The StoneZONE with Roger Stone


The Stone Zone ｜ 12-24-25


Episode Stats

Misogynist Sentences

4

Hate Speech Sentences

10


Summary

This week on the Stone Zone, President Trump has ordered a special task force to investigate the possibility that millions of votes were stolen in the 2020 election, and that it could be traced back to a company based in Venezuela. The Stone Zone is brought to you by Points of Wealth, a Parcast Original.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Every week, the Payne family cuts straight to the real financial story.
00:00:04.460 The one question, Bob, everyone's asking is, are we in an artificial intelligence bubble?
00:00:10.080 You've been through boom and busts. What do you think?
00:00:12.860 No hype, no myths, just what actually matters to your money.
00:00:17.440 Does feel very similar to what we experienced in the 90s. Where are we,
00:00:21.460 though? Are we in 1995, 1997, 1999?
00:00:25.300 Listen to the Payne Points of Wealth on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:30.000 The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative.
00:00:33.880 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:00:37.440 You are now entering the Stone Zone.
00:00:41.360 What is better than New York at Christmas?
00:00:43.860 The Christmas tree lighting at Rockefeller Center, followed by dinner at the old 21 Club.
00:00:50.500 Skating in Central Park.
00:00:52.280 The Oyster Bar underneath Grand Central Station.
00:00:56.280 The once great Waldorf Astoria.
00:00:58.400 Great place to go for cocktails.
00:01:00.000 It's all now gone.
00:01:02.480 I really love New York, but I miss the old spots.
00:01:05.760 I was heartbroken over the fact that because of a schedule conflict,
00:01:10.500 I couldn't go to the Italian-American Civil Rights League Christmas celebration,
00:01:16.880 which took place in Little Italy in New York City.
00:01:19.680 I'm one of the founders of the group.
00:01:22.220 If you're interested, by the way, in fighting to protect Italian culture, heritage,
00:01:27.560 and the great contributions made to America by Italian-Americans and oppose anti-Italian-American bias,
00:01:35.380 you can go to IACRL.org, ItalianAmericanCivilRightsLeague.org.
00:01:44.380 It is a non-profit.
00:01:46.380 There's no staff.
00:01:47.620 There's no overhead.
00:01:48.320 Nobody's making money on this.
00:01:49.600 This is everyone involved is a volunteer working to preserve the great contribution made to America by Italian-Americans,
00:01:58.140 fighting to those who would take down statues of Christopher Columbus,
00:02:02.920 and others who would ignore the great contributions made to this nation by Italian-Americans.
00:02:10.720 I hated missing that.
00:02:12.600 It will most definitely be there next year.
00:02:15.780 This week brought the shocking news, not all that shocking to some of us from Georgia,
00:02:21.220 that there is now absolute proof that there were 315,000 completely illegal ballots that were counted in the Democrat stronghold of Fulton County.
00:02:34.760 The claim that this happened was used to destroy Rudy Giuliani and to prosecute a number of others who questioned the results of that election.
00:02:47.640 In the famous telephone call with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger,
00:02:53.460 the phone call that was noted by those in the Congress that they tried to raise during the impeachment,
00:03:01.400 if one would listen to the entire phone call, and it's not just the president and Raffensperger post-election,
00:03:07.540 there are seven attorneys on the call with them.
00:03:11.220 Trump does not say, in context, he says, fine me 12,000 votes.
00:03:15.860 What he says is, the margin right now is 12,000 votes, but you have counted at least 351 votes in Fulton County that are illegal.
00:03:26.540 Once you throw them out, I would win this contest, which turns out to be true.
00:03:31.760 But this is really just the beginning,
00:03:33.800 because President Trump has authorized and Susie Wiles has organized a special task force headed by the National Director of Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard,
00:03:49.220 to examine the integrity and security of these electronic voting machines,
00:03:55.180 as well as examining the integrity of the mail-in ballot process.
00:04:04.260 I have heard that they have hard, hard evidence that these electronic voting machines,
00:04:11.220 first of all, they are connected to the Internet and they can be and have been manipulated.
00:04:16.520 President Trump himself has alluded to the fact that he has this information.
00:04:21.560 He won in 2016 by a lot.
00:04:24.640 The election was rigged in 2020.
00:04:26.460 We have all the ammunition, all the stuff, and you'll see it come out.
00:04:29.180 It's coming out in truckload.
00:04:31.840 This is obviously, remains to be seen, a final report,
00:04:35.940 but sources tell me that they can trace some of the election interference
00:04:43.640 and manipulations to machines that a company is based, actually, in Venezuela,
00:04:49.680 machines that were used in Venezuela.
00:04:52.620 There's also direct evidence of some Chinese interference.
00:04:57.020 Now, it has to be more than conjecture or supposition or theory.
00:05:02.840 The president wants facts, but there's growing evidence of the 2020 election and its falsity.
00:05:11.120 First of all, the fact that 81 million people supposedly voted for Joe Biden,
00:05:15.860 that would be roughly 7 million more than voted for Barack Obama, who was a much superior candidate.
00:05:23.220 And they expect to tell us that on average, in African-American precincts across the country,
00:05:28.400 the most traditionally Democrat voters,
00:05:31.740 although a constituency that Donald Trump made deep inroads in,
00:05:36.320 in the 2024 election,
00:05:39.520 they voted, on average, 20 percent higher for Joe Biden than they did for Barack Obama,
00:05:46.740 who, whether you like him or not, is a historic figure,
00:05:50.340 our first African-American president,
00:05:53.320 and a much stronger candidate than Joe Biden.
00:05:56.540 So the numbers really continue to defy belief.
00:06:01.420 There are credible reports across the country.
00:06:06.200 I think we all saw at 3 o'clock in the morning when we went to bed, Donald Trump was leading.
00:06:11.220 And at precisely the same time, across at least three states,
00:06:15.320 as many as 300,000 paper ballots mysteriously show up from nowhere
00:06:20.440 and are thrown into the count.
00:06:22.920 Michigan is particularly egregious.
00:06:24.700 The Republican poll watchers and the Republican officials are thrown out of the count center.
00:06:33.140 The windows are boarded up so no one can see what is happening.
00:06:37.420 We have video of a white van arriving with a large number of ballots and dropping them off.
00:06:44.880 There is eyewitness testimony and witness testimony and video of two women
00:06:51.000 who would later sue Rudy Giuliani successfully, removing ballots out from under a table
00:06:56.600 and throwing them into the count.
00:06:59.380 So this whole issue, which was used really to destroy Rudy Giuliani,
00:07:05.840 a man who cannot be destroyed because he is indestructible.
00:07:09.700 I've met a lot of tough guys in my day.
00:07:11.980 Richard Nixon was a very tough guy, clawed his way back from political ruin and obscurity.
00:07:18.400 Senator Bob Dole, who I served as a U.S. senator from Kansas.
00:07:24.200 I was a special assistant for two years to Senator Dole.
00:07:28.580 He was a very tough guy.
00:07:30.500 He was a genuine World War II hero.
00:07:34.020 He'd actually been hit by a shell in Italy.
00:07:38.400 He came back to the United States horrifically wounded,
00:07:41.860 was told that he would never walk again,
00:07:44.280 he would never feed himself again,
00:07:45.860 he would never have the use of his limbs again.
00:07:50.220 But through sheer perseverance and pulleys and weights and a very tough regimen,
00:07:59.200 he nursed himself back to total functionality.
00:08:04.540 He had a bad right arm.
00:08:06.900 So when I worked for him, if he had steak, I used to have to cut it for him.
00:08:10.620 He had a little trouble, you know, buttoning all of his buttons.
00:08:14.180 He couldn't tie his shoes by himself, but he wore buckle-on shoes.
00:08:17.800 He was a true American hero.
00:08:20.080 He would have been a great American president.
00:08:21.980 He ran tragically in 1988,
00:08:25.060 and he got snuffed by the Bush machine,
00:08:28.720 who really had a hammer hold on the party money
00:08:33.700 and the party apparatus post-Trump.
00:08:37.980 By the time we nominated Bob Dole in 1996,
00:08:40.960 although he put on a valiant struggle against Clinton,
00:08:43.980 his time had passed, although people don't realize,
00:08:46.700 Bob Dole carried six more states as a non-incumbent in 1996
00:08:51.660 than George H.W. Bush did in 1992.
00:08:57.260 But he is a very tough guy.
00:09:00.540 But again, neither, I think, Giuliani in that same realm
00:09:04.580 in terms of toughness.
00:09:06.120 And this effort to destroy him over the election results,
00:09:10.920 to impoverish him, to disbar him, to silence him,
00:09:14.500 well, he won't be silenced.
00:09:16.700 And despite his recent accident and his injuries,
00:09:19.860 he continues to do a daily show.
00:09:22.780 This is a reservoir of energy and patriotism
00:09:26.460 that is unparalleled.
00:09:29.560 And now he's being vindicated,
00:09:31.680 and he will be vindicated further by this report,
00:09:35.260 I believe, by Tulsi Gabbard.
00:09:38.200 Now, sources tell me that there are certain elements
00:09:41.420 in the Central Intelligence Agency
00:09:43.580 with input into this task force
00:09:46.000 who may not want too close an examination
00:09:48.740 of the technology that is used to manipulate elections
00:09:52.060 because there's a high probability
00:09:54.060 that our own intelligence agencies
00:09:56.660 have manipulated elections abroad.
00:09:59.260 We know firsthand about the Ukrainian coup d'etat,
00:10:06.300 the color revolution orchestrated by our State Department.
00:10:12.760 That is outrageous enough.
00:10:14.980 We basically staged a violent coup
00:10:17.920 against a duly elected president.
00:10:21.560 And there is more to this record
00:10:27.040 of meddling in foreign elections,
00:10:29.720 which, of course, we have always, always done.
00:10:32.480 When Boris Yeltsin was elected,
00:10:34.540 USIA spent millions of dollars,
00:10:37.620 I think, registering voters
00:10:39.180 and promoting democracy in that country.
00:10:42.340 So, this really does remain to be seen.
00:10:46.400 I'm very excited to be with you
00:10:47.640 for my special Christmas show.
00:10:49.260 I think we stay on the edge of something really ancient
00:10:51.380 and something truly eternal.
00:10:53.520 After long years, we've had noise,
00:10:57.300 chaos, division, and uncertainty.
00:10:59.240 We arrive, I think at last,
00:11:01.820 at the quiet moment the world's been waiting for.
00:11:04.760 I think one ancient preacher put it,
00:11:06.800 we have come in from the stormy sea
00:11:08.800 into a calm harbor.
00:11:10.560 That's what I consider the holidays,
00:11:12.620 a time to reflect,
00:11:14.340 a time to think,
00:11:15.700 a time to write,
00:11:17.280 a time to think about the things
00:11:19.000 you have done wrong
00:11:20.000 and pledge not to do them again,
00:11:22.560 to focus on the things you have done right,
00:11:26.020 and to do more of them,
00:11:28.280 to be reverent to God.
00:11:30.640 For thousands of years,
00:11:32.180 humanity cried out,
00:11:33.260 not for bigger government,
00:11:34.260 not for stronger rulers,
00:11:35.960 not for comforts,
00:11:36.900 but for mercy.
00:11:38.580 The prophets cried,
00:11:40.100 rend the heavens and come down.
00:11:41.780 Kings rose and fell.
00:11:43.160 Empires came and went.
00:11:44.340 Men tried power, wealth,
00:11:46.340 and ideology to fill the void,
00:11:48.260 but the world remains unimpressed
00:11:49.860 because we are a Christian nation,
00:11:53.820 and it is only through my own redemption
00:11:57.060 in the blood of the cross
00:11:58.620 that I'm able to be with you
00:12:01.020 on the radio today
00:12:02.460 and not locked up
00:12:03.860 in some dank Georgia prison
00:12:05.840 or far more likely in my case
00:12:08.000 because I was sentenced
00:12:09.440 to four years in prison
00:12:12.280 and I have a lifelong history
00:12:15.520 of asthma,
00:12:17.140 and the Bureau of Prisons
00:12:18.320 insisted on sending me
00:12:19.660 to a prison in Georgia,
00:12:21.140 far from my home,
00:12:22.540 where the prison officials insisted
00:12:24.280 and the Bureau of Prisons
00:12:25.140 insisted there were no COVID cases
00:12:26.780 and there was no danger.
00:12:29.560 Fortunately for me,
00:12:30.520 the African-American woman
00:12:32.080 who was the head
00:12:32.660 of the prison guards union
00:12:33.800 at this particular Georgia prison
00:12:35.620 saw that and the media
00:12:36.680 contacted one of my lawyers
00:12:38.500 to say that there were
00:12:39.380 600 cases of COVID.
00:12:43.780 There were at least 200 confirmed cases
00:12:45.920 and they were pending
00:12:46.740 the results of 400 tests.
00:12:49.320 So it really was a death sentence
00:12:51.500 and I thank God for saving me
00:12:54.660 from the deadly snare
00:12:57.060 set by Robert Mueller
00:12:59.580 and Adam Schiff
00:13:01.460 and the entire cabal,
00:13:05.100 John Brennan,
00:13:06.380 James Comey,
00:13:08.080 and so on.
00:13:09.100 I talked a lot about
00:13:10.040 whether we're going to see
00:13:10.880 justice and accountability
00:13:12.140 for these people.
00:13:13.980 They're the ones
00:13:14.540 who keep screaming,
00:13:15.400 Trump is on a rampage
00:13:16.640 of revenge
00:13:17.240 and retribution
00:13:18.860 when in fact
00:13:19.720 they just wish
00:13:21.220 to avoid punishment
00:13:22.300 for the fact
00:13:22.900 that they broke the law
00:13:23.860 and they violated
00:13:25.100 the Constitution
00:13:25.980 in their manic efforts
00:13:27.220 to destroy Donald Trump
00:13:29.140 who has risen
00:13:31.040 like a phoenix
00:13:32.040 from the ashes
00:13:33.100 to have a smashingly
00:13:34.920 successful first year
00:13:36.600 in office
00:13:37.160 where all the fundamentals
00:13:38.800 have been laid down
00:13:40.580 in terms of tax cuts
00:13:42.300 and regulatory cuts
00:13:43.380 and soon monetary reforms
00:13:45.860 and soon a lower income tax rate
00:13:48.660 to make America boom.
00:13:50.880 Remember what my friend
00:13:51.720 Larry Kudlow says,
00:13:52.860 a rising tide
00:13:54.500 lifts all boats.
00:13:56.140 He is paraphrasing Jack Kemp
00:13:58.300 who was paraphrasing
00:13:59.800 John F. Kennedy.
00:14:01.540 Kennedy said that
00:14:02.740 when he cut federal taxes
00:14:04.560 across the board,
00:14:06.000 Ronald Reagan cut federal taxes
00:14:07.580 across the board,
00:14:08.300 but neither one of them
00:14:09.040 cut taxes as deeply
00:14:10.520 as extensively
00:14:11.340 as President Donald Trump
00:14:13.560 and it is an absolute fact
00:14:16.300 that federal revenues
00:14:18.600 spike greatly
00:14:19.620 after every federal income tax.
00:14:21.500 Our deficits are caused
00:14:22.880 not by not taxing enough,
00:14:24.660 our deficits are caused
00:14:25.760 by spending too much.
00:14:28.180 So the fundamentals
00:14:29.500 have been laid for us
00:14:30.580 to have a great, great year.
00:14:32.760 You're listening to
00:14:33.880 The Stone Zone here.
00:14:35.220 I'm Roger Stone.
00:14:36.560 It's Christmas
00:14:37.300 and we've got a lot more coming up,
00:14:39.060 so please don't touch that dial.
00:14:41.460 Every week,
00:14:44.440 the Payne family
00:14:45.260 cuts straight to the real
00:14:46.600 financial story.
00:14:47.900 The one question, Bob,
00:14:49.040 everyone's asking is,
00:14:50.840 are we in an artificial
00:14:52.020 intelligence bubble?
00:14:53.500 You've been through
00:14:54.280 boom and busts.
00:14:55.500 What do you think?
00:14:56.300 No hype,
00:14:57.260 no myths,
00:14:58.500 just what actually matters
00:14:59.840 to your money.
00:15:00.920 It does feel very similar
00:15:02.480 to what we experienced
00:15:03.720 in the 90s.
00:15:04.400 Where are we, though?
00:15:05.080 Are we in 1995,
00:15:06.480 1997,
00:15:07.700 1999?
00:15:08.200 Listen to the Payne Points of Wealth
00:15:10.540 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
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00:15:47.040 Entertaining and informative.
00:15:49.180 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:15:52.440 Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
00:15:56.380 So, we are preparing
00:15:58.040 to celebrate the birth
00:16:00.100 of Jesus Christ, our Lord.
00:16:02.000 I was very candid
00:16:03.520 about the fact
00:16:04.640 that I had been raised
00:16:06.500 as a Roman Catholic.
00:16:07.800 I had my first
00:16:09.360 Holy Communion
00:16:10.780 at St. Aloysius Church
00:16:13.780 in New Canaan, Connecticut.
00:16:15.260 I was baptized
00:16:15.880 at St. Mary's
00:16:17.040 in Norwalk, Connecticut.
00:16:19.280 I had my Holy Confirmation
00:16:20.680 at St. Aloysius
00:16:21.680 in New Canaan as well.
00:16:23.680 But I had fallen
00:16:24.660 very far from the Lord
00:16:25.800 when I was a
00:16:26.540 high-powered
00:16:27.760 Washington power broker,
00:16:29.680 political consultant,
00:16:30.580 and some time lobbyist
00:16:32.940 under Reagan
00:16:34.060 and a hard-boiled
00:16:36.620 political operative.
00:16:38.100 But when I was targeted
00:16:40.160 for destruction
00:16:41.040 because I refused
00:16:42.340 to testify falsely
00:16:43.500 against Donald Trump,
00:16:45.040 it was Franklin Graham,
00:16:46.620 among others,
00:16:47.540 and Charlie Kirk,
00:16:49.000 and a young pastor
00:16:50.360 named Randy Coggins
00:16:51.360 who all urged me
00:16:52.520 to take refuge
00:16:54.440 in the Lord
00:16:55.240 as a vengeful
00:16:57.220 federal government
00:16:58.060 and a viciously
00:16:59.240 partisan federal judge
00:17:00.960 set about my destruction.
00:17:03.660 I was never afforded
00:17:04.800 a fair trial.
00:17:05.580 Of course,
00:17:05.840 we learned out later
00:17:06.600 that the judge
00:17:07.760 withheld exculpatory evidence
00:17:09.540 from my defense attorneys.
00:17:11.180 We asked for Robert Mueller's
00:17:12.740 entire unredacted
00:17:13.920 final report,
00:17:14.700 which we were entitled to
00:17:15.720 under federal law
00:17:17.100 as a defendant.
00:17:17.860 It was denied to us,
00:17:19.360 but we now know
00:17:19.980 why it was denied.
00:17:20.860 On page 178,
00:17:22.600 it specifically says
00:17:23.680 that they found
00:17:24.240 no evidence
00:17:24.780 of Russian collusion,
00:17:26.360 WikiLeaks collaboration,
00:17:27.720 or any other crime
00:17:29.040 on my part.
00:17:30.340 The judge refused
00:17:31.280 to release that.
00:17:32.100 She actually said
00:17:32.740 she would read
00:17:33.440 the entire report
00:17:34.440 in her chambers
00:17:35.180 and she would give us
00:17:36.640 the segments
00:17:37.220 relevant to me.
00:17:39.140 Somehow she left
00:17:39.940 that section out
00:17:41.040 of the meaningless stuff
00:17:42.600 that she did give
00:17:43.860 my lawyers.
00:17:45.160 It is very much
00:17:46.480 a broken system.
00:17:48.840 But when I went public
00:17:50.600 and said that I had been
00:17:51.900 redeemed in the blood
00:17:52.780 of the cross,
00:17:53.920 and it was very interesting
00:17:56.620 because I was given
00:17:58.960 the personal Bible
00:18:02.120 of the famous
00:18:04.240 Christian evangelist,
00:18:07.180 Kim Clement.
00:18:08.000 Kim Clement was a South African
00:18:10.340 who had many, many,
00:18:13.820 I won't call them visions,
00:18:14.980 but God revealed
00:18:15.780 a number of things to him.
00:18:17.240 Kim Clement was a famous
00:18:19.000 Christian musician
00:18:20.000 and evangelist
00:18:21.120 who foresaw the rise
00:18:22.660 of Donald Trump,
00:18:23.560 foresaw the effort
00:18:24.340 to impeach him,
00:18:25.480 which he said would fail.
00:18:27.000 Also talks about
00:18:28.340 the nation being saved
00:18:30.880 by a simple stone.
00:18:32.240 He says,
00:18:32.860 a simple stone,
00:18:34.020 remember that name.
00:18:35.620 The analogy, of course,
00:18:37.040 is to David and Goliath.
00:18:38.900 So, by the way,
00:18:39.920 I'm not saying
00:18:40.380 that I'm a saint
00:18:41.060 or that I am,
00:18:42.480 I don't know
00:18:43.140 whether I'm that stone.
00:18:44.000 God will tell me
00:18:45.140 whether I am
00:18:45.700 the simple stone.
00:18:47.340 But Washington Monthly
00:18:48.740 actually mocked me
00:18:50.560 for my protestation
00:18:52.780 of my faith,
00:18:53.980 profession,
00:18:54.560 I should say,
00:18:55.260 of my faith.
00:18:56.400 I don't really care
00:18:57.480 what they think,
00:18:58.780 to be honest with you.
00:18:59.300 I don't really care
00:18:59.800 what elitist liberals think.
00:19:01.800 I only care
00:19:02.820 what he thinks.
00:19:05.080 Because, you see,
00:19:05.640 you can't fool God.
00:19:06.760 God knows what's
00:19:07.940 in your heart.
00:19:09.020 I'm a different person
00:19:10.140 than I was 15 years ago,
00:19:12.240 five years ago,
00:19:13.600 two years ago,
00:19:15.140 and I keep trying
00:19:16.580 to get better.
00:19:17.780 Being a half Sicilian,
00:19:19.200 the hard part
00:19:19.900 is forgiving your enemies.
00:19:22.360 I say forgive,
00:19:23.760 but never, ever forget.
00:19:26.560 That's the Italian in me.
00:19:28.920 In any event,
00:19:29.660 you're listening
00:19:30.180 to The Stone Zone.
00:19:31.240 I'm Roger Stone.
00:19:32.500 We'll be back
00:19:33.180 with more politics
00:19:34.220 and more talk
00:19:35.520 about what's important
00:19:36.540 to this Christmas
00:19:37.220 on the other side.
00:19:38.180 So, whatever you do,
00:19:39.240 don't go away.
00:19:44.300 The Stone Zone.
00:19:46.220 Entertaining and informative.
00:19:48.360 On the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:19:51.400 Welcome back
00:19:52.600 into The Stone Zone.
00:19:54.520 I am your genial host,
00:19:56.580 Roger Stone.
00:19:57.620 We're celebrating
00:19:58.760 Christmas Eve together.
00:20:01.460 In our household,
00:20:03.100 of course,
00:20:03.460 we have the traditional
00:20:05.360 Christmas dinner.
00:20:07.220 But first,
00:20:07.760 we have
00:20:08.500 a nice pasta course
00:20:10.800 and then I make
00:20:11.520 some brazo.
00:20:13.280 We make
00:20:13.980 some meatballs,
00:20:15.260 some hot
00:20:16.180 and sweet
00:20:16.720 Italian sausage.
00:20:17.740 Of course,
00:20:17.960 we're just coming off
00:20:19.160 the Feast of the
00:20:20.120 Seven Fishes,
00:20:21.220 a great tradition
00:20:22.360 for Italian Americans
00:20:23.940 and Catholics
00:20:25.120 that we still
00:20:26.480 observe
00:20:27.260 in our home.
00:20:28.980 and then later
00:20:30.500 later in the day
00:20:30.980 we'll get to
00:20:31.520 some of the more
00:20:32.140 traditional,
00:20:33.560 you know,
00:20:34.280 the Christmas goose
00:20:35.220 or the Christmas turkey,
00:20:37.440 all of the
00:20:39.140 more traditional things.
00:20:41.440 I look forward to
00:20:42.340 this meal
00:20:43.920 and this time together.
00:20:45.600 My grandson
00:20:46.420 is back from Hawaii
00:20:47.860 to visit
00:20:48.660 and perhaps
00:20:49.300 stay with us
00:20:50.380 for a while
00:20:51.340 and help out.
00:20:52.480 so that is
00:20:53.280 great to have
00:20:54.300 all my family
00:20:55.180 or most of my family
00:20:56.680 together.
00:20:57.180 My oldest
00:20:57.860 granddaughter,
00:20:59.800 who unfortunately
00:21:01.180 lives very close
00:21:02.080 to East Palestine,
00:21:03.120 Ohio,
00:21:03.760 will be visiting.
00:21:04.640 I'm very,
00:21:04.940 very excited
00:21:05.880 about that.
00:21:06.880 it is,
00:21:09.420 when you speak
00:21:10.300 of redemption,
00:21:12.360 you really have
00:21:12.960 to understand
00:21:13.560 the swamp
00:21:15.200 and the temptations
00:21:16.200 of the swamp.
00:21:16.840 Madison Cawthorne,
00:21:17.820 a former congressman
00:21:19.380 from North Carolina
00:21:20.620 and now running
00:21:21.320 again
00:21:21.820 to get back
00:21:23.200 into Congress
00:21:23.800 from a seat
00:21:24.460 in Florida
00:21:24.980 where he now
00:21:25.980 lives in the
00:21:26.600 Naples area,
00:21:27.780 was very,
00:21:28.560 very blunt
00:21:29.780 about this.
00:21:30.580 I think it's
00:21:30.900 one of the reasons
00:21:31.540 why he may
00:21:33.240 have been defeated.
00:21:34.260 A lot of special
00:21:34.960 interest money
00:21:35.740 came in
00:21:37.140 in North Carolina
00:21:37.940 in an effort
00:21:38.560 to silence
00:21:39.780 this conservative
00:21:41.180 because he spoke
00:21:42.320 openly about
00:21:43.240 the drugs,
00:21:45.100 the women,
00:21:46.280 the men,
00:21:47.280 the temptations,
00:21:48.420 the decadence
00:21:49.200 of Washington
00:21:50.580 and maybe
00:21:52.660 a little too blunt
00:21:53.920 and I,
00:21:55.340 you know,
00:21:55.680 I lived in that world
00:21:57.440 so I'm not ever
00:21:58.340 claiming that I was
00:21:59.360 a saint
00:21:59.880 but it's never
00:22:01.020 too late
00:22:01.660 for anybody.
00:22:02.540 Anyone can repent.
00:22:04.100 This is a God
00:22:04.940 of forgiveness
00:22:05.620 but I hope
00:22:06.220 that it is also
00:22:06.900 a God
00:22:07.380 of vengeance
00:22:08.500 because I do
00:22:09.520 think
00:22:09.860 that those
00:22:11.520 who sought
00:22:12.520 to destroy
00:22:13.400 Donald Trump
00:22:14.560 and General Flynn
00:22:15.440 particularly
00:22:16.020 and their families
00:22:17.540 as well as me
00:22:19.080 and many others,
00:22:22.120 Mike Caputo
00:22:23.120 being one,
00:22:26.260 George Papadopoulos
00:22:27.860 being yet another,
00:22:30.280 I think these people
00:22:31.560 need to be held
00:22:32.560 to account.
00:22:33.440 They broke laws.
00:22:34.660 Now,
00:22:35.220 it was interesting
00:22:35.820 to see that
00:22:36.420 just the news
00:22:37.400 reported
00:22:38.040 that John Brennan,
00:22:40.400 the former CIA director,
00:22:42.000 now if you don't know
00:22:43.600 who John Brennan is,
00:22:44.880 you should know
00:22:45.640 more about him.
00:22:46.360 He was the CIA director
00:22:47.420 under both Clinton
00:22:48.640 and Bush.
00:22:50.120 He was before that
00:22:51.560 the station chief
00:22:52.500 in Riyadh.
00:22:53.800 As the station chief
00:22:55.000 in Riyadh,
00:22:56.300 he signed the visa
00:22:57.840 for four of the men
00:22:59.220 who came to the United States
00:23:00.940 and were accused
00:23:02.500 of the 9-11 hijacking.
00:23:05.420 John Guandolo,
00:23:06.680 who was a long-time
00:23:07.760 counterintelligence officer
00:23:09.160 and others insist
00:23:11.260 that Brennan
00:23:11.940 actually converted
00:23:13.640 to Wahhabism,
00:23:15.280 which is a particularly
00:23:16.300 virulent stream
00:23:18.640 of Islamic extremism,
00:23:21.060 in an elaborate ceremony
00:23:23.100 in Riyadh
00:23:25.940 when he was the director.
00:23:28.160 Brennan, of course,
00:23:28.800 got caught red-handed
00:23:30.100 spying on
00:23:31.160 a U.S. Senate committee
00:23:33.280 that was investigating
00:23:34.860 his illegal use
00:23:37.120 of torture.
00:23:39.160 There's a great new book out,
00:23:40.820 by the way,
00:23:41.220 called High Stakes Treason
00:23:42.680 by my friend
00:23:43.780 Eaton Trottier.
00:23:45.480 High Stakes Treason.
00:23:46.780 You've got to check this out.
00:23:47.760 It's really how
00:23:48.740 John Brennan
00:23:49.740 comprised American security
00:23:51.460 and made millions of dollars
00:23:53.260 while doing it.
00:23:54.120 So it's not just treasonous.
00:23:56.040 He has also lined
00:23:57.460 his pockets.
00:23:58.800 John Brennan
00:23:59.800 is the chief orchestrator
00:24:01.540 of the Russian collusion hoax.
00:24:03.980 It was really John Brennan
00:24:05.060 who knew that the so-called
00:24:07.880 Steele dossier,
00:24:09.800 this is the famous report
00:24:12.020 commissioned and paid for
00:24:13.540 illegally by Hillary Clinton's campaign,
00:24:16.760 the payments for it
00:24:18.200 to Fusion GPS,
00:24:20.200 who compiled it,
00:24:21.240 and Christopher Steele,
00:24:22.420 the former British intelligence agents,
00:24:25.660 who put this collection of lies,
00:24:27.800 lies,
00:24:28.480 and hearsay together.
00:24:30.780 He knew that this
00:24:32.360 had faulty origins.
00:24:37.540 He knew that it could not be relied on
00:24:39.340 as factual.
00:24:42.060 Andrew Weissman,
00:24:43.320 who was the de facto head
00:24:44.860 of the Mueller investigation,
00:24:46.480 the man who orchestrated
00:24:47.420 my indictment and my arrest,
00:24:49.300 he knew during his time
00:24:51.880 as the special counsel,
00:24:54.200 general counsel of the FBI,
00:24:55.420 that the Steele dossier was a fraud.
00:24:58.420 Yet, we now know
00:25:00.060 that the FBI director,
00:25:02.280 James Comey,
00:25:03.120 the CIA director,
00:25:04.760 John Brennan,
00:25:05.480 and Robert Mueller,
00:25:07.520 all relied on that
00:25:08.920 as the rationale
00:25:10.380 for their FISA warrants
00:25:12.180 to spy on President Donald Trump's campaign,
00:25:14.720 which they did,
00:25:16.100 and to begin this entire narrative.
00:25:18.600 It was actually called
00:25:19.800 the Hillary Clinton plan,
00:25:22.620 and it is born
00:25:25.340 in an Oval Office meeting
00:25:28.040 with Barack Obama
00:25:29.280 in the chair.
00:25:31.120 Joe Biden is there
00:25:32.360 helpfully suggesting
00:25:33.320 that maybe
00:25:34.240 they could charge
00:25:35.780 General Flynn
00:25:36.900 with violation
00:25:37.640 of the Logan Act,
00:25:39.300 which is absurd
00:25:40.700 because the Logan Act
00:25:42.080 is a law
00:25:42.760 that prohibits you
00:25:44.260 from having your own
00:25:45.020 personal foreign policy.
00:25:46.380 You can't go out
00:25:46.880 and negotiate
00:25:47.960 against the interests
00:25:49.380 of your own country.
00:25:50.200 John Kerry,
00:25:51.760 the former senator,
00:25:53.420 is guilty
00:25:54.040 of violating
00:25:54.660 the Logan Act.
00:25:55.560 Once Donald Trump
00:25:57.080 ended the Iran weapons deal,
00:26:00.280 he immediately flew to Iran
00:26:01.760 to assure them
00:26:02.600 that Kamala Harris
00:26:04.020 and Joe Biden
00:26:04.800 would restore that deal.
00:26:07.380 That is a textbook violation
00:26:10.080 of the Logan Act.
00:26:10.960 Of course,
00:26:11.680 John Kerry
00:26:12.260 has not been prosecuted.
00:26:14.600 It always kind of
00:26:15.080 reminded me of Lurch.
00:26:16.920 I think he was
00:26:17.600 one of the worst
00:26:18.640 presidential candidates
00:26:19.780 in history.
00:26:22.640 But one of the things
00:26:23.920 that I will be praying for
00:26:25.100 at Mass tonight
00:26:27.640 and next Sunday
00:26:30.160 is for justice
00:26:31.220 and accountability.
00:26:32.480 It's not revenge
00:26:33.180 and retaliation.
00:26:34.140 That is the battle cry.
00:26:36.000 Oh, look,
00:26:36.600 Trump has weaponized
00:26:37.800 the criminal justice system.
00:26:39.720 These people have,
00:26:40.940 either they have
00:26:41.560 no self-awareness
00:26:42.740 or they're so full of it
00:26:44.560 their eyes are brown.
00:26:46.180 It's extraordinary
00:26:47.200 to watch,
00:26:48.220 but as my good friend
00:26:49.440 Sean Hannity says,
00:26:50.520 journalism in America
00:26:51.700 is dead.
00:26:53.240 And he hit that
00:26:54.320 on the nose.
00:26:56.200 It's during this period
00:26:57.840 that I love to reflect
00:26:59.240 on the example
00:27:00.680 of Jesus Christ.
00:27:01.560 He shows us
00:27:02.080 that God doesn't show up
00:27:03.440 in the modern world
00:27:04.320 because the modern world
00:27:06.060 expects him to.
00:27:06.780 Our salvation
00:27:07.360 doesn't arrive
00:27:08.080 through institutions
00:27:09.400 or bureaucracy
00:27:10.400 or elitist plans.
00:27:11.480 Our salvation
00:27:11.960 comes through a family,
00:27:13.940 a mother,
00:27:14.420 a father,
00:27:15.880 a child
00:27:16.920 laid not in a palace
00:27:18.300 but a modest means
00:27:19.360 in a manger.
00:27:20.360 The creator
00:27:20.840 of all things
00:27:21.580 chose humility
00:27:22.440 over dominance,
00:27:23.660 truth over spectacle,
00:27:24.920 love over coercion.
00:27:26.540 Everything our culture
00:27:27.520 tells us
00:27:28.220 strength is found
00:27:30.220 in control
00:27:30.820 and power
00:27:31.360 and tearing down
00:27:32.500 what became.
00:27:33.640 They got to a point
00:27:34.760 where one could
00:27:35.620 no longer say
00:27:36.660 Merry Christmas.
00:27:38.420 It was politically
00:27:39.440 incorrect to say
00:27:40.720 Merry Christmas.
00:27:41.900 Donald Trump
00:27:42.340 has changed
00:27:43.480 all of that.
00:27:44.320 We were back
00:27:44.800 to wishing people
00:27:45.860 Merry Christmas.
00:27:47.580 That is in itself
00:27:48.900 a huge assault
00:27:52.700 on the politically
00:27:53.700 correct
00:27:54.220 and those who would
00:27:55.060 literally erase
00:27:57.280 our culture,
00:27:58.140 erase our history,
00:28:00.140 erase our Judeo-Christian
00:28:01.820 values,
00:28:02.700 and erase
00:28:03.340 our U.S. Constitution.
00:28:07.340 We're not hackable animals
00:28:09.020 like they think
00:28:09.620 over at the
00:28:10.080 World Economic Forum
00:28:11.280 where we were made
00:28:12.500 in the image of God
00:28:13.760 and all of America's,
00:28:16.600 all of God's creatures
00:28:18.060 I should say,
00:28:18.720 on this earth
00:28:19.400 are capable of salvation
00:28:21.620 and worth saving.
00:28:23.500 So it's Christmas Eve.
00:28:24.700 The darkness is real,
00:28:26.720 but so is of a light.
00:28:28.760 And I tend to be an optimist.
00:28:30.600 I went to the
00:28:31.440 Turning Point USA
00:28:33.280 America Fest
00:28:34.720 Fest 2025
00:28:36.840 in Phoenix,
00:28:39.100 and it was really heartening
00:28:41.260 to see
00:28:42.120 30,000
00:28:43.360 pro-Constitution,
00:28:46.360 pro-freedom,
00:28:47.880 pro-free speech,
00:28:49.640 pro-U.S. Constitution,
00:28:51.480 as I say,
00:28:52.640 pro-God
00:28:54.200 young people
00:28:55.280 who were very,
00:28:57.140 very,
00:28:57.560 very engaged.
00:29:00.000 And I met
00:29:01.800 a lot of them.
00:29:02.580 I posed for a lot of
00:29:03.700 selfies,
00:29:04.460 which I always do.
00:29:07.420 You know,
00:29:07.620 I was going through,
00:29:10.500 I guess it was
00:29:11.080 National Airport then
00:29:12.220 with President Richard Nixon.
00:29:13.760 I was working for him
00:29:14.580 in his post-presidential years.
00:29:16.500 He had been in Washington
00:29:17.940 for a series of meetings.
00:29:20.300 He would take a suite
00:29:21.480 at One Washington Circle,
00:29:23.200 which is a very
00:29:23.840 low visibility,
00:29:27.300 but very nice hotel.
00:29:28.200 He would take a suite
00:29:29.220 and congressmen
00:29:30.500 and senators
00:29:31.040 and other cabinet members,
00:29:33.160 both Republicans
00:29:33.840 and Democrats,
00:29:34.680 would come in
00:29:35.220 for talks
00:29:36.260 with the old man.
00:29:38.060 Tony Quelo,
00:29:39.020 who was a Democrat leader
00:29:40.620 from Northern California,
00:29:41.740 a very powerful
00:29:42.300 House Democrat
00:29:43.020 among those
00:29:44.160 who came by
00:29:44.800 for foreign policy advice.
00:29:47.580 Senator Bob Dole,
00:29:49.380 Senator Howard Baker,
00:29:51.340 but many in the administration
00:29:54.180 would quietly come by.
00:29:56.520 So Nixon and I
00:29:57.480 were leaving,
00:29:58.200 to fly back to New York.
00:30:00.220 I was carrying his briefcase
00:30:01.400 through National Airport
00:30:04.660 and these are the days
00:30:06.700 before you had TSA.
00:30:08.100 So it was the old
00:30:09.100 Eastern Shuttle.
00:30:10.100 You just walked up
00:30:11.020 and you bought your ticket
00:30:12.320 right there.
00:30:13.500 If a plane was full,
00:30:14.880 they theoretically rolled out
00:30:16.200 yet another plane.
00:30:17.160 They flew on the hour.
00:30:19.240 Eastern Airlines
00:30:19.900 would later be bought
00:30:20.920 by Donald Trump
00:30:21.580 and become Trump Airlines
00:30:22.840 and it made him
00:30:24.200 quite a pretty penny
00:30:25.240 before he ultimately
00:30:26.240 sold it.
00:30:26.920 Anyway,
00:30:27.640 a very large woman
00:30:28.740 stepped up to us
00:30:29.640 and said,
00:30:30.420 oh, Mr. Nixon,
00:30:31.900 you are my favorite president.
00:30:33.560 I love you.
00:30:34.300 Can I get your autograph?
00:30:36.040 And they were calling
00:30:36.920 our plane.
00:30:37.660 I'm starting to sweat
00:30:38.840 because I know
00:30:39.420 we're late for the gate
00:30:40.420 and we're supposed
00:30:41.720 to be boarding,
00:30:42.340 but Nixon orders me
00:30:43.460 to put down
00:30:44.240 his briefcase
00:30:46.160 and he has an engaging
00:30:47.540 conversation with this woman.
00:30:49.540 He asks her where she's from.
00:30:50.880 She says she's from Iowa
00:30:53.820 and she mentions
00:30:59.140 that she's from Davenport
00:31:00.380 and Nixon says,
00:31:03.140 oh, Davenport, Iowa.
00:31:04.080 I was there in 1956.
00:31:05.660 I was running
00:31:06.560 for vice president.
00:31:08.400 I think that was
00:31:08.840 the last time
00:31:09.320 I was in Davenport.
00:31:10.140 I spoke at a rally
00:31:15.260 at, this is euphemistic,
00:31:17.160 but Jackson's Restaurant
00:31:18.280 on Main Street.
00:31:19.240 I think you were there.
00:31:20.520 She says,
00:31:20.980 I was there.
00:31:21.760 I was in the front row.
00:31:23.800 And of course Nixon said,
00:31:24.560 I knew I recognized you.
00:31:26.700 And of course,
00:31:27.460 I'm really beginning to sweat
00:31:28.620 because I think
00:31:29.020 we're going to miss our flight.
00:31:30.620 Anyway,
00:31:30.880 he signs her a florid autograph
00:31:33.880 and we run to make the plane,
00:31:36.640 making it by seconds.
00:31:37.600 And I said,
00:31:37.980 Mr. President,
00:31:38.480 why did you stop
00:31:39.940 and talk to that woman
00:31:43.280 when we almost missed
00:31:45.220 this flight?
00:31:45.840 And he said,
00:31:46.400 never, ever turn down
00:31:48.820 a request for an autograph
00:31:50.400 because if you do,
00:31:52.340 when they go back
00:31:53.400 to Pocatello,
00:31:54.980 they tell all
00:31:56.320 of their friends,
00:31:57.140 boy, I met that
00:31:58.000 Richard Nixon
00:31:58.940 and he is really
00:32:00.000 one big a-hole.
00:32:02.360 So I've always taken
00:32:03.540 that to heart
00:32:05.140 when people ask me
00:32:06.560 for an autograph
00:32:07.520 or a selfie
00:32:08.680 and it happens
00:32:10.880 almost every day.
00:32:11.860 I have as many detractors,
00:32:13.200 of course,
00:32:13.580 who want to call me names,
00:32:15.760 but you kind of get used to that,
00:32:18.340 goes with the territory,
00:32:20.760 often have to travel
00:32:22.020 with paid security,
00:32:23.500 which is unfortunate,
00:32:24.420 but the left
00:32:25.540 has become increasingly
00:32:27.020 unhinged in this country.
00:32:30.480 And there are elements,
00:32:32.180 as we can see,
00:32:33.140 Antifa, BLM,
00:32:34.360 many of them funded
00:32:35.160 by our own tax dollars,
00:32:36.400 as it turns out,
00:32:37.600 who are preparing
00:32:38.700 to promulgate for violence.
00:32:41.160 Like General Flynn,
00:32:42.260 I'm very concerned
00:32:43.140 when six former
00:32:44.660 intelligence assets
00:32:45.800 who happen to also
00:32:46.600 be veterans
00:32:47.300 begin telling our
00:32:49.100 men and women
00:32:50.020 in uniform
00:32:51.340 serving in the military
00:32:52.860 that they should not
00:32:53.940 and don't have to
00:32:54.800 obey orders
00:32:55.940 from the commander-in-chief.
00:32:57.120 That is treasonous,
00:32:59.020 in my opinion,
00:33:00.000 but is an effort
00:33:01.060 to remove
00:33:01.820 civilian control
00:33:03.220 from our government.
00:33:05.600 It's not coincidental
00:33:07.120 that the senator
00:33:10.480 here suggests
00:33:11.800 that a National Guardsman
00:33:13.080 will be shot.
00:33:14.020 Senator Slotkin
00:33:15.260 from Michigan
00:33:15.940 predicts
00:33:17.000 that a National Guardsman
00:33:18.240 will be shot and killed.
00:33:20.040 And then two weeks later,
00:33:21.320 quite sadly,
00:33:22.260 that exact thing happens
00:33:23.560 in D.C.,
00:33:24.540 where once again,
00:33:25.680 crime rates continue
00:33:26.740 to go down
00:33:27.720 as the president
00:33:29.560 has deployed
00:33:32.560 the National Guard.
00:33:34.300 It remains to be seen
00:33:35.460 now we have
00:33:36.020 a new decision
00:33:36.920 by a federal judge
00:33:38.080 saying that
00:33:38.940 the president's decision
00:33:40.000 to deploy
00:33:40.560 the National Guard
00:33:41.380 in Chicago
00:33:41.940 is illegal.
00:33:44.080 This is,
00:33:44.900 once again,
00:33:45.660 liberal,
00:33:46.760 authoritarian judges
00:33:49.020 overreaching
00:33:50.020 their authority
00:33:50.800 to retard
00:33:52.460 the efforts
00:33:53.800 by the executive branch
00:33:55.080 to fulfill
00:33:55.600 their responsibilities.
00:33:57.420 This court ruling,
00:33:58.360 this is a Supreme Court ruling,
00:33:59.720 which I believe
00:34:00.420 is technically wrong.
00:34:02.840 Liberals complain constantly
00:34:04.000 the court's too conservative.
00:34:05.680 I think the court,
00:34:06.880 on many occasions,
00:34:08.060 is too liberal.
00:34:10.920 In the meantime,
00:34:12.700 over at Politico,
00:34:14.500 which, by the way,
00:34:15.160 is not a news organization
00:34:17.120 or a journalistic operation,
00:34:19.720 it's essentially
00:34:20.280 talking heads
00:34:22.000 and a mouthpiece
00:34:22.760 for the radical left
00:34:23.860 and the Democrats,
00:34:24.960 they've got their knickers
00:34:26.240 in a twist
00:34:26.840 because they say
00:34:27.660 that conservatives
00:34:28.780 are taking over Christmas.
00:34:31.560 We'll find out more
00:34:32.280 about that
00:34:32.780 on the other side.
00:34:33.640 You're listening to
00:34:34.080 The Stone Zone.
00:34:34.700 I'm Roger Stone.
00:34:36.280 Please,
00:34:36.800 don't go away.
00:34:41.520 The Stone Zone.
00:34:43.560 Entertaining and informative
00:34:45.360 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.
00:34:48.580 Welcome back
00:34:49.720 to The Stone Zone.
00:34:51.180 I'm Roger Stone
00:34:52.280 on this Christmas Eve.
00:34:53.820 Christmas is rapidly emerging
00:34:56.080 as the new front line
00:34:57.280 in Europe's culture wars
00:34:58.800 as conservative
00:35:00.200 and nationalist parties
00:35:01.360 push back against
00:35:02.320 what they see
00:35:03.100 as decades
00:35:04.060 of secular erasure
00:35:05.480 and cultural surrender.
00:35:07.640 This has made
00:35:08.440 the fake news media merchants
00:35:09.900 over at Politico
00:35:11.140 very nervous
00:35:12.020 as they've accused
00:35:13.420 the far right
00:35:14.580 of stealing Christmas.
00:35:16.440 Across Europe,
00:35:17.360 Christmas is being reclaimed
00:35:18.620 not merely
00:35:19.220 as a religious observance
00:35:20.920 but as a symbol
00:35:21.860 of Western heritage,
00:35:23.460 national identity
00:35:24.180 and continuity,
00:35:25.540 values that many voters
00:35:26.840 believe are under
00:35:27.740 sustained attack
00:35:28.600 both in Europe
00:35:29.320 and in this country.
00:35:30.940 This debate,
00:35:31.620 my opinion,
00:35:32.120 mirrors the arguments
00:35:33.120 long familiar to America.
00:35:34.580 President Trump
00:35:35.280 famously declared
00:35:36.800 that he had brought back
00:35:38.040 saying Merry Christmas
00:35:39.020 which of course
00:35:39.660 he did
00:35:40.520 as it was being replaced
00:35:42.460 by the soulless,
00:35:44.800 sanitized,
00:35:45.900 politically correct term
00:35:47.220 Happy Holidays.
00:35:49.220 That same instinct
00:35:50.180 is now taking root
00:35:51.260 in Europe
00:35:51.640 where parties
00:35:52.300 once focused
00:35:53.120 narrowly on immigration
00:35:54.740 or crime
00:35:55.340 are increasingly beginning
00:35:56.880 to defend
00:35:57.540 Christian traditions
00:35:58.500 as markers
00:35:59.700 of civilization.
00:36:00.520 they have to cheat
00:36:02.620 to stop a conservative
00:36:04.340 from being elected
00:36:05.720 in France.
00:36:07.000 They have to use
00:36:08.080 a combination
00:36:08.620 of lawfare
00:36:09.500 and cheating.
00:36:11.300 Italy has
00:36:12.340 a pro-nationalist
00:36:14.680 prime minister
00:36:15.860 Georgia Maloney
00:36:17.800 who has unapologetically
00:36:19.940 defended
00:36:20.500 nativity scenes
00:36:21.440 at crucifixes
00:36:22.260 in schools,
00:36:23.360 Christmas language
00:36:24.080 and public life
00:36:25.280 and asked
00:36:26.560 how can my culture
00:36:27.940 offend you.
00:36:29.420 You have strong
00:36:31.280 pro-Christian
00:36:32.480 governments
00:36:33.880 in Hungary
00:36:34.600 in Romania
00:36:35.420 in Poland
00:36:37.060 but it's absolutely
00:36:39.260 clear that
00:36:39.900 in both France
00:36:40.800 and Germany
00:36:41.880 free speech
00:36:43.020 including
00:36:44.220 saying great things
00:36:45.980 about the tradition
00:36:47.380 of Christmas
00:36:47.980 are under attack.
00:36:51.320 It's interesting
00:36:52.260 in Italy
00:36:52.820 the president's
00:36:54.020 part of the
00:36:54.500 Brothers of Italy
00:36:55.040 has turned that message
00:36:56.140 into a spectacle
00:36:57.560 with a massive
00:36:58.420 Christmas festival
00:36:59.360 outside of Rome's
00:37:00.900 Castel San Angelo
00:37:02.760 complete with
00:37:03.980 Santa skating
00:37:05.020 patriotic symbolism.
00:37:06.860 Similar battles
00:37:07.640 over Christmas
00:37:08.500 are unfolding
00:37:09.200 everywhere.
00:37:09.700 France's
00:37:10.180 national rally
00:37:11.420 Spain's
00:37:12.760 Vox
00:37:13.300 and Germany's
00:37:14.120 alternative for Germany
00:37:15.320 have all criticized
00:37:16.620 the efforts
00:37:17.340 to replace
00:37:17.960 this Christian
00:37:19.140 and Christmas
00:37:19.920 imagery
00:37:20.540 with some kind
00:37:22.140 of vague
00:37:22.700 holiday season
00:37:24.420 language.
00:37:26.160 We have to remember
00:37:27.240 that Christianity
00:37:27.800 functions as a culture.
00:37:30.120 It's a shared
00:37:31.460 inheritance
00:37:32.120 defining
00:37:32.660 who we are
00:37:34.080 as a nation
00:37:34.760 and where
00:37:35.680 we came from.
00:37:37.140 After left-wing
00:37:38.320 discomfort
00:37:38.900 with religion
00:37:39.760 and public life
00:37:40.660 voters in Europe
00:37:42.220 and the United States
00:37:43.460 are responding
00:37:44.180 to leaders
00:37:44.860 willing to stand up
00:37:46.340 and defend
00:37:47.040 our cultural
00:37:48.000 traditions
00:37:48.600 without apology.
00:37:50.580 The nations
00:37:51.100 of Europe
00:37:51.840 are Christian
00:37:53.500 nations
00:37:53.960 at their very
00:37:54.640 core
00:37:55.060 as is America.
00:37:57.000 This is the
00:37:57.540 common heritage
00:37:58.620 I believe
00:37:59.340 we must all
00:38:00.660 defend
00:38:01.260 particularly
00:38:01.740 at this
00:38:02.380 time of year.
00:38:04.300 Meanwhile
00:38:04.740 abortion clinic
00:38:05.860 workers across
00:38:06.540 the country
00:38:06.940 once again
00:38:07.460 receiving an
00:38:08.120 unexpected
00:38:08.740 Christmas message
00:38:10.020 I love this
00:38:10.720 not a
00:38:11.560 message of
00:38:12.880 protest
00:38:13.200 but a message
00:38:14.120 of prayer
00:38:14.720 compassion
00:38:15.600 and an open
00:38:16.820 door to
00:38:17.540 a different
00:38:18.160 life
00:38:18.540 this holiday
00:38:19.080 season
00:38:19.660 religious
00:38:20.560 sisters
00:38:21.060 from across
00:38:21.700 the Catholic
00:38:22.200 Church
00:38:22.540 have partnered
00:38:23.600 with
00:38:24.260 and then
00:38:25.020 there were
00:38:25.600 none
00:38:26.000 a pro-life
00:38:26.780 organization
00:38:27.440 that helps
00:38:28.460 abortion clinic
00:38:29.480 employees
00:38:30.040 leave that
00:38:30.800 industry
00:38:31.240 and transition
00:38:32.420 into life
00:38:33.440 affirming
00:38:34.160 careers.
00:38:35.640 Look I was
00:38:36.520 once a pro-choice
00:38:38.060 or I should say
00:38:38.920 pro-legal abortion
00:38:40.320 because as a
00:38:41.380 libertarian I
00:38:42.120 thought the
00:38:42.520 government should
00:38:43.140 not impose
00:38:44.140 that decision
00:38:44.840 on the
00:38:45.260 individual woman
00:38:46.400 but with
00:38:47.360 the birth
00:38:47.900 of my
00:38:48.360 first
00:38:48.820 great
00:38:49.340 god
00:38:49.860 son
00:38:50.240 grandson
00:38:50.700 pardon me
00:38:51.200 my first
00:38:51.600 great
00:38:51.820 grandson
00:38:52.720 I have
00:38:54.360 changed my
00:38:55.080 views and I
00:38:55.660 now consider
00:38:56.240 myself to be
00:38:57.100 strongly pro-life
00:38:59.000 although like
00:38:59.580 Ronald Reagan
00:39:00.180 and Donald Trump
00:39:01.400 I do accept the
00:39:02.380 exceptions for
00:39:03.820 rape and incest
00:39:05.100 it's an issue
00:39:06.300 that I have
00:39:07.040 struggled with
00:39:07.740 I respect the
00:39:08.440 views of those
00:39:09.120 who disagree
00:39:10.400 with me
00:39:10.940 but I've had
00:39:11.460 my own
00:39:11.900 odyssey on
00:39:12.780 this issue
00:39:13.780 and I salute
00:39:15.960 the fact that
00:39:17.020 the new Pope
00:39:17.740 although I think
00:39:18.720 he's wrong about
00:39:19.460 a lot of things
00:39:20.160 has remained
00:39:20.780 stoutly pro-life
00:39:22.400 something that I
00:39:24.200 as a restored
00:39:26.600 Catholic can
00:39:27.580 now appreciate
00:39:29.060 it is in that
00:39:31.720 keeping that
00:39:32.700 I'm excited about
00:39:34.060 seeing my entire
00:39:35.000 family for this
00:39:36.140 great Christmas
00:39:37.160 gathering
00:39:37.860 and I want to
00:39:38.980 wish you and
00:39:39.900 your family
00:39:40.720 and your
00:39:41.620 loved ones
00:39:42.220 and your
00:39:42.760 circle
00:39:43.180 the very
00:39:44.600 very best
00:39:45.500 for the
00:39:47.100 Christmas
00:39:47.460 Buno Natal
00:39:48.800 tutti
00:39:49.340 as we say
00:39:50.340 in my family
00:39:50.980 God bless you
00:39:51.980 until we meet
00:39:52.760 again
00:39:53.100 thanks for
00:39:54.520 listening to
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00:40:32.440 question Bob
00:40:33.140 everyone's asking
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00:40:35.760 an artificial
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