00:01:57.820Well, former director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, the former four-term congresswoman,
00:02:03.980lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, where she saw combat and appointed by President
00:02:11.040Donald Trump as the director of national intelligence, was seen entering the White House on September
00:02:16.48028th, just months after she resigned from her position to care for her beloved husband,
00:02:21.800Abraham after his rare blood cancer diagnosis. Gabbard is, in my opinion, amongst President
00:02:28.380Trump's very best appointees in either term, having saved Americans almost $700 million per
00:02:34.280year in cuts that she made to the ODNI budget while serving as its director. But more importantly,
00:02:42.180she declassified the Russian collusion and impeachment conspiracy documents. She referred
00:02:47.760the Russiagate criminals, those in Obama's cabal who sought to remove Donald Trump from office
00:02:54.360based on a completely fabricated narrative to the Department of Justice for prosecution. She
00:03:00.320spearheaded the investigation into voter fraud in Georgia. She investigated the true dark origins of
00:03:07.160COVID-19. She fought the CIA to declassify hidden JFK assassination documents, as well as documents
00:03:15.800pertaining to the mind control program MKUltra, which the CIA has long hidden.
00:03:23.020She revoked the security clearances from 37 officials,
00:03:26.820most of them Russia hoaxers, Biden-Obama holdovers, and impeachment letter signers.
00:03:32.980She fired officials who contradicted Trump on the question of Venezuelan gangs.
00:03:37.860She moved the CIA's in-Q-Tel under ODNI oversight for greater accountability.
00:03:43.340She uncovered Ukrainian government's plot to illegally reroute hundreds of millions of dollars, taxpayer dollars, to Joe Biden's 2024 campaign.
00:03:54.560She launched the declassification efforts to expose the truth about unidentified flying objects.
00:04:01.020She slashed the bloated intel bureaucracy, as I said, by $700 million.0.99
00:04:05.960And she exposed the intelligence community's political weaponization.
00:04:11.280I would also add to that she uncovered the truth about Amelia Earhart, and among those that she revoked the security clearances for were well-known swamp creatures like Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Anthony Blinken, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissman, Norm Eisen, and many others.
00:04:32.800I have to say that in my 50-year experience in American politics, I have never been more impressed with the extraordinary political talents and skills of Tulsi Gabbard.
00:04:43.940She is sure-footed. She is confident. She's articulate.
00:04:49.220And I think those who think she's done are kidding themselves. Her political career is just beginning.
00:04:55.680She was, of course, a four-term Democrat congresswoman from Hawaii.
00:05:00.800Hawaii. She left the Democrat Party, or more precisely, the Democrat Party left her. She0.96
00:05:07.080initially became an independent. Then she decided to support the candidacy of Donald Trump for a
00:05:12.620return to the White House, ultimately joining the party of Lincoln and becoming a Republican.
00:05:19.100I don't know specifically what she was doing at the White House. I haven't had a chance to catch
00:05:23.720up with her. Unlikely that she flew all the way from Austin, Texas, where she's currently living,
00:05:30.080to Washington just to visit old friends, which is what she told the media. We're going to keep
00:05:36.300tuned into this, but I predict right here and now the political career of Tulsi Gabbard is
00:05:41.760just beginning. And I think she has an extraordinarily important role to play
00:05:46.460in America's political future. It's also being reported in mainstream outlets today that the
00:05:52.720Canadian Prime Minister, Mark Carney, is allegedly being considered for a Nobel Peace Prize
00:05:58.420due to his ungrateful attacks on the United States and President Donald Trump.
00:06:03.520Carney briefly became the favorite Monday for the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize on Cauchy.
00:06:09.000That's one of those U.S.-based prediction websites where traders on exchange put his chances at 14%.
00:06:16.140His odds later fell, illustrating the highly speculative nature of the wagering and this type of website.
00:06:23.180Actually, I find the idea of giving him a Nobel Peace Prize quite laughable,
00:06:26.840especially considering the circumstances. For example, President Donald Trump negotiated the
00:06:31.540end of physical conflict between India and Pakistan, a conflict that was headed for
00:06:36.460hot war prior to his election. That conflict involved India with a population of 1.4 billion
00:06:43.560people and Pakistan with a population of 251 million people, which could have resulted in
00:06:49.640the deaths of tens of millions of people. That conflict was negotiated to end and was stopped
00:06:55.140by President Donald Trump. Iran, the greatest threat to the civilized world, was weeks away0.95
00:07:01.120from establishing nuclear weapons capable of blithering any city on earth with the click1.00
00:07:06.200of a button. They actually bragged about having enough enriched uranium to build either seven or
00:07:12.140eleven nuclear bombs at the negotiating table. They were stopped through the courage of President
00:07:18.280Donald Trump. The Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda were waging war in the eastern Congo
00:07:25.020for decades prior to Trump's election,
00:13:26.600Meanwhile, the Senate Judiciary Committee finally put some concrete numbers on Special Counsel Jack Smith's extensive paper trail.
00:13:33.900Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley said that the special counsel obtained at least
00:13:40.3604,782 personal contribution checks written to Trump or aligned groups between 2019 and 2023.
00:13:50.580Most of these were from small dollar donors in all 50 states carrying their names, addresses,
00:13:56.000bank account numbers, routing numbers, and signatures. Smith acknowledged the financial
00:14:00.620records, but he defended the subpoenas as necessary to investigate the January 6th insurrection that
00:14:06.980wasn't. A 2023 archives demand covering 87 first-term White House telephones also swept in
00:14:15.400messages involving nearly 50 journalists at Fox, the Federalists, CNN, CBS, Reuters, the Associated
00:14:23.040Press, and the Washington Post. Again, Smith admitted his subpoenas sought communications
00:14:28.640about advertising purchases at Fox because he said the buys were relevant to alleged false
00:14:34.480statements. In other words, Smith was acting out as an Orwellian truth commissar, so much for the
00:14:41.000First Amendment or free speech. Senator Grassley's Judiciary Committee now wants the filtering rules
00:14:46.020that were supposed to protect the legislative privilege and press communications. Smith
00:14:50.540incredibly denies any partisan motive in his witch hunt. That denial does not erase the record.
00:14:56.700A prosecutor who harvests the records of thousands of donors' checks in a network's advertising file has mapped who paid and who bought time is way overreaching their authority and proves that the Arctic Frost investigation designed to destroy President Donald Trump is one of the most outrageous abuses of power and political dirty tricks in American history.
00:15:20.000I'm Roger Stone. Don't go away. You're in the Stone Zone, and I'll be right back.
00:15:24.320This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:15:28.040He likes politics and he's a professional at the highest level.
00:15:54.320this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:16:05.220political minds roger stone was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:16:09.900political analyst now get in the zone it's the stone zone here's roger stone welcome back into
00:16:18.640the Stone Zone. I'm your host, Roger Stone. Vice President J.D. Vance, who I met with last week,
00:16:25.520said that he and President Trump have thought through, in obsessive detail, a path to pass the
00:16:30.920Save America Act, which would require proof of citizenship and valid identification to register
00:16:37.540for federal elections and would limit mail ballots to illness, disability, military service, or travel.
00:16:45.540In the scenario the vice president described, 50 Republican senators plus the vice president could dismiss the parliamentarian, set aside the filibuster rule, and pass the bill.
00:16:56.440Vance wanted to attempt it months ago but concluded the votes were not there.
00:17:00.200He's now interested in winning the battle by replacing mediocre Republican senators, who seem rather gutless, with ones who are prepared to hold the line.
00:17:09.200The Save America Act would make it difficult for future presidents, heaven forbid if one of them is a leftist, to devastate election integrity.
00:17:17.560This is legislation that is supported by an overwhelming majority of Americans.
00:17:22.040Most of the polls I've seen show support for the Save America Act in the high 80s.
00:17:27.920Wargaming this plan is an admission that the President-Senate Caucus will not do the job, sadly.
00:17:34.280RINO senators have blown the opportunity to effectuate the MAGA agenda.
00:17:39.240So the way I see it, this November is a test of whether the Senate can be rebuilt into a body that will acquire a citizen's papers before it counts a federal ballot.
00:17:48.700It's a pretty simple proposition. It's not radical. It's not racist. It's just common sense.
00:17:54.140Vice President Vance named the obstacle.
00:17:56.380The remedy is the roster of Republicans. Voters must understand the difference between MAGA Republicans and establishment RINO traitors.
00:18:04.320If they see them as one and the same, well, the midterms could be referendum against the RINOs, and America first could be caught in an electoral crossfire.
00:18:13.240The tragic outcome must be avoided at all costs.0.97
00:18:16.300On the other hand, as a veteran of 50 years in the political wars of the United States, I'm not prepared to throw in the towels on these midterm elections.
00:18:27.420And with roughly a month to go before the elections, anyone who actually firmly predicts the outcome of either the House or the Senate elections really doesn't understand American politics.
00:18:38.980Donald Trump is hitting the road for 32 straight days.
00:18:43.120I think he's the best campaigner in Republican Party history since perhaps Teddy Roosevelt.
00:18:48.680And he's always been very good at getting the low probability voters out to vote, particularly when he himself is not on the ballot.
00:19:00.000Republicans also maintain an extraordinary financial advantage over the Democrats.
00:19:05.380I think that's going to continue to show.
00:19:07.260If you look at the polling, and remember, not all polling is legitimate, but much of the polling you see online is if the sample size is large enough and properly drawn, if the questions are truly written in a neutral and unbiased way, and they are listed in a proper order, then some of this polling can be useful.
00:19:25.800In every case, Republicans are either leading or they're within the margin of error in the 35 key seats that will decide the outcome of the control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
00:19:37.940Those who are prepared to throw in the towel right now, well, the president calls them panicans.
00:19:44.300The House and the Senate are up for grabs, but that is the historical norm.
00:19:49.020The party in power has always lost seats in both houses in the midterm elections.
00:19:54.000The question is whether the Republicans can maintain control, and that is still an open question.
00:20:00.060If you want to get an objective view of the midterm elections, you're in the right place.
00:20:04.540Thanks for joining us today on The Stone Zone.
00:20:06.380Don't go away, because we'll be right back with more on the political side.
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00:20:24.000this is the stone zone with roger stone roger stone who's a very very one of the smartest
00:20:32.660political minds roger stone was persecuted people forget he's actually a brilliant brilliant
00:20:37.340political analyst now get him his own it's the stone zone here's roger stone this is roger stone
00:20:46.260and you're back in the stone zone thanks for joining us the supreme court has lifted a lower
00:20:52.140court restriction and permitted the Department of Homeland Security, for now, to deport certain
00:20:57.660migrants to countries other than their nations of origin without the advanced process a district
00:21:02.720judge had previously imposed. More than 25,000 third-country removals have already been carried
00:21:09.140out, mostly to Mexico, with other set to destinations that have included South Sudan
00:21:14.380and Uganda. The administration argues the tool is indispensable when a home government will not
00:21:20.080accept its own nationals. Each person must receive notice and a chance to claim the receiving country
00:21:27.180would expose them to torture or persecution. The three liberal justices, of course, predictably
00:21:32.460dissented on this decision. Argument on the merit is set for December. So this is a temporary order.
00:21:39.120The order is an emergency stay, not a final blessing of what seems to me to be a common
00:21:43.980sense policy. But it will not allow liberal lawfare to interfere with the enforcement of
00:21:48.560immigration law, at least for the time being. A country that cannot send a deportee anywhere0.70
00:21:54.060except a homeland that refuses to take them has no real removal power. The system is meant to0.56
00:22:00.820protect Americans, not illegals, who by definition have no constitutional rights. This is something0.98
00:22:06.900those on the left have a hard time understanding. The Trump administration, in my view, has been
00:22:11.260more than fair. The flights sending illegals out of the country will continue until further notice.0.98
00:22:16.420That's the good news from this decision.
00:22:19.680Beyond the White House ballroom, the administration is pursuing monument restoration, a national sculpture garden, a vast proposed triumphal arc, alterations around Lafayette Square, and the renaming of several federal institutions.
00:22:35.120Now, presidents have historically used the city's fabric to declare what the country thinks it is, from Lafant's plan to build the city beautiful builders who put temples on the mall.
00:22:45.540President Trump is upholding that tradition and reversing the decay that has turned Washington, D.C. into a drab, lifeless slab, rather than the once aesthetically pleasing metropolis it was before and will be again.
00:23:00.340Architecture is policy by other means.
00:23:03.660A capital looks like a conference center will govern like one.
00:23:07.040A capital that restores its monuments and raises an arch is announcing its permanence.
00:23:12.260That taste, of course, can always be argued, but the ambition should not be sneered as simply one of vanity.
00:23:19.060If the arch is built and the sculptures stand, the administration will have left a map of self-conception in marble.
00:24:59.640to reverse the demographic avalanche that threatens America's future.
00:25:04.620Trump administration's resolve on immigration has been tested.0.51
00:25:08.300And frankly, they're passing that test with flying cultures, despite the efforts by activist judges overreaching their authority, despite the decisions by the voters of America.
00:25:20.680Meanwhile, the United States is ending the Iraq phase of Operation Inherent Resolve.
00:25:25.680That's the counter-ISIS mission that brought American forces back in 2014, as Baghdad assumes primary internal security duties and the two capital shifts towards a bilateral defense relation.
00:25:39.220Operation Iraqi Freedom resulted in the deaths of 4,418 American service members and wounded nearly 32,000, according to the Defense Department casualty figures I looked at only this morning.
00:25:54.200Broader tallies that fold in direct spending, veterans' care, interest, and related Iraqi Syria costs run into the trillions.
00:26:02.640ISIS remains and Iran-aligned militias remain on the ground, but have largely been devastating.0.71
00:26:10.020The mission has been accomplished in the best possible way.
00:26:12.380There is no justification for permanent U.S. occupation in Iraq, and there's no reason to leave American troops on the ground.
00:26:23.480Two decades of war produced a partner army that can now hold most of its own cities.
00:26:28.640But the price tag was not worth it in the end, in my view.
00:26:31.300We spilled blood and treasure on an intervention that enriched defense contractors' expense of our heroes.0.82
00:26:37.460Iran has been devastated and can no longer fill the vacuum on the ground, so it's time to leave.0.92
00:26:43.320If it cuts into profits from multinational corporations, so be it.
00:26:47.760The lives of American servicemen are more important than artificially inflating the GDP numbers.
00:26:53.480in my view. Meanwhile, Iran's currency crashed past 2.5 trillion rials to the dollar on Tuesday,
00:27:02.560a fresh record after plummeting 2.4 million the day before and losing roughly 1.7 million before
00:27:09.660the war opened this past February. President says the regime is doing very poorly, is losing badly
00:27:15.700and will give up even has not done so yet. He noted that he offered them nothing but Iran will
00:27:21.320not have a nuclear weapon, which is what this is all about. I remember going to New Hampshire with
00:27:26.480President Donald Trump way back in 1988, and in his remarks to the Portsmouth, New Hampshire
00:27:31.600Chamber of Commerce luncheon, he said even then that Iran can never be allowed to have a nuclear
00:27:39.040device. So those who are pretending that this is a new position on his part or inconsistent with
00:27:44.540what he ran in in the last election doesn't really understand the historical record. In the meantime,
00:27:50.560Iran won't have that nuclear weapon, and more oil has moved through the Strait of Harmouz in recent days than at any point in a recorded stretch.
00:27:58.940Iran has lost control of the Strait. Negotiations continue through Qatar, but President Trump's hardball position shows that he will not blink first.
00:28:07.900Meanwhile, Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessett, who I think is among President Trump's very best appointees,
00:28:13.720is tightening the economic screws on the Iranian regime,
00:28:18.440making it harder and harder for them to stay afloat.
00:28:21.800The death of the Iranian rial, that is their unit of money,
00:28:26.540is the price of a blockade that is now actively functioning.0.65
00:28:30.340It shows that President Trump's economic isolation measures are undeniably effective.
00:28:35.760Iran has been isolated from both China and Russia.
00:28:38.360People are suffering not because of President Trump,0.97
00:28:41.120but because of their rogue Islamic terror regime that's essentially holding them hostage.0.98
00:28:46.540President Trump is all in when it comes to Iran.0.71
00:28:49.380He will not blink. The stakes are high.
00:28:52.020Oil prices have risen because of our military effort in Iran.
00:28:57.200But their ability to function as a regime and to develop a nuclear weapon has, in fact, been decimated.
00:29:03.000The tradeoffs will be more than worth it after President Trump ultimately prevails.0.96
00:29:06.520the Iranians will ultimately fold, and President Trump will inevitably be vindicated when all is said and done.0.96
00:29:12.940What this entire thing proves is that Donald Trump recognized that doing the right thing was more important than being popular.0.65
00:29:21.420He understands, had he taken no action, that gas prices, which were hitting record lows in his first term in office,
00:29:28.820food prices, which were coming down sharply, as well as housing prices, would be better today.0.52
00:29:35.480He's chosen to be remembered by history as a guy who did what was right and saved the world from nuclear holocaust rather than take out the easy way for a simple election.0.80
00:29:47.140We're all praying for a swift end to this ordeal.
00:29:51.540But in the meantime, Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is a statesman prepared to be unpopular if that's what it takes, perhaps even to lose a midterm election.
00:30:00.580Although I said earlier, I don't concede that by any means.0.84
00:30:04.280by standing up for the principle that the radical lunatics in Iran
00:30:09.960can never be allowed to have a nuclear weapon.
00:30:14.280American restrictions on selected Canadian alcoholic beverages,
00:30:17.760daily products including whey, and large motorcycles took effect this week.
00:30:21.920Another turn in a confrontation already marked by 50% tariffs
00:30:25.700and attempted retaliation from the whiny, aggrieved Canadian government I spoke about earlier.
00:30:31.400President Trump argues that Canada has locked American producers out of protected dairy markets
00:30:36.200and that provincial governments have punished American spirits.
00:30:39.660Prime Minister Mark Carney says that Canada will defend its industries
00:30:42.720and has described the newest measures as manageable.
00:30:46.860In Ontario, as many as 500 Stelco workers face layoffs amid weaker steel demand.
00:30:55.080Toronto blames the tariffs, but Canada must come to terms
00:30:58.220that they rely on us far more than we rely on them.
00:31:02.360That means President Trump has all the cards.
00:31:05.400The United States and Mexico candidate framework is being tested
00:31:08.320in the only language trade agreements ultimately obey.
00:35:54.240This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
00:35:57.860Roger Stone, who is a very, very, one of the smartest political minds.
00:36:01.520Roger Stone was persecuted. People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
00:36:05.760Now, get in the zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone.
00:36:12.320Welcome back to the Stone Zone. Thanks again for joining us.
00:36:16.540The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, said that the National Security Agency and military cyber units will defend election systems against foreign interference this November.
00:36:27.740Those units have supported election security before, by the way.
00:36:30.820The announcement lands after the administration dismantles much of the CSA's election security apparatus, which proved to be rubber-stamped for widespread fraud after the 2020 presidential election.
00:36:44.780Protecting networks from a foreign service is a military and intelligence task.
00:36:49.800Administering election is a state task, but states cannot be given free reign to commit fraud either.0.57
00:36:55.900Foreign malware on a voter registration server is, by definition, a hostile act.
00:37:01.760The Russians are doing it, so is China, Iran, and other adversarial nations.
00:37:06.180The National Security Agency can be used in this capacity rather than using dragnet surveillance against the people of the United States.
00:37:14.620This is not about seizing control of elections.
00:37:17.840When November is clean of foreign intrusion, it will be clear that Secretary Hegseth made the right decision.
00:37:23.520The states must carry their weight, too. They must administer elections so that they cannot be manipulated by non-foreign malignant actors such as the NGO network set up by the likes of George Soros and others.
00:37:37.100They won't be able to scapegoat foreigners anymore if widespread anomalies persist.
00:37:43.040I think Secretary of War Pete Hegseth should be applauded for this brave and courageous decision to ensure that our upcoming elections are free, fair and honest.
00:37:54.380Meanwhile, the largest union at the Environmental Protection Agency has sued the EPA Director Lee Zeldin over the abolition of its collective bargaining agreement, a pact covering more than 8,000 workers.
00:38:07.100The union claimed the contract was ended to silence dissent, but the administration answers that federal employees may not use a government desk to obstruct an elected president's program.
00:38:17.760Union thuggery cannot protect disloyal and ineffective bureaucrats.
00:38:22.040Civil service protections exist so that a chemist is not fired for their party remonstration.
00:38:27.380They do not exist so that a bargaining unit can freeze a statute that the voters have ratified.
00:38:33.680Public sector unions and a regulatory agency are not the United Auto Workers facing a private payroll.
00:38:39.880They're an organized faction whose dues are extracted from taxpayers who cannot take their customers elsewhere.
00:38:46.380The ethics here are predatory for that very reason.
00:38:49.840Independence ends when resistance to an election begins.
00:38:53.120Director Zeldin, who I think is among President Trump's very best appointees,
00:38:56.700should litigate the contract into the ash bin of history and run the agency as the statute and the
00:39:02.520president requires. This comes from a guy who was a one-time member of the Teamsters and whose
00:39:07.840family has long been active in the union movement. This particular suit is a bid to restore a veto
00:39:13.440that the ballot box already removed. Elections have consequences, and in this case, the consequences
00:39:20.020are helping the taxpayers for a change. Public sector unions only expose themselves as predators
00:39:25.660for attempting to continue the reviled system of graft thoroughly hated by the voters.
00:39:31.500I really think in this particular case that the EPA director, Lee Zeldin,
00:39:37.640should be commended for his bravery and his courage
00:39:40.440and that he should go forward and litigate this matter.
00:39:44.240Meanwhile, the National Football League informed the Department of Homeland Security
00:39:47.480that league footage may not be used to promote immigration enforcement,
00:39:51.240a dispute that actually surfaced Tuesday after the Department of Homeland Security sought or deployed football imagery and official messaging.
00:40:00.320The league has long had a practice of wrapping itself in the anthem and the patriotic imagery when he's out there selling tickets.
00:40:07.620But when the rubber meets the road, they show that supporting American greatness is actually the last of their priorities.0.66
00:40:13.740Now they're hiding behind copyright law to promote illegal immigration.0.65
00:40:19.780Treating deportation as a brand containment is spitting the faces of their fan base is far from the first time the National Football League has done so.
00:40:28.780Here would be my message to Roger Goodell.
00:40:31.800You reached an agreement decades ago to pay your veteran players, those who made the league great, who are overwhelmingly African-American.
00:40:39.960Yet millions of dollars have gone to monitors and other lawyers while actually Hall of Famers are out delivering pizzas to make ends meet or suffering from debilitating diseases.
00:40:52.300The National Football League should keep its agreement with its veteran players.
00:40:57.120It is a matter of both justice and fairness.
00:40:59.960Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
00:41:01.720Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
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