced that, well, he's shutting down the infamous agency's current headquarters in D.C.
00:30:55.960 That's right.
00:30:56.760 FBI Director Cash Patel announced that he will keep his promise to shut down the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C.
00:31:05.980 The FBI is leaving the Hoover building because this building is unsafe for our workforce, Patel announced.
00:31:11.820 The FBI is 38,000 when we're fully manned, which we are currently not.
00:31:17.860 In the National Capital Region, there were 11,000 FBI employees.
00:31:22.380 That's a third of the workforce.
00:31:24.340 So now Patel is taking 1,500 of those people and moving them out.
00:31:28.280 Every state is going to get an addition.
00:31:31.280 When we do things like that, Patel said, we inspire people to become intel agents and say, well, we want to work with the FBI.
00:31:38.440 In the next three, six, or nine months, we're going to do that.
00:31:42.320 We want the American men and women to know that we're going to be working at the premier law enforcement agency in the country,
00:31:48.680 and we're going to give you a building that is commensurate with that.
00:31:52.580 Cash Patel is another example of a massive upgrade in personnel America has enjoyed under Donald Trump as president.
00:31:59.300 Before Trump took office, the head of the FBI was James Comey, who as of today seems to be in deep trouble.
00:32:06.340 Now, those who say that he will be jailed have to recognize that, yes, we have due process in this country.
00:32:13.120 So he would have to be charged, and he would have to be tried, and he would have to be found guilty.
00:32:19.420 Remains to be seen as to whether any of that will actually happen.
00:32:23.820 Meanwhile, the House Republicans are blocking a move to, pardon, moving to block an estimated 1.4 million illegal aliens from receiving America's taxpayer-funded Medicaid
00:32:38.720 as Democrats struggled to message their support for this unpopular position.
00:32:43.680 The House Energy and Commerce Committee completed its markup of a portion of the budget reconciliation bill Wednesday morning after an all-night session,
00:32:53.580 which included a provision blocking anyone unable to verify their citizenship, nationality, or a satisfactory immigration status from Medicaid coverage.
00:33:05.540 I believe that's the way it should be.
00:33:07.500 The committee projects 1.4 million illegals will be removed from the program due to these new requirements.
00:33:15.140 So this is yet another part of the golden age, an old age of responsibility,
00:33:21.220 where only those who are legally entitled to government benefits will be allowed to get them.
00:33:27.800 The House Republicans need to support the President's America First agenda to get our wild spending and this misuse of taxpayer dollars under control.
00:33:39.500 If you're just tuning in, this is the Stone Zone, and I'm Roger Stone.
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00:33:57.800 Welcome back to the Stone Zone.
00:34:07.840 We are taking your questions.
00:34:09.860 We have some left over, actually, from yesterday as well.
00:34:13.400 You can send us your questions by going to askstone at stonezone.com.
00:34:18.540 Askstone at stonezone.com.
00:34:21.760 Let's go to our questions.
00:34:23.940 Here's a question from Alex in Tallahassee, Florida, says,
00:34:29.040 Tell me something about President Richard Nixon that I didn't know.
00:34:33.720 Okay, well, Richard Nixon could play the violin, the piano, the violin, the saxophone, the clarinet, and the accordion,
00:34:45.180 except he couldn't read music.
00:34:47.580 He was entirely self-taught.
00:34:49.800 There's something about our president that you didn't know.
00:34:54.860 Here is a question from Barry in Chillicothe, who says,
00:35:00.040 What three books would you recommend that everyone read?
00:35:03.920 Well, there's a softball.
00:35:05.320 First and foremost, my book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy,
00:35:08.120 The Case Against LBJ, a New York Times bestseller,
00:35:11.280 which I think is the most definitive tome regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
00:35:18.320 But I would also have to recommend the biography of Napoleon Bonaparte,
00:35:24.760 Napoleon A Life by Andrew Roberts, one of my favorite books.
00:35:29.480 I think it is the top modern biography.
00:35:32.300 Now, most people don't realize that Napoleon Bonaparte was not French.
00:35:37.120 He was actually Italian.
00:35:39.300 He was born in Corsica, so he was a Corsican.
00:35:42.100 And at the time of his birth, Corsica was controlled by Italy.
00:35:48.540 In fact, Napoleon didn't speak French until he was in his 20s.
00:35:54.060 His formative language was Italian.
00:35:56.720 Now, if you think about it, it makes sense because, well,
00:35:59.560 I doubt any Frenchman could conquer Europe or half the civilized world. 1.00
00:36:03.920 But the fact that he's Italian makes perfect sense.
00:36:08.120 The most famous story about Napoleon, of course, has to do with his first escape from exile.
00:36:16.020 The British sent him to the island of Elba, where he ultimately escaped,
00:36:24.880 leaving with a small corps of less than 200 men and landing in the south of France,
00:36:33.820 beginning his march to Paris, beginning with less than 200 men.
00:36:39.180 He had a force of 50,000 men by the time he got to Paris to reclaim power.
00:36:47.120 Sorry, no Frenchman could do that.
00:36:49.180 But that would be one of the books I would recommend.
00:36:52.260 The other book I'd recommend, frankly, it's not easy.
00:36:55.860 It's three books, really.
00:36:57.840 The Edmund Morris Trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt,
00:37:01.340 The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Rex, and Colonel Roosevelt.
00:37:05.520 These are widely regarded as the definitive works, spanning over 2,000 pages.
00:37:10.900 It covers Theodore Roosevelt's life in exhausted detail,
00:37:14.260 including his early years as a frail child, all the way to the presidency,
00:37:18.360 and, of course, his post-White House adventures.
00:37:21.360 Actually, the first book, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, won a Pulitzer Prize
00:37:26.100 and a National Book Award.
00:37:29.780 It takes you all the way through his final campaign.
00:37:33.400 Roosevelt, of course, bolted the Republican Party in 1912,
00:37:37.400 ran as the progressive or Bull Moose candidate.
00:37:41.320 People don't realize this, but Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, came in first.
00:37:44.700 Theodore Roosevelt, running as independent on the progressive or Bull Moose ticket,
00:37:50.660 came in second.
00:37:51.660 And incumbent president William Howard Taft actually ran third in that race.
00:37:58.280 Thanks for joining us here on The Stone Zone.
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