No Press Pass, No Problem: Bye-Bye CNN!

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This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone. People love
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him and respect him. Roger Stone. Now, give him a zone.
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It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone.
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You are now entering the Stone Zone. the hottest political
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talk show on the air today. First of all, I
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want to thank the literally thousands of people who have
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texted or emailed me or called me to congratulate me
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on the fact that my wife, Nydia Bertrand de Espinoza Stone,
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has now had her final CT scan for cancer, and
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we can now definitively say that she is five years cancer-free.
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all praise be to God. I believe that her cancer,
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non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, stage four, from which the doctors told her
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there was little chance of her survival, was brought on
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by the incredible stress of being hounded and harassed in
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the Russian collusion hoax. I think Robert Mueller and his
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thugs were very surprised that after they lied to two
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federal judges claiming that they had probable cause to charge
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me with conspiracy against the United States, treason, money laundering,
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aiding and abetting before and after a felony, unauthorized access
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to a government computer, counterfeiting, money laundering. And of course,
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once they went through the more than one million emails
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that I had, not to mention all my text and
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phone call records. Of course, they found no evidence whatsoever
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of those things. But because they were working closely with
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the lame stream media, they created this false impression that
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I was somehow guilty of being a Russian intelligence asset
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or that I had been the middleman between Donald Trump's
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campaign and WikiLeaks in the transfer of extraordinarily embarrassing emails
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surrounding Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democrat National Committee. Not
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even the government produced any evidence of the kind at
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my trial. They cooked up process crimes in which I
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was accused of doing things that were entirely immaterial and
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therefore illegal. What I mean by that, of course, is
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that they're was no Russian collusion to cover up. So
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when the judge said to me, sentencing, you have been
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convicted of covering up for Donald Trump, I thought to myself,
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because I hadn't yet been sentenced, covering up exactly what? Anyway,
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I think that stress is a triggerer of cancer. My
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wife literally went through hell, but she chose a combination
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of it. both traditional Western medicine, but also some alternative
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healing therapies. And now we come to the time, the
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doctors told us from the beginning, not until the fifth
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year can we say that you're in the clear. But
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she has now, thank you, Jesus, she has now been
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declared cancer-free for five years. Much has been reported about
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the potential legality of President Donald Trump's decision to ban CNN, MSNBC, NOW,
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formerly known as MSNBC, their ratings were so low they
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had to change their name, and Politico from the White
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House press pool for their repeated abuses of their position
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to lie, distort, and dissemble about President Donald Trump and
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the country. They, of course, insist that this is an
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infringement of their First Amendment and their free speech rights,
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which is absurd. They're perfectly entitled to report On the president,
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they report anything they want. They can say anything they want,
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but they're not guaranteed to taxpayer-financed office space inside the
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White House premises. And there is no law that says otherwise.
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It's no secret that President Trump has faced unprecedented and
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unmatched media scrutiny since he first announced his candidacy for
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president way back in 2015. Mitty has attempted since that
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day he entered politics to viciously malign this president with
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false scandals, big lies, and fake news. Instead of simply
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allowing outlets like CNN, MSNOW, and Politico to spew their
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lies unchallenged, President Donald Trump has taken action. Trump issued
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an announcement from his Truth Social feed late last week
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that these three outlets mentioned would previously no longer have
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access to the White House press pool, citing their negative
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and distorted coverage. By the way, Barack Obama banned a
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number of more conservative media outlets, The Washington Times, The
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Washington Examiner, among others, from the Washington press pool and
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from the premises. But, of course, nobody screamed about the
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First Amendment then. The backlash from the Democrat media complex has,
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of course, been swift. And unanimous, as it was announced today,
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that even Fox News has removed their team from the
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White House press pool in solidarity with CNN, Politico, and
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MSNOW in protest of the president's decision. So Fox News
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has outed themselves as just another corporate fake news media outlet. Sorry,
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I remember when Brett Baier called Arizona on election night
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of 2020 probably 2020, with less than 10% of the
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votes cast. This is when Rupert Murdoch and Fox outed
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themselves as being part of that cabal. I have some
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very good friends at work at Fox, Sean Hannity among them,
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some very good people there, but by and large, their
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daytime programming is indistinguishable from CNN. CNN falsely characterized this
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ban as an attack on free speech, of course. Emily Kuhn,
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a CNN spokeswoman, said that on September 18th in a statement,
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we have a right under the Constitution to do that
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reporting without hindrance or interference from the government. Should the
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ban which President Trump threatened go ahead, it would be
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an illegal assault on the fundamental and constitutionally protected right. Emily,
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what part of this don't you get? You can report
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anything you want. You can put it on the air.
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But you're not guaranteed that taxpayers subsidize office space and
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access to the president to do so. Where in the
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Constitution does it say otherwise? Politico, of course, issued a
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similar statement writing, we will vigorously defend our First Amendment
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rights against any attempt to restrict them. When they took
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me off of Facebook permanently, off of Instagram, off of YouTube,
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that was an infringement of my First Amendment rights, but
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I don't recall anybody at CNN or Politico being upset
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about that. Of course, these outlets didn't just say their
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words for statements either. All three organizations early this morning
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filed a lawsuit against President Trump's administration over the bans
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citing their free speech concerns. The joint statement recognized the
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issued lawsuit this morning reads, this morning we notify the
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government that we're filing a lawsuit today to protect our
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First Amendment rights and defend the principle the government does
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not decide what the press reports or publishes. Once again,
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Donald Trump is not trying to decide what the press
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reports or publishes. He just doesn't have to do it from,
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you know, 15 feet away. Without notice or process, the
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White House revoked our journalist credentials because it objects to
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our reporting. That's because you lie. Left unchallenged, this threatens
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press freedom and the public's right to independent journalism free
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of government interference. This is the same old warmed over nonsense.
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Ted Boutros, interestingly, the lawyer, now representing the three outlets,
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who also happens to be the same lawyer who represented
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CNN in the 2018 Jim Acosta case, when Acosta was
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barred from the White House, said today the lawsuit that
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the president's ban of CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the
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White House is a direct assault on the First Amendment
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and a blatant violation of due process. There's no point
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in going through this again. Their argument is clear. There's
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only one minor problem. They're wrong. Fortunately, we have 250
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years of judicial precedent on issues such as these throughout
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American history, and many such cases, specifically involving the direct
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access media organizations are legally obligated to have, have been settled.
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A close examine of these cases reveals that President Donald
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Trump has every right as adjudicated by the Supreme Court
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of the United States to remove communist fake news outlets
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such as CNN from the White House press pool. Here
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are the decisions and how they impact the lawsuit filed
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by the three media organizations. First of all is Zemel
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versus Rusk in 1965. In the early 1960s, Louis Zemel
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was an American citizen and wanted his passport validated so
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he could travel to Cuba to satisfy his curiosity and
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become a better informed citizen. after the U.S. broke relations
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with Castro. The State Department refused to give him a visa.
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Zemel argued that the ban violated his First Amendment right
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to gather information. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 upheld the restriction.
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Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote that the key line in
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the case the right to speak and publish does not
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carry with it an unrestrained right to gather information. The
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court added the prohibition of unauthorized entry into the White
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House diminishes the citizens' opportunities to gather information, but that
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does not make that entry into the White House a
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First Amendment right. The White House is government property. You
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and I pay for it with our tax dollars. The
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court itself used the White House as the example of
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of a place the public, and therefore the press, has
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no constitutional right to enter. Denying CNN, Politico, and MSNOW
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physical access does not, under this ruling, automatically violate the
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First Amendment simply because those outlets want to report from
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inside the building. Then there's Pell v. Procunier and a
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companion case, a more famous, Saxby v. The Washington Post.
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In the early 1970s, California prisons ruled banned face-to-face interviews
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with specific inmates chosen by journalists. Reporters and prisoners sued,
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claiming a First Amendment right to access. The court rejected
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that claim. Justice Stewart, writing for the Supreme Court, wrote
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that the First Amendment does not guarantee the press a
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constitutional right to special access to information not available to
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the public generally. Journalists could still visit prisoners, could still
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talk to inmates they encountered, could still interview people at random,
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the same access the public had, plus, in this case,
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a little extra. This could not just demand interviews with
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particular prisoners. A companion case, Saxby v. The Washington Post,
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applied the same rule to federal prisons. White House press
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credentials and briefing rooms' access have never been available to
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the public in general. There is limited privilege that the
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executive branch has historically controlled. Pell is the case more
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often cited for the proposition that the press has no
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constitutional right to locations or interviews that ordinary citizens cannot have.
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You and I cannot just go into the White House
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and conduct an interview, nor can, by the way, a
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number of independent journalists, some of whom on the Internet
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have much larger audiences than CNN, who, let's face it,
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virtually no one is watching. This case yet again illustrates
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that the precedence that the First Amendment does not provide
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journalists special access. The president is well within his legal
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right to ban these outlets from the White House. I'm
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Roger Stone. You're listening to The Stone Zone. We'll tell
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you stuff that nobody else will tell you. And we
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got it right. Don't go away because we'll be right back.
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The Stone Zone, entertaining and informative on the Red Apple
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Podcast Network.
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This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
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Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest
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political minds. Roger Stone was persecuted. People forget he's actually
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a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
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Now, give him a zone. It's the Stone Zone. Here's
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Roger Stone.
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You're now diving headfirst back into the Stone Zone. We're
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glad to have you. President Trump once again set his
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sights on the filibuster Tuesday morning. The filibuster, for the
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average folks who don't understand it, is a Senate rule
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that says that any matter that will come before the
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Senate must have 60 votes, not 51. So in other words,
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to move any question to the floor of the Senate
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for a vote requires 60 votes. This allows a a
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minority to thwart the majority. The president has called for
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killing the filibuster rule, pointing out that he'll be the
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last Republican president in history if we don't. It's difficult
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to argue with this logic, by the way. The immediate
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target is the Save America Act, which simply requires proof
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of citizenship and voter ID for federal elections, which keeps
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dying at the 60-vote wall. There's 51 votes for that today,
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I believe, 50 plus one from Vice President J.D. Vance,
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who I was with only an hour and a half ago.
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President Trump's warning, if Republicans protect the rule now, a
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future Democrat majority will scrape it anyway, scrap it anyway,
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pardon me, then grant statehood to Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico,
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picking up four more Democrat senators and House seats, putting
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a lock on the majority in both houses. Rhino lawmakers
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are unconvinced. They would prefer to do nothing whatsoever. Senate
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Majority Leader John Thune claims Republicans do not have the
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votes to abolish the filibuster. I'm not sure he's right.
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This is due to the fact that Thune does not
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want to push to get those votes. Thune has said
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killing the rule would hand the next Democrat majority a
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loaded weapon. He fails to understand the gravity of the
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situation we're in right now. for the future of the country.
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Previous Democrat attempts to end the filibuster have failed, but
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that was before the radical left essentially took the party
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leadership control hostage. President Trump's camp says a governing majority
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that lets 41 senators veto the country's business is unilateral disarmament.
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We are essentially relying on the good nature of the
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Democrats to not take this power grab into their possession
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should they win control of the Senate. The argument is
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because Republicans held back, Democrats will now do the same.
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I can tell you that's not going to happen. That
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may have worked in Washington in the old days. Republican
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senators were, in some cases, are still stuck in 1996.
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The Marxists, who now control the Democrat Party, will not
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hesitate to seize upon the weakness that they see President
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Trump is sounding the alarm, but the stubborn rhinos, led
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by John Thune of Nebraska, well, they just don't seem
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to get it. The fallout could be inexplicable. Look for
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the expansion of the Supreme Court from nine justices to 13.
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Some talk of doing away with the Senate entirely. The
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strong possibility of statehood for Puerto Rico and the District
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of Columbia is These are all very, very serious, real possibilities.
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President Trump is right. The filibuster has to go. Allowing
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the minority to thwart the majority does not sound like
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democracy to me. Again, this is not a law. This
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is a tradition. This is a custom. This is a
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Senate rule. Time is running out. The polls are not
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looking good in these upcoming elections in some states, although
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I'm not the panic in that others are. But we
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do need to do away with the filibuster rule. And
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we need to do it today. Because if we don't,
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the Democrats will do it next January. And then, well, Katie,
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bar the door. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to Stone Zone.
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Don't go away because, well, we'll be right back.
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The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative.
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This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
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Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest
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political minds. Roger Stone was persecuted. People forget he's actually
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a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
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Now, give him a zone. It's The Stone Zone. Here's
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Welcome back into The Stone Zone. I'm your host, Roger Stone.
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With the confirmation that former CIA Director John Brennan received
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a subpoena to testify in the ongoing... grand seditious conspiracy
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weaponization probe based in Florida, prosecutors appear to be zeroing
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in on how the ex-spook was at the beginning, middle,
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and end the premier orchestrator of the Trump-Russian collusion narrative.
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Brennan is currently a senior national security and an intelligence
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analyst for NBC and MSNBC, and according to one speaker's bureau,
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Brennan's speaking fees typically range from $ 50, 000 to $ 75, 000. His
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security clearances were officially revoked by President Trump back in
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January of last year. Amazingly, I watched an interview with
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him on MSNOW, I guess they now call it the
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other day, in which he actually admitted that Barack Obama
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was his, quote, co-conspirator in the efforts to illicitly and
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illegally and unconstitutionally undermine the presidency of Donald Trump based
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on what they knew were completely fraudulent evidence. The so-called
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Steele dossier, which was paid for by Hillary Clinton, was
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a report written by a former British intelligence agent that
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has been completely and totally debunked. It was false. It
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claimed that Donald Trump had misbehaved with Russian prostitutes while
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visiting Moscow. as a private businessman. It is made up
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of whole cloth. FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissman knew it
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was a lie. John Brennan, the CIA director, knew it
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was a lie. Yet they put it into the footnotes,
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of the intelligence community assessment that is given to the
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president every day. It was given to Barack Obama to
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rationalize the appointment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller, to rationalize
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use of the FISA courts to spy on Carter Page
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and others working for President Donald Trump's campaign. This is
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the largest abuse of power in American history. It's the
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most egregious dirty trick in American history and many in
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the American community. public are demanding accountability and justice. They
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tried to destroy me. They tried to destroy my family.
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They tried to destroy my wife. They tried to destroy
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General Michael Flynn. They tried to destroy my good friend
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Mike Caputo. They tried to destroy Carter Page. They tried
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to destroy George Papadopoulos. And the ringmaster in this circus
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was none other than John Brennan. This is the same
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John Brennan who converted to radical Islam when he was
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the station chief in Riyadh. This is the same John
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Brennan who put in place a system that approved the
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visas for four of the Saudis who attacked America on 9-11.
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The former director's lawyer has now confirmed in a court
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filing in a separate case that Brennan is bringing a
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lawsuit against the federal government to preserve records related to
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investigations of him, claiming that he is the target of
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a selective prosecution, and I can tell you how well
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that works out. I filed such a lawsuit, it was
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immediately dismissed, and so should Brennan's. Brennan was subpoenaed by
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the federal grand jury in Fort Pierce, Florida, where prosecutors,
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evidently trying to build a grand, seditious conspiracy case, arguing
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that President Donald Trump and his allies, that would include me,
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were deprived of their civil rights in a decades-long saga
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of weaponized intelligence and law enforcement. According to a filing,
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government prosecutor Kurt Olson, good friend of mine, good man,
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told Brennan's counsel the probe is far-reaching and includes issues
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at Mar-a-Lago and beyond. You see, that's the whole point.
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The seditious conspiracy that began in July of 2016 in Washington, D.C.,
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takes you through the special counsel charade by Robert Mueller, who, frankly,
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we now know, based on his congressional testimony, was non-compassmentist.
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in an illicit and illegal investigation run by former U.S.
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Attorney and former FBI General Counsel Andrew Weissman, the same
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man who ordered the Mueller investigators to destroy the memory
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on their cell phones when those cell phones were being
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sought by Special Counsel John Durham, investigating the origins of
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the Russian collusion hoax. And it appears this investigation in
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Florida is aimed at assessing whether the president's civil rights
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were violated. Prosecutor reported told Brennan's lawyer that he was
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also the subject of a separate investigation for alleged false
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statements to Congress. I'm familiar with that. In order to
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be charged with making a false statement to Congress, the
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statement you make has to be willful, but it also
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has to be material, meaning you have to be lying
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to cover up some greater crime. I was charged with
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violating the False Statements Act, but no statement I made,
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no misstatement I had, hid any underlying illegal act because
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we now know, thanks to Tulsi Gabbard and the declassification
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of documents, that there was no Russian collusion to lie about.
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We also know the judge in my case, Amy Berman Jackson,
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hid exculpatory evidence from my defense attorneys. And if you
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will go to the finally unredacted final report special counsel
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robert muller which the government resisted uh but which a
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federal judge finally ordered they found no evidence of russian
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collusion wiki leaks uh collaboration or any other crime on
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my part people who followed my case i guess understand
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that the whole point was pressuring me to testify falsely
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against donald trump something i refused to do No day
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goes by in which somebody on social media doesn't call
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me a convicted felon. Yes, wrongfully convicted in a corrupted
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trial in which the jury forewoman claimed that she'd never
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heard of me, was completely unfamiliar with the case. That's
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what she said during jury selection and during the trial,
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only to find out after I was convicted that she
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had attacked me and President Trump by name regarding the
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very case in which she was later chosen as a
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juror But she had those postings on Facebook and Twitter,
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then called Twitter, on a private setting so that no
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one would know that she was lying. My good friend
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Judge Andrew Napolitano said she should have been prosecuted. I
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believe Jonathan Turley of George Washington University Law School also
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said she should have been prosecuted. But we have a
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two-tier justice system. Anyway, to go back to John Brennan,
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he is clearly the target of both the narrow investigation
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and the investigation for which he's now been subpoenaed, the
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more ranging one, as to which they have said he
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is a subject. The information here, of course, is not
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incredibly public. The government doesn't tell you exactly what they're
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doing when they're running a grand jury investigation, but these
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are all revelations. about the direction of the grain conspiracy probe,
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provide the most detailed look yet of how prosecutors at
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least appear to be following an outline that the FBI
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began assembling after Kash Patel quietly launched an investigation into
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the decade of Democrat and deep state antics, ranging from
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the phony allegations of Russian collusion, the appointment of Robert Mueller,
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who's now gone on to a much higher court, and
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Jack Smith, who was, of course, targeting the president. The
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conspiracy allows prosecutors to tie alleged crimes events currently covered
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by statute of limitations to older events, treating them as
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part of an ongoing conspiracy. Let me explain that. Many
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of the crimes in which Brennan and Comey and Susan
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Rice and Andrew McCabe, the deputy FBI director and others
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engaged in, have a statute of limitations limit on them.
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In other words, after a certain number of years, they
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cannot be prosecuted for those crimes. However, the crime of
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seditious conspiracy is not time barred, as lawyers say. In
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other words, there is no limit for the time period
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in which you can be investigated for this treasonous act.
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I would argue, and I think prosecutors are about to argue,
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that John Brennan's actions at the beginning, middle, and end
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of the Russian collusion investigation and everything that took place afterwards,
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the two phony impeachments, the 2020 election, which was questionable,
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the so-called documents case and the raid on Mar-a-Lago, the
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claims that Donald Trump was responsible for the actions at
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the Capitol on January 6th, which is a lie. He
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very specifically urges his supporters to march peacefully and patriotically
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to the Capitol, but they took that piece of videotape down.
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in an effort to frame the president. January 6th committee
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was illegally constituted. The speaker refused to appoint the Republicans
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that were chosen by the Republican minority leader. Instead, she
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chose two quote-unquote Republicans, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both
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Trump haters. So it was an illicit investigation. But I
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say Brennan's fingerprints are on the beginning of the entire
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federal probe that became Crossfire Hurricane. Brennan previously testified to
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Congress in 2017 that the U.S. intelligence community had gathered
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evidence of contacts between the Trump campaign and the Russian
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government by 2016 to initiate an investigation. That, of course,
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is a lie. It was at that point that he
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told lawmakers that the CIA set up a special group
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within both the FBI and the national security apparatus to
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probe alleged Russian collusion in the 2016 elections.
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Folks, that's a lie.
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Robert Mueller never produced any such information. Brennan also claimed
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that he had proof that the Russian intelligence had conducted
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a hack of the Democrat National Committee's computer service, when
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in fact there is no proof of that. When my
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lawyers at trial, because one of the underpinning issues of
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my case, demanded that the government produce evidence of that,
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they claimed that they could not do so because it
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was classified. That really means is they don't have any.
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In fact, the FBI never inspected the computer terminals at
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the Democrat National Committee, relying on a company called CrowdStrike,
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a private company, to make the claim that they had
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a report that proved that the Russians had hacked the DNC.
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The judge denied my defense attorney's access to that report.
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Now we know why. The head of CrowdStrike, a man
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named Sean Henry, who just happened to be Robert Mueller's
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deputy at the FBI years before, testified under oath to
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the House Intelligence Committee in which he admitted that His
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report had no proof whatsoever that the Democrat National Committee
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had been the target of an online hack by Russian
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intelligence or anyone else. There have been other investigations into
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the Russian collusion hoax. There was one by Special Counsel
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John Durham. But did you know that John Durham was
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never granted subpoena power by Attorney General Bill Barr so
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that Any of the perps in this cabal could simply
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refuse to be questioned by him and refuse to hand
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over any documents. That's precisely what happened. And then there
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was a separate investigation by the inspector general of the
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Justice Department under Joe Biden. He seems to have missed
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quite a bit of it as well. So hopefully we're
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moving towards accountability and justice. But we know that Brennan
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briefed President Barack Obama and senior administration officials on the
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so-called Clinton plan, not only did Obama's team fail to
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stop it, it directed the FBI to push the investigation
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into the same allegations raised by Clinton's campaign. John Durham
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at least concluded that. Durham ultimately concluded in his final
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report that the FBI had no verified intelligence or evidence
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when it opened the crossfire hurricane probe of President Donald
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Trump's campaign in the summer of 2016. In other words,
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they opened an investigation with no probable cause. Durham also
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found that the FBI and the Justice Department failed to
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follow their own standards and allowed to probe to perish
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with questionable basis under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. Neither U.S.
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law enforcement nor the intelligence community appears to have possessed
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any actual evidence of collusion in their holdings at the
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commencement of the crossfire investigation, Special Counsel John Durham wrote.
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The House Judiciary Committee later formally referred Brennan for prosecution,
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alleging he gave false testimony in 2023 about his role
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in trying to bring the discredited Steele dossier, which I
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spoke about earlier, into the assessment. The current director of
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Central Intelligence, John Brennan, also sent a criminal referral on
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Brennan to the FBI earlier this year, following his CIA's
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lessons learned review in early January. John Brennan is the ringleader.
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He is the orchestrator of the biggest dirty trick and
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abuse of power in American history. The question that my
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family asks me every day, given what we went through,
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is will he be held responsible? This is not about
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retaliation and revenge. This is about accountability and justice. And
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for that, we pray. You're listening to Stone Zone. I'm
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Roger Stone. Don't go away because we'll be right back.
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This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone. He likes
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politics and he's a professional at the highest level. Roger Stone.
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Who is Roger?
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The Stone Zone. Entertaining and informative. On the Red Apple
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Podcast Network. This is The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
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Roger Stone, who's a very, very, one of the smartest
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political minds. Roger Stone was persecuted. People forget he's actually
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a brilliant, brilliant political analyst.
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Now, give him a zone. It's The Stone Zone. Here's
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Roger Stone.
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Welcome back into The Stone Zone. A Biden-appointed federal judge
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on Monday tossed out a defamation lawsuit against the single
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most corrupt, sadistic, and evil prosecutor in U.S. government history,
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one Andrew Weissman. A very good friend of mine is
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working on a book and a documentary on Andrew Weissman
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called Pitbull. I don't think he's going to like it
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very much, but U.S. District Judge Lauren Allickhand said that
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Trump's Former White House lawyer, a man named Stephan Passantino,
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had failed to plead any facts that would support his
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claim that Weissman was negligent for purposes of defaming Passantino.
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In 2023, Trump White House lawyer Stephan Passantino, a good man,
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sued crooked prosecutor Weissman for defamation over a tweet claiming
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that Passantino had coached his January 6th witness client, Cassidy Hutchison,
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to lie under oath. Now, it's interesting because Katchy Huston
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did lie under oath. She specifically told the January 6th
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committee under oath that Mark Meadows, the White House chief
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of staff, told her that the president had instructed him
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to call Roger Stone and General Michael Flynn on January
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5th to find out what was going to happen on
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January 6th. There's only one minor problem. There was never
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any such phone call. There's no phone record to support it.
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General Flynn vehemently denies it. How do I? And by
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the way, I've never spoken to Mark Meadows, although possible
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that I met him once in the green room at
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Fox years before Trump was president when he was in
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the House. I'm not even sure about that. The lawsuit
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that was filed in this particular federal case, Pasadena saw
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damages in excess of $ 75, 000. It wasn't about the money.
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It was about the principle. Weissman himself involved in the
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phony anti-Trump dossier in the summer of 2016, the so-called
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Steele dossier, which Weissman knew was a fraud, but used
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it anyway as the rationale for the appointment of Robert Mueller,
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who attempted to destroy Donald Trump and his presidency, not
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to mention me and my family, General Flynn, Paul Manafort,
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and others. As detailed in... Recently, Christopher Steele fed the
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dossier that he'd composed to Bruce Ohr of the FBI
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during a morning meeting at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
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on July 30th. This was one day before the FBI
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secretly opened its investigation of Trump and his campaign without
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a shred of credible or verified evidence. I was out
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at the Mayflower Hotel recently. There's a restaurant there called Edgar.
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They call it that because, well, J. Edgar Hoover literally
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ate lunch there every single day during his reign as
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the head of the FBI. Bruce Ohr of the FBI
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later testified before Congress that he immediately arranged a meeting
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with Weissman to tell him all about the improbable accusations
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in the dossier and the severe bias of its author
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and how the Hillary Clinton campaign the Democrats had funded
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it so as to damage Trump in the presidential campaign
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that hence Weissman knew at the outset that the case
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against Trump was riven with prejudice and driven by a
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defective underlying document. Interestingly enough when FBI Director Comey was
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asked whether the Steele dossier was the only piece of
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evidence on which the Mueller investigation was launched or under
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which the FISA warrants to spy on Trump's campaign were issued,
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he said no, there was a, quote, rich mosaic of
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evidence that showed collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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Another lie by another liar. Instead of investigating Clinton and
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her confederates for conspiring with foreigners to defraud the U.S. government,
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the dossier was exploited to target Trump, despite a dearth
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of evidence that it was all authentic. All of this
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made Weissman complicit in the misuse of the dossier and
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the ensuing witch hunt that consumed the next three years
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of the Trump presidency. Did Weissman take any action to
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question the legal validity of the FBI's probe, or did
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he shut it down? No, he did the exact opposite.
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Months later, Weissman joined the Mueller investigation, where he was
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the de facto head of the investigation, without fully disclosing
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his describing previous conflict of interest. So it was ruled
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that he did not coach, or that Passantino did not
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coach his client, and therefore he wins this round. Here's
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the question. Will Andrew Weissman ultimately be held responsible for
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his violations of law and the Constitution? Well, I prayed
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that my wife would be cured of cancer, and she was.
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Now I pray that Andrew Weissman is subjected to a
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fair trial, indictment, a fair trial, and the appropriate punishment
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under the law. That's what we're praying for today in
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the Stone Zone. Until tomorrow, God bless you and Godspeed.
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Thanks for listening to The Stone Zone with Roger Stone.
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so you never have to wonder.
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What the heck is going on here?