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00:00:40.960 Well, as the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, this 2026, a new national poll from the Cato Institute reveals a striking contradiction.

00:00:53.540 Nearly half of those Americans polled cannot identify what milestone this day commemorates.

00:01:01.720 Yet overwhelming majorities remain proud to be Americans and continue to embrace the nation's founding ideals.

00:01:08.280 The poll conducted by the Libertarian Cato Institute in partnership with Morning Consult had a large sample of 202,253 adults nationwide, more than enough to be scientifically meaningful, found that a full 46% of Americans do not know what the nation's 250th anniversary commemorates, which of course is the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776.

00:01:36.500 Just 53% correctly identified the historic event that we celebrate tomorrow.

00:01:42.940 Yet, despite those gaps in civic knowledge, Americans continue to express deep affection for their country.

00:01:49.880 That's the good news.

00:01:51.300 The poll showed that 86% are grateful to be Americans, while 79% said they are proud to be Americans.

00:01:57.980 More than three quarters, 76% had a favorable view of America's founding, while 70% believed the principles established by the founding fathers remain relevant even today.

00:02:10.380 Finding also suggests that many Americans may struggle with the basic historic facts they continue to identify strongly with the nation's constitutional system and ideals of liberty.

00:02:20.440 Support, for example, for the Constitution remains broad and strong.

00:02:25.080 Near 86% said the Constitution is important for protecting America's rights and freedoms,

00:02:30.300 while 82% believe it has been essential to America's prosperity.

00:02:34.740 So there is the good news.

00:02:37.600 Now moving on to the news of the day, former CIA Director John Brennan,

00:02:42.400 who is the arch-villain who orchestrated the Russian collusion hoax,

00:02:46.440 is now asking a federal court to force the Trump administration to preserve records tied to ongoing Justice Department scrutiny of his role in the Russian collusion probe.

00:02:58.040 Brennan, who is an admitted communist, has not been indicted, but his legal team says grand jury investigations have taken place in recent months.

00:03:07.500 Well, I'm glad to hear that.

00:03:08.740 His lawsuit claims the administration is abusing criminal process to punish President Trump's political enemies and argues that the records must be preserved in case Brennan later challenges any prosecutions as selective or vindictive.

00:03:24.500 In other words, any time someone who has broken the law and violated the Constitution in their manic effort to destroy Donald Trump is held responsible, they claim that they have been targeted and it is retaliation.

00:03:37.860 This particular lawsuit names President Trump, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Cash Patel, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, as well as other officials.

00:03:52.040 The Justice Department declined to comment or deny any investigation, but a spokesman called Brennan's complaint rich.

00:03:59.460 Great comment, given Brennan's own history of accusing others of misconduct during the Trump-Russia saga.

00:04:05.900 At issue here are two matters. Brennan, who is, as the CIA director, the man who approved the visas for four of the eight hijackers who attacked America on 9-11 and later got caught spying on a Senate committee that was investigating his use of illegal torture in Afghanistan,

00:04:26.160 says that he had, well, let me go back,

00:04:34.960 as issues that matter, Brennan's involvement

00:04:36.800 in probing the alleged Russian interference

00:04:38.380 in the 2016 election, and the other matter

00:04:41.300 is his statement of Congress

00:04:42.660 about the intelligence community's assessment

00:04:44.700 of Russian influence.

00:04:46.600 House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan

00:04:48.660 previously referred Brennan for criminal prosecution,

00:04:52.180 alleging he knowingly made false statements

00:04:54.260 during his congressional testimony.

00:04:56.600 Specifically, Jordan said Brennan falsely denied

00:04:59.600 that the CIA relied on the now completely discredited

00:05:03.260 Steele dossier while preparing

00:05:05.640 the post-election intelligence assessments.

00:05:08.620 See, the Steele dossier was paid for by Hillary Clinton.

00:05:11.680 It was a fabricated report that claimed

00:05:13.600 that Donald Trump, as a private citizen, 0.88

00:05:16.340 had dallied with Russian prostitutes in Moscow. 0.65

00:05:19.080 It was a complete fiction, a fabrication, 0.96

00:05:22.220 and John Brennan knew it. But many Americans see this long overdue reckoning for the officials who

00:05:29.060 pushed the fake Russian narrative that consumed Washington for years as about time. The key

00:05:34.760 question is simple. If Brennan and other intelligence leaders did nothing wrong,

00:05:39.060 why are they so worried about investigators preserving their paper trail? Time to end

00:05:43.540 the excuses and start locking these criminals up for the treacherous acts that perpetrated

00:05:48.200 against our country. The question you may ask yourself is, who is John Brennan and how did an

00:05:55.160 admitted communist become the head of the Central Intelligence Agency? Former CIA director John

00:06:00.360 Brennan is more culpable than perhaps anyone else in the genesis of Russiagate. Even though he was

00:06:07.240 fired immediately by President Trump upon his initial arrival at the White House, Brennan is

00:06:11.940 the man who sowed the seeds for Trump's destruction behind the scenes throughout his campaign and

00:06:17.720 during the presidential transition. Brennan's subversive stain permeated Trump's four-year term

00:06:22.820 and caused immeasurable damage to the country. In 2017, despite any probable cause, CIA Director

00:06:30.080 John Brennan gave a list of 26 friends and associates of then-candidate Donald Trump to

00:06:35.800 the so-called Five Eyes intelligence agencies, which includes the United Kingdom, Canada,

00:06:41.640 Australia, and New Zealand, asking those agencies to bump the individuals targeted,

00:06:46.420 which is an intelligence community jargon for surveil.

00:06:50.620 I was on that list.

00:06:52.400 So were Carter Page and George Papadopoulos.

00:06:55.340 This laid the groundwork for the Russian collusion hoax,

00:06:58.240 the single greatest dirty trick in American politics,

00:07:01.480 an abuse of power in which the full authority of the United States government

00:07:05.360 and the incredible capabilities of our intelligence agencies

00:07:08.680 utilized fabricated evidence, the aforementioned Steele dossier,

00:07:12.820 and the still unproven claim that the Russians hacked the Democrat National Committee

00:07:17.780 in an attempt to remove a duly elected president.

00:07:21.160 The report of the special counsel John Durham provided demonstrable evidence

00:07:25.480 that Brennan briefed then-President Obama and Vice President Joe Biden

00:07:29.500 about the steel dossier fully aware of the fact that Hillary Clinton's campaign

00:07:34.480 plotted to use the fabricated document in order to frame Trump as a puppet

00:07:38.860 for Russian President Vladimir Putin.

00:07:42.480 Brennan was instrumental in the illegal FISA warrants that were used to spy on Donald Trump's campaign.

00:07:47.960 Brennan was also involved in the electoral interference and censorship operation that helped defeat Donald Trump out of his rightful second term in 2020.

00:07:58.180 He was also one of those who signed among the 51 national security officials who claimed falsely that Hillary Clinton's, pardon me, that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation.

00:08:12.180 disinformation. Brennan and his deep state co-conspirators accurately called the spies

00:08:17.420 who lied by the New York Post are finding it difficult to cope with the fact that the public

00:08:22.520 refused to buy their nonsense and re-elected Trump to his historic second term, rejecting their warped

00:08:28.700 elitist mindset completely. Even the most cursory review of Brennan's public interviews will show

00:08:35.260 him constantly ranting that Donald Trump is not qualified to be president, that Tulsi Gabbard was

00:08:41.020 not qualified to be the director of national intelligence, or that Kash Patel is not qualified

00:08:45.620 to be the director of the FBI. One might simply ask, qualified John Brennan, given his jaded

00:08:51.860 personal history, to be director of the CIA. Brennan and his fellow apparatchiks see themselves

00:08:58.020 as sagacious gatekeepers who possess a holy mandate in determining who should be the leader

00:09:03.820 of the free world. It is this cabal who are the arbiters of democracy, not the will of the people,

00:09:10.060 not the voters, as was the terms are traditionally defined, according to this self-serving ideology.

00:09:17.380 So I think the likes of Brennan have lorded over Washington, D.C. for far too long.

00:09:21.720 As a result, we have limitless debt, endless war, the unconstitutional expansion of power,

00:09:27.140 and the erosion of civil liberties, as well as the decimation of our fundamental rights.

00:09:33.660 Because of this anti-American behavior, Brennan would certainly be the perfect, disgraced official

00:09:39.740 to make it into a harsh example. Brennan confessed during a lie detector test that he was an

00:09:45.260 operative for the Communist Party of America during four different election cycles. Due to

00:09:50.100 institutional rot, this startling revelation somehow did not preclude John Brennan from

00:09:56.100 serving as a CIA director. Former FBI special agent John Guandolo, who's appeared here in the

00:10:02.480 Stone Zone, said that, who was a crucial leader in the Bureau's counterintelligence efforts following

00:10:08.900 to September 11 attacks revealed that Brennan actually converted to radical Islam while working

00:10:14.980 as a CIA station chief in Saudi Arabia. And as I mentioned earlier, it was John Brennan who,

00:10:21.160 as the CIA station chief in Riyadh, approved the visas for four of the Saudis who were among the

00:10:29.820 19 hijackers accusing of striking America on 9-11. John Brennan's connection make him the perfect CIA

00:10:36.540 director as President Barack Obama corroded every American institution to soften the nation up for

00:10:42.380 the collapse into socialism. Brennan was the perfect CIA director to funnel arms and money

00:10:47.840 into the hands of ISIS militants as they wreaked havoc across the Middle East and Europe. He was

00:10:52.860 the perfect CIA director to oversee the Russiagate frame job against President Donald Trump. And he

00:10:58.520 will be the perfect CIA director, the first in history to face charges of seditious treasony.

00:11:04.900 I think it is time that John Brennan be brought to justice.

00:11:09.480 Meanwhile, a newly released Department of Homeland Security Inspector General report confirms what many Americans have feared.

00:11:16.380 The Secret Service missed repeated chances to stop the July 13th, 2024 assassination attempt against President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:11:25.020 This red-hot 64-page report says the agency missed multiple opportunities to detect, prevent, and disrupt the attacks by Thomas Matthew Crooks, who they allege climbed upon the roof of the American Glass Research Complex roughly 155 yards from the stage.

00:11:43.800 At 6.09 p.m., local law enforcement warned the Secret Service and the Pennsylvania State Police Communications Room that a suspicious person was on the roof, but instead of immediately getting the building's location from the officers on the ground, a Secret Service supervisor handed the task to a counter drone operator.

00:12:03.500 According to the investigators, that operator searched online for location, was still searching when Crooks opened fire.

00:12:13.800 Trump's ear, killing one rally goer and injuring others before he's shot to death by law enforcement.

00:12:19.980 There's an open question as why the counter shooter waited the eight seconds after first locating Crooks in his viewfinder.

00:12:29.080 I personally have serious questions whether Crooks is in fact the actual assassin.

00:12:34.760 I find it hard to believe that he acted alone.

00:12:37.500 I find it hard to believe that the state police, the local police, the Secret Service and the FBI all knew that there was a man inside the perimeter of Trump's rally for 90 minutes before they apprised Donald Trump's immediate security detail.

00:12:53.820 I think there's a high probability that the killer is a man named Matthew Yerick.

00:12:58.880 I've said that publicly.

00:13:00.740 There's been no investigation into Yerick, but I think Yerick may be the killer.

00:13:05.500 And I'm happy to debate that on another day.

00:13:08.180 Thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone, the day before the 4th of July.

00:13:12.800 We'll be back with more politics on the other side.

00:13:15.780 But when it comes to the events of Butler, Pennsylvania, the American people deserve

00:13:19.880 accountability because protecting a president, particularly one facing unprecedented political

00:13:26.200 hostility, can be treated as an afterthought. Let me correct myself. Maxwell Yerick, that is a man

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00:14:23.780 about that inspector general's report from homeland security regarding the attempted

00:14:29.020 assassination of president donald trump the report found that 102 radio transmissions

00:14:33.780 about the man on the roof of the building never reached secret service personnel

00:14:38.100 because no joint communications room had ever been established with local agencies and the state

00:14:43.760 local and federal authorities were all on different radio frequencies.

00:14:48.540 Warnings, including reports of a man with a rangefinder, a man on the roof, and finally

00:14:52.560 a man with a long gun, were never received.

00:14:55.580 This is not a lack of warning.

00:14:57.400 It was a catastrophic failure to act.

00:14:59.840 The American people deserve accountability because protecting a president, especially

00:15:03.420 one facing unprecedented political hostility, cannot be treated like an afterthought.

00:15:07.300 And as I said, minutes after the shooting, a source in the Pennsylvania State Police

00:15:12.600 called to tell me that they believe that the shooter was one Maxwell Yerick. I looked up Yerick

00:15:18.480 online and he had a criminal record of violence at various Trump events. Since that time, he has

00:15:23.920 dropped from sight. I think there should be further investigation of Mr. Yerick.

00:15:28.860 Meanwhile, a new economic YouGov poll shows just how far left the Democratic Party really has moved.

00:15:35.100 The poll asked Americans whether they would ever vote for a candidate who identifies

00:15:38.540 as a Democratic Socialist. Overall, 45% said no, 29% said yes, and 26%, well, they weren't sure.

00:15:47.680 But among Democrats, the numbers tell a real story. 62% of Democrats said they would vote

00:15:52.860 for a Democratic Socialist, while only 11% said they would not. Among self-described liberals,

00:15:59.080 support climbed to 73%. Even 64% of 2024 Kamala Harris voters said they would back a Socialist

00:16:07.120 candidate. By contrast, 85% of Republicans and 95% of Trump voters rejected the idea of voting

00:16:14.080 for a socialist candidate. The survey also found that Democrats are more likely to choose socialism

00:16:19.120 over capitalism, with 34% actually picking socialism as superior to capitalism. This is

00:16:26.500 obviously not your daddy's Democratic Party. The old Democratic Party of John F. Kennedy,

00:16:31.500 Robert F. Kennedy, and Harry Truman is dead. 58% of Democrats say they view socialism

00:16:37.540 favorably. The results come as a socialist gain ground inside the Democratic Party,

00:16:42.220 included, of course, in New York, where Zoran Mamdami's rise has energized the radical left

00:16:47.300 and helped socialist-backed candidates challenge established Democrats. But it's not just there.

00:16:52.680 We've seen it in Colorado, where a veteran Democrat congresswoman was defeated last week.

00:16:57.440 We've seen it in the District of Columbia, where the Democratic primary produced a socialist candidate for mayor.

00:17:04.220 It's very clear why many young people hear fairness and mistake it for socialism without understanding the real world record of places like Venezuela, Cuba, communist China, and demagogues do everything they can to muddle the issue for the public.

00:17:19.540 For common sense people, this poll confirms what has been obvious for several years.

00:17:24.080 Socialism is no longer a fringe idea on the left.

00:17:26.900 It's becoming a governed philosophy inside the Democrat Party.

00:17:30.620 Voters now face a clear choice between free enterprise and a movement increasingly comfortable with government control of every aspect of your private life.

00:17:39.560 They want to determine how you can set your thermostat and where you can set it.

00:17:44.080 78 degrees. Seems kind of hot to me.

00:17:46.580 They want to shut down grocery stores and have food combines, food co-ops distribute your food.

00:17:55.640 They want to give you free health care, free education, free this, free that, as if you're not paying for it with your taxes.

00:18:02.300 The American people are done with it.

00:18:03.860 I'm Roger Stone.

00:18:04.700 You're listening to Stone Zone and we'll be right back.

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00:18:17.940 Welcome back into the Stone Zone

00:18:19.980 as we prepare for Independence Day.

00:18:22.380 If you're not following Florida Congresswoman

00:18:24.500 Anna Polina Luna, well, you really should.

00:18:27.540 Anna Polina Luna is putting Washington on notice.

00:18:30.360 She says no more business as usual 0.97

00:18:32.520 until election integrity is treated like a national priority.

00:18:36.300 The Florida Congresswoman says she will oppose

00:18:38.480 House rules needed to advance legislation

00:18:40.980 unless President Trump's Save America Act

00:18:43.760 moves forward in the Senate. The bill, of course, would require voters to prove U.S. citizenship

00:18:49.180 shipped before casting a ballot, a basic safeguard that over 90 percent of Americans

00:18:53.960 call common sense. In a forceful post on X, Luna blasted Senate leadership as feckless for failing

00:19:01.140 to pass the measure as America approaches its 250th birthday. She's also called out members

00:19:07.440 of her own chamber who, in her view, are more worried about making senators uncomfortable

00:19:12.180 than keeping campaign promises they made to the voters.

00:19:15.660 Anna Polina Luna's message was blunt. 1.00

00:19:18.180 She doesn't work for Washington. 1.00

00:19:19.740 She works for the American people. 1.00

00:19:21.480 She said the House must force the Senate to do its job,

00:19:24.680 saying that failure is not an option. 1.00

00:19:27.240 Anna Polina Luna is both feisty and a fighter. 1.00

00:19:30.920 The Save America Act has already passed the House multiple times, 1.00

00:19:33.660 but Senate Republicans say it lacks the votes needed to clear the 60-vote threshold.

00:19:38.880 That's what's required under the filibuster rules.

00:19:41.360 In other words, we believe that there are 50 votes for the bill in the Senate.

00:19:45.580 With Vice President J.D. Vance breaking the tie, it would become law.

00:19:50.060 But without 60 votes, the Republican leadership will not move the bill.

00:19:54.940 Some Republicans, of course, are criticizing Luna's hardball tactics. 0.90

00:19:59.100 Congressman Don Bacon, a rhino extraordinaire not running for re-election, called Luna's plan dumb. 0.68

00:20:05.900 But Luna's argument is simple. 0.86

00:20:07.420 Republicans ran on secure elections, and now it's time to deliver.

00:20:12.160 At a moment when citizens are demanding confidence in the ballot box,

00:20:15.620 requiring proof of citizenship to vote should not be the slightest bit controversial.

00:20:20.600 It should, in fact, be the bare minimum.

00:20:23.180 Meanwhile, the Trump Justice Department is drawing a hard line in defense of American sovereignty.

00:20:28.160 In a June 29th letter to International Criminal Court Judge Tomoko Kaine,

00:20:33.420 acting Attorney General Todd Blanche warned that the International Criminal Court has no legal

00:20:40.660 authority over American citizens and the United States will refuse to cooperate with any

00:20:45.120 investigation preceding summons or arrest requests involving U.S. people. Blanche made the

00:20:51.680 controversial constitutional case plainly. America never ratified the Rome Statute. The treaty has

00:20:57.640 treated the ICC. That means the court cannot impose its authority on the United States,

00:21:03.320 its troops, its officials, or its citizens. The International Criminal Court has no jurisdictions

00:21:10.080 over U.S. citizens anywhere in the world, Blanche wrote, calling an attempt to claim such power

00:21:15.880 illegitimate, unlawful, and a direct affront to U.S. sovereignty. The Justice Department also cited

00:21:23.220 the American Service Members Protection Act of 2002, which rejects the International Criminal

00:21:30.080 Court's jurisdiction over Americans and authorizes the president to use all necessary measures to

00:21:35.560 free any American detained under an ICC warrant. The warning comes as the Hague-based court faces

00:21:43.640 mounting criticism over selective enforcement, internal misconduct allegations, and actions

00:21:49.600 targeting Israel and other non-member nations. Blanche also pointed to President Trump's

00:21:55.220 February 2025 executive order sanctioning the International Criminal Court's chief prosecutors

00:22:01.520 after moves against Israeli officials. The message from Washington is unmistakable.

00:22:08.220 American liberty will not be outsourced to some unelected foreign judges. The Constitution vests

00:22:13.980 judicial power in American courts, not a tribunal in the Hague. Under President Donald Trump,

00:22:20.340 the United States is once again putting sovereignty first and is refusing to be

00:22:24.160 bossed around by globalists. Meanwhile, it looks to me like the front runner for the

00:22:30.040 Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 is in deep kimchi, as they say. A widening FBI

00:22:37.240 corruption probe in California is putting Governor Gavin Newsom's political world

00:22:42.160 under new scrutiny. According to attorney McGregor Scott, who represents former California

00:22:48.260 Chief of Staff Dana Williamson, Democratic operative Alexis Podesta cooperated with

00:22:54.600 federal investigators and secretly courting conversations as part of that investigation.

00:23:00.280 Scott has told reporters Alexis wore a wire and Dana did not. Williamson pleaded guilty in May

00:23:07.260 to conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, filing a false tax return and making false

00:23:14.500 statements to a bank, as well as the FBI. Federal prosecutors say she helped divert roughly $225,000

00:23:23.300 from a dormant campaign account linked to former Biden Health and Human Services Secretary

00:23:29.320 Xavier Becerra, now the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination for governor,

00:23:33.700 with payments allegedly disguised as consulting fees.

00:23:37.740 This revelation may explain why numerous Sacramento politicians

00:23:41.000 and lobbyists received FBI notices last fall

00:23:44.380 saying their phone calls had been intercepted.

00:23:47.340 Republican Assemblyman Josh Hoover said he was among those notified

00:23:50.540 suggesting that federal investigators are casting a broad bipartisan net

00:23:55.420 across the Capitol community.

00:23:57.660 The probe has now drawn in Newsom, his wife, Jennifer Siebel Newsom,

00:24:01.880 and members of his inner circle.

00:24:03.700 A source familiar with the matter told Semaphore that there are several ongoing investigations relating to Newsom,

00:24:11.660 reportedly focusing on his wife's taxes and his chief of staff, as well as involving whistleblowers from Sacramento.

00:24:18.820 Newsom, predictably, of course, is blaming President Donald Trump and calling himself a political target.

00:24:24.860 But California voters deserve facts, not deflection.

00:24:28.040 When federal investigators, whistleblowers, guilty pleas, and secret recordings all point towards Sacramento's Democratic power structure, the public has every right to demand transparency, accountability, and equal justice under the law.

00:24:42.900 And, of course, this all begins at the top.

00:24:45.060 It's very clear to me that Newsom is dirty and he must be held accountable for his nefarious behavior.

00:24:51.400 Meanwhile, the Trump Justice Department is taking California to court

00:24:55.480 over what it calls unconstitutional attacks on the Second Amendment.

00:24:59.680 On July 1st, the Department of Justice sued the state

00:25:03.100 over its ban on so-called machine gun convertible pistols

00:25:06.660 and California's restrictive handgun roster,

00:25:09.360 which limits which firearms law-abiding citizens are allowed to buy.

00:25:14.400 The new California law, signed by Governor Gavin Newsom,

00:25:17.320 targets Glock-style semi-automatic pistols that officials claim can be converted with illegal

00:25:23.660 Glock switches. But those switches are already banned under federal law, as well as being banned

00:25:29.080 in dozens of states. The Justice Department argues that California is using criminal misuse as an

00:25:35.160 excuse to block lawful citizens from purchasing common handguns, to which they're entitled under

00:25:41.660 the Second Amendment. The lawsuit also challenges California's handgun roster, which requires

00:25:47.380 features such as chamber load indicators and magazine disconnect mechanisms and so on. Until

00:25:53.800 recently, the roster also required micro-stamping technology, a mandate so burdensome that according

00:26:00.260 to the lawsuit, no new handguns were added between 2013 and 2023. Newsom defended the laws, calling

00:26:08.160 them common sense gun safety measures, but many Americans see the familiar California playbook.

00:26:13.920 Punish responsible gun owners while criminals ignore the laws and have access to any guns they

00:26:19.080 need or want. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dillon, she's a hero to me, said the Civil Rights

00:26:25.080 Division will defend law-abiding citizens from states that seek to disarm them illegally. The

00:26:30.280 Supreme Court has made clear that Americans have an individual right to keep and bear arms for

00:26:35.340 self-defense. The Department of Justice's message to California under Acting Attorney General Todd

00:26:40.980 Blanche is clear and simple. Constitutional rights do not disappear at the state line,

00:26:45.920 and Sacramento cannot regulate the Second Amendment out of existence. Meanwhile, here's no surprise,

00:26:52.440 Jill Biden's new memoir, View from the East Womb, debuted to number one on the New York Times

00:26:59.260 hardcover nonfiction bestseller list on June 21st. But there's a major question behind that

00:27:05.140 headline, how much of that success came from real reader demand. When the book appeared on the list,

00:27:10.820 it carried the Times dagger symbol, which is a marker used when retailers report bulk purchases

00:27:16.560 mixed in with regular sales. So in plain English, the paper saw signs that the numbers may have been

00:27:22.720 boosted by large volume buying, not just by actual individual Americans lying up to buy the book.

00:27:29.640 And the momentum did not last. The book fell to number three the following week, then disappeared

00:27:34.160 from the Times list altogether.

00:27:36.460 Serkana Bookscan showed a similar slide

00:27:39.120 with the memoir dropping from number two to number five

00:27:42.500 to number 16 in its hardcore fiction chart.

00:27:46.220 Now, my book, The Man Who Killed Kennedy,

00:27:48.340 The Case Against LBJ, was also on the New York Times list,

00:27:52.040 but it was 15th out of 15.

00:27:54.320 I'm happy to say it even made the list,

00:27:56.700 but there were no bulk sales.

00:27:59.680 That doesn't seem to be the case here.

00:28:02.040 By the end of the week of June 20th,

00:28:04.040 it sold just 3,221 print copies that week, with total U.S. print sales under 30,000.

00:28:12.100 Publishing experts note that bunk sales can be legitimate, especially around book tours and

00:28:17.000 events, but plenty of offers tour without getting flagged by the times. The bigger issue here is

00:28:22.380 credibility. Best-seller lists are supposed to reflect genuine public interest, not the ability

00:28:27.820 of political networks, campaigns, donors, or wealthy institutions to buy stacks of books

00:28:33.900 and manufacture momentum that is not there.

00:28:36.920 For the Biden brand, a weak showing would be embarrassing.

00:28:39.880 So, when Joe Biden's memoirs rockets to number one with a warning label attached, then quickly

00:28:44.860 fades, I think Americans are right to ask whether there was popularity or whether this

00:28:49.420 was some kind of political stagecraft.

00:28:53.000 Meanwhile, disgraced former special counsel Jack Smith is back in front of the friendly

00:28:57.280 cameras, this time complaining that the Trump Justice Department can no longer be trusted to

00:29:02.160 represent the American people in court. This is almost laughable. Speaking with MSNOW's Nicole

00:29:08.780 Wallace, Smith claimed the department had lost credibility with judges and accused the

00:29:13.360 administration of pursuing retribution prosecutions. He argued that prosecutors no longer

00:29:19.080 effective, that expertise has been pushed out, and that the national security is being weakened.

00:29:24.080 But a lot of Americans see this very differently. Jack Smith, the man who ran an unprecedented extra constitutional prosecution against President Donald Trump, now whining because the Justice Department is no longer operating as a political weapon for the left.

00:29:39.120 Smith pointed to fired FBI Director Brian Driscoll and calling him a folk hero, praising him for refusing to turn over information related to agents who worked on the January 6th cases.

00:29:50.780 Yes, Driscoll refused to turn over the list of plain-coast FBI agents who were planted in the audience as provocateurs.

00:29:59.460 So, for millions of Americans, the real issue is not whether insiders protect one another.

00:30:03.900 It's whether the federal government is finally being forced to answer for years of politicized investigations, selective enforcement, and abuses of power.

00:30:12.640 Smith's sudden concern that trust rings hollow is a joke.

00:30:17.040 This is the same Washington legal class that asked Americans to accept endless investigations of Trump while dismissing many concerns of Americans as conspiracy theories.

00:30:27.940 Now the tables are turning.

00:30:29.740 Jack Smith sounds less like a guardian of justice and more like a whiny crybaby watching his own playbook get exposed.

00:30:36.400 And if real accountability comes to Washington, Smith may be in prison for the rest of his life.

00:30:40.800 Or perhaps more appropriately, well, we know what the penalty is for treason.

00:30:45.920 Listen, it's interesting.

00:30:47.980 Smith talks as if a federal judge did not determine that he had been unlawfully appointed by a special counsel or that that same judge busted his team for misrepresenting the conditions and materials they seized on the illegal raid and Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago.

00:31:03.200 Or how Judge Eileen Cannon kicked one of his henchmen out of court one day over his disrespect for temper tantrum.

00:31:09.640 or how she constantly pressed his team as to why they conducted their entire investigation in front of a D.C. grand jury

00:31:16.000 and then allowed a Florida grand jury to read those transcripts in order to seek their indictments of Trump and his associates

00:31:23.740 or why Jack Smith and D.C. Judge Jeb Bosberg refused to produce grand jury transcripts from that investigation to her, a federal judge.

00:31:34.600 As far as Brian Disco is concerned, the so-called folk hero, that's really hilarious.

00:31:39.640 Driscoll was fired for refusing direct orders to produce a list of FBI employees who were involved undercover in the investigations of January 6th.

00:31:49.700 The whining by those on the radical left is really laughable.

00:31:53.860 What you have here is a clear case of people who broke the law and the Constitution in their manic effort to destroy Donald Trump being held responsible.

00:32:04.240 And when they're held responsible, they claim they're being victimized.

00:32:08.040 They claim they're being targeted.

00:32:09.520 They're claiming it is retaliation, when all it really is is justice and accountability.

00:32:14.800 I'm Roger Stone.

00:32:16.300 We're warming up here for Independence Day.

00:32:18.440 You're listening to The Stone Zone.

00:32:19.760 Don't go away, because we'll be right back.

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00:33:04.520 Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt fortune, is now actually promoting socialism as the future of the Democratic Party.

00:33:13.420 In a CNN interview, Pritzker defended the rise of progressive and socialist candidates, calling their success, quote, the recipe for winning in 2026 and beyond.

00:33:23.360 Looks like the free enterprise system has made a lot of money for Pritzker and his family, but he doesn't seem to care about that.

00:33:28.380 That comment comes as Democrats face growing pressure from their own left flank, with socialist candidates gaining ground, and polls showing a significant share of Democratic voters open to support him, as we said earlier.

00:33:40.020 But the real irony is hard to miss. Pritzker is one of America's wealthiest politicians, yet he's cheering on an ideology that claims to oppose concentrated wealth.

00:33:50.340 What I found even more offensive is the fact that he suggested that President Donald Trump had signs of dementia, despite having insisted that Joe Biden was mentally sharp as a tack before the 2024 election.

00:34:04.440 This is the old left wing bait and switch.

00:34:06.960 President Donald Trump, who has taken and released all of his medical tests, includes cognitive tests, is in perfect health.

00:34:16.440 But those who refuse to question the stability, the mental and physical condition of Joe Biden,

00:34:22.340 now claiming without any basis whatsoever that Donald Trump has dementia.

00:34:27.800 Socialist movements always promise equity for the working class.

00:34:31.640 But history shows the elites usually keep the power, the money and the protection.

00:34:36.200 J.B. Pritzker doesn't look to me like he's missed many meals.

00:34:40.020 From communist regimes abroad to today's political class at home,

00:34:43.420 the people pushing equity are often the least likely to live under those very rules that they impose.

00:34:49.220 The same pattern is visible across the modern left.

00:34:52.340 Affluent activists, celebrity influencers, powerful politicians branding themselves as champions of the working class

00:34:59.340 while enjoying wealth and connections among most Americans will never see.

00:35:04.700 Pritzker's comments reveal where the Democrat Party is headed.

00:35:07.840 The social wing is no longer on the fringe.

00:35:10.140 It has become the strategy.

00:35:12.160 And voters should understand exactly the benefits when billionaires start selling socialism.

00:35:17.860 Meanwhile, as I said earlier, Florida Congresswoman Anna Polina Luna says the CIA is now working to declassify newly discovered documents tied to a program called MKUltra.

00:35:28.480 This is the agency's famous Cold War era mind control program.

00:35:32.840 Luna, who chairs the Hout Oversight Task Committee on Declassification of Federal Secrets, made the announcement during a hearing focused on exposing the truth behind this secret program.

00:35:43.760 She said the newly found records relate to what she called a forgery program housed under MKUltra, although she didn't provide further details.

00:35:51.860 MKUltra operated from 1953 to 1973.

00:35:55.180 When it was discovered and leaked to the Washington Post, the CIA director, Richard Helms, had all records of the mind control program destroyed, or at least we thought so.

00:36:06.960 But this program included drug and psychological experiments, often with minimal oversight.

00:36:12.980 The program included LSD testing, experimenting on unwitting subjects, including prisoners, mental patients, prostitutes, and their clients in an effort to study mind control and coercion.

00:36:24.980 coercion. Luna's update follows the whistleblower testimony of a CIA officer, James Erdman III,

00:36:32.000 who alleges that about 40 boxes of material related to both the JFK assassination and MK

00:36:37.760 Ultra had been removed from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence during a

00:36:42.460 declassification review. After initial reports of a raid were disputed, Luna clarified the CIA

00:36:48.580 took the documents under ODNI jurisdiction but said the removal did not happen, that the removal

00:36:55.120 did happen. She and Congressman Eric Burleson, another friend of mine, later visited CIA,

00:37:00.380 of course, discussed the records. But for many Americans, this is why transparency matters.

00:37:05.560 Americans have been lied to again and again by these powerful agencies operating in the shadows.

00:37:11.460 Luna's push for declassification is a reminder that the intelligence community works for the

00:37:15.720 people, not the other way around. There is no better day than Independence Day to recognize

00:37:21.940 our right to transparency and accountability from the federal government. And frankly,

00:37:26.780 there is no member of Congress better than Anna Paulina Luna in Florida in fighting for that. She 0.98

00:37:32.340 fought for the declassification of the Kennedy assassination records, the Robert F. Kennedy

00:37:37.080 declassification records, and the records regarding the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King.

00:37:41.920 So on this 4th of July, I celebrate Congressman Anna Paulina Luna of Florida as a true patriot.

00:37:49.480 Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone.

00:37:51.420 Enjoy your holiday.

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