The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone ｜ 11-07-25


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22


Summary

Trump issues an unconditional pardon for disgraced former NYPD Detective Michael McMahon. Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi announces she will not be seeking re-election next year. Elise Stefanik announces her run for Governor of New York State and challenges incumbent Kathy Hochul.


Transcript

00:00:00.160 The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:08.560 You are now entering the Stone Zone.
00:00:12.460 There is excellent news tonight.
00:00:15.520 President Donald Trump, according to the New York Times,
00:00:19.000 has issued a full and unconditional pardon to former retired New York Police Department detective Michael McMahon.
00:00:26.820 Michael McMahon, working as a licensed private detective, stumbled into a massive Chinese spying operation here in the United States.
00:00:38.680 McMahon, who was never paid with any foreign money, was prosecuted rather than expose the entire inside the United States Chinese spying operation.
00:00:50.700 McMahon's wife, actress Martha Byrne, appeared right here in the Stone Zone only days ago to talk about the unjust nature of this case.
00:01:01.700 But thanks to God and much prayer, thanks to Martha Byrne and her unrelenting advocacy for justice for her husband,
00:01:10.440 and thanks to the many listeners of the Stone Zone who contacted the White House to tell them that they wanted justice in this case,
00:01:18.740 Michael McMahon will be released.
00:01:20.920 Now, the bad news is that the order of pardon came late today after the Bureau of Pardons was closed for the day,
00:01:29.000 and therefore it is unlikely that Michael McMahon will be released to return to his wife and three kids until Monday.
00:01:35.860 But just the same, justice has been served.
00:01:39.440 God bless America, and God bless President Donald Trump.
00:01:44.220 In unsurprising news, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi announced that she will not be seeking re-election next year.
00:01:52.880 Pelosi, who somehow, on a $200,000 a year salary after decades in the Congress,
00:01:59.520 amassed a fortune of $163 million, according to the most recent financial disclosure filings,
00:02:08.080 is passing the baton to a new generation of extremists and America-haters
00:02:13.420 who will be viring for her seat in her far-left San Francisco district.
00:02:18.720 Let's listen to Nancy Pelosi.
00:02:21.800 That is why I want you, my fellow San Franciscans, to be the first to know.
00:02:27.040 I will not be seeking re-election to Congress.
00:02:30.840 With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative.
00:02:36.740 As we go forward, my message to the city I love is this.
00:02:41.580 San Francisco, know your power.
00:02:45.080 We have made history.
00:02:46.540 We have made progress.
00:02:48.200 We have always led the way.
00:02:50.880 And now we must continue to do so
00:02:53.060 by remaining full participants in our democracy
00:02:56.600 and fighting for the American ideals we hold dear.
00:03:01.100 In doing so, we ensure that our city shines on
00:03:04.220 as a beacon of hope, justice, and peace
00:03:07.440 for the country and for generations to come.
00:03:11.500 After all, San Francisco is the greatest city on Earth
00:03:14.780 with the most extraordinary people on Earth
00:03:17.940 and a place that I will always believe is Heaven on Earth.
00:03:23.100 Thank you, San Francisco, for trusting me to be your voice in Congress.
00:03:28.320 May God bless you, and may God bless the United States of America.
00:03:32.220 I mean, the fake heartfeltness and hollow sentiment in Pelosi's videos
00:03:37.860 actually revolted to me.
00:03:40.220 Throughout Pelosi's many decades in politics,
00:03:42.660 the government got bigger, more corrupt,
00:03:45.880 the people became less free, and the country was fractured.
00:03:49.880 This was due in no small part to her woeful leadership.
00:03:53.460 Pelosi was always nasty and partisan.
00:03:55.500 She could never hide her contempt for President Donald Trump
00:04:00.320 or for the people who elected him.
00:04:03.020 She personally enriched herself and her family
00:04:05.500 through a relentless maze of insider trading.
00:04:09.480 Her poor, drunken husband even had an illicit rendezvous
00:04:13.020 with a mysterious intruder,
00:04:15.020 which Nancy allegedly helped to cover up.
00:04:17.780 Everything about this woman is fake and inauthentic.
00:04:21.160 Pelosi will soon be gone,
00:04:22.380 and then she'll be forgotten almost immediately.
00:04:25.500 The radicals who have taken over the Democrat Party
00:04:28.440 hold her in contempt because she's not enough of a Marxist extremist.
00:04:33.100 So as dangerous as these radical, progressive socialists
00:04:37.020 and Marxists are in the Democrat Party,
00:04:39.520 at least they hold sincere, albeit misguided, and absurd principles.
00:04:44.520 Pelosi never had any principles in my view.
00:04:46.840 She would do and say anything to satisfy the special interest
00:04:50.100 and keep that gravy train rolling in for herself.
00:04:53.800 Nancy Pelosi is the embodiment of everything that's wrong
00:04:57.860 with the Washington, D.C. swamp,
00:04:59.860 and I say good riddance to her.
00:05:02.260 Her retirement is long overdue.
00:05:05.300 In exciting news,
00:05:07.180 Congresswoman Elise Stefanik announced today
00:05:09.800 that she will run for governor of New York State.
00:05:13.400 Stefanik will be challenging incumbent Democrat Kathy Hochul
00:05:17.540 in next year's election,
00:05:18.660 where I think she's got the best chance
00:05:21.160 of becoming the first Republican governor
00:05:23.100 of the Empire State
00:05:24.220 since George Pataki,
00:05:26.300 who defeated Governor Mario Cuomo,
00:05:28.960 left office in 2006.
00:05:31.300 In making her announcement,
00:05:33.140 Congresswoman Stefanik wrote that
00:05:35.180 Nancy Hochul is the worst governor in America.
00:05:38.500 Under her failed leadership,
00:05:39.980 New York is the most unfavorable state in the nation
00:05:42.340 with the highest taxes,
00:05:44.560 highest energy, utilities, rent, and grocery bills,
00:05:48.200 and among the highest crime rates.
00:05:51.280 When New Yorkers were looking for leadership
00:05:53.160 from our governor,
00:05:54.120 she bent the knee to the raging,
00:05:56.660 defund the police,
00:05:58.300 tax-hiking,
00:05:59.180 communist-causing catastrophe
00:06:00.940 for New York families.
00:06:02.780 I'm running for governor
00:06:03.840 to make New York affordable
00:06:05.240 and for all New Yorkers.
00:06:07.160 Democrats,
00:06:08.140 Republicans,
00:06:09.140 independents,
00:06:10.160 will unify to save our state.
00:06:12.800 Now, in my opinion,
00:06:14.080 the election of Zoram Mamdani
00:06:16.060 as the New York City mayor
00:06:17.860 should give a shot in the arm
00:06:19.480 to Stefanik's chances.
00:06:22.140 Mamdani's soft-on-crime,
00:06:24.340 high-tax policies
00:06:25.480 are going to cause almost immediate pain
00:06:27.420 and misery
00:06:28.660 to the people of New York City.
00:06:31.000 And Hochul
00:06:31.580 had to immediately bend the knee
00:06:34.280 to this radical wing of the party
00:06:36.220 announcing her endorsement of Mamdani
00:06:38.660 and urging Democrats
00:06:39.780 to hold their nose
00:06:41.300 and vote for the radical.
00:06:43.060 This will not look good
00:06:44.260 for voters next year
00:06:45.480 as Hochul will not be able
00:06:46.780 to remove the stench of Mamdani.
00:06:49.680 And if Hochul tries
00:06:51.120 to distance herself from,
00:06:52.500 she will risk alienating
00:06:53.760 her far-left base
00:06:55.240 and getting well back in that regard.
00:06:58.820 Congresswoman Elise Stefanik,
00:07:00.620 a very good friend of mine,
00:07:02.220 who's appeared here on the show,
00:07:03.800 is the perfect Republican candidate
00:07:05.980 for New York governor.
00:07:07.060 She appeals to moderates,
00:07:08.600 but she's also unquestionably loyal
00:07:10.480 to President Donald Trump.
00:07:12.520 She will be a governor
00:07:13.820 who can make New York great again.
00:07:17.000 Meanwhile, no surprise,
00:07:18.800 Senator Bernie Sanders
00:07:20.020 is hoping for more
00:07:21.500 Zoran Mamdani candidates
00:07:23.420 nationwide.
00:07:24.980 He told a CNN reporter
00:07:27.000 that, of course,
00:07:28.260 Mamdani is a leader
00:07:29.620 for the Democratic Party.
00:07:31.100 Let's listen to this
00:07:32.260 socialist blowhard.
00:07:35.360 After seeing the results
00:07:36.480 of last night's election,
00:07:37.640 you have said that this is not
00:07:38.680 just a New York City thing,
00:07:39.980 which some people have
00:07:40.680 dismissed his win as.
00:07:41.800 Do you think Zoran Mamdani
00:07:42.980 is a leader
00:07:43.980 in the Democratic Party now?
00:07:45.560 Well, of course he is.
00:07:46.220 He's going to be the mayor
00:07:46.840 of the city of New York.
00:07:48.200 But what's important
00:07:49.240 about last night
00:07:50.940 is not only that he ran
00:07:52.980 a brilliant campaign.
00:07:54.060 He had 90,000 volunteers.
00:07:56.040 He's incredibly articulate.
00:07:57.200 It's what he talked about
00:08:01.120 during the campaign.
00:08:02.140 And he made it clear
00:08:03.000 what is true
00:08:04.080 in every state
00:08:05.000 in this country
00:08:05.700 is that the richest people
00:08:07.540 in America
00:08:08.040 are becoming phenomenally richer.
00:08:09.800 Billionaires are exploding
00:08:10.820 in terms of wealth.
00:08:12.600 While ordinary people,
00:08:13.720 60% of people
00:08:14.680 live paycheck to paycheck,
00:08:16.080 ordinary people
00:08:16.880 can't afford health care.
00:08:18.140 They can't afford child care.
00:08:19.680 They can't afford the food
00:08:20.920 in the grocery store.
00:08:22.740 They can't afford
00:08:23.420 to retire with dignity.
00:08:25.320 That's what Zoran campaigned on.
00:08:27.980 It resonated with people.
00:08:29.480 It will resonate with people
00:08:30.640 in every state
00:08:31.240 in this country.
00:08:32.100 Is that something
00:08:32.560 that Democrats,
00:08:33.560 you believe,
00:08:34.000 should run on
00:08:34.620 in the next year?
00:08:36.080 Look, people understand
00:08:37.440 that Democrats
00:08:37.940 have got to have the courage
00:08:39.300 to acknowledge reality.
00:08:41.100 You've got one person.
00:08:42.360 You tell me
00:08:42.840 if this makes any sense.
00:08:44.340 One person, Mr. Musk,
00:08:45.560 owns more wealth
00:08:46.220 than the bottom 52%
00:08:47.360 of American households.
00:08:48.800 In the richest country
00:08:49.900 on earth,
00:08:50.640 we've got 800,000 people
00:08:52.460 sleeping out on the street.
00:08:53.540 Millions can't afford health care.
00:08:55.200 We need,
00:08:55.740 it is not a radical idea
00:08:56.980 to say.
00:08:58.140 And that's what
00:08:58.840 Mamdadi is talking about.
00:09:00.980 Sanders is encouraging
00:09:02.340 other candidates
00:09:03.340 to use the Mamdomi approach
00:09:05.380 of combining populism
00:09:06.900 and socialism
00:09:07.520 to make appeals
00:09:08.500 to the legal voters.
00:09:09.820 While Mamdami's policies
00:09:11.200 might be absurd
00:09:12.220 and laughable,
00:09:13.320 the voting public
00:09:14.040 might not see it that way.
00:09:15.880 The voters are sick
00:09:16.920 of establishment politicians
00:09:18.460 who feed them the same
00:09:19.560 canned talking points
00:09:20.740 election cycle
00:09:21.580 after election cycle.
00:09:22.700 They know that something
00:09:24.200 is desperately wrong
00:09:25.420 with the system
00:09:26.060 and they want the system
00:09:27.680 to be upended.
00:09:28.840 Socialists who pledge
00:09:29.620 to do that
00:09:30.180 will earn the votes.
00:09:31.240 It's kind of the hope
00:09:32.420 and change strategy.
00:09:34.460 The only way to combat this
00:09:36.140 is by having real
00:09:37.640 make America
00:09:38.480 great candidates
00:09:39.460 who will give a pro-American
00:09:40.740 set of policies,
00:09:42.300 put them forward
00:09:42.940 for the voters,
00:09:43.560 similar to President Donald Trump,
00:09:44.920 and urge a return
00:09:46.960 to national glory
00:09:48.100 by restoring our sovereignty,
00:09:50.200 establishing supremacy
00:09:51.400 in our trade deals,
00:09:52.700 and getting the government
00:09:53.760 off the backs
00:09:54.640 of the American people.
00:09:56.100 While we're at it,
00:09:57.040 cutting taxes
00:09:57.720 and regulation
00:09:58.460 will help the economy flourish.
00:10:00.440 We need candidates
00:10:01.180 who support those policies.
00:10:03.520 That is a more natural message
00:10:05.080 that appeals
00:10:05.620 to the American people anyway.
00:10:07.680 But if we're foolish enough
00:10:08.680 to run establishment Republicans,
00:10:10.840 I'm afraid we will lose
00:10:12.100 to the socialists
00:10:12.940 and deservedly so.
00:10:16.220 Amazingly,
00:10:16.860 I just read
00:10:17.780 that an incredible 84%
00:10:19.520 of Generation Z women
00:10:21.520 between 18 and 29
00:10:23.540 voted for Zoran Mamdami
00:10:25.420 as mayor of New York City
00:10:27.040 on this past Tuesday.
00:10:28.980 Additionally,
00:10:29.860 67% of men
00:10:31.320 from the same group
00:10:32.080 voted for the socialist candidate.
00:10:35.080 Mamdami dominated
00:10:36.420 his nearest opponent,
00:10:37.960 former Governor Andrew Cuomo,
00:10:39.880 among voters
00:10:40.500 under the age of 50.
00:10:41.800 Voters over the age of 50
00:10:44.380 preferred Cuomo.
00:10:46.040 Voters making between
00:10:47.200 $30,000 and $300,000
00:10:49.520 per year
00:10:49.960 overwhelmingly supported Mamdami.
00:10:52.720 Unsurprisingly,
00:10:53.580 among those
00:10:54.200 making over $300,000,
00:10:56.760 well,
00:10:57.340 Andrew Cuomo
00:10:57.960 won 62%
00:10:59.320 of the vote.
00:11:00.640 So what do these
00:11:01.780 voter trends really mean?
00:11:03.820 Does it mean
00:11:04.480 that we have lost
00:11:05.260 the youth
00:11:05.800 to the clutches
00:11:06.480 of socialism?
00:11:08.360 Possibly,
00:11:09.080 but I actually
00:11:09.760 don't think so.
00:11:10.620 If we cannot offer
00:11:12.180 an alternative to socialism
00:11:13.660 as be gone
00:11:14.540 support of the status quo,
00:11:16.460 then we will lose
00:11:17.660 the next generation
00:11:18.500 of them.
00:11:19.520 Gen Z voters
00:11:20.460 understand that
00:11:21.360 their future
00:11:21.840 has been robbed
00:11:22.720 from them,
00:11:23.500 that the American dream
00:11:25.000 that previous generations
00:11:26.480 had just does not
00:11:28.300 exist for them.
00:11:30.080 They no longer have
00:11:31.240 functional communities.
00:11:32.800 AI is eviscerating
00:11:34.220 the job market
00:11:35.020 for them.
00:11:35.960 They can't
00:11:36.560 form homes.
00:11:37.460 The idea
00:11:38.460 of having
00:11:38.820 a family
00:11:39.260 seems unattainable
00:11:40.480 for them.
00:11:41.480 So they vote
00:11:42.140 for radical change,
00:11:43.420 and if socialism
00:11:44.100 is the only option
00:11:45.580 for that change,
00:11:46.500 or appears to be,
00:11:47.840 well,
00:11:48.080 they will choose that.
00:11:49.100 I actually think
00:11:49.800 it's understandable.
00:11:51.240 What we need
00:11:51.940 to do
00:11:52.320 is offer
00:11:53.000 the full
00:11:54.020 America First
00:11:55.100 alternative
00:11:55.700 to these voters.
00:11:57.040 We cannot put up
00:11:58.060 with established
00:11:58.900 Republicans
00:11:59.400 thinking they can win.
00:12:01.320 Modern Republicans
00:12:02.240 got us into this mess,
00:12:03.560 in my opinion.
00:12:04.200 They will not
00:12:04.880 get us out of it.
00:12:05.840 We need
00:12:06.920 MAGA Republicans
00:12:08.020 running for as many
00:12:08.860 positions as possible
00:12:09.960 in the midterms,
00:12:10.760 accepting any less
00:12:12.140 means President Trump's
00:12:13.120 agenda will be neutered
00:12:14.180 and will lose the country
00:12:16.160 to our far-left enemies.
00:12:18.560 Those who want to say
00:12:20.080 that the elections
00:12:21.620 this past Tuesday
00:12:22.760 were lost by the Republicans,
00:12:24.540 let me point out
00:12:25.100 that Trump was
00:12:25.840 not on the ballot,
00:12:28.140 and therefore
00:12:28.960 it is unlikely
00:12:30.180 that this can be
00:12:31.160 correctly determined
00:12:32.440 to be a defeat
00:12:33.860 for the president.
00:12:35.100 Additionally,
00:12:37.020 in a sign
00:12:37.720 that President Trump's
00:12:38.600 border enforcement
00:12:39.460 measures are actually
00:12:40.440 working,
00:12:41.640 the U.S. Customs
00:12:42.720 and Border Protection
00:12:43.640 reported the lowest
00:12:44.820 number of illegal
00:12:46.520 immigrant encounters
00:12:47.540 in history
00:12:48.260 during the month
00:12:49.280 of October.
00:12:50.400 This comes
00:12:51.020 as the administration
00:12:52.120 reaches six months
00:12:53.420 of zero releases
00:12:54.660 of illegals
00:12:55.460 under current
00:12:56.260 strict enforcement
00:12:57.120 policies.
00:12:58.540 So catch and release
00:12:59.540 is a thing of the past,
00:13:01.020 and illegals
00:13:01.680 are getting the message.
00:13:02.860 The Department
00:13:04.060 of Homeland Security
00:13:05.080 reported 30,561
00:13:08.500 total nationwide
00:13:09.700 encounters
00:13:10.400 with illegals
00:13:11.160 at the border,
00:13:12.040 which is down 29%
00:13:13.940 from the all-time low
00:13:15.520 of 43,010
00:13:17.520 in October
00:13:18.620 of fiscal year 2012.
00:13:21.300 That was a 79%
00:13:23.040 decrease
00:13:23.960 from last year
00:13:25.040 when the nation
00:13:25.600 was still under
00:13:26.980 Joe Biden's
00:13:27.780 open border
00:13:28.740 insanity.
00:13:29.360 I'm Roger Stone,
00:13:30.700 you're listening
00:13:31.080 to The Stone Zone,
00:13:31.960 and we'll be
00:13:32.780 right back.
00:13:34.120 This is The Stone Zone
00:13:35.900 with Roger Stone.
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00:14:27.280 Attorney General
00:14:28.060 Pam Bondi stated
00:14:29.380 this week that
00:14:30.280 former special
00:14:31.200 counsel Jack Smith
00:14:32.520 actually confiscated
00:14:34.460 President Donald
00:14:35.280 Trump's government
00:14:36.020 issued phone as part
00:14:38.000 of the infamous
00:14:38.680 and unconstitutional
00:14:40.260 Arctic Frost probe
00:14:42.300 that targeted
00:14:42.980 elected officials,
00:14:44.520 private individuals,
00:14:45.660 and institutions
00:14:46.480 close to President
00:14:47.580 Donald Trump.
00:14:48.840 A major violation
00:14:50.160 of law, privacy,
00:14:51.800 and the Constitution.
00:14:53.700 Bondi wrote,
00:14:54.420 we can never again
00:14:55.740 allow this kind of
00:14:56.840 government weaponization
00:14:57.980 in America.
00:14:59.380 I submitted these
00:15:00.320 new documents to our
00:15:01.660 partners on Capitol Hill.
00:15:03.480 I commend our team
00:15:04.660 at the FBI for working
00:15:06.520 diligently to expose
00:15:07.920 these abuses.
00:15:09.360 The House Judiciary
00:15:10.580 Committee released a report
00:15:11.880 last week showing that
00:15:12.980 people such as myself,
00:15:14.760 former New York City
00:15:15.760 Mayor Rudy Giuliani,
00:15:17.400 Congressman Scott Perry,
00:15:19.200 former Congressman Mark
00:15:20.700 Meadows, White House
00:15:22.040 Personnel Director
00:15:23.040 Dan Scavino,
00:15:24.660 General Michael Flynn,
00:15:26.720 U.S. pardon attorney
00:15:28.660 Ed Martin,
00:15:29.780 and others were all
00:15:30.820 targeted with illegal
00:15:32.540 surveillance in Arctic
00:15:34.180 Frost.
00:15:34.780 Additionally,
00:15:36.120 Jack Smith actually
00:15:37.580 got the phone records
00:15:39.000 of U.S. Senators
00:15:39.980 Lindsey Graham,
00:15:41.240 Bill Haggerty,
00:15:42.600 Josh Hawley,
00:15:43.640 Dan Sullivan,
00:15:44.780 Tommy Tuberville,
00:15:46.040 Ron Johnson,
00:15:46.920 Cynthia Loomis,
00:15:48.180 Marsha Blackburn,
00:15:49.220 and Senator Mike
00:15:50.080 Kelly.
00:15:50.520 They were all seized.
00:15:51.940 So that's a violation
00:15:53.140 of the separation
00:15:54.300 of powers portion
00:15:56.740 of the U.S.
00:15:57.500 Constitution.
00:15:58.660 We know the crimes
00:15:59.740 have been committed
00:16:00.460 and we thank the
00:16:01.580 Trump administration,
00:16:02.700 the FBI,
00:16:03.480 and the DOJ
00:16:04.340 for exposing all this,
00:16:06.280 as well as the House
00:16:07.280 Republicans for their work.
00:16:08.740 But now the time
00:16:09.600 for indictments has come.
00:16:11.440 Now we must see justice
00:16:12.780 against the individuals
00:16:13.960 who knowingly violated
00:16:15.320 our rights in pursuance
00:16:16.660 of their political agenda.
00:16:19.060 We need perp walk.
00:16:20.080 We need bureaucrats
00:16:21.540 dragged out of their homes
00:16:22.600 in handcuffs,
00:16:23.280 not for retribution,
00:16:24.700 not for retaliation,
00:16:26.620 but for accountability
00:16:28.040 and justice.
00:16:29.520 Although it will be
00:16:30.820 undeniably sweet
00:16:32.220 watching these people
00:16:33.160 humiliated and disgraced
00:16:34.500 publicly,
00:16:35.280 but we have to restore
00:16:36.740 the rule of law
00:16:37.780 in this country.
00:16:38.680 We need more
00:16:39.760 than just lip service
00:16:40.900 to heal the country
00:16:41.820 and to restore faith
00:16:43.160 in our national
00:16:44.240 law enforcement institutions.
00:16:45.940 Attorney General Bondi,
00:16:47.620 it is time
00:16:48.480 to lock these folks up.
00:16:50.720 Until you hear
00:16:51.660 the FBI
00:16:52.400 pounding on your door
00:16:54.180 at 6 o'clock
00:16:55.000 in the morning,
00:16:56.060 terrorizing your dogs
00:16:57.900 and ultimately
00:16:58.720 your wife,
00:17:00.120 and learn that
00:17:00.960 there's a CNN camera
00:17:02.520 along with
00:17:03.120 29 heavily armed
00:17:04.800 FBI agents
00:17:06.000 in front of your home,
00:17:07.340 until you open
00:17:08.080 the door
00:17:08.700 to the long rifles
00:17:10.740 pointed at your head,
00:17:11.960 you don't understand
00:17:13.400 how outrageous
00:17:14.500 this entire
00:17:15.780 Russian collusion
00:17:17.380 hoax
00:17:17.920 and the seditious
00:17:19.040 conspiracy
00:17:19.680 that morphed
00:17:20.760 into Arctic Frost
00:17:22.120 has been.
00:17:23.560 Now,
00:17:23.980 it's not about
00:17:25.280 a rampage
00:17:26.720 or revenge
00:17:27.460 and retaliation
00:17:28.580 or retribution,
00:17:29.860 as the Democrats
00:17:30.560 say it is,
00:17:31.320 but it is indeed
00:17:32.120 time for accountability
00:17:33.840 and justice.
00:17:35.200 That is all
00:17:35.960 that President Trump
00:17:36.840 demands,
00:17:37.460 and I support
00:17:38.160 that demand.
00:17:38.900 But now,
00:17:39.740 it's up to
00:17:40.240 Attorney General
00:17:40.940 Pam Bondi
00:17:41.900 to actually
00:17:42.780 determine
00:17:43.320 in front of
00:17:44.080 grand juries
00:17:44.660 who committed
00:17:45.620 crimes,
00:17:46.600 charge them,
00:17:47.600 give them fair
00:17:48.260 trials,
00:17:49.000 and let them
00:17:49.400 face their
00:17:49.980 punishment.
00:17:50.980 I'm Roger Stone,
00:17:51.960 you're listening
00:17:52.360 to The Stone Zone.
00:17:53.280 Whatever you do,
00:17:53.900 don't touch that
00:17:54.680 dial because
00:17:55.520 we'll be right
00:17:56.740 back.
00:18:00.580 The Stone Zone,
00:18:02.520 entertaining
00:18:03.100 and informative
00:18:04.340 on the Red Apple
00:18:05.460 Podcast Network.
00:18:07.620 You are now
00:18:08.540 re-entering
00:18:09.700 The Stone Zone.
00:18:10.820 President Donald
00:18:12.240 Trump has
00:18:12.920 demanded that
00:18:13.900 Senate Republicans
00:18:14.880 end the
00:18:15.820 filibuster,
00:18:16.920 but as I
00:18:17.420 talk to
00:18:17.860 average citizens,
00:18:18.820 I learn that
00:18:19.340 very few of
00:18:20.020 them really
00:18:20.340 understand what
00:18:21.120 the filibuster
00:18:22.000 is.
00:18:22.920 So let me
00:18:23.500 explain it.
00:18:24.480 A filibuster is
00:18:25.480 a Senate
00:18:25.940 procedure that
00:18:26.860 allows one or
00:18:27.720 more senators
00:18:28.340 to delay or
00:18:29.280 block a vote
00:18:29.940 on a bill
00:18:30.600 or a nomination
00:18:31.480 by extending
00:18:32.760 debate on it.
00:18:34.060 Now, in
00:18:34.400 practice, it
00:18:35.040 means that
00:18:35.500 most legislation
00:18:36.420 cannot pass
00:18:37.240 a Senate
00:18:37.620 unless 60
00:18:38.600 of the 100
00:18:39.640 senators vote
00:18:40.440 to end debate,
00:18:41.460 called a process
00:18:42.940 known as
00:18:43.520 invoking
00:18:44.140 cloture.
00:18:45.200 So without
00:18:45.640 60 votes,
00:18:46.740 no bill or
00:18:47.700 a bill can
00:18:48.460 be stalled
00:18:49.040 indefinitely.
00:18:50.440 So while a
00:18:51.100 simple majority,
00:18:52.260 51 votes,
00:18:53.160 of course,
00:18:53.900 is enough to
00:18:54.540 pass most bills,
00:18:55.660 the filibuster
00:18:56.220 effectively raises
00:18:57.360 the threshold
00:18:58.200 to pass any
00:18:59.300 bill or
00:18:59.840 nomination to
00:19:01.020 60 votes to
00:19:02.040 move that
00:19:02.560 legislation forward.
00:19:03.740 Here's how it
00:19:04.860 actually works.
00:19:06.500 A debate
00:19:06.960 begins on a
00:19:08.040 bill in the
00:19:08.580 Senate.
00:19:09.460 If a senator
00:19:10.180 or group of
00:19:11.240 senators want
00:19:11.880 to block it,
00:19:12.600 they can refuse
00:19:13.300 to yield the
00:19:14.220 floor or
00:19:15.200 otherwise
00:19:15.800 signal intent
00:19:17.000 to raise a
00:19:18.240 filibuster.
00:19:19.240 To stop the
00:19:20.100 delay, Senate
00:19:20.920 leadership must
00:19:21.680 file a motion
00:19:22.620 for cloture,
00:19:23.720 that is a
00:19:24.340 motion to end
00:19:25.480 the debate.
00:19:26.920 That cloture
00:19:27.800 vote, in
00:19:28.720 other words,
00:19:29.280 invoking or
00:19:31.200 breaking the
00:19:31.840 filibuster,
00:19:32.860 requires a
00:19:33.740 60 votes.
00:19:35.240 If cloture
00:19:35.840 passes,
00:19:36.620 debate ends
00:19:37.340 and the
00:19:37.640 Senate votes
00:19:38.280 on the
00:19:38.660 bill, which
00:19:39.560 requires 51
00:19:40.900 votes to
00:19:41.580 pass it.
00:19:42.340 But if
00:19:42.700 cloture fails,
00:19:43.820 the bill is
00:19:44.400 yet stalled,
00:19:45.500 often effectively
00:19:46.280 killing it.
00:19:47.720 Historically,
00:19:48.440 filibusters were
00:19:49.340 long speeches.
00:19:50.480 Everybody remembers
00:19:51.100 that clip from
00:19:51.960 Mr. Smith Goes
00:19:53.240 to Washington,
00:19:53.920 that great movie,
00:19:55.480 but now they're
00:19:56.280 mostly procedural.
00:19:57.580 Just the threat
00:19:58.300 of a filibuster
00:19:59.160 can halt any
00:20:00.420 bill or
00:20:01.180 nomination.
00:20:01.740 Now, there
00:20:02.340 are a couple
00:20:02.980 of exceptions
00:20:04.260 to the
00:20:04.800 filibuster.
00:20:05.940 Some Senate
00:20:06.460 actions are
00:20:07.080 not subject
00:20:07.880 to the
00:20:08.320 filibuster
00:20:08.780 rule, including
00:20:09.620 budget
00:20:10.480 reconciliation.
00:20:12.340 That can
00:20:12.700 pass with a
00:20:13.380 simple majority
00:20:14.200 of 51 votes,
00:20:15.780 most presidential
00:20:16.640 nominations, but
00:20:18.000 this is only
00:20:18.600 after a rules
00:20:19.420 change came in
00:20:20.500 2013 and yet
00:20:21.860 again in
00:20:22.340 2017, and
00:20:23.920 certain trade,
00:20:25.140 military, or
00:20:25.980 fast-track
00:20:26.680 measures.
00:20:27.160 So why
00:20:28.620 does the
00:20:29.320 filibuster
00:20:29.880 exist?
00:20:30.500 I mean, it's
00:20:30.840 not in the
00:20:31.820 Constitution.
00:20:33.320 It evolved from
00:20:34.160 early Senate
00:20:34.920 rules that
00:20:35.680 allowed unlimited
00:20:36.820 debate, reflecting
00:20:37.980 the Founders'
00:20:38.720 vision of the
00:20:39.360 Senate as a
00:20:40.620 more deliberative
00:20:41.720 body than the
00:20:42.740 House.
00:20:43.680 Here's why it's
00:20:44.720 beneficial.
00:20:45.700 Of course, that
00:20:46.220 depends on your
00:20:47.020 party.
00:20:47.840 When the
00:20:48.280 minority party
00:20:49.220 benefits, the
00:20:49.960 filibuster gives
00:20:50.700 the minority
00:20:51.240 leverage to block
00:20:52.440 or negotiate
00:20:53.060 changes to
00:20:54.300 legislation or
00:20:55.700 to modify or
00:20:57.620 change a
00:20:58.240 nomination.
00:20:59.420 It prevents the
00:21:00.220 majority from
00:21:00.860 easily passing
00:21:01.660 sweeping policy
00:21:02.540 changes.
00:21:03.460 So, example, the
00:21:04.500 Republicans used
00:21:05.400 it during the
00:21:05.880 Obama years to
00:21:06.800 block some of
00:21:07.660 Obama's
00:21:08.180 initiatives.
00:21:09.300 When the
00:21:09.780 majority party
00:21:10.660 benefits is when
00:21:11.620 they're out of
00:21:12.240 power, so today's
00:21:13.280 majority might one
00:21:14.260 day be the
00:21:14.760 minority, so they
00:21:16.160 often hesitate to
00:21:17.300 abolish the
00:21:18.100 filibuster rule
00:21:18.900 completely.
00:21:20.040 It can encourage
00:21:21.260 bipartisanship,
00:21:22.340 forcing some
00:21:23.080 cross-party
00:21:24.080 cooperation and
00:21:25.180 negotiation, at
00:21:26.520 least in theory.
00:21:28.020 It protects the
00:21:28.860 Senate's identity
00:21:29.680 as a slower, more
00:21:31.380 consensus-driven
00:21:32.560 chamber.
00:21:33.600 But here's why the
00:21:34.580 filibuster is
00:21:35.340 controversial.
00:21:36.700 Critics say it
00:21:37.520 causes gridlock and
00:21:38.840 gives a minority
00:21:39.900 of senators,
00:21:41.200 representing a
00:21:41.980 minority of
00:21:42.660 Americans, veto
00:21:43.960 power over
00:21:44.880 national policy.
00:21:46.780 Supporters argue
00:21:47.740 that it protects
00:21:48.560 minority rights and
00:21:49.840 prevents rash or
00:21:50.920 partisan legislation.
00:21:52.740 Now, the current
00:21:53.720 debate Democrats have
00:21:54.980 often called for
00:21:55.880 filibuster reform,
00:21:57.560 especially when it
00:21:58.220 comes to voting
00:21:59.160 rights, abortion, or
00:22:00.520 gun legislation.
00:22:02.180 Republicans generally
00:22:03.200 have defended the
00:22:04.320 filibuster as a
00:22:05.620 safeguard against
00:22:06.940 tyranny of the
00:22:08.100 majority.
00:22:09.340 Some proposals
00:22:10.040 include a talking
00:22:11.320 filibuster requiring
00:22:12.480 senators to
00:22:13.200 physically hold the
00:22:15.040 floor or carving out
00:22:16.860 exceptions for
00:22:17.780 specific issues.
00:22:19.320 The bad news,
00:22:20.140 however, is that
00:22:21.260 Senator Ted Cruz has
00:22:22.820 informed President
00:22:23.660 Trump that the
00:22:25.240 Senate does not
00:22:26.560 have the votes to
00:22:27.600 end the filibuster
00:22:28.660 to reopen our
00:22:29.780 government.
00:22:30.500 Let's listen to
00:22:31.380 Senator Cruz.
00:22:33.220 I'm sure you're at
00:22:34.500 the Republican
00:22:35.180 breakfast with
00:22:36.080 President Trump.
00:22:37.680 He wants to end
00:22:40.720 the filibuster,
00:22:41.860 okay, and he's
00:22:42.640 campaigning on it,
00:22:44.100 talking about it,
00:22:44.980 tweeting on it.
00:22:45.980 He talked to you
00:22:46.720 all at the
00:22:47.180 breakfast meeting.
00:22:48.540 What does Senator
00:22:49.820 Ted Cruz think
00:22:50.720 about this?
00:22:51.920 Look, the votes
00:22:52.880 are not there to
00:22:53.680 end the filibuster.
00:22:54.900 It is not.
00:22:55.580 Every president of
00:22:56.600 our lifetime has
00:22:57.520 wanted to end the
00:22:58.240 filibuster because if
00:22:59.240 you want to move
00:22:59.760 legislation through,
00:23:01.380 the filibuster
00:23:02.080 necessarily slows
00:23:03.520 things down.
00:23:04.380 I can tell you that
00:23:05.820 when Joe Biden was
00:23:06.720 in the White House
00:23:07.360 and Democrats had
00:23:08.260 the House and
00:23:08.880 Senate, it is only
00:23:10.420 the filibuster that
00:23:11.620 stopped us from
00:23:12.660 absolute devastation.
00:23:15.760 President Trump
00:23:16.680 said it's only a
00:23:17.560 matter of time before
00:23:18.400 the Democrats end
00:23:19.420 the filibuster, so
00:23:20.360 why not go ahead
00:23:21.220 and get ahead of
00:23:22.000 them and muscle
00:23:22.560 through as much
00:23:23.180 of the MAGA
00:23:24.280 agenda as
00:23:25.080 possible.
00:23:25.980 President Trump
00:23:26.640 said, I think it's
00:23:27.280 time for them to
00:23:28.060 end the filibuster
00:23:28.980 or just put
00:23:29.620 everybody back to
00:23:30.540 work.
00:23:31.480 Vote in, voter
00:23:32.260 ID, vote no
00:23:34.240 in-mail voting
00:23:35.240 except for the
00:23:35.820 military, faraway
00:23:37.440 military and people
00:23:38.440 that are very sick.
00:23:39.340 I'd like to see
00:23:39.820 one day voting,
00:23:40.820 all on one day.
00:23:42.060 I'd like to see
00:23:42.900 not 65 days of
00:23:44.520 voting from all
00:23:45.400 over the place.
00:23:46.100 I'd like to clean
00:23:47.100 up the elections,
00:23:48.100 the border.
00:23:48.540 We've done a
00:23:49.360 great job.
00:23:50.360 We have a great
00:23:50.920 strong border now.
00:23:52.320 I'd like to see
00:23:53.060 new rules on
00:23:54.080 immigration that
00:23:54.840 can be fair and
00:23:55.900 good.
00:23:56.700 There's so many
00:23:57.160 things that we
00:23:57.700 could put into
00:23:58.400 place, including
00:23:59.120 tax cuts that we
00:24:00.080 could get, and we
00:24:01.120 could do it all
00:24:01.780 ourselves.
00:24:02.460 But to do that,
00:24:03.500 we have to end
00:24:04.600 the filibuster.
00:24:05.760 The filibuster,
00:24:06.840 they'll do it soon.
00:24:08.080 They'll immediately
00:24:08.720 do it.
00:24:09.380 But it does not
00:24:10.100 appear that way.
00:24:11.380 It's hard to
00:24:11.900 disagree with the
00:24:12.560 president's strategy
00:24:13.420 here.
00:24:13.880 The country's
00:24:14.380 hanging by a thread.
00:24:15.280 This may be the
00:24:16.600 last chance to
00:24:17.520 save America.
00:24:19.300 If the Senate
00:24:19.760 doesn't use the
00:24:21.100 power at their
00:24:22.120 disposal, well,
00:24:23.620 this could derail
00:24:24.480 the momentum
00:24:24.960 President Trump
00:24:25.720 has built and
00:24:26.340 give the Democrats
00:24:27.040 the edge in going
00:24:28.320 into next year's
00:24:29.560 midterm elections.
00:24:31.180 Unfortunately,
00:24:31.940 Senator Cruz and
00:24:33.100 the RINO gang
00:24:34.360 won't take, I
00:24:35.940 think, any
00:24:36.380 excuse not to
00:24:37.680 act.
00:24:38.060 This is why
00:24:38.540 conservatives have
00:24:39.440 not seemed to
00:24:40.720 conserve much of
00:24:41.560 anything over the
00:24:42.520 last couple years.
00:24:43.920 President Donald
00:24:45.220 Trump has been
00:24:46.320 further hampered
00:24:47.340 by the blue
00:24:48.520 slip rule.
00:24:49.360 The blue slip
00:24:49.840 rule is not a
00:24:50.540 law.
00:24:51.400 It's not in the
00:24:51.920 Constitution.
00:24:52.720 It's not in the
00:24:53.440 Senate rules, but
00:24:54.860 basically says that
00:24:56.240 unless one or both
00:24:58.060 senators from any
00:24:59.560 given state acquiesce
00:25:01.240 in the appointment
00:25:01.860 of a U.S.
00:25:03.120 attorney, in
00:25:04.200 other words, they
00:25:04.780 give a blue slip,
00:25:06.540 then that U.S.
00:25:07.320 attorney can not
00:25:08.760 be confirmed.
00:25:10.520 That means that
00:25:11.320 the president, who
00:25:12.140 has the unilateral
00:25:12.900 right to
00:25:13.820 appoint U.S.
00:25:14.680 attorneys in
00:25:15.320 every jurisdiction
00:25:16.620 in the country, is
00:25:17.860 thwarted by the
00:25:18.640 U.S.
00:25:18.960 Senate, that
00:25:19.820 simply refuses to
00:25:21.380 act.
00:25:22.100 We've seen exactly
00:25:23.040 that happen in
00:25:24.020 New Jersey, where
00:25:25.040 the president
00:25:25.600 appointed the
00:25:26.560 most able
00:25:27.480 attorney, Alina
00:25:29.260 Haba, to the
00:25:30.220 U.S.
00:25:30.620 attorney's office,
00:25:31.320 but the two
00:25:32.560 Democrat senators
00:25:33.720 from New Jersey
00:25:34.440 have refused to
00:25:35.880 acquiesce in her
00:25:37.040 nomination, giving
00:25:38.560 her a blue slip.
00:25:40.180 The president
00:25:40.640 then appointed
00:25:41.280 her as an
00:25:42.140 interim U.S.
00:25:43.320 attorney, which
00:25:44.260 she could serve
00:25:44.900 for 120 days.
00:25:47.240 At the end of
00:25:47.840 that 120 days, the
00:25:49.460 seat was vacated.
00:25:50.860 The federal judges
00:25:51.760 from the district
00:25:52.560 immediately appointed
00:25:53.500 a liberal Democrat
00:25:54.780 as the U.S.
00:25:56.000 attorney.
00:25:56.980 The president
00:25:57.800 then fired that
00:25:59.120 U.S.
00:25:59.540 attorney and
00:26:01.000 reappointed Alina Haba
00:26:03.180 as the acting or
00:26:04.840 deputy attorney general.
00:26:06.600 It's time to end
00:26:07.680 the charade and let
00:26:09.120 President Donald
00:26:10.040 Trump have his
00:26:11.420 nominees.
00:26:12.840 It's interesting
00:26:13.760 that in the Biden
00:26:14.880 years, Republican
00:26:16.360 senators in virtually
00:26:17.580 every state
00:26:18.520 acquiesced in Biden's
00:26:20.460 appointment of the
00:26:21.480 U.S.
00:26:21.780 attorneys.
00:26:22.860 That civility that
00:26:24.380 was given to
00:26:25.280 Republicans, by
00:26:26.520 Republicans, to
00:26:27.300 Democrats during the
00:26:28.360 Biden years, does not
00:26:29.820 exist for Donald Trump.
00:26:31.760 And therefore, once
00:26:32.720 again, similar to his
00:26:34.140 first term, President
00:26:35.520 Trump does not
00:26:36.380 control his own
00:26:38.060 judiciary and his
00:26:39.280 own, I would say,
00:26:41.760 Department of
00:26:42.940 Justice.
00:26:43.620 It's time to do
00:26:45.100 away with the blue
00:26:46.420 slip rule and let
00:26:48.100 President Donald
00:26:48.880 Trump have his
00:26:49.940 nominees as federal
00:26:51.460 prosecutors.
00:26:52.500 As I said, when we
00:26:53.700 first entered the
00:26:54.920 Stone Zone, President
00:26:56.580 Donald Trump has
00:26:57.920 pardoned former New
00:26:59.300 York City Police
00:27:00.260 Sergeant Michael
00:27:01.620 McMahon.
00:27:02.300 Here's what I wrote
00:27:03.020 just weeks ago.
00:27:04.920 Michael McMahon is
00:27:06.120 a distinguished,
00:27:07.040 decorated New York
00:27:07.880 City Police Department
00:27:08.920 sergeant who served
00:27:10.600 New Yorkers with
00:27:11.380 honor during some of
00:27:12.500 the most dangerous
00:27:13.240 years of crime in
00:27:15.020 America's largest
00:27:15.980 city.
00:27:16.760 After retiring from
00:27:18.220 the department, he
00:27:19.060 continued to serve
00:27:20.040 through honest work
00:27:21.160 as a licensed private
00:27:22.800 investigator in New
00:27:24.320 Jersey.
00:27:25.420 Yet he was charged
00:27:26.460 by the Biden
00:27:27.660 Justice Department.
00:27:28.760 His alleged crime
00:27:29.600 was nothing more
00:27:30.520 than accepting an
00:27:31.800 assignment from a
00:27:32.760 U.S.-based company
00:27:34.360 that involved
00:27:35.460 surveillance for
00:27:36.360 clients he had no
00:27:37.520 reason to believe
00:27:38.440 were connected to
00:27:39.620 Beijing's sinister
00:27:41.620 communist Chinese
00:27:42.760 campaign known as
00:27:44.500 Operation Fox Hunt.
00:27:46.720 So Michael McMahon
00:27:47.660 took photographs.
00:27:48.820 He observed movements.
00:27:50.360 He performed lawful
00:27:51.720 investigative work that
00:27:53.260 private investigators
00:27:54.240 across America
00:27:55.180 perform every single
00:27:57.140 day.
00:27:58.240 Yet when he uncovered
00:27:59.460 a massive communist
00:28:00.920 Chinese spy ring right
00:28:02.620 here in the United
00:28:03.460 States, the Department
00:28:05.040 of Justice twisted
00:28:06.140 these routine tasks
00:28:07.780 into a theatrical
00:28:09.200 display of espionage
00:28:10.820 and conspiracy.
00:28:12.100 They smeared him as
00:28:13.380 if he were an enemy
00:28:14.200 of the state and
00:28:15.560 they railroaded this
00:28:16.660 fine American into a
00:28:18.380 false conviction.
00:28:19.780 They sent Michael
00:28:20.820 McMahon to prison
00:28:22.000 while the true
00:28:23.120 traitors of our
00:28:24.160 republic walked free.
00:28:25.760 At the center of this
00:28:26.960 fight for an innocent
00:28:27.980 man's rights and
00:28:29.080 freedom stands his
00:28:29.920 wife, actress and
00:28:30.800 author Martha Byrne.
00:28:32.660 She joined us right
00:28:33.540 here in the Stone
00:28:34.320 Zone only days ago.
00:28:36.500 She has shown the
00:28:37.280 courage that can only
00:28:38.280 be described as
00:28:39.160 incandescent.
00:28:40.740 She has written,
00:28:41.520 spoken and now
00:28:42.260 documented this
00:28:43.360 calamity against her
00:28:44.480 family in a book
00:28:45.420 In the Interest of
00:28:46.720 Justice which exposed
00:28:48.000 the corruption and
00:28:49.380 cruelty of a system
00:28:50.420 that chews up the
00:28:51.500 innocent to protect
00:28:52.980 the guilty.
00:28:54.340 Her work is not
00:28:55.160 only a voice of a
00:28:56.440 devoted wife but a
00:28:57.520 battle cry for
00:28:58.380 justice in America,
00:29:00.100 justice for all.
00:29:01.740 But let's take a
00:29:02.600 minute to examine the
00:29:03.760 hypocrisy that reeks
00:29:04.980 from the walls of
00:29:06.040 Washington.
00:29:07.100 While Michael
00:29:07.900 McMahon is punished
00:29:09.180 as if he were a
00:29:10.060 foreign agent serving
00:29:11.140 his prison sentence,
00:29:12.620 the real enemies of
00:29:13.540 America are shielded
00:29:14.680 and protected.
00:29:16.360 Bureaucrats twist the
00:29:17.580 law into a weapon to
00:29:19.020 destroy ordinary men
00:29:20.360 while ignoring the
00:29:21.200 corruption, festering in
00:29:22.820 their own ranks.
00:29:24.200 The Biden regime
00:29:25.120 rewards loyalty to
00:29:26.520 the swamp and
00:29:27.220 punishes loyalty to
00:29:28.740 the truth.
00:29:29.920 Meanwhile, Michael
00:29:30.820 McMahon, who never
00:29:32.100 leaked a classified
00:29:33.080 secret, never took a
00:29:34.960 foreign payment, never
00:29:36.620 obstructed justice, yet
00:29:37.980 was shackled and
00:29:38.880 treated as if he were a
00:29:39.860 dangerous traitor.
00:29:41.420 Yes, I know it all too
00:29:42.680 well.
00:29:43.100 This is lawfare in its
00:29:44.680 most malignant form.
00:29:46.660 I know these tactics
00:29:47.840 because I lived them.
00:29:49.740 When Robert Mueller's
00:29:50.740 inquisition targeted me,
00:29:52.160 they buried exculpatory
00:29:53.660 evidence.
00:29:54.680 They twisted facts
00:29:55.600 beyond recognition.
00:29:57.380 They produced
00:29:58.020 fabrications born of
00:29:59.680 pure deceit.
00:30:01.160 Yet the unredacted
00:30:02.620 Mueller report revealed
00:30:03.740 my innocence and
00:30:04.680 proved what I'd said
00:30:05.560 all along.
00:30:06.700 I was innocent.
00:30:08.160 I had done nothing
00:30:09.580 wrong.
00:30:10.420 But you see, the
00:30:11.220 process itself is the
00:30:13.180 punishment.
00:30:14.160 And Michael McMahon
00:30:15.100 was enduring the
00:30:16.140 exact same punishment
00:30:17.280 until today.
00:30:18.780 The exculpatory
00:30:19.820 evidence withheld
00:30:20.760 from McMahon and his
00:30:22.040 defense team would
00:30:22.860 have most certainly
00:30:23.500 have proved his
00:30:24.800 undoubted innocent,
00:30:26.320 but would have also
00:30:27.240 exposed the malicious
00:30:28.420 and corrupt conduct of
00:30:29.920 the FBI and the
00:30:31.560 Justice Department
00:30:32.480 themselves.
00:30:33.520 I emphasize greatly
00:30:35.120 with McMahon because,
00:30:36.820 well, I have been
00:30:37.760 where he is and I know
00:30:38.860 exactly how he feels.
00:30:40.600 No American should ever
00:30:41.820 have to be living in
00:30:42.760 fear of their own
00:30:44.000 government.
00:30:44.840 The architects of this
00:30:46.600 injustice are the
00:30:47.860 career Comey loyalists
00:30:49.680 at the FBI who, like
00:30:51.980 termites, infest the
00:30:53.540 foundation of our
00:30:54.820 republic.
00:30:55.880 These are dangerous
00:30:56.600 people.
00:30:57.540 They're also subversive
00:30:58.720 people.
00:30:59.720 They crucify good men
00:31:01.040 like Michael McMahon
00:31:02.100 because he's easy to
00:31:03.360 destroy and they believe
00:31:05.040 no one will fight for
00:31:06.140 him.
00:31:06.920 They must not only be
00:31:08.060 removed from power,
00:31:09.080 but they themselves should
00:31:10.000 now be prosecuted for
00:31:11.220 their corruption and
00:31:13.000 their betrayal of the
00:31:14.400 American people.
00:31:15.180 The good news is
00:31:16.040 President Donald Trump
00:31:17.560 has acted.
00:31:19.540 He alone had the
00:31:20.500 courage to strike at
00:31:21.760 the heart of this
00:31:22.900 Levitian outrage.
00:31:25.300 A pardon for Michael
00:31:26.480 McMahon today is not
00:31:27.880 mercy.
00:31:28.720 What it is, is
00:31:29.860 justice.
00:31:30.960 He was innocent all
00:31:32.120 long, just like I
00:31:33.120 said I was, and it
00:31:34.560 was the repudiation of
00:31:35.760 selected prosecution
00:31:36.980 that stands out
00:31:38.200 today.
00:31:38.620 It is a desperation
00:31:40.300 of fairness and a
00:31:41.340 nation of forgotten
00:31:42.280 what fairness means.
00:31:44.380 I'm glad that
00:31:45.100 her book was also a
00:31:50.200 beacon.
00:31:51.020 It's a rallying cry for
00:31:52.220 every American who
00:31:53.400 has ever felt the
00:31:54.400 crushing weight of
00:31:55.260 government tyranny and
00:31:56.700 for those Americans who
00:31:57.860 have not yet suffered
00:31:59.020 the same fate as
00:31:59.900 McMahon and me.
00:32:01.580 It is a cautionary
00:32:03.260 tale.
00:32:04.360 She was right to
00:32:05.180 demand her husband's
00:32:06.100 freedom.
00:32:06.920 The American people
00:32:07.720 stood with him.
00:32:09.020 I want to thank all of
00:32:09.960 those who listened to
00:32:11.080 that broadcast and who
00:32:12.240 prayed for Michael
00:32:13.040 McMahon, his wife, and
00:32:14.840 his three children.
00:32:16.480 He was charged simply
00:32:18.000 with bribery, and
00:32:19.260 every time I turned
00:32:20.400 around, they shortened
00:32:21.460 his sentence.
00:32:22.900 Charles McGonigal is a
00:32:24.260 perfect example of the
00:32:25.820 incredible corruption of
00:32:27.320 the FBI, corruption that
00:32:29.520 Kash Patel, the new FBI
00:32:31.200 director, must clean house
00:32:33.120 with.
00:32:33.860 This is Roger Stone and
00:32:35.360 The Stone Zone, and we'll
00:32:36.700 be right back.
00:32:41.220 The Stone Zone, entertaining
00:32:43.840 and informative on the Red
00:32:45.900 Apple Podcast Network.
00:32:48.340 The entering of the Stone
00:32:50.040 Zone, it was actually 53
00:32:51.860 years ago today that
00:32:54.720 President Richard Nixon won
00:32:56.880 the greatest single
00:32:58.180 landslide in American
00:32:59.560 political history, carrying
00:33:01.700 all states in his
00:33:03.060 re-election bid with the
00:33:04.220 exception of Massachusetts.
00:33:05.700 It was only a year and a
00:33:08.140 half after that, of course,
00:33:09.580 that President Nixon was
00:33:10.760 forced to resign in the
00:33:12.180 Watergate scandal.
00:33:13.820 But the Washington Post
00:33:15.500 version of Watergate is not
00:33:17.560 the truth.
00:33:18.900 Based on declassified
00:33:20.420 government documents, we now
00:33:22.060 know that the Central
00:33:23.620 Intelligence Agency was well
00:33:25.740 aware of the misguided plan to
00:33:27.960 break into the Watergate, and
00:33:30.140 that they infiltrated the
00:33:32.040 Watergate burglar team.
00:33:33.780 Indeed, four of the eight
00:33:35.740 Watergate burglars were CIA
00:33:38.420 operatives still on the CIA
00:33:40.820 payroll and reporting to
00:33:42.900 their CIA handlers.
00:33:46.140 We also know that the Senate
00:33:50.460 Watergate special prosecutor,
00:33:52.580 specifically Nick Ackerman, was
00:33:55.120 well aware of this CIA
00:33:57.040 infiltration, but refused to make
00:34:00.520 it public.
00:34:02.380 It is now, I think, an
00:34:04.080 article of faith that the
00:34:05.280 American people have not been
00:34:06.480 told the truth about
00:34:07.900 Watergate, and that the
00:34:09.560 Washington Post version of
00:34:11.540 events is, well, just false,
00:34:14.060 what President Trump would call
00:34:15.340 fake news.
00:34:16.800 On a personal note, I'm happy
00:34:18.380 to report that my dog Peewee,
00:34:21.480 who, as many of you know, was
00:34:23.340 poisoned only about a month and a
00:34:25.160 half ago, has now gotten a
00:34:27.240 clean bill of health from the
00:34:29.040 veterinarian after Mrs. Stone
00:34:31.500 taking the dog in for blood
00:34:33.440 tests on a weekly basis and
00:34:35.160 taking a very special diet.
00:34:37.800 I think Peewee also benefited from
00:34:39.780 the great products of Rough
00:34:41.380 Greens, that's R-U-F-F-Greens.com,
00:34:45.480 an all-natural series of both food
00:34:49.260 and vitamins that I think helped
00:34:51.100 his recovery tremendously.
00:34:53.800 Lastly, I want to say, as a
00:34:55.680 Hungarian-American, I am half
00:34:57.820 Italian and half Hungarian,
00:35:00.000 although I'm Italian from the
00:35:01.280 waist down, I was pleased to see
00:35:03.180 Hungarian President Viktor Orban
00:35:05.380 visit President Donald Trump
00:35:06.840 today in the White House.
00:35:08.900 Now, they call Orban a Nazi, they
00:35:11.520 call him a dictator, but he won a
00:35:13.580 democratic election.
00:35:15.720 And the Hungarians are experiencing
00:35:17.960 a period of both security, safety,
00:35:21.920 and unprecedented prosperity.
00:35:25.260 They're also one of the few
00:35:26.340 countries in Europe that does not
00:35:28.800 have unregulated and uncontrolled
00:35:32.420 illegal immigration.
00:35:34.520 So, Viktor Orban is not only not a
00:35:37.240 Nazi, but he's a Democrat with a
00:35:39.080 small d.
00:35:40.320 He is a great man, and it's not
00:35:42.300 incidental that Hungary, Poland, and
00:35:44.740 Romania, the three countries in
00:35:46.760 Europe that do not allow unregulated
00:35:48.920 Muslim integration are among the
00:35:52.280 safest and most prosperous in all of
00:35:55.300 Europe.
00:35:56.080 So, I'm proud of my Hungarian roots
00:35:58.300 today, and I salute President Viktor
00:36:00.340 Orban, as well as President Donald
00:36:02.700 Trump, for having the Hungarian
00:36:05.460 president visit.
00:36:06.960 So, all in all, my friend, New York
00:36:09.620 police detective Michael McMahon being
00:36:12.260 pardoned, my dog Peewee 2.0, and the
00:36:16.660 Hungarian president visiting the White
00:36:18.760 House.
00:36:19.400 It has been a tumultuous and great
00:36:21.560 work week here in the Stone Zone.
00:36:23.700 I thank you for joining us, where we
00:36:26.300 talk news, politics, history, food, and
00:36:30.120 style five days a week.
00:36:32.700 Until we meet again, God bless you and
00:36:35.200 Godspeed, and always remember, we'll
00:36:37.700 always give you the stone-cold truth
00:36:39.920 right here in the Stone.
00:36:41.440 Thanks for listening to The Stone Zone
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