WEBVTT 1 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:14.640 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone. People love 2 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:16.559 him and respect him. Rogers Stone. 3 00:00:17.000 --> 00:00:21.239 Now give him his zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's 4 00:00:21.480 --> 00:00:24.879 Rogers Stone. 5 00:00:25.120 --> 00:00:29.120 You are now entering the Stone Zone. This is where 6 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:32.679 you can get the inside political scoop about what's really 7 00:00:32.719 --> 00:00:38.119 happening in Washington. Roughly three weeks ago, emergency services were 8 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:42.320 called to the home of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell was 9 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:46.479 caught by TMZ. Since that time, Senator McConnell has not 10 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:51.320 been seen or heard, raising substantial questions about his current 11 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:55.799 condition and some even question whether he's still alive. Then, 12 00:00:55.880 --> 00:01:00.359 on Sunday, his office released a photograph of him with 13 00:01:00.479 --> 00:01:06.519 his wife, former Transportation and Labor Secretary Elaine Shaw. Of course, 14 00:01:06.560 --> 00:01:10.879 the conspiracy theorists immediately started to analyze that photo, with 15 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:16.120 some claiming not me, but others that it was AI generated. 16 00:01:16.480 --> 00:01:19.239 But there's a much bigger story here. When he was 17 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.280 first elected to the United States Senate nineteen eighty four, 18 00:01:22.799 --> 00:01:26.000 Mitch McConnell was just forty two years old. He began 19 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:29.599 serving as the junior Republican Senator from Kentucky in nineteen 20 00:01:29.640 --> 00:01:32.680 eighty five. McConnell was a single Man at the time, 21 00:01:32.799 --> 00:01:36.359 having divorced his wife and mother of his three children, 22 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:40.560 Sheryl Redman, in nineteen eighty. In order to secure his 23 00:01:40.640 --> 00:01:43.959 seat in the Senate, McConnell had the tall order of 24 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:50.439 defeating incumbent Democrat Senator Walter D. Huddleston. Huddleston had served 25 00:01:50.560 --> 00:01:54.159 in that position from nineteen seventy three to nineteen eighty four. 26 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:58.959 McConnell's team ran a controversial series of TV ads featuring 27 00:01:59.239 --> 00:02:04.120 bloodhounds searching for Huddleston, who had a high absentee record 28 00:02:04.159 --> 00:02:08.039 and had miss votes while making paid speeches. The ad 29 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:12.759 highlighted his absence on key votes on issues like social security, 30 00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:17.879 the budget, defense, and agriculture. Also highlighted within mcconnald's campaign 31 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:22.080 was his strong opinions on national defense. Then, in what 32 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:26.080 was dubbed the Upset of nineteen eighty four, mcconnelld defeated 33 00:02:26.159 --> 00:02:29.599 Huddleston Kentucky in the nineteen eighty four election by just 34 00:02:29.680 --> 00:02:33.639 over five thousand votes and headed to Washington to embark 35 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:36.479 on what has, without any question, been one of the 36 00:02:36.479 --> 00:02:41.560 most successful political careers in Kentucky state history. McConnell is 37 00:02:41.599 --> 00:02:45.639 the longest serving Senate leader in the US history, having 38 00:02:45.719 --> 00:02:48.919 served in that position as the Republican Majority leader from 39 00:02:48.960 --> 00:02:52.560 two thousand and seven to twenty twenty five. In the 40 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:56.080 years preceding his upset victory in State of Kentucky, Mitch 41 00:02:56.159 --> 00:03:00.360 McConnell took a hardened stance against China, a stance that 42 00:03:00.400 --> 00:03:04.360 would dramatically shift following the beginning of his relationship with 43 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:09.439 his second wife, Elaine Show. In the aftermath of McConnell's 44 00:03:09.479 --> 00:03:13.879 new relationship with Chao, the Senator radically shifted his viewpoints 45 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:17.199 in order to adapt to a softer stance told the 46 00:03:17.599 --> 00:03:21.520 communist Chinese Party and its many associates, and to squash 47 00:03:21.639 --> 00:03:24.960 anybody who dared to stand up to China's aggression towards 48 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:29.840 the US. Interestingly, McConnell also saw his wealth shift dramatically 49 00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:33.240 in the years following his election. On taking his seat 50 00:03:33.240 --> 00:03:36.599 in the US Senate, mcconnald's net worth was minimal. Estimates 51 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.000 put his total net worth at the time somewhere around 52 00:03:39.280 --> 00:03:42.439 two hundred thousand dollars. After serving in the US Senate 53 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:46.280 for forty one years, Mitch McConnell, according to the latest Violence, 54 00:03:46.599 --> 00:03:50.719 is now worth an astounding thirty five million dollars. China 55 00:03:50.759 --> 00:03:54.039 had the ultimate ally now in Mitch McConnell as one 56 00:03:54.039 --> 00:03:56.599 of the premier leaders in Washington, d C. For the 57 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:59.800 better part of two decades twenty years, and which China 58 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:03.319 made the enormous strides to level the playing field against 59 00:04:03.319 --> 00:04:07.000 the United States on the world stage, spreading their influence 60 00:04:07.199 --> 00:04:10.520 across the globe. Without Mitch McConnell, China wouldn't be the 61 00:04:10.599 --> 00:04:13.840 nation it is today. Without their clear influence over the 62 00:04:13.879 --> 00:04:18.040 Kentucky Senator and Republican leader, it's unclear whether they would 63 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.240 currently be competing with the United States for global influence 64 00:04:21.279 --> 00:04:24.000 at all. Let's take a deeper look at Mitch McConnell's 65 00:04:24.279 --> 00:04:27.639 historic flip flop on China and how it has impacted 66 00:04:27.680 --> 00:04:32.680 our world today. Mcconnald's hardened stance against China began after 67 00:04:32.720 --> 00:04:36.360 he met Elaine Show. Prior to his relationship with Show, 68 00:04:36.480 --> 00:04:39.959 Mitch McConnell took his many ardent stands against China for 69 00:04:40.000 --> 00:04:43.480 several different reasons. As a nineteen nineties approached and George 70 00:04:43.639 --> 00:04:48.759 HW's presidency took over for the Republicans resurgence under Ronald Reagan, 71 00:04:49.199 --> 00:04:53.399 China was becoming a very big issue. McConnell supported strict 72 00:04:53.399 --> 00:04:59.800 sanctions against Tianeman Square the massacre in China, which was 73 00:05:00.120 --> 00:05:03.920 hardline position. The first legitimate action Mitch McConnell took against 74 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.399 the Chinese Communist Party as a member of the US 75 00:05:06.439 --> 00:05:09.959 Senate was in nineteen eighty nine when the Kentucky Senator 76 00:05:10.040 --> 00:05:13.680 voted in favor of sanctions following the Tianeman Square massacre. 77 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:16.319 But connell even went so far at that time sponsored 78 00:05:16.439 --> 00:05:22.160 legislation to allow for China's Most Favored Nation Trading status, 79 00:05:22.199 --> 00:05:26.240 saying that it should be revoked for its human rights abuses. This, 80 00:05:26.360 --> 00:05:29.680 by the way, is where Richard Nixon gets a bum rap. 81 00:05:29.800 --> 00:05:33.279 You see, at the time that Nixon recognized China, China 82 00:05:33.439 --> 00:05:39.439 was a dirt poor agrarian society with not a non 83 00:05:39.480 --> 00:05:46.000 formidable military, very little indoor plumbing. The rural areas were 84 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:51.959 largely without electricity. It was not until Bill Clinton gave 85 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:56.759 China Most Favored Nation Trading status that they would become 86 00:05:56.800 --> 00:06:00.639 the superpower that they are today. This would of course 87 00:06:00.680 --> 00:06:05.319 be extended by President George W. Bush when it came 88 00:06:05.360 --> 00:06:08.600 to China. McConnell at that point showed no allegiance or affiliation. 89 00:06:09.160 --> 00:06:12.120 His opinions aligned with the harshest of the China critics 90 00:06:12.160 --> 00:06:15.800 within the Republican Party, and his descent continued until nineteen 91 00:06:16.079 --> 00:06:19.040 ninety two. Actually, as I was investigating, I was able 92 00:06:19.040 --> 00:06:22.839 to dig up a Herodage Foundation publication that was released 93 00:06:22.839 --> 00:06:26.720 by Senator Mitch mcconnald in nineteen ninety two. Within that publication, 94 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:30.120 mcconald's makes his position on China and its human rights 95 00:06:30.160 --> 00:06:33.720 abuses one hundred percent clear. McConnell even called for the 96 00:06:33.800 --> 00:06:36.639 United States to do anything and everything in order to 97 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:40.839 protect Hong Kong from the People's Republic of China. The 98 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:43.199 Kentucky senator went so far as to say the United 99 00:06:43.199 --> 00:06:46.399 States needs to send a clear warning to Beijing that 100 00:06:46.480 --> 00:06:49.759 they would act if there was any encroachment on Hong 101 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:54.519 Kong or Taiwan. Mcconnald spoke out against Chinese government policies 102 00:06:54.560 --> 00:06:59.040 of censorship, holding political prisoners, and arm sales. McConnell, at 103 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:01.519 that time, was the lead sponsor and author of the 104 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:05.240 United States Hong Kong Policy Act. It committed the US 105 00:07:05.279 --> 00:07:08.560 to treating Hong Kong as a separate entity from mainland 106 00:07:08.639 --> 00:07:11.600 China that was introduced in nineteen ninety one, and he 107 00:07:11.639 --> 00:07:15.040 pushed it through, warning that post nineteen ninety seven risks 108 00:07:15.079 --> 00:07:18.839 to Hong Kong's freedom would not be tolerated. Law included monitoring, 109 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:22.439 reporting requirements, and tools for the US Senate to respond 110 00:07:22.839 --> 00:07:28.160 if China eroded Hong Kong's autonomy. Senator had repeatedly cited 111 00:07:28.160 --> 00:07:31.480 this as a cornerstone of his long standing China policy. 112 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:35.360 Fortunately for China, Mitch McConnell's hardened stand against them was 113 00:07:35.399 --> 00:07:39.480 about to change, seemingly all because of one person. Elaine 114 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:43.639 Chao born in Taiwan, March twenty sixth, nineteen fifty three. 115 00:07:43.879 --> 00:07:46.240 Elaine Choo's background would lead you to believe she's one 116 00:07:46.240 --> 00:07:49.560 of the most accomplished Asian Americans in the history of 117 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:52.720 our country. Chao became the first Asian American to serve 118 00:07:52.720 --> 00:07:55.920 as a cabinet member when she was named Labor Secretary 119 00:07:56.040 --> 00:07:59.639 under George W. Bush. She served in that position from 120 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:01.879 two thousand and one to two thousand and nine. She 121 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:06.360 went on to serve as Transportation Secretary under President Donald 122 00:08:06.399 --> 00:08:09.560 Trump twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one. Was widely thought 123 00:08:09.560 --> 00:08:13.279 that former Democrat Congressman Harold Ford would get that position 124 00:08:13.879 --> 00:08:18.279 until President Trump had a Capitol Hill meeting with Mitch 125 00:08:18.360 --> 00:08:21.879 McConnell and Elaine Chao locked out with the job. With 126 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:25.759 an MBA from Harvard, Elaine Chaos both educated and well connected. 127 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:28.839 She's been a member of the Washington DC elite since 128 00:08:28.879 --> 00:08:33.200 her marriage to Mitch McConnell and his mainstay in Washington 129 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:36.720 political circles. It isn't until you exam her deep family 130 00:08:36.799 --> 00:08:40.559 ties to the Chinese Communist Party that Elaine Choo's vast 131 00:08:40.600 --> 00:08:43.759 accomplishments began to come into question. You see, Shao's father, 132 00:08:44.200 --> 00:08:48.279 who has since passed away, was called James C. Cheng Chow. 133 00:08:48.519 --> 00:08:53.320 He founded Foremost Group, a New York based international shipping company, 134 00:08:53.679 --> 00:08:58.080 in nineteen sixty four. That company specializes in bulk cargo 135 00:08:58.159 --> 00:09:01.919 in other words, or coal and so on, and has 136 00:09:01.960 --> 00:09:05.879 heavy operations tied to China. James was a classmate and 137 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:10.960 schoolmate of Xiang Zemin, the former Chinese Communist Party General 138 00:09:11.000 --> 00:09:14.360 secretary and the President of China from nineteen eighty nine 139 00:09:14.559 --> 00:09:18.639 to two thousand and three. This personal connection reportedly facilitated 140 00:09:18.919 --> 00:09:22.600 early business and political access that no one else could 141 00:09:22.600 --> 00:09:26.559 get today. Foremost is worth nearly one point two billion 142 00:09:26.679 --> 00:09:31.000 dollars with a fleet of over thirty cargoes nationwide. Angela 143 00:09:31.120 --> 00:09:35.879 Chow that's Elaine Chow's sister, Elaine Choo being Senator Mitch 144 00:09:35.960 --> 00:09:39.720 McConnell's wife, served on the board of a subsidiary holding 145 00:09:39.759 --> 00:09:45.360 company linked to the Chinese Shipbuilding Corporation, a major Chinese 146 00:09:45.559 --> 00:09:50.200 state owned defense conglomerate central to the People's Liberation Army. 147 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:54.360 Angela also had roles tied to Chinese state banks and 148 00:09:54.440 --> 00:09:59.519 trade promotion groups. Lane Choo's families extremely wealthy and influential 149 00:10:00.000 --> 00:10:04.480 and serious directies to national security elements within the Chinese 150 00:10:04.559 --> 00:10:08.039 Communist Party. So when you understand where Elaine Choo come from, 151 00:10:08.120 --> 00:10:12.279 you'll understand why Mitch McConnell's views have shifted now. It's 152 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:15.600 public knowledge that Mitch McConnell was introduced to Elaine Choo 153 00:10:16.080 --> 00:10:19.600 in the nineteen nineties by a man known as Stu Block. 154 00:10:19.720 --> 00:10:23.399 Stu Block is a longtime friend of McConnell. Block is 155 00:10:23.440 --> 00:10:27.960 a DC based lawyer, real estate expert with extreme political influence, 156 00:10:28.039 --> 00:10:32.080 and an true Washington insider. McConnell and Block reportedly became 157 00:10:32.120 --> 00:10:35.519 acquainted in the nineteen sixties when McConnell was serving as 158 00:10:35.559 --> 00:10:38.639 a political AID. Block is married to a woman named 159 00:10:38.720 --> 00:10:43.639 Julia Chang Bloc, the first Asian American US ambassador that 160 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:47.879 was appointed to her post as Ambassador to Nepau by 161 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:52.000 President George H. W. Bush. Julia Chang Bloc immigrated to 162 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:55.039 the United States at nine years old in the nineteen 163 00:10:55.120 --> 00:10:59.679 fifties directly from China. Was actually the mentor to Elaine Chow, 164 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:03.720 also known as Missus Mitch McConnell. This is how the 165 00:11:03.799 --> 00:11:06.960 direct connection to McConnell and Show was made. The married 166 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:11.639 couple invited macau McConnell and shoot candlelight dinner and well 167 00:11:11.879 --> 00:11:14.559 the rest is history. What more do we need to 168 00:11:14.600 --> 00:11:18.080 know about Julia Chang Block. She served as a prominent 169 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:22.759 senior role at USAID. That's the organization that's been completely 170 00:11:22.799 --> 00:11:27.240 exposed by Elon Musk and Doze for siphoning billions of 171 00:11:27.279 --> 00:11:31.519 dollars in taxpayer funds for ridiculous programs across the globe. 172 00:11:31.799 --> 00:11:34.679 Chang Block was also the founder of the United States 173 00:11:35.039 --> 00:11:39.279 China Education Trust, also known as You Set You SAT, 174 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:42.600 is a five oh one c three organization based in 175 00:11:42.720 --> 00:11:47.759 DC that aims to improve bilateral relationships by strengthening mutual 176 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:52.679 understanding between the United States and Communist China through education, 177 00:11:52.799 --> 00:11:58.879 exchanges and leadership programs. That organization has repeatedly attacked President 178 00:11:58.879 --> 00:12:03.039 Donald Trump's trade policies. On February sixth, nineteen ninety three, 179 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:06.919 Mitch McConnell and Aline Shower married, and following the wedding, 180 00:12:07.320 --> 00:12:12.000 McConnell radically shifted his previously hardline anti China stance to 181 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:16.360 adopt a more pro China policy model. Policy model. In 182 00:12:16.440 --> 00:12:20.120 two thousand, for example, the Senator's supported legislation which gave 183 00:12:20.240 --> 00:12:24.799 permanent Favored Nation status trotting to China and eventually paved 184 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.600 the way for the nation to join the World Trade Organization. 185 00:12:27.799 --> 00:12:31.240 This is what has made China the economic powerhouse and 186 00:12:31.279 --> 00:12:35.120 the military menace that they are today. This move alone 187 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:38.919 is seen as a foundational building block of China's economic 188 00:12:38.960 --> 00:12:42.519 plan to challenge the United States on the global stage. 189 00:12:42.879 --> 00:12:46.919 That bill locked in lower tariff rates for China, allowing 190 00:12:46.960 --> 00:12:50.120 them to pillage and destroy Manu manufacturing in the United 191 00:12:50.120 --> 00:12:53.240 States and other key industries in the United States. When 192 00:12:53.279 --> 00:12:57.000 we return or continue with the story of Mitch McConnell 193 00:12:57.039 --> 00:13:00.840 and how he has empowered our communist Chinese allies, but 194 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:05.039 also how he's gotten fabulously wealthy doing so. I'm Roger Stone. 195 00:13:05.320 --> 00:13:08.240 You're listening to the Stone Zone. Next we'll talk about 196 00:13:08.279 --> 00:13:12.440 how Mitch McConnell's support for legislation has cost America over 197 00:13:12.519 --> 00:13:17.120 five million manufacturing jobs, largely due to the conditions created 198 00:13:17.159 --> 00:13:21.279 by his legislation, with China able to raid US, manufacturing 199 00:13:21.639 --> 00:13:24.840 companies within our borders struggle to compete and die while 200 00:13:24.879 --> 00:13:28.360 Mitch McConnell got wealthy. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to 201 00:13:28.399 --> 00:13:30.919 the Stone Zone, and we'll be right back. 202 00:13:31.639 --> 00:13:36.080 The Stone Zone entertaining and informative on the Red Apple 203 00:13:36.200 --> 00:13:37.360 Podcast Networks. 204 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:51.000 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone. 205 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:53.240 Roger Stone, who is the very, very one of the 206 00:13:53.240 --> 00:13:54.519 smartest political minds. 207 00:13:54.960 --> 00:13:56.159 Rogerstone was persecuted. 208 00:13:56.240 --> 00:13:59.320 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst. 209 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:03.759 Now get him his zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's 210 00:14:03.879 --> 00:14:05.519 Roger Stone, and. 211 00:14:05.559 --> 00:14:08.879 We're back in the Stone Zone, and I'm exposing Senator 212 00:14:08.879 --> 00:14:12.519 Mitch mcconald's ties to communist China and how it's made 213 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:16.440 him a very, very rich man. After marrying Elaine Schao, 214 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:19.600 the Senator moved away from his previous attempt to hold 215 00:14:19.639 --> 00:14:23.480 China accountable for its human rights abuses, and required no 216 00:14:23.639 --> 00:14:27.759 stipulations for China to restrict torture or political prisoners or 217 00:14:27.840 --> 00:14:30.399 slave labor, despite the fact that the issue was raised 218 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:35.639 repeatedly by his Republican colleagues. When Republicans in Washington first 219 00:14:35.679 --> 00:14:40.279 confronted President Trump's largely protections trade policies, many of them 220 00:14:40.360 --> 00:14:43.600 laughed it off. Especially in the beginning. Very few Republicans, 221 00:14:43.600 --> 00:14:46.879 specifically in the U. S. Senate, supported Trump's rhetoric in general. 222 00:14:47.279 --> 00:14:50.200 Hardly end of them supported his rhetoric on tariffs at all. 223 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:53.720 Going back to mcconald's two thousand vote on handing China 224 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:58.480 guaranteed lower tariffs, President Trump's public displeasure with trade imballasts 225 00:14:58.799 --> 00:15:02.679 sent a shiver down the st spine of Washington's political establishment. 226 00:15:02.799 --> 00:15:05.919 The very same senators who voted to lower terriffs for 227 00:15:06.080 --> 00:15:08.600 nations like China were now seeing Trump rise to the 228 00:15:08.639 --> 00:15:11.679 top of the Republican field while bashing the very policies 229 00:15:11.879 --> 00:15:15.159 that they had implemented. Most Republicans kept their distance, with 230 00:15:15.200 --> 00:15:18.600 a few embracing Trump. McConnell was not one of them. 231 00:15:18.679 --> 00:15:21.639 Upon his election, Trump began to take a stronger stand 232 00:15:21.679 --> 00:15:25.480 against nations he viewed as abusers of the American economy, 233 00:15:25.840 --> 00:15:29.039 nations like China that were allowed through the Washington, DC 234 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:33.320 political establishment to essentially gut the manufacturing industry in the 235 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.919 center of our country. This was bad news for Mitch 236 00:15:36.000 --> 00:15:39.159 McConnell and his fellow Republican senators who had not passed 237 00:15:39.200 --> 00:15:42.799 economic legislation based on protecting the people they were elected 238 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:46.519 to represent, but based on benefiting the incidians forces within 239 00:15:46.600 --> 00:15:50.879 their lives looking to exploit American workers. Actually, mcconnolly led 240 00:15:50.879 --> 00:15:54.399 the rallying cly against Trump's twenty eighteen over tariffs, telling 241 00:15:54.399 --> 00:15:57.039 the people of Kentucky, quote, I'm not a fan of tariffs, 242 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:59.240 and I'm not nervous about what appears to be growing 243 00:15:59.279 --> 00:16:02.000 trend in the mistry to levy tariffs. This is a 244 00:16:02.440 --> 00:16:06.159 slippery slope. Beyond his comments in twenty eighteen, McConnell has 245 00:16:06.200 --> 00:16:11.080 repeatedly rallied both Republicans and Democrats to block Trump's tariff policies, 246 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:14.080 even though they have brought billions of dollars into the 247 00:16:14.240 --> 00:16:19.919 US Treasury. This continued into Trump's comeback second term. After 248 00:16:19.919 --> 00:16:22.480 the American people sent Donald Trump back to Washington, d C. 249 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.240 With a its Downdy victory. In twenty twenty four, McConnell 250 00:16:25.559 --> 00:16:29.559 recharged his anti Trump pro China tariff attacks on America 251 00:16:29.720 --> 00:16:32.919 upon taking off the second time, President Trump implemented strict 252 00:16:32.919 --> 00:16:36.480 and sweeping tariffs on communists China. Those tariffs were as 253 00:16:36.559 --> 00:16:39.440 large as sixty percent were aimed at protecting the American 254 00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:42.159 workers that Mitch McConnell had allowed it to be rated 255 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:45.360 during his two thousand term. This moved by President Trump 256 00:16:45.480 --> 00:16:48.559 implements strict tariffs on China results in China losing an 257 00:16:48.639 --> 00:16:52.399 estimated ninety billion dollars of imports for the United States. 258 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:56.000 Mitch McConnell wouldn't stand for that. That's why Mitch McConnell 259 00:16:56.080 --> 00:16:59.720 rallied several Republican centers along with a number of Democrats, 260 00:17:00.080 --> 00:17:04.039 to vote to remove President Donald Trump's ability to enact tariffs. 261 00:17:04.240 --> 00:17:07.720 That bill passed fifty one forty seven. China was able 262 00:17:07.759 --> 00:17:10.839 to evade tariffs and resume his pillaging of the United 263 00:17:10.839 --> 00:17:14.480 States economy that first kicked off with Mitch McConnell at 264 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:16.960 the turn of the century. When asked why he supported 265 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:20.519 the measure, McConnell gave false statements claiming that the protectionist 266 00:17:20.559 --> 00:17:25.440 tariffs implemented by the Trump aministration hurt American consumers and 267 00:17:25.559 --> 00:17:27.680 not the Chinese officials directly within. 268 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:28.720 Mitch mcconald's family. 269 00:17:28.880 --> 00:17:31.559 So there you have it, the inside story of why 270 00:17:31.599 --> 00:17:34.640 Mitch McConnell went from being a hardliner when it came 271 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:37.599 to human rights and the abuses of China to being 272 00:17:37.680 --> 00:17:40.960 a rollover for communist China that has made he and 273 00:17:41.039 --> 00:17:43.519 his family exceedingly rich. You won't hear this kind of 274 00:17:43.559 --> 00:17:46.359 stuff anyplace else but the Stone Zone. Don't go away, 275 00:17:46.440 --> 00:17:48.319 but we'll be right back with a lot. 276 00:17:48.200 --> 00:17:53.599 More The Stone Zone entertaining and informative on the Red 277 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:55.160 Apple podcast Network. 278 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:08.839 This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone. 279 00:18:09.039 --> 00:18:11.079 Roger Stone, who is the very very one of the 280 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:12.359 smartest political minds. 281 00:18:12.839 --> 00:18:14.039 Rogerstone was persecuted. 282 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:17.200 People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst. 283 00:18:17.279 --> 00:18:23.000 Now get him a zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Rogerstone. 284 00:18:23.240 --> 00:18:27.240 Welcome back into the Stone Zone. I'm your host, Roger Stone. 285 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:30.279 Well Mayor Zoran ma'am dumm. He's had a rough couple 286 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:35.240 of weeks when he efficiently released his map of New 287 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:39.319 York City's imminent enclaves, as it was called. Well, he 288 00:18:39.400 --> 00:18:44.480 probably purposely left out Little Italy. That immediately brought an 289 00:18:44.480 --> 00:18:49.319 extraordinary backlash. So his map included Little Palestine, Little Haiti, 290 00:18:49.640 --> 00:18:53.359 Little Egypt, Little Senegal, Little Yemen, and even Little Poland, 291 00:18:53.839 --> 00:18:59.480 but it left out Little Italy. The outcry was immediate. 292 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.839 The ital American Civil Rights League kind of led the fight, 293 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:08.400 and within days, not only did zoram mam Domini back down, 294 00:19:08.839 --> 00:19:12.440 saying that the list had actually been inherited from his predecessor, 295 00:19:12.559 --> 00:19:16.319 Mayor Eric Adams, but he would be reissuing it and 296 00:19:16.440 --> 00:19:20.880 including Little Italy along with other neighborhoods. Now we hear 297 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:24.680 that long time left wing activist Anna Maria are Chilla, 298 00:19:24.799 --> 00:19:28.519 commissioner of New York City's Mayor's Office of International Affairs 299 00:19:28.559 --> 00:19:32.799 and former co director of the Progressive Working Families Party 300 00:19:33.160 --> 00:19:37.319 that's the socialist Working Families Party, actually scheduled a meeting 301 00:19:37.359 --> 00:19:43.279 with Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations, Emir said Iravani, 302 00:19:43.680 --> 00:19:47.039 amid ongoing hostilities in the Middle East. This was first 303 00:19:47.079 --> 00:19:49.920 reported by the City Journal, but then also covered by 304 00:19:49.920 --> 00:19:53.240 The New York Post. The meeting was set for Tuesday, 305 00:19:53.319 --> 00:19:56.160 the morning of July seventh, at the United Nations Headquarters 306 00:19:56.160 --> 00:19:59.599 Complex in New York, alongside with two other senior officials 307 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:03.799 from Mayor Ma'am Dami's office. According to calier invitations reviewed 308 00:20:03.799 --> 00:20:07.359 by the City Journal and confirmed by sources, It was 309 00:20:07.440 --> 00:20:14.599 also ultimately canceled after intervention by Marco Rubio's US State Department. Arceella, 310 00:20:14.920 --> 00:20:18.519 a government employee in Marazona. Man Domi's administration, has no 311 00:20:18.960 --> 00:20:25.000 prior diplomatic, foreign policy or international relations experience. Her expertise 312 00:20:25.079 --> 00:20:30.279 lies solely in domestic grassroots organizing of labor and progressive politics. 313 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:35.880 Her appointment to lead Mayor open Mayamdami's Office of International Affairs, 314 00:20:36.279 --> 00:20:40.519 which is tasked with cultivating relationships with foreign nations, global cities, 315 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:44.119 the UN, and New York's consular courses during attention. Given 316 00:20:44.119 --> 00:20:48.799 her background and progressive activism. US officials learned of the 317 00:20:48.839 --> 00:20:52.599 planned meeting via Arcella's calendar and moved quickly to shut 318 00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:56.039 it down, citing a direct conflict with America's current Middle 319 00:20:56.039 --> 00:21:00.519 Eastern policy. A State Department official told Fox it is 320 00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:04.000 unconsciable that a New York City official would even consider 321 00:21:04.079 --> 00:21:07.480 meeting with the Iranian ambassador to the UN, a man 322 00:21:07.519 --> 00:21:11.640 who consistently works to undermine US interests in Whitewash's regime's 323 00:21:11.720 --> 00:21:16.480 crimes against the United States are allies in Iran's own citizens. 324 00:21:17.279 --> 00:21:23.039 Sources indicated that our Chilla's schedule the meeting without permission. 325 00:21:23.079 --> 00:21:26.680 She was reportedly reprimanded and directed to cancel it, but 326 00:21:26.920 --> 00:21:30.319 I question whether that's true. More importantly, I believe this 327 00:21:30.400 --> 00:21:34.359 is a direct violation of the Logan Act. The Logan 328 00:21:34.400 --> 00:21:38.519 Act does not allow any American citizen to conduct their 329 00:21:38.519 --> 00:21:42.160 own personal foreign policy. I think this is a clear 330 00:21:42.240 --> 00:21:45.759 violation of the Act. This isn't the first time the 331 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:49.400 State Department has had to intervene. Last month, Anna Marie 332 00:21:49.640 --> 00:21:53.599 Archilla tried to arrange a meeting between Mayor Zaram Mamdami 333 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:57.680 and Colombian President Costavo Petro, who has a record of 334 00:21:57.799 --> 00:22:02.720 anti Israel rhetoric, including Nazi comparisons and claims that there 335 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:06.759 was no Holocaust. That plan was scrapped over at visa issues. 336 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:10.200 In the past, the Mayor's Office of International Affairs as 337 00:22:10.279 --> 00:22:14.200 long state neutral, focusing on best practices with global cities, 338 00:22:14.519 --> 00:22:18.880 attracting foreign investment to New York, and avoiding political ideology. 339 00:22:19.440 --> 00:22:24.200 Yet Arceilla hijacked the office to push a political agenda 340 00:22:24.880 --> 00:22:29.480 and alarming local officials and exposing a self siffering disregard 341 00:22:29.599 --> 00:22:34.160 for its previous non partisan role. Not to mention federal law, 342 00:22:34.920 --> 00:22:38.920 Arceilla has prioritized deepening ties with foreign adversaries aligned with 343 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:44.240 Mayormandami's progressive worldview. The office reportedly directed staff to emphasize 344 00:22:44.279 --> 00:22:48.799 engagements reflecting those priorities. I hope that the FBI looks 345 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:51.960 closely at this because I believe it is a violation 346 00:22:52.359 --> 00:22:56.240 of federal law. Not long ago, I wrote about China's 347 00:22:56.279 --> 00:23:00.279 dominance over critical rare earth minerals and how it has 348 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:05.160 transformed those resources into a central national security priority for 349 00:23:05.240 --> 00:23:10.119 the United States, as dependents on adversarial supply chains now 350 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:13.839 oppose an urgent strategic risk that must be reduced before 351 00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:17.359 it can be weaponized. Throughout history, the greatest powers have 352 00:23:17.440 --> 00:23:21.960 arisen not simply because they possessed courageous soldiers or in generals, 353 00:23:22.279 --> 00:23:26.279 but because they secured the resources necessary to sustain their 354 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:31.000 civilization during moments of crisis. The Roman Empire depended upon 355 00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:35.559 grain from Egypt. Great Britain's maritime supremacy rested upon their 356 00:23:35.599 --> 00:23:39.759 access to coal, iron, and an unrivaled merchant fleet that 357 00:23:39.839 --> 00:23:43.400 connected every corner of the globe. During the Second World War, 358 00:23:43.440 --> 00:23:47.680 Franklin Eleanor Roosevelt transformed the United States into the arsenal 359 00:23:47.839 --> 00:23:52.440 of democracy because America possessed the industrial capacity and raw 360 00:23:52.519 --> 00:23:57.559 materials necessary for the Allied forces to outproduce the access powers. 361 00:23:58.279 --> 00:24:02.880 Today's battlefield extends far beyond aircraft carriers, missiles, and satellites. 362 00:24:03.160 --> 00:24:07.640 It reaches deep beneath the Earth's surface, where relatively be 363 00:24:07.680 --> 00:24:11.039 ascure collection of minerals has become every bit as strategically 364 00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:15.240 valuable as oil was during the twentieth century. The nation 365 00:24:15.319 --> 00:24:18.640 that controls these materials will enjoy an enormous advantage in 366 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:26.839 military power, artificial intelligence, aerospace engineering, semiconductor manufacturing, quantum computer, 367 00:24:27.400 --> 00:24:32.079 and advanced industrial production. Every American and understandably asks why 368 00:24:32.079 --> 00:24:35.319 the United States can't simply mine everything it needs within 369 00:24:35.359 --> 00:24:38.720 its own border, while the answer lies in the combination 370 00:24:38.839 --> 00:24:44.960 of geology, economics, infrastructure, and Frankly time, Although America possesses 371 00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:49.119 significant deposits of certain critical minerals, many of those reserves 372 00:24:49.119 --> 00:24:53.920 remain commercially undeveloped or they're difficult to extract economically, or 373 00:24:53.960 --> 00:24:58.640 they lack the processing infrastructure necessary to transferm iron ore 374 00:24:58.759 --> 00:25:04.039 into materials suitable for advancing manufacturing. Opening and modern mind 375 00:25:04.079 --> 00:25:09.559 frequently requires years of environmental reviews, permitting, engineering, financing, and 376 00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:14.599 construction before a single shipment reaches an American factory. Even then, 377 00:25:14.640 --> 00:25:19.720 the United States often lacks sufficient domestic defining capacity, forcing 378 00:25:19.799 --> 00:25:23.039 raw materials to be processed overseas before they can be 379 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:28.759 incorporated into military equipment or commercial products. Simply put, America 380 00:25:28.799 --> 00:25:32.200 currently consumes far more strategic materials than it can produce 381 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:36.240 and refine on its own. That reality demands a practical 382 00:25:36.240 --> 00:25:41.640 strategy rooted in diversification rather than just wishful thinking. This 383 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:45.039 is precisely why, for example, recent efforts to secure access 384 00:25:45.359 --> 00:25:51.480 to Kazakhstan's enormous tungsten deposits deserves our consideration. Tungsten is 385 00:25:51.519 --> 00:25:53.680 not a household world yet is one of the most 386 00:25:53.720 --> 00:25:59.039 strategically indispensable metals on Earth. Derived from the Swedish phrase 387 00:25:59.079 --> 00:26:03.519 meeting heavy stone, tungsten possesses the highest melting point of 388 00:26:03.640 --> 00:26:08.720 any pure metal, exceeding sixty one hundred degrees fahrenheit. It's 389 00:26:08.759 --> 00:26:12.000 extraordinarily dense, its remarkabill be hard, and it is exceptionally 390 00:26:12.079 --> 00:26:17.680 resistant to heat, wear, and deformation. Those extraordinary physical characteristics 391 00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:23.839 make tungsten irreplaceable in countless military and industrial applications. It's 392 00:26:23.960 --> 00:26:29.519 used in armour piercing, ammunition, missile guidance systems, hypersonic weapons, 393 00:26:29.759 --> 00:26:36.559 jet engine turbine blades, rocket nozzles, spacecraft components, advanced military tools, 394 00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:43.200 semiconductor manufacturing equipment, mining machinery, and position, and precision industrial 395 00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:47.359 cutting instruments. If steel formed the backbone of the Industrial revolution, 396 00:26:47.880 --> 00:26:52.160 tungsten has become one of the most indispensable skeletal structures 397 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:56.880 supporting the technological revolution of the modern age. Yet today 398 00:26:57.200 --> 00:27:01.240 American has a shortage of tungsten. The strategic importance of 399 00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:06.640 tungsten extends well beyond military hardware. Every sophisticated manufacturing economy 400 00:27:07.039 --> 00:27:11.319 relies upon tungsten to produce the machinery that builds other machinery. 401 00:27:11.720 --> 00:27:17.119