Tulsi Gabbard stepped down as the Director of National Intelligence on May 25th, 2019. President Trump has been a supporter of her since she was elected to the House of Representatives in 2016. She served four terms in the House as a Democrat and served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. She is a decorated combat veteran and a decorated veteran of the United States Army Reserve, but beyond that, she is one of the most sure-footed, articulate, cautious, but well-spoken people I've ever met in American politics. And yes, I predicted that she will someday be President of the USA.
00:00:57.320Well, last night at about 8.30 Eastern Time, I got a call from Tulsi Gabbard, the Director of National Intelligence, to tell me that she'd made a very difficult decision and that she would be stepping down as the Director of National Intelligence in order to support her husband, Abraham, after he was diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.
00:01:21.760Evidently, her husband will require a very difficult and painful surgery and no doubt a very prolonged recovery.
00:01:30.220Reports by Reuters that Gabbard resigned over policy differences with President Trump are patently false.
00:01:37.960Just further proof that Reuters is not a journalistic outfit or a news outlet.
00:01:46.140So I was personally assured by Gabbard, with whom I have a close friendship, that if she had objected to the president's actions in Iran, she would have resigned long ago, and that this had nothing to do with policy.
00:02:01.940See, I met Tulsi Gabbard when she was an independent.
00:02:06.340She served four terms in the House as a Democrat, but she had left the Democrat Party over its pro-war stance.
00:02:13.920and she was at that point thinking of running for vice president on the independent ticket
00:02:21.480of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. She and Kennedy would both ultimately decide to forego any independent
00:02:28.620candidacy and to support Donald Trump. I think she was an extraordinarily effective surrogate
00:02:34.640for Trump on the stump. And of course, I also played some role in eventually convincing her
00:02:39.960to become a Republican. I've said it right here in the Stone Zone and multiple other places.
00:02:47.320She's one of the most impressive political figures I have ever met in my life. She served four terms1.00
00:02:53.120in the House as a Democrat. She's a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. She's a
00:02:59.560decorated combat veteran. But beyond that, she is one of the most sure-footed, articulate,
00:03:06.560it, cautious, but I think well-spoken people I've ever met in American politics. And yes,
00:03:14.440I predicted that she will someday be president of the United States. And I stick to that prediction.
00:03:21.280She's expected to leave the position completely as of June 30th. In her resignation letter,
00:03:27.600Gabbard said she was deeply grateful for the trust President Trump placed in her and for the honor of
00:03:32.480leading the office of the Director of National Intelligence for the past year and a half.
00:03:37.600Let's go through some of her accomplishments, if we may. First of all, she declassified the
00:03:42.880Russian collusion hoax documents, something that the current CIA director could have done
00:03:50.600during President Trump's first term, but didn't. She also declassified all of the
00:03:57.240phony impeachment documents. This is earth-shattering because it allowed her to refer
00:04:03.400the Russiagate criminals such as Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Susan Rice, John Brennan, James Comey,
00:04:11.200and the rest of their criminal retinue to the Department of Justice for prosecution.
00:04:17.680There is not a news outlet in America today who has a leg to stand on when they say that there was
00:04:24.200Russian interference in the 2016 election. And she exposed the two completely phony impeachments.
00:04:32.720You remember those, the two cute little Vindman twins in their little uniforms and
00:04:37.440Eric Ciamella, the so-called whistleblower who's fabricating all of his claims being coached by
00:04:45.840Congressman, now Senator, Adam Pencilneck Schiff. She declassified those documents as well.
00:04:53.360And she referred those same criminals to the Department of Justice for prosecution.
00:04:59.680She also spearheaded the investigation into voter fraud in Georgia.
00:05:04.080She actually led the raid on the Fulton County Election Board warehouse, where the famous 300,000 paper ballots that popped up from nowhere in the middle of the night at 3 a.m. were seized.
00:05:18.360She investigated the dark origins of COVID-19.
00:05:23.260She, along with Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna, another real fighter, fought to declassify and find many of the hidden documents pertaining to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King.
00:05:38.980And more recently has fought with the Central Intelligence Agency over the files pertaining to MKUltra, the controversial mind control program that was run by the CIA.
00:05:52.220She also revoked the security clearance from 37 Obama-Biden holdovers who still were within
00:06:02.060the intelligence apparatus continuing to leak, many of them signers of the famous letter by
00:06:10.020the 51 intelligence officers who claimed that Hunter Biden's laptop was not authentic, that it
00:06:16.440was Russian disinformation. She also fired officials who contradicted Trump on the
00:06:22.500Venezuelan gangs. She moved the CIA's in-cutel program under DNI oversight for greater
00:06:30.060accountability. She uncovered Ukrainian government's plot to illegally reroute hundreds of millions of
00:06:37.860our U.S. tax dollars to Joe Biden's 2024 campaign. She launched the declassification effort to
00:06:46.280expose the truth about UFOs. At the same time, she slashed the bloated intel agency bureaucracy
00:06:54.520by 50%, a 50% staff cut at ODNI, saving American taxpayers about $700 million.
00:07:03.020So she fully exposed the intelligence community's political weaponization.0.96
00:07:07.800And she did all of this, as we now know, with the CIA breathing down her neck and trying to tie
00:07:14.200her hands at every turn. Shocking story by the respected journalist Catherine Herridge yesterday
00:07:21.480that indicates that the working group that Tulsi Gabbard headed that was studying the 2020 elections,
00:07:30.520not only the paper ballots, but also the security and manipulability of electronic voting machines
00:07:38.220was being illegally spied on by the CIA the entire time, meaning every computer stroke,
00:07:45.340every cell call, every text message was being illegally monitored. That's because there are
00:07:52.000those in the CIA who have been using the same technology for decades in order to rig
00:07:57.660foreign elections, perhaps even to rig our own 2020 election. So you have to wonder about people
00:08:05.540like Laura Loomer, who calls herself an investigative journalist, but in fact is just a0.82
00:08:11.680mouth for hire. Given this record of support for President Trump, particularly the declassification
00:08:20.060of the Russian collusion hoax documents and the declassification of the impeachment documents,
00:08:25.860why is Laura Loomer so manic in her efforts to destroy Tulsi Gabbard? Could it be because she's1.00
00:08:32.200on the payroll of the CIA? Who's paying for every word, every syllable? Donald Trump has no0.79
00:08:38.660stronger or more effective appointee. So why is crazy Laura Loomer out to destroy her? That's a1.00
00:08:45.620question, not an assertion. It's a question that I will get to the bottom of. We now know that
00:08:52.760she's leaving office because her husband faces this major challenge in the weeks and months ahead,
00:08:57.260and she's decided to be by his side. I understand this entirely. My own wife, of course,
00:09:04.240was diagnosed with aggressive stage four cancer immediately after my pardon.
00:09:09.880And I know what she went through. Therefore, I know what Tulsi Gabbard and her husband,
00:09:15.580Abraham, are about to go through. She said that he has been her rock through 11 years of marriage,
00:09:21.400including her military deployment, her political campaigns, and her service in the Trump
00:09:26.100administration. Her departure may close a significant chapter in the effort to reform
00:09:31.340Americans' intelligence community. It depends on who her successor is. Personally, I'm hoping it0.53
00:09:37.020will be former congressman and former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes,
00:09:43.020who would be ideal for this job. But as I said earlier, I still believe that Tulsi Gabbard has
00:09:49.660a great political future ahead of her. I still believe that she will be the first woman president
00:09:55.660of the United States, not in 2028. She's young and she will be back in the political wars.0.99
00:10:02.840So unfortunately for Laura Loomer, you have not by any means heard the last of Tulsi Gabbard.
00:10:10.540If you're just tuning in, I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone. President Donald
00:10:15.760Trump is urging the Supreme Court to do what's right as the justice is prepared to rule on his
00:10:21.200executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants and others
00:10:27.480who are not lawfully permanent residents of the United States. The case, argued before the High
00:10:34.060Court in April, could become one of the most important immigration rulings in modern history.
00:10:40.180Trump says the 14th Amendment was never intended to create automatic citizenship for anyone
00:10:45.640who happens to be born on American soil while their parents are here unlawfully or temporarily.0.52
00:10:52.040He argues correctly that the provision was adopted after the Civil War to protect the
00:10:57.680children of freed slaves, not to reward illegal immigration, birth tourism, or wealthy foreign
00:11:04.880nationals who are gaming the system. The president warned that if the current interpretation stands,
00:11:11.440America will continue losing control over its own citizenship rules as the nation's demographic
00:11:18.140downslide continues. President Trump argues that the policy could create massive long-term costs
00:11:24.640and encourage more people to enter the country for the purpose of securing citizenship for their
00:11:30.620children. Trump also criticized the court's recent rulings against his administration,
00:11:35.660saying that justices have already done serious damage on issues like tariffs
00:11:39.920that are holding back America's economic revival.
00:11:44.020The idea that the Supreme Court would rule that the President of the United States
00:11:48.360does not have the authority to negotiate tariff agreements with other countries is an absurdity.
00:11:56.380Still, he called on the court to defend the country's sovereignty in this crucial case.
00:12:01.360The issue here is pretty straightforward.
00:12:03.300Citizenship must mean allegiance, lawful status, and a real connection to the United States.
00:12:09.220and a loophole that's being exploited by illegal immigrants,
00:12:14.480foreign elites, and open-border activists is killing America
00:14:58.160That is the lowest percentage of the vote any incumbent U.S. senator running for re-election has ever gotten in a party primary.
00:15:06.080Also shows that the endorsement of President Donald Trump packs a real political wallop.
00:15:11.300Senate Majority Leader John Thune told the senators that the chamber would head home with the bill unfinished.
00:15:17.880The immediate dispute reportedly centers on a Department of Justice weaponization fund that Democrats in the Senate and a few misguided Republicans object to.
00:15:29.320Bethune acknowledged that it's impossible to separate Senate business from the political atmosphere surrounding Trump's endorsement of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxson over the incumbent Senator John Cornyn.
00:15:42.180Trump endorsed Paxson in a surprise announcement in the Texas Republican runoff, which is coming up, calling him an America First patriot and praising his loyalty to Trump and the America First movement.
00:15:54.760Trump said that Cornyn is a good man, but not supportive of MAGA when times were tough.
00:16:00.880I guess means the president really hasn't studied John Cornyn's voting record.
00:16:04.960Vice President J.D. Vance said the endorsement sends a clear message that lawmakers need to serve the voters at home who send them to Washington rather than the special interests who fill their coffers with cash.
00:16:16.920Vance noted that Paxson was there for the country and the president when it counted.
00:16:21.020The move has rattled Senate Republicans, many of whom argue that Cornyn backed Trump's agenda during the first term.
00:16:26.880But anyone who can actually read knows that that's simply not true.
00:16:31.420Paxson's race is a direct test of whether the Senate Republicans will actually fight for the
00:16:36.540America First agenda or keep slowing it down. There's no reason for the Senate to go home with
00:16:42.400President Trump's priorities unfinished. Voters sent Republicans to Washington to deliver results,
00:16:47.760not excuses. The Paxson endorsement to me shows President Trump is willing to end the career
00:16:53.100of anyone who forgets the mandate of the 2024 election. And well, perhaps more scalps need to
00:16:59.260be produced before they get that message. Speaking personally, I object to their objection
00:17:05.040of the creation of a fund to help those who were virtually destroyed by government weaponization.
00:17:11.640As someone who lost my home, my savings, my health insurance, my life insurance,
00:17:18.140my car, I basically lost everything. I had to borrow money from my adult children when I was
00:17:25.140in the crosshairs of the Mueller witch hunt.
00:20:11.840that Powell accused Trump of acting politically when it was Powell who was acting politically,
00:20:18.860refusing to cut rates in order to stave off a housing boom in the United States.
00:20:24.620The director of the Federal Housing and Finance Authority, Bill Pulte, has been a particularly
00:20:29.620effective and articulate critic of the high interest rate policies of Jerome Powell and
00:20:36.800the way they've hurt the U.S. housing market.
00:20:38.800The new chairman, Kevin Warsh, has promised to lead a reform-oriented Federal Reserve, one willing to learn from some of these past mistakes, break out of stale economic models, and restore standards of integrity and performance.
00:20:53.880That's exactly what the country needs after the Powell era, when inflation exploded under Biden,
00:20:59.340working families were crushed by rising prices, and easy money policies from the profligate
00:21:05.500Democrats fueled an affordability crisis that President Trump has been working hard to reverse.
00:21:11.480The president, of course, praised Warsh as a leader with rare ability and broad respect,
00:21:16.800saying he expects him to become one of the greatest Fed chairmen in history.
00:21:20.880Walsh now takes over artificial intelligence, investment, wages, inflation, and job security,
00:21:27.560and how they will reshape the American economy.
00:21:33.460To restore sound money, to defend workers and families,
00:21:37.000and to make the Federal Reserve serve Main Street, not just Wall Street.
00:21:42.200With Walsh and President Trump working together instead of being at odds with the president,
00:21:46.240like Jerome Tulate Powell was, they can achieve these goals and bring a broad prosperity back to
00:21:53.080the American people. Meanwhile, President Trump bid adieu to Stephen Colbert. The president is
00:22:00.240celebrating the end of the late show with Stephen Colbert after its final episode aired Thursday
00:22:06.320night, ending an 11-season run at CBS that was plagued by chronically low ratings and lack of
00:22:13.220interest. It is estimated that CBS lost as much as $30 million a year on this show that no longer
00:22:21.520was funny. President Trump, who was a constant target of Colbert's political propaganda masquerading
00:22:27.560as comedy, took to True Social where he said Colbert was finally finished at CBS. I myself
00:22:34.440have been a target of the formerly funny comedian, and the president said he was glad the show was
00:22:40.800gone. Colbert's final broadcast from the Ed Sullivan Theater featured Paul McCartney,
00:22:46.320along with appearances from Bryan Cranston, Tim Meadows, Paul Rudd, and Tig Notaro. But celebrity
00:22:54.060Camino's were not enough to change the larger story that late-night television has been collapsing
00:23:00.220under the weight of left-wing politics, smug lectures, and declining viewership. CBS canceled
00:23:07.400Colbert's show last July, shortly after he attacked Paramount, the network's parent company,
00:23:14.660over its $16 million settlement with Trump while pursuing a merger. Colbert called the settlement
00:23:21.620a big fat bribe. CBS insisted that the cancellation was purely financial, which is absolutely true,
00:23:28.980as the show was losing tens of millions of dollars and was hemorrhaging viewers. Perhaps
00:23:34.700before President Trump's political comeback, CBS would have felt compelled by the woke mob to keep
00:23:39.980Colbert on just because they liked him as a talking head for the far left agenda. But Trump's
00:23:45.640resurrection allowed CBS the freedom to sack this bum once and for all. Colbert actually openly said0.78
00:23:52.440he was thinking about running for president. I wish he would like to embarrass him. Colbert will
00:23:57.200no longer continue to stick around and spout his partisan venom, but he'll no longer be platformed
00:24:02.620CBS dispute his bile. In my opinion, good riddance to bad rubbish. Lawmakers are renewing a push to0.99
00:24:11.260create a strategic Bitcoin reserve for the United States with a new bipartisan bill aimed at
00:24:17.320acquiring roughly 1 billion Bitcoin over the next five years. The American Reserve Modernization
00:24:25.120Act of 2026 would place the reserve under the U.S. Treasury Department and also create a digital
00:24:31.660asset stockpile for other federally held cryptocurrencies. Now contrast this with
00:24:38.520the operations of the Biden administration that went out of their way to try to destroy
00:24:43.520the cryptocurrency industry. The digital asset stockpile is contained in a bill sponsored by
00:24:53.000Representative Nick Begich of Alaska and backed by 16 members of Congress. It builds on earlier
00:24:59.300Bitcoin reserve legislation that was introduced in 2024. Supporters say the measure could finally
00:25:06.100give Americans a clear policy for digital assets already held by the federal government. The United
00:25:12.080States currently holds more Bitcoin than any other nation state with more than 328,000 Bitcoin worth
00:25:19.620over $25 billion today. But without a long-term plan, portions have been sold off through court
00:25:27.020actions, which jeopardizes the stability of the entire economy. Under the bill, Bitcoin would
00:25:33.700generally have to be held for at least 20 years unless sold to reduce the national debt, which
00:25:39.480has now ballooned to $39 trillion. The plan calls for acquiring up to 1 million Bitcoin through
00:25:48.360budget-neutral strategies, meaning it would not rely on taxpayer money. The bill also requires
00:25:54.800quarterly proof-of-reserve reports and independent audits, adding transparency to federal holdings.
00:26:02.500The appeal is abundantly clear. We must protect America's financial sovereignty,
00:26:07.920strengthen the dollar's strategic position, and stop letting Washington squander away valuable
00:26:13.040assets without a clear plan. Just as importantly, the bill affirms that the federal government
00:26:19.540cannot impair America's right to own or self-custodied digital assets. This is crucial
00:26:26.440as the future of money switches away from government-controlled paper and transitions
00:26:31.020into instruments that cannot be counterfeited or corrupted, such as crypto coins or Bitcoin or
00:26:37.880cryptocurrency. Meanwhile, of course, NASCAR is mourning the sudden death of Kyle Busch,
00:26:43.840two-time cup series champion and one of the greatest drivers in motorsports history who died
00:26:50.260suddenly at age 41 after being hospitalized with a severe illness. Bush had been scheduled to
00:26:56.660compete in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway over the coming weekend before his sudden
00:27:02.620hospitalization and untimely death. NASCAR and their chairman Richard Childress Racing and the
00:27:10.420Bush family announced his passing in a joint statement, calling him a rare talent and a
00:27:16.560future Hall of Famer. Bush's career was extraordinary. He won Cup Series championships
00:27:22.040in 2015 and 2019, captured 63 Cup victories, and ranked ninth on NASCAR's all-time win list.
00:27:32.340Across NASCAR's three national series, his record was even more remarkable. 102 wins
00:27:38.540in the second tier series and 69 wins in the Craftsman Truck Series. Known for his nickname
00:27:46.140Rowdy, Bush was unapologetically competitive and he became one of the most polarizing figures
00:27:52.800in NASCAR for his brash nature. He built one of NASCAR's most loyal fan bases known as the Rowdy
00:28:01.080Nation. Bush drove for Hendrick Motorsports, became the face of Toyota's NASCAR rise with
00:28:08.240Joe Gibbs Racing, and finished his career with Richard Tauras Racing. Bush represented the best
00:28:14.460of American motorsports, family, grit, risk, skill, and a refusal to apologize for wanting to win.
00:28:24.120He was a great example of why NASCAR has become a cultural staple for conservatives,
00:28:28.440as you never heard a woke word coming out of the mouth of Kyle Bush or any of the other NASCAR
00:28:34.280greats. In an era of polished corporate athletes, Kyle Bush remained old school, tough, fiery,
00:28:42.020and unmistakably American. We at the Stone Zone pray for the Bush family during these trying and
00:28:48.140difficult times, and we note the passing of a great athlete. President Trump has announced
00:28:54.420that the Pentagon will release another batch of once classified UFO documents, continuing a
00:29:01.300transparency push by President Donald Trump. Friday's release includes more than 50 previously
00:29:06.880classified videos and documents related to Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena, or UAPs,
00:29:14.580the government official's term for unidentified flying objects. Among the files is an April 2024
00:29:22.180infrared video from the U.S. Coast Guard showing an object flying near a plane over the southeastern
00:29:28.320United States. Another video labeled Syrian UAP instant acceleration was captured by a U.S.
00:29:36.580military infrared sensor in 2021 and later uploaded to a classified network. The Pentagon
00:29:44.160all-domain anomaly resolution office said it has found no evidence that these incidents were
00:29:50.560extraterrestrial, but its officials also admit many cases remain unresolved and unexplained.
00:29:58.480One newly released 2020 video from the U.S. Central Command appears to show a sphere flying
00:30:06.040over a populated area before rising up into the sky. Another written account from senior
00:30:12.220intelligence officers described two large glowing orbs near a helicopter during a mission.
00:30:20.000Fighter jets reportedly scrambled, but could not be identified as to what the objects were.
00:30:25.960So far, more than 200 of these UAP-related files have been released by President Trump's direct orders.
00:30:34.200The Pentagon says its new public website has already received more than a billion views worldwide.
00:30:41.620This is a crucial measure for achieving government accountability.
00:30:44.940For decades, Washington hid information, dismissed public concerns, told Americans not to ask questions about UFOs.
00:30:53.760Trump's approach is a breath of fresh air by comparison.
00:30:57.120His administration is releasing the files, showing the evidence, and letting the people decide for themselves.
00:31:03.280This is what strong leadership looks like.
00:31:06.960Meanwhile, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, an open admirer of Mount Sechung and Fidel Castro,0.89
00:31:13.600is now signaling openness towards allowing non-citizens to vote in the local elections,0.95
00:31:18.940a move that would further weaken election integrity and drive illegal immigrants more voting power.
00:31:26.040During a recent interview, Politico Bass, who was mayor during the horrific fires in Los Angeles,
00:31:34.000said that Los Angeles should explore the idea, arguing that some non-citizens pay local taxes
00:31:40.360and therefore may deserve a voice in the city council or the school board races.
00:31:45.640When asked whether this is the right time to pursue such a policy with President Donald Trump
00:31:50.480back in the White House, Bass did not reject that idea. Instead, she says, was worth examining,
00:31:56.320noting that some cities have already allowed certain non-citizens to vote in local contests.
00:32:01.740Federal laws bar non-citizens from voting in federal elections, but several Democrat-run jurisdictions have pushed local non-citizen voting as a way to empower their core constituency of illegals.
00:32:16.360To me, these policies deliberately blur the meaning of citizenship and make a complete mockery of election integrity and the rule of law.
00:32:27.480Bass is facing an independent challenger, Spencer Pratt,0.83
00:32:30.620and perhaps that's why she wants non-citizens to vote.0.92