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00:06:44.640Welcome. You are re-entering the Stone Zone.
00:06:48.480Well, it's a very familiar story. We call it judicial tyranny.
00:06:52.940Once again, a federal judge has blocked the deployment of National Guard troops to the city of Portland by the Trump administration.
00:07:01.040U.S. District Court Judge Karen J. Immergut, a Biden appointee, of course, issued a ruling on Sunday claiming President Trump has no authority to send the Guard into Portland,
00:07:11.940extending a preliminary injunction against the Trump administration
00:07:15.820after hearing three days of arguments in the state of Oregon versus Donald Trump.
00:07:21.420This is, once again, government overreach by one branch of government.
00:07:25.340I checked the Constitution this morning.
00:07:27.500No place does it say that the executive authority to secure the safety of the American people
00:07:39.300Once again, the same liberal judges who objected to Donald Trump arresting and deporting legals, the same federal judges who insisted he had no authority to negotiate new tariff deals for the United States.
00:07:55.740This is the last line of defense because the president has a mandate voted for in the last election.
00:08:04.340In this case, DOG attorneys have argued that the sustained violence from far left terror groups like Antifa against the ICE facility in Portland and that the presence of the Guard is also needed to secure the facility for ICE agents to be able to do their job and deport the illegals.
00:08:21.460The courts, along with the local left-wing government and law enforcement of Portland, you can imagine how woke they are, are apparently sympathetic to Antifa and downplay the impact of violent agitators having in their efforts to impede law enforcement.
00:08:39.060Law enforcement have essentially sat back and allowed Antifa to commit acts of terrorism against ICE, that is local law enforcement, with reports alleging that law enforcement are even helping to usher Antifa into safe houses that serve as bases for their terror attacks and plots against ICE agents who are merely doing their job.
00:09:02.680I have written extensively that it may be time for President Trump to take a page out of one of his favorite president's book.
00:09:12.700Old Hickory circumvented the courts entirely.
00:09:16.480In fact, all of the founding fathers had waited around for insulated, unelected, unaccountable, politically connected lawyers in robes to rubber stamp the revolution against the British.
00:09:54.520Who's paying for the buses bringing protesters to various locations?
00:10:00.780Who's paying for the lawyers who immediately show up at the local jail in the rare occasion that these violent terrorists are arrested for their actions?
00:10:11.940It is yet another example of judicial tyranny, but it's about delay.
00:10:16.560You see, the left knows that once they get through a local left-wing trial court, and even if they get through a local appeals court, like the one in, say, D.C. or in New York, they ultimately will get to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:10:34.020And the Supreme Court have recognized the executive authority of Donald Trump to carry out the mandate of the last election.
00:10:43.020Meanwhile, all eyes, of course, are on the New York City mayor's race.
00:10:47.940This is a race which has caught the national imagination.
00:10:52.340It is shocking, I think, for many people across the country to recognize that the old Democrat Party,
00:10:59.560the party of Robert F. Kennedy, who was the U.S. senator from New York,
00:11:03.660the party of his brother John F. Kennedy, who was a hard-line anti-communist,
00:11:08.340communists, the party of Harry Truman, the president who is essentially the founder of the
00:11:13.340state of Israel, has nominated a candidate who embraces a radical ideology that is not
00:11:22.260simpatico with the history of New York. Put it another way, did you ever think that the once
00:11:28.200great Democrat Party of New York City would select and endorse a candidate for mayor who
00:11:33.680embraces the ideology of those who attacked the World Trade Center on 9-11.
00:11:40.360The Democrats' candidate, Zoran Mamdami, very recently campaigned with one of the co-conspirators
00:11:48.540in Iman, who was the head of a mosque, who was a co-conspirator, an indicted co-conspirator
00:11:55.660in the bombings at the World Trade Center.
00:11:58.460Now, Mamdami has campaigned with a transgendered rabbi that claims Mamdami is a fight for affordability and safety.
00:12:08.120The ad was presented by Jews for racial and economic justice in some kind of attempt to make Mamdami seem more palatable to New York City.
00:12:19.180This transgender rabbi, Abby Stein, who is rabidly anti-Israel and was even hauled out of a Biden White House event after protesting loudly against the state of Israel, was there appearing with Mamdami.0.53
00:12:35.160So this bizarre character is not representative of New York City Jews by any stretch of the imagination.0.58
00:12:42.840Meanwhile, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, a major figure in the U.S. reform movement, expressed dismay in the rise of Mamdani and said it was a sign that New York City is becoming more hostile and unwelcoming to Jews.
00:12:57.180Buchdahl specifically said, some fear that in the most Jewish city in the world, we're becoming strangers once again.0.90
00:13:07.800Mayoral candidate Zoran Mamdani has contributed to the mainstreaming of some of the most abhorrent anti-Semitism, not only demonizing Israelis, but echoing age-old anti-Semitic tropes that Jews across the world are the root cause of all problems.
00:13:26.660So it's true that Mandami wants to globalize the intifada, as he said, has said that Bibi Netanyahu, the leader of Israel, is a war criminal and has said he would support Netanyahu's arrest if he came to New York City, say for the United Nations.
00:13:46.380He's expressed empathy towards the state of Israel, but none of these facts seem to cause the Jewish revolt among voters when it comes to Mamdami that you would expect.
00:14:01.380Studying the polling, you see that Mamdami continues to win a plurality of Jewish voters in what was called the most Jewish city in the world.
00:14:12.620I did get into a little tiff with Laura Loomer this week.
00:14:18.540Just because you disagree with her, particularly on matters at large, doesn't mean you're anti-Semitic.
00:14:25.940To be very, very clear, I'm a strong supporter of the state of Israel.
00:14:29.960I think the president made the right decision by launching the surgical strikes on the Iranians' nuclear weapons development program, as opposed to committing boots to the ground.0.95
00:14:43.140I do think the Muslim Brotherhood should be declared a violent, illegal terrorist organization and dismantled.0.94
00:14:53.180And I have extreme hostility to both Hamas and Hezbollah.0.93
00:14:57.500But I agree with President Richard Nixon, who said that an American president must always put America first.
00:15:05.720Now, most of the time, as Nixon said, when you put America first, you are putting Israel first because our interests are so carefully aligned.
00:15:15.420On the other hand, if you disagree with Ms. Loomer, well, that must mean you're an anti-Semite, which, of course, is categorically untrue.
00:15:24.720Some have suggested that she's paid by the Mossad or by Israel to take the position she takes.
00:15:54.720they changed the name several years ago, Trump has come to a determination regarding these benefits
00:16:01.480with the government shut down, telling a Rhode Island judge that they will be facing half of
00:16:06.640the regular amount of SNAP benefits to recipients amidst this ongoing shutdown. The Trump administration
00:16:13.680told Judge Jack McConnell in a court filing that they would not be raiding four billion dollars
00:16:20.680from the Child Nutrition Program in order to make the full SNAP food stamp payments through
00:16:27.180the month of November. SNAP, which is short for Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program,
00:16:34.500gives food stamps to some 42 million Americans, showing exactly how the welfare state has spiraled
00:16:41.200out of control in the age of big government. Obviously, some of the people who receive this
00:16:47.380assistance desperately needed are in a position where they're unable to work and provide for
00:16:52.300themselves. But Elon Musk proved in his Doge investigation and analysis of federal spending
00:16:59.740that there has been not millions, not billions, but trillions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse
00:17:07.540in our federal spending. Right now, of course, the whole shutdown is centered around the fact that
00:17:12.700the democrats want to add 1.5 trillion more in new spending the republicans who are not exactly
00:17:20.580bold are prepared to let the government go forward at the current levels of funding when what is
00:17:26.760really needed are deep deep cuts in wasteful federal spending the trump administration plans
00:17:32.860now use 4.65 billion from a contingency fund that was appropriated by congress for november benefits
00:17:40.400that will be obligated to cover 50% of the eligible households under the SNAP program.
00:17:47.660This actually follows a precedent of previous presidential administrations
00:17:51.680using this emergency contingency fund to help keep the SNAP program afloat
00:17:57.880during this period of government shutdown.
00:18:00.740Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who I think is among President Trump's very best appointees,
00:18:06.280a libertarian, an outside-the-box thinker, a supporter of gold, a man who I think in his heart of hearts would like to repeal the 1913 Federal Income Tax Act,
00:18:19.600said that the SNAP benefits should resume as soon as this coming Wednesday.
00:18:27.260This is the Trump administration solving a problem, again, that was caused by Democrats.
00:18:32.460The Democrats are keeping the government shut down as a way to gain leverage, cause chaos in the country, and try to create pressure to force President Trump into greater wasteful spending.
00:18:44.540This is what's causing the food insecurity of millions of people, depending on these SNAP programs.
00:18:50.840The Democrats are proving they're not the party for the poor or the working people.
00:18:55.160They just see poor people as pawns who can be exploited for their inside the beltway games.
00:19:02.400Unlike previous government shutdowns, the polling shows that most people understand that this shutdown belongs to Senator Chuck Schumer of New York and that the president is not a man to trifle with.
00:19:17.340I think it's highly unlikely that he will be the first to fold.
00:19:21.600Again, President Trump acting against the stereotype of moving very quickly to try to get half of the food stamp benefits to those who really, really need them.
00:19:34.440In the meantime, I grow increasingly tired of watching Democrats insist that because he supports the prosecution of New York's epically corrupt New York Attorney General Letitia James, because he's pointed out that Senator Adam Schiff has claimed full-time legal residence in two different states, something one cannot actually do under the law.
00:20:00.020And because he insists on the prosecution of former FBI director James Comey for lying under oath to Congress about material matters like the Russian collusion hoax.
00:20:12.940Beyond that, James Comey is arguing that he can't be prosecuted because he questions the authority of the U.S. attorney, Lindsey Halligan, who brought indictments against both he and Letitia James.
00:20:26.900In other words, he doesn't want to argue with the substance of his criminal indictment.
00:20:31.700This isn't about justice and revenge or retribution, folks.
00:20:36.140It's about accountability and justice.
00:20:38.900I'm Roger Stone, and I'll be right back.
00:20:42.320And, of course, President Trump himself writing this past week on X, he says James Comey needs to be cuffed and perp-walked just as Roger Stone was.
00:20:52.640Both Stone and Comey were indicted for making false statements to Congress.
00:20:55.980And someone also had his house raided by armed SWAT team of FBI agents early in the morning while Comey was allowed to turn himself in at his leisure at a later date.
00:21:07.440Thank you, Mr. President, for recognizing the outrageousness of this moment.
00:21:12.120It's interesting that the judge in my case said that I was not allowed to argue that I was selectively prosecuted or that the prosecution of me was politically motivated.
00:21:21.700So will the judge in Letitia James' case in the Eastern District of Virginia reach such a ruling in her case as well?
00:21:50.120Remember how they screamed when it was reported that President Richard Nixon had an enemies list?
00:21:55.360It was actually John Dean, the White House counsel, who blurted that out on national television during the televised Watergate Committee hearings.
00:22:04.620But it now appears that the Biden Justice Department had just such a list.
00:22:11.740So where's the outrage from The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, about the extra-constitutional DOJ operation called Arctic Frost?
00:22:23.900Americans were targeted for surveillance, harassment, and incarceration in a political operation designed to destroy the opposition to Joe Biden's administration.
00:22:36.700Arctic Frost was not an investigation.