Present Actions, Future Consequences

0:00This is Crypto Bell Live, where you get all the cutting-edge information. On investing, plus how it affects your portfolio, we sat down for an informative interview with Anthony Scaremucci. If gold is $25 trillion asset could Bitcoin get to 12 trillion, which would be a 10x from where it is today, I do believe it. That's possible. To learn more, join the community and subscribe Crypto Bell dot live. That's Crypto Bell dot live. This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone. People love him and respect him. Roger Stone. Now, get him his own. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone. You are now entering the Stone Zone. Well, I continue to be complex by events over at Fox Television, where they have just

1:04let Maria Bartoromo, who to me was their single greatest talent. One of the best investigative reporters, one of the best interviewers in media today, they suspended her from the air. Reports that she had been fired are incorrect. In fact, she has a contract with Fox that takes her through 2029. Problem with that means that if she's bound by that contract, she does not have the ability to appear anyplace else. I for one will really miss her reporting, but I'm not the only one President Donald Trump on shoulders, living over Fox Newsies of Buck filing of Maria Bartoromo, who he agrees with me, was one of the network's most prominent pro-Trump personalities. This is a hard lesson, unfortunately, that we've seen before. Kimberly Gelfoil, Lou Dobbs, Bill O'Reilly, Tucker Carlson, back when he was a Trump supporter.

2:04All of them learned the hard way that, well, the folks at Fox seem to care more about money or perhaps its political correctness. There are reports that Bartoromo was suspended because she wanted to cover President Donald Trump's national address in which he pointed out that the Chinese Communist had illegally and elicitly obtained 200 million U.S. voter records. To me, that's a huge national story. And one has to wonder why the powers that be at Fox did not want Bartoromo to cover that story if that report is accurate. I have to note that this is the final weekend for summer style. After Labor Day, no more silk, no more seersucker, no more linen, no more two-tone spectator shoes that I'm so fond of, I have to turn my straw Panama Optimo hat in for a felt

3:05humbler. So, my favorite season of men's style summer has now passed. And those are the rules. Now, people can ask me, well, what if I live in Florida or if I live in a warm climb? No, the rules are the rules. No white after Labor Day until Memorial Day. And that's the way it is. Meanwhile, the Lindsey Clancy jury has reached the astonishing point where 12 people cannot unanimously decide criminal responsibility after the defendant admitted killing all three of her children in a shocking crime. She strangled her children ages 3, 5, and 8 respectively in the family home in January 2023. Prosecutors argue that she created an opportunity by sending her husband away and acted deliberately. The defense maintained that severe postpartum psychosis left her legally incapable appreciating the wrongfulness of what she was doing.

4:08Frankly, this is shocking to me and makes very little sense. After more than 38 hours of deliberation, jurors told the judge, William Sullivan, for a third time that they could not agree. Their latest note said with a heavy heart that unanimity that is required by law was impossible. Sullivan moved towards declaring a mistrial while allowing the fence to seek emergency, appellate relief. The facts in this case make the inability to reach any verdict deeply unsettling to me. The defense system can recognize psychiatric disease without allowing sympathy to swallow accountability altogether. Prosecutors presented evidence of the planning, the three defensive children ending up dead, and Clancy does not dispute that she killed them. When undeniable acts become submerged beneath therapeutic explanations, the victims begin disappearing from the story. That's what's happened here. Clearly the cult of personality that has developed around Clancy with thousands of impressionably,

5:13self-important women glued to tiptock, believing they are finding out the real truth about the case, when an actuality, what they're doing is public relations for a murdering fiend. Hopefully, if the mistrial goes through, the new trial will not descend into farce, and Clancy will not join, say, O.J. Simpson and K.C. Anthony examples of what happens when the justice system of America fails us all. Meanwhile, good news for the Trump administration heading into the midterm elections, the August Jobs report landed far more favorably the Trump administration than most economists had predicted or expected. The Trump administration's added 162,000 jobs, compared with forecasts, clustered around 53,000 to 65,000, while unemployment had strong 4.1%. Private payroll rose by 127,000. Manufacturing added 16,000 jobs, restaurants and bars, and other hospitality added 59,000,

6:19and average hourly earnings were up 3.1% from a year earlier. This is the wage growth the Secretary of the Treasury's got best in keeps talking about. Meanwhile, just as important in June and July, the predictions revised upwards to a combined 55,000 jobs, turning July's previously ported decline into a game. The report weakens the recession narrative pushed by Panicans and Democrats and doubters of the administration's economic agenda. When you consider that unemployment, apartment inflation, hovers at 3.4, far lower than the 9% that was the peak under Joe Biden, and the fact that we have safer neighborhoods than all of the prime statistics, whether it be murder, car theft, home breaking, violent assault, all down in every category, the administration has an increasingly good story to tell and lay out for the American voters before the 2026 elections.

7:23Given this resilient labor market, it gives the Federal Reserve more room to make monetary policy tight, if inflation continues to be slightly above the target. President Trump renewed his criticism of the Fed after the report while policy makers waiting for the next inflation readings before deciding what comes next. The jobs report, therefore, delivered two messages at once in a way. Recession fears looked less persuasive today than they did a month ago, but economic strength may also make cheaper mortgages and business loans harder to obtain. Kevin Warsh was not appointed as chair of the Federal Reserve to follow in the footstakes of his disgraced predecessor Jerome Tulate Powell. He was put in work to improve the trade for the Trump Renaissance. Warsh needs to get in gear and bring interest rates down where they belong so that the nation's economy can reach its maximum potential. I point out to Jerome Powell cut interest rates when the unemployment and the inflation rate were less favorable than they are today in order to try to help Joe Biden politically

8:28in the end that did not work. But in this case, I still believe that we should not have an interest rate, we should actually have a cup. Specifically, to make housing more affordable. Meanwhile, the administration has taken its newest mail-in ballot regulations directly to the Supreme Court on an emergency timetable. This I think demonstrates the administration's commitment to make sure that the 2026 elections are free, fair and honest. The U.S. Postal Service rules would require states using the mail for federal ballots to provide voter information through a federal system and use approved outbound and return envelopes carrying unique barcodes. Under this new regulation, the United States Postal Service could decline to process ballots and do not satisfy these new requirements. U.S. District Judge Indira Taewani, who was an Obama appointee of the bench, temporarily blocked implementation of the new regulation, saying that challenges were likely to show

9:33the system intrudes on the state's constitutional role in administering elections in raising serious concerns about whether the Postal Service could implement the system competently this close to the November election. The administration asks the Supreme Court for emergency leave while a related request remains pending before the federal appeals court. The administration makes the case that the existing Postal regulations gives its sufficient authority while liberal voting rights groups are using election administration belongs entirely to the states unless Congress acts. Isn't it strange how liberals all of a sudden become supporters of states' rights when it comes to this one particular issue? They want the states to have control because in blue states, in cities, it's valid arc energy with no safeguards and no rules. This is the type of system they can gain. We saw an unfold display in the 2020 presidential elections.

10:34The Supreme Court now must step in and stop this madness. The United States Postal Service must be allowed to drive a stake through the heart of the left wing vote fraud machine and enforce their lawful authority during the midterm elections. I applaud this move by the Trump administration. Unfortunately, thanks to an incomprehensible court decision, Missouri has now, when the strangest election law situations in the country, candidates who were nominated in August under congressional districts that barring federal intervention will not exist for the November General Election. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday that the Republican-backed map proved last year never legally took effect because Democrat opponents successfully triggered the state's referendum process. More than 300,000 signatures were submitted seeking a statewide vote on the redistricting legislation. Secretary of State Denny Hoskins eventually rejected that effort, but not until primary

11:37day. The state's high court said that even though the petition effort was not valid, according to Secretary of State, the old congressional mass must remain in place anyway. This is an egregious and senseless act of obstruction and a political act by the Missouri Supreme Court. Voters already chose nominees under the decided districts, leaving candidates and election officials confronting a general election on completely different lines. Public Attorney General Catherine Hannawey says she will seek relief from the U.S. Supreme Court, which will have to step in to stop this madness. Missouri deserves to get a federal ruling before ballots are finalized and printed, and it should restore the process unimpeded. The courts want to prevent Republicans from winning the redistricting wars, even if it means robbing the people of their choices. Voters went to the polls in August, believing one electoral map covered the races, and entered the September with another different set of districts.

12:39I'm calling out these shenanigans. This is precisely why so many people have no faith in our political system or process. Meanwhile, President Trump is expected to sign an executive order concerning beef with country of origin labeling becoming a major part of it. The move follows the administration's decision to temporarily increase imports for some low tear of beef in an effort to reduce high retail prices. That decision-bought immediate resistance from cattle producers in the United States, concerned that additional foreign supplies could depress domestic cattle prices without doing enough to rebuild America's own herd. The ranchers and farmers don't acknowledge the fact that the actual herd is down substantially in terms of the size. It's not that there is more beef in the United States. There isn't enough beef in the United States, which is why the president has made this move. It is important that the ranchers respond with their longstanding demand for clearer

13:43labeling such offers can distinguish beef from cattle born raised in slaughtered the United States from the imported product. Not opposed to that. The current federal laws allow qualifying meat to carry a voluntary product of the USA label and the Trump administration's orders expected to change that. Americans dealing with tight cattle supply and rebuilding herds takes years decimated by the radical environmental policies of Dubai. For me, I just want a good medium-rare handburger and a reasonable price. And thanks to the Trump administration, I think that there's a good possibility that I will get one. I'm Roger Stone. You're listening to the Stone Zone. Don't go away because we'll be right back. This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone. He likes politics and he's a professional at the highest level. Roger Stone was Roger. This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone.

14:59Roger Stone is a very, very one of the smartest political minds. Now, give him his own. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone. You are leaping head first back into the Stone Zone and look like you have you. The administration's long-running dispute with the Smithsonian has moved beyond arguments about exhibits into allegations of federal civil rights violations, a joint interior department and White House letters, says that officials have uncovered evidence suggesting that Smithsonian leadership may have created a hostile workplace or allocated opportunities funding and benefits according to race, ethnicity, or other protected characteristics. The administration has warned that federal agencies can withdraw forms of discretionary cooperation, including artifact loans, procurement assistance, and grants if the institution

15:59does not address the concerns. The Smithsonian recently received roughly $1 billion annually in federal funding and that may be put in jeopardy because of their alleged infractions. The evidence will determine whether this develops into a civil rights enforcement case it has led. It was not too long ago that we learned that Smithsonian had an exhibit in which they claimed that President Richard Nixon had been impeached, which is historically and legally incorrect. President Richard Nixon resigned the presidency rather than put the country through the agony of impeachment. Perfect example, the Smithsonian reporting a politically correct but incorrect conclusion. Smithsonian museums have frequently allowed the DEI concepts and progressive interpretations of history to shape its exhibits. Therefore, it should come as no surprise if the Smithsonian's employment practices follow that same pattern. The Smithsonian's argue that political officials are attempting to dictate how historians and

17:03curators interpret America's past, but this is what they have always done. Academia is riddled with liberals. They're not unbiased, they're giving you their point of view. This is also true of the so-called historians. Democrats just no longer control the process and that's what they're really upset about. This is proof that elections have consequences and the consequences in this case is removing the leftist cancer from the Smithsonian. Civil rights laws is now being applied fairly. It's no longer a cudgel for the use of liberal policy. All races are expected to be treated fairly under the law, meaning no affirmative action and no special treatment. The diversity gravy trends being derailed, we have a Trump administration for a thanking of that. It's a whole idea that every problem in the country is called caused by white men or any other political narrative put forward in the Smithsonian, such as the idea that Richard Nixon was impeached when it wasn't, but those days are over.

18:08When we come back, big news out of the state of Kansas where the teamsters, longtime style works of the Democrat Party have switched over to support the Republican candidate for governor, something we have not seen in decades. Thanks for tuning into the Stone Zone. I'm Roger Stone. Right here with the latest political news, don't go away because I'll be right back. This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone. Roger Stone is the very, very one of the smartest political minds. Roger Stone was persecuted. People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst. Now, get him his own. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone. Thanks for joining us back here in the Stone Zone. Here in the Sunshine State of Florida, US Congressman and Florida Republican Governor

19:10Torio Nomini by Rendonels is making the contention that merely telling young voters socialism as failed on a historical basis will not adequately address the pressing concerns dominating their lives today. Indeed, I look at the polls shows that just the title of socialism does not repel younger voters as I should if they understood the impact of those policies. The Republican nominee for Governor Florida told the Daily Caller, younger Americans want a credible path to owning a house, finding work that pays well, starting families and accumulating wealth. His proposals include lowering permitting costs to add to housing prices, expanding apprenticeships and vocational pathways outside the four-year college model, as well as forcing universities to become more transparent about whether expensive degrees produce economic value. Congressman Donalds is also re-interred in his support for eliminating the H1BVZ program

20:13and returning to a quota-based legal immigration system arguing that immigration policy should be priority to American workers. Governor Ron DeSantis endorsed by Rendonels this week. There has been some tension between the two of them in the past, but the Republican Party of Florida is now united. I think by Rendonels is making some key arguments here. Young adults encounter how a crisis far beyond those faced by many previous generations. Large education costs and debt and an unemployment market being reshaped by automation, globalization and immigration. Donalds is trying to translate the Trump era of Republican focus on trade, immigration and domestic production into more of a theory of economic growth that should benefit to appeal to younger voters. This is exactly the message the Republicans need to hear. It's fine to point out socialism is morally bankrupt and how it is found in other places,

21:15but without a counter-proposal to make America a better place, younger voters are going to tune it out or buy into the hoping change narrative of the Democrats that's never very specific. It'd be more apt to embrace the false promises, rather than go left. Donalds here is very wise to reframe the date to make surrounding the actual impact of the policies that he's proposing versus the policies put forward by the Democrats. Meanwhile, in an interesting development, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O'Brien has endorsed the Republican Senator Roger Marshall of Kansas. This is another sign that the old relationships between organized labor and party politics is becoming less predictable in the age of Donald J. Trump. Brian endorsed Marshall for re-election in Kansas, praising his willingness to work across party lines on labor legislation.

22:15Teamsters local, 696 in Topeka, Kansas, has also backed Marshall. The Senator supports proposals, including the Faster Labor Contracts Act, the Wehrhouse Workers Protection Act, and Ryleway's Safety Legislation, Andy led the overtime wages relief act, which created a federal income tax exemption unspecified overtime earnings as part of President Trump's major tax legislation as part of the big, beautiful bill. That does not mean the Teamsters have become Republican Organization by an instant stretch of the imagination. Union leadership and local chapters remain politically divided, and individual members support candidates across the spectrum. Other teams to body senators, Democrats of the 2026 races, while O'Brien's Republican outreach is generated some internal criticism inside the union. The significance, though, cannot be understated. Republican politics under President Trump has placed greater emphasis on tariffs, domestic manufacturing, immigration restriction, overtime tax relief, and protection of American workers,

23:21as well as other issues designed to appeal to the wage earners who historically belong to the old Democrat coalition. The President Trump is slowly, but surely, you're making a Republican party into the party of the working man and the working family. The more the Republican party consistently adopts Trump's America-first economic policies, the more they will be able to rely on support from elements of organized labor in a way that was previously unfathomable. Meanwhile, for decades, President and members of Congress have promised a linear federal government. This time, the payroll numbers have unmistakably moved. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics data, they now show federal unemployment fell by another 5,000 jobs in August to approximately 2.674 million. The comparable figure was about 3.10 million in January of 2025. This is a reduction of roughly 336,000 positions, or just over 11%.

24:25If you exclude the post office, the contraction, as we need more pronounced over the past year, most of the decline occurred during President Trump's first year back in office at the peak of the Doge era. August produced a particularly stark contrast, private employers adding 127,000 jobs while federal employment fell once again. Headcount, however, is only half of the story. Smaller government is not automatically a more afficking government. Agency still have to process veterans claims, passports, social security matters, effort forth laws, inspect facilities, manage contracts, and perform thousands of functions that citizens notice only when they stop working. This is why it's important to automate bureaucracy using AI and nation technologies to reduce the need for excessive manpower in Washington, D.C. and by the U.S. government. When agencies maintain or improve their performance, would substantially fuel employees, the

25:28public would increase and get behind smaller but more affishing government. Productivity numbers will ultimately tell the entire story. Washington is measurably smaller than it was when President Trump was returned to office. Now the challenge is to create an affishing government that does not overly burden the American taxpayer. That of course will be a tall ornament Trump administration's up to the challenge. After all, they have already given us the largest single tax cut in American history, as well as cutting the tax on tips, cutting the tax on overtime, and for the first time under Donald Trump, 88% of those receiving social security benefits will pay no tax on them. That is real progress. The artificial intelligence race is rapidly becoming an energy and construction race. United States retains a commandingly by several measures. Stand for data-sided Fox News counted 5,427 American data centers in 2025, compared to

26:32with just 449 in China, while U.S. private AI investment reaches roughly 280 billion against a mere 12 billion in China. There is potential edge lies somewhere else. Speed Beijing is rapidly building data centers, power generation and transmission infrastructure, particularly Western regions where land and energy are abundant. President Trump has correctly argued that American opposition and new data center benefits China, while Vice President JD Vance says the United States cannot remain the AI leader without constructing far more electricity generation. China currently generates off these three times as much electricity as United States today. The key thing we remember here is that data centers do not necessarily have to utilize local water or tap into the grid for local electricity. There are technologies that can cool a data center that are completely closed loop that

27:34don't have to utilize local water. And there are at least three technologies that are closed loop to provide the electricity to fuel the data center. That's what Congressman Byron-Donnell has been talking about in Florida. So data centers do not necessarily have to utilize local water or tap into the grid and cause crisis increases in the local utility rates. This changes the way technology competition has to be understood. This AI requires chips and algorithms, but it also consumes enormous quantities of electricity and depends on transformers, transmission lines, gas infrastructure, nuclear planes, cooling systems, and physical constructions, unless done the way I have just outlined both of which can be completely internal and closed loop. China can offer to prove and build large infrastructure projects much faster than the United States. Although that speed comes from political and regulatory system that's radically different

28:35than America's. We obviously should not have gained in federalism and a mad rush to compete with China, but we simply must out innovate them. That's what I'm talking about in terms of building these systems in which data centers can be completely and totally fueled and cooled without disrupting local water or electricity rates. Breakthrough that when's the AI race will often be written in the laboratory, whether it can operate at a national scale, depending on how many megawatts America actually is able to produce without tapping in to the grid. Trump administration has placed a major legal immigration change back on the regulatory agenda, the Department of Homeland Security has considered a rule that would end employment authorization for certain H-4 spouses of H-B-H1B visa holders reversing the policy in effect since the dark, dark days of Barack Obama in 2015.

29:37Under the current system, some spouses of skilled foreign workers can obtain permission to work while their family's wait for an employment-based green card. The newly listed rule would restore the older policy under which those spouses generally could not receive employment authorization simply through their H-4 status. The United States has approved 228, 147 initial and renewable H-4 work authorizations between fiscal 2023 and 2025, according to calculations cited by Forbes. Although that figure should not be confused, with the number of people currently working under the program. This dispute closes two different problems inside the legal immigration system. H-4 employment has taken a temporary guest worker program that was actually created for H-1B professionals and expanded into a second labor pool through spouses increasing competition

30:37for American workers. This rule change will cut off another way that the immigration system is being abused to flood our country with foreigners taking jobs from Americans. They gained the system in a myriad of ways in order to hasten the demographic collapse of our country. This is why we must tighten every potential loophole. It's not about lacking compassion or being inhospitable to our fellow man. It's about making clear to foreigners that the invasion must stop now and when it comes to jobs, it's Americans have priority. That is the philosophy of the Trump administration. If you're just tuning in, you're in the stone zone and I'm Roger Stone. Federal prosecutors have charged in a Los Angeles man crossing the line from inflammatory political speech into criminal threats. Benjamin Azaraya's south-warth, 40, was arrested Thursday after a federal gang jury indicted him on one count from threatening the life of President Donald Trump, one

31:40count of cyber stalking, and one count involving harassing interstate telephone calls. Prosecutors alleged that south-warth posted materially explicitly advocating President Trump's killing, publicly residential address of a lawyer who had represented President Trump, and repeatedly targeting members of the lawyer's family with both messages and calls. When it convicted on all counts, he faces a statutory maximum sentence of 12 years. The Secret Service and the FBI are investigating this case. The case represents a useful First Amendment distinction at a time of intense political rhetoric from the radical left. Lengenement threats, targeted intimidation, and cyber stalking, opt-by, are not protected by the law. The court has spent decades drawing that boundary because an overly broad definition of threats

32:41can chill lawful speech while an overly narrow one can leave targeted people exposed to credible violence and threats. Recent assassination attempts and threats involved in President Trump make those questions especially serious. We were one centimeter away from seeing President Trump assassinating publicly in Butler, Pennsylvania. I thank the good Lord for preserving his life. The free society has room for spirited political debate, which can perhaps should involve insults and personal attacks when necessary. That is, maybe repugnant to some, protecting political speech. To listen to the Stone Zone, I'm Roger Stone and we'll be right back.

33:54This is the Stone Zone with Roger Stone. Roger Stone, who is a very, very one of the smartest political minds. Roger Stone was persecuted. People forget he's actually a brilliant, brilliant political analyst. Now, give him his own. It's the Stone Zone. Here's Roger Stone. Welcome back to the Stone Zone. The Customs and Border Patrol is carrying out President Trump's executive order, 1-4-1-6-5, securing our borders and proclamation 10886, which declared a national emergency at our southern border after Southwest and County of Surge during the Biden administration. What is going up now is a modern upgrade. The smart wall, unveiled by the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection in October 2025, is actually a physical barrier and a persistent detection system built as one machine across nearly 2,000 miles.

34:57Steel, sensors, roads, drones and satellites. Remember, they told us that it couldn't be done? The Customs and Border Patrol publishes that work on its smart wall map and interactive tractor of the entire 154-mile U.S. Mexico border from the Pacific near San Diego to the Gulf near Brownsville, Texas. Agency updates the marker's weekly as construction moves. The map covers a new primary wall, replacement wall, secondary wall, water-bored barriers, vehicle barrier and detection only miles. The map covers a new primary wall, replacement wall, secondary wall, water-bored barrier,

36:03vehicle barrier and detection only stretches. The table shows about 193 completed across all types with hundreds more, currently under construction. Detection only miles marked terrain where the agencies installing cameras and sensors instead of a 34-stile wall. Trump's first term was focused on height, length and presence about 458 miles of mostly steel barriers from 2017 to 21. The bulk of it replacement fencing and only a few dozens of miles of new wall are previously unfanced areas. The second term version builds on that work as a technological operation system detection now sits beside the steel. The wall is changing to match the technology now available. Contracts covering hundreds of miles of these upgrades have been awarded from the $46.5 billion set aside in the 2025 big, beautiful bill signed back on July 4th.

37:09New and replacement primary walls use tall steel bowlards. In many sections, a second parallel wall creates an enforcement zone with a road in between. On the Rio Grande, Sindro and Waterborne barriers and nets are meant to block swimming and small boat crosses. Vehicle barriers and low profile rails appear in rugged stretches as parts of big bed. Where a 30-foot wall on a cliff would of course be pointless. The sensors sit on and around that steel. Ground sensors, radars, camera, lighting and acoustic monitors feed a constant technological stream. Autonomous towers watch the line without an agent in the cab. Cameras and radar pick up movement. On board AI classifies what it sees as a person, a vehicle or an animal and it discards the rest. When the signature matches the human or a truck, towers sends an alert to a patrol unit instead

38:12of waiting for someone to notice a blur on a screen. The satellites and aerial platforms extend the view beyond the fence line. Drones can patrol at night. Persistent overhead coverage in AI systems ingest the combined feats so that humans are not staring at every screen. This is how the customs and border patrols describe the new smart wall at the system level. Barriers plus cameras, ground sensors, autonomous towers, AI classifications, drones and once again satellite feed. The plan here is to add detection technology to hundreds of miles of already built barrier and to cover additional remote or steep terrain with sensors alone rather than fencing. This is Donald Trump's pledge to seal our Southern border and indeed he's using the newest and most updated technology to do so. Thanks for joining us today in the Stone Zone until tomorrow. God bless you and Godspeed.