WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.000 --> 00:00:05.440 The Stone Zone entertaining and informative on the Red Apple 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:06.679 podcast network. 3 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:14.640 Welcome You are now entering the hottest political talk show 4 00:00:15.240 --> 00:00:19.039 on the planet, Welcome to the Stone Zone. Well newly 5 00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:23.879 released audio is raising fresh questions about former President Joe 6 00:00:23.960 --> 00:00:28.640 Biden's handling of classified information and his fitness for office. 7 00:00:28.719 --> 00:00:33.799 Nearly three hours of recording conversations between Biden and his 8 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:40.560 ghostwriter Mark Zwanditzer, conducted while drafting Biden's memoir Promised Me Dad, 9 00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:43.960 revealed that Biden appeared to understand that he was discussing 10 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:47.880 sensitive material, at least at some level. Remember, I think 11 00:00:47.880 --> 00:00:51.359 there's the point many are missing. These conversations were seven 12 00:00:51.719 --> 00:00:57.439 years ago. In November third, twenty sixteen interview, while still 13 00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:02.119 serving as Vice president, Biden said this is classified. In 14 00:01:02.159 --> 00:01:07.120 another conversation on April twenty fourth, twenty seventeen, he warned 15 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:10.719 his ghostwriter, some of this may be classified, so be 16 00:01:10.840 --> 00:01:14.959 careful with it. House Judiciary Republicans noted that the recordings 17 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:19.599 were obtained lawfully through the Trump administration and the Justice Department. 18 00:01:20.159 --> 00:01:25.239 Tamps reviewed during Special Counsel Robert Herr's investigation into Biden's 19 00:01:25.239 --> 00:01:29.799 handling of classified documents. Herr's report concluded that Biden read 20 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:33.760 classified notes to his ghostwriter nearly word for word on 21 00:01:33.799 --> 00:01:38.840 at least three occasions, Yet her declined to prosecute, citing 22 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:42.719 concerns that a jury would view Biden as an elderly 23 00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:47.599 man with a poor memory. Now these newly released audio 24 00:01:47.640 --> 00:01:52.079 recordings are shedding further scrutiny on Democrats, who at the 25 00:01:52.120 --> 00:01:56.000 time attacked Special counsel Robert Hurr, calling him a Republican 26 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:00.879 as saying that his report was political. Recognize that all 27 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:03.000 this has happened at the same time that the Biden 28 00:02:03.159 --> 00:02:06.400 Justice Department was seeking to charge Donald Trump for the 29 00:02:06.439 --> 00:02:11.240 retention of classified documents, which under the Presidential Records Act, 30 00:02:11.560 --> 00:02:16.680 he was entitled to retain and to declassify at any time. 31 00:02:17.319 --> 00:02:20.919 Robert Hurrer was appointed in twenty twenty three to investigate 32 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:25.919 Biden's handling of the classified documents after his vice presidency. Again, 33 00:02:26.039 --> 00:02:30.439 his investigation concluded that Biden had retained classified material, but 34 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:34.199 recommended against criminal charges, writing that the jury would view 35 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:38.400 him as a quote sympathetic, well meaning elderly man with 36 00:02:38.520 --> 00:02:43.680 a poor memory. The language immediately drew fierce attacks from Democrats. 37 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:50.000 Then Vice President Kamala Harris called HER's characterization inaccurate and inappropriate. 38 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.199 The way the president's demeanor is and that report was 39 00:02:53.319 --> 00:02:56.199 characterized could not be wrong on the facts. Well, it 40 00:02:56.280 --> 00:02:59.199 turns out that Harris was entirely wrong based on the 41 00:02:59.280 --> 00:03:03.439 transcriptory least today. She also described the report as clearly 42 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:07.960 politically motivated. Congressman Dan Goldman, seemed to be a former 43 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.439 congressman because he was defeated for renomination, accused her of 44 00:03:12.520 --> 00:03:16.800 improperly editorializing. What everyone will soon see is that this 45 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:20.520 is a Republican special counsel who completely went out of 46 00:03:20.520 --> 00:03:23.919 his way to editorialize, to include materials report that is 47 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:27.879 unnecessary and irrelevant to what he was tasked with doing. 48 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:33.319 Goldman said wrong. Then, of course, pencil Neck himself. Congressman 49 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:38.039 now Senator Adam Siff smeared her as a hack, claiming 50 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:43.080 that the report was political. In fact, her appointment was nonpartisan, 51 00:03:43.400 --> 00:03:48.080 and her is not a Republican. It is amazing here 52 00:03:48.159 --> 00:03:51.439 because there is a historical president. Of course, when it 53 00:03:51.520 --> 00:03:56.000 was learned that Richard Nixon's White House conversations had been taped, 54 00:03:56.520 --> 00:03:59.240 Nixon went to the Supreme Court in an attempt to 55 00:03:59.400 --> 00:04:04.400 block relief, and the court voted against him nine zero. 56 00:04:04.960 --> 00:04:08.240 But the more fundamental question here is if Joe Biden 57 00:04:08.879 --> 00:04:13.039 was too mentally unstable in twenty twenty three to be prosecuted, 58 00:04:13.560 --> 00:04:16.759 how was he mentally stable enough to be president of 59 00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:21.120 the United States. The tapes bring deep concerns about the 60 00:04:21.120 --> 00:04:24.720 two tier justice system, one standard for Democrats and the 61 00:04:24.759 --> 00:04:28.000 other for their political opponents. I think Biden deserves to 62 00:04:28.000 --> 00:04:30.959 be prosecuted, and his lack of mental fitness is no 63 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:34.399 excuse for him to skirt justice. But you'll remember that 64 00:04:35.160 --> 00:04:40.279 personalities like CNN's Jake Tapper savagely attacked Laura Trump when 65 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.800 she raised the question of Joe Biden's fitness. Now Joe 66 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:46.920 Biden's mental fitness is there for all to see in 67 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:51.360 these recordings. President Trump is making clear that America's alliance 68 00:04:51.360 --> 00:04:55.000 with Israel remains strong, but American policy will still be 69 00:04:55.040 --> 00:04:59.120 made in Washington, d c. Not Jerusalem. Head of Israeli 70 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:03.519 Prime Minister j Netanyahu's White House visit, President Trump pushed 71 00:05:03.560 --> 00:05:07.680 back against not use opposition to a possible US sale 72 00:05:07.720 --> 00:05:11.720 of F thirty five fighter jets to Turkey. President Trump 73 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:14.720 said on Air Force One, nobody tells me what we 74 00:05:14.720 --> 00:05:18.120 should be selling or not, the message is unmistakable that 75 00:05:18.319 --> 00:05:21.279 Israel may be America's closest part in the Middle East, 76 00:05:21.680 --> 00:05:24.519 but even close allies do not get to dictate US 77 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:29.279 foreign policy. President Trump also reminded reporters that the Israel 78 00:05:29.319 --> 00:05:33.399 relies heavily on the American military and diplomatic support. This 79 00:05:33.480 --> 00:05:36.279 is not in any way an abandonment of Israel, is 80 00:05:36.319 --> 00:05:38.800 actually just a statement of reality. In a warning that 81 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:43.399 the relationship must serve America's interest as well as Israeli security. 82 00:05:43.800 --> 00:05:46.759 I am for both. At the same time, President Trump 83 00:05:46.800 --> 00:05:51.600 said Washington and Jerusalem remained largely aligned on Iran despite 84 00:05:51.839 --> 00:05:55.920 some differences over diplomacy. President Trump believes pressure created by 85 00:05:55.959 --> 00:06:00.639 American action has brought Tehran back to the negotating table Netnah, 86 00:06:00.639 --> 00:06:04.480 who has generally favored a harder line. This is authentic 87 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:09.519 America First leadership. Trump supports Israel, confronts Aroan, and recognizes 88 00:06:09.600 --> 00:06:13.399 Turkey's strategic importance, but he fus to become captive of 89 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:17.879 any foreign government's agenda. For too long, Washington politicians have 90 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:22.600 confused alliances with blank checks. President Trump understands the difference. 91 00:06:23.079 --> 00:06:26.399 A strong president can stand firmly behind Israel while still 92 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:31.519 telling Netanyaho know when necessary. Friendship does not require submission, 93 00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:35.600 and alliance does not erase American sovereignty. Israel is our 94 00:06:35.639 --> 00:06:38.680 greatest ally who he must remain allied with the promotion 95 00:06:38.759 --> 00:06:43.680 of Western civilization with the shared goal of eliminating Muslim terrorism. 96 00:06:43.680 --> 00:06:47.000 But Donald Trump was elected to put America first, and well, 97 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:51.279 that's exactly what he is doing. Meanwhile, President Trump is 98 00:06:51.519 --> 00:06:56.160 demanding answers about America's childhood vaccination scandal and the sharp 99 00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:01.560 horizon autism diagnosies, questions the political and medical establishment, who 100 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.000 often dismisses that the past to big pharma instead of 101 00:07:05.040 --> 00:07:08.759 investigating openly. According to The Wall Street Journal, President Trump 102 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:12.480 has repeatedly pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. 103 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:16.879 Kennedy Junior to examine whether the number or timing of 104 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:22.079 childhood vaccinations deserves greater scrutiny. President Trump has also urged 105 00:07:22.079 --> 00:07:26.680 officials to make reducing autism rates a priority. The concern 106 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:31.160 here is understandable. Federal data cited in the report show 107 00:07:31.680 --> 00:07:35.959 autism diagnoses rising roughly from one in one hundred and 108 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:40.199 fifty to two thousand to about one in thirty one 109 00:07:40.360 --> 00:07:44.560 eight year olds in twenty twenty two. Better detection may 110 00:07:44.600 --> 00:07:48.519 explain part of that increase, but parents deserve rigorous research, 111 00:07:48.600 --> 00:07:53.720 not ridicule, censorship, or automatic appeals to authority. The White 112 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:58.399 House says families worried about zoring autism rates have long ignored, mocked, 113 00:07:59.360 --> 00:08:04.480 or promises to pursue gold standard science. HGHS similarly says 114 00:08:04.519 --> 00:08:08.240 it will investigate the root causes of autism and other 115 00:08:08.319 --> 00:08:14.240 chronic childhood diseases using evidence based research. Mainstream studies have 116 00:08:14.399 --> 00:08:18.560 not established that vaccines nations cause autism, but there has 117 00:08:18.600 --> 00:08:21.000 been a great deal of suppression on the issue, with 118 00:08:21.120 --> 00:08:23.959 big pharmers standing to lose billions if the truth were 119 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:28.600 to be uncovered. A propagated scientific consensus should never shut 120 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:34.320 down legitimate questions about dosage, scheduling, side effects, or conflicts 121 00:08:34.320 --> 00:08:38.639 of interest. Trump's position and that of RF not that 122 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:42.399 Americas should abandon medicine. It is that public health officials 123 00:08:42.720 --> 00:08:47.240 must earn trust through transparency, independent research, and honest debate. 124 00:08:47.720 --> 00:08:52.039 Trump administration is finally restoring that, after decades of decay 125 00:08:52.480 --> 00:08:56.000 skepticism of the big farm of driven status quos far 126 00:08:56.039 --> 00:09:01.039 from breakfast. In fact, it is responsible leadership. Meanwhile, Kentucky 127 00:09:01.039 --> 00:09:04.200 Senator miss McConnell says he remains unable to return to 128 00:09:04.240 --> 00:09:07.840 work after more than a month after a June fourteenth 129 00:09:07.960 --> 00:09:11.759 fall sent him to the hospital then into rehabilitation. In 130 00:09:11.759 --> 00:09:14.360 a statement, the eighty four year old senator said he's 131 00:09:14.799 --> 00:09:19.720 undergoing intensive physical therapy and will miss Kentucky's annual fancy 132 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:23.559 farm picnic. His doctors say he is not medically cleared 133 00:09:23.559 --> 00:09:27.919 to leave rehabilitation or to return to his Senate office. Now, 134 00:09:27.960 --> 00:09:32.399 this raises an obvious question Washington too often refuses to ask. 135 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:36.279 If McConnell cannot physically perform the job, why is he 136 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:39.480 still holding it. McConnell has already announced that he won't 137 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:42.840 seek reelection in twenty twenty six, but his term continues 138 00:09:42.879 --> 00:09:46.080 while Kentucky is represented by a senator who's been absent 139 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:49.679 for weeks and remains unable to resume his normal duties. 140 00:09:50.320 --> 00:09:54.559 His office says he continues monitoring senator business and issuing statements. 141 00:09:54.600 --> 00:09:57.159 But all of this could be an elaborate cover up 142 00:09:57.200 --> 00:10:00.279 meant to prevent a special election or appointment from being hell. 143 00:10:01.039 --> 00:10:05.639 This is also seriously shortchanging the voters of Kentucky. Look 144 00:10:05.919 --> 00:10:10.240 Kentucky elected a senator expected to appear, vote, debate, and 145 00:10:10.320 --> 00:10:14.080 represent the state's interests in person as an active participant. 146 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:18.720 Mitch McConnell's latest health crisis follows years of public concerns 147 00:10:18.720 --> 00:10:22.519 included repeated falls and highly visible episodes in which he 148 00:10:22.559 --> 00:10:27.360 appeared to freeze while speaking to reporters. The propping up 149 00:10:27.360 --> 00:10:30.200 of McConnell by the Republican establishment shows that they're no 150 00:10:30.240 --> 00:10:33.120 better than the Democrat establishment what they did throughout Joe 151 00:10:33.159 --> 00:10:37.759 Biden's presidency. Talked about that at the beginning. The Republicans 152 00:10:37.799 --> 00:10:41.039 need to shortly rebuke this troubling trend of protecting powerful 153 00:10:41.080 --> 00:10:44.960 incumbents long after they've lost their ability to serve. This 154 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:49.320 is not about disrespecting mcconnald's age or his medical condition. 155 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:52.399 He should be allowed to live his golden years in peace, 156 00:10:52.480 --> 00:10:55.000 comfort and around loved ones. But when a senator is 157 00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:58.759 medically unable to do the job for an extended period, 158 00:10:58.840 --> 00:11:04.559 resignation should be the responsible course. Kentucky deserves full representation, 159 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:10.240 not an indefinite absentee arrangement managed by staff and political insiders. 160 00:11:10.320 --> 00:11:14.720 Public office is not a lifetime entitlement. McConnell's conditions made 161 00:11:14.720 --> 00:11:19.000 it abundantly clear that it's time for him to step aside. 162 00:11:19.679 --> 00:11:27.600 In the meantime, we're watching the Senate continue to backpedal 163 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:31.679 overpassing the Save America Act. At least three Senators think 164 00:11:31.720 --> 00:11:35.840 the US Senate should stay in session, but Senate Majority 165 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:39.440 Leader John Thune seems bent on leaving for a vacation 166 00:11:40.240 --> 00:11:43.480 without acting on the single most important piece of legislation, 167 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:47.200 one that would simply require that one be a US 168 00:11:47.279 --> 00:11:50.080 citizen in order to vote in a federal election, and 169 00:11:50.159 --> 00:11:53.720 one have a photo ID in order to do so. 170 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:56.080 I'm Rogers Stone to listen to the Stone Zone here 171 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:58.919 on the Red Apple Audio Networks. Please, whatever you do, 172 00:11:58.919 --> 00:12:01.399 don't go away, because we'll be right back with more 173 00:12:01.679 --> 00:12:02.600 hot politics. 174 00:12:06.799 --> 00:12:11.240 The Stone Zone entertaining and informative on the Red Apple 175 00:12:11.399 --> 00:12:12.480 podcast Network. 176 00:12:17.559 --> 00:12:22.159 Welcome back into the Stone Zone. As Americans watch our 177 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:26.679 cities decay under decades of Democrat governance with rise and crime, 178 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:32.000 open disorder, failed soft on crime policies, flock cameras are 179 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:36.240 being floated as the plausible solution. These automated license plate 180 00:12:36.279 --> 00:12:40.039 readers have proliferated by the tens of thousands across the country, 181 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:44.200 often installed with little public notice or debate. So what 182 00:12:44.320 --> 00:12:48.000 began is a quiet expansion has now triggered a widespread 183 00:12:48.080 --> 00:12:53.039 and growing backlash. That backlash is far from irrationalists, the 184 00:12:53.519 --> 00:12:57.320 natural response of free people recognize a fundamental threat to 185 00:12:57.360 --> 00:13:01.279 their privacy rights when they see one. Two prominent Tennessee 186 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:05.039 Republicans are raising alarms over the rapid expansion of these 187 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:10.279 automated license plate reading technology cameras, which are proliferating across 188 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:13.799 the country, warning that the growing network of surveillance cameras 189 00:13:14.159 --> 00:13:20.120 could erode America's privacy without adequate legal safeguards. Knox County 190 00:13:20.120 --> 00:13:23.720 Mayor Glenn Jacobs and Congressman Tim Burchett, who joined us 191 00:13:23.720 --> 00:13:26.799 here in the Stone Zone only days ago, are both 192 00:13:26.840 --> 00:13:31.679 calling for action as flock's safety. Automated license reader or 193 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:37.159 ALPR cameras continue spreading across Tennessee and across the country. 194 00:13:38.399 --> 00:13:42.399 Mayor Jacobs, in an interview, said, I appreciate Congressman Burchett's 195 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:45.320 effort to bring his attention to this. If this is 196 00:13:45.399 --> 00:13:48.960 due to the national level. As technology advances, he said, 197 00:13:49.240 --> 00:13:52.240 we need to make sure the rules and regulation surrounding 198 00:13:52.279 --> 00:13:55.279 these devices keeps up and continues to protect the rights 199 00:13:55.320 --> 00:13:59.440 and liberties of our people. The currents come as Flock 200 00:13:59.519 --> 00:14:02.440 Safety has rapidly grown into one of the nations largest 201 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:06.879 provided of this technology. Company's cameras are marketed as crime 202 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:10.840 fighting tools that can help law enforcement locate stolen vehicles, 203 00:14:10.879 --> 00:14:16.399 identify suspects, and assist in criminal investigations. However, citizens and 204 00:14:16.440 --> 00:14:19.720 government officials are skeptical that the expanding network amounts to 205 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:23.799 mass surveillance of ordinary Americans who are not suspected of 206 00:14:24.080 --> 00:14:29.240 committing any crimes. In Tennessee, the mayor's urging county officials 207 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:33.159 to reject the deployment of the flop cameras altogether. In 208 00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:37.320 a video statement posted Monday, he argued that today's AI 209 00:14:37.600 --> 00:14:41.440 powered license plate readers go far beyond the older systems. 210 00:14:41.480 --> 00:14:45.759 It merely photographed license plates for short term law enforcement use. 211 00:14:46.559 --> 00:14:49.080 While license place readers have been around for a while, 212 00:14:49.159 --> 00:14:54.200 because of AI have vastly increased networking and data retention capabilities, 213 00:14:54.519 --> 00:14:58.200 these flop cameras have capabilities that were never imagined in 214 00:14:58.240 --> 00:15:02.200 the past. The DA stored in a searchable database for 215 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:04.559 sometimes up to a month or more, depending on the 216 00:15:04.559 --> 00:15:10.240 policies of the particular agency or jurisdiction. Burchett has announced 217 00:15:10.279 --> 00:15:14.960 congresome Burchette has announced legislation to ban the cameras. His 218 00:15:15.039 --> 00:15:17.919 forthcoming legislation was seat to put limits on the use 219 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:21.960 of this surveillance technology. We've got to keep our country safe, 220 00:15:22.080 --> 00:15:25.440 said Congresome burchet What we can't sacrifice as a freedom, 221 00:15:25.480 --> 00:15:28.559 of course that defines us burchase said in the video 222 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.519 he posted X it is and he's right about this 223 00:15:31.879 --> 00:15:36.440 a violation of the Fourth Amendment. Burchette has introduced HR 224 00:15:36.720 --> 00:15:40.039 ninety eight hundred to Congress that was on July twenty first. 225 00:15:40.360 --> 00:15:44.039 It's called the Protection Against Mass Surveillance Act, which we 226 00:15:44.159 --> 00:15:49.559 prohibit federal agencies from purchasing, using, accessing, or contracting for 227 00:15:49.720 --> 00:15:54.799 widespread surveillance technologies. It would also bar state, local, and 228 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:59.039 federal government from using federal funds to acquire or operate 229 00:15:59.080 --> 00:16:03.480 those systems. Burchett claims that the cameras bite our constitutional 230 00:16:03.559 --> 00:16:07.159 rights and force Americans to choose between safety and liberty. 231 00:16:07.600 --> 00:16:11.159 He explains that law enforcement and intelligence agencies should have 232 00:16:11.240 --> 00:16:14.879 tools to address threats by taking our constitutional rights is 233 00:16:14.919 --> 00:16:19.240 not on the table. Trust but verify, he said, quoting 234 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:22.679 Ronald Reagan. This legislation, of course, will hopefully restore the 235 00:16:22.799 --> 00:16:28.960 constitutional balance between national security and individual liberty. Look as 236 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:33.960 a conservative, this is big Brother at large. I don't 237 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:36.559 like real ID. I don't like the idea of a 238 00:16:36.879 --> 00:16:40.840 huge government based database that has information on every American citizen, 239 00:16:40.879 --> 00:16:44.480 whether it's by Pallanteer or some other vendor. And I 240 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:49.000 think it is time to ban these flock cameras. Shout 241 00:16:49.000 --> 00:16:52.000 out to my good friend Congressman Tim Burchett, suppied here 242 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:55.120 in the Stone Zone many times for this legislation. I'm 243 00:16:55.200 --> 00:16:57.399 Roger Stone to listen to the Stone Zone. Don't go away, 244 00:16:57.559 --> 00:16:59.519 because we'll be right back. 245 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:16.920 The Stone Zone entertaining and informative on the Red Apple 246 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:18.200 podcast networks. 247 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:23.279 Welcome back into the Stone Zone. I don't believe that 248 00:17:23.359 --> 00:17:27.160 mayor ma'm Damie has any place at the September eleventh 249 00:17:27.200 --> 00:17:30.480 Memorial this year or any other year. The twenty fifth 250 00:17:30.480 --> 00:17:34.039 anniversary of the September eleventh terrorists at taxes not a 251 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:38.039 political rally, a campaign opportunity, or a stage upon which 252 00:17:38.039 --> 00:17:41.880 the ambitious political officials can rehabilitate their reputations. It's a 253 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:46.359 sacred day of remembrance dedicated to the nearly three thousand 254 00:17:46.400 --> 00:17:50.640 innocent Americans murdered by Islamic terrorists. The first responders who 255 00:17:50.759 --> 00:17:54.240 ran towards the flames while others fled, the military men 256 00:17:54.279 --> 00:17:57.119 and women who answered the nation's call and the wars 257 00:17:57.160 --> 00:18:00.240 that followed, and the families whose lives were for ever 258 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.359 shattered that day belongs to them. It does not belong 259 00:18:03.440 --> 00:18:07.839 to politicians whose public record demonstrates repeated sympathy for those 260 00:18:07.880 --> 00:18:12.200 connected to the very ideology that produced the deadliest terrorist 261 00:18:12.240 --> 00:18:17.079 attack in American history. Yesterday, Mayor of Zoramam Doministrat firm 262 00:18:17.119 --> 00:18:19.759 at a press conference after the war to tend the 263 00:18:19.759 --> 00:18:24.079 official commemoration that decision is an act of extreme cruelty 264 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.559 towards the city he governs, and towards every family still 265 00:18:27.799 --> 00:18:32.319 carrying the weight of that clear September morning. Even entertaining 266 00:18:32.319 --> 00:18:35.160 the idea of his presence as memorial or among the 267 00:18:35.200 --> 00:18:38.960 survivors and the bereave shows a complete absence of basic 268 00:18:39.079 --> 00:18:43.400 human decency. The growing petition urging organizers to exclude him 269 00:18:43.400 --> 00:18:47.000 from the twenty fifth anniversary ceremony is not motivated by 270 00:18:47.240 --> 00:18:52.920 religious prejudice, political partisanship, or personal animosity. It reflects something 271 00:18:52.960 --> 00:18:57.160 far more profound. Survivors of the attacks, relatives of those 272 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:01.400 who never came home. A retired police off officers, firefighters, 273 00:19:01.440 --> 00:19:06.160 emergency medical personnel, and ordinary New Yorkers understand that September 274 00:19:06.160 --> 00:19:10.759 eleventh is about remembering those who suffered unimaginable loss. It 275 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:14.480 is not combatible with elevating a public official whose own 276 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:20.279 record repeatedly displays astonishing indifference towards that suffering while extending understanding, 277 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:26.720 admiration or political solidarity towards those associated with the attack, 278 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:31.200 I say he should not attend. Meanwhile, the US Chamber 279 00:19:31.240 --> 00:19:34.240 of Congress has warned that President Donald Trump's America First 280 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:39.680 immigration policies could create labor shortages, an argument that simply 281 00:19:39.720 --> 00:19:43.079 does not hold water when viewed by the American people. 282 00:19:43.720 --> 00:19:47.240 The Chamber of Commerce is urging Congress to protect migrants 283 00:19:47.359 --> 00:19:52.319 enrolled in the Temporary Protected Status or TPS program, after 284 00:19:52.319 --> 00:19:56.000 the Trump administration moved to end protections for people from 285 00:19:56.000 --> 00:20:02.200 more than a dozen countries. Business groups claimed construction, hospitality, manufacturing, 286 00:20:02.240 --> 00:20:05.599 and caregiving would lose workers, but that is, of course 287 00:20:05.640 --> 00:20:09.160 precisely the point. Those workers should be sent back and 288 00:20:09.200 --> 00:20:15.680 replaced by Americans at better wages. The Temporary Protected Status 289 00:20:15.720 --> 00:20:20.559 program was created as a temporary humanitarian program, not a 290 00:20:20.599 --> 00:20:27.440 permanent labor pipeline for corporations seeking cheap, defendable, dependable foreign workers. 291 00:20:28.039 --> 00:20:32.799 When an emergency designation continues year after year, temporary loses 292 00:20:32.799 --> 00:20:37.000 its meaning, and immigration policy becomes driven by corporate employers 293 00:20:37.119 --> 00:20:40.720 rather than the national interest. That's a big part of 294 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:43.559 why we're in the crisis we find ourselves in today. 295 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:48.400 The Chambers complaint follows a familiar pattern. The organization has 296 00:20:48.440 --> 00:20:53.160 repeatedly opposed major parts of President Trump's agenda, including tariffs 297 00:20:53.200 --> 00:20:58.319 intended to protect American industry and tighter immigration rules. Now 298 00:20:58.519 --> 00:21:02.799 suggests businesses can survive with that workers whose temporary permission 299 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:08.279 to remain has expired. That concern ignores Americans push out 300 00:21:08.319 --> 00:21:12.079 of the workforce, wages held down by abundant labor, and 301 00:21:12.240 --> 00:21:18.319 employer's responsibility to recruit, train, and fairly compensate citizens and 302 00:21:18.680 --> 00:21:25.000 lawful permanent residents. A business model dependent upon endlessly renewed 303 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:29.920 emergency status is not a national workforce strategy. It's a 304 00:21:30.000 --> 00:21:34.079 way to enrich corporations while shipping away at the demographic 305 00:21:34.119 --> 00:21:38.400 integrity of our country. President Trump is right to restore 306 00:21:38.440 --> 00:21:41.559 the rule of law and assists that temporary programs remain 307 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:47.240 just that temporary Congress should focus on secure borders, lawful immigration, 308 00:21:47.799 --> 00:21:52.400 higher wages, and opportunities for American workers, not another carve 309 00:21:52.440 --> 00:21:57.079 out demanded by Washington's corporate lobbying establishment Chamber of Commerce 310 00:21:57.119 --> 00:22:00.680 calls a labor shortage, but common sense Americans say that 311 00:22:00.839 --> 00:22:05.400 is exactly the point that corporation's bid up labor for Americans. 312 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:09.440 That's the way it should be. Meanwhile, a new report 313 00:22:09.720 --> 00:22:13.480 is raising serious questions about who may be financing the 314 00:22:13.599 --> 00:22:19.000 radical protest networks that have disrupted highways, occupied campuses, and 315 00:22:19.079 --> 00:22:23.599 openly promoted anti American revolutionary politics since the October seventh 316 00:22:23.559 --> 00:22:29.079 attext by Hamas against Israel. The Network Contagion Research Institute 317 00:22:29.119 --> 00:22:34.279 says that the Berkeley based Middle East Children's Alliance or MECCA, 318 00:22:34.440 --> 00:22:39.400 has effectively financed served as a financial bridge actually between 319 00:22:39.440 --> 00:22:43.400 major progressive donors and organizations with alleged ties to the 320 00:22:43.440 --> 00:22:48.200 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The PFLP is 321 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:53.160 a Marxist Londonist militant organization designed by the United States 322 00:22:53.240 --> 00:22:58.160 as a foreign terrorist organization designated by their Justice Department. 323 00:22:58.480 --> 00:23:03.920 According to the NCI, MECCA reported roughly thirty five million 324 00:23:03.960 --> 00:23:07.920 dollars and foreign grants between twenty seventeen and twenty twenty five, 325 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:13.640 investigators retraced thirteen point five million in institutional donations, about 326 00:23:13.640 --> 00:23:17.720 two thirds rooted through donor advised funds and platforms that 327 00:23:17.920 --> 00:23:21.920 can actually obscure where the money originally came from. Foreign 328 00:23:21.960 --> 00:23:25.480 grants reportedly surged to ten point seven million in twenty 329 00:23:25.519 --> 00:23:29.319 twenty four, while many disbursements were described as quote unquote 330 00:23:29.519 --> 00:23:33.279 community projects make it difficult for the public to determine 331 00:23:33.319 --> 00:23:38.359 where the money ultimately went. The NCRI identified several long 332 00:23:38.440 --> 00:23:42.839 time partners. It says i've documented affiliations with the radicals, 333 00:23:42.839 --> 00:23:49.119 along with overlapping personnel and activist relationships. Named funding sources 334 00:23:49.160 --> 00:23:53.960 reportedly included entities connected to George Source's Open Society Foundation, 335 00:23:54.480 --> 00:23:58.880 the Rockefeller Brothers funds, the Tides Foundation, and left wing 336 00:23:58.960 --> 00:24:05.200 financier and Chinese communist nevill Roy Singham. The incredible evidence 337 00:24:05.240 --> 00:24:10.279 demands investigation. Americans deserve to know whether tax exempt charities 338 00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:15.640 and wealthy left wing foundations have indirectly financed organizations connected 339 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:20.680 to foreign extremists. This is no longer about camp campus activism. 340 00:24:21.160 --> 00:24:25.519 It's about national security, transparency and whether radical networks are 341 00:24:25.599 --> 00:24:30.000 using charitable institutions to undermine our country from within, and 342 00:24:30.039 --> 00:24:32.480 if the evidence shows that they are guilty, all those 343 00:24:32.519 --> 00:24:38.240 responsible should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Meanwhile, 344 00:24:38.279 --> 00:24:43.400 Massachusetts Democrats are advancing legislation that would create a permanent 345 00:24:43.480 --> 00:24:49.000 state commission tasked with recommending Muslims for government appointments, raising 346 00:24:49.039 --> 00:24:54.000 fresh concerns about identity based hiring, political favoritism, and the 347 00:24:54.359 --> 00:24:59.519 lingering effects of DEI in Blue States Senate Bill too 348 00:24:59.799 --> 00:25:04.039 War one three four, which established an eleven member Muslim 349 00:25:04.039 --> 00:25:08.240 Commission appointed by Governor Mara Heally and other state officials. 350 00:25:08.240 --> 00:25:13.200 The panel would advise the state government on business, healthcare, education, 351 00:25:13.319 --> 00:25:18.519 and other issues affecting Muslim residents. More controversially, the bill 352 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.799 directs the commission to identify and recommend American Muslims for 353 00:25:22.839 --> 00:25:28.119 appointed positions throughout government, including boards and commissions. This is 354 00:25:28.400 --> 00:25:32.559 basically greasing the skids for the implementation of Sharia law. 355 00:25:33.119 --> 00:25:36.440 There is no reason why any religious group should receive 356 00:25:36.480 --> 00:25:41.119 a government backed pipeline into public office, particularly when it 357 00:25:41.119 --> 00:25:45.200 comes to faith as anesthetical to Western values as Islam, 358 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:50.559 Government positions should be filled coordinate merit, qualifications, and service 359 00:25:50.640 --> 00:25:54.880 to the public, not religion, race, ethnicity, or membership in 360 00:25:54.920 --> 00:25:58.839 a politically favored group. The proposal comes as President Trump's 361 00:25:58.839 --> 00:26:07.079 administration moves to dismantle the mandate to restore equal treatment 362 00:26:07.119 --> 00:26:10.839 and eliminate policies that divide Americans into competing identity groups. 363 00:26:11.440 --> 00:26:14.920 Muslims reportedly make up roughly two to three percent of 364 00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:19.720 Massachusetts population, but equal citizenship does not require separate commissions 365 00:26:19.720 --> 00:26:25.440 for every faith or demographic category. If Massachusetts wants fair hiring, 366 00:26:25.799 --> 00:26:30.000 it should create one standard for everyone. Establishing a religiously 367 00:26:30.039 --> 00:26:34.920 defined commission with influence over government appointees replaces equal opportunity 368 00:26:34.960 --> 00:26:39.559 with woke ideological preference. This is not only brazionally unconstitutional, 369 00:26:39.920 --> 00:26:43.559 but it's also an American. This commission must be shut 370 00:26:43.599 --> 00:26:46.599 down by the federal government in the courts or otherwise 371 00:26:46.759 --> 00:26:49.759 it is openly approved in the Luni left of Massachusetts. 372 00:26:49.799 --> 00:26:55.240 It will further erode our society. Meanwhile, Venezuela's new government 373 00:26:55.279 --> 00:26:59.480 is withdrawing from the International Criminal Court, and Washington is 374 00:26:59.559 --> 00:27:04.720 rightly for another victory for national sovereignty and for President 375 00:27:04.759 --> 00:27:10.519 Trump's don Roe doctrine. The State Department welcomed Caracas's announcement, 376 00:27:10.839 --> 00:27:14.559 saying Venezuela is joining america led efforts to dismantle an 377 00:27:14.599 --> 00:27:19.960 institution it described as corrupt, politically biased, and illegitimate. The 378 00:27:20.000 --> 00:27:25.000 International Criminal Court spent years investigating the Maduro regime, yet 379 00:27:25.039 --> 00:27:29.559 produced no meaningful accountability before the former dictator was removed 380 00:27:29.759 --> 00:27:33.880 this past January. Now, under new leadership, Venezuela is moving 381 00:27:33.920 --> 00:27:37.200 closer to the United States and further from the failed 382 00:27:37.240 --> 00:27:42.000 international bureaucracy that protects its own power while delivering very 383 00:27:42.119 --> 00:27:47.039 little justice. The message is unmistakable. Trump's strategy of restoring 384 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:50.960 America's strength in the Western hemisphere is working. It's not 385 00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:56.839 coincidental that with the shutdown of us AID that left 386 00:27:56.880 --> 00:28:01.480 wing regimes across this hemisphere and Chile, in Peru, in 387 00:28:01.559 --> 00:28:06.839 Honduras in Columbia are failing. The Denroe doctrine is not 388 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:12.119 an academic slogan. It's a warning that hostile regimes, formal 389 00:28:12.920 --> 00:28:17.519 drug networks, and unaccountable global institutions will no longer dominate 390 00:28:17.559 --> 00:28:23.680 America's neighborhood without consequences. Israel has also praised Washington's tough bosture. 391 00:28:24.160 --> 00:28:28.039 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Secretary of State Marco 392 00:28:28.160 --> 00:28:33.559 Rubiel reaffirmed America's intention to act forcefully after a court 393 00:28:33.599 --> 00:28:37.440 that has targeted democratic institutions while repeatedly failing to confront 394 00:28:37.680 --> 00:28:43.920 genuine tyranny. The International Criminal courts credibility suffered another blow 395 00:28:44.400 --> 00:28:51.079 when Members States removed Chief Prosecutor Karim khan amid misconduct allegations. 396 00:28:51.920 --> 00:28:57.599 For decades, global elite lectured sovereign nations while escaping accountability themselves. 397 00:28:58.400 --> 00:29:01.240 That era has come to an end. The idea that 398 00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:05.559 American citizens would be subject to some international court run 399 00:29:05.599 --> 00:29:09.240 by bureaucrats in the ague is absurd, and America has 400 00:29:09.319 --> 00:29:14.880 never recognized the authority the International Criminal Court. Venezuela's realignment 401 00:29:14.920 --> 00:29:18.279