The Stone Zone ｜ 05-20-25
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Summary
Pres. Donald Trump has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer, and the White House says that he is in a stage 9 of his recovery from the disease, but some are questioning whether this diagnosis will have any impact on his presidential legacy.
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this is the stone zone with roger stone people love him and respect him roger stone
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now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone welcome you are entering the stone
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zone and we've got a big beautiful show for you tonight i just returned from the dominican
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republic where i went to cover the launch of maria that is an ai program very much like elon musk's
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doge designed to ferret out waste fraud and corruption in that country's government also
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to visit carlos and laura gavidia he's the empresario put together the largest trump
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boat parade in u.s political history i come back to a scene in american politics in which
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well generally speaking politics is about the future not the past but we're learning a lot of
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things about our recent political past that are quite shocking not only do we learn the extent
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to which joe biden was incapacitated during his presidency which many of us already believed
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but now we learned that he has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of prostate cancer listen to
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president donald trump on this given to everybody but it's given just about and it takes a long time
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to get to that situation now i think you know to get to a stage nine i think that uh if you take a
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look it's the same doctor that said that joe was cognitively fine there was nothing wrong with him
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well he said if it's the same doctor he said there was nothing wrong there and that's being proven
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to be a sad situation and uh the auto pen is becoming a very big deal you know the auto pen is becoming a
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big deal because it seems like that maybe was the president who ever operated the auto pen
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but when they say that that was not good they also you know you have to look and you have to say that
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the test was not so good either in other words there are things going on that the public wasn't
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informed and i think somebody's going to have to speak to his doctor if it's the same or even if
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it's two separate doctors uh why wasn't the cognitive ability why wasn't that discussed and and i think
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the doctor said he's just fine and it's turned out and here's the amazing thing according to a white
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house statement the president's uh diagnosis the former president's diagnosis with cancer was
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discovered and announced late last week but here's joe biden back in 2022 announcing that he had cancer
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and because it was a four-lane highway that was accessible my mother drove us and rather than us
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be able to walk and guess what the first frost you know what was happening it had to put on their
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windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window that's why i and so damn many other
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people i grew up have cancer and why can't for the longest time delaware had the highest cancer rate in
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the nation uh really kind of mind-boggling meanwhile the president has raised a legitimate issue regarding
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the auto pen now when president donald trump pardoned me after they tried to lynch me in a
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soviet-style show trial complete with a uh a hateful anti-trump judge a deeply biased and corrupt jury
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forewoman a rigged jury and despite the fact that the judge withheld exculpatory evidence that proved that
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i knew about no russian collusion or was involved in any wiki leagues collaboration at least i know
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president donald trump signed my pardon himself it wasn't signed with an auto pen now congressman
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uh tim burchett of tennessee uh has announced that uh there is evidence that those who were controlling
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the auto pen were taking bribes this could explain why in addition to a number of his political cronies
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like adam schiff and nancy pelosi and uh uh the vindman brothers uh and uh others uh who he gave a
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preemptive pardon to including dr anthony fauci for some reason joe biden pardoned a large number of
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hardened criminals murderers uh and drug dealers who expressed no remorse whatsoever considering that the
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established media has lied and cover up for biden's mental incapacity for years it seems unlikely to
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me therefore that this news of biden's illness was a recent diagnosis and then there's jake tapper
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jake tapper uh rudely dismissed a lara trump during the last campaign when she raised the very legitimate
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question of joe biden's cognitive decline the fact that he would read the stage directions off the
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teleprompter the fact that he constantly fell down the fact that he couldn't seem to determine where
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or which way to exit the stage that he would talk to people who didn't exist the fact that during
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interviews his wife dr jill biden had to constantly bail him out because let's be candid he could rarely
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finish an entire sentence never mind an entire uh thought listen to jake tapper shut lara trump down
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every time he comes on stage or they turn to him i'm like joe can you get it out let's get the words
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out joe you kind of feel bad for him how do you think it makes little kids with stutters feel when
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they see you make a comment like that uh first and foremost i had no idea that joe biden ever suffered
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from a stutter i think what we see on stage with joe biden jake is very clearly a cognitive decline
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okay that's what i'm referring to it makes me uncomfortable you have you are no
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it's so amazing it's so amazing to me that and try and figure out an answer a cognitive decline
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you're trying to tell me that what i was suggesting was i think that you were mocking his stutter yeah
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i think you were mocking his stutter and i think you have absolutely no standing to diagnose
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somebody's cognitive decline it's but i would think that somebody in the trump family would be
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more sensitive to people who do do not have medical licenses diagnosing politicians from afar
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plenty of people have diagnosed your father from afar and i i'm sure it offends you your father-in-law
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from afar i'm sure it offends you you don't have any standing to say no saying now what i'm saying
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you just talked about a cognitive decline that joe biden i have one last question for you lara you
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can't times on stage and it's very concerning to a lot of people that this could be the leader of
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the free world okay that is all i'm saying i genuinely feel sorry for joe biden i appreciate
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it i'm sure now amazingly suddenly jack jake tapper is out with a book which he's trying to cash in on
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the fact that he claims that he missed the fact that joe biden was in mental and cognitive decline
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by the way uh jake tapper also said in an interview that he thought i'd be happy to go to jail
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uh he has no credibility he's not a journalist uh he's a partisan talking head who has shredded any
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credibility that he had megan kelly however would not let him off the hook listen to this exchange
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i did ask joe biden uh to be transparent about his health records in an interview in 2020 i did
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ask him about the fact that voters but then he wasn't thought that he he was not transparent at all
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no he promised you that he would be transparent about his health records and then he wasn't and
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when you sat with him again at all including one month including one month after the jackie
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walorski thing you didn't ask him about it you didn't follow up on the fact that he was falling
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up the stairs that he was losing his train of thought regularly that he was slurring that he was
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incomprehensible that he was getting lost on the white house lawn you sat right across from him and you
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asked none of that notwithstanding the fact that he had promised you he would be fully transparent
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about his health issues that's true but i did ask him about his age and the fact that the american
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people had concluded that even though he said whenever anybody brought up the subject of his age
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watch me and i said yes they're watching you and they are concerned that you were too old for this job
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so you know you you know as well as i do that there's a way of you can say hey there's this poll
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on your age or you could say you just forgot that jackie walorski was dead you you asked where she
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was moments after watching a videotape tribute to her you lowered the flags at the white house
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after she died this happened 13 days before you sat with him there is a way of pressing a man like that
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on the actual infirmities to bring it home to him and to the audience and you didn't do it
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uh this is why i love megan kelly uh but in his newly released book cnn's jake tapper has admitted
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as he says the real issue wasn't his age per se it was the clear limitations of his abilities which
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got worse throughout his presidency what the public saw in his functioning was concerning
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uh what was going on in private was worse well that's certainly not what he said to lara trump
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while biden on a day-in day-out basis could certainly make decisions and assert wisdom and act as
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president i'm not sure that's true there were several significant issues that complicated his
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presidency according to tapper a limit to the hours in which he could reliably function and
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an increasing number of moments when he just seemed to freeze up long thought forget the names of his
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own top aides didn't recognize his own cabinet members or momentarily not remember people he'd known
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for decades not to mention impairments to his ability to communicate uh never mind the stutter the fact
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that his comments would just trail off and he seemed incapable of completing a sentence now these
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recently released audios uh of the special counsel robert hurr who was questioning joe biden about his
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illegal retention of classified documents that as vice president and a u.s senator he had no
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legal authority whatsoever to retain but his justice department charged president donald trump who
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did as a former president have the authority to retain classified documents uh biden struggled to
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recall when his son died when he left office as vice president what year donald trump was elected or
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why he had classified documents he should have had to begin with that audio which was recorded in 2023
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during biden's interviews with robert hurr demonstrate not only his failure to recall important
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facts but also show him slurring and muttering the white house by the way refused to release those
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recordings last year demonstrating that biden's mental incapacity uh was a serious issue and they
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knew it would hamper his chances at re-election after he melted down in his one and only debate with
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donald trump uh the democrats dumped him and then the people who whine constantly about democracy and
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protecting democracy uh they used a completely undemocratic process in which kamala harris was
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nominated for president even though not a single democrat primary or caucus voter voted for her
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the democrats and joe biden's white house even blasted the special counsel claiming he was
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a republican he wasn't uh kamala harris insisted after the debate that joe biden was sharp as attack
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her words so while biden was mentally out to lunch the democrats used an auto pen to forge executive
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orders in his name now congressman tim birch of tennessee has raised the question about the legality
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of those pardons and other executive orders last democrat last december the democrats forged
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biden's signature commuting the sentences of 1500 convicts including convicted murderers who had shown
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no remorse as well as a number of drug dealers today birch said that there's evidence that those who
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controlled the the the the uh the auto pen were taking bribes that would describe why this has gone
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down was the largest single day of commutation and pardons in american history uh now the question
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raises over the appointment of supreme court judge katanji brown because well her appointment was signed
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with a auto pen as well now i'm not a lawyer uh and i don't know how that could be challenged but we'll talk
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about it when we come back to the stone zone in just a minute this is the stone zone with roger stone
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place now as i treated him very unfairly now get him a zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone
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you're going to want to stay in the zone tonight because shortly we're going to be joined by attorney
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larry schnapp he is an adjunct professor at new york law school he's also one of the leading advocates
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and experts regarding the john f kennedy assassination records and a major advocate for transparency
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he's going to talk to us about today's hearings of the house task force on declassification of the
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documents regarding the kennedy assassination so you don't want to miss that i'm really not surprised
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that the democrats and their handmaidens in the media have covered up joe biden's mental decline
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or his cancer i mean this is after all the same party that cooked up the russian collusion hoax the
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same party that twisted good people on both sides which the president never said into a racist smear
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the same party that pushed the lie that trump called uh those who gave their lives in the service of our
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country losers and suckers the party that ran two bogus impeachments based on nothing based on a
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conversation that never took place regarding ukraine the same people who said that hunter
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biden's laptop was russian disinformation right before the act of the election when they knew it
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was in fact real the same party that said the border was secure while more than 20 million people
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flooded in and well many children disappeared the same folks who said that inflation was transitory
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while your grossly bill tripled the same party that helped fund dangerous gain-of-function
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research in china and then lied about it the same party that used covet 19 as an excuse to crush
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small businesses close churches control speech the same folks who said the vaccination stopped any
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possibility of infection uh this is uh this is precisely the uh the same party that called parents who
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were concerned about their uh the curriculum being taught to their children uh domestic terrorists or
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those who catholics who chose to attend the latin mass uh they weaponized the system against their
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opponents they lie they cheat they rigged so it cannot be called surprising now uh they knew that joe biden
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was not all there i think it is elder abuse uh there has been a massive cover-up uh yes uh i i as a as a
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as a christian i pray for joe biden but i pray more for our country uh and uh it is uh as uh oliver
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hardy would say a fine kettle of fish uh that we have uh again i want you to stand by here in the zone
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because we're going to be joined by larry snap he is uh someone i respect enormously in terms of his
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knowledge regarding the kennedy assassination from the very beginning uh larry snap was i think one of
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the most authoritative voices on what we needed to find that the president's sweeping executive order did
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not cover when we come back we're going to talk about today's hearing what new information we learned
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and well what's still missing when it comes to the kennedy assassination back in the stone zone so
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don't go away this is the stone zone with roger stone the stone zone
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there was a hearing today on the u.s house task force on declassification of the documents
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pertaining to the assassination of president john f kennedy ably chaired by congresswoman anna paulina
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luna shortly after jfk was murdered the new president lyndon johnson actually resisted the idea
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of a national commission to investigate kennedy's murder he initially wanted a texas state commission
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he wanted supreme court justice tom clark who was a crony of his to chair it uh listen to lbj's
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conversation with j edgar hoover here's president johnson talking to hoover on monday the 25th
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about how to proceed with the investigation two things uh apparently some lawyer and justice is
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lobbying with the post because uh that's where the suggestion came from to this presidential
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commission which we think would be very bad to put it right in the white house and we can't be
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uh checking up on every uh every uh shooting scrape in the country but they've gone to the post
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now to get them an editorial the post is calling up saying they're going to run an editorial if we
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don't do things president johnson's plan was to have two simultaneous but coordinated investigations
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by hoover's fbi and the texas attorney general wagoner carr johnson was absolutely against appointing
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a presidential committee it's hard to not be taken aback by johnson referring to the assassination of his
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predecessor just three days earlier as a shooting scrape we can't be uh checking up on every uh
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every uh shooting scrape in the country johnson's point was that he didn't want to involve the white
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house in the investigation but the way he talks about it is perhaps a window into what he really
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thought about president kennedy uh i find that shocking larry schnapp welcome uh larry schnapp is
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as i say an attorney adjunct professor of new york law school uh one of the leading researchers and
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experts on the kennedy assassination and the effort to learn more about it through greater transparency
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so uh listen it was your letter that first brought my attention to the fact that the president's order
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while extremely well intentioned was probably actually too narrowly uh uh written uh it really
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suggests that the national archives release everything in the uh john f kennedy assassination records
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collection but the federal government has a lot more documents than that and there are many important
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things missing uh tell us about that and then tell us about today's hearing okay well the president's
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executive memo i believe that they didn't realize what they were writing because it it did say that
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that he didn't say he the president made a finding that was in the public interest which is the terminology
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used in the statute the jfk records assassination statute um that it was the public interest that all of the
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records of the records in the possession of the federal government uh be released
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it it looked like he was referring to the records that were in the collection that is maintained by
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the national archives back in 90s back in the 90s the records review board
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basically got all the records uh from the agencies and then they were transferred to the national archives
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but when the but when the review board went out of business in 1998 their work wasn't done congress
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had just decided it wasn't going to fund them anymore and there were outstanding search requests
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so what i've been trying to do is to try to alert um the people that were tasked by the executive order
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um to you know comply with it that we're not just talking about the records that are in the collection
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that are classified we're talking about the records that were never put in the collection so for example
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we had the joe anides files uh joe george joe anides was a covert agent for the cia he was responsible for the um
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the cuban exile group the dre they're the ones that um their representatives came in contact with oswald
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uh in august of 63 when they had the street fight and then they're the ones that came out with oswald's
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biography within hours of the assassination so they they knew all about him but those files um were
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never turned over to the review board the review board and the hsca were misled in fact george joanides
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as we learn today most people learn today for the first time he was the one tasked by the cia to work
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with the hs the household assassinations committee and when he got involved suddenly the amount of
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records that were being given to the um the hsca was slowed down slow walked um redacted and basically
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they did the same thing they did to the hsca into the review board that they did to the warrant commission
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which was to run the clock out on them so there are other records that are also not in the collection
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for example um carlos marcelo allegedly uh confessed while in jail to his cellmate who had been an
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undercover agent for the fbi that he was behind the assassination or at least maybe funded it um
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those tapes are sealed they've never been given the light of day uh they're not in the collection
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and we're we've asked uh the attorney general pam bondy to to get those because she can get them
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unsealed um there are records that robert kennedy took from the white house in uh at the hours after
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the assassination that were never turned over to the net to the um review board or the archives they are
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supposedly going through declassification review but it's been going on forever the review board was trying
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to get them um when they went on the business and that process came to a halt um and they may have
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some really important stuff because these are files from the white house and that bobby kennedy was
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involved um there are also um other records like william manchester had had tape recordings of that of
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interviews with jackie kennedy and robert kennedy that were so supposedly very explosive um particularly with
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jackie kennedy allegedly saying things about lyndon johnson um those records those tapes were sealed
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by a deed of gift from the kennedy family or at least a settlement till 2067 the arb tried to
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review board tried to get them released um in the 90s and carolyn kennedy was on the verge of doing it
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and then her uncle ted said i don't think your mother would want to do it and then they've been shut down
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and uh nbc has some films um that could possibly show that oswald was on the front steps of the
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depository building at the time of the shooting not sure but at least they could be studied um and then
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walter sheridan who was a right-hand man of of uh bobby kennedy did his own investigation for bobby
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that the review board asked for those records and once again uh you know he basically sent them
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over to nbc and nbc has been with holy name all these years the arb actually sued at uh sued to get
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them but they went out of business so there's a bunch of records out there that haven't been given
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to the national archives yet so we need not only just to release the records in the collection but
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also those that are not in the collection yet and despite what the democrat the democratic uh witness
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today said a lot of interesting and important stuff came out today uh that was a great compendium uh
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and i learned almost everything you said from you uh and uh i was pleased to pass that on to uh
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chairwoman uh anna polina luna uh what do you make of the uh of the so-called oliver orville nix film
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nix was an air-conditioned repairman filming with his own eight millimeter camera there's some evidence
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that the assassination records review board viewed all or portions of his film that film seems to be
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missing no yeah so um apparently uh he gave it over to the government the hsca supposedly had it the
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house select assassinations committee supposedly had it they sent it out to get analyzed and
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somewhere along the line it disappeared and so the nix family has tried to get it back uh they
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actually they're actually in litigation right now they sued the government the government made a
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motion to dismiss to dismiss the lawsuit and actually the the nix family has survived the motion to
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dismiss now this is for obviously would prefer to get the the um uh the the film back but if they
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don't get the film back they'll get damages for having lost it but this is a very important
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uh film because it's the flip side of the zabruda film he was on the other side of kennedy and closer
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and well at least that the the they had a close-up that was on close-up but but this this film is um
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is equally as important as a bruda film because it's just it's the flip side so like when zabruda is
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blocked by the by the traffic sign well nix's film isn't blocked by that because they're on the
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opposite side he's in like on the infield there so um and they just learned this past week apparently
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that when the nix family negotiated some sort of um release with the sixth floor that the attorney
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representing the nix family was also representing the sixth floor museum so there's a little conflict of
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interest there but that's definitely a film that um is is really important and uh it uh famously
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at least allegedly disappeared while is in the hands somewhere between the laboratory that was
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analyzing it and the house look assassinations committee now when i wrote my book uh the man
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who killed kennedy the case against lbj i actually got arlen specter who was a chief counsel to the
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warren commission to admit that the zap rudder film was missing frames uh and that it was not as it
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appeared nick's film seems to be because he was filming with a zoom lens i think you're right could uh
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answer the age-old question as to whether president kennedy was shot from the front and the back it's
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interesting to me that paramount has recently come out with a documentary called what the parkland doctors
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saw uh multiple doctors say in that stunning documentary uh that they saw wounds in jfk consistent
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with his being shot from the front and the back but most importantly two things that several doctors
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say that the wound in his throat was not an exit wound it was an entry wound from the front uh and
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secondarily that they were all threatened uh by the fbi uh not to discuss anything they had seen uh
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in the room where the autopsy was performed to me when you add that to the fact that we know definitively
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that lee harvey oswald had been uh subject to a paraffin test by the dallas police department
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which did not indicate that he had any nitrate burns no powder burns on his chest his arms his
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hands or his cheeks indicating that he did not fire a weapon that day perhaps this is why he says
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when he it's very unlikely they tried him out in public and he says what i am a patsy i didn't i didn't
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shoot anyone that appears to be telling the truth the warren commission of course telling us that
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jack ruby had no known association with organized crime which is another fallacy uh he was a button
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man for the mob in chicago he worked for carlos marcello uh in cuba uh yet another one of the many many
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falsehoods put forward in this continuing effort larry have you seen anything in the disclosure so far
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uh that would indicate a larger conspiracy beyond lee harvey oswald definitively well no one is going
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to be putting anything in writing um that here's how we're going to kill the president um but um so
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you know we're but we're getting we're getting like the records are like mosaics or pieces in a puzzle
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and so as you get the puzzle together it begins creating a picture but i want to go back to what
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you said about the doctors because today's testimony dr dr donald peel curtis testified today he is a very
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important witness for two things number one he was the third person in the room um when the president
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was brought into the trauma room uh and he did a cut down on the the right on the left leg but he made
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some observations about what happened in the er that demonstrates that when people see the parkland
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movie or the figure or or read the testimony of the parkland doctors that the supporters of the
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warrant commission say well they were too busy taking care of the president they didn't get a chance
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to look at his wounds what dr curtis said today he told me it's a couple years ago i'm glad he was
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able to do it today is that after dr clark pronounced the president dead dr clark was the neurosurgeon
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he was at the head of the gurney he lifted up the president's head and then explained to the other
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senior doctors that got the heads of the different departments who were there in on against the wall
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they weren't treating the doctor but he wanted they weren't treating the president he wanted to explain to
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them why he was pronouncing why he pronounced the president dead he showed them the wound
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and described the wound so the idea that the parkland doctors made a mistake when they said that rear of
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the head was a blowout wound is just not true in this so dr curtis served that purpose today
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he also goes into great detail about how arlen specter intimidated him and the other doctors and if you
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have tom i can go through what they did when we come right back with larry snap we're going to talk
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about that i knew arlen specter he could be very very intimidating we'll be right back this is the stone
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zone zone with roger stone this is the stone zone with roger stone they went after a guy named roger
00:33:55.000
stone who's sitting in the office and i'll say this in front of roger he's no baby and right now
00:33:59.560
he's cleaner than anybody in this place now as i treated him very unfairly now get in the zone it's
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the stone zone here's roger stone and we're back in the stone zone we're talking to lawrence schnapp
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he's an attorney uh and one of the most prominent figures in the country in the ongoing efforts to
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declassify and release government documents relating to the assassination of president
00:34:26.760
john f kennedy larry has sued the biden administration and the national archives several
00:34:31.960
times because uh he believes full disclosure of these documents is vital to understanding
00:34:37.720
the events surrounding the assassination and to address the learning questions and conspiracy
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theories we're very happy to have him today uh when we left off you were talking about uh
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arlen specter who i knew extremely well actually uh ran his campaign for the u.s senate in
00:34:54.600
pennsylvania had many vigorous arguments over his cockamamie single bullet theory logistically
00:35:01.240
impossible by the way uh over uh cocktails uh but uh you were talking about his intimidating
00:35:08.120
the parkland doctors uh lay it on us okay well first before i get to that um one thing i want to
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mention dr curtis also said was that um his supervisor dr walker when he when he saw him
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the monday after the assassination you know they talked about what they had seen in the er
00:35:25.720
and dr walker had told dr curtis that he had saw a temple wound in the right temple and that dr ronald
00:35:33.240
jones had told them that another doctor dr lito porto had actually put his pinky into the wound
00:35:41.160
so there were several doctors who saw evidence of a frontal head wound um and that has been covered
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up and glossed over anyway going to the arlen specter so the first thing went went up when
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early earl warren gets to uh decide how to conduct the uh investigation he instructs to all the lawyers
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that the preliminary interviews are to be not recorded this was a way that they can basically find out
00:36:08.120
who the good witnesses were and the bad witnesses were and then once they do get they find out you
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know they can select the good ones and then when they would go interview them they would go off the
00:36:18.120
record if the witness went off off the reservation or other tools and ways of intimidating um the
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witnesses one of them also was a perjury trap where um the fbi for example would take testimony down
00:36:31.960
on the three or two forms and then they would change they would alter the the testimony and ask
00:36:38.440
the person to sign the form and say well if you but then within they would object to the statement
00:36:43.640
i said well you know lying to a federal officer is a felony so if you know if you're this is the
00:36:49.480
statement you you gave if you're telling us now the statement that's on paper is wrong you're
00:36:53.880
potentially going to be liable for felony you know the drill roger yes yes unfortunately i i certainly do
00:37:01.960
well as you know warren earl warren the chief justice did not want to chair this commission
00:37:06.440
uh he was trying to get out of it until lyndon johnson implied to him uh that the russians had been
00:37:13.080
involved in the assassination of john f kennedy and that it was earl warren's duty to chair the commission
00:37:18.120
in order to avoid world war three of course we've seen no evidence whatsoever that the russians or the cubans
00:37:24.040
uh the cuban government was involved in the murder of john f kennedy uh this is a this is uh uh this is
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a modern mystery murder mystery in which the american people are still extraordinarily uh i think
00:37:38.920
intrigued i give huge credit to anna polina luna the congresswoman from florida chairing this task
00:37:45.080
force and also to you larry you've been helpful to the committee with your knowledge i appreciate your
00:37:50.280
joining us today in the stone zone uh many many thanks to you for joining us uh and for our
00:37:56.680
listeners out there until we meet again and we're going to continue to cover this kennedy assassination
00:38:02.840
story because i think there are more twists and turns from the committee uh until we meet again god
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