The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone ｜ 06-09-25


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Riots erupt in Los Angeles and other major cities across the country. Demonstrators demonstrate against the deportation of illegal immigrants and the use of force by the federal government to quell the protests. President Trump has been accused of being out of touch with reality and out of control.

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00:00:00.000 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:07.240 Images of cars being set on fire, ICE officers and police officers being attacked,
00:00:15.140 rocks being hurled at ICE enforcement officers, as well as bottles, chunks of cement,
00:00:22.200 bags of urine and feces, protesters blocking the 101 highway, laying siege to federal buildings,
00:00:31.500 also shooting fireworks all over television.
00:00:36.000 Protesters set fire to multiple vehicles.
00:00:39.200 Five driverless cars were vandalized and burned.
00:00:42.820 Numerous dumpsters, trash bin buildings, including the LAPD headquarters,
00:00:48.940 a federal courthouse, and the Los Angeles Times buildings all set on fire.
00:00:54.780 Stores on 6th and Broadway looted and graffiti-tagged demonstrators, as I say,
00:01:01.580 blocking the 101 freeway, all of this in Los Angeles.
00:01:06.860 Two LAPD officers were injured when most motorcyclists rammed a police skirmish line at Alameda and Temple.
00:01:13.920 Multiple law enforcement personnel have been hit by concrete, rocks, fireworks, rubber bullets have been shot as some of them.
00:01:23.920 One ICE agent was injured when a rock shattered his vehicle, dropped from an underpass by a protester.
00:01:33.160 On the underpass, dropped it on top of a police car, an ICE car, pardon me.
00:01:38.200 This is what the Democrats tell us is peaceful protest.
00:01:43.660 Listen to Cory Booker.
00:01:44.840 The reality is, we see peaceful protests launching in Los Angeles.
00:01:49.840 And again, any violence against police officers should not be accepted.
00:01:53.420 Local authorities can handle that.
00:01:55.340 But remember, a lot of these peaceful protests are being generated
00:01:58.600 because the President of the United States is sowing chaos and confusion by arresting people
00:02:04.780 who are showing up for their immigration hearings, who are trying to abide by the law.
00:02:11.960 He's arresting them.
00:02:12.760 And you see this in communities that are Republican, Trump supporters,
00:02:16.160 being outraged that he's raiding kitchens and arresting people, high schools and arresting people
00:02:21.280 who are not what he said he would do, which is focus law enforcement resources on violent criminals
00:02:28.220 and people that are a danger to other Americans.
00:02:32.020 I mean, this is someone who's out of touch with reality.
00:02:36.380 The President has committed to deport illegals who are not only, in many cases, a danger to us 1.00
00:02:44.300 because they're criminals, they're gangbangers, they're murderers. 0.51
00:02:47.980 Even those who are not, we're paying an enormous financial and social cost for it.
00:02:55.980 So the President's pledge is clear, but the protesters are anything but peaceful.
00:03:02.320 Let me ask this obvious question.
00:03:04.160 We have photographs of pallets of bricks that were conveniently dropped through the Paramount area
00:03:12.100 where the protests are taking place.
00:03:14.320 Who paid for these bricks?
00:03:16.480 Who arranged for them to be there?
00:03:19.400 General Michael Flynn called it on Sunday when he said this is Antifa by their own admission
00:03:25.500 and their aims are to create chaos, mobilize dissent, disrupt law enforcement operations,
00:03:31.120 and incite violence.
00:03:33.520 These are not college kids.
00:03:35.560 These are domestic terrorists.
00:03:37.640 Trust that they are part of and inside our local, state, and federal government institutions
00:03:42.860 where they gather and report intelligence to subversive outsiders.
00:03:48.220 They are supported by outside foreign elements for direction and funding.
00:03:53.080 They are led by very effective political operatives.
00:03:56.200 These are the same people who gave us the Russian collusion hoax, the same people who gave us the 2020 riots.
00:04:03.280 Their manifesto reads like a Marxist playbook.
00:04:06.560 It's filled with tactics, techniques, and procedures, all calculated to completely stabilize the rule of law.
00:04:12.780 This is what is unfolding today in Los Angeles.
00:04:18.140 Newsom is furious.
00:04:20.360 He went to social media on Saturday criticizing the president for federalizing 2,000 National Guard troops to quell the anti-ice riots.
00:04:31.140 Clearly, if Governor Newsom and Mayor Karen Bast, who's done nothing but encourage the protesters and the radicals,
00:04:41.400 cannot keep order, then the president must do so.
00:04:47.160 The most important thing I think this teaches us is Donald Trump learned from the 2020 BLM Antifa riots
00:04:57.180 after the death of George Floyd.
00:05:01.140 Every single one of his advisors told him to rely on the governors to keep order.
00:05:06.860 He elected not to use federal power to keep order, which I argue he very much has the authority to do.
00:05:13.240 And the results are clear.
00:05:15.640 Over $2 billion in damage to private and public property.
00:05:23.140 Over 2,800 police officers injured.
00:05:26.580 284 police injuries in Chicago alone.
00:05:31.960 19 confirmed deaths.
00:05:35.000 There's another summary in the congressional record that claims there are 25 related deaths nationwide.
00:05:43.180 In Chicago alone, 15 people were killed in Minneapolis, St. Paul.
00:05:47.040 Two riot-related deaths occurred.
00:05:49.820 Chicago saw, as I say, 284 murders there.
00:05:55.880 Pardon me, injuries there.
00:05:57.900 Nationwide, which ensured property damage, says that the damage was roughly $2 billion,
00:06:04.780 making it the most costly civil unrest event since 1992's L.A. riots.
00:06:11.680 So, President Trump decided to rely on Tim Walz in Minnesota.
00:06:17.900 And Tim Walz didn't act.
00:06:21.060 And therefore, St. Paul, Minneapolis, St. Paul, saw the worst violence other than places like Chicago and L.A.
00:06:29.660 Folks, this is planned.
00:06:31.920 This is orchestrated.
00:06:32.840 As I say, somebody paid for the BRICS.
00:06:37.720 Now, as far as the claims that this is a peaceful demonstration and the fact that both Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass have denounced the president for mobilizing 2,000 National Guard troops.
00:06:55.380 And Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, says he has, I believe now, as many as 6,000, I believe that's the right number, active duty Marines prepared to go to Los Angeles to restore order.
00:07:11.260 Newsom, of course, is playing politics with this.
00:07:15.100 This is actually his huge opportunity.
00:07:17.760 He botched the California fires badly.
00:07:21.240 He'd like to run for president.
00:07:22.640 But let's face it, his stay is a toilet.
00:07:25.500 It is the golden age of California is over.
00:07:29.640 Their cities are like tent cities, drug addiction, people shooting up everywhere.
00:07:39.700 His cities, you see these crack zombies.
00:07:43.000 Crime is rampant.
00:07:44.920 They can't put out a fire in Los Angeles in one of the ritzier sections because they cut off the water because they didn't want to endanger some little fish that was the environmentalist said was rare.
00:08:00.020 I kid you not.
00:08:01.220 His economy is in the toilet.
00:08:02.680 So it's hard to run for president if you have no record to run on or if the record is actually a negative.
00:08:09.160 So Gavin Newsom now hopes that this will revive his prospects.
00:08:15.300 He gets to be anti-Trump.
00:08:17.400 One thing all Democrats agree on is they all hate Donald Trump.
00:08:22.320 They don't just seem to understand that the American people love him, at least a majority of them.
00:08:28.280 So Trump has learned his very clearly learned his lesson from 2020, moved exceedingly aggressively to to restore order.
00:08:38.060 That is his first responsibility as governor.
00:08:41.920 And then this is kind of amusing.
00:08:46.280 Gavin Newsom actually dares Tom Homan to arrest him.
00:08:52.400 Arresting Gavin Newsom would be a political bonanza of all time.
00:08:56.480 He would become a martyr for the radical left in the Democrat Party.
00:09:02.100 I don't think Tom Homan's going to take this debate.
00:09:05.820 But I mean, you have Newsom saying, Tom, arrest me.
00:09:09.380 Let's go.
00:09:10.080 Let's just get it over with.
00:09:11.260 Tough guy.
00:09:13.340 This is when Newsom suggested was responding to Homan's suggestion that he and L.A.
00:09:19.040 Mayor Karen Bass could be arrested if they crossed the line by harboring and concealing illegal aliens or assaulting law enforcement.
00:09:27.260 So, in other words, as long as Gavin Newsom is simply running his mouth, he's well within his rights.
00:09:32.500 If he physically acts to harbor or conceal an illegal or interfere in the election of the arrest of an illegal or if he assaulted law enforcement, rather than just encourage all those things, which is what he and Mayor Bass are doing today, then and only then do I think he would be subject to arrest.
00:09:55.300 It's kind of like throw me in the briar patch.
00:09:58.400 Gavin Newsom should be so lucky.
00:10:01.720 But here is a development, however, in which Los Angeles Police Chief Jim McDowell, now let's be very clear, he works for Karen Bass.
00:10:11.260 He works for L.A. Mayor Karen Bass at the pleasure of Governor Newsom.
00:10:15.480 He called the wave of anti-ice riots sweeping across the city disgusting and warned that the violence is swiftly escalating.
00:10:24.880 Law enforcement has struggled, as I say, to contain the growing violence that began last Friday, picked up steam over the weekend.
00:10:32.640 This comes as Immigrations and Customs Enforcement was serving a series of criminal warrants at businesses under investigation for money laundering, fraud and other additional violations.
00:10:44.140 The protests very quickly became violent riots.
00:10:48.220 That was the plan, the Antifa plan, over the course of the weekend, forcing the LAPD to declare them an unlawful assembly.
00:10:57.440 That's a legal requirement.
00:10:59.220 Waymo cars that arrived on the scene were vandalized in torch, with rioters smashing the cars with skateboards, rocks and other objects, setting them ablaze.
00:11:08.620 Law enforcement vehicles also came under attack.
00:11:11.220 They always attacked the police cars, were set on fire after rioters stormed onto the 101 freeway, shutting down traffic entirely.
00:11:21.840 Hey, Cory Booker, this doesn't sound too peaceful to me.
00:11:25.400 During a press conference Sunday night, Chief McDowell, who again works for Karen Bass,
00:11:31.840 described scenes of chaos and deliberate attacks on law enforcement officers, including the use of commercial-grade fireworks, hammers, and unknown liquids.
00:11:42.580 This violence that I have seen, it's disgusting, said Chief McDowell.
00:11:47.880 What we saw the first night was bad.
00:11:50.520 What we've seen since is getting increasingly worse and more violent.
00:11:54.140 According to McDowell, officers have been targeted with weapons capable of causing fatal injuries.
00:12:01.340 Protesters have been observed using tools to dismantle barriers and throw concrete, rocks, and bottles at police,
00:12:09.240 as well as launching explosive devices, throwing unidentified liquids.
00:12:14.500 I can identify those for you.
00:12:16.080 They are baggies of urine and feces.
00:12:18.660 That's what we saw many, many times in the 2020 riots.
00:12:23.440 These are peaceful people, folks.
00:12:25.260 They just want peace.
00:12:27.140 It is amazing now that video circulated last Sunday showing a police officer seeking refuge under a freeway overpress
00:12:37.320 as riders pelted them and their vehicles from above with concrete.
00:12:42.000 One officer was hit in the head by a cement block, according to a story I just read.
00:12:48.060 They were also dropping incendiary devices.
00:12:51.600 These are the protests that Cory Booker says are peaceful.
00:12:56.200 We're overwhelmed, not just by the number involved, but by the level of violence we're seeing.
00:13:00.300 There's no limit to what they're doing to our officers.
00:13:03.260 Radicals have even ordered driverless Waymo taxis just to destroy them, to set them on fire when they arrive.
00:13:11.940 The LAPD has made at least 10 to rest as of Sunday.
00:13:16.280 Three officers had sustained injuries, although none were life-threatening.
00:13:20.880 I think that information is outdated.
00:13:23.340 Central Area Captain Raul Joval noted that most arrests are being made as we speak.
00:13:28.880 Our officers are, however, really under attack.
00:13:32.900 McDowell emphasized that the department is committed to identifying violent agitators through social media and surveillance footage
00:13:40.660 and will pursue charges aggressively.
00:13:43.300 You're tuned in here to The Stone Zone.
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00:13:47.900 We'll be right back in The Zone to talk more about how Gavin Newsom maneuvers for the presidency
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00:15:11.340 And the L.A. riots continue to dominate the national and political news.
00:15:19.860 Governor Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, who badly botched the fires in L.A. recently,
00:15:28.780 have filed an immediate lawsuit challenging President Trump's right to send 2,000 National Guardsmen.
00:15:35.680 And actually, what he does is he authorizes the state National Guards and he activates them.
00:15:41.300 They're wrong, of course.
00:15:42.620 They claim, because they didn't request the National Guard, that his sending them, or deputizing them, in essence, is illegal.
00:15:51.240 They are incorrect.
00:15:53.700 It is, this is all, unfortunately, with Gavin Newsom, this is all about the politics.
00:15:59.920 Here's a chance for him to rise again as a liberal hero because his state is in such bad shape.
00:16:06.920 And there's a woman named Kamala Harris in his way if he wants to run for president.
00:16:11.180 All polls show that she would lead the field if she runs again.
00:16:16.120 And right now, since Gavin Newsom cannot run again, she's eyeing Gavin Newsom's seat.
00:16:21.300 So he's very worried about Governor Kamala Harris, who would probably win,
00:16:26.580 and worried about his ability to beat her for the nomination.
00:16:30.040 Yet he aspires to be president.
00:16:31.720 We're going to talk about this more with John Phillips of the John Phillips Show on KABC in Los Angeles,
00:16:39.160 a great station, a great tradition station.
00:16:42.700 John Phillips knows more about California politics than anyone I know.
00:16:47.540 He's a shrewd observer of the political scene in the golden state,
00:16:52.480 particularly what's going on in the background is the Democrat machine seeks to increase their voter numbers
00:17:01.440 by keeping these illegals in the state. 0.89
00:17:04.360 That is, of course, what this is really all.
00:17:08.520 So you do want to stay around for John Phillips.
00:17:11.900 He's also one of the funniest guys I know.
00:17:14.960 President Donald Trump posted this.
00:17:17.060 He says, if they spit, we will hit.
00:17:20.140 This is a statement from the President of the United States concerning the catastrophic
00:17:23.780 Gavin Newsom-inspired riots going on in L.A.
00:17:28.340 The insurrectionists have a tendency to spit in the face of National Guardsmen and women and others.
00:17:34.260 These patriots are told to accept this.
00:17:36.620 It's just the way life is, but not in the Trump administration.
00:17:40.580 If they spit, we will hit.
00:17:42.460 And I promise you they will be hit harder than they have ever been hit before.
00:17:46.160 Such disrespect will not be tolerated.
00:17:48.840 That is a man who learned his lesson in the 2020 riots when he left it to Tim Waltz to decide what to do
00:17:57.120 and the other governors who failed, causing record death and destruction then.
00:18:03.320 It's the same game plan, folks.
00:18:04.940 They are seeking to create instability so they can try to topple the man who was just elected
00:18:10.700 in the greatest single political comeback in American history.
00:18:15.040 And this is just a piece of the puzzle.
00:18:17.920 When we come back, John Phillips of the John Phillips Show on KABC enters the Stone Zone.
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00:18:38.360 Welcome back.
00:18:41.700 You are in the Stone Zone.
00:18:44.040 And now entering the zone is John Phillips.
00:18:47.040 John Phillips hosts the John Phillips Show on 790K ABC in Los Angeles.
00:18:53.300 He is a shrewd analyst of both California and national politics.
00:18:58.880 He started in radio at 20 years old.
00:19:01.440 He is one of the youngest hosts in the country.
00:19:05.120 And he and I are the two, world's two largest fans of, well, anyway, I'm not going to go in there.
00:19:15.380 John Phillips, thanks for joining us in the Stone Zone.
00:19:18.760 Well, thank you for having me, Roger.
00:19:20.180 So I really want to get your take not only on what's unfolding in Los Angeles, but also the politics of it.
00:19:30.500 To me, and I said this earlier, this is a golden opportunity for Gavin Newsom, whose prospects to be president prior to this were pretty dismal, given the condition of California.
00:19:45.180 And the fact that California may have another Californian ahead of him, should she decide to run Kamala Harris, who most polls show would lead as the first choice and who may be eyeing a bid to be governor of California and take his job anyway.
00:20:01.060 Well, it's really hard to look at Gavin Newsom on TV right now and not think that he's enjoying this because he is the guy who, I guess he calculated that the Democratic Party, after they lost the last election to Trump, would move to the right.
00:20:21.060 And that's why he started the podcast and invited Charlie Kirk and Michael Savage and Steve Bannon and others.
00:20:29.200 And that blew up in his face like a hillbillies rifle because the Democratic Party isn't moving to the right.
00:20:34.780 They're digging in their heels and Trump derangement syndrome is real and they're only getting a stronger case of it right now.
00:20:44.040 And so this situation, these riots that are playing out right now in Los Angeles, give him an opportunity to recalibrate himself and to present himself to the nation as the chief foil of Donald Trump, which is why he challenged Trump on TV to arrest him.
00:21:02.500 And he's having these angry press conferences and angry interviews where he's blaming everything that's going on right now in the streets of Los Angeles on Trump because he wants to turn this into a Gavin Newsom versus Donald Trump situation that lifts him up and puts him in a place where he thinks Democrats will rally around him.
00:21:26.700 Yeah, I actually had to go and check this out.
00:21:29.740 Tom Homan never specifically threatened to arrest him.
00:21:34.180 He said he would arrest any public official who assisted illegals from avoiding arrest or assaulted a law enforcement officer.
00:21:45.760 So this was clearly Gavin Newsom trying to bait Tom Homan to give him the golden headline.
00:21:53.920 He he he nothing could be better for Gavin Newsom than to be arrested.
00:21:59.080 But if he can't be arrested just for for defending a violent quote unquote protesters or extremists or terrorists, he could only be arrested if he acted in some way to impede an arrest or assault an officer and so on.
00:22:14.540 So so so he's posturing it's drama, a drama that I think Tom Homan is not going to take him up on.
00:22:22.200 Yeah, it's definitely posturing.
00:22:23.540 Posturing. And what's funny is Gavin Newsom is such a sociopath that getting as much publicity as possible and furthering his political career and keeping his political career alive is really the goal.
00:22:37.560 And he's willing to put people's safety at risk by doing that, because the position that Gavin Newsom has been taking is there's nothing wrong here.
00:22:47.540 There's nothing going on that's unsafe.
00:22:49.920 We have this under control.
00:22:52.020 We don't need any help from the feds.
00:22:54.440 The LAPD has all of this taken care of.
00:22:57.460 And Donald Trump is just trying to stir the pot.
00:23:00.920 And that same claim has been repeated by not just him, but other members of the political establishment, Democratic political establishment here in California over and over and over again.
00:23:13.980 But then last night, the police chief, police chief McDonnell, went on TV of the LAPD and said that none of that was true, that it was violent.
00:23:25.000 It's getting more violent.
00:23:26.980 The police are outnumbered.
00:23:28.960 They're overwhelmed.
00:23:30.360 They're being shot at with fireworks.
00:23:33.060 They're having bricks thrown at them.
00:23:34.980 They're having cinder blocks thrown at them.
00:23:37.360 And they need help.
00:23:38.520 And right now, because the police chief destroyed Gavin Newsom's narrative, there's trouble in paradise.
00:23:46.860 And the last time that this happened, it was right after the L.A. fires, when the fire chief came out and said that the budget cuts that the city imposed on the fire department prevented them from being able to fully respond to the fires.
00:24:00.460 The moment she said that she was a dead man walking because she destroyed the narrative that the mayor was putting out, and then the mayor's poll number started to crater.
00:24:11.060 The fact that the police chief went out there last night and destroyed Gavin Newsom's narrative, I think, makes that man a dead man walking.
00:24:19.740 I think Newsom is going to target him.
00:24:22.000 I think the mayor is going to target him because that man has turned their framing upside down.
00:24:27.820 Well, of course, they continue to insist these are peaceful demonstrations, but the actual numbers that we see coming back, protesters hurling rocks, bottles, Molotov-style cocktails, fireworks, bags of urine and feces, chunks of concrete rocks at law enforcement and ICE officers.
00:24:49.800 We're not imagining it.
00:24:51.800 We're seeing this before our very eyes, cars set on fire, both police cars and these driverless cars.
00:25:02.480 I mean, to say that there's no violence here, don't believe what you're seeing on video.
00:25:07.980 Believe what Cory Booker and Gavin Newsom tell you.
00:25:12.460 In the wake of the fires and the horrific mishandling of the fires by Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass, I'd have to believe that their standing in California is weakened.
00:25:25.220 I think here, by going to the most radical left position, perhaps they feel they can rebuild their political strength on the left within the state.
00:25:35.160 Yeah, don't forget, when Gavin Newsom was being recalled and the focus was on his performance as governor, there were a series of polls that showed him losing the recall and that Larry Elder would be elected governor of California.
00:25:50.200 It wasn't until he recalibrated that and nationalized that election where he was able to win, because California is a deep blue state.
00:26:01.240 If you get the Democrats to vote for the Democratic candidate, that's all she wrote.
00:26:05.200 The election's over.
00:26:06.180 And by federalizing the recall election and making it all about Donald Trump and making it about abortion and other federal subjects that really have nothing to do with the state of California, he was able to divert attention away from his failures, whether it's with the homeless, the crime, the budget, the bullet train, the insurance crisis, you name it.
00:26:30.200 So, President Trump called the rioters paid insurrectionists.
00:26:36.040 I just saw that Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna got very specific in identifying those funding the riots.
00:26:43.360 I mean, John, these pallets of bricks, these pallets of cement blocks, these flatbed trucks who are delivering them, they didn't just come from nowhere.
00:26:52.800 This is not an indigenous uprising.
00:26:55.080 Who do you think is funding this insurrection?
00:26:57.460 Well, I think it's probably the usual suspects.
00:27:02.540 If I had to bet money on it, I would say that you're going to find some Soros money somewhere in there, although that's just my opinion.
00:27:09.140 But I spoke with someone at the FBI today who said that it's a different ballgame now, because when you had when you had George Gascon as the district attorney, who essentially was pro-criminal and was a Soros DA,
00:27:23.720 he didn't have any interest in ever prosecuting anyone for assaulting a police officer, destroying police property, all the things that you saw happen on television.
00:27:33.740 But there's a new U.S. attorney that President Trump just appointed for the Central District of California, Bill Shaley, who came from the California State Legislature and is really a shining star in the Trump administration as U.S. attorney.
00:27:48.800 And he has been very aggressive at saying that he is going to go after these people, these looters, these people who have been attacking federal police officers at federal property, and he's going to hit them with everything he can.
00:28:02.620 And when you start leaning on these people in a federal sort of way, you can find out just exactly who was supporting them, who was putting them up to it, and figure out who are the important players in the social network.
00:28:17.420 And the fact that arrests have been made, and prosecutions will commence, and a U.S. attorney is very interested in getting to the bottom of it, leads you to believe that they'll figure this out, and we'll know exactly who was funding what you saw play out over the weekend.
00:28:35.140 It seems to me the other real question is to see whether these outbreaks of violence begin to spread.
00:28:42.480 Remember, in the beginning, it was Minneapolis, St. Paul, before long Chicago was burning, and other cities.
00:28:50.800 General Flynn has outlined that he thinks this is a much broader strategy to destabilize the Trump administration and the country.
00:28:59.440 I will be very interested to see whether there is a further effort to create chaos, to mobilize the dissenters, disrupt law enforcement operations, and incite even more violence.
00:29:12.300 One thing is clear, and that is President Trump's very quick move to send 2,000 National Guardsmen, and the statement by the Secretary of Defense that he's prepared to send in the Marines, if necessary, shows the president will not repeat the mistakes of 2020 when his advisors urged him to let the governors handle it.
00:29:34.320 And governors like Tim Walz, well, they couldn't handle it.
00:29:37.560 The governor of Illinois could not handle it.
00:29:39.600 There was $2 billion worth of public and private property destroyed, 54 people murdered, thousands of people injured.
00:29:49.360 He's not going to make that mistake again.
00:29:52.300 Yeah, I think that's right.
00:29:54.080 You're seeing that not only, as you mentioned, with the National Guard, but with the Marines as well.
00:30:00.320 He wants to make an example out of Los Angeles where civil unrest, rioting, looting won't be tolerated.
00:30:06.860 That Grampy Joe is no longer in the White House where he's not aware of what's going on in the world around him.
00:30:14.500 Donald Trump is keeping a very close eye on what's going on here, and he's not going to let it get out of hand.
00:30:20.440 And the other thing that's different this time than in civil unrest or riots in the past is that Elon owns Twitter.
00:30:29.760 So you can see what's going on in Los Angeles on Twitter or X whenever you want.
00:30:36.880 And it's not going to be censored, and it's not going to be shadow banned, and it's not going to be pulled down.
00:30:42.640 You're going to see what's happening with your own two eyes.
00:30:46.240 And before, when the other side controlled X, they were able to censor all of that content.
00:30:53.620 So if Gavin Newsom and Maxine Waters and Karen Bass go on TV and say, there's no violence going on, everything is peaceful,
00:31:02.220 and you just make sure that no one sees the actual evidence of what's going on on the streets,
00:31:08.860 then a certain number of people will buy into it.
00:31:11.580 But when you can see what's going on in real time at all points, everywhere,
00:31:18.680 you know that what they're saying is not true, and they look like buffoons going out and making the claim that everything is peaceful
00:31:26.320 and anyone who says otherwise is a liar. 0.61
00:31:29.180 No one believes them.
00:31:31.200 Folks, if you're just tuning in, we're talking to John Phillips.
00:31:34.420 He hosts the John Phillips Show at 790K ABC in Los Angeles.
00:31:38.460 He's also a columnist for the Orange County Registry, a keen observer of the California and the national political scene.
00:31:49.880 I was going to say earlier that you and I were the two greatest admirers of Assemblyman Joe Schell,
00:31:56.180 who ran for governor in 1962.
00:31:58.560 I wanted to talk to you about this rift between Elon and the president, which seems to be beginning to be healing.
00:32:13.780 It appears to be there's a cooling at a minimum, but what do you make of all that?
00:32:17.880 I'm not surprised.
00:32:20.780 In fact, I assumed that they would probably bump heads sooner.
00:32:24.740 The fact that their bromance lasted as long as it did kind of shocked me.
00:32:31.000 But I'm also not surprised that they made up as quickly as they ended up fighting, because ultimately they're on the same page.
00:32:40.220 I mean, you pay attention to what what Musk's beefs are with Trump, and Musk is basically attacking them from the right.
00:32:48.080 So I don't think there's any threat at all that he's going to start funding Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi and the rest of them,
00:32:58.480 because those aren't the arguments that he's making.
00:33:01.460 I think as soon as these hot heads cool down, and Trump has already cooled way down from where he was when the fight first started,
00:33:10.480 and based on what I saw today, it looks like Elon's doing the same thing.
00:33:15.040 I don't know if they'll ever be as close as they once were.
00:33:17.800 Probably not.
00:33:18.680 Certain things were said that you can't go back on.
00:33:21.140 But I think that their fighting will cool off, and they will recognize that they're more powerful together than they are apart,
00:33:31.700 because they're essentially fighting for many of the same things.
00:33:35.200 The sad truth of it is that after he bought Twitter, changed it to X, and made it a free speech site,
00:33:41.660 he found himself under nine separate federal investigations by the Biden administration.
00:33:46.180 Had Kamala Harris won, they would have taken all of his federal contracts, destroyed his companies, and probably put him in jail. 0.96
00:33:53.020 And I think he figured that out.
00:33:54.920 So we are on the right side.
00:33:56.660 I think he's a free speech hero.
00:33:58.360 I told him that when I met him at Mar-a-Lago.
00:34:01.160 I told him he was the most important voice for free speech since the founding fathers themselves.
00:34:06.500 And Donald Trump was standing there, and he agreed.
00:34:10.220 Folks, if you're listening to The Stone Zone, we're talking to John Phillips,
00:34:14.300 the host of The John Phillips Show at 790K ABC in Los Angeles, and we'll be right back.
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00:34:37.960 We're talking to John Phillips of 790K ABC in Los Angeles.
00:34:42.080 John, I noticed that former Vice President Kamala Harris put out a statement attacking Donald Trump,
00:34:48.020 essentially backing the left progressive line.
00:34:51.300 You had a great column recently on her future, which I think has a lot to do with the country's political future choices.
00:34:58.260 In the little time we have left, tell us about that.
00:35:01.860 Yeah.
00:35:02.080 Well, I read the book Fight about the 2024 presidential election, and the authors of the book essentially concluded that the main reason that she lost was she never really had a reason for running.
00:35:14.740 She was just a candidate because Biden had to drop out, and she was the vice president.
00:35:19.440 But outside of that, she didn't really have a reason.
00:35:21.360 And based on everything I've seen and heard out of Kamala Harris, if she runs for governor of California, she's prepared to make all of those same mistakes a second time. 0.97
00:35:33.920 California has a million and one problems.
00:35:36.120 And when you read the articles about her as a potential candidate, it talks about what it will do for her resume.
00:35:43.760 It talks about what it will do for her legacy.
00:35:46.300 It talks about how it would make her the chief loyal to Donald Trump, how it could position her to run for president again.
00:35:53.160 It's all about her.
00:35:54.520 It doesn't have much to do with what she would do for the state of California.
00:35:57.820 And if you're going to be a strong candidate for governor in California, you probably should have thought through some of our problems and have solutions to offer.
00:36:08.840 And she doesn't have any of that.
00:36:10.660 So in a weird sort of way, even though they just spent over a billion dollars promoting her nationally and her name ID is higher than all the other candidates, if there's a strong Republican candidate in that race, she might actually be the most beatable.
00:36:24.800 Wow. That's that's that's that's extraordinary.
00:36:30.200 I just operate on the assumption because between the voter fraud and the demographic changes that California cannot go red.
00:36:37.320 Am I wrong?
00:36:39.340 Well, what you just described is all true.
00:36:42.160 And any Democrat would be an overwhelming favorite against any Republican.
00:36:47.460 But you can push people too far.
00:36:50.100 I mean, look at the insurance crisis in California right now.
00:36:53.080 That race for insurance commissioner last time around was closer than any of the other statewide constitutional offices.
00:37:02.140 And with a strong candidate this next time around, who knows?
00:37:05.860 Maybe that's doable.
00:37:07.260 The last time a Republican won the statewide race in California was Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010 for governor and Steve Poizner in 2010 for insurance commissioner.
00:37:16.760 So it is possible for California to elected a Republican.
00:37:21.420 It's unlikely.
00:37:22.480 But with the way that the Democrats are running the state, treating treating the state like it's a spring break rental car.
00:37:28.540 If there's any time that they could lose, it's now.
00:37:31.940 I'm afraid we have to wrap it there.
00:37:33.680 I want to thank my guest, John Phillips, who is the host of the John Phillips show at 790 K ABC in Los Angeles.
00:37:40.380 Also, check out his columns at the Orange County Register.
00:37:44.660 John, thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
00:37:48.300 Thanks for having me.
00:37:50.460 And for our Stone Zone regulars out there, thanks for tuning in.
00:37:54.520 Until tomorrow, God bless you and God speak.
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