Bill Pulte, who is currently the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHA) and Chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, will now serve as the acting Director of National Intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard leaves that post on June 30th. Meanwhile, the White House Correspondents Association says it postponed its dinner which will now be held July 24th in Washington, D.C., after the original event was disrupted by a deranged leftist.
00:02:14.140President Trump praised Bill Pulte on True Social, saying he has experience managing sensitive matters involving market stability and more than $10 trillion of assets at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
00:02:29.260Pulte will remain in his housing role while temporarily leading the intelligence community.
00:02:35.140The Director of National Intelligence oversees 18 intelligence organizations, including the CIA, the NSA, the DIA, and the FBI Intelligence Branch, and serves as the President's top intelligence advisor.
00:02:50.820Now, some in the deep state, for example, Senator Tom Cotton, he would like to take all of the declassification authority away from the director of national intelligence and shift it back to the CIA, which means we'll never learn what really has happened.
00:03:07.560Now, Bill Pote may not come from a traditional intelligence, military, or diplomatic background, but he has shown in his current position that he has no problem standing up to the entrenched Washington, D.C. corruption.
00:03:22.740He's been a major critic of the Federal Reserve and has called for Jerome Powell to be investigated over his multi-billion dollar building renovation scheme that built the taxpayers.
00:03:35.100More importantly, in his role investigating mortgage fraud, Bill Pulte referred Letitia James, the New York Attorney General, to the Department of Justice for prosecution for the crime of mortgage fraud.
00:03:51.460By the way, Letitia James has prosecuted people for the exact same crime that she was charged with.
00:03:58.140So, Pulte has demonstrated that he has the guts and the courage and the fortitude and the total loyalty to President Donald Trump to be an excellent choice for this job.
00:04:11.880The president, of course, has long argued that Washington's intelligence bureaucracy needs disruption, accountability, and leaders who are loyal to the elected president, not the permanent administrative state.
00:04:23.660Pulte, 38, is the grandson of Pulte Group founder William J. Pulte, one of the largest housing building companies in the country.
00:04:35.440He was confirmed as the FHFA director back in March of 2025.
00:04:41.180Since then, he's made the agency far more visible and accountable, including leadership changes at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
00:04:48.960His appointment signals Trump's continued willingness to put reformers in charge of powerful institutions in a government long dominated by insiders.
00:04:59.040That is the course correction that I think is needed.
00:05:01.940Bill Pulte will excel in his role as the acting director of national intelligence.0.80
00:05:08.060Meanwhile, the White House Correspondents Association says it postponed its dinner, which will now be held July 24th in Washington, D.C., after the original event was disrupted by an assassination attempt against President Donald Trump and key members of his cabinet by a deranged, psychotic leftist.
00:05:29.580The news organization says the rescheduled dinner will include significantly enhanced security and new access procedures.
00:05:39.520President Trump has confirmed that he will be in attendance.
00:05:42.260The earlier event ended abruptly, as you recall, after 31-year-old Cole Thomas Allen attempted to push past Secret Service in an attack on the president.
00:05:53.780An officer was shot, but thankfully a catastrophic event was thwarted because he was wearing a bulletproof vest.
00:06:01.460The White House Correspondents Association thanked the Secret Service, law enforcement, and hotel staff for responding quickly.
00:06:09.100There are still major questions about how this wannabe assassination was able to breach the perimeter and get so close to the attendees.
00:06:18.940The White House Correspondents' President, Weijia Jing,
00:06:23.540said that the dinner has long been a celebration of the free press
00:06:26.740and the role of journalism in American democracy.
00:06:30.320She said the group would not allow violence to have the last word,
00:06:33.960especially during America's 250th anniversary year.
00:06:37.500The self-congratulatory message from the White House Correspondents' Association,
00:06:43.860The same media class that spent years demonizing and smearing Trump, making excuses for left-wing violence, and framing his supporters as threats to democracy, now wants to present itself as the brave guardian of freedom.
00:06:59.620The White House Correspondents Association actually got an award for reporting on the 6 a.m. arrest by 29 FBI agents of my wife and I back on January 19th of 2019, for example.
00:07:18.820Now, they would have you believe that their presence at my home was based on tough investigative reporting.
00:07:25.840But that's not true because, well, I was arrested at 6.06 in the morning.
00:07:30.840At 6.11, somebody from CNN emailed, or I should say text message, a copy of my sealed criminal indictment.
00:07:40.220That would not be unsealed until almost 11.30 that morning.
00:07:47.940Well, that's pretty simple. If you examine the copy that was sent to my lawyer, it has no time stamps or official markings that would indicate that it came from the official docket. But if you look at the metadata tags, it does have the initials of the man who wrote this framed job. That would be the most corrupt federal prosecutor in history, Andrew Weissman.
00:08:12.600It is outrageous now that the White House Correspondents Association wants to reposition itself as a brave guardian of freedom.
00:08:22.560These people have made a mockery of press freedom for at least a decade now.
00:08:27.180The White House press corps has become an activist lobby pushing for stochastic terrorism through their coordinated attacks against the president and his supporters like me.
00:08:37.000If journalists want to honor the First Amendment of free speech, they should start by practicing honest reporting, asking fair questions, and admitting how badly they have damaged the public trust.
00:08:48.780Hopefully, this will be the last White House Correspondents Association event held in the event, and in the future, they will be held in a more secure atmosphere in President Trump's White House ballroom.
00:09:02.540Meanwhile, the Treasury Department has published data showing how President Trump's working families tax cuts have delivered major relief to low- and middle-income Americans this filing season.
00:09:13.260Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who in my view is one of the President's very best appointees, noted that the numbers prove President Trump's tax agenda rewards work, respects paychecks, and restores fairness to the tax code.
00:09:27.220Through the April filing deadline, families and workers claimed $82 billion in individual tax relief.
00:09:34.980The Treasury Department says that 97% of filers received a tax cut compared with what they have owed if Trump had not enacted the 2017 tax cuts and they had been allowed to expire.
00:09:48.540The relief was heavily concentrated among working families, not the wealthy, contrary to what the fake news media will tell you.
00:09:56.08096% of filers received a tax cut earned over $200,000, and nearly 70% earned under $100,000.
00:10:06.100Several signature Trump administration policies drove the relief.
00:10:10.920More than 7.5 filers claimed no tax on tips, with an average deduction above $7,000.
00:10:18.560More than 29 million claimed no tax on overtime, averaging about $3,100 per person.
00:10:25.220More than 35 million seniors claimed the enhanced senior deduction, averaging over $7,500 per person.
00:10:33.640Families also benefited from the enhanced child tax credit, claimed by nearly 40 million Americans and their families,
00:10:41.800and the permanently double standard deduction used by more than 127 million filers.
00:10:47.880This is what pro-worker tax policy looks like and why it was so important to pass the big, beautiful bill to begin with.
00:10:56.900Instead of punishing success and expanding Washington, President Trump's plan lets Americans keep more of what they earn.
00:11:04.380This is part and parcel of defending economic freedom.
00:11:07.860The Trump administration is delivering on providing lower taxes, stronger families, more savings, and a renewal of the American dream.
00:11:16.280Meanwhile, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche says that the Justice Department has discovered a room filled with important documents tied to former Special Counsel Jack Smith's extra-constitutional and illegal investigation into President Donald Trump.
00:11:33.100Speaking on a podcast, Blanche said the room was not technically secret, but DOG personnel were unaware of it.
00:11:41.220He said the materials were found in burn bags, which are normally used to destroy sensitive documents.
00:11:47.620Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the location of the bags raised many questions.
00:11:57.700Now, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche floated a theory that an honorable agent may have placed them somewhere unusual to preserve the records rather than letting them be destroyed.
00:12:07.920The discovery follows comments from FBI Director Kash Patel and former Deputy Director Dan Bongino about sensitive Trump-Russia probe documents that were also found in a secret room in burn bags at the FBI.
00:12:23.320Bongino described roughly 100-page documents connected to Crossfire Hurricane, that was the secret operation to take down Donald Trump without probable cause, as the mother load, saying it changed his understanding of the entire Russian collusion hoax.
00:12:41.480Crossfire Hurricane, of course, was the FBI investigation into alleged Trump-Russia collusion that was based on a pack of lies and designed to facilitate a coup against a duly elected president, Donald Trump
00:12:56.140It was these charges that hampered his presidency for the entire first term
00:13:00.500Last year, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard declassified documents showing that the Obama administration advanced claims about Russian interference that officials knew were completely and totally bogus.
00:13:15.820I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to Stone Zone and we'll be right back.
00:13:19.320This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:13:23.200He likes politics and he's a professional at the highest level.
00:15:45.160He listed Cruz as an example of how not to defend Israel to the masses.
00:15:51.000Bruscovitz criticized Senator Ted Cruz for immediately accusing President Trump of appeasing Iran
00:15:56.960after reports of a possible U.S.-Iranian deal surfaced before the details of the proposed settlement were even known.
00:16:06.260Bruscovitz correctly noted that such attacks undermine the President's diplomatic strategy
00:16:11.560and weaken the broader pro-Israel cause.
00:16:15.520Buscovitz pointed to Ted Cruz's past comments suggesting the phrase Christ is king was being used in an anti-Semitic way,
00:16:24.360saying those remarks offended millions of Christians.
00:16:27.240Ted Cruz also led his personal feud with Tucker Carlson based off a contentious interview between the two men early this year
00:16:35.820bleed over into attacks by proxy on Vice President J.D. Vance.
00:16:41.800President Trump has proven he can stand with Israel while still refusing bad deals.
00:16:47.680As the president has said many times, no deal is better than a bad deal.
00:16:52.340And he hasn't succumbed to the neocon foreign policy of groupthink.
00:16:57.240Ted Cruz has shown why he has no faith in President Trump and hopes to use President Trump as a way to reroute the Republican Party from the America First agenda back into the Party of Wall Street.
00:17:09.960the party of the billionaires, the party of the country club, the party of failed neocon orthodoxy
00:17:16.400that birthed a senator like Ted Cruz. You know why people take an almost immediate dislike to Ted
00:17:23.680Cruz when they first meet him? Well, they're only saving time. Unfortunately for lying Ted,
00:17:29.420he's too odious of a figure to be able to manipulate anybody, much less someone as savvy0.89
00:17:34.980and rock steady as President Donald Trump. Now, we all know what this is really about. Ted Cruz
00:17:41.180hankers for another shot at the presidency. He is consistently talked about as a potential 2028
00:17:48.980candidate. Believe me, he could not stand up to the likes of Vice President J.D. Vance. Harkens
00:17:56.520back to my favorite line, as I said from the beginning. Ted Cruz, of course, was George W.
00:18:03.080Bush's brain, hired by the Bush family when George W. was running for president. So all those Bush
00:18:09.240policies that you don't like, the neocon efforts to look for trouble around the world, the war
00:18:19.000against Iraq, which is based entirely on a lie, the claim that Iraq was involved somehow in the
00:18:27.0409-11 attacks on America, that's false.
00:18:29.480Also, the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, had access to yellow cake uranium,
00:18:39.540all lies to draw America to an unnecessary war in which tens of thousands of Americans died
00:18:47.340and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died.
00:20:46.920A man who's gone through hell, but he's kept going, and he's smart, and he's strong,
00:20:53.080and people love him, not everybody, but people love him and respect him, Roger Stone. Where's
00:20:58.220Roger Stone? Here's Roger Stone. Welcome back to the Stone Zone. Joining me now is the editor and
00:21:06.340publisher of the Illinois Review, Mark Vargas. Mark is not only a skilled political operative
00:21:14.700with a long history of public service, but he's also a shrewd analyst of the political situation.
00:21:22.060Before we get into some of the Chicago news, I want to ask Mark, Mark, what is your reaction to the surprise announcement by President Donald Trump that rather than appoint some intelligence agency veteran, probably from the CIA, the president has decided to appoint the head of the Federal Housing and Finance Administration, Bill Pote, as the acting director of national intelligence.
00:21:48.700That is a job that by law he can hold for seven months before going for Senate confirmation, which, of course, would then come after the election.
00:22:02.260We're going to be with you, Roger, and it's a fantastic choice to be acting director.
00:22:06.700I mean, you know, the president, Washington, has been filled with these career diplomats and embedded deep state bureaucrats and all these institutional veterans.
00:22:15.540And naming Pulte as acting director follows a logic that President Trump has followed since the very beginning of his second term, that these broken and corrupt institutions are often best reformed by trusted outsiders, people with a business background where you're judged on results and not by insiders who help break these institutions.
00:22:38.620And so it makes a lot of sense for Pulte is going to follow the line of Tulsi Gabbard, who was there to flip everything upside down, expose the corruption and the weaponization, hold people accountable, pull security clearances and right the ship.
00:22:54.900Because Americans no longer trust our intelligence institutions until President Trump came along and put Tulsi Gabbard in that position, and now Pulte will follow those steps, and as a result, Americans will trust our intelligence institutions again.
00:23:13.380I mean, think about this, Roger, that people talk about Bolte doesn't have the experience.
00:23:17.800Well, what happened in previous administrations, going back to George W. Bush, when he put in the career diplomats, the expert intelligence analysts, what did they do?
00:23:25.500They protected a corrupt and broken system in order to fix it and put it back on the right trajectory.
00:23:31.820And for Americans to trust it again, you've got to put people in like Bill Bolte, who are not part of the system.
00:23:36.900They're outsiders. And it's going to be fantastic. And I'm excited to see what he's going to do in
00:23:41.640the first in the seven months that he's going to be in this position. Yeah, it is. It is a truly
00:23:46.680great appointment, as we both know, and we've covered here on the Stone Zone. Some elements
00:23:51.840of the intelligence community really tried to hamper Tulsi Gabbard in her mission. She was0.86
00:23:57.080specifically directed by the president to get to the bottom of the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
00:24:02.560She did so by declassifying all the documents proved that was a seditious conspiracy led by Barack Obama and others to undo the election of a duly elected president utilizing evidence that was completely and totally fabricated.
00:24:19.120Tulsi Gabbard also declassified all the documents pertaining to the phony impeachment.
00:24:25.640You remember the cute little Vindman brothers in their matching uniforms?
00:24:30.840They both lied under oath. And of course, there was the CIA whistleblower who was really being coached by then Senate Congressman, now Senator Adam Schiff.
00:24:43.220He swore he had never talked to the whistleblower. The whistleblower was on his staff.
00:24:47.720This whole thing was a fraud. And Tulsi Gabbard had the courage to expose it all.
00:24:53.260It is interesting to me this incredible report by Katherine Herridge, a very respected journalist, that indicates that as soon as President Trump directed Tulsi Gabbard to get to the bottom of whether these electronic voting machines are secure or whether they can be manipulated or have been manipulated, perhaps even in the 2020 election, that the Central Intelligence Agency began surveilling Tulsi Gabbard.
00:25:20.400Let's get that straight for a moment. One agency of the government spying on another agency of the government. What is it they're afraid of? That Tulsi Gabbard may expose the fact that our own central intelligence agency has been using the same technology to rig foreign elections for decades and may even have been involved in the rigging of our 2020 presidential election.
00:25:45.160So, Mark, I could not agree with you more. I think this is a truly, truly great appointment by the president. It shows Donald Trump's ability to think outside the box.
00:25:58.140Bill Pulte ran a $10 billion federal agency.
00:26:04.120Before that, he ran a multimillion-dollar family business.
00:26:07.940He's tough, he's smart, and he's the only person who has shown the courage to try to
00:26:14.640hold those who broke the law and violated the Constitution in their efforts to get Donald
00:26:19.020Trump and prevent him returning from the White House accountable, was Bill Pulte in his official
00:26:24.180role in investigating mortgage fraud, which is part of his job as the head of the Federal
00:26:29.340Housing and Finance Administration, who uncovered the mortgage fraud by New York Attorney General
00:27:56.740We're talking to Mark Vargas, the editor and publisher of the Illinois Review.
00:28:01.560And we do want to bring you up to date on some of the most shocking news from Chicago.
00:28:06.060But before we do that, I want to finish our conversation regarding the appointment by
00:28:10.760President Donald Trump of Bill Pulte, the head of the Federal Housing and Finance Administration,
00:28:16.240to be the new Director of National Intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard, who resigns as of
00:28:22.980June 30th. Mark, you had some additional thoughts. Yeah, the one point that I think is going to be
00:28:27.340great for your listeners, Roger, is when I used to work at the Secretary of, Office of the Secretary
00:28:31.400of Defense, and I had a security clearance, and so I know the security clearance process. But
00:28:36.480What's interesting is what Gabbard has done in yanking 37 security clearances from Obama and Biden officials is significant.
00:28:45.940I can't underscore the significance of that because when they leave government, they still make millions and millions of dollars in consulting and advisory roles because they can still hold those clearances.
00:28:56.260They're invaluable because these are top secret, the highest security clearances in the federal government, top secret TSSCI.
00:29:04.200And so there's been no accountability.
00:29:05.940And so by yanking their security clearances, it sends a message that, oh, this is our income potential post-government service.
00:29:14.300And so I can only imagine the type of the clearances that Pulte will review and perhaps yank when he takes over this position.
00:29:23.080But again, you know, what this boils down to is not an expertise problem.
00:29:29.140And as a trusted outsider and close to the president, Pulte is going to do an incredible job in the necessary work that Gabbard began.
00:29:37.740People don't realize this, but a number of those 37 from whom she pulled the security clearances are among those who signed that letter by 51 current and former intelligence agency officials claiming that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation, which, of course, we all know it wasn't.
00:29:57.220So, I agree with your analysis, and I appreciate you bringing up that point.
00:30:01.560Now, let's turn to the Windy City and the worst governor in America, although that could be a contest with Gavin Newsom or Kathy Hochul, I'm not sure.
00:30:11.260But J.B. Pritsky, the man who would be president, he's on the verge of losing the Chicago Bears, which is an institution.
00:30:23.120And, you know, after months of negotiations and legislative maneuvering, last-minute political drama, I mean, we are on the cusp.
00:30:30.880Pritzker's on the cusp of the most humiliating defeat in modern political history, and that is because of his failed leadership.
00:30:38.040It looks like the storied franchise, the Chicago Bears, are going to be moving across the lake to Indiana, to Hammond, Indiana, and to build a new stadium.
00:30:50.420The legislature couldn't, the dysfunctional Democrats led by Prisker,
00:30:54.920they couldn't put a deal together before the end of the legislative session.
00:30:58.620And this is a guy who wants to be president of the United States.
00:32:38.740As you pointed out previously, J.B. Pritzker, the governor, and Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Chicago, a man who, if his IQ was one point lower, you'd have to water him like a plant.
00:32:52.320But I will say this, his approval rating is about 7% last time I looked.
00:32:59.000Both of them have prohibited the Chicago Police Department from backing up ICE agents in the exercise of their duties to arrest dangerous illegal immigrants and deport them.
00:33:14.580I think that they may both yet be legally liable for this if any of those ICE agents turn out to be injured.
00:33:24.520There's an order came down prohibiting local law enforcement from assisting federal ICE agents even when their lives are in danger.
00:33:32.880And they're surrounded by violent, dangerous, and vicious mobs, people wanting to run them over.
00:33:37.240We've seen an 8,000% increase in trying to run over federal ICE agents.
00:33:41.940It's all because of J.B. Pritzker and Brandon Johnson, their rhetoric, that MAGA and President Trump and the MAGA movement is the rise of Nazism in America.
00:33:51.540They've got their followers riled up and wanting to injure and take the lives of federalized agents.
00:33:58.620Meanwhile, they want to protect violent and vicious and dangerous criminal illegal aliens that were welcomed with open arms and embraced in Chicago under Pritzker and Johnson.
00:34:10.660We've had over 200,000 high-priority 911 calls consistently year after year going unanswered because of that shortage.
00:34:17.800Violent and dangerous criminals are roaming around because of the no-cash bail.
00:34:22.060And violent and dangerous criminal teenagers and these teen takeovers, they're freeing out on the streets
00:34:27.080because the message that Pritzker and Johnson send to these teenagers that steal cars at gunpoint,
00:34:32.000that riot and loot and stomp and jump on top of cars and terrorize tourists and residents,
00:34:38.840The message to them is if you keep doing this, we're going to send you to a community counseling program where after an hour, they'll be out playing ping pong and plotting their next team takeover.
00:34:51.520It's why 1,200 businesses have left, over 500,000 people have left under J.B. Pritzker.
00:34:56.940And now it looks like the Chicago Bears are going to join them and leave the state altogether as well.
00:35:00.440The other thing that amazes me is J.B. Pritzker continues to argue, despite the actual facts, that crime is down in Chicago, that crime is down across the board in Illinois, but none of that's true, is it?
00:35:13.800This past Memorial Day, just a couple of weeks ago, Chicago was the most violent city in America.
00:35:18.700There were more shootings in the city of Chicago over Memorial Day weekend than in Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and Detroit combined.
00:35:27.580And yet Governor Pritzker likes to say that President Trump is manufacturing a crisis.
00:35:31.820The numbers and the data speak for itself.
00:35:35.920Again, it's why all these businesses and people are leaving.
00:35:38.520And it's another reason why the Chicago Bears are leaving.
00:35:40.620This place is a war zone under Pritzker and Johnson's failed leadership.
00:35:44.660You know, I do remember that J.B. Pritzker, who tries desperately to be a regular guy,
00:35:50.900You uncovered the fact that he and his company were getting millions and millions of dollars of public subsidies, despite the fact that he was governor.
00:36:23.980$180 million of Illinois taxpayer money has gone to renovate just one of J.B. Pritzker's hotels that his family owns in downtown Chicago and $2.5 billion.
00:36:34.900That's the number, the dollar amount of Illinois taxpayer money that was stolen from taxpayers to make sure that criminal illegal aliens have free health care.
00:37:19.040Yeah, none of this would ever have happened under Governor Rob Blagojevich, a Democrat mayor who never, ever raised taxes and did an incredible job for the people of Illinois.
00:37:31.200My favorite Pritzker story, however, is how he lives in a very, very fancy, beautiful mansion, but he bought the mansion next door because he didn't want to have neighbors.
00:37:43.160And then in order to avoid paying the correct amount of property taxes, he ripped the toilets out of that mansion, which remained empty, so he could avoid a larger tax bill.
00:37:56.900No, it is remarkable. Eight bathrooms and they pulled out eight toilets so that so that the home could legally be uninhabitable of this legal term.
00:38:06.440And as a result, he this billionaire worth four billion dollars.
00:38:10.600This was all to skip out on three hundred thousand dollars in property taxes.
00:38:14.280It really is. It's an insider, a window into who this guy really is, how he operates and how he thinks.
00:38:20.360Well, and he really he owns the Democrat Party of Illinois because he funds every bit of it.
00:38:26.500In other words, it doesn't matter whether you're running for the state Senate or what you're running for.
00:38:55.760And it's why Illinois, and Roger, you might know this, but Pritzker is pushing to have Chicago as essentially the permanent host city of the DNC convention.
00:39:05.560It was 2024. They've now had all of the DNC officials back out in Chicago over the last couple of weeks to plot out whether Chicago will host in 28 and 2032.
00:39:15.720I'm not sure we've ever had a city that's hosted the Democratic convention in the same place three conventions in a row, 12 years in a row.
00:39:22.780But that's what Pritzker is pushing, and they're listening to him because the guy just writes checks.
00:39:28.120Well, and he's clearly looking for some hometown advantage for his would-be presidential candidacy.
00:39:34.360I would point out that historically, conventions that took place in Chicago have not worked out too well for the Democratic National Committee.
00:39:45.900That this guy is considered a front-runner for president is pretty laughable because if you look at the polls,
00:39:51.400He has no support, no support among some of the core constituencies in the Democrat Party, no particular support among African-Americans, no support among Hispanic-Americans, no support among working-class, blue-collar Democrat-Americans.
00:40:08.140It boggles the mind until you realize that his chief competitor is probably Gavin Newsom, a governor who's even doing worse.
00:40:16.380it is it's the battle it's the battle of the worst governors and of 12 potential democratic
00:40:22.880candidates that were polled he polled dead last pritzker one percent support from blacks and0.96
00:40:28.960hispanics nationally uh it's horrific uh he would be dead last but i know a spot where they could
00:40:35.280have a where he could have a presidential campaign launch at soldier field home of the chicago bears0.78
00:40:39.720why because it's going to be empty here soon because they'll be playing in indiana they won't
00:40:43.880need their stadium in downtown Chicago anymore. That would be a perfect spot for Pritzker to host
00:40:48.580his presidential campaign launch in that arena, because no one's going to be there.
00:40:55.520All right. I want to thank our guest, Mark Vargas, the editor and publisher
00:40:58.760of the Illinois. Mark, where can people go to the Illinois Review in order to follow it and