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00:01:00.340 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:01:07.600 Welcome into the Stone Zone.

00:01:09.300 Well, for the third day in a row, official Washington is in absolute uproar over President

00:01:16.340 Donald Trump's appointment of Bill Pulte to serve as the Director of National Intelligence,

00:01:22.260 taking the place of Tulsi Gabbard, who resigned from that position effective June 30th.

00:01:30.000 And the intelligence community is particularly hysterical by the fact that President Trump in a press conference said today that one of the things he wanted Bill Poulter to do was get to the bottom of the truth regarding the 2020 elections, specifically whether the electronic voting machines are secure and whether they can or have been manipulated.

00:01:55.640 The immediate result, of course, was that three Republican senators joined Democrats yesterday in an effort sponsored by Senator Mark Warner of Virginia

00:02:09.900 By the way, he was up to his keister in the Russian collusion hoax

00:02:14.620 But he made a move because Bill Pulte is also currently serving as the head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, as well as chairman of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two governmental housing agencies.

00:02:32.060 Warner made a motion that came before the Senate that would have at least temporarily prohibited anyone from holding two Senate-confirmed positions.

00:02:44.620 I'm not sure what that says about Marco Rubio, who I think currently temporarily holds about four.

00:02:51.920 In any event, the fight comes after President Trump tapped Pulte, a businessman, a housing official known as a bulldog and someone deeply loyal to the president, also someone highly capable.

00:03:04.440 The value of both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac has absorbed to over $100 billion in his leadership.

00:03:12.320 And, of course, Pulte was one of the leading critics of the Federal Reserve chairman, Jerome Tulay Powell, who, acting quite politically, has consistently refused to cut interest rates on the American people.

00:03:27.400 See, interest rates are supposed to be cut based on an examination of both the inflation rate and the unemployment rate.

00:03:36.360 And in all cases, those two measures were either at the same level or lower than when Jerome Powell cut interest rates in a failed effort to reelect Joe Biden. 0.62

00:03:50.580 These three rhinos who voted with the Democrats, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, 0.90

00:03:57.840 he's the cashiered U.S. senator from Louisiana who was ousted by voters two Saturdays ago. 0.97

00:04:04.500 He has the historical footnote of having received the lowest number of votes

00:04:09.240 for an incumbent U.S. senator ever running for re-election in the history of the country.

00:04:15.640 Susan Collins of Maine, who normally would be considered endangered in this upcoming election,

00:04:22.560 but fortunately for her, the Democrats have nominated, I kid you not, a former neo-Nazi as her opponent.

00:04:31.680 And then, of course, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.

00:04:35.180 She's an interesting case. She became the U.S. Senator by appointment. 1.00

00:04:39.260 Her father was the U.S. Senator.

00:04:41.960 He then ran for governor.

00:04:44.080 Once he was elected governor, he resigned the governorship and then appointed his daughter to serve in the U.S. Senate.

00:04:52.740 She has survived in that position under what they call ranked choice voting.

00:04:58.800 That means that the person who gets the most votes is not the person who is elected to the Senate. 0.89

00:05:04.260 So these three rhinos have questioned whether Pulte has the national security experience required to do the job. 0.98

00:05:12.480 In other words, will he roll over for the CIA? 0.99

00:05:15.720 Let me put this another way.

00:05:17.640 The people who murdered President John F. Kennedy, as recent House Oversight Committee hearings have proven,

00:05:25.400 the people who lied about the Gulf of Trung Kinh episode to try to get us into the Vietnam War,

00:05:33.100 The people who insisted that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction to justify the war in Iraq

00:05:43.500 The people who I believe were involved in at least two, if not three, of the attempts to murder President Donald Trump

00:05:55.280 Those people say Bill Pulte doesn't have the experience to do the job

00:06:01.120 By the way, Alan Dulles, before he was the head of the CIA, he was a lawyer.

00:06:05.420 Not sure how that prepares him to head an intelligence agency.

00:06:10.660 Murkowski said she was unaware of anything in his background that would qualify him to oversee agencies like the CIA and the NSA.

00:06:17.440 I'm unaware of anything in her background that qualifies her to be a U.S. senator other than the fact that Daddy was governor and senator before her.

00:06:24.800 But the fact that he's not an intelligence community insider is exactly why Bill Pulte is perfect for this role.

00:06:31.120 I don't think we want a career deep state overseeing the deep state.

00:06:35.860 We need someone who's not beholden to the corrupt system, and Bill Pulte fits that bill spectacularly.

00:06:41.980 Democrats are especially furious because as the head of FHFA, Bill Pulte scrutinized mortgage records,

00:06:50.060 which he's allowed to do by law, involving Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook and New York Attorney General Letitia James,

00:06:57.240 showing they had no calms about holding the entrenched political class accountable.

00:07:02.920 In both cases, there was overwhelming evidence that they both engaged in mortgage fraud

00:07:07.440 because, you see, their Democrat elites, they're not held to the same standard as you and I.

00:07:13.180 Believe me, if I was guilty of mortgage fraud, I would have been prosecuted and I'd probably be in jail by now.

00:07:19.240 But no, if you're a Democrat, you can commit crimes with impunity.

00:07:24.020 Senator Mark Warner got caught planning with those who foisted the Russian collusion hoax on us, called the appointment insane. 0.86

00:07:32.600 Well, I call Senator Mark Warner insane.

00:07:35.600 Well, Mitch McConnell, a man who literally doesn't know what day of the week it is, who is so old at this point that he is really failing badly.

00:07:44.980 But the amendment failed on a 49-48 vote.

00:07:48.900 thanks goodness, and Bill Pulte will go on to serve at least temporarily as the director of

00:07:55.780 national intelligence. If what the president says is true, that Pulte is going to finally reveal

00:08:02.260 what really happened in the 2020 election, you can see why the Democrats are so scared. This is

00:08:08.300 the hottest story in Washington. Bill Pulte has been a longtime friend of mine, someone I

00:08:13.880 originally recommended for the job of federal housing finance administrator. He is a tough

00:08:20.840 bulldog of a man, a man of enormous integrity, a man of great intelligence, and therein lies

00:08:27.860 his qualifications for this important job. Meanwhile, President Trump is moving towards

00:08:34.060 peace with Iran. President Trump announced on Thursday that his administration's policy is

00:08:39.060 working as a deterrent, keeping Iran from making a nuclear bomb. President Trump stated that

00:08:44.420 Iran's enriched uranium stockpile is now effectively entombed and under American

00:08:50.180 surveillance, meaning we know exactly where it is, and they cannot make any move to create a 0.90

00:08:55.240 nuclear bomb without America knowing it, which would be a death wish for what's left of the 0.89

00:09:00.860 Iranian regime. President Trump also said talks with Tehran are going pretty well in front of 0.99

00:09:06.640 the possibility of a broader deal, which could include keeping the Straits of Hormuz, or almost

00:09:12.520 20% of the world's oil flows, open to global commerce. At the same time, he made clear that

00:09:21.040 any attack killing American troops would bring a swift return to military force. The White House

00:09:27.960 is reportedly prepared to maintain the ceasefire with Iran unless U.S. personnel are killed,

00:09:32.860 a move that helped send oil prices lower after days of regional tension.

00:09:38.280 Secretary of State Marco Rubio described recent U.S. military responses as defensive

00:09:43.340 and not a return to full-scale war.

00:09:46.460 Meanwhile, Washington is pushing Lebanon and Israel towards a ceasefighter,

00:09:51.100 although Hezbollah's leaders are rejecting any deal that does not meet their demands. 0.86

00:09:56.680 They've got some nerve.

00:09:58.240 That may be a more difficult task, as Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu has grown tired of the militant terror group.

00:10:06.020 Meanwhile, critics in Congress are trying to restrict Trump's war powers in performative gestures that are meant to garner headlines.

00:10:14.420 It's funny, no President of the United States dropped more bombs and killed more people with drones other than Barack Hussein Obama,

00:10:21.980 but Democrats in Congress did nothing to try to limit them.

00:10:26.660 President Trump knows how to use diplomacy when possible, overwhelming force when necessary,

00:10:32.560 and he will never give a blank check to Iran, Hezbollah, or anyone else threatening American lives.

00:10:40.180 Watching California very closely because I'm a political junkie,

00:10:44.060 President Trump once again raising questions about California's painfully slow vote counting process,

00:10:50.820 and millions of Americans have every reason to be suspicious.

00:10:53.700 After Tuesday's election, Trump blasted what he called big cheating by the Democrats in California and asked the obvious question, why is the vote count taking so long?

00:11:03.980 By the way, in France, they count 38 million paper ballots, so they do it in 24 hours.

00:11:10.120 We can't seem to get a vote count out of California, and that's using electronic voting machines.

00:11:15.160 The New York Times immediately framed Trump's comments as a threat to public confidence,

00:11:19.520 and they claimed days or even weeks of vote counting as proof of a meticulous process.

00:11:24.520 Just to be clear to you folks, if you read anything in the New York Times,

00:11:27.340 you can always believe that the exact opposite is true.

00:11:30.600 Used to be a newspaper. Used to be a great newspaper.

00:11:32.940 Today, well, you can't believe anything they say, and that's the fact.

00:11:37.280 This, of course, is completely absurd. Nobody's buying it.

00:11:39.960 Florida can count millions of votes in a matter of hours.

00:11:42.900 California, home to Silicon Valley and most of the advanced technology in the world,

00:11:47.800 was still sitting around 60% counted in major races after three full days.

00:11:52.740 Los Angeles County, with fewer than 1 million votes in one race, had counted only about 64%.

00:11:59.700 Then there's the mail-in ballot issue.

00:12:02.940 California cubs ballots postmarked by Election Day and received up to a week later.

00:12:08.200 That means ballots can continue arriving after officials and political operatives already know the margins they need,

00:12:14.720 open the door to targeted fraud, which can, of course, swing races.

00:12:19.500 Elections should be simple, secure, and fast enough for ordinary people can trust the outcome.

00:12:26.260 When vote counts drag on for days or weeks, sometimes months,

00:12:30.360 especially in one-party states with massive mail-in voting,

00:12:34.040 suspicion is not only irrational, it's just common sense.

00:12:37.660 As the process goes on, populist outsider Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt,

00:12:43.560 just an average guy whose home was burned to the ground,

00:12:47.120 and came out of nowhere with a clever viral campaign to become a major candidate,

00:12:52.580 becomes less likely now to advance to the runoff in November, according to the prediction markets,

00:12:58.040 all because of the slow count.

00:12:59.900 On Tuesday, it looked like he was a shoo-in, but days later, all of that has changed. 0.53

00:13:04.800 This is why the public no longer believes in the system.

00:13:08.180 Democrat fraudsters have taken hold of the voting process in California and many other areas.

00:13:14.820 It is interesting that Karen Bass, who is the current mayor of Los Angeles,

00:13:20.520 who presided over the fires for which no construction has even begun,

00:13:25.560 openly admits that her political heroes are Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro.

00:13:30.580 That's the mayor of Los Angeles.

00:13:33.260 California has this weird jungle primary system in which candidates of every party run in one large election.

00:13:40.420 So, for example, Steve Hilton seems to be the only really viable Republican, and I believe there are nine other Democrats running.

00:13:48.600 That means there's a high probability that Hilton will make the first cut, and if nobody gets 50% of the vote, and nobody will,

00:13:55.840 then the two top vote-getters, likely Hilton and some Democrat, will be in a runoff together

00:14:03.740 where Democrats greatly outnumber Republicans. So euphoria about California getting a Republican

00:14:10.560 governor again is probably a bit premature. You're getting the inside skinny on American

00:14:16.440 politics right here in the Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Don't go away. When we come back,

00:14:20.820 One of the things we're going to talk about is why Latin American voters seem to be moving right and choosing conservative, anti-narco conservative governments as a exciting new trend.

00:14:33.400 Whatever you do, don't touch that dial or leave us online.

00:14:36.640 We'll be right back.

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00:15:17.320 Welcome back into the Stone Zone

00:15:20.060 President Donald Trump scored a major victory for border security early Friday morning

00:15:25.080 As the Senate passed a $70 billion funding package

00:15:29.600 For Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol

00:15:33.180 Through the end of his term

00:15:35.020 The bill passed this morning, 52 to 47, just around 5 a.m., after weeks of Democrat delays and internal Republican debate over an unrelated settlement fund tied to President Trump's lawsuit against the IRS over the egregious leak of his tax returns at the beginning of the 2016 presidential campaign.

00:15:57.900 Every American is entitled to the confidentiality of their tax returns, unless, of course, your name is Donald Trump.

00:16:05.020 or some member of the Trump family. The president has offered to settle that suit and take the

00:16:10.980 proceeds to create a fund to help those who were weaponized by the Biden and the Obama

00:16:17.360 administration, the January 6 folks, for example, people who had their due process rights denied

00:16:24.400 them and who were kept in squalid prison conditions while their civil rights were denied.

00:16:30.000 But of course, established Republicans have gone out of their mind. What I really don't understand

00:16:34.280 is why the president didn't settle the suit, take the money, and then set this up as a private fund.

00:16:41.140 Then RINO senators or tyrannical left-wing judges would not have been able to stop this process.

00:16:50.360 I myself never made any decision to make a claim, although I think I would be entitled.

00:16:55.800 They wiped me out in their weaponization.

00:16:58.180 I lost my home, my insurance, my car, my ability to make a living, my savings.

00:17:06.220 But frankly, if such a fund ever should come to pass, I'd like to see other people, those who were weaponized by the January 6th hoax and others.

00:17:15.580 I'd like to see them taken care of first.

00:17:18.160 These people need the help.

00:17:19.540 What was done to them is disgraceful.

00:17:21.980 When we come back, we're going to talk about how the forces of freedom are sweeping Latin America.

00:17:28.520 I just noticed on X that the candidate of the right actually gave me a shout out in Colombia.

00:17:38.560 It's actually quite exciting.

00:17:40.420 When we come back, we'll talk about why freedom is now sweeping elections across the lower part of this hemisphere.

00:17:47.720 We'll be right back.

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00:17:59.140 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.

00:18:02.120 For much of the 20th century, Latin America served as one of the principal battlegrounds in the global struggle between communism and free market democracies.

00:18:11.920 The Soviet Union and its allies invested enormous resources into cultivating revolutionary movements, socialist parties, and Marxist insurgencies throughout the Western Hemisphere.

00:18:23.440 From Cuba to Nicaragua and beyond, the left promised a future built upon economic equality, state control, authoritarianism, and collectivist ideology.

00:18:35.060 For a time, many believed those movements repressed the inevitable direction of history.

00:18:40.240 Political leaders, academics, journalists, and activists throughout the region embraced socialist theories and revolutionary rhetoric.

00:18:49.140 The collapse of the Soviet Union slowed that momentum, but it did not eliminate it.

00:18:54.200 In the decades that followed, a new generation of left-wing governments emerged across Latin America under what became known as the Pink Tide.

00:19:03.760 Today, however, a remarkable political transformation is underway.

00:19:09.600 Across the region, voters are increasingly turning away from socialist and progressive governments in favor of conservative, nationalists, and free market alternatives.

00:19:18.880 The shift reflects growing frustration with crime, corruption, inflation, economic stagnation, and governments that have failed to deliver on decades of promises.

00:19:30.420 Nowhere has this been a greater example of reversal than in Argentina.

00:19:36.380 Long regarded as one of the most economically troubled nations in South America, despite its vast natural wealth and human capital, Argentina was once the wealthiest and most cosmopolitan country and city, Buenos Aires, in South America.

00:19:54.320 But years of Peronism and statist government had destroyed the Argentine economy and their quality of life.

00:20:06.380 Argentina endured years of soaring inflation, fiscal instability, and declining public confidence.

00:20:14.560 Facing a mounting economic hardship, voters turned to a very unlikely candidate, a good friend of mine actually,

00:20:21.780 Javier Malay, a self-described libertarian, and a fierce critic of government expansion.

00:20:28.800 Malay's election represented far more than a routine change in political leadership.

00:20:33.300 It reflected a broader rejection of the policies that many Argentines believe contributed to their nation's prolonged economic decline.

00:20:43.240 His promises of deregulation, reduced government spending, and economic liberalization resonated with average voters who have grown worry of inflation, high prices, and diminishing living standards, particularly in the cost of housing.

00:20:58.180 A similar political struggle is now unfolding in Colombia, one of the most important nations in the Western Hemisphere.

00:21:06.040 Colombia is currently governed by President Gustavo Petro, the government's first left-wing president,

00:21:11.520 who is, fortunately, constitutionally prohibited from seeking another term.

00:21:15.860 His administration pursued an ambitious progressive agenda focused on wealth redistribution,

00:21:20.680 environmental reforms, negotiations with armed radical groups, and expanded government programs.

00:21:28.180 While Petro retained a loyal base of support, his presidency was becoming increasingly controversial with concerns about public security, economic performance, health care reform, and rising political polarization.

00:21:41.980 The Colombian presidential election had become, last Sunday, a bit of a referendum on the future direction of the country.

00:21:49.260 The candidate representing continuity with Petro's movement is Senator Yvonne Cepeda, a longtime left-wing activist and close ally of the current administration.

00:22:00.880 Cepeda has pledged to continue many of Petro's policies, including expanding social programs, greater government involvement in the economy, further land redistribution initiatives, and a continuation of negotiation with armed radical groups.

00:22:18.800 Opposing him and coming out of nowhere was an outsider named Abelardo Dilla Espilla,

00:22:25.360 a conservative lawyer, a political outsider, who in just three weeks surged from relatively obscurity

00:22:32.160 to becoming the leading candidate in the race.

00:22:34.840 In the first round, he got 45% of the vote.

00:22:38.640 It takes 50% to avoid a runoff.

00:22:41.500 Dilla Espilla has campaigned on restoring public order, strengthening law enforcement, 0.98

00:22:46.120 confronting criminal organizations, rebuilding relations with the United States,

00:22:50.840 and reversing many of the policies associated with the Petro administration.

00:22:55.600 His rise has drawn comparisons to both Malay of Argentina and Nayib Bukele, another friend of mine, in El Salvador.

00:23:03.800 While the results of the first round of voting sent shockwaves through Colombian politics and much of Latin America,

00:23:10.380 Dela Espralola placed first with approximately 43.7 percent of the vote, while the leftist

00:23:19.860 Sapita finished second with roughly 49 percent. The outcome, of course, would force a runoff

00:23:25.880 election and demonstrated that a substantial portion of Colombia's voters are prepared

00:23:30.440 to move in a more conservative direction. Of course, immediately President Petrov began to

00:23:36.520 questioned the vote count, saying that it was somehow corrupted or that it in other ways was

00:23:43.520 not on the level. But my good friend, Senator Bernie Moreno of Ohio, had been sent there as

00:23:49.120 an observer for the election, and he certifies the election was clean, fair, and honest. The

00:23:54.980 left's problem with the election is, well, they lost. That's their problem. The Colombian election

00:23:59.760 is significant because it illustrates the broader debate occurring throughout Latin America. On one

00:24:06.180 side stand political movements advocating greater state involvement in economic and social life,

00:24:11.760 and on the other side stand candidates emphasizing public security, economic growth,

00:24:18.600 free enterprise, and national sovereignty. The contest is no longer confined to academic

00:24:23.800 discussions or ideological debates. It is being decided at the ballot box by voters increasingly

00:24:29.320 focused on practical outcomes. Elsewhere throughout the region, similar patterns are emerging,

00:24:35.620 In Ecuador, for example, concerns over organized crime, cartel violence, and public security have became dominant political issues.

00:24:44.100 Citizens increasingly demanding stronger law enforcement, the more effective government action against criminal organizations that have expanded their influence.

00:24:52.760 In Chile, enthusiasm for sweeping progressive reforms has diminished as voters express growing concern about economic performance and national stability.

00:25:02.100 In Brazil, conservative and nationalist movements continue to command significant support despite intense political polarization and weaponization against those who speak up against the leftist government.

00:25:16.040 There is sustained opposition from many establishment institutions.

00:25:20.800 Changing political landscape reflects more than dissatisfaction with individual leaders.

00:25:25.000 I believe it represents a broader reassessment of the ideological assumptions that have influenced Latin American politics for generations.

00:25:34.180 Many citizens have concluded that expansive government programs and centralized economic policies have failed to produce the prosperity and the opportunity that the voters were promised.

00:25:46.460 Venezuela stands as perhaps the most powerful example of this reality.

00:25:49.820 Once among the wealthiest countries in the region, Venezuela became synonymous with economic collapse, hyperinflation, political repression, and mass emigration.

00:26:01.500 Millions of Venezuelans fled their homeland in search of safety, freedom, and opportunity.

00:26:07.180 The consequences of that national decline had been visible across the continent, shaping political opinion far beyond Venezuela's borders.

00:26:14.420 For many Latin American voters, these developments are not just abstract political theories, these are lived experiences.

00:26:23.200 Families have witnessed rising prices erode their savings.

00:26:27.580 Business owners have struggled under burdensome regulations and taxes.

00:26:31.940 Communities have endured growing insecurity, and citizens have become increasingly skeptical of politicians who promise transformative change while delivering virtually nothing.

00:26:41.620 As a consequence, political movements that emphasize economic freedom, public safety, national sovereignty, and governmental accountability are gaining momentum throughout the hemisphere.

00:26:53.480 While each country's circumstances are, of course, unique, the broader pattern is difficult to ignore.

00:26:59.860 The significance of this trend extends beyond Latin America.

00:27:03.140 The issues driving political change throughout the region mirror many of the concerns that dominate political debates in the United States.

00:27:11.120 Inflation, crime, immigration, government spending, and public trust in institutions

00:27:16.420 remain central issues for voters throughout the Americas.

00:27:20.460 The outcome of Colombia's runoff elections will provide one of the clearest indications yet

00:27:25.320 of where the region is headed.

00:27:27.560 A victory by Cepeda, which is unlikely, would preserve the momentum of the Latin American left

00:27:33.260 and provide a successor to Petro's political project.

00:27:36.680 But the third candidate in the race, who got about 6.9% of the vote, was a center-right senator.

00:27:43.380 A victory by D. La Esparrella would represent one of the most significant conservative victories in South America in recent years

00:27:51.880 and would add Colombia to the growing list of nations reassessing the promises of progressive governance.

00:27:58.500 Only yesterday, D. La Esparrella got the greatest award one can get.

00:28:02.640 He got the public endorsement of President Donald Trump.

00:28:05.940 This was considered to be a major factor in their election.

00:28:10.380 I urge the president to endorse Diasperela as early as Monday morning after the first round of elections.

00:28:18.800 The political realignment now unfolding across Latin America demonstrates that voters ultimately judge government by outcomes rather than just intentions.

00:28:27.640 Grand ideological visions often lose their appeal when they fail to actually improve people's daily lives.

00:28:35.160 Citizens want secure communities, economic opportunity, stable currencies,

00:28:40.320 and governments capable of performing their most basic responsibilities effectively.

00:28:45.060 The great political story emerging from Latin America is therefore not merely a series of election results.

00:28:51.340 It is instead a profound reassessment of ideas that have shaped the region for decades.

00:28:57.040 After years of disappointment with policies that promised prosperity but often delivered instability,

00:29:01.720 instability, many voters are embracing a different path. The consequence of that choice may shape the

00:29:07.520 future of Western Hemisphere for many years to come. Meanwhile, President Trump has a May jobs

00:29:16.540 report that is something to be proud of. The May jobs report delivered another strong sign that

00:29:22.060 President Trump's economic agenda is really outperforming expectations. The U.S. economy

00:29:28.420 added 172,000 jobs in May, more than double the 85,000 economists had predicted. The unemployment

00:29:36.400 rate held steady at 4.3%, while job gains for March and April were revised upward by a combined

00:29:43.680 93,000 jobs. That means economists have now underestimated job growth for the third straight

00:29:50.880 month. The private sector added another 120,000 jobs, beating expectations. Manufacturing payrolls

00:29:58.660 rose by 7,000, including strong gains in durable goods and motor vehicle parts. Mining, which

00:30:06.780 includes oil and natural gas drilling, added another 4,000 jobs, while construction added

00:30:12.860 another 17,000 jobs. The service economy also grew, led by 70,000 new jobs in leisure,

00:30:21.580 hospitality, and nearly 48,000 in health care and social assistance. I think it was the late,

00:30:28.800 great New York U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan who said that his political platform was

00:30:34.740 jobs, jobs, jobs. Well, President Trump is delivering. At the same time, the federal

00:30:41.180 workforce continues to shrink under Trump's push for privatization of the economy. Federal payrolls

00:30:47.460 are down almost 31,000 from a year ago and 346,000 down from their October 2024 peak.

00:30:56.380 State governments also shed workers in May. Wages continue to rise with average hourly earnings up

00:31:04.760 by 3.4% over the past year. So it's clear under President Trump's America First policies that the

00:31:12.520 economy is adding jobs, the private sector is leading, wages are growing, and America's bloating

00:31:19.780 bureaucracy is being reduced. After years of immigration-driven labor growth, the Trump

00:31:25.280 economy is showing America can create solid job gains while putting citizens, workers, and private

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00:31:38.200 for Republican chances in the midterms. Those who are already throwing the towel on the midterms

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00:32:08.020 one simple concept to run on, their hatred for President Donald J. Trump. I'm Roger Stone. You're

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00:33:33.320 All eyes on that U.S. Senate race in Texas.

00:33:37.020 The Texas Senate race is already exposing a major cultural divide as the Democrats picked James Tallarico as their U.S. Senate candidate.

00:33:46.320 Republicans believe that they gave them a gift by picking such a far-left effete candidate. 0.94

00:33:52.380 I would believe that he would be preferred to as a soy boy in the modern parlance. 0.55

00:33:57.340 After MAGA Attorney General Ken Paxton rather easily defeated RINO Senator John Cornyn, 0.88

00:34:04.260 whose campaign the National Republican Senatorial Committee spent over $100 million in the Republican primary,

00:34:11.900 Republicans quickly turned their attention to Tallarico, casting him as a weak fit for a state

00:34:17.580 built on faith, family, energy, firearms, football, and working class grit. Paxton mocked him with

00:34:26.020 nicknames like Tofu Tallarico, while Trump advisor Stephen Miller and conservative commentators

00:34:31.740 questioned whether Tallarico represents the values of everyday Texans or the sensibilities of liberal

00:34:39.200 East Coast elites. Reportedly, Tallarico is a vegan. This is in Texas, a state known for its

00:34:46.920 beef. News host Jesse Waters summed up the political test bluntly, asking whether Tallarico

00:34:53.160 owns guns, drives a truck, watches Texas football, or connects with the basic cultural instincts of

00:34:59.560 the voters he wants to represent. Tallarico has tried to respond by presenting himself as a

00:35:05.400 soft-spoken Christian servant leader, he talks about humility, service, and his father

00:35:10.620 quietly mowing a neighbor's lawn. None of this seems authentic to me. Tallarico's previous woke

00:35:18.060 comments on gender pronouns, for example, belie his new image as a red blood is Texan. The issue

00:35:24.880 is not merely personality, it is whether Tallarico's brand of politics fits Texas, a state

00:35:30.120 where voters often want toughness, patriotism, border security, lower costs, and leaders who

00:35:36.400 understand their way of life. Democrats may hope Tallarico's gentle image wins over voters,

00:35:42.780 and it certainly might if it's for California, Oregon, or Washington State, but I don't expect

00:35:49.120 it to fly in Texas. Texas is still a red state, despite the best efforts of the liberals,

00:35:53.580 And Tallarico is not the type of candidate who can flip Texas blue in 2026.

00:36:00.560 Meanwhile, federal investigators are warning that a visa program meant to protect abused or neglected migrant youth

00:36:07.760 has been exploited by dangerously illegal aliens, including accused killers, sex offenders, and M13 gang members.

00:36:17.000 According to investigators with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, nearly 19,000 applicants for special immigrant juvenile programs had criminal records between fiscal years 2013 and 2025.

00:36:32.620 That includes 120 applicants arrested for murder.

00:36:37.900 These findings get worse.

00:36:39.860 Investigators say at least 200 illegal aliens approved by Special Immigrant Juvenal Services

00:36:45.600 were convicted sex offenders, and more than 500 were known or suspected as members of the violent MS-13 gang.

00:36:53.660 The program was created to help vulnerable minors who have been abused, abandoned, or neglected,

00:36:59.200 but the Department of Homeland Security now admits it at a serious risk of being a gigantic fraud.

00:37:05.200 The Department of Homeland Security's General Counsel, James Percival,

00:37:08.320 said the program faces significant fraud concerns.

00:37:11.980 Among those approved, investigators say,

00:37:15.020 was a leader of an M6-13 gang chapter

00:37:18.320 who later pleaded guilty to racketeering

00:37:20.860 tied to eight murders in New York.

00:37:23.660 A Trinitarios gang member connected to a drive-by shooting

00:37:27.820 that killed two people and wounded five others

00:37:30.940 also secured status in this federal program.

00:37:34.200 For M13, members of Virginia also obtained approval before being indicted in racketeering cases involving murder, including the killing of a 19-year-old woman shot 16 times after allegedly insulting the gang online.

00:37:50.000 This is yet another example of how federal government programs pushed under the guise of compassion make America weaker.

00:37:57.740 This is exactly what Donald Trump is talking about. 0.92

00:38:00.060 It is time to deport these illegal, violent gang members and immigrants. 0.99

00:38:06.820 And Donald Trump stands with 80 percent of the American people in the latest poll I saw on this subject. 1.00

00:38:12.740 I'm Roger Stone. Thank you for listening to us today.

00:38:15.500 Until we meet again, God bless you and Godspeed.

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