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The Stone Zone with legendary Republican strategist and political icon and pundit Roger Stone.
Stone has served as a senior campaign aide to three Republican presidents.
He is a New York Times best-selling author and a longtime friend and advisor of President Donald Trump.
As an outspoken libertarian, Stone has appeared on thousands of broadcasts, spoken at countless venues, and lectured before the prestigious Oxford Political Union and the Cambridge Union Society.
Due to his four plus decades in the political and cultural arena, Stone has become a pop culture icon.
And now here's your host, Roger Stone.
Welcome, I'm Roger Stone, and yes, you are back in the Stone Zone.
Well, it's not news that Donald Trump won the South Carolina primary, home of his only remaining rival, former governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley by almost a two to one margin.
But what is news is the fact that Donald Trump managed to tally the most votes of any presidential candidate in either party in the history of the South Carolina primary.
Here to help us break this news down and perhaps talk about the way forward is my co-host, Troy Smith of Slingshot News.
Troy, welcome back into the Stone Zone.
Roger, it's an honor to be here, and after such a historic South Carolina victory for President Trump, I'm eager to get your thoughts on those results and the kind of defense we're seeing of Nikki Haley.
I think a lot of people expected her to talk about dropping out.
She kind of did a teaser speech where she pretended like she was going to drop out before the primary to get Fox News and others to cover her.
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on her strategy going forward, and does she really have a chance?
I mean, why is she remaining in the race here, Roger?
Before we do that, Troy, I love the way virtually every day Dan Bongino posts the date and says, today is today's date.
And Joe Biden is still the worst president in American history.
Just how out of it Joe Biden is.
Take a look at this clip.
You know, stand here in front of this portrait, the man behind me here.
He, uh, he said, and I want to make sure I get the quote exactly right.
He said, the better angel, he said, we must address the council and address the better angels of our nature.
And we do, and we do well to remember what else he said.
He said, we're not enemies, but we're friends.
It's the middle of the civil war.
He said, we're not enemies, but we're friends.
We must not be enemies.
Folks.
And I've been around, I know I don't look it, I've been around a long while.
And I mean this sincerely.
We've gotten, politics has gotten too bitter.
This guy never disappoints.
He says he's going to get the quote exactly right and then he doesn't even get close.
What's really amazing about this South Carolina victory is I think it is absolutely clear, as you say, Troy, that there is no way forward for Nikki Haley.
A huge speculation today that she's laying the groundwork for some kind of an independent effort.
That she perhaps would bolt to the so-called No Parties label.
Now, for those of our viewers who are unfamiliar with No Parties, it is a rather well-funded and long-serving operation to use the petition process to get an alternative candidate for president on the ballot in all 50 states.
As we've talked about many times here on the Stone Zone, that's a Herculean task.
It is extraordinarily expensive.
It forces you to adhere to a group of arcane and complicated rules.
The time period for the selection of petitions is very compressed, so you have to collect a very large number of petitions in most states in a very compressed time frame.
It's extraordinarily different.
Case in point, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., scion of one of the most famous political dynasties in the United States.
is reportedly having real difficulty petitioning his way on the ballot as an independent.
The other problem for Nikki Haley is that there are what we call sore loser laws.
Most states have a law that says if you contended in the state primary for an office, in this case, president, you cannot later, and lost the primary, you cannot later come back and petition your way on the ballot to run in that state as an you cannot later come back and petition your way on the Presumably Nikki Haley has gone ahead and filed in the Super Tuesday primaries coming up in March.
That knocks out more than half the states, or at least a third of the states.
Now, some at no parties have argued And while that might block her from being a candidate for president, it would not necessarily block her from being a candidate on the No Parties label for vice president.
I'm not a lawyer, but actually that sounds right to me.
But it leaves the No Parties people right back where they were without a well-known candidate for president who actually would pose an alternative.
A number of Republicans contacted me on Sunday after the smoke cleared and Trump won an extraordinary victory on Saturday in the South Carolina primary, concerned that Nikki Haley, running as an independent, would siphon Republican votes.
I don't think that is the case.
I think this is more like 1960, pardon me, 1980, when John Anderson, the liberal Republican congressman from Illinois, bolted the Republican Party to run as an independent, did get on the ballot in most states, but ended up taking most of his votes from Democrat Jimmy Carter.
In the meantime, there's a broad denial regarding the magnitude and trajectory of the Trump campaign.
What was it that you were telling me Jen Psaki had to say?
Well, that's right, Roger.
She was on the air yesterday kind of claiming that Nikki Haley's vote totals in South Carolina were alarming, and they were highlighting a trend of anti-Trump Republican votes.
And I think that she is purposefully obscuring the fact that it's an open primary, and you can have other people voting the primary.
You pointed this out in New Hampshire.
South Carolina's got the same situation.
The anti-Trump vote, Roger, is huge because they have other people that aren't Republicans voting in the primary.
And I want to make a prediction there as far as No Labels is concerned, real quickly.
No Labels, I predict, first I predict that former Governor Larry Hogan If he should win his Senate seat in Maryland, keep in mind, Roger, this is a guy who harbored a pedophile, I'm going to predict that he's going to switch his affiliation from Republican to no labels.
And I think eventually the goal of these people is to use the Republican Party in areas where they think that they can win to infiltrate.
And then much like Sinema changed her affiliation, Hogan will change his to no labels.
And that way they will kind of build a presence in Congress.
And they're looking to draw power away from the Republican establishment.
But, yeah, as far as Psaki is concerned and what she was saying about the Trump campaign, they're saying that Nikki Haley's vote in South Carolina proves something.
Last time I checked, Roger, she got trounced, like you said, half the votes.
That's no kind of victory.
And I don't believe in moral victories in politics.
So it's pretty clear cut.
All right.
We're putting that prediction down on Larry Hogan.
And then, Last I heard, Larry Hogan was running for the U.S.
Senate in Maryland as a Republican, and there were actually some polls that showed him with a narrow lead.
So are you saying that he will abandon the Senate race to make a futile race for president under the no labels brand?
No, no, that's not what I'm saying, Roger.
I'm saying that if he were to win his Senate race, which he's currently leading in, that he's going to change his affiliation once he gets to the Senate so that he can have a no-labels presence.
And this is important because if you look at the catbird seat in the Senate, Roger, that's what we call it, you look at the catbird seat, it's West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin, who just happens to be involved in no-labels and is retiring at the end of his term.
All the sudden the catbird seats open and anybody who's willing to wheel and deal with both sides of the political aisle is going to have the money seat, the catbird seat, whatever you want to call it.
I'm predicting that that's going to be Larry Hogan.
And really, truthfully, Roger, if he were to win, You're not going to get what a Republican would vote for anyway.
He's going to side with the Democrats on a majority of things like he did in Maryland with the lockdowns, with the vaccines, with anything, really.
I mean, the Democrats had free reign when he was governor, and if he's elected to the Senate, that'll be the same position.
I think he'll make it official, though, because he has been involved at the ground level of no labels, and he will switch his affiliation to put that party in a position to gain more steam and power and influence and ultimately money.
Because when you're looking at somebody like Larry Hogan, money is almost always the objective.
Excellent political analysis by my colleague Troy Smith.
Also in denial is Larry O'Donnell.
Now this guy is a real pain in the ass.
Here he is on Last Night, or Night Before Last, with his analysis that the results in South Carolina essentially show that Trump is not going to be nominated.
Let's roll this.
So these numbers are disastrous for Donald Trump.
Disastrous.
they vote for in a general election.
Lawrence needs to wait.
I mean, this is like your sweet spot.
How is Joe Biden looking at this 37 percent?
These numbers are disastrous for Donald Trump.
Disastrous.
Okay.
That's the reason I mentioned that the big forgotten number of South Carolina, which is Joe Biden getting 96 percent.
Okay.
That's what you're supposed to get, alright?
And Donald Trump's not gonna come close to that.
Donald Trump's gonna leave 30%?
I don't know, 25%?
Whatever it is.
37%?
Not yet, we don't know.
We don't know what the result of this election is tonight.
But it's gonna be a very substantial number.
Could be a third of the vote.
He's going to leave that on the table, belonging to another candidate.
All you need, all you need, is 5% of the 30%.
We're talking about a sliver.
That's all you need to not vote for Donald Trump, of this representative kind of voter, in Michigan, in Pennsylvania, in Arizona, in Georgia.
And so these are disastrous voting results for Donald Trump in the general election.
So, this is not the first time Larry O'Donnell has become unhinged.
in South Carolina.
But that voter in the Haley vote package is represented in New Hampshire, is represented in these other states, and is represented in all the other swing states.
Wisconsin, you need a tiny slice of them and 10,000 of them.
So this is not the first time Larry O'Donnell has become unhinged.
Here's a particular video that gives you some insights into this fellow's character.
James Fallows and Josh Earnest, thank you both for joining us tonight.
Really appreciate it.
Coming up, is Donald Trump going to be called to testify to Congress?
Michael Iskoff has the latest on that.
Stop the hammering!
Stop the hammering out there!
Who's got a hammer?
Where is it?
Where's the hammer?
Is it on the... Go up on the other floor!
Somebody go up there and stop the hammering!
Stop the hammering!
I'll go down to the for myself and stop it.
Keep the f***ing commercial break going.
Call f***ing Phil Griffin.
I don't care who the f*** you have to call.
"Stop the hammering." Empty out the control room and find out where this is going on.
It's either there or there.
or out there somewhere.
The woman talking in my ear was talking about the Labor Day special.
Repeatedly.
Every time we went to a SOT.
Yeah, what do you mean in the conversation?
Not in the Bush thought, no.
Out of control. - Oh .
So this speaks exactly to what you said.
First of all, we've seen just now what an unbalanced character Larry O'Donnell is.
But secondarily, he seems to miss the point that the only places where Nikki Haley has done well Are those states with open primaries and those people, yes, they're Joe Biden voters, but they're not really representative within the Republican primary.
So there was a massive effort in New Hampshire to flood the Republican primary with non Republican voters.
Now while that is technically legal, actually it needed the approval of the New Hampshire Republican State Committee, which was never actually enacted.
It has been enacted every four years until this year, but the Secretary of State allowed non-Republicans, independents, To vote in the Republican primary anyway.
In South Carolina, any person of any party can vote in the Republican primary.
The Democrats had their presidential primary on a different day, but what Lawrence Larry O'Donnell fails to mention is that the turnout for Joe Biden was anemic.
First of all, of course he got 96.6% of the vote.
They've essentially cleared the field for him.
He has no real opposition.
He didn't have to run against, say, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
or any real candidate.
But his turnouts indicate that there is no enthusiasm for his candidacy.
Troy?
Well, and Roger, the best point I think there is that the anemic turnout for Joe Biden in Nevada and in so many other places, people are not excited to go out to vote for Joe Biden.
And you've been hammering this for two years now, Roger, that Joe Biden will not be the nominee.
And I was interested to see that there is actually a higher percentage chance If you go to the Vegas Odds and whatnot, that Donald Trump will win the presidency, then Joe Biden will be the nominee of the Democrat Party.
And it's really shaking out where the Michelle Obama thing is gaining steam.
There were large pieces in the New York Times, in the Wall Street Journal, and even if you watch MSNBC, they're like, oh, these pieces aren't helpful.
They're not helpful.
You remind me, Roger.
Is the press supposed to be there to be helpful to the political candidates, whatever side they're on?
It's not supposed to be helpful.
It's supposed to be truthful.
And the truth about Joe Biden is that most of the Democrats don't have faith that he can be the president for the next four years.
People are kind of, I've even heard people insinuate, Roger, that saying a vote for Joe Biden is a vote for Kamala Harris is a racist dog whistle.
They actually have said that on MSNBC, CNN, MSNBC.
The large networks are saying that it's actually racist to claim that if you vote for Joe Biden, you're actually voting for Kamala Harris.
It has nothing to do with race.
It has nothing to do with anything other than the fact that people can watch Joe Biden.
They can watch the clip that we just showed, and they can see that this guy isn't capable of being president now or much less in the next four years.
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on the coverage of Joe Biden kind of switching up, Roger?
I mean, it feeds right into what you've been saying for the last two years. - Well, there's a major effort really to distract from the special counsel's report just a couple weeks ago in which the Biden Justice Department themselves essentially concluded that Joe Biden has severe mental deterioration and therefore should not be prosecuted.
Well, if he should not be prosecuted for the illegal and willful retention of classified and top secret documents, then how can we trust him to have his finger on the nuclear trigger?
This is the 800-pound gorilla and they're desperate to change the subject.
Oh, we have a nuclear threat from Russia in outer space.
I didn't hear any more about that, did you?
I heard we had one.
Jake Sullivan rushed to say, yes, we had one, but I haven't heard another word about it.
Oh, wait a minute.
The whistleblower who said that he could detail payments from Burisma, the Ukrainian energy company, who has been a 15-year paid informant
For the FBI, who's been a key witness in a number of other cases, now suddenly he'd been charged with lying, which is largely immaterial because the House Republican Oversight Committee exploration of the Burisma deal and the facts of the deal are indelible that Burisma was definitely paying Hunter and Joe was definitely threatening the Ukrainians that they had to fire the prosecutor investigating Burisma.
These are undeniable facts, but now the FBI seeks to change the subject.
There's a massive effort to change the subject.
This is one of my favorites as they go and they become more and more hysterical.
Place in Politico today, no reporter will actually put their name on this.
It's from staff reporters talking about Trump's dystopian next term, He's going to ban books.
He's going to ban abortion.
He's going to outlaw any future elections.
All of these things are completely false.
Here's a woman on MSNBC.
Her name is Sarah Matthews.
I've never, ever heard of her.
Here she is talking to Jen Psaki on the next Trump term.
About that period of time.
I mean, you have sort of this famous—I'm sure you did not intend for it to be famous—but moment where you are kind of waving around papers and saying, does it look like we're effing ahead?
I'm paraphrasing here.
I'm not using the actual word.
Do you worry that if he's reelected, he might try to hold on to the presidency again?
Is that something we should all be talking about and aware of more?
Yeah, I think it is something that we need to be very aware of, is not just what would happen if he loses, but if he wins again.
I mean, obviously, it would be his second term if he were elected again, and so you would think that he would be out of office.
But I think that he would try to do anything to stay in power.
And I think that's what's going to be so critical, then, is who he chooses for his vice president.
Because, obviously, that person then would be in charge of certifying the next election and all of that.
And I think that that is really concerning to me, because, obviously, we've seen some of his potential VP picks out there auditioning, saying things like they wouldn't have done what Mike Pence did on January 6th, that they would have not certified the election.
And so, I think it is something that reporters— Some of them were hiding behind desks on January 6th.
We know who they are.
Yes, exactly.
And so it's really ironic then to hear them say that January 6th rioters were hostages now and use a language like that, because I think we've seen that their statements in the immediate aftermath of January 6th show that their feelings then are very different than what they're saying today.
There you have it.
I mean, this is completely and totally baseless, this idea that If Trump is elected, we'll never have another election.
Once again, these are the rules for radicals that we're so familiar with put forward by Saul Alinsky.
Anything they accuse Donald Trump of is precisely what they are doing.
Coming up shortly, one of the most dynamic congressional candidates I've ever seen, and I've been in this business 45 years, Kate Monroe, who is running in California's 49th district.
is a Marine, a veteran.
She's a mother, a businesswoman, an advocate for disabled veterans.
She's a published Christian author, a Fox News commentator, and she's a Republican candidate for Congress.
She's actually done more to seal our border.
She's done more to help veterans than many actual members of Congress.
I must say, she's the most dynamic candidate for Congress that I have seen in the entire 45 years.
That I have been in American politics.
She joins us momentarily.
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Yesterday on WABC Radio, I interviewed Tulsi Gabbard, who in the wake of her extraordinary speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, has now stormed into contention as a potential vice presidential candidate.
I have not endorsed any candidate for vice president.
That's a decision for Donald Trump to make.
But I remind those who keep talking about Byron Donalds, who I like very much, some others mentioning Ron DeSantis, who, as you may know, I don't particularly care for, others pointing out the possibility of Marco Rubio, who others pointing out the possibility of Marco Rubio, who I have come to have a greater appreciation for.
But this is a key point that people keep forgetting.
Let me bring it up one more time.
Under the 12th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, it's a It is not allowed or essentially not prohibited, but a party would be penalized if you nominated a candidate for president and vice president who are both legal residents of the same state.
While the Constitution does not say that you cannot do that, what it does say is that if a party did that and the party carried that state, They would be penalized and you would have to forfeit the 37 electoral votes of the state, in this case, of Florida.
So those who say, well, I would love to see Byron Donalds as vice president, so would I. I think he's a very good man.
But again, the rules prohibit that.
So to clarify that.
Now, last, I'm really happy to have Perhaps the most dynamic and interesting candidate for Congress running in this entire cycle, Kate Monroe of California joins us here in the Stone's Zone.
Thanks for having me.
Excited to be here.
And that's quite the compliment you paid me and I appreciate it very much.
Well, Kate, I completely mean what I'm saying.
I have watched what you are doing.
Again, reminding my audience, you're a Marine veteran.
You're a mother.
You're an accomplished businesswoman.
You're an advocate for disabled veterans.
You're a published Christian author.
You've done commentary for Fox.
And I also remind our viewers that California has this unique system, what they call the jungle primary, in which all candidates of all parties run in one election.
There are no primaries.
And then the two top vote getters face off.
So this is pretty extraordinary.
But you've already done more to secure the San Diego border than any member of Congress I can name.
You also forced the resignation of one of the top and most powerful Democrats in San Diego.
I'm standing in America right now.
And now I'm standing in Mexico.
Ingram to lay this out.
What good is a wall if you can walk right around the corner of the wall?
I'm standing in America right now.
And now I'm standing in Mexico.
I'm going to tell you what, if in Washington, you don't want to come secure this border, I will do it myself.
I I will do it.
Republican congressional candidate and Marine vet Kate Monroe doing what Biden refuses to do, secure the border.
Kate used her own money to buy 400 feet of razor wire and then kind of plugged up a four-foot gap called the San Judas break.
She joins me now.
Kate, it's such an outrage, number one, that you had to do this, but that this is, sadly, this is a situation across much of our border where there's maybe some type of obstruction.
It's either fallen down or in disrepair and people just walk right through.
Yeah, it's absolutely ridiculous.
If you actually go down to the border and you see how small the hole is, it's laughable to hear somebody say, well, we need more money to patch it up.
Well, you can literally get on Amazon, buy a little bit of razor wire and patch it up.
It's absolutely criminal what's going on at the border.
I got to think if Trump were still in office, if he were in office again, we'll get this border Get this thing together.
Get the wall built.
Get it done.
This is an absolute disgrace that has been done by this administration.
And I wanted to show people, look, we don't have to go quietly into the night.
We can actually get up and go do something.
As a mom of a young son, I had to step up and actually do something to secure our nation.
Kate, did you talk to any members of Border Patrol when you were down there at the border?
Any thoughts from them about how this has deteriorated?
Oh, for sure.
We talked to them and I told them exactly why I was there.
I said, I'm here to secure that hole in the border.
I saw it on 60 Minutes and I said, how the f*** have we not secured this little bitty hole?
It doesn't seem that difficult.
And when they realized who I was and that I was running for Congress as a Republican, they pointed me exactly where to go.
I said, you guys stay here and babysit those 60 migrants that are waiting on their bus and their plane tickets and I'll go secure the border since you're not allowed to.
They're absolutely disgusted at the state of affairs at the border.
Is it true that three, is it 3,000 migrants, I call them illegal aliens, I'm sick of calling them migrants, but illegal aliens, do they come through that hole, what, on a weekly basis?
Monthly basis?
What is it?
Oh, on a weekly basis.
I mean, there was, at some point, there was 500 to 1,000 coming through per day.
That's just one of three holes.
Tomorrow, actually, we're going to go find the other two holes and patch them up as well.
I mean, why stop with one hole?
I mean, as you can see, migrants from all over the world, the illegal aliens, are flooding our borders like it's nothing.
I mean, this is the United States of America!
We have to have a congressional candidate go to the Home Depot and get some race for water.
I mean, you can't—it would be really hilarious if this wasn't our country at stake.
Kate, thank you for doing what you're doing.
Good luck out there.
Kate Monroe, a woman of action.
Kate, you've been organizing border veterans to do what you're doing, taking action.
Talk to us about that.
It was really exciting.
I first went out, as you can see, you know, Laura had it on Fox, but then a bunch of other veterans saw me and I realized that they had actually been going out to illuminate the problem at the border.
But when we connected, they said, how did we go to the border and not think to bring razor wire?
Like, this is totally in our power.
And they were so impressed with the fact that I took action.
We actually went with 11.
So one, just I turned into 11 people in the same week, and we went and secured about 20 feet of open border with about 800 feet of razor wire.
It's something I'm really proud of.
Those veterans were super stoked to be out there securing the nation.
You know, We need to rely more on our nation's veterans, I think.
So I think they were excited, and we've had about 500 people reach out for the next visit when we go down to the border.
So it's picking up steam and momentum, and it's something that I'm very proud of as a Marine Corps vet.
Now, you actually forced the resignation of one of the most powerful Democrats In San Diego, we've got a video on that.
Let's talk about your holding Nathan Fletcher to account.
Yeah, it's something that I was asked to do by the veteran community here in San Diego.
He assaulted a young woman, or it was said that he did, and he tried to use his military PTSD to say, well, you know, unfortunately, my trauma, you know, from my PTSD, Forced me to go take these horrible actions against this young woman and veterans were like, how dare you, um, weaponize your PTSD to get out of a situation that you got yourself into?
I mean, should our, um, kids and our wives and our friends now be worried that they're going to get assaulted?
And I just said, this is something that I'm very passionate about because I deal with helping veterans every day that have PTSD.
And I said, I'm going to go down there and do a very, very fiery press conference To ensure that he does, in fact, resign.
I was called to do that by hundreds of veterans here in San Diego.
And it's another thing I'm very proud of.
I want to show people you don't have to be silent on issues and just watch things happen.
You need to step up.
It's you that's the solution.
I'm trying to be a solution provider and a leader here in my community.
Tell us about the incumbent that you're challenging.
He's on the Military Affairs Committee, the Armed Services Committee, I guess it is, but unlike you, he's not even a veteran.
Yeah.
He, uh, Mike Levin, he's been seated.
This would be his third go round.
If we had put somebody else up against him, other than Brian Marriott, I'd like to think we had already have that seat back.
It was a veteran sitting in that seat.
So the left is very smart in the way that they play politics.
They're very good at playing politics.
They they're playing chess while we're playing checkers and they put them on the veteran affairs committee so that he could stand on the accomplishment of anything that gets done by that committee.
Well, good luck to you, sir, proving here in CA 49 that you're a moderate Democrat, when in fact you are very far left.
In fact, you are like the Biden of California.
You are very far left.
You vote left of Ilhan Omar, and there's no way that he's going to Trump me.
On the issue of veterans is absolutely not going to happen.
I can say one, I am a Marine Corps veteran, so there's that.
I'm the CEO of Vetcom.us.
We did more than half a billion dollars for veterans and their families, so there's no way you're going to stand toe-to-toe with me on this issue.
I really think it's only Kate that can unseat him.
You can't just look at the primary Republican voters.
Look at the general election.
Who can actually unseat Mike Levin?
And I'm going to tell you what, right now, it's me.
Now, am I correct that this district includes Camp Pendleton, the Marine base?
It does, and Camp Pendleton is the largest Marine Corps base on planet Earth.
It has 60,000 members there on that base, and it's also the highest instance of veterans in the entire country.
And so I think I'm going to perform very well here, you know, on those two things.
not those two things alone, but it will certainly help me in my race.
Now another, well, Troy, do you have a question for the dynamic, Kate Monroe?
Absolutely.
So when you did this and you went to the border and you actually sealed up, did you have a lot of, you know, I know you talked about veterans offering to help and stuff like that.
Did you have a lot of common people too that reached out that were also looking to do the same thing?
Because it's so powerful.
Oh my gosh, like not just veterans, but regular everyday citizens in San Diego and across the nation.
We have had people offer to fly here, offer to send boxes of razor wire.
We have had citizens all across the United States want to be involved.
Just goes to show you that if you go out and get something done, it's like people are so desperate for the leadership and the help.
It's like striking a match in a dead forest, right?
It spread like wildfire.
We went viral.
It's been shared millions of times.
I think people are excited to learn that you, in fact, can be the solution.
You yourself can go do stuff.
I hope that this inspires an awakening in our country.
Kate, you've also been very active on the issue of San Diego's what you call the hidden homeless.
I think we have a video here from you at KUSI.
Can we roll that?
When you incentivize homelessness, you get more homelessness.
Don't take my word for it.
Listen to him.
Politicians, to me, they don't even live down here, so they don't really know, so they throw money at the problem, but they kind of got to get their hands dirty to really find out what the people really need.
Because we've done a good job hiding it and making our voter constituency believe that we're actually working on it, they've got away with just sweeping it under the rug.
So the politicians don't want to solve the problem, they just want to cut the checks to their friends and then claim they're being compassionate.
You stay classy, San Diego.
In the veteran that Fox Digital interviewed, she said you have to look at all of these individuals differently.
Some have just lost their jobs and you can easily get them off the street in housing and back in the workforce.
Some are mentally ill.
Some are mentally ill with drug and alcohol addictions.
Some are just addicted that you have to you cannot look at them with a broad brush And they just keep them on the street these governments That's the light that Kate Monroe who created these videos went out spoke to these people really shines on this.
She's the CEO of VetCom, a San Diego business with a non-profit arm that helps the homeless veterans find housing and disability compensation, the things they need.
A Marine Corps veteran, she did a spectacular job bringing this to our attention.
And also, she draws attention to the breadth of the issue across California, that it's not just San Francisco that we talk about so often.
This is San Diego, that surrounding area down there.
And it shows how wide the breadth of the issue is there across California.
And we have highlighted it in other cities like Philadelphia and Chicago as well.
If you fix the problem, these cities will no longer have these budgets, said a homeless person in Portland.
I actually have a really decent solution, I think, if anybody would listen.
I'm listening.
San Diego, who actually went out to talk to the community.
And she's put forward a plan to deal with this, which I thought seemed so smart, and basically to designate people by why they are homeless.
To start with the people that are the easiest to get off the street, which are people who've just fallen on financial hard times, then go to people with mental health issues, then drug issues.
What about implementing plans like that all over the country?
And I actually have a really decent solution, I think, if anybody would listen.
I'm listening.
Fire away.
So what I think, you know, sanctioned camping is the next step for people.
You know, just banning encampments and where are they going to go, that makes no sense.
We need to provide that solution.
You know, I'm a Marine Corps veteran, so I know that we could easily build a beautiful, call it home sweet home.
You know, we could provide them six pillars that they need, which would be, it would be sanctioned, it would be sanitary, which they don't have now, it would be safe, which they don't have now, secure, they would have sustenance and services.
If you build infrastructure around them, you know, the military can build huge infrastructure for thousands of people in less than three days.
I think that we could do that here in San Diego for a tenth of the cost that we're going to spend on these hotels, because my feeling is, you know, transition without transformation is an absolute nightmare, waste of time, energy and taxpayer dollars.
Speaking of taxpayer dollars, boy, the homeless industrial complex really makes money off of this problem with huge salaries to the executive.
And to your point, Kate, the homeless are still out on the streets not getting the help that they need.
Hopefully people like you bring down that homeless industrial complex because this is really taking a toll not just on residents of San Diego, but residents in every city, in every country, in our great country.
Kate Monroe, keep it up.
Thank you.
I know that, you know, this whole thing is about solutions.
Yes.
Can you give us an idea of what solutions you recommend?
The solution I recommend is something I've kind of been nicknaming Home Sweet Homeless, and we need to do sanctioned camping in San Diego.
We need, there's so much open land, there's a lot of defunct KOA campgrounds.
If we got everybody in one place, we bucketized them, we could get You know, all the people into this transitionary housing who want jobs, get them gone first.
The next batch, we can get them into rehab.
We can get them all of the health services that they need and get them going.
But putting them in Balboa Park is not safe for our public.
It's not safe for them.
Putting them in hotels is just going to lead to their suicide.
Those two are not the answer.
Moving them anywhere under California law is going to be a very tough ordeal.
Very difficult.
Great work on your part.
Kate Monroe, thank you for coming in.
Best of luck to you.
Thank you.
Appreciate you.
Kate, I want to go to you.
Is it any better in San Diego?
No, it's absolutely not any better here in San Diego because all of the mayors of all of the cities have the same philosophy.
You know, as you said previously, we spend a lot of money on the problem.
We spend very little of it, though, on the solution.
There's not enough stick and carrot.
There's not enough teeth in the adjudication of what you're supposed to be doing when you are homeless, and there's not enough incentive for them to go there.
They may go there temporarily, they're coming right back.
You know, when I was in San Diego, it was very unsafe for us.
My friend of mine, Kevin Dahlgren, got beat up after us being out of the car for four minutes.
So, no, it is not any better here in San Diego.
So, can you explain what you mean by the stick in care to our audience?
Yeah, the stick and carrot, I mean, really all there is right now is a carrot.
Here's some food, here's some drugs, we're going to let you live your lawless life on the street.
There's just a bunch of carrots.
It's basically do whatever you want to do.
It's the Wild West.
There is no stick, though, because we don't actually have the budget, the space in any of the jails, the police being allowed to actually do their jobs.
And so there really is no stick.
And without the two of them working in unison, you're not going to solve this problem.
Folks, if you're just tuning in, we're talking to Kate Monroe.
California and that the leaders get their acts together because you guys deserve better and everyone else in California deserves better as well.
Thank you so much for joining the program tonight.
Folks, if you're just tuning in, we're talking to Kate Monroe.
She is the only military veteran running for Congress in the 49th District of California.
She's challenging Mike Levin, who poses as a moderate but votes the far-left progressive agenda.
If elected, Kate Monroe would be the first woman Marine veteran elected to the U.S. Congress.
She would oversee Camp Pendleton, which is in her district.
She is He is also, as you can see, a woman of action.
Kate, you've already put together legislation even before getting elected to Congress to bring really substantial reform.
Tell us about that. - Yeah, so in looking at the recruiting crisis we have here in our nation, we only doubled down on making it harder to get young kids in by making college free, right?
That is the worst possible thing that we could have done for recruiting because any of the kids that would have gone in for that particular reason are now saying, I'll just go do something easier.
I'll just go to college for free or not even go to college.
And so I was looking at this issue and I said, what would be a better thing?
Like what do kids nowadays want to do?
Well, they want to be entrepreneurial.
They want to be young CEOs or trying to be influencers.
So I said, what if we could pivot and use those GI Bill funds to start a business?
So I got with the team here in San Diego and we started to work through building the framework of the Veteran Entrepreneur Act.
Which would let you use your GI Bill funds to run or start a business.
And it's, again, it's just another thing that I'm so proud of.
As a business owner myself, it's so meaningful to me to employ people.
It gives me purpose.
I'd like to solve problems.
And I wanted to gift that to our veteran community.
And that bill has already been introduced.
So I have already done, in a way, a lot of congressional work.
Many Congress people never Ever craft a bill.
They might sign on to a bill or be in a meeting where a bill is being done, but they're not necessarily the person coming up with the solution.
I had to go back and forth to DC to get bipartisan bicameral support for this bill, and it's just another, I feel like, feather in my cap to show people You don't have to get on the job training in Congress.
It is ridiculous for us to expect taxpayers to fund your on the job training to figure out how to do Congress.
I'm not one of those that's going to say, I'm going to be a freshman in Congress and I'll figure it out when I get there.
I've already figured it out.
I can go to work on day one and do the work today.
That's who you need to be voting for.
Now, Kate, you have also very strongly and very boldly endorsed Donald Trump.
For a president, how does that play in your district?
How do people react to that?
Well, I think it's a misconception that here in California it's an entirely blue state.
It's actually 50-50 voter reg.
And I think it will inspire more of the Republicans to turn out.
I also think it bodes well for me because everyone who does like Trump is going to see that clearly I'm on Team Trump as well.
But what I really am is on the team of when we were safer.
When we were richer, when our country was in a better spot.
And I don't necessarily think it's me just going like, hey, you know, vote for Trump.
It's, hey, look back, get in the time machine.
Remember when you were safer, had more money in your bank account when gas was cheaper, just when the country was running better, when we were not facing three world wars?
That's what I want to challenge people with.
I also am not a lukewarm person.
If you ask Kate a question, you're going to get an answer.
And when people say, are you going to vote for Trump?
I say, I absolutely am.
And so are you.
Let's stop playing pretends out here in America.
Kate, I think most people know that running for Congress is an extraordinarily expensive endeavor.
Media is expensive.
Postage is expensive for your voter mailings.
People can go to kateforcongress.com.
Let's throw that up if we could.
kateforcongress.com, where they can make a generous contribution.
You're running a grassroots campaign, and well, I think it was Jess Unruh, the late Speaker of the California Assembly, who said, money is the mother's milk of politics.
So folks, if you like what you see and hear from Kate Monroe, a bold, extraordinary candidate for Congress.
Who is tackling the illegal migrant issue, the abuse of our veterans, as well as the homeless crisis in San Diego.
Interestingly enough, homelessness in San Diego has dropped dramatically since Kate Monroe took the lead on this issue.
So please go to kateforcongress.com.
There it is again, and make a generous contribution.
Also, if you're interested in her efforts at the border, you can go to bordervets.org, bordervets.org, and you can join Kate Monroe in that citizen effort to secure our border.
I've interviewed a lot of congressional candidates here at the Stone Zone.
I have many Many people asking for endorsements.
I have never seen a more dynamic candidate nor a more dynamic campaign.
Then that being run by Kate Monroe.
She has an excellent chance to win this seat.
Her opponent, Mike Levin, poses as something he's not.
I think this is going to be a red victory on election night.
Troy, do you have a final question for Kate Monroe?
Yes.
Going into this election, I think people are really having a lot of problems monetarily.
They don't have a lot of money and they go into the store.
Things have gotten so expensive.
If you were elected to Congress, what's going to be your angle in attacking the inflation that's gotten so out of control?
I'm actually so glad you brought this up because it's another solution I've been working on.
I've been crafting legislation called the Performance-Based Funding Act.
I don't think it's good for our nation to pay and pray and hope problems are fixed, because that's what we do now.
That's how you have the homeless industrial complex, right?
The worse you do fixing homelessness, the more money you get.
So I think every single dollar should, one, be accounted for, but two, be given out in stages.
You would realize that most of the funding that goes out Wouldn't go past payment number one, because those that are in most of these things like fixing homelessness don't actually do it.
I think performance-based funding would help tremendously.
One, it would stop and cut a ton of waste.
Waste is the reason that you see everything being more expensive.
You have to keep taxing people to death if you don't spend their money appropriately.
That is legislation that I want to put forth and I would like it to be tacked on to every single federal nickel, whether it be in grant money or otherwise.
All right.
I'm afraid we have to leave it there.
Kate Monroe, dynamic, extraordinary candidate for Congress.
Great honor to have you with us today.
Again, kateforcongress.com, kateforcongress.com.
Please send a generous contribution.
This is participatory democracy in a constitutional republic, and Kate needs your support to push on to victory.
Kate Monroe, thank you so much for joining us here today in the Stone Zone.
Thank you for having me.
I appreciate it.
Delighted to see you again.
All right, folks.
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We're going to wrap up here with my co-host, Troy Smith.
Troy, tell us about your new website, Slingshot.
Yeah.
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