Latest / Sid & Friends In The Morning / Roger Stone | 05-25-26
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- 0:40Speaker 4: This has been a big weekend for news. Of course,
- 0:42Speaker 4: we've been trying to get to it all morning, but
- 0:44Speaker 4: we've had great discussions already. Situation with a potential deal
- 0:48Speaker 4: to end the Iran war so much back and forth.
- 0:51Speaker 4: In some ways, I'm glad we didn't hit it so
- 0:53Speaker 4: heavily because there's so much we don't know. The people
- 0:56Speaker 4: with skin in the game, though, are making a cautious
- 0:58Speaker 4: bet that this is going to end. We're seeing oil
- 1:00Speaker 4: prices at the night. I'm seeing a ninety handle on
- 1:03Speaker 4: a West Texan intermediate in the US crew prices, So
- 1:07Speaker 4: I'm liking that. Also liking that gasoline prices, according to
- 1:10Speaker 4: Triple A been trickling lower down last couple of days.
- 1:13Speaker 4: We're down to four to fifty national average. That's still
- 1:15Speaker 4: quite a bit higher than that two ninety eight before
- 1:17Speaker 4: the war, but still good to see it going in
- 1:20Speaker 4: that direction. On the line right now with us is
- 1:22Speaker 4: the great host of the Stone Zone and also the
- 1:24Speaker 4: Rogers Stone Show. And a great friend of the President
- 1:28Speaker 4: is Roger Stone and Roger It's Jake Novak. Roger with
- 1:31Speaker 4: me is John Katzmetidez and Donovan Carter Roger. Could this
- 1:36Speaker 4: the President Trump is?
- 1:37Speaker 3: Really?
- 1:38Speaker 4: I think made it clear who the top dog is here.
- 1:40Speaker 4: Whatever happens with this Iran deal. This idea that he's
- 1:43Speaker 4: being railroaded one way or the other, it's kind of ludicrous,
- 1:46Speaker 4: isn't it.
- 1:47Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 1:47Speaker 5: If you know Donald Trump, as John cash Matitis has
- 1:51Speaker 5: known him for many, many years, he's his own man.
- 1:55Speaker 5: Nobody tells him what to do, nobody.
- 1:58Speaker 3: Suggests what's right for him.
- 2:00Speaker 5: He'll always listen to a broad cross section of advisors.
- 2:04Speaker 5: It he'll make his own decision. I supported Midnight Hammer,
- 2:08Speaker 5: think it was the right thing to do at the
- 2:10Speaker 5: time based on what we knew, and I supported epic fury.
- 2:14Speaker 5: I was a little skeptical at first, but he knows
- 2:17Speaker 5: a lot more than I do in terms of intelligence,
- 2:20Speaker 5: and now I think he thinks the time is right
- 2:23Speaker 5: to end this war. And I really pray that he's right,
- 2:26Speaker 5: because we were on the trajectory to one of the
- 2:29Speaker 5: great boom economies of all time housing, food prices, gas prices.
- 2:35Speaker 5: John has spoken about that extensively.
- 2:39Speaker 3: And we can get back on that track. And we
- 2:41Speaker 3: can get back on that track selfishly in.
- 2:44Speaker 5: Return for the midterm elections, but the president has to
- 2:48Speaker 5: think it's right, and I think that everything we've been
- 2:50Speaker 5: through is worth it. I put my trust in the president.
- 2:53Speaker 5: I've known him fifty years. He is America first, and
- 2:57Speaker 5: I trust him, and I think he's working night to
- 3:00Speaker 5: get this wrapped up.
- 3:02Speaker 4: You know, Roger, we're seeing these plays. Obviously, the mainstream
- 3:06Speaker 4: media likes to play games with these polls, and they're
- 3:09Speaker 4: all excited about how the economy is polling low right
- 3:13Speaker 4: now for President Trump's obviously been traditionally a big strength
- 3:16Speaker 4: for him. But I mean, if we get gasoline prices
- 3:20Speaker 4: that back down to the two dollars handle in most
- 3:23Speaker 4: of the country, which could really happen pretty quickly. You know,
- 3:27Speaker 4: I don't know how long that. I don't know if
- 3:29Speaker 4: the Democrats are going to want to play the economic
- 3:31Speaker 4: game that was five.
- 3:32Speaker 6: Minutes after the straight their home mouth is open up,
- 3:35Speaker 6: and there's a perception of long term peace. Gasoline and
- 3:42Speaker 6: kurol will be coming down the normal prices sixty sixty
- 3:46Speaker 6: five dollars a barrel three dollars maybe even less on gasoline.
- 3:53Speaker 6: And the other thing is would Powell being out, would
- 3:59Speaker 6: Powell being out and you have a new FED chairman
- 4:02Speaker 6: as soon as the gasoline comes down, then he will
- 4:07Speaker 6: have the ability after it comes down to lower interest rates.
- 4:12Speaker 6: So if we go into July fourth with low gasoline
- 4:16Speaker 6: and low interest rates, guess what we could win forty
- 4:20Speaker 6: nine states in November. Roger, what do you think?
- 4:25Speaker 3: John?
- 4:25Speaker 5: You've been very, very consistent about this, particularly about the
- 4:29Speaker 5: oil sector that you know more about than anyone else.
- 4:32Speaker 5: Totally agree with you about the Federal Reserve. The Federal
- 4:37Speaker 5: the interest rate is supposed to be based solely on
- 4:42Speaker 5: the level of inflation and the level of unemployment. Unemployment
- 4:47Speaker 5: and inflation have both been lower than they were the
- 4:50Speaker 5: last time the Federal Reserve cut rates for Joe Biden.
- 4:55Speaker 5: So it isn't Trump who's been political at the Federal Reserve.
- 4:58Speaker 5: It's Jerome Powell been political. He's been trying to hold
- 5:02Speaker 5: back the Trump recovery. By the way, he's a lawyer.
- 5:06Speaker 5: He's not even an economist. That's kind of strange. But
- 5:10Speaker 5: I could agree with you more. We could have a
- 5:11Speaker 5: housing boom. But everything I learned.
- 5:14Speaker 3: This from you. Everything keys off.
- 5:16Speaker 5: Of the price of gas, everything, and that will get
- 5:19Speaker 5: us lower interest rates. Kevin Worresh, he's a very good
- 5:22Speaker 5: man than the Reserve board chairman. I still think we
- 5:27Speaker 5: could have a boom economy by October.
- 5:30Speaker 6: I agree with you one hundred percent. I think I
- 5:33Speaker 6: think it could be September. And if you have all
- 5:37Speaker 6: those trainis of dollars of business coming in, and then
- 5:41Speaker 6: around the big businesses, let's say Toyota builds a new
- 5:45Speaker 6: billion dollar plant, the two billion dollar plant, and I've
- 5:49Speaker 6: talked to our Small Business Administration for what's the name
- 5:53Speaker 6: Lauf Laffer, Yes, and what they do the SBA is
- 5:59Speaker 6: going to money to small businesses to build small businesses
- 6:04Speaker 6: around those billion dollar pharmaceutical deals, those billion dollar more
- 6:09Speaker 6: bild deals. So you'll have small business playing the music
- 6:14Speaker 6: along with big business. And that's what the future of
- 6:18Speaker 6: the United States. And the other thing I have said publicly,
- 6:21Speaker 6: I'm the first one to predict the fifty thousand Dow
- 6:24Speaker 6: when it was down to thirty two thousand last June
- 6:26Speaker 6: or July. I predict that if all those things happen,
- 6:30Speaker 6: that the Dow jones could be close between fifty seven
- 6:34Speaker 6: and sixty thousand by the end of this year. Roger,
- 6:38Speaker 6: what do you think.
- 6:40Speaker 5: I think you're right on the money. It's interesting these
- 6:43Speaker 5: new polls show us that people have reservations about these
- 6:47Speaker 5: data centers. And the nice thing about data centers is
- 6:50Speaker 5: you can build them anywhere.
- 6:52Speaker 3: You can build them on.
- 6:53Speaker 5: Rural lands, you can build them on Native American lands.
- 6:56Speaker 5: But their concerns are that the utility right costs will
- 7:00Speaker 5: go up. There's no technology that the government's looking very
- 7:03Speaker 5: heavily at. It doesn't use a fossil fuel based energy
- 7:09Speaker 5: producer that could fund these data centers. So there be
- 7:15Speaker 5: no bump in utility costs and there be no shortage
- 7:19Speaker 5: of water, the two things you need to run these things.
- 7:22Speaker 5: So I think high technology is going to give us
- 7:25Speaker 5: a boom in that area as well.
- 7:27Speaker 3: Roger.
- 7:27Speaker 4: It already is happening. I took a look at Caterpillar
- 7:31Speaker 4: and Deer there. I mean, there has been a major,
- 7:33Speaker 4: major run on construction materials. You know, before you can
- 7:37Speaker 4: have the power drain, you've got to build the data centers.
- 7:41Speaker 4: And there is a building boom surrounding this situation. By
- 7:45Speaker 4: the way, you mentioned you can build them anywhere. You
- 7:46Speaker 4: can also build them in space. That's something Elon Musk
- 7:49Speaker 4: is working on, by the way, and that will just
- 7:51Speaker 4: use the solar power from out of space. But this
- 7:54Speaker 4: is already something that's happening. I mean, I think that
- 7:56Speaker 4: there are a couple of stories out there, Roger, that
- 8:00Speaker 4: are telling us that the economy is stronger than we think,
- 8:02Speaker 4: including trucking volume. You know, you can have trains, you
- 8:05Speaker 4: can have planes, you can do whatever you want, but
- 8:06Speaker 4: at the end of the day, almost every good and
- 8:09Speaker 4: good that's delivered in America is delivered at the end
- 8:11Speaker 4: by someone in a truck. And the trucking volumes are
- 8:14Speaker 4: through the roof. I mean, the economy boom economy might
- 8:18Speaker 4: be here already. We just don't know about it.
- 8:20Speaker 3: Well, I'll tell you one thing.
- 8:22Speaker 5: I've never met a truck driver who is for Kamala Harris,
- 8:25Speaker 5: that's for sure.
- 8:30Speaker 7: So Roger Stone, it's dominated good morning. I want to
- 8:34Speaker 7: two questions I want to ask you. One's very simplistic
- 8:37Speaker 7: in terms of what does Memorial Day mean to you?
- 8:41Speaker 7: After all, that's what we here in filling in for Sid.
- 8:44Speaker 7: And then the second question, is it a coincidence that
- 8:48Speaker 7: these shootings, alleged shootings and you know, keep happening around
- 8:56Speaker 7: President Trump. I saw a poll roger Stone that's said
- 9:00Speaker 7: as much as forty nine percent of Democrats believe that
- 9:03Speaker 7: these things are staged in part, which is nutty by
- 9:07Speaker 7: President Trump. So if you're going to answer those two questions.
- 9:09Speaker 3: For me, sure. First of all, Dominic, we've been friends
- 9:14Speaker 3: a long time.
- 9:14Speaker 8: It's very long time, brother.
- 9:16Speaker 7: It's always great to slay all low to you always
- 9:19Speaker 7: and wait wait wait wait, wait, stop ing, roger Stone.
- 9:22Speaker 7: You're not a sometimey friend. If Roger Stone is with you,
- 9:27Speaker 7: Roger Stone is with you and good Roger Stone is
- 9:30Speaker 7: with you in bad He doesn't turn his back on you.
- 9:34Speaker 7: That needs to be said, Roger, go right ahead, please.
- 9:37Speaker 3: Well, that's Rry cunning. You're a good man Dominique.
- 9:41Speaker 5: You know, I think sadly that this this spasm of
- 9:46Speaker 5: violence in the country, these shootings, this has been driven
- 9:49Speaker 5: by the overheated rhetoric of one party. I don't know
- 9:54Speaker 5: any Republicans are going around screaming for the death of
- 9:58Speaker 5: Chuck Schumer, for example. That would horrific, irresponsible, But the
- 10:03Speaker 5: overheated rhetoric, he's what I think is responsible for this
- 10:08Speaker 5: spasm of violence, and the idea that anyone would stage
- 10:13Speaker 5: an assassination attempt. You can go all over Twitter right
- 10:16Speaker 5: now x as they call it to find the people
- 10:19Speaker 5: who said, oh, the whole White House correspondent. I think
- 10:22Speaker 5: that was planned by Roger Stone. I find that particularly offensive.
- 10:27Speaker 5: You know, last week when I was in Washington, see,
- 10:30Speaker 5: I went out to Arlen Alington Cemetery and I went
- 10:34Speaker 5: to the gravesite of my political mentor, Governor John Davis
- 10:39Speaker 5: Lodge of Connecticut. Lodge was Henry Cabot Lodge's brother of
- 10:43Speaker 5: the Lodge brothers. Their father was Henry Cabot Lodge Senior,
- 10:48Speaker 5: and the Secretary of War under Theodore Roosevelt was Teddy.
- 10:53Speaker 5: Roosevelt's best friend us Senator of Massachusetts. Lodge was a governor, congressman,
- 11:02Speaker 5: ambassador to Argentina, Spain, and later Switzerland Spain under Eisenhower,
- 11:08Speaker 5: Argentina under Nixon, especiallyman under the Reagan He was one
- 11:12Speaker 5: of the greatest men I ever knew it was, and
- 11:15Speaker 5: I went out to visit his grave. He gave me
- 11:17Speaker 5: my start, introduced me to Richard Nixon, and the rest
- 11:21Speaker 5: is history. But it is so moving to look across
- 11:27Speaker 5: Arlen Cemetery in the morning and see the hundreds and
- 11:31Speaker 5: hundreds and hundreds of graves of men and women who
- 11:35Speaker 5: gave all.
- 11:36Speaker 3: For this country.
- 11:37Speaker 5: So when people say to me, happy Memorial Day, No,
- 11:41Speaker 5: today is not a day for happiness. Today is a
- 11:44Speaker 5: day for reflection. Today is a day for gratitude to
- 11:49Speaker 5: those who gave all for the country.
- 11:52Speaker 4: I just don't I want to continue on that theme
- 11:54Speaker 4: just a little bit. You know, I mentioned the name
- 11:56Speaker 4: of Sarah Beckstrom a few hours ago, someone who we
- 12:00Speaker 4: should remember on this memorial there that she was that
- 12:02Speaker 4: National Guard trooper who was shot point blank just by
- 12:05Speaker 4: someone who wanted to take a cheap political shot at
- 12:09Speaker 4: someone trying to defend our country. And specifically, you know,
- 12:12Speaker 4: she was the perfect example of the answer to that argument.
- 12:15Speaker 4: People say, well, I was sending troops over all over
- 12:17Speaker 4: sat far overseas when we have problems here in this country.
- 12:20Speaker 4: And President Trump's the first one in so many ways
- 12:23Speaker 4: to do that on this grand scale, not only protecting
- 12:26Speaker 4: cities like Washington, d C. But the waters of our
- 12:30Speaker 4: off of our southern borders from Ventanyl and things like that.
- 12:33Speaker 4: He's actually doing both of those things. And I just
- 12:36Speaker 4: think that Sarah is someone to remember today because it's
- 12:38Speaker 4: not only foreign wars where we've lost our servicemen and women,
- 12:43Speaker 4: it's in things like this where someone's just trying to
- 12:45Speaker 4: make daily life in America safer for all of us.
- 12:49Speaker 3: Well, he is the.
- 12:50Speaker 5: Law and order president, and he wasn't kidding around when
- 12:53Speaker 5: it came to that. I was in Washington, d C.
- 12:55Speaker 5: Week before last. As you know, I keep getting called down.
- 12:59Speaker 5: Makes it hard to do more show. We need to
- 13:01Speaker 5: get an affiliate, We need to get an affiliate in Washington,
- 13:04Speaker 5: d C. Wright I can get a studio, but he is.
- 13:10Speaker 5: He is really intent on making the nation's capital a
- 13:13Speaker 5: model place, and he's going to redevelop the entire waterfront,
- 13:16Speaker 5: which is good be magnificent. But it's Jake. It's clean,
- 13:21Speaker 5: it's safe, people are happy, and it's the people who
- 13:26Speaker 5: live there who are the happiest. He's very serious about
- 13:30Speaker 5: being the low order president.
- 13:33Speaker 6: In Washington, d C. I mean, when people were scared
- 13:36Speaker 6: to walk around, it's almost like a regular you know,
- 13:41Speaker 6: back to normal. And I mean the president has done
- 13:45Speaker 6: a great job, Janine Piro has done a great job.
- 13:49Speaker 6: You know what's next? I mean, I know he's sending
- 13:54Speaker 6: people into Uh, you sent people into what was in
- 13:57Speaker 6: Tennessee Memphis, and and send them and and New Orleans
- 14:05Speaker 6: too and uh and why Roger, you know, why are
- 14:11Speaker 6: the Democrats? Who are these people not to want safety
- 14:15Speaker 6: in their community. I don't understand what the heck is
- 14:18Speaker 6: going on.
- 14:20Speaker 5: It's hard to understand what the constituency is of those
- 14:24Speaker 5: who are dangerous illegal criminals.
- 14:27Speaker 3: Who are here when they're not supposed to be.
- 14:30Speaker 5: Where are the votes in that where It's interesting you
- 14:34Speaker 5: mentioned these places like Memphis, which was particularly dangerous. If
- 14:39Speaker 5: you talk to the people in Memphis, they're happy to
- 14:43Speaker 5: have the help. Even the mayor of d C, Bowser,
- 14:46Speaker 5: who's not a fan of down from said the least
- 14:49Speaker 5: has been forced to admit that the city is safer
- 14:52Speaker 5: and it's cleaner since down from moved the National Garden. So,
- 14:57Speaker 5: but people who don't want anyone going to these urban
- 15:00Speaker 5: centers that are that are crime pits.
- 15:03Speaker 3: They don't live there. They are the people whom in
- 15:05Speaker 3: the outside. Uh. He was very he was very serious.
- 15:09Speaker 5: About becoming the law in order to president and the
- 15:13Speaker 5: country more stable and safer again.
- 15:16Speaker 4: And that's why Sarah Bestrom didn't die in Vain.
- 15:19Speaker 6: You know. And Uh, it's just there's so many problems
- 15:23Speaker 6: in the country. I don't understand. You know, I was
- 15:26Speaker 6: a Democrat and uh at one time, and uh, I
- 15:30Speaker 6: was a Bill Clinton Democrat. I was JFK Democrat. But
- 15:34Speaker 6: I don't understand like Cory Booker, I know him in
- 15:38Speaker 6: New Jersey, I know him. Why Why does why is
- 15:42Speaker 6: he criticizing for shooting down the the the the boats
- 15:47Speaker 6: coming in Uh with with fatan or with drugs to
- 15:53Speaker 6: kill our kids. I don't understand it.
- 15:59Speaker 5: Are I think the answer your question, John, is that
- 16:02Speaker 5: the base of voters in that party has moved so
- 16:05Speaker 5: far to the left that if you're a moderate like
- 16:09Speaker 5: Bill Clinton, you can no longer be nominated. There is
- 16:12Speaker 5: no constituency. The word moderate Democrat is an oxymoron. It
- 16:18Speaker 5: almost doesn't exist. Their party has been taken credit by
- 16:22Speaker 5: a radical clique of Marxists, like Mam Dummy, like AOC,
- 16:28Speaker 5: Likejohan Omar, like that old wind bag Bernie Sanders. I
- 16:33Speaker 5: don't think it's electable. They don't have a platform. Let
- 16:36Speaker 5: me sum up their platform for me. If I may
- 16:39Speaker 5: we hate Donald Trump. There's their platform. They don't have
- 16:42Speaker 5: anything else. They have no plan for energy independence, they
- 16:45Speaker 5: have no plan to keep inflation down. They have no
- 16:48Speaker 5: plan for housing, they have no plan for safer streets
- 16:52Speaker 5: and communities.
- 16:53Speaker 3: They have no plan to rebuild our military. They literally
- 16:58Speaker 3: have no plan.
- 17:00Speaker 5: It's all based on anti and I don't think that
- 17:03Speaker 5: will work.
- 17:04Speaker 7: And you left out that they are also Democrats also
- 17:08Speaker 7: for a crime.
- 17:09Speaker 8: I mean that that's part of their platform as well.
- 17:12Speaker 6: And I don't understand that. I don't understand. I mean,
- 17:15Speaker 6: I understand having a heart, and you know, you know
- 17:19Speaker 6: you don't want a guy to get five years in
- 17:21Speaker 6: prison for stealing a love for Bretton. I mean, I
- 17:25Speaker 6: can understand that, but murderers, drug dealers, I mean to
- 17:32Speaker 6: criticize the fact that that the he deports them. The
- 17:38Speaker 6: FBI has to arrest them because local authorities don't arrest them.
- 17:42Speaker 8: We went too far from George Floyd. It's as simple
- 17:45Speaker 8: as that. It went way, way too far, and now
- 17:48Speaker 8: Democrats are the party of criminals. And it's why people
- 17:52Speaker 8: like myself, you and others have left and why we
- 17:55Speaker 8: turn to people for solid advice like Roger Stone, who's
- 17:59Speaker 8: the real deal.
- 18:02Speaker 3: I'm pretty kind.
- 18:03Speaker 6: Rogers on every day from eight o'clock to nine o'clock
- 18:07Speaker 6: Monday through Friday, and two o'clock special on Sunday afternoons.
- 18:13Speaker 6: I think it's the three to five and yeah, and
- 18:18Speaker 6: please listen to Roger Stone. And you're right, Roger, I
- 18:21Speaker 6: saw that text someplace that they call your show a
- 18:25Speaker 6: different name Monday through Friday than they do on Sunday.
- 18:28Speaker 6: It should be the same name, because when I look
- 18:30Speaker 6: at it to find a podcast or find a mini cast,
- 18:34Speaker 6: it's harder to find. And we'll tell programming to make
- 18:39Speaker 6: sure they they just should put it under Roger Stone.
- 18:43Speaker 3: Stone working with We're working with Kevin and tend to
- 18:46Speaker 3: have it all branded as the Stone Zone.
- 18:49Speaker 6: You got it, the Stone Zone. Roger Stone, thank you
- 18:52Speaker 6: for everything you do and tell the truth to the
- 18:55Speaker 6: American people. That's very important. And thank you for coming
- 18:59Speaker 6: on this memorial and let's not forget. Let's not forget
- 19:04Speaker 6: all the people we have lost on Memorial Day.
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