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Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us in the Stone Zone. I think
Speaker 3: it was California speaker jess Unru who once said that
Speaker 3: money is the mother's milk of politics, and he was right.
Speaker 3: When it comes to the use of broadcast television, cable TV,
Speaker 3: terrestrial radio still very effective, those things are extraordinarily expensive.
Speaker 3: To a certain extent, the invention of the Internet into
Speaker 3: cell phones has democratized politics in a certain sense, as
Speaker 3: those tools for reaching voters are somewhat less expensive. But
Speaker 3: to run for the House, or for the Senate, or
Speaker 3: for governor anywhere in the United States literally takes millions
Speaker 3: of dollars. In that measure, the Republicans have a substantial
Speaker 3: advantage going into the twenty twenty six election. Let's take
Speaker 3: a look at it. As of the latest federal filings
Speaker 3: available that says of August this month, Republicans have a
Speaker 3: huge institutional financial advantage. The important distinction, though, is that
Speaker 3: this advantage is concentrated in the national party, Trump aligned
Speaker 3: packs and congressional superpacks. Trump first of all, has a
Speaker 3: Political Action Committee MAGA Inc. There is no comparable Democrat
Speaker 3: presidential candidates pack. On the other side, MAGA Inc. Finished
Speaker 3: June with four hundred million dollars cash on hand. That's
Speaker 3: an incredible number. The underlying filings from the most recent
Speaker 3: FEC report showed that they began twenty twenty five with
Speaker 3: only about twenty three point eight million dollars, and they
Speaker 3: accumulated roughly three hundred and ninety eight million dollars their
Speaker 3: war chest through this most recent August. And of course
Speaker 3: the president is expected to raise more. That means Trump
Speaker 3: has something unusual for a midterm president, a four hundred
Speaker 3: million dollar plus political war chests outside the parties that
Speaker 3: can potentially be used to help Republican candidates who are
Speaker 3: aligned with him. It was also noticed that the reserve
Speaker 3: at MAGA Inc. Was larger than all four principal Democrat
Speaker 3: congressional campaign funds combined, and MAGA Inc. The President's political
Speaker 3: action committee, has deliberately conserved much of their money. So far,
Speaker 3: They've spent very very little. That matters because we're approaching
Speaker 3: the period when advertising turnout operations and late money becomes
Speaker 3: particularly important. But then when you look at the two
Speaker 3: parties themselves, that comparison is startling. The Republican National Committee
Speaker 3: has one hundred and twenty million dollars cash on hand
Speaker 3: versus the Democrat National Committee, which has sixteen million dollars
Speaker 3: cash on hand but a more than eighteen million dollar
Speaker 3: debt from disastro selection involving Kamala Harris. So simply comparing
Speaker 3: gross cash, the Republican National Committee has roughly eight dollars
Speaker 3: for every dollar held by the Democrats. If you consider
Speaker 3: the Democrats a debt burn, the difference in that financial
Speaker 3: position is even larger. This isn't just an accounting curiosity.
Speaker 3: Party money is particularly valuable because the National Committee provides
Speaker 3: a voter data field organization, legal operations, advertising, candidate support,
Speaker 3: and turnout infrastructure across dozens of races. Simultaneously. Trump is
Speaker 3: actually returning to Texas on August twenty seventh, the birthday
Speaker 3: that I share with one Lyndon Baines Johnson for another
Speaker 3: Republican National Committee fundraisers, suggesting that Trump and the Republicans
Speaker 3: are going to continue to build their reserve rather than
Speaker 3: just spending it down. Republicans also have a significant major
Speaker 3: advantage when it comes to the US Senate. The Senate
Speaker 3: Leadership Fund, aligned with the Senate Majority Leader John Thune,
Speaker 3: reported two hundred and fifty three million dollars raised, with
Speaker 3: two hundred and thirty eight million dollars cash on hand
Speaker 3: as of June thirtieth. That's more than double the cash
Speaker 3: that the Senate Leadership Fund had at the same stage
Speaker 3: in the twenty twenty four elections. Earlier in the cycle,
Speaker 3: Axios calculated the Republican Senate superPAC had nearly three times
Speaker 3: as much cash as its Democratic counterpart. Democrats have since
Speaker 3: begun making large reservations. The Senate Majority Pack recently announced
Speaker 3: some fifty four million dollars in Senate spending, but the
Speaker 3: Senate Leadership Fund remains financially stronger. Overall. The broader congression
Speaker 3: machinery favors Republicans. Also, this comparison is especially use when
Speaker 3: it removes Trump themselves. The looks at just the organizations
Speaker 3: privarily responsible for Congress. The four major Republican orderzations. Those
Speaker 3: would be the Senate Leadership Fund, the Congressionship of Leadership Fund,
Speaker 3: the National republic Congressional Committee, and the National Public Senate
Speaker 3: Committee had roughly five hundred and twenty nine million dollars
Speaker 3: cash on hand. Their Democratic counterparts that would be the
Speaker 3: Senate Majority Pack, the House Majority Pack, the Democratic Congressional
Speaker 3: Campaign Committee, and the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee had about
Speaker 3: three hundred and thirty six million dollars cash on dand
Speaker 3: so that's approximately one hundred and ninety three million dollar
Speaker 3: Republican advantage, or about a fifty seven percent cash advantage.
Speaker 3: And as I say, the Republican parties, the actual party
Speaker 3: functions through June had collectively raised six hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: three million dollars compared with about five hundred and forty
Speaker 3: six million dollars for the DNC. So if they say
Speaker 3: money can't solve all problems, that's true, but in a
Speaker 3: tough election, money could make a real difference. In my view,
Speaker 3: this financial advantage takes the place of network there's in
Speaker 3: other words, ABC, NBC, CBS. I think they should actually
Speaker 3: file as in kind contributions to the Democrats in the
Speaker 3: way that they report, but to Trump and the Republicans
Speaker 3: will have a huge financial advantage going into this election.
Speaker 3: Then there's additional outside money from all kinds of independent packs.
Speaker 3: They never surrender Incorporated pack had about sixty million dollars.
Speaker 3: That's a pro Republican, pro Trump packed. The Club for
Speaker 3: Growth had about eighty seven million dollars cash on hand,
Speaker 3: So those side committees, independent but pro Republican committees also
Speaker 3: importantly count. The other thing you have to look at
Speaker 3: right now is polling. It's very important that people understand polling.
Speaker 3: A poll is but a snapshot in time. In order
Speaker 3: for a poll to be accurate, there's a number of
Speaker 3: key factors. Are those I like to say, there are polls,
Speaker 3: and then there are polls. A poll can be taken
Speaker 3: for a pre desired result, that's a publicity vehicle that's
Speaker 3: not a real poll, or a pole can be taken
Speaker 3: to take an unvarnished, unbiased snapshot examination of public attitudes
Speaker 3: within a certain electorate. But for in order for a
Speaker 3: poll to be on the up and up to be legitimate,
Speaker 3: the sample size has to be large enough and has
Speaker 3: to be scientifically balanced to reflect the electorate that you're
Speaker 3: trying to measure. In other words, the correct number of men, women, white, Black, Hispanic, Asian, young, old, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish,
Speaker 3: and so on. Secondarily, is the order of the questions.
Speaker 3: There's such thing as order bias. In other words, if
Speaker 3: you test a negative message against a candidate and then
Speaker 3: test the head to head ballot after you test a
Speaker 3: potential negative message or positive message, you're going to skew
Speaker 3: your pole. And then lastly is the actual wording of
Speaker 3: the questions. The wording of the questions has to be
Speaker 3: completely unbiased and completely neutral. I saw this weekend a
Speaker 3: perfect example of what I think was a rigged poll. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: the New York Post and the Albany Times Union, as
Speaker 3: well as Channel thirteen in Albany, took a poll by
Speaker 3: an organization called Survey USA measuring the race for Congress
Speaker 3: in New York's twenty first district. That's the seat that
Speaker 3: is being vacated by Elis Stefonik, where Anthony Constantino. You
Speaker 3: remember him. He's the guy who put the giant vote
Speaker 3: for a Trump sign on the top of his factory
Speaker 3: in Amsterdam, New York, and the local Democrats actually threatened
Speaker 3: to throw him in jail. They came out with a
Speaker 3: pole this week that is as fraudulent as they come.
Speaker 3: Was done by this group, Survey USA. Why do I
Speaker 3: say it was fraudulent? Well, first of all, ten of
Speaker 3: those who were polled, are not registered to vote and
Speaker 3: have no intention to vote. Two counties within this twelve
Speaker 3: county district were not included whatsoever. And in the battle
Speaker 3: of the trial heat the head to head between Anthony
Speaker 3: Constantino the Republican and Blake jennebeing the Democrat, they included
Speaker 3: a rite in candidate whose name is not on the ballot.
Speaker 3: They somehow came up with a head to head number
Speaker 3: that was I think it was forty three to thirty nine.
Speaker 3: That of course is in the headlines. So why would
Speaker 3: you falsify a poll like this? Wow, It's very simple.
Speaker 3: It's in order to engender greater fundraising for the Democrat
Speaker 3: candidate and to give an impression that in this reliably
Speaker 3: Republican district, where Republicans hold a substantial registration edge, that
Speaker 3: this race is more competitive than it is. It's really
Speaker 3: irresponsible for media organizations not to look at the internal numbers.
Speaker 3: If you look in the internal numbers poll, this pole
Speaker 3: would have you believe that Kathy Hokeel is more popular,
Speaker 3: has a higher approval rating than the local congresswoman, elist Stephonic,
Speaker 3: who has I must tell you, based on all the
Speaker 3: polland I've studied, has one of the highest favorability ratings
Speaker 3: I have ever seen by a congresswoman. She's even more
Speaker 3: popular than President Trump in the district. So the other
Speaker 3: place you can look online and you see a lot
Speaker 3: of this is websites like Koushi and polymarket. They have
Speaker 3: what appears to be poles, but that's completely voluntary. So
Speaker 3: while they're interesting, and while they've maybe a measure of
Speaker 3: the intensity of support of people who are online, let's
Speaker 3: try to remember that not everybody's online. In fact, younger
Speaker 3: voters are online. Where in a Republican primary where the
Speaker 3: average voter is probably sixty five plus in most states,
Speaker 3: many of the voters are not online, So those aren't
Speaker 3: really poles. Also recognize the volatility. In other words, to
Speaker 3: look at a poll in the summer for an election
Speaker 3: that is months away and try to declare who's going
Speaker 3: to win, well, that's a fool's errand, and it's why
Speaker 3: many of these polls right now should be discounted. Yes,
Speaker 3: Democrats are ahead to number of key Senate races, but
Speaker 3: in many cases they're ahead by a margin is within
Speaker 3: the margin of era. No poll is going to be
Speaker 3: exactly on the money, depending on the sample size, So
Speaker 3: a word of caution for those who want to rush
Speaker 3: to judgment about this November's election. Are the Republicans at
Speaker 3: a disadvantage? Historically? Absolutely, the party in power has always
Speaker 3: lost seats in both houses in the off year elections.
Speaker 3: No reason why this one should not be expected to
Speaker 3: be different. And the Republican's margin is slim. But as
Speaker 3: I said earlier, they have a huge financial advantage, and
Speaker 3: it is very early in the season. At about you.
Speaker 3: The Publican primary for governor of Florida is tomorrow. Where
Speaker 3: I am based in I get six or seven of
Speaker 3: these huge floppy mailings in my mailbox every day, you know,
Speaker 3: the self mailers. Political consultants love these because the markup
Speaker 3: is very substantial. But if you think about it, when
Speaker 3: you go to your mailbox, the first thing you do
Speaker 3: is divide the mail you have received into two piles.
Speaker 3: There's a pile that you're going to throw away. There's
Speaker 3: a pile that you are going to open and read.
Speaker 3: So the political mailings, along with the advertisement from Sam's
Speaker 3: Club or the local car wash or a nearby restaurant,
Speaker 3: those go in the circular file the waste paper basket.
Speaker 3: But when you get a close face envelope. It appears
Speaker 3: to have been addressed by hand, and in the other
Speaker 3: left hand corner is just a return address, and there's
Speaker 3: a bulk stamp which is put on slightly crooked. Well,
Speaker 3: you're going to open that because you wonder if it's
Speaker 3: a bill or some other important munication. See, that's effective
Speaker 3: voter mail, something that few candidates go to the expense
Speaker 3: or trouble to do anymore because it is expensive, particularly
Speaker 3: with the increasing costs of postage. But to me, that
Speaker 3: is effective political communications. When we come back, talk about
Speaker 3: the fact that I just saw the testimony of Mike Donolan,
Speaker 3: who is a political consultant for Joe Biden and his
Speaker 3: fees in the twenty twenty presidential election, which were really extraordinary.
Speaker 3: I've never seen a political consultant make twelve million dollars
Speaker 3: on a race, regardless of the outcome. It is outlandish
Speaker 3: based on the way political consultants charge. We'll talk about
Speaker 3: that on the other side. You're in the stone zone.
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Speaker 3: Welcome back into the Stone Zone. We're talking about the
Speaker 3: mechanics of American politics and what matters and what doesn't.
Speaker 3: I saw my online friend Kat Turns say today that
Speaker 3: the Internet is not reality, or should the Twitter sphere
Speaker 3: is not reality. That's important to understand. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of political combat that goes on in social media that
Speaker 3: is not necessarily a reflection oh what actual voters think.
Speaker 3: You can get too wrapped up into that and start
Speaker 3: to believe that is a reflection of the real world.
Speaker 3: I think this is going to be true in the
Speaker 3: Florida primary for governor tomorrow, where Byron Donald's I think
Speaker 3: holds astantial lead based on legitimate polling, challenging him as
Speaker 3: the lieutenant governor, Jay Collins, and a very idiosyncratic candidate
Speaker 3: by the name of James Fishback, also a former House Speaker,
Speaker 3: Paul Renner. If you were online today, you would think
Speaker 3: that some of those minor candidates have a shot. But
Speaker 3: if you're looking at real, legitimate polling, I'm prepared to
Speaker 3: predict that Byron Donald's will win. The other interesting race
Speaker 3: is the embattled campaign of Corey Mills, the candidate from
Speaker 3: Florida's seventh district. He has been embroiled in a number
Speaker 3: of controversies, including a restraining order placed on him by
Speaker 3: a federal judge after he threatened one girlfriend, a political
Speaker 3: also police coming to his apartment when he allegedly roughed
Speaker 3: up or threatened another girlfriend. No charges were filed in
Speaker 3: that case. Also some questions about stolen valor whether his
Speaker 3: bronze stars legitimate. General who allegedly signed that certificate says
Speaker 3: he has no memory of doing so. A new poll there,
Speaker 3: a legitimate poll, shows him trailing forty four twenty seven.
Speaker 3: But remember you have early voting and many of the
Speaker 3: votes have already been cast here in Florida. But all
Speaker 3: eyes are on that race. I think Corey Mills would
Speaker 3: be a very weak general election in candidate in a
Speaker 3: year in which the Republicans can't afford to drop any
Speaker 3: house races. Both of those races need to be watched
Speaker 3: extraordinarily carefully. Florida used to be a purple state, but
Speaker 3: now Republicans have almost a one point three million dollar
Speaker 3: Republican voter restratch voting registration advantage. That doesn't mean that
Speaker 3: this won't be a competitive race, because it is, after all,
Speaker 3: an off year. Donald Trump is not on the ballot,
Speaker 3: and that's key factor. There are a number of voters
Speaker 3: who are pro Trump, but not necessarily Republicans, who come
Speaker 3: out when he's on the ballot, but don't come out
Speaker 3: when he isn't. One of the real challenges for Republicans
Speaker 3: across the country is going to be identifying those pro
Speaker 3: Trump voters and getting them out. I'm Roger Stone talking
Speaker 3: about the mechanics of American politics right here in the
Speaker 3: Stone Zone, and will be right back.
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Speaker 2: Roger Stone, Where's Roger Here's Roger Stone.
Speaker 3: Welcome back into the Stone Zone. As I said earlier,
Speaker 3: I was startled by the starting testimony under oath by
Speaker 3: Mike Donald and a Democrat political consultant. I don't know Mike,
Speaker 3: but I know his brother Tom was a very capable operative.
Speaker 3: He was working for Walter Mondale when I was working
Speaker 3: for Ronald Reagan in the nineteen eighty campaign. But it
Speaker 3: was shocking when he said under oath, after much hemming
Speaker 3: and hay, his fees from Joe Biden's campaign were guaranteed
Speaker 3: sixteen million dollars. I've never seen that. Normally speaking, political
Speaker 3: consultants are paid a flat monthly fee, and then some
Speaker 3: political consultants also negotiate a percentage of the commission for
Speaker 3: the placement of electronic media like cable television, broadcast television,
Speaker 3: or radio, usually far below the standard fifteen percent commission,
Speaker 3: which gets mostly rebated back to the campaign. And the
Speaker 3: seven hundred plus campaigns i've worked, i've very rarely done that,
Speaker 3: largely because you don't want the candidate to think that
Speaker 3: your recommendation that they use broadcast television or terrestrial radio
Speaker 3: like the one you're listening to, because money in your pocket,
Speaker 3: but you're recommending it for its strategic strength. So that
Speaker 3: number really blows my mind. I've never heard of anything
Speaker 3: like that. My good friend Greg Kelly speculated maybe some
Speaker 3: of that money ended up back in the pockets of
Speaker 3: the bidens themselves, since Joe Biden had to approve the deal,
Speaker 3: but there is no evidence of that. But it does
Speaker 3: stand out like a sore thumb. I think it's very strange. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: a Nevadic judge has finally dismissed the case of six
Speaker 3: Republican Alternative Presidential Electoral College electors who signed a twenty
Speaker 3: twenty certificate asserting that Donald Trump won the state. Judge
Speaker 3: Mary K Holt has found that there was no fraudulent intent.
Speaker 3: The group openly publicized their actions as an effort to
Speaker 3: preserve legal challenges over election regularities in the midst of
Speaker 3: a disputed election, not to deceive anyone. Alternative electors have
Speaker 3: a rich tradition in the United States. Nineteen sixty, for example,
Speaker 3: it was thought on election night that Vice President Richard
Speaker 3: Dixon had carried the state of Hawaii. John F. Kennedy's
Speaker 3: campaign didn't believe, so they formed a slate of alternative electors,
Speaker 3: confident about the fact that once the absentee ballots were counted,
Speaker 3: the JF. K would win Hawaii, which he did, and
Speaker 3: they preserved their rights and therefore ultimately their electors were seated.
Speaker 3: The whole idea that alternative electors as were filed at Georgia, Arizona,
Speaker 3: and Nevada, as well as Michigan, was somehow illicit or illegal.
Speaker 3: It's largely an invention of MSNBC and the special prosecutor
Speaker 3: Jack Smith. In the case of Georgia's electors, if you
Speaker 3: read the minutes of their meeting, they specifically state that
Speaker 3: they're forming the elector slate to protect their rights depending
Speaker 3: on the outcome of litigation challenging the outcome of that
Speaker 3: state's election. So this decision in Nevada is long past due.
Speaker 3: Two of my friends were electors, Mike MacDonald, the Republican
Speaker 3: state chairman, and Jesse Law, the former Clark County Republican chairman.
Speaker 3: I know there has been enormous stress on them and
Speaker 3: their families. I'm glad that the courts have finally reached
Speaker 3: the correct decision. This entire matter, whether it is Michigan, Arizona, Georgia,
Speaker 3: or Nevada, is a well deserved collapse of a coordinated
Speaker 3: far left overreach effort. Similar witch hunts were thrown out
Speaker 3: across the country. In Michigan, judge dismiss charges against fifteen
Speaker 3: Republicans ruling that prosecutors failed to prove any intent to defraud.
Speaker 3: Georgia's sprawling case under Fanny Willis collapsed amid ethical scandals
Speaker 3: and was ultimately dropped, and Arizona's prosecution has been repeatedly
Speaker 3: delayed and sent back after numerous constitutional violations. These instances
Speaker 3: were never about justice. They were about political law, fair
Speaker 3: and intimidation, designed to criminalize, dissent and intimidate anyone who
Speaker 3: might question the outcome of the twenty twenty election, which,
Speaker 3: of course, under the First Amendment, every American has the
Speaker 3: right to do. Those in power wanted to send a
Speaker 3: message to all of those who insist on election integrity
Speaker 3: that their advocacy against voter fraud and they very well
Speaker 3: land them up in the pokey. In Nevada, the Democrat
Speaker 3: Attorney General, Aaron Forward, who's now running for government, vows
Speaker 3: to appeal. Still clinging to this fake elector narrative, but
Speaker 3: courts keep projecting it. These shameful prosecutions just waste taxpayers dollars,
Speaker 3: ruined reputations, and a road trust in the system. But again,
Speaker 3: if you look at the election of eighteen seventy seven,
Speaker 3: or are the election in nineteen sixty two perfect examples
Speaker 3: where they have multiple totally legal uses of alternative elector slates. Now,
Speaker 3: these protop electors should be following lawsuits, in my opinions,
Speaker 3: directify the hellish ordeal they've been forced to the legal
Speaker 3: fees the pressure of the stress. Trump supporters who signed
Speaker 3: contingent certificates for exercising free speech and their legal and
Speaker 3: political rights, not committing any crimes. Democrat attorney generals weaponize
Speaker 3: the justice system against the Republicans while covering up legitimate
Speaker 3: concerns about election fraud. When the mainstream media tells you
Speaker 3: there's no evidence whatsoever irregularities or anomalies or outright fraud
Speaker 3: and the twenty twenty elections, that is simply not true.
Speaker 3: It's there. The mainstream media has just generally speaking, refused
Speaker 3: to cover it or going out of their way to
Speaker 3: try to discredit it. Justice is prevailing as these alternative
Speaker 3: electric cases crumble. Every prosecute and official involvemusicses should be
Speaker 3: run from their positions and where Scarlett letter, As far
Speaker 3: as I am concerned, the Supreme Court now is refused
Speaker 3: yet again to consider President Donald Trump's challenge through the
Speaker 3: five million dollars civil verdict won by e Jan Carroll,
Speaker 3: leaving intact raises serious questions about fairness and evidential standards
Speaker 3: in the courts. The justices denied President Trump's rehearing quest
Speaker 3: has passed Monday without explanation and with no noted descents.
Speaker 3: The court had already declined in June to hear his appeal.
Speaker 3: One issue for appeal was the fact that the jury
Speaker 3: was never allowed to hear that Trump had actually been
Speaker 3: cleared of the charge of rape. A twenty twenty three
Speaker 3: jury found Trump civilly liable for defaming Carroll. Democrats in
Speaker 3: New York State legislature actually amended the law to extend
Speaker 3: the statute of limitations to allow Carroll to bring this
Speaker 3: lawsuit that would have otherwise been laughed out of the courts.
Speaker 3: Little did the Democrats know that they were inadvertently snagged
Speaker 3: both former Democrat Governor Andrew cmo and for Mayor Eric
Speaker 3: Adams in similar sexual assault cases. President Trump has consistently
Speaker 3: and rightly denied these absurd allegations. Woman whose own unhinged
Speaker 3: and bizarre behavior have made her a nationwide laughing stop.
Speaker 3: It is President Trump's attorney's challenges of trial court's decision
Speaker 3: amid highly prejudicial evidence, including allegations by other women concerning
Speaker 3: events decades earlier, and the infamous Access Hollywood recording, which
Speaker 3: had nothing to do with the case but was allowed
Speaker 3: to be presented at trial. It was meant to humiliate
Speaker 3: President Trump and to impoverish him, in conjunction with all
Speaker 3: of the other law fair efforts that were lodged to
Speaker 3: its president in New York State? Who can forget? In
Speaker 3: the interview with Anderson Cooper on CNM when E. G.
Speaker 3: And Carroll said that she thought many women found the
Speaker 3: idea of rape sexy. I've never seen Andrew Sson Cooper
Speaker 3: cut to a break so fast in my life. The
Speaker 3: President's Supreme Court petition argued that lower courts improperly loosened
Speaker 3: normal protections against federal evidence rules governing prejudice propensity evidence
Speaker 3: alleged prior and misconduct. Those are not, in my view,
Speaker 3: trivial technicalities. Rule four h three, for example, exists specifically
Speaker 3: so inflammatory evidence doesn't overwhelm a jury's consideration of the
Speaker 3: actual allegation before it. President Trump's petition also pointed to
Speaker 3: disagreements among federal courts over how these evidentiary protection should
Speaker 3: operate in sexual assault cases. Supreme Court's job is to
Speaker 3: ensure federal laws applied consistently, even to deep defendants who
Speaker 3: are hated by entrenched power structure. By refusing review without explanation,
Speaker 3: the court left those I think legitimate and significant questions unresolved.
Speaker 3: Shame on them for abdicating their responsibility in this instance.
Speaker 3: In the end, it pures President Trump will have to
Speaker 3: pay this woman, who I think is a little unhinged,
Speaker 3: about five million bucks. Meanwhile, doctor Anthony Fauci is in
Speaker 3: full retreat. The man who once dictated pandemic policy from
Speaker 3: the highest purch of government power, believing he was above
Speaker 3: the laws, now dog in questions, refusing interviews and hiding
Speaker 3: behind lawyers. As a damaging revelation exposes how he personally
Speaker 3: helped censor the lab leak COVID origin theory. Former ABC
Speaker 3: News correspondence Terry Moran, a liberal reporter with a modicum
Speaker 3: of integrity, just admitted on the Fifth Column podcast that
Speaker 3: is twenty twenty one Nightline investigation into the Wuhan lab
Speaker 3: origin of COVID was gutted hours before airtime. Moran and
Speaker 3: his team had produced a serious examination of evidence pointing
Speaker 3: to a lab accident including Chinese military funding at the
Speaker 3: Wuhan Institute of Virology. Then the script went for review,
Speaker 3: returned incomprehensible stript of meaning and loaded with caveats meant
Speaker 3: to protect those who were likely responsible. When reporter Moran
Speaker 3: demanded answers, was told one ominous word. Fauci, lawyers, standards editors,
Speaker 3: and the nation's top infectis disease officials had intervened to
Speaker 3: spike that sty Miriam was legitimately says he was absolutely livid,
Speaker 3: cursing at the time the segment that aired was not
Speaker 3: his work, at the fact that his important work was
Speaker 3: being senatored and repressed. While Fauci and his allies dismissed
Speaker 3: the Labli hypothesis as conspiracy theory and somehow racist, he
Speaker 3: was quietly ensuring that mainstream audience has never heard a
Speaker 3: coherent case for it. Pattern continues to this very day.
Speaker 3: Senator Ron Johnson's subcommittee, who questioned a private transcribbed interview
Speaker 3: with doctor Fauci, doctor Frauci's attorney refused, claiming it would
Speaker 3: impermissibly harass him for political purposes. Now this is the
Speaker 3: same Fauci he was claimed he had nothing to hide.
Speaker 3: I do not criticize him for evoking his Fifth Amendment
Speaker 3: rights under oath. He has the right to do that.
Speaker 3: That does not mean that he's guilty. However, the fact
Speaker 3: that he has a premeditated presidential pardon, even though it
Speaker 3: was signed by an autopen closes off that fifth of
Speaker 3: men an option. In other words, he can, in my view,
Speaker 3: be charged with contempt of Congress over his refusal to
Speaker 3: answer because he had no legal jeopardy. This tells me
Speaker 3: the walls are closing in, and now the doctor Fauci
Speaker 3: and his lawyers probably fear prosecution at the state level.
Speaker 3: The Attorney General in Florida has begun an investigation, and
Speaker 3: I think that this could be a problem for doctor Pouci.
Speaker 3: There is now a public mandate charge Fauci crimes against humanity.
Speaker 3: Trump administration must make the most of this opportunity, but
Speaker 3: not over his refusal to answer questions under the Fifth Amendment,
Speaker 3: despite his pre eminent pardon paid signed by Narutopem. In
Speaker 3: the meantime, President Trump is signaled a fewer military exercises
Speaker 3: with South Korea. President Trump is signaling a reduction in
Speaker 3: US South Korean military exercise as well, pointing to his
Speaker 3: personal relationship with North Korean leader Kim Jong and President
Speaker 3: Trump said Sunday that he ordered the Pentagon to substantially
Speaker 3: reduce the exercises, arguing that the massive drills are expensive
Speaker 3: and sending a necessarily hostile signal to the North Koreans.
Speaker 3: The ten day Ochie Freedom Shield Exercise began today involves
Speaker 3: tens of thousands of Americans, South Koreans, and allied military personnel.
Speaker 3: President said North Korea had been unthreatening and respectful during
Speaker 3: his current administration, and specifically credited his very good relationship
Speaker 3: with Kim. It's another example of President Trump rejecting the
Speaker 3: Washington foreign policy establishment's conventional playbook. But it also may
Speaker 3: have something to do with the fact that South Korea
Speaker 3: declined to support US in our efforts against Iran and
Speaker 3: the regime there. Critics mocked Trump during his first term
Speaker 3: for meeting directly with Kim and treating personal diplomacy as
Speaker 3: a tool of state craft. Yet Trump told me when
Speaker 3: he became president, both former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack
Speaker 3: Obama told him that North Korea was his single largest problem.
Speaker 3: And when Trump said to them, what are they saying
Speaker 3: both men saill, Well, we don't know what they're saying.
Speaker 3: We're not speaking to them. So I think President Trump
Speaker 3: deserves credit for opening a dialogue with the man that
Speaker 3: he once called Little Rocketman, and they did at least
Speaker 3: temporarily put aside their nuclear weapons development program, only to
Speaker 3: gear it back up when Joe Biden became president. It
Speaker 3: also showed that fear mongrant from the neocons say diplomacy's
Speaker 3: off limits. He's just designed to preserve threats as a
Speaker 3: pretense to facilitate this global empire. North Korea has issued
Speaker 3: harsh warnings ahead of the exercises, calling them preparations for war.
Speaker 3: President Trump's decision instead sends the message in America can
Speaker 3: remain strong without provoking confrontation simply for confrontation's sake. See
Speaker 3: that's the difference between America first diplomacy and endless foreign
Speaker 3: war thinking. President Trump isn't, by any means trusting Kim blindly.
Speaker 3: He's using large communication and predictability to keep tensions under
Speaker 3: control while leaving America's military power firmly in reserve. This
Speaker 3: is why we elected Him's why we could have peace
Speaker 3: in market capitalism in North Korea. If the bureaucrats of
Speaker 3: the military industrial complex were just to get out of
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Speaker 3: Donald Trump is praising a major new Middle East defense
Speaker 3: agreement as a sign that America's allies are finally taking
Speaker 3: greater responsibility for their own security. Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and
Speaker 3: Pakistan have sign what's called the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement.
Speaker 3: This is a packed midled in part on NATO's collective
Speaker 3: Defense principle, meaning an attack on one member would be
Speaker 3: treated as an attack on all. President Trump welcomed the
Speaker 3: deal Sunday, calling it a big, bold, important first step
Speaker 3: and saying that it shows Middle Eastern nations are coming
Speaker 3: together and becoming more capable of defending themselves. That kind
Speaker 3: of fits squarely with Trump's America First foreign policy, as
Speaker 3: our allies are building their own military strength instead of
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Speaker 3: field's NATO's second largest military in Saudi Arabia has of
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Speaker 3: to the Kingdom. Critics are warning that the pact could
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Speaker 3: was elected to put America first, and this shows that
Speaker 3: those who believe that our foreign policies controlled by Israel
Speaker 3: are wrong. Also shown that a shadow of doubt the
Speaker 3: US will protect Israel as our most reliable ally in
Speaker 3: the region. Israeli Prime Minister that Benjamin Netanya was indicated
Speaker 3: he understands that he is a junior partner. President Trump
Speaker 3: optromly calls the shots don't expect too much is really
Speaker 3: pushed back regarding this particular deal. For decades, Washington's Forum
Speaker 3: policy establishment treated American military dominance as the answer to
Speaker 3: every regional crisis. President Trump's message is different. Strong allies
Speaker 3: must defend themselves, America should protect its own's interests, and
Speaker 3: the US troops should not automatically be the world's first
Speaker 3: line of defense. That's a real America first foreign policy
Speaker 3: and action. That said, we will never abandon our strongest
Speaker 3: ally in the region, and that is indeed Israel. Meanwhile,
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