WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:05.639 Stones Well. President Donald Trump gave peace a chance. But 2 00:00:05.679 --> 00:00:08.599 it was clear from the events of the last forty 3 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:13.960 eight hours that the MoU painstakingly negotiated by Vice President j. 4 00:00:14.080 --> 00:00:18.519 D Vance, Jared Kushner, and Steve Whitkoff to end the 5 00:00:18.559 --> 00:00:25.120 conflict with Iran lazy tatters. This began when the Iranians 6 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:28.160 struck three ships in the Straits of Hormuz, a direct 7 00:00:28.199 --> 00:00:31.480 violation of that agreement. This came on the heels of 8 00:00:31.519 --> 00:00:37.960 two other previous infractions, and President Donald Trump authorized strikes 9 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:43.920 last night, hard strikes against military targets in Iran, knocking 10 00:00:43.960 --> 00:00:47.439 out their radar facilities that they were seeking to rebuild, 11 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:52.320 knocking out a number of drone storage facilities and other 12 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:57.679 hard military targets. Now, some may think that the President 13 00:00:57.840 --> 00:01:01.560 does not have many options, having bomb very heavily in 14 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:08.799 Operation Midnight Hammer, Operation Epic Fury, But in his comments 15 00:01:08.920 --> 00:01:14.599 I noticed the President mentioned the potential of bombing Carg Island. 16 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:17.719 Now Americans would be wise to begin paying very close 17 00:01:17.760 --> 00:01:22.280 attention to this small, rugged island and the Northern Persian 18 00:01:22.280 --> 00:01:25.640 Gulf that few could locate on a map only weeks ago. 19 00:01:25.760 --> 00:01:28.840 That is, of course, Carg Island and it's nothing less 20 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:32.319 than the main distribution center for the Islamic Republic of 21 00:01:32.319 --> 00:01:35.680 Iran's oil. Carg Island stands as one of the most 22 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:40.599 consequential strategic locations in the entire Middle East. If Iran's 23 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:45.959 regime derives financial oxygen from oil imports, then Carg Island 24 00:01:46.000 --> 00:01:49.560 is the lungs through which that oxygen flows. At this point, 25 00:01:49.599 --> 00:01:52.560 most of their exports, almost eighty to ninety percent, are 26 00:01:52.640 --> 00:01:56.920 going to China. Should anyone doubt the urgency of understanding 27 00:01:56.959 --> 00:02:00.640 its importance, facts about Carg Island reveal why this isolated 28 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:05.280 outpost has become such a critical focus of geopolitical scrutiny. 29 00:02:05.319 --> 00:02:08.400 So far, the president has only bonbed the periphery of it, 30 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:13.080 he has not destroyed the actual facility. Cargo Island is 31 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:17.360 a continental limestone island located in the northern Personal Gulf. 32 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:22.159 Approximately thirty kilometers it's about eighteen miles off of Iran's coast. 33 00:02:22.680 --> 00:02:25.800 It sits northwest of the port of Bashir at about 34 00:02:25.879 --> 00:02:28.560 four hundred and eighty three kilometers that's roughly three hundred 35 00:02:28.599 --> 00:02:32.120 miles northwest of the Strait of Our Mouse. The tiny 36 00:02:32.159 --> 00:02:35.479 island measures roughly eight kilometers in length. Four to five 37 00:02:35.520 --> 00:02:38.840 kilometers in width, covering an area of only six or 38 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:44.080 seven square miles. Its rocky limestone terrain, collects, freshwater and 39 00:02:44.159 --> 00:02:46.800 porest foundations make it one of the few islands in 40 00:02:46.840 --> 00:02:52.319 the Gulf with national freshwater resources capable of supporting human settlement. 41 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.719 It's actually perfectly situated for the Islamic Republic of Iron's 42 00:02:56.719 --> 00:03:02.199 and nefarious purposes. Its population is only about ten thousand residents. 43 00:03:02.560 --> 00:03:06.439 The island extends Iran's territorial sea claims deeper into the 44 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:09.439 Persian Gulf and sits amid some of the most valuable 45 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:14.599 oil infrastructure in the region. The economic and strategic importance 46 00:03:14.639 --> 00:03:18.599 of Carg Island cannot be overstated. Carg Islands serves as 47 00:03:18.639 --> 00:03:23.960 Iran's primary offshore crude oil export terminal and historically has 48 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.560 handled about ninety to ninety eight percent of the country's 49 00:03:27.759 --> 00:03:32.680 crude exports. The island's loading infrastructure is capable exporting roughly 50 00:03:32.800 --> 00:03:37.199 seven million barrels of oil per day through specialized terminiles. 51 00:03:37.479 --> 00:03:40.319 Trump referred to them in his remarks as the Pipes 52 00:03:40.800 --> 00:03:45.000 and Sea Island loading platforms located on the island. Pipelines 53 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:49.479 connecting the island directly to mainland oil fields incurs a 54 00:03:49.520 --> 00:03:52.840 stand as well as underwater reservoirs beneath the golf itself 55 00:03:53.159 --> 00:03:56.800 make it crucial. The entire complex is operated by the 56 00:03:56.919 --> 00:04:01.280 national Iranian oil company Crude Blends, which as Iran Heavy, 57 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:05.960 Iran Light and for Uzan are loaded onto massive tankers 58 00:04:05.960 --> 00:04:10.639 at carg before dispatch across global markets. Should anyone be surprised, 59 00:04:10.719 --> 00:04:14.560 analysts repeatedly described Cargo Island as the main distributed center 60 00:04:14.560 --> 00:04:18.639 for Iran's oil. Now modern history has been equally dramatic. 61 00:04:18.680 --> 00:04:22.560 Carg Island was briefly occupied by British forces in eighteen 62 00:04:22.639 --> 00:04:26.399 thirty eight. Oil discoveries in the twentieth century transforms little 63 00:04:26.399 --> 00:04:30.319 island into the most important petroleum export facilities in the 64 00:04:30.360 --> 00:04:34.560 world by the nineteen seventies. During the Iran Iraq War 65 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:36.879 between nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty eight, the island was 66 00:04:36.879 --> 00:04:40.759 repeatedly bombed by the Iraqi forces, attempting then to cripple 67 00:04:40.759 --> 00:04:44.319 Iran's oil exports. Much of the infrastructure was damaged, but 68 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:48.040 later rebuilt in the nineteen nineties. Following the Iranian Revolution 69 00:04:48.120 --> 00:04:52.600 of nineteen seventy nine, the island's oil infrastructure was nationalized 70 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:56.319 by the Iotolas regime and incorporated into the state run 71 00:04:56.399 --> 00:05:01.759 petroleum mapparatus. It still exists. Meanwhile, nearby Karku Islands its 72 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:04.759 northeast of kark and also plays kind of a supporting 73 00:05:04.839 --> 00:05:09.000 role in the export of crude oil cargo operations. Also 74 00:05:09.160 --> 00:05:13.800 not far away stands another sensitive strategic location, the Bushir 75 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:18.600 Nuclear Power Plant, adding another layer of geopolitical sensitivity to 76 00:05:18.879 --> 00:05:22.480 the region. The modern energy system. Carg Island functions as 77 00:05:22.519 --> 00:05:25.959 a massive storage and loading complex, capable of loading tens 78 00:05:25.959 --> 00:05:29.279 of millions of barrels of crude into large tankers. Estimates 79 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:33.600 say the storage capacity ranges between twenty millions to thirty 80 00:05:33.600 --> 00:05:38.360 million barrels a day, depending on operational configurations. Yes, tankers 81 00:05:38.399 --> 00:05:41.519 line up to load crude shipments that then travel across 82 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:47.160 international markets. That oil today largely goes to China. Previously 83 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:53.160 around was an exporter to Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, and Russia. Today, 84 00:05:53.959 --> 00:05:56.879 about ninety to ninety eight percent of the oil leaving 85 00:05:56.920 --> 00:06:00.839 Carg Islands going to China. The present has made it 86 00:06:00.959 --> 00:06:04.639 very clear that he doesn't wish to bomb carg Island. 87 00:06:04.680 --> 00:06:08.439 He'd like to keep the infrastructure in place for a 88 00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:12.680 post regime government. But he implied very heavily that it 89 00:06:12.800 --> 00:06:16.439 is a possibility, and that is I think his whole 90 00:06:16.600 --> 00:06:20.720 card if they push him too far. Meanwhile, America is 91 00:06:20.759 --> 00:06:23.920 back at war and we pray for a swift end 92 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:27.600 to this conflict. But the President, I think today's remarks 93 00:06:28.079 --> 00:06:32.279 at the NATO conference kind of revealed the possibility of 94 00:06:32.399 --> 00:06:37.000 a bombing of carg Island. So where are the Democrats today? 95 00:06:37.040 --> 00:06:40.240 They're all in on giant government. They've embraced state power 96 00:06:40.560 --> 00:06:43.480 like a jealous lover. Democrats are running this year on 97 00:06:43.519 --> 00:06:47.480 a final push for single payer health care, promising a 98 00:06:47.600 --> 00:06:50.600 long last to give our central government full power over 99 00:06:50.759 --> 00:06:54.439 body and a fifth of the economy. As Graham Platner 100 00:06:54.639 --> 00:06:58.360 does in Maine. They always link free childcare to free healthcare, 101 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.000 So add the cost of the free program for the 102 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:06.399 cost of free healthcare. A million quality center learning centers 103 00:07:06.600 --> 00:07:10.720 like the ones in Minnesota bloom, controlling medicine and childcare. 104 00:07:10.759 --> 00:07:15.000 Democrats also planned to control all other major industries. New 105 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:19.199 York City Mayor Zore Mamdami, who is today the moral 106 00:07:19.240 --> 00:07:22.079 and intellectual leader of the party. In a moment when 107 00:07:22.199 --> 00:07:25.639 all the national politicians are about as smart as Maisie 108 00:07:25.639 --> 00:07:29.959 Harano or his appealing as Amy Klobashar has said explicitly 109 00:07:30.040 --> 00:07:33.720 that his goal is to seize the means of production 110 00:07:34.399 --> 00:07:38.160 there it is. They're not kidding. One of Mamdami's allies, 111 00:07:38.199 --> 00:07:41.480 the congressional candidate Claire Valdez, actually says she wants to 112 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:46.800 nationalize the airline industry, turning United and Delta an American, 113 00:07:47.040 --> 00:07:51.040 and Jet Blue in Southwest into the federal government airways. 114 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.879 Acting on the opposition to private property controlled by its owners. Mandami, 115 00:07:55.959 --> 00:07:58.800 of course, recently instituted a rent freeze in New York City, 116 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.959 covering both one year and two year leases for people 117 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:05.959 living in about one million rent stabilized apartments, which makes 118 00:08:06.040 --> 00:08:09.560 up about twenty seven percent of the overall housing stock 119 00:08:09.600 --> 00:08:13.560 across New York City's five boroughs. Housing prices are to 120 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:16.279 be set by government, where you live and how much 121 00:08:16.279 --> 00:08:19.040 you pay for it should be a government program. According 122 00:08:19.079 --> 00:08:22.560 to the Democrats, this transition to government managed housing will 123 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:26.959 intensify in a hurry. Ma'am Dami's detailed housing plans centers 124 00:08:27.000 --> 00:08:29.920 on the promise of putting the public sector in the 125 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:34.960 driver's seat, opposing private industry. Democrats oppose the private wealth 126 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:39.320 it produces. In the People's Republic of California, a proposed 127 00:08:39.360 --> 00:08:43.279 tax on the net worth of billionaires quickly drifting downward. 128 00:08:43.799 --> 00:08:47.639 A July second essay from I Spoke of Yesterday by 129 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:54.559 California Congressman Rocanna, a spectacularly cynical Silicon Valley Democrat, called 130 00:08:54.600 --> 00:08:58.080 for a dramatic expansion of federal welfare programs on the 131 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:01.360 backs of a federal tax that has to reach all fortunes. 132 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:05.840 Fifty million dollars and up. Wealth is for government, you see. 133 00:09:06.039 --> 00:09:08.759 It has to be transferred into the hands of centralized 134 00:09:08.799 --> 00:09:13.039 power to give the masses their free programs. In his 135 00:09:14.039 --> 00:09:18.399 distasteful speech on Independence Day, ma'am Domi depicted in America 136 00:09:18.440 --> 00:09:22.960 defined by terror, oppression, and an oligarchic theft. We see 137 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.639 the wealthiest country the history of the world, one where 138 00:09:25.679 --> 00:09:29.399 children go sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers 139 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:32.679 for more, he said. We see monopolies that dominate every 140 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:36.960 industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see matched agents 141 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:41.200 terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before 142 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:44.759 spiriting them away in arm marked vans. Of course, none 143 00:09:44.759 --> 00:09:48.399 of that means anything at all. Monopolies dominate every industry. 144 00:09:48.639 --> 00:09:51.639 How many airlines can you choose from? Again? How many 145 00:09:51.639 --> 00:09:55.000 competing companies offer you gas for your car? How many 146 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:57.879 kinds of breakfast cereal can you buy from? How many 147 00:09:57.879 --> 00:10:02.440 different grocery stores? Jomy wasn't trying to describe America. He 148 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:06.039 was trying to demonize a demagogue to depict a nation 149 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:10.840 of private industry as something dark, cruel, and dangerous. He 150 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:14.639 was trying to sell massive government power as kindness, fixing 151 00:10:14.799 --> 00:10:18.320 all the faked up plutocratic domination. This is where the 152 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:21.919 Democrats are. They're all in on giant, big government. They're 153 00:10:22.000 --> 00:10:27.159 highly opposed to private property, private enterprise, and yes, private lives. 154 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:31.000 They've embrace state power. It's a dismal gang of brutally 155 00:10:31.039 --> 00:10:34.320 stupid adult children who made a living as shameless grifters. 156 00:10:34.320 --> 00:10:37.440 By warning you that Donald Trump is an inspiring dictator 157 00:10:37.679 --> 00:10:42.200 who urged to implement authoritarianism. They keep inventing fake panics 158 00:10:42.200 --> 00:10:45.960 to sell that idiocy. While Trump eliminates whole government agencies 159 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:49.840 and sharp reduces the size of the federal workforce, Trump 160 00:10:49.879 --> 00:10:51.919 isn't going far enough as far as I'm concerned, and 161 00:10:51.919 --> 00:10:56.600 congression Republicans are trailblazers in the art of uselessness. Federal 162 00:10:56.639 --> 00:11:00.440 deaficites persist, and the crisis of federal deafy is just 163 00:11:00.519 --> 00:11:03.000 getting worse. But Trump is the only present in your 164 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:05.240 lifetime or mine who's work to make the federal government 165 00:11:05.279 --> 00:11:08.759 smaller and less powerful in any practical way, and only 166 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:12.320 idiots and con artists pretend to think he's an authoritarian. 167 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:15.399 You can have Trump, or you can have Mayam Dami 168 00:11:15.559 --> 00:11:20.320 Area Democrats who explicitly intend to confiscate private wealth, seize 169 00:11:20.360 --> 00:11:23.639 the means of production, and runs society directly and forcedly 170 00:11:23.919 --> 00:11:27.320 through the instrument of government power. The fools who warn 171 00:11:27.440 --> 00:11:30.279 you that you have to vote for Democrats to save 172 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.559 us from Trump's authoritarianism are trying to herd you into 173 00:11:33.919 --> 00:11:38.120 real authoritarianism. Anyone who's still pretending this isn't the actual 174 00:11:38.200 --> 00:11:41.399 choice by now has transitioned from being a shameless clown 175 00:11:41.600 --> 00:11:45.200 to being a real danger. The tediousness of the Bulkwark 176 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:49.879 style never trump Ism and the National Reviews infantile socialists 177 00:11:49.919 --> 00:11:54.600 worshiping coprophilia is becoming something else entirely. It's time to choose. 178 00:11:54.960 --> 00:11:57.879 It's time to remember the choice that other people make 179 00:11:58.279 --> 00:12:01.759 that choice is between authoritarian and freedom, is between big 180 00:12:01.799 --> 00:12:06.039 government and a government by the people. I'm Roger Stones 181 00:12:06.159 --> 00:12:08.639 listening to the Stone Zone. Thanks for joining us. Whatever 182 00:12:08.639 --> 00:12:10.600 you do, don't go away, because we'll be right back 183 00:12:10.879 --> 00:12:14.840 with more politics on the other side. Welcome back into 184 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:19.159 the Stone Zone. We have breaking news. Let me read 185 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:23.600 it directly from NBC. Graham Platner, the controversial candidate for 186 00:12:23.679 --> 00:12:27.000 the US Senate and Maine, announced only minutes ago that 187 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:31.759 he's ending his US Senate campaign, capping a chaotic few 188 00:12:31.879 --> 00:12:36.120 days of uncertainty and Democrat in fighting, leaving the Democrat 189 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:40.240 Party without a candidate in the vitally important main Senate 190 00:12:40.320 --> 00:12:45.120 race this fall. The announcement by the populist progressive candidate 191 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:48.480 came after a woman he dated accused him of sexual 192 00:12:48.519 --> 00:12:51.879 assault back in twenty twenty one, causing his support to 193 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:57.320 hemorrhage even among top Democratic allies, who sended their endorsements 194 00:12:57.320 --> 00:13:00.159 and called on him to drop out once again. This 195 00:13:00.240 --> 00:13:03.879 is off of NBC. In a video message posted on 196 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:08.080 x A, Platner denied the allegation's false, but said they 197 00:13:08.120 --> 00:13:10.759 have placed an immense amount of weight on him as 198 00:13:10.799 --> 00:13:13.519 he is only until July thirteenth. To decide whether to 199 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:16.919 continue his candacy. He said if he continued, he loses 200 00:13:16.960 --> 00:13:20.840 his ability to fundraise, access voter data, or run a campaign. 201 00:13:21.480 --> 00:13:23.679 What comes next needs to come from the people, needs 202 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:25.600 to come from the people of Maine. It has to 203 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.799 be open, transparent, and democratic. He needs to be reflecting 204 00:13:28.840 --> 00:13:31.919 the whale the values of the people that built this movement. 205 00:13:32.919 --> 00:13:36.399 He goes on to say, we believe for the movement 206 00:13:36.440 --> 00:13:39.240 to continue, it cannot be made for that reason way, 207 00:13:39.320 --> 00:13:43.480 meaning he is suspending his campaign operations. Platner said, we're 208 00:13:43.519 --> 00:13:46.120 not doing because the allegations. We're doing it because the 209 00:13:46.159 --> 00:13:50.360 structures are being taken away from us by those in power. Now. 210 00:13:50.679 --> 00:13:53.720 The main Democrat party has the option to replace Platner 211 00:13:53.720 --> 00:13:57.440 on the ballot by July twenty seventh. That's the deadline 212 00:13:57.720 --> 00:14:01.080 set by state law year how the party will go 213 00:14:01.080 --> 00:14:04.919 about selecting a candidate in that compressed time frame. Maine 214 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:09.440 already jocking to be the candidate to face Republican Susan's Collins, 215 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:13.039 a good friend of mine, who's seeking her sixth, sixth 216 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.679 year term. Earlier on Wednesday, the state party said it 217 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.039 had decided to hold a nominated convention to pick a 218 00:14:20.120 --> 00:14:25.279 replacement candidate and plans to announce a full timeline shortly. 219 00:14:25.799 --> 00:14:29.279 So this was thought by many to be the Democrat's 220 00:14:29.320 --> 00:14:33.840 best chance in the country for a pickup. Susan Collins 221 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.679 was thought to be an endangered Republican incumbent, and then 222 00:14:39.759 --> 00:14:43.159 Graham Plattner, the guy with the Nazi tattoo in a 223 00:14:43.519 --> 00:14:47.759 strange history, surfaced as a candidate. Actually, the sitting Democrat 224 00:14:47.879 --> 00:14:51.720 governor Maine, who was originally thought to be the likely candidate, 225 00:14:52.000 --> 00:14:56.759 dropped out of that race. Platner's exit came after Chuck 226 00:14:56.759 --> 00:15:00.440 Schumer and the Democrat National Party warned and know certain 227 00:15:00.519 --> 00:15:03.399 terms that they will not invest in the main Senate 228 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.840 race if Platner remained on the ballot. So within hours 229 00:15:07.879 --> 00:15:12.039 of Political First reporting the allegations by the ex girlfriend 230 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:15.559 on Monday, Senator List Warren, who had visited, made a 231 00:15:15.600 --> 00:15:19.080 campaign for platform, called for him to drop, as did 232 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:25.759 Congressman Roecanna, calling the allegations serious and credible. Ruben Colego, 233 00:15:26.559 --> 00:15:31.320 himself of no paragon of future, also called for Platnir 234 00:15:31.360 --> 00:15:35.919 to drop off. Even Bernie Sanders weighed in, although Platner 235 00:15:35.960 --> 00:15:41.080 had cited Sanders as his political load stock. So this 236 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:45.440 is a shocking but important development. It's difficult situation for 237 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:48.600 the main Democratic Party because party operators don't have enough 238 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:52.559 time for a full primary campaign. Many may see it 239 00:15:52.600 --> 00:15:55.279 as a lifeline to find a less flawed dominie with 240 00:15:55.399 --> 00:15:58.960 a fighting chance to defeating Collins, who was again first 241 00:15:59.000 --> 00:16:02.679 elected nineteen ninet last one re election in twenty twenty. 242 00:16:03.919 --> 00:16:06.360 Democrats need a net gain of four seats to capture 243 00:16:06.399 --> 00:16:08.919 control of the Senate this fall. Apart from Maine in 244 00:16:08.919 --> 00:16:12.080 North Carolina, all their opportunities come in states at President 245 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.320 Trump carried by double digits in twenty twenty four, of 246 00:16:15.360 --> 00:16:20.480 those being Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas. Big blokes of 247 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:23.480 the Democrats, I'm Roger Stone, listening to the Stone Zone 248 00:16:23.519 --> 00:16:40.440 and will be right back. Welcome back into the Stone Zone. 249 00:16:41.200 --> 00:16:44.720 The significance of this Democrat car crash in Maine, in 250 00:16:44.720 --> 00:16:48.279 which their Senate candidate, Graham Plattner has withdrawn from the race, 251 00:16:48.360 --> 00:16:52.679 cannot be underestimated. Democrats need a net gain of four 252 00:16:52.720 --> 00:16:56.000 seats to capture control the Senate this ball. Other than 253 00:16:56.159 --> 00:16:59.600 Maine and North Carolina, all their opportunities come in states 254 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.759 at President Donald Trump carried by double digits in twenty 255 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:07.039 twenty four. Again those are Ohio, Iowa, Alaska, and Texas. 256 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:11.000 Maine was actually the only blue leaning state with the 257 00:17:11.039 --> 00:17:14.839 Republican Senator Plattner, who was a marine veteran and an 258 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:18.440 oyster farmer, actually won the Democrat primary back on June 259 00:17:18.519 --> 00:17:22.759 ninth after two term Democrat Governor Janet Mills. The Democrat 260 00:17:22.839 --> 00:17:26.559 establishment's preferred candidate, failed to gain traction and the Radical 261 00:17:26.599 --> 00:17:31.240 Progressive was able to win the contest after she quit, 262 00:17:31.759 --> 00:17:35.519 So this is a significant setback for the Democrats in 263 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:40.839 their Senate bid. There are many political mysteries from twenty 264 00:17:40.880 --> 00:17:43.279 sixteen that still have the power to set the Internet 265 00:17:43.359 --> 00:17:48.039 on fire, like the unsolved murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich. 266 00:17:48.160 --> 00:17:51.559 The official theory is that the twenty seven year old 267 00:17:51.640 --> 00:17:54.799 was shot near his DC home during a botched robbery. 268 00:17:55.319 --> 00:17:57.880 His family has rejected all claims that he was somehow 269 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:00.799 connected to Wicki Lakes or murdered because of his work 270 00:18:00.799 --> 00:18:04.440 at the DNC, and they have continued to claim that 271 00:18:04.519 --> 00:18:07.599 he was the victim of a robbery gone wrong, but 272 00:18:07.720 --> 00:18:10.559 his wallet, his watch, and his jewelry, as well as 273 00:18:10.559 --> 00:18:15.000 his cash and credit cards were still intact. Questions never 274 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.519 went away, mostly because so many details surrounding that case 275 00:18:18.519 --> 00:18:22.200 were sketchy and made no sense. Seth Race was killed 276 00:18:22.279 --> 00:18:26.480 less than two weeks before Wiki Leaks began publishing thousands 277 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:30.920 of internal Democrat National Committee emails that literally rocked the 278 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:35.440 twenty sixteen election and exposed the Democrats bitter and hippocratic 279 00:18:35.480 --> 00:18:38.880 internal struggle which they had to change their party rules 280 00:18:39.200 --> 00:18:43.200 to guarantee that Hillary Clinton would defeat Bernie Sanders, who 281 00:18:43.359 --> 00:18:46.559 wasn't even a Democrat a year before he had run 282 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:50.279 for the Democrat nomination. As a result, a theory emerged 283 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:53.839 the emails Wiki Leaks released hadn't come from Russia, but 284 00:18:53.920 --> 00:18:57.279 came from someone inside the DNC. In fact, it was 285 00:18:57.480 --> 00:19:01.359 in my trial that the FBI was forced to admit 286 00:19:01.720 --> 00:19:05.880 that they had never actually inspected the computer servers of 287 00:19:05.960 --> 00:19:11.759 the Democrat National Committee. The underlying theory of my federal trial, 288 00:19:12.160 --> 00:19:16.680 in which I was accused falsely of lying under oath 289 00:19:16.799 --> 00:19:20.400 to cover up Russian collusion that we now know categorically 290 00:19:20.640 --> 00:19:24.759 never existed. There was never evident any evidence produced at 291 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:28.759 my trial of an actual online hack. In fact, the 292 00:19:28.839 --> 00:19:32.680 judge refused to allow me to introduce forensic evidence or 293 00:19:32.759 --> 00:19:36.039 expert testimony, which I could have proved that there was 294 00:19:36.119 --> 00:19:41.759 never any online hack. This idea that the WikiLeaks releases 295 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:44.960 came from someone inside the DNC was tied to Seth 296 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:47.920 richards day. Many beliefs of this day that he was 297 00:19:47.960 --> 00:19:51.599 the insider who leaked the emails after his candidate, Bernie 298 00:19:51.640 --> 00:19:55.119 Sanders was ousted by Hillary. Now there's never been any 299 00:19:55.119 --> 00:19:57.759 public proof of that claim, and some people who know 300 00:19:57.880 --> 00:20:01.799 Seth claim that he wasn't a disgruntled Bernie Burrow. But then, 301 00:20:01.839 --> 00:20:05.799 of course Julia Sange entered the conversation, things got a 302 00:20:05.799 --> 00:20:09.599 lot more curious. Assane did something then that he never does. 303 00:20:09.680 --> 00:20:12.759 He spoke out about a source. He publicly denied that 304 00:20:12.799 --> 00:20:16.319 the Russian government or any other state actor was his source. Again, 305 00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:19.559 neither at my trial or any place else did Robert 306 00:20:19.640 --> 00:20:22.599 Muller and his gang of thugs produce any evidence to 307 00:20:22.640 --> 00:20:26.079 the contrary. But then, in a twenty sixteen interview about 308 00:20:26.119 --> 00:20:30.920 the dangers faced by Wiki League's sources, Assange unexpectedly brought 309 00:20:30.920 --> 00:20:34.960 off Seth Rich's murder. When the interviewer asked Rich whether 310 00:20:35.039 --> 00:20:37.880 Rich had been a source. Assage fell back on Wiki 311 00:20:37.960 --> 00:20:42.480 League's policy of refusing to identify sources, but then offered 312 00:20:42.519 --> 00:20:46.160 a twenty thousand dollars reward for information leading to the 313 00:20:46.200 --> 00:20:51.680 conviction of Rich's murder, which only ignited the theories tenfold. Now, 314 00:20:52.039 --> 00:20:55.279 nearly a decade later, a new claim has surfaced, and 315 00:20:55.359 --> 00:20:58.759 it's confirmed that the FBI will have some very serious 316 00:20:58.759 --> 00:21:03.119 explaining to do. Attorney and former journalist Ty Clevenger, man 317 00:21:03.200 --> 00:21:05.680 from whom I have enormous respect, has spent must have 318 00:21:05.720 --> 00:21:09.279 the last decade fighting a federal government for records related 319 00:21:09.319 --> 00:21:12.599 to Seth Rich's death. Clevenger took to X with the 320 00:21:12.640 --> 00:21:15.839 bombshell post. He said the government attorney has now told 321 00:21:15.920 --> 00:21:20.200 him that several hundred pages connected to Seth Rich may 322 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:23.640 have been discovered inside a hide room at the FBI headquarters. 323 00:21:24.119 --> 00:21:27.279 This story is pretty explosive, especially since last year Fox 324 00:21:27.319 --> 00:21:31.119 News reported that cash Pttel and his team had located 325 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:35.119 a secret, secure room inside the J. Edgar Hoover Building 326 00:21:35.440 --> 00:21:39.119 where they found computer drives and thousands of pages stored 327 00:21:39.200 --> 00:21:42.480 in burn bags, which are used for classified material that's 328 00:21:42.519 --> 00:21:46.079 supposed to be destroyed. According to those news reports, some 329 00:21:46.119 --> 00:21:49.759 of the records were reportedly connected to the FBI's Crossfire 330 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:54.200 Hurricane investigation, so perhaps Seth was part of that mission. 331 00:21:54.680 --> 00:21:57.640 Clevenger is honest about what he knows and what he 332 00:21:57.680 --> 00:22:00.680 doesn't know. So this isn't by any means done deal, 333 00:22:01.119 --> 00:22:03.880 not by any stretch, but it could be something big. 334 00:22:04.240 --> 00:22:07.000 He hasn't, of course, received documents, doesn't know whether they 335 00:22:07.160 --> 00:22:09.680 what they contain, and doesn't know if the FBI will 336 00:22:09.680 --> 00:22:12.319 release any of them. As it stands right now, he's 337 00:22:12.359 --> 00:22:16.200 just reporting what he says a government attorney has told him. However, 338 00:22:16.240 --> 00:22:18.759 there's a bigger fight going on about records related to 339 00:22:18.799 --> 00:22:21.880 the Seth Rich case. See. At first, the FBI told 340 00:22:21.880 --> 00:22:25.319 Clevenger it couldn't find any records related to Rich, but 341 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:29.160 later court proceedings proved the bureau had records and assorted 342 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:33.240 material connected to Seth's work laptop and an image of 343 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:36.680 his personal laptop, a DVD, and a tape drive. They 344 00:22:36.759 --> 00:22:40.000 all previously denied having any of those. Later, a federal 345 00:22:40.039 --> 00:22:43.880 court ruled the FBI improperably withheld that material and ordered 346 00:22:43.880 --> 00:22:46.720 the bureau to provide additional information about what it had. 347 00:22:47.279 --> 00:22:50.079 So this is a story that we are going to 348 00:22:50.079 --> 00:22:53.640 be watching very carefully. One thing is for sure. The 349 00:22:53.720 --> 00:22:57.319 FBI's handling of the records is no longer a conspiracy theory. 350 00:22:57.680 --> 00:22:59.960 The Bureau once said it couldn't find anything related to 351 00:23:00.079 --> 00:23:03.200 seth Rich. Court proceedings now proved that that was a lie. 352 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.319 Now it's time for Trump's FBI set the record straight 353 00:23:06.640 --> 00:23:10.200 and be as transparent as possible. Because the mystery surrounding 354 00:23:10.200 --> 00:23:13.680 Sethrich's case has gone on for about a decade. His 355 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:17.200 killer was never caught. Juliannassans raised a lot of questions 356 00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:19.720 that have never answered. So did my trial, where the 357 00:23:19.799 --> 00:23:23.160 government claimed repeatedly to have proof of a Russian act 358 00:23:23.359 --> 00:23:26.640 but produced none, and none has been produced since that. 359 00:23:26.799 --> 00:23:31.920 Time is time for the truth. Meanwhile, the Southern Poverty 360 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:35.279 Law Center is back in federal court, pleading not guilty 361 00:23:35.319 --> 00:23:39.039 to eleven of criminal counts in a superseding indictment that 362 00:23:39.119 --> 00:23:41.119 has ripped the veil off of one of the far 363 00:23:41.279 --> 00:23:46.279 left's most powerful activist organizations. Federal prosecutors alleged that the 364 00:23:46.599 --> 00:23:51.279 Southern Poverty Law Center defrauded donors by secretly funding millions 365 00:23:51.319 --> 00:23:55.799 of dollars to informants embedded inside racist and extremist groups 366 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.160 the organization publicly claimed to oppose. Reminds me something that 367 00:24:00.319 --> 00:24:03.400 a veteran FBI agent once told me. He said, if 368 00:24:03.400 --> 00:24:05.680 there were ten people at a klu Klux Klan meeting, 369 00:24:05.960 --> 00:24:08.400 none of them would be government informants. One would be 370 00:24:08.400 --> 00:24:12.240 an actual clansman. The indictment says that four million dollars 371 00:24:12.279 --> 00:24:15.319 in donor money was moved through fake entities with names 372 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:19.039 like the Rare Books Warehouse and the Tech Writers Group, 373 00:24:19.319 --> 00:24:23.279 eventually reaching individuals tied to groups including the klu Klux Klan, 374 00:24:23.640 --> 00:24:27.920 the Aryan Nation, and the National Alliance. Prosecutors now further 375 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:31.319 alleged some funds were used for materials connected to cross 376 00:24:31.400 --> 00:24:35.599 burnings and clan robes. One informant legedly helped organize the 377 00:24:35.640 --> 00:24:39.240 twenty seventeen Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. It became 378 00:24:39.319 --> 00:24:42.960 so very controversial. So what the Southern Poverty Law Center 379 00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:47.279 was doing was creating and funding these right wing extremist 380 00:24:47.279 --> 00:24:49.599 groups so they could go out and raise millions of 381 00:24:49.640 --> 00:24:52.839 dollars to fight the very right wing extremist groups that 382 00:24:52.880 --> 00:24:57.440 they were funding and abedded. That's a fraud. Southern Property 383 00:24:57.519 --> 00:25:00.759 Law Center of course, denies all wrongdoing following the charges 384 00:25:00.799 --> 00:25:04.920 politically motivating, claiming its informant program helped prevent violence and 385 00:25:04.960 --> 00:25:08.440 assist law enforcement. But I believe that's just a cover 386 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:11.920 in actuality. The Southern Poverty Law Center was stoking the 387 00:25:11.920 --> 00:25:15.000 flames of racism so they could gain power, money, and 388 00:25:15.039 --> 00:25:19.640 prestige from allegedly fighting back against it. They've made millions 389 00:25:19.640 --> 00:25:22.799 of dollars based on a lie. Southern Poverty Law Center 390 00:25:22.880 --> 00:25:25.079 was never a civil rights group. It's been a scam 391 00:25:25.119 --> 00:25:30.519 since its inception. It was, i would say, victimizing little 392 00:25:30.519 --> 00:25:33.559 old ladies for their twenty five dollars checks. It was 393 00:25:33.599 --> 00:25:39.440 a partisan smear machine, smearing mainstream conservatives, evangelical Christians, religious 394 00:25:39.440 --> 00:25:44.279 liberty groups, immigration control advocates, and free speech organizations, including 395 00:25:44.319 --> 00:25:48.279 people like me as extremists. The FBI cut times with 396 00:25:48.440 --> 00:25:51.480 the Southern Poverty Law Center in twenty twenty five after 397 00:25:51.599 --> 00:25:55.000 backlash over its so called hate map, which listed near 398 00:25:55.279 --> 00:25:59.839 fourteen hundred groups and turning including Turning Point USA. As 399 00:26:00.039 --> 00:26:03.559 my good friend Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Southern Propty Law 400 00:26:03.599 --> 00:26:05.880 Centers claimed to be a watchdog for all these years. 401 00:26:05.960 --> 00:26:09.759