The StoneZONE with Roger Stone - The Stone Zone ｜ 06-24-26

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00:00:39.320 The results of New York City's June 23rd Democrat primary election should serve as a wake-up call

00:00:46.560 to every American who values free enterprise, private property, limited government, law and order,

00:00:54.400 and the constitutional principles upon which our republic was founded.

00:00:58.300 What happened in New York was not merely a local political story.

00:01:03.380 It was a glimpse into a larger ideological battle that is unfolding across the United States.

00:01:10.180 The old Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy and Harry Truman, the Democrat Party that believed in free enterprise, capitalism, a strong national defense, patriotism, that party no longer exists.

00:01:23.800 The candidates to emerge victorious represented a movement that seeks to fundamentally transform the relationship between the citizen and the state, between private property and government power, and between individual liberty and collective control.

00:01:39.720 The biggest story of the night, of course, was the stunning success of candidates backed by New York City's socialist mayor Zoran Mamdami and the Democrat Socialists of America.

00:01:51.340 In New York's 13th Congressional District, Darius Liza Avila-Chevalier defeated five-term Congresswoman Adriana S. Piatt in what many observers described as the political upset of the evening.

00:02:09.980 In New York's 7th Congressional District, Democrat Socialist Claire Valdez captured the nomination for an open Congressional seat.

00:02:17.520 In New York's 10th congressional district, former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who had actually run for mayor against Mamdami and then sidled up to the socialists, aligning himself closely with them, actually defeated Dan Goldman.

00:02:33.960 Dan Goldman signed to the Levi Streis fortune, one of the most liberal members of Congress.

00:02:41.320 When Dan Goldman is in trouble from the left, well, Chuck Schumer should be shaking in his boots.

00:02:48.160 Although Lander is not formally a member of the Democrat Social America, all three of those candidates embraced by the same political movement campaigned as part of a coordinated effort to push New York's Democratic Party even further to the left.

00:03:03.400 Victory celebrations reportedly featured chants of DSA, DSA, that's Democrat Socialists of America, as activists celebrated what they viewed as a major breakthrough for their movement.

00:03:16.460 The most enjoyable part of the evening, of course, was when George Conway, formerly a member of the Conservative Federalist Society, then a full-blown never-Trumper, spent $6 million of his own money in the 12th Congressional District, that is the district of the retiring Jerry Nadler, probably the most liberal district in the United States, in order to come in fifth.

00:03:43.580 He spent $6 million to get 6% of the vote and approximately 6,000 votes

00:03:51.220 That means that George Conway spent about $1 million per vote received

00:03:57.260 It was Conway, of course, who engineered the change in New York State law

00:04:01.680 In which the statute of limitations for sexual assault was extended

00:04:06.700 In order to frame Donald Trump

00:04:09.840 That was done by E. Jean Carroll

00:04:13.020 Little did Conway know that he would also catch former Mayor Eric Adams and former Governor Andrew Cuomo in similar lawsuits.

00:04:23.940 This was a stunning rebuke for George Conway, kind of the highlight of the evening for me.

00:04:31.120 These victories matter because they represent far more than routine Democrat primary contests.

00:04:36.480 They signal the growing influence of an organized socialist movement that is rapidly consolidated in power with one of America's largest cities and now seeks to export that influence, as we saw recently with the selection of a socialist mayor in Washington, D.C.

00:04:55.340 What was once dismissed as a fringe ideology is increasingly becoming the dominant force within the Democrat Party and America's urban centers.

00:05:06.100 Many Americans have comforted themselves with the belief that socialism could never actually gain meaningful traction in the United States.

00:05:13.260 We were told that Americans were too independent, too entrepreneurial, too devoted to constitutional liberty, too smart to embrace an ideology that has repeatedly failed wherever it has been implemented.

00:05:27.060 Yet the victories of these Democrat-Socialist-packed candidates demonstrate that socialism is no longer confined to college campuses, activist organizations, and academic departments.

00:05:38.880 It is now finding its way into Congress itself.

00:05:42.240 Unfortunately, younger Americans have been taught a version of history

00:05:46.740 that bears very little resemblance to reality.

00:05:50.340 They hear the word socialism and they imagine fairness, compassion, and economic justice.

00:05:56.860 They rarely hear about the millions who suffered under socialist and communist regimes.

00:06:01.720 They're taught about the promises but not the consequences.

00:06:05.520 They're encouraged to view free enterprise as exploitive

00:06:08.320 while being shielded from the historical record of economic collapse, political repression, censorship, human misery, and suffering

00:06:17.260 that has accompanied activist experiments throughout the 20th century.

00:06:21.400 The truth is that socialism and communism are not identical, but history demonstrates that socialism often serves as the gateway

00:06:29.680 to which nations move towards greater concentrations of government power and ultimately Marxism.

00:06:36.140 The central premise of socialism that government should exercise, increasing control over economic life in order to produce desired social outcomes.

00:06:46.520 Once government assumes that role, it inevitably seeks more authority, more regulation, more taxation, and more control of your everyday life.

00:06:56.260 Individual liberty becomes subordinate to political objectives.

00:06:59.920 The state grows while personal freedom contracts.

00:07:02.620 Essentially, socialism is a one-way ticket to communism.

00:07:06.140 and both are evil.

00:07:08.540 Communism remains one of history's

00:07:10.160 most thoroughly discredited political experiments

00:07:12.720 from Soviet Union, the old Soviet Union,

00:07:16.080 to Mao's China, to Castro's Cuba,

00:07:18.940 to Pol Pot's killing fields of Cambodia.

00:07:21.740 Communist systems produced poverty, shortages,

00:07:24.960 repression, censorship, political imprisonment,

00:07:27.760 and mass death.

00:07:29.300 The promises were always the same, though.

00:07:31.520 Equality, fairness, justice.

00:07:34.160 The outcomes were remarkably consistent.

00:07:37.060 Economic stagnation, bureaucratic control, corruption, and the concentration of power in the hands of a ruling elite.

00:07:45.800 No place can we see this more evident than in Castro's Cuba today.

00:07:50.100 Supporters of democratic socialism insist they're not communists.

00:07:53.500 They only seek a more generous welfare state.

00:07:56.400 Free this, free that, free health care, free education, free groceries, free everything.

00:08:03.060 Yet history teaches that the danger lies not merely in intentions, but in incentives.

00:08:08.960 Every expansion of government authority creates pressure for further expansion.

00:08:15.460 Government programs become permanent.

00:08:17.560 Bureaucracy become self-sustaining.

00:08:20.260 Citizens become increasingly dependent upon political institutions for needs once met by families, churches, communities, charities, and private enterprise.

00:08:31.300 That's why the current generation must understand that the Democrat Party of John F. Kennedy bears very little resemblance to the Democrat Party of today, which is increasingly influenced by these socialist activists

00:08:44.180 John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy were fierce anti-communists

00:08:48.900 John Kennedy believed in American exceptionalism

00:08:51.980 He advocated tax cuts to stimulate economic growth

00:08:55.360 He projected strength abroad and understood the importance of national sovereignty

00:09:00.480 He called in his 1960 campaign for a big national defense buildup, claiming that America had a missile gap with the Russians.

00:09:10.180 His famous call for Americans to ask not what they could do for themselves, what they could do for their country,

00:09:16.940 reflected a philosophy of responsibility and citizenship that stands in stark contrast to today's politics of grievance, dependency, and identity-based division.

00:09:28.460 Now, many younger voters have never been taught this history. They're led to believe that modern progressive politics is simply the natural continuation of a great democratic tradition. But nothing could be further from the truth.

00:09:42.460 The ideological distance between JFK and the democratic social of America is enormous. Kennedy confronted communism. Today's socialist activists confront and actually frequently embrace communism.

00:09:58.000 They do, however, attack capitalism

00:10:02.500 While embracing many assumptions

00:10:04.460 That the communist movement is promoted

00:10:06.040 Throughout the 20th century

00:10:07.960 Developments in New York are particularly alarming 1.00

00:10:10.440 Because New York City has historically served

00:10:13.380 As a political and cultural trendsetter

00:10:16.260 For the nation

00:10:17.300 Ideas that begin in New York

00:10:19.520 Often migrate into universities

00:10:21.580 Media institutions, entertainment

00:10:24.000 Corporate boardrooms

00:10:25.540 and eventually federal policymaking.

00:10:29.020 The city has increasingly become a laboratory for radical experiments,

00:10:32.680 criminal justice, housing policy, immigration policy, and economic regulation.

00:10:38.600 The congressional victories celebrated by socialist activists

00:10:41.580 represent an effort to export those policies nationwide.

00:10:46.220 Equally troubling is the broader political climate that has emerged in New York City.

00:10:50.860 New York is home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel,

00:10:54.660 Yet recent years have witnessed growing hostility towards Israel, increasing anti-Semitic incidents, and political rhetoric that would have been considered unacceptable just a few years ago.

00:11:06.840 Many Jewish New Yorkers who went through the city as a refuge now express growing concern about the direction of its political culture and their safety in it.

00:11:17.300 Supporters of the socialist movement argue that they are responding to legitimate concerns

00:11:21.880 about housing costs, inflation, health care expenses, and economic inequality.

00:11:30.100 Those concerns are real.

00:11:31.600 Americans are struggling with affordability.

00:11:33.760 Families are worried about their futures.

00:11:35.960 Young people face challenges and deserve serious attention.

00:11:38.740 The answer, however, is not to abandon the principles of free enterprise

00:11:43.120 that made America and the United States the most prosperous and innovative nation in human history.

00:11:48.880 American strength has always rested upon free enterprise, private property, entrepreneurship,

00:11:54.820 constitutional government, and individual liberty.

00:11:56.920 These principles created the largest and most prosperous middle class the world has ever known.

00:12:03.300 They generated unprecedented innovation, economic mobility, and opportunity.

00:12:08.260 The danger facing the nation is not that socialism will arrive overnight

00:12:13.100 The danger is that it advances gradually

00:12:15.680 Wrapped in the language of compassion and fairness

00:12:18.680 While steadily increasing the power of government over every aspect of American life

00:12:24.720 Freedom is rarely lost in a single dramatic moment

00:12:27.720 More often it erodes incrementally

00:12:30.200 As citizens become accustomed to rendering responsibility and authority to political institutions

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00:12:37.500 I'm Roger Stone

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00:13:20.700 Welcome back into The Stone Zone.

00:13:23.680 You know, by tradition, Republican presidents have not taken positions in party primaries.

00:13:29.100 Neither President Richard Nixon, President Ronald Reagan, or either George H.W. Bush or his son George W. Bush ever took a position pre-primary in any federal contest.

00:13:40.940 Donald Trump has been very different in that regard.

00:13:44.520 Ronald Reagan was extraordinarily popular.

00:13:47.720 I do remember one incident in New Jersey in which two Republican members through redistricting were thrown into the same district.

00:13:55.920 Reagan did endorse the winner, Jim Corder.

00:13:58.780 But I can't think of any other instance.

00:14:00.780 But Donald Trump has been quite different.

00:14:03.320 And his endorsement packs an incredible political wallop.

00:14:07.820 We saw it in Oklahoma only days ago, where a candidate, Mike Mazie, who started at 2% of the polls,

00:14:15.480 soared ahead of the state attorney general to make the runoff in that state, which will be held in August.

00:14:21.220 And in Tuesday's Republican primaries, Trump delivered two major victories for MAGA candidates.

00:14:27.720 Another sign, the Republican Party is now the party that regularly puts conservative fighters into positions of authority.

00:14:35.020 In South Carolina, Attorney General Allen Wilson, a very good friend of mine, won the Republican nomination for governor, defeating Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evitt in a runoff by a wide margin.

00:14:46.580 Wilson built a broad conservative coalition, winning support from lawmakers across the party, including hardline conservatives and more traditional establishment Republicans.

00:14:56.440 President Trump also endorsed Wilson in the final stretch, as did Senator Tim Scott, following with his support.

00:15:04.280 Wilson now heads into the general election as the heavy favorite in what has become a reliably Republican state, South Carolina.

00:15:11.260 His message focused on safer communities, affordability, and accountable government.

00:15:16.960 As Attorney General, Wilson was influential in efforts to overturn the stolen results of the 2020 presidential election.

00:15:24.960 Wilson's not afraid to put his neck out there and do what's right, and he's precisely the type of leader that South Carolina needs.

00:15:32.000 But in New York's 21st Congressional District, pro-Trump businessman Anthony Constantino, you remember him.

00:15:38.580 He's the guy who put the vote for Trump sign on top of his factory in Amsterdam, New York.

00:15:43.940 Local Democrats flipped out, tried to put him in jail, wanted to fine him $1,000 per day, won the Republican primary to replace Elise Stefanik by almost 20 points.

00:15:54.640 Constantino, the chief executive officer of Sticker Mule, an online printing company, defeated establishment back to Sembleman Robert Smullen, who had the endorsement of the New York Republican Party, as well as most of the incumbent Republican members of the House from New York, with the notable exception of Elise Stefanik, who endorsed Constantino upon his victory.

00:16:18.160 Trump endorsed Constantino with a video in the closing hours of that campaign because Constantino became known in the district because of the efforts to put the sign on his factory and his refusal to back down.

00:16:34.620 Constantino now goes into that contest as a prohibitive favorite, but there is an open political question.

00:16:41.240 Assemblyman Smullin continues on the conservative party line,

00:16:46.220 but Constantino petitioned on a fourth party, the taxpayers' party.

00:16:51.960 Constantino, by my recognition, spent about $6 million of his own money

00:16:56.780 based on one simple principle.

00:17:00.120 As a self-funding candidate, he would not have to kowtow to any special interest.

00:17:05.860 In other words, the only constituency he would answer to, not the lobbyists, not big defense, not big pharma, not big agriculture, but the people of his district.

00:17:18.260 And therefore, he had one of the greatest campaign slogans of all time, Anthony Constantino, nobody's man but yours.

00:17:25.820 We'll see what New York State Conservative Party leaders do.

00:17:28.700 A three-way race could tip this seat to the Democrats, which would be a tragedy.

00:17:34.060 I'm Roger Stone. When we come back, Senator Bernie Marino, who was sent to Colombia as an observer for their stunning election, joins me to talk about how that country has elected a pro-American, anti-narco-tourist, pro-law and order president.

00:17:51.660 Have a deep breath.

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00:18:09.920 The Justice Department is vowing to continue its crackdown on Antifa terrorism

00:18:14.400 after eight members of a North Texas Antifa cell

00:18:18.120 were sentenced to 30 to 100 years in federal prison

00:18:22.960 for the July 2025 attack on an ICE facility in Prairieland, Texas.

00:18:27.980 This marks the first federal case in history in which Antifa members are convicted of terrorism offenses.

00:18:38.880 Prosecutors say the group arrived at the facility on July 4th dressed in black block gear with faces covered and began launching explosives and vandalizing government property.

00:18:50.580 They carried 11 firearms, body armor, military-grade medical kits, and Faraday bags to block cell phone tracking.

00:18:58.740 The ringleader, Benjamin Hanil Song, was sentenced to 100 years.

00:19:03.720 Prosecutors say he recruited and trained members, supplied firearms, and shot an Alvarado police officer in the neck when law enforcement responded.

00:19:13.520 We are waiting for, hopefully, Senator Bernie Marino.

00:19:18.360 He is giving a speech on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

00:19:21.860 Hopefully he will join us momentarily.

00:19:24.900 We asked him to join us because he was sent to Colombia as a neutral observer for the elections there.

00:19:32.720 Can't think of a better place.

00:19:34.260 Bernie Moreno elected to the U.S. Senate in the 2024 election.

00:19:41.000 Proud to say that I was one of his earliest supporters in both of his U.S. Senate campaigns.

00:19:45.860 We're hoping that he can wrap up his speech and join us.

00:19:49.020 But it is a stunning rebuke to the radical left.

00:19:54.020 Colombian voters handed conservative outsider Abelardo de Esprilla, colloquially known as El Tigre,

00:20:02.160 a hard-fought victory in Sunday's presidential runoff.

00:20:06.000 President Trump, who offered his full-throated endorsement to El Tigre,

00:20:11.000 immediately declared de Esparrilla, who he said won easily,

00:20:16.540 a much better relationship between Washington and Bogota moving forward.

00:20:22.080 The leftist candidate, Cepeda, has refused to concede,

00:20:28.700 and current President Gustavo Petro has been whining about non-existent fraud.

00:20:35.700 But the mandate is clear.

00:20:38.440 Colombia seems to be shutting the door on failed leftist experience.

00:20:43.320 I believe that Senator Marino has joined us now.

00:20:46.860 Bernie Marino, welcome to the Stone Zone.

00:20:50.280 Well, thank you, Roger, and thank you for everything that you do for this country.

00:20:53.680 That's very kind.

00:20:55.240 So you were sent to Colombia to be a neutral observer of the election there.

00:20:59.840 A very, I think, apt appointment because you yourself were born in Bogota,

00:21:04.980 Moved to the United States with your family at age five, became an American citizen at age 18.

00:21:11.060 You are emblematic of the America's success story, having built a major business career before devoting yourself to public service.

00:21:20.740 Proud to say that I was a strong supporter of both of your Senate campaigns and you have not let me down, not in the slightest.

00:21:27.880 So I'm proud to be among your many supporters. But it does kind of, well, I'm pleased about this movement across Central and South America. You see it in Chile. You see it in Peru. You see it in Honduras. You see it across the board. Now you see it in Colombia.

00:21:47.220 But the current president, Gustavo Petro, has been whining about what I think is non-existent fraud.

00:21:55.820 But you were there.

00:21:57.080 You were on the ground.

00:21:58.320 You were the first person, by the way, who teed me into what was happening there.

00:22:02.620 What did you see on the ground, Senator?

00:22:05.280 They run elections so well that it is embarrassing to the United States that we don't even come close to us.

00:22:13.560 Let me lay it out for you, Roger.

00:22:14.840 And this is, I think, what animates the president so much, because the country of Columbia has a GDP of about the size of Los Angeles.

00:22:22.320 It's a country of 50 million.

00:22:25.260 Nowhere in comparison to the scale of sophistication in the United States of America.

00:22:28.820 Yet for their elections, it's one day, 8 o'clock in the morning till 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

00:22:34.160 You have to have proof of citizenship on your possession in order to walk into the place where you even vote.

00:22:40.900 You have to show that ID to get the ballot.

00:22:42.820 You get fingerprinted, and you have to sign when you receive that ballot.

00:22:47.440 It's all paper ballots.

00:22:49.680 Zero mail-in balloting.

00:22:51.540 Roger, let me say it again.

00:22:52.940 Nobody, nobody is allowed to mail in a ballot.

00:22:56.300 You must be present and biometrically checked in order to vote.

00:23:02.000 They have higher voter participation in the United States of America.

00:23:05.580 and roger the election polls closed at 4 p.m local time by 5 p.m one hour later they had

00:23:15.960 manually counted and reported the results of 26 million votes a record voter turnout

00:23:23.900 then two days later this morning three days later this morning they audited the entirety of every

00:23:30.760 single ballot by hand with judges and it was an error rate of 0.0003 absolutely proves of course

00:23:42.000 that it can be done in france they count 38 million ballots in one day without any problem

00:23:48.480 with sort of paper ballots so the president's call for for election reform elections on one day

00:23:55.180 paper ballots, no electronic voting machines that are connected to the internet, no mail-in ballots.

00:24:03.120 That really is the answer. I know that you strongly support the Save America Act, but I wonder about

00:24:09.920 some of your fellow Republicans in the Senate. This doesn't seem to be a matter of controversy.

00:24:15.080 All it says is a person should be a United States citizen to vote in a federal election,

00:24:20.780 and they should have a photo ID.

00:24:23.280 Why do some Republicans, a handful, but some, find this controversial?

00:24:29.940 Well, we're virtually all united on supporting the Save America Act

00:24:34.200 and the Republicans have 50 out of 53 senators.

00:24:37.500 But the problem isn't the three Republicans.

00:24:40.240 The problem is the 47 out of 47 Democrats that have consistently voted against it.

00:24:45.800 I think we should put them on the record again and strip it out and say,

00:24:50.120 okay, how about just voter ID, and then how about just proof of citizenship?

00:24:53.920 Because these are 95-5 issues, Roger.

00:24:56.700 I mean, this is common sense.

00:24:59.120 To go into the Barack Hussein Obama library, you have to show voter ID. 0.60

00:25:03.960 To volunteer to help snowplow illegal immigrant neighborhoods in New York, 0.52

00:25:07.980 you have to show two forms of voter ID. 0.99

00:25:10.580 I mean, this is just common sense. 0.75

00:25:13.100 It's completely ridiculous, the arguments that Democrats make. 0.85

00:25:17.080 They say disenfranchises poor people. 0.99

00:25:19.280 Well, guess what?

00:25:19.780 But 99% of Colombians have a national proof of citizenship ID that they carry with them at all times.

00:25:26.580 99% of the country.

00:25:29.300 And the country has dramatically higher levels of diversity, dramatically higher levels of poverty. 0.99

00:25:34.500 So it can be done. 1.00

00:25:35.560 It's all a lie.

00:25:36.920 It's a lie so that they can cheat.

00:25:39.000 Look at California. 1.00

00:25:39.900 So I'm hoping, Roger, that Senator Ron Johnson's committee, the permanent subcommittee of investigations, will bring the people from Colombia that ran the elections.

00:25:49.160 and subpoena Gavin Newsom and have him sit there and make these arguments.

00:25:54.120 I got to tell you a very funny story.

00:25:56.060 When I was with the registrar on Sunday and he's walking me through the elections

00:26:01.740 and what they were doing to safeguard, et cetera, I said to him,

00:26:05.660 why don't you let people vote by mail?

00:26:09.660 And he turned to his assistant.

00:26:10.780 We're speaking in Spanish.

00:26:11.700 He turned to his assistant and said, I think the senator isn't giving me the right question.

00:26:17.140 his Spanish must be bad and the assistant goes what do you mean he goes because I don't understand 1.00

00:26:21.980 this question so he repeated it obviously correctly and said why don't you let people 0.99

00:26:26.200 vote by mail he looked at me he goes that is absurd if people voted by mail you'd open the

00:26:32.300 door to fraud and people wouldn't have confidence in our elections like he was he thought it was 0.87

00:26:37.700 the most ridiculous question anybody could possibly ask him yeah it's kind of like the

00:26:42.780 sky is blue and grass is green. Although I remember when former Attorney General Bill Barr in an 0.89

00:26:48.180 interview with Wolf Blitzer on CNN admitted using his words, mail-in voting is an open invitation

00:26:54.700 for voter fraud. Strangely, he did not keep that position consistently. Senator, how do you feel

00:27:03.100 about the president's call to end the filibuster rule that requires 60 votes to get anything to

00:27:09.540 the floor of the u.s senate for a vote well look if we had jfk 1960s democrats i don't think we

00:27:18.020 would need that i think we could get a lot of things done in the senate if you had normal

00:27:22.720 democrats that fought for working americans and nobody knows that better than you do roger you

00:27:27.640 know exactly what i'm talking about there was a time and place in this country where democrats

00:27:32.440 were normal, American-loving people.

00:27:36.020 The crop of Democrats that we have today,

00:27:39.000 and it's sad to say this,

00:27:40.160 truly, this comment isn't about being partisan.

00:27:42.140 It breaks my heart to say it.

00:27:43.920 They hate this country.

00:27:45.200 Look at the people who New York elected yesterday.

00:27:48.660 The one lady who said she uses the American flag 0.98

00:27:51.120 as toilet paper.

00:27:53.340 I'm somebody who I think the greatest honor in my life,

00:27:55.520 the greatest gift God gave me,

00:27:57.200 is parents that brought me to the United States.

00:28:00.020 And for me to be able to swear an oath

00:28:01.640 of allegiance to the United States of America,

00:28:03.940 one of the greatest days of my life.

00:28:06.040 And yet these people are disparaging

00:28:07.600 the meaning of what it means to be American.

00:28:09.640 So I think given that circumstance,

00:28:11.960 the filibuster just doesn't work.

00:28:13.720 It's something that does not meet the times.

00:28:17.420 Unfortunately, we need 50 votes out of 53

00:28:20.660 to get rid of the filibuster.

00:28:22.360 And we probably honestly have somewhere around 40.

00:28:25.200 So we're not even close.

00:28:26.580 And there's not any kind of leverage

00:28:28.740 that can be enacted on the people who just won't do it.

00:28:31.400 And so I'm committed to make it certain that we keep at this, keep the fight.

00:28:36.280 We have to raise the consciousness among Americans.

00:28:39.380 Ultimately, the Democrats who are obstructing 80-20 issues have to be held accountable in November.

00:28:45.920 That means our voters show up and make a statement.

00:28:48.580 We win and beat these Democrats soundly and hope that at some point they come back to being normal.

00:28:54.680 Now, what you say is absolutely true.

00:28:56.780 I mean, when I was growing up, the Democrat Party believed in free enterprise.

00:29:01.400 believed in capitalism believed in a strong national defense believed in patriotism believed

00:29:07.840 in god yeah they wanted to spend a bit more for taxes they wanted to spend a bit more for public

00:29:14.140 spending but they fundamentally were patriotic americans who loved their country that democrat

00:29:19.420 party the party of jfk the party of harry truman by the way the founder of the state of israel

00:29:25.200 That party just literally no longer exists.

00:29:29.180 The term moderate Democrat is an oxymoron.

00:29:33.760 As I said earlier in the show, believe me, Chuck Schumer sees the handwriting on the wall.

00:29:40.000 When your colleague in the House, Dan Goldman, one of the most liberal members of Congress, gets defeated by socialists because he's too conservative.

00:29:49.960 That tells you a great deal about where that party is headed.

00:29:52.500 I mean, yeah, Robert, you've been at this your whole life, politics, and you think about Graham Plattner in Maine, Abdullasea in Michigan, James Tallarico in Texas.

00:30:03.960 These would be fantasy candidates from you for you 10 years ago.

00:30:07.460 Because you'd say, my God, we'll get 98% of the vote.

00:30:10.320 It'll be 98 to 2.

00:30:12.060 I mean, if a guy like Tallarico is running in Texas 10 years ago, you'd laugh.

00:30:15.680 You'd be like, my God, this guy could never even conceive of getting any votes in a place like Texas.

00:30:21.220 or Al W.S.A.D. in Michigan, I mean, this is people who are now,

00:30:26.420 these are the standard bearers for the Democratic Party.

00:30:28.920 These are the leaders, the philosophical foundation of this modern socialist party

00:30:35.480 that has taken over what used to be the Democratic Party.

00:30:37.880 I don't even like calling them Democratic Socialists.

00:30:40.020 They're just socialists who, by the way, happen to hate America.

00:30:44.260 Yeah, I'll be very interested to see whether Texas elects a U.S. senator 0.98

00:30:48.080 who is a vegan and wants to use our taxpayers for transgenderism.

00:30:53.400 That will be very, very interesting. 1.00

00:30:56.140 Unthinkable in the old days of the Burmese.

00:30:59.860 Yeah, who says he hates Christianity.

00:31:01.680 Let's not forget that part.

00:31:02.960 Oh, no, I left that out.

00:31:04.500 I left that out.

00:31:05.780 All right, we're going to take a quick break,

00:31:07.860 and then we'll be back with Senator Bernie Marino,

00:31:10.920 a man who could make a huge amount of money,

00:31:13.820 but instead of doing so has decided to devote his life to public service.

00:31:17.600 I'm very proud of the record that he's racking up in the U.S. Senate.

00:31:20.700 Proud to say that I was one of his earliest supporters.

00:31:23.320 And Senator Marino, you have made me proud every day you have served.

00:31:27.760 And we're honored to have you here today.

00:31:29.360 I want to talk about this, whether there's some commonality over the fact that we cut off USAID funding.

00:31:37.420 And now suddenly conservative populist based parties are starting to win elections in South and Central America.

00:31:44.300 I find that to be more than a coincidence.

00:31:47.600 You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:31:48.900 We're here with Senator Bernie Marino of Ohio, and we'll be right back.

00:31:54.560 The Stone Zone on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:32:00.800 And we're back.

00:32:02.480 We're honored to have Senator Bernie Marino of Ohio, who recently served as an observer for the elections in Colombia.

00:32:11.120 I do want to focus a little bit more on the domestic scene.

00:32:15.380 It was reported that President Donald Trump met with the Senate Republican Caucus today.

00:32:20.420 And some reports from that meeting describe it as tense, maybe even combative.

00:32:26.980 Senator, I don't want to put you on the spot here because I know there are things you can and cannot say.

00:32:32.380 But what can you tell us about that meeting?

00:32:35.600 I came from a family of seven siblings and a strong mom and a strong dad.

00:32:41.120 It was a family conversation, and sometimes family conversations get tense.

00:32:45.720 But at the end of the day, honestly, it was actually really long past due.

00:32:49.940 I think it was important to get some of these issues on the table.

00:32:54.020 And I commend for President Trump.

00:32:55.660 Look, the guy's tough as nails.

00:32:57.460 And this is a guy that does not back down.

00:32:59.540 If he believes something in his heart to be the right thing to do, there's nobody on earth that's going to talk him out of it.

00:33:05.300 And that's what's allowed him to be so effective.

00:33:07.960 And I think that message, really, I hope my colleagues got, and certainly I got loud and clear, was be tough.

00:33:16.340 Fight.

00:33:17.120 These are the things that matter.

00:33:18.900 These are the things that our voters expect us to do.

00:33:21.440 Do those things.

00:33:23.380 Do not back down.

00:33:24.320 You've known the man infinitely longer than I have.

00:33:27.980 This is not new to him.

00:33:29.120 It's not an act to him.

00:33:30.480 He's not play-acting something.

00:33:33.420 This is what he believes in his heart and soul.

00:33:35.740 Nobody's ever going to tell him not to be who he is.

00:33:38.460 And that's where he went today at lunch.

00:33:39.680 And I thought it was fantastic.

00:33:41.200 I think it was great.

00:33:42.620 We ended up stronger, more unified as a result.

00:33:45.200 And the ones who are a mess is the Democrats.

00:33:47.420 Look, every single Democrat Senate candidate is running on the premise that they will not vote for Chuck Schumer to be minority leader or majority leader.

00:33:55.080 Whereas in our case, we're fully behind President Trump.

00:33:58.040 We all believe it's an agenda.

00:34:00.000 People like me would have never gotten elected had not been for President Trump.

00:34:03.540 He carried me across the finish line.

00:34:05.140 in ohio let's say i didn't run a good campaign at support from of course you were there with me

00:34:09.620 from day one but ultimately the reason i'm here in washington dc and able to make a difference

00:34:14.100 in the things that i care about because of donald j trump yeah he what you say about his toughness

00:34:20.320 is absolutely true look i worked for richard nixon the time i was very young he was a very

00:34:26.160 very tough guy made up until donald trump the greatest comeback in american political history

00:34:31.700 You don't do that if you're made out of sugar candy.

00:34:34.380 He was a tough guy.

00:34:35.220 Also worked for Senator Bob Dole, a man who was hit by a shell in Italy in World War II,

00:34:41.500 was told that he would never walk again, never have the use of his hands or his limbs again,

00:34:46.420 would never feed himself again, would never butt in his own shirt.

00:34:50.600 And only through sheer will did he nurse himself back into health

00:34:54.660 to become not only the senator from Kansas, the Senate majority leader,

00:34:59.380 but also a leading candidate for president, would have been a great president.

00:35:03.720 But neither one of them, neither one of them is as tough or determined as Donald Trump.

00:35:09.100 He is the toughest man I've ever met, and he is very determined.

00:35:13.500 He also now is in a unique position of not ever having to run for re-election.

00:35:19.080 So I think a lot of the political considerations that go into decision-making

00:35:24.120 go out to the window where he is able to say what is best for the country.

00:35:30.560 I am praying that his peace agreement, that the ceasefire holds together,

00:35:37.120 because I think that is the best thing for America.

00:35:40.240 I also laud Vice President J.D. Vance, who I think has an extraordinarily difficult time

00:35:47.140 trying to help hold the ceasefire together.

00:35:50.420 I'm glad to see that the president sent him to Switzerland to conduct these negotiations.

00:35:56.620 But you're absolutely right.

00:35:58.660 Trump is consistently underestimated.

00:36:02.420 His enemies, his detractors, they underestimate him today.

00:36:06.780 Loves the country just the way he's beautified Washington, D.C.

00:36:11.040 Cleaned up the monuments, cleaned up the reflecting pool.

00:36:14.340 He's a man who deeply loves his country.

00:36:17.060 I once asked him about his legacy.

00:36:18.540 He doesn't care about his legacy.

00:36:19.720 He cares about his country. And he's right. I think he's been very clever to connect the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which I personally were in the Senate. I wouldn't vote to renew, but that's me, to the Save America Act.

00:36:38.680 This has been a brilliant, brilliant maneuver.

00:36:42.800 It has to be, I don't know, it has to be exciting just to be in the room with him.

00:36:46.760 I've traveled with him. I've known him for 50 years.

00:36:50.000 He is incredibly unique.

00:36:52.640 And I think it is an honor for both of us to serve in his movement, to serve in the America First movement.

00:37:00.380 And I commend you for the job you did in Colombia, ensuring that they had a fair, honest election.

00:37:07.440 I want to thank my guest, Senator Bernie Marino. He's a real comer in the U.S. Senate for joining us today. Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.

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