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00:00:37.600 Welcome to the Stone Zone.

00:00:39.820 Today is indeed a historic day, a day that will warm the hearts of Cuban Americans and lovers of freedom everywhere.

00:00:48.260 The United States has issued a federal criminal indictment against former Cuban dictator Raul Castro.

00:00:56.480 That, of course, is the brother of Fidel Castro, showing that the Trump administration's pressure campaign against Cuba's communist government is very real.

00:01:07.600 And, in fact, it's rapidly intensified.

00:01:11.020 The 94-year-old former president is charged in Miami with conspiracy to kill U.S. nationals, specifically four counts of murder and two counts of destruction of aircraft.

00:01:23.460 Five others were also charged, including a fighter pilot tied to the 1996 shootdown of two small civilian planes operated by the Miami-based Brothers to the Rescue.

00:01:38.100 Here we have exclusively the audio of Raul Castro ordering the shootdown of the plane.

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00:02:19.600 That day I was going to go to the occidental, I was going to go to Managua.

00:02:26.600 And that morning they were going to be met in the water.

00:02:31.600 And then, what happened is what you know.

00:02:36.600 They said it was in the water international.

00:02:38.600 We said it was in the water.

00:02:41.600 You can bet that that piece of evidence will be played in a Miami courtroom.

00:02:59.100 The Miami-based volunteer group made up of Cuban exiles searched the waters between Cuba and Florida for refugees fleeing communist depression.

00:03:08.960 Then on February 24th, 1996, Cuban MiG fighters, which was supplied, of course, by the Russians,

00:03:17.800 fired missiles at the aircraft, killing four men, Armando Alejandra Jr., Carlos Costa, Mario de la Pena, and Pablo Morales.

00:03:30.460 Prosecutors alleged that Castro authorized the attack.

00:03:33.660 We just played an audio that proves that point.

00:03:36.780 The announcement came today against the symbolic backdrop of Miami's Freedom Tower, where hundreds of thousands of Cuban refugees have been processed after fleeing Fidel Castro's brutal revolution.

00:03:51.740 Castro stepped down as president in 2018.

00:03:55.100 That's Raul Castro, later resigned as the head of Cuba's Communist Party.

00:04:00.560 But he remains a powerful figure within Cuba's politics and government.

00:04:06.640 Secretary of State Marco Rubio, himself of Cuban-American descent,

00:04:11.520 also delivered a message directly to the Cuban people,

00:04:15.800 saying their suffering is not caused by America, 0.91

00:04:18.360 but by the corrupt communist rulers who have plundered billions 0.73

00:04:22.640 while leaving families without electricity, food, or fuel. 0.75

00:04:28.320 Rubio, of course, is absolutely correct.

00:04:30.860 The Don Roe Doctrine is leaving no harbor for communism or Marxism in the Western Hemisphere.

00:04:38.120 We will see this scourge ended, and America's enduring legacy of freedom will emanate for generations to come.

00:04:46.720 The story is very close to my own heart because my own wife, Nidia Bertrand de Espinosa's father, Lieutenant Colonel Joaquin Bertrand, was the military attaché in the Cuban consulate in Washington, D.C.

00:05:05.360 Although he was a civil servant, when the Batista government fell and Fidel Castro came to power, he was ordered to return to Cuba for debriefings.

00:05:19.180 His bags were packed and he was ready to go.

00:05:22.000 The night before he left, a friendly CIA agent knocked on the door to tell my father-in-law that he should not return to Havana because he was on a list of people to be eliminated.

00:05:36.200 Therefore, he lost everything, his savings, his home, his insurance,

00:05:42.320 essentially all the rudimentaries of his basic life, lost forever in Cuba. 0.92

00:05:49.120 He also spoke little English, and therefore he employed himself as a fuller brush man.

00:05:55.580 Some of my older listeners will know what that is.

00:05:58.620 a house painter, a printer, and of course the deep and abiding disdain for the Castro regime

00:06:07.340 is deeply embedded in all of my in-laws. So this is a day of justice. It'll be even greater

00:06:15.780 when Raul Castro is ultimately convicted. It is also, I think, evocative of the situation

00:06:25.220 in Venezuela. In other words, Raul Castro may believe that he is safe within the island

00:06:31.480 gulag, but our incredibly capable and stealth military has demonstrated their ability to

00:06:39.220 extract a criminal like Maduro, like Castro, and therefore if I were Raul Castro, I would not sleep

00:06:46.520 well tonight. Meanwhile, President Trump emerged from yesterday's Republican primaries with a

00:06:53.160 stronger claim than ever on the MAGA movement, as Republican voters again rewarded candidates

00:06:59.640 aligned with him and punished those who had crossed him. The clearest signal came in Kentucky,

00:07:06.940 where Trump-backed Navy SEAL Ed Gowrain defeated longtime Congressman Thomas Massey,

00:07:15.460 one of the party's most visible Trump critics. The race had become a referendum on loyalty to

00:07:21.780 the president, and Massey's loss underscored that even a supposedly conservative voting record

00:07:28.280 cannot save you if you don't have President Trump's backing in the crucial junctures.

00:07:34.340 President Trump's influence also showed in Alabama, where my good friend Senator Tommy

00:07:40.140 Tuberville, Coach Tuberville as we like to call him, a longtime Trump ally, easily won the

00:07:46.680 Republican nomination for governor, with more than 85 percent of the vote. Then in Kentucky's

00:07:53.380 Senate primary, Andy Barr won decisively, while in Georgia, Trump endorsed Lieutenant Governor

00:07:59.700 Burt Jones, advanced to a Republican gubernatorial runoff. The results reinforced a larger reality

00:08:08.620 inside the modern Republican Party. MAGA is no longer just a faction with the GOP.

00:08:14.980 It is the organizing force within the Republican Party.

00:08:19.620 The Republican Party is no longer the party of Wall Street, the party of the country clubs, the party of the financial elites.

00:08:27.920 We are now the party of working class Americans.

00:08:32.860 Candidates are still competing for Trump's endorsement, running on his record and framing themselves as America first conservatives because Republican primary voters continue to respond to that brand.

00:08:44.980 President Trump preferred and claimed a perfect endorsement record from the highest from last night, boasting that 37 of his endorsed candidates out of 37 won yesterday.

00:08:58.180 The political message is unmistakable after Tuesday night.

00:09:02.280 President Trump's grip on the Republican movement is actually tighter than ever.

00:09:06.280 witnessed his recent endorsement of Anthony Constantino running in the 21st district. That's

00:09:13.080 the seat being vacated by Congresswoman Elise Stefanik. That has shaken that race up. A new

00:09:21.800 polling that I looked at showed Constantino pulling out to a long lead. So the Republican

00:09:28.340 Party has changed. It is no longer the neocon Bush-dominated party of the country clubs.

00:09:36.180 MAGA is firmly in the saddle heading into these midterm elections. Meanwhile, President Trump's

00:09:44.040 family is getting some protection from lawfare. The Justice Department has reportedly granted

00:09:49.020 President Trump his family and his businesses protection from ongoing tax inquiries,

00:09:54.080 ending pending claims tied to audits and potential prosecutions.

00:09:59.460 The provision was added as part of a broader settlement connected to Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS

00:10:07.460 over the leak of his tax returns during his first term.

00:10:11.840 Now, every American citizen is entitled to the confidentiality of their tax returns,

00:10:18.140 unless your name is Donald Trump.

00:10:20.820 Trump, two of his sons, and the Trump family business sued after a former IRS contractor

00:10:27.860 disclosed private tax information regarding the Trumps, including their tax milings,

00:10:33.320 to the New York Times and an outfit called ProPublica.

00:10:39.420 Under the new one-page addendum signed by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche,

00:10:44.700 the founder of government would be barred from pursuing pending tax claims against Trump.

00:10:48.780 his relatives, and his affiliated businesses.

00:10:52.780 Democrats particularly are accusing the Justice Department of acting in Trump's personal interests,

00:10:58.020 but their analysis misses the forest for the trees.

00:11:01.640 A sitting American president and his family had their confidential tax returns leaked,

00:11:07.000 weaponized, and splashed across the media as part of a deliberate campaign to undermine them.

00:11:12.480 After years of investigations, audits, lawsuits, and political targeting,

00:11:18.780 Nothing could stick, despite billions of dollars of resources being spent in an effort to destroy Donald Trump and his candidacy.

00:11:28.380 The administration is now moving to settle the matter and close the books.

00:11:32.420 Federal agencies must never be used as political weapons like they clearly have been against President Trump, General Michael Flynn, well, and myself, among others.

00:11:44.600 Accountability should not only be to taxpayers, but also to the bureaucrats who abuse their governmental power.

00:11:52.820 Meanwhile, the FBI posted the lowest violent crime statistics in nearly 100 years.

00:12:00.140 U.S. violent crime fell sharply in 2025.

00:12:03.520 Remember, Donald Trump promised to be the law and order candidate, and indeed he is,

00:12:07.900 with FBI nationwide data showing the largest decrease in violent crime and murders since

00:12:15.440 1937. According to the FBI's preliminary uniform crime reporting data, violent crime dropped about

00:12:23.840 9.3 percent nationwide, murder and non-negligent manslaughter fell by more than 18 percent,

00:12:31.300 robbery dropped by 18.5 percent, rape declined nearly 8 percent, and aggravated assault was

00:12:40.000 down by more than 7 percent. Property crimes also moved in the right direction, falling roughly 12.4

00:12:46.840 percent from the previous year. This data, collected from more than 17,000 law enforcement

00:12:54.220 agencies, covers about 96 percent of policing across the country, points to a major public

00:13:00.780 safety turnaround. My good friend, FBI Director Cash Patel, said the numbers show huge decreases

00:13:08.000 across the board and credited major changes at the Bureau over the last 14 months. This makes it

00:13:15.080 clear that law and order is the word of the day. Compared to 2024, the country saw about 1.1

00:13:21.960 million fewer violent crimes and roughly 5.2 million fewer property crimes under President

00:13:29.980 Donald Trump. Law enforcement also cleared more than 400,000 violent crimes with arrests, along

00:13:37.280 with 868,000 property crimes. The drop in crime is a powerful reminder that Democrats deliberately

00:13:45.280 empower criminals as a way to destabilize our society. Listening to The Stone Zone,

00:13:50.920 don't go away because we'll be right back.

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00:14:04.080 welcome back into the stone zone well former fbi director james comey is asking a federal

00:14:11.600 judge to delay his criminal trial as his lawyers prepare a series of motions seeking to throw out

00:14:18.440 the case. It's funny, when I was charged and asked for a delay in my trial, the judge

00:14:23.260 continued to deny our motion. Also, interestingly enough, initially, Comey and I were both indicted

00:14:30.800 on the exact same charge, allegedly lying to Congress. In his case, there's very little

00:14:37.120 question that he was guilty. He specifically said under oath that he had never instructed

00:14:43.800 any third party to take sealed information and leak it to a third party media source.

00:14:50.680 But prosecutors had an email in which he had, he, Comey, had very specifically directed a

00:14:57.620 legal colleague, Dan Richman, to leak sealed information to the New York Times in an effort

00:15:04.340 to embarrass President Trump. That case never went to trial. But before we even get there,

00:15:09.860 Why is it that Comey was allowed to turn himself in 10 days later without any media notification, but my home was stormed at 6 o'clock in the morning by 29 heavily armed FBI agents wearing night goggles and fully brandishing automatic assault weapons?

00:15:29.060 In this case, a new case, which is a very serious case,

00:15:33.140 Comey was indicted by a grand jury in the Eastern District of North Carolina on two felony counts

00:15:37.800 relating to an Instagram post he made last May showing the numbers 86-47 arranged in shells during a beach walk.

00:15:49.460 Comey would have us believe that he just happened to wander upon this.

00:15:52.960 That's unlikely.

00:15:54.680 Prosecutors allege the post amounted to a threat against President Donald Trump, the 47th President of the United States.

00:16:01.340 Anybody who has any expertise in law enforcement, that would include James Comey,

00:16:07.360 understands that the term 86 means to eliminate, to kill, to whack, to do away with.

00:16:14.120 And this is a serious threat against the president.

00:16:17.780 the indictment charges that Comey willingly and knowingly made a threat on the life of the

00:16:23.780 president to inflict bodily harm on the president and then transmitted that threat through interstate

00:16:30.540 and former commerce by putting it on the internet. Comey's post, of course, included the smart ass 0.98

00:16:36.720 comment, cool shell formation on my beach walk. There was an immediate outrage over the fact that

00:16:43.720 86-47 is obviously a coded call to eliminate President Trump.

00:16:49.460 Sooner or later, Comey will be brought to justice.

00:16:53.100 It's only a matter of time.

00:16:55.360 Judge Louise Flanagan, appointed by President George W. Bush, of course,

00:16:59.680 had tenderly scheduled Comey's trial for July 15th,

00:17:02.880 but in a filing Wednesday, Comey's legal time asked to move the trial to October

00:17:07.720 as he attempts to delay the inevitable.

00:17:11.840 I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:17:13.900 Whatever you do, don't go away because we'll be right back with more of today's politics.

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00:17:29.820 Welcome back into The Stone Zone.

00:17:31.620 Remember when President Joe Biden told us that it required entirely new laws in order to seal our southern border?

00:17:41.000 And then his ally, Republican Senator James Lankford, put forward a piece of legislation that would have actually godfathered two and a half million illegals into the country.

00:17:55.740 They tried to call it an immigration bill.

00:17:58.500 Really, it was an open borders bill.

00:18:01.300 Fortunately, President Trump strongly opposed that bill, as did the Republicans in the U.S. Senate.

00:18:06.560 Now, interestingly enough, illegal border crossings have dropped down to virtually none.

00:18:14.100 There are fewer border crossings within one hour of the Trump administration than ever before,

00:18:28.100 whereas Joe Biden's policy was essentially an open borders policy.

00:18:33.800 Some people I respect believe that as many as 36 to 38 illegals got into the country, completely unvetted.

00:18:42.360 We have no idea how many of them were terrorists.

00:18:44.920 They also brought with them an enormous amount of weaponry.

00:18:48.840 We have no handle on that.

00:18:50.860 That's not to mention the flow of illegal drugs.

00:18:55.380 Meanwhile, sanctuary jurisdictions could soon see more ICE agents in their communities

00:19:02.240 if they refuse to let local law enforcement cooperate with federal immigration officers.

00:19:08.360 Border Czar Tom Homan, a good friend of mine, says the policy is very simple.

00:19:14.280 If states block cooperation inside jails, ICE will send more personnel into neighborhoods

00:19:21.180 to track down criminal illegal aliens after they're released. 0.97

00:19:26.180 Holman pointed specifically to New York, where disgraceful Governor Kathy Hochul, 0.74

00:19:32.080 a gift from Andrew Cuomo, I might add, pointed specifically to her legislation,

00:19:38.580 which pushed preventing state and local law enforcement from entering Section 287G agreements with ICE.

00:19:46.920 Those agreements allow trained local officers to help identify and detain illegal immigrants under federal oversight.

00:19:56.540 You see, Hochul is pandering to the AOC, radical left wing of New York's Democrat Party.

00:20:04.360 The term moderate Democrat has become an oxymoron, even in New York State.

00:20:11.420 Chuck Schumer knows that if he's challenged for the U.S. Senate by AOC, he's toast.

00:20:17.360 That's why he, too, is moving as quickly as he possibly can to the radical left.

00:20:22.620 It also explains this desire by those in power in New York State to thwart the efforts,

00:20:29.800 which are completely legal, to deport dangerous illegal criminals from the United States.

00:20:35.780 Tom Homan warned that ending jail cooperation makes everyone less safe.

00:20:40.620 Instead of one ICE agent arresting one criminal alien in a secure jail setting, federal officials may have to send teams into the community to find that same person later.

00:20:53.120 He also warned that more field operations could meet more collateral arrests of other illegal immigrants encountered during the initial enforcement actions.

00:21:02.360 The Department of Homeland Security says New York has already failed to honor thousands of ICE detainer requests, resulting in the release of criminal illegal immigrants accused of assaults, robberies, weapons offenses, sex crimes, burglaries, and even homicides.

00:21:22.740 Tom Homan also pushed back on proposals that would restrict federal officers from wearing masks,

00:21:28.840 saying that threats against ICE personnel have skyrocketed and federal law takes priority.

00:21:36.720 Homan's actions and words show a man who's serious about immigration enforcement

00:21:41.180 and has the gravitas needed to effectuate President Trump's tough immigration policies.

00:21:48.020 The bottom line is that sanctuary policies do not protect communities.

00:21:53.520 They merely protect lawbreakers.

00:21:56.300 Local police must be allowed to work with ICE. 0.54

00:21:59.220 Criminal aliens should be removed.

00:22:01.180 And American families cannot be forced to pay the price for this anti-American scheme of the radical Democrats.

00:22:09.980 Meanwhile, my good friend President Donald Trump used his commencement address at the U.S. Coastal Guard Academy on Wednesday

00:22:16.800 to deliver a clear message to America's next generation of military leaders

00:22:22.220 that the country is back on the right track.

00:22:25.620 Speaking in New London, Connecticut,

00:22:28.200 President Trump praised the graduates

00:22:31.380 and highlighted his administration's record on border security,

00:22:36.040 jobs, investment, public safety, and trade

00:22:39.680 while drawing a sharp contrast with the Biden years.

00:22:44.160 President Trump blasted the previous administration's handling of illegal immigration, saying Americans can never forget the damage that was done through the open border policies of sleepy Joe Biden.

00:22:56.700 He told the crowd his administration has removed thousands of criminal illegal aliens, including murderers, and said that border enforcement has dramatically improved, as we said earlier.

00:23:08.600 Trump noted that they can come in, but they have to come in legally.

00:23:12.260 Yes, we are a nation of immigrants, but my relatives, as well as the relatives of so many listening here today, came here legally.

00:23:23.560 He also added that immigrants must respect and love the country they seek to join and be allowed into America as a privilege, not an entitlement or a right.

00:23:34.180 The president also touted what he called historic gains for American workers and families.

00:23:40.080 President Trump said the nation is seeing record job strength, lower murders,

00:23:45.220 and a major wave of new investment, claving over $18 trillion,

00:23:49.920 has come into the United States in just 11 months.

00:23:53.440 He stated that we have the American dream back,

00:23:56.840 arguing that that dream was neglected during the previous four years.

00:24:01.360 President Trump also defended his aggressive use of tariffs,

00:24:05.360 saying they have helped put American workers and industries first.

00:24:09.320 The speech was vintage Donald Trump at his unapologetic best.

00:24:14.700 I read it last night, and I was moved at how consistent the president has been in the 50 years that I have known him.

00:24:21.820 He fully understands that our nation's military leaders must be unabashedly patriotic,

00:24:28.440 and they shouldn't be wearing skirts, not if they're men.

00:24:32.380 Nothing else will be tolerated.

00:24:33.900 His America First agenda, defending our military heroes, will secure that America is the world's preeminent superpower in perpetuity.

00:24:44.140 As he said to me on the phone the other night, I rebuilt our military in my first term, and now I'm using it appropriately in my second.

00:24:52.860 Couldn't have said it better myself.

00:24:55.320 Meanwhile, Republican lawmakers are renewing calls to cut all remaining ties between the United Nations and the UNRWA,

00:25:04.560 the controversial Palestinian aid agency accused for years of being compromised by Hamas.

00:25:13.040 In a letter to President Trump, 25 Republican senators urged the administration to fully dismantle this organization

00:25:19.620 and remove it from the U.N. budget, arguing that no aid organization should receive support

00:25:26.220 unless it is free of terrorist ties, completely transparent, accountable, and in fact committed to peace.

00:25:34.480 The push follows mounting evidence after the October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks against Israel.

00:25:42.780 Israeli officers have accused the UNRWA employees of taking part in the massacre

00:25:50.760 and assisting Hamas operations in Gaza.

00:25:54.880 As a USAID inspector general summary recently found,

00:26:00.580 several of the employees of this organization were involved in holding Israeli civilian hostages

00:26:06.140 or participating directly in terrorist activity on October 7th.

00:26:12.020 The watchdog that reportedly submitted the names of the 21 staffers for suspension or disbarment from future American taxpayer funding,

00:26:23.040 those identified allegedly include school principals, teachers, and, of course, social workers.

00:26:29.800 Republicans have argued Hamas has used weapons, supplies, buildings, and facilities to hide weapons, support tunnel infrastructure, and even hold hostages.

00:26:40.060 You and I are all paying for this through the United Nations.

00:26:44.660 That's why it's time to put a stop to it.

00:26:47.660 The president moved in February 2025 to block direct U.S. funding to this arm of the United Nations

00:26:54.780 after the Biden administration spent as much as $1.5 billion for this particular program.

00:27:02.880 But Republicans say American taxpayers may be indirectly funding the organization

00:27:07.620 through broader U.N. contributions as well.

00:27:11.120 Humanitarian aid should help innocent civilians not prop up terror networks.

00:27:16.740 And if the United States cannot stop funding Palestinian terrorism,

00:27:21.180 well, it's time for the United States to leave the United Nations.

00:27:25.440 Looking at that beautiful United Nations building right there in Manhattan,

00:27:29.500 it occurs to me what a fabulous hotel that would make for the Trump Organization.

00:27:34.560 You're listening to The Stone Zone, and I'm Roger Stone.

00:27:37.100 Thanks for joining us today.

00:27:39.240 House Republicans delivered a major win for American families this week,

00:27:43.500 passing a bipartisan housing bill by a commanding 396 to 13 vote

00:27:49.960 and sending it to the Senate for final approval.

00:27:53.520 The White House says President Trump supports the House version after key changes were made,

00:27:58.540 given Republican leadership a victory over Senate pressure to accept a rival bill

00:28:04.180 that did not include those edits.

00:28:05.820 At the heart of the measure is a conservative priority, that is, helping working Americans buy homes by increasing supply, cutting costly red tape, and limiting the ability of large institutional investors to crowd out families in the single-family housing market.

00:28:25.040 House Financial Services Chairman French Hill said the bill prioritizes American families by expanding home ownership, improving affordability, and reducing regulations that drive up costs.

00:28:39.840 Legislation also keeps a ban on large institutional investors buying up new single-family homes.

00:28:47.340 This is a phenomenon that we saw very widespread with operations like BlackRock and others

00:28:53.880 buying up virtually all of the single-family homes in the country.

00:28:58.460 This has now been banned by the Trump administration.

00:29:02.420 Importantly, House Republicans removed a controversial Senate provision

00:29:06.200 that would have forced large investors to sell off rental homes within seven years.

00:29:12.720 Critics warned that mandate could shrink rental supply

00:29:16.100 and hurt Americans who cannot yet afford to buy a home.

00:29:20.920 Still, 13 conservatives opposed the bill over concerns about the temporary ban on central bank digital currencies.

00:29:29.160 Privacy hawks argue that the ban should be permanent,

00:29:33.280 warning that a short-term prohibition could leave the door open to federal financial surveillance after 2030.

00:29:40.700 My good friend Speaker Mike Johnson called the bill a strong bipartisan package to put more families in homes, while Majority Leader Steve Scalise said Americans will welcome lower housing costs.

00:29:55.680 These are the sort of Republican wins we need to keep racking up headed into the midterms, but nothing will help the housing market so much as a deeper cut in the federal interest rates.

00:30:08.580 Federal interest rates are supposed to be set based on two criteria, unemployment and inflation.

00:30:15.380 But under Jerome Too Late Powell, the outgoing chairman of the Federal Reserve Board,

00:30:21.640 neither one was taken into consideration as interest rates were manipulated to the benefit of the Democrats.

00:30:26.900 In other words, both the inflation rate and the unemployment rate were either lower than or at the same level

00:30:35.080 as they were when the Fed provided a much deeper interest rate cut

00:30:40.200 to try to boost the re-election prospects of Joe Biden.

00:30:45.080 It's time once again for us to have an interest rate cut

00:30:49.560 based on the actual economic statistics on which it is legally supposed to be based.

00:30:55.020 And while we're at it, we should look into the $1.6 billion renovation

00:31:01.540 of the already palatial Federal Reserve building.

00:31:07.780 Why we need to spend that kind of money on a palace for bureaucrats

00:31:12.120 makes no sense to me.

00:31:13.900 Think how many single-family homes we could build for that money.

00:31:17.880 Think of how many people we could help,

00:31:19.980 how many homeless veterans we could help for that money.

00:31:24.980 I favor, now that he is no longer chairman,

00:31:27.760 I favor the investigation into Jerome Tulay Powell and the various lies he told the Congress

00:31:34.500 about the multi-billion dollar renovation of his already palatial headquarters be reopened

00:31:41.020 and that he be held to account. We should not have a two-tiered justice system. One tier will

00:31:48.960 do for all. Thanks for joining us on The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone and we'll be right back.

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00:32:05.720 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.

00:32:08.460 Well, former Democratic Congressman Barney Frank has died at the age of 86.

00:32:14.920 Frank, a longtime Massachusetts lawmaker and one of the most far left liberals in congressional history,

00:32:22.400 probably best known for the all-male call boy ring, was run out of his congressional office,

00:32:29.220 passed away Tuesday night, according to his friend and former campaign manager, Jim Siegel.

00:32:35.140 He had reportedly been in hospice care at his home in Maine while suffering from congestive heart failure.

00:32:41.760 Barney Frank served for decades as a powerful voice on the left,

00:32:46.240 became one of the most prominent advocates for gay rights in America,

00:32:49.840 and was not at all shy about it.

00:32:54.240 Earlier this month, apparently frail in a CNN interview,

00:32:59.060 Frank surprised many by warning Democrats about drifting too far to the left.

00:33:05.160 Most remembered, of course, for his central role in crafting the Dodd-Frank financial reform law

00:33:11.920 after the 2008 banking crisis.

00:33:15.200 It was supposedly the most sweeping Wall Street reform in a generation.

00:33:19.280 In fact, it led to an era of hyper-centralization in the banking system as community banks were buried under red tape.

00:33:29.080 Washington's control over the financial sector was expanded greatly, and smaller banking institutions were punished for failures driven by bad government policy.

00:33:39.480 Some of those regulations were later rolled back after years of pressure from lawmakers and community banks.

00:33:45.480 Frank's legacy also took an ironic term when he later served on the board of Signature Bank,

00:33:51.440 the New York-based commercial bank that collapsed in 2023 after a panic among depositors during a

00:33:58.580 wave of bank failures, showing how Frank became a creature of the Washington, D.C. swamp after

00:34:05.740 entering Congress claiming to be a crusader for the little guy. Barney Frank laid the groundwork

00:34:11.680 for what the Democratic Party has morphed into today.

00:34:14.960 He may have been remorseful about it in his final days,

00:34:17.820 but the culpability, of course, remains.

00:34:20.500 His legacy is not a positive one for this country, to put as mildly,

00:34:24.200 but nonetheless, may he rest in peace.

00:34:28.640 Meanwhile, a federal judge has limited ICE's ability,

00:34:32.940 handing down a ruling that limits immigration enforcement

00:34:36.580 inside three Manhattan immigration courts,

00:34:41.320 raising fresh concerns among conservatives about judicial interference

00:34:45.960 with the Trump administration's efforts to restore law and order at the border.

00:34:51.600 On May 18th, U.S. District Judge P. Kevin Castell

00:34:56.620 barred federal agents from making arrests at immigration courts

00:35:00.660 located at 26 Federal Plaza, 201 Verrick Street, and 290 Broadway,

00:35:07.380 except in limited circumstances involving serious threats to public safety.

00:35:13.940 The ruling, which makes very little sense, at least common sense,

00:35:17.780 came after a lawsuit filed by the New York Civil Liberties Union.

00:35:21.400 Who else?

00:35:22.520 And other activist groups challenging ICE policies

00:35:25.540 that allowed federal agents to arrest illegal immigrants appearing in immigration court.

00:35:31.800 Judge Castell acknowledges the government has a strong interest

00:35:35.500 in enforcing immigration laws, but he also sided with the plaintiff's argument that organizations

00:35:41.580 assisting non-citizens should be able to help them pursue asylum claims and fight removal

00:35:47.920 without fear of an actual courthouse arrest. Pro-illegal immigration activists celebrated

00:35:54.700 the ruling, calling it a victory for non-citizens seeking to attend court safely, but the decision

00:36:00.720 is in actuality yet another example of the courts trying to tie the hands of federal agents while

00:36:07.340 the country continues to deal with the consequences of weak immigration policy. As usual, the far left

00:36:14.840 ACLU is behind this measure to weaken our country. It's time for this subversive group to be stripped

00:36:21.020 of their non-profit charter and put out of commission for good or at least operate like

00:36:27.040 everyone else, I would look very seriously at their tax status at the IRS. Thank you for joining

00:36:34.280 us today on The Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. We're here five days a week talking news, history,

00:36:40.880 politics, style, and yeah, sometimes food are my other favorite subjects. Thanks for joining us

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