Robert Davi warns of America’s erosion, comparing recent political violence to JFK and MLK assassinations while mourning Charlie Kirk as a conservative "martyr" slain by left-wing tyranny. He condemns media bias—like The Guardian’s smear campaigns—and denounces progressive school indoctrination, framing Kirk’s death as proof of systemic corruption. With Roger Stone, he exposes FBI intimidation tactics and Gavin Newsom’s California failures, from homelessness to wildfires, before pivoting to rural hospitals’ collapse under congressional threats, urging resistance against both political extremism and bureaucratic neglect. [Automatically generated summary]
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Welcome back into the Stone Zone.
Joining me now, Robert Davi.
He is an international multi-dimensional star, an award-winning, prolific actor with well over 150 films to his credit.
He's also a screenwriter, director, producer.
You may not be aware of this, but an incredible jazz vocalist.
Until you've seen him before live, you really haven't lived.
He's also a patriot.
He was named by the Italian American Civil Rights League last December as one of their men of the year.
He is a man who says what he means and means what he says.
Robert Davi, welcome into the Stone Zone.
Thank you so much, Roger.
God bless you.
And to this wonderful zone, especially this time of our lives.
It is a tragic time for America.
I have had this feeling before.
I had it, you know, as a schoolboy when I heard that John F. Kennedy had been shot and killed.
I had it when I heard that Donald, that President Ronald Reagan had been shot.
Thank God he survived.
I had this same feeling when I first heard that Donald Trump had been shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, which due to the grace of God, he survived.
Yet again, when he was attacked in West Palm Beach, but sadly, on this occasion, the assassin's bullet hit its mark in our friend Charlie Kirk, one of the most influential young conservatives in history, was cut down in the prime of life.
You sent me a truly moving, I guess I would call it a poem, I'm not sure, that you put together this morning.
I was so moved by it that I asked you to join us today.
Tell us your feelings at this moment and hold forth.
Well, I had, of course, as we all had, the shots of the solarplex, what happened, and it did bring us back to when we were kids with JFK and RFK and Martin Luther and Malcolm, you know, assassinations because of political beliefs, especially in America, this country of ours.
So I wrote these words, and I'll read them to you now, Roger, with your permission.
Please.
For your audience.
Charlie Kirk gave his life not out of hate, but love.
My first reaction was to go nuclear on the left because of what my dear friend and brother Andrew Breibart called righteous indignation, and I felt that.
The left in America has lied, dispute hatred, lawlessness, and violence, submission.
Charlie was a man of peace, truth, and courage.
His whole essence was one of living a life based on Jesus Christ.
While my own initial response was of rage, I bended knee and asked God for a way forward.
I had a grandfather and a younger sister merges.
And while I wanted to avenge their deaths, my Catholic upbringing and prayer quenched my raging soul.
My being violent was not the answer.
I find myself feeling the same way over Charlie's murder, but prayer once again led me to a more powerful and positive place.
I thought deeply of Charlie and Turning Point.
He is a biblical figure, and his message was clear.
To defile it with hatred would not honor him.
What does honor him is a call to action.
So I thought of Shakespeare's speech from Henry V, which is a call to battle.
I rewrote it, applying what Charlie Kirk stood for and was martyred for.
Here, a call to action, a call for righteous indignation, but using truth, courage, and love as the ultimate weapons in the battle for not only the soul of America, but mankind.
Thank you, Charlie, Turning Point, and all who understand.
Do not be afraid, do not hate, but battle we must, as angels against the forces of evil who want to sow hatred, division, and violence.
I hope you receive this with wisdom, the kind of wisdom Charlie gave the youth he so loved and gave his life.
Now, these are inspired by Shakespeare's Henry V. Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, or close the wall up with our righteous martyr's blood.
In peace, there's nothing so becomes a soul as faith and humble love for God.
But when the lies of tyrants tear our country apart, then rise with Charlie's words and zeal, ablaze with truth.
Stiffen your hearts, summon the blood with strength of grace and faith.
Let holy fire burn through deceit's dark veil.
Let your spirit shine with heaven's might.
Let it blaze like beacons through the fog of lies, bold as the cross that Christ Himself did take.
Unbowed by waves of malice and despair, now lift up your hearts and prayers and share in this cross we all must bear.
Set your conscience free and bend up every spirit to its eternal height.
On, on, you faithful heirs of Turning Point, whose blood is stirred by Kirk's unyielding creed.
Sons and daughters who with him stood tall, from campus halls to nation's heart, they fought.
Now unleash your swords of truth to win the day, shield his wife and children, cover them with love.
Dishonor not his mission.
Now attest that Charlie's vision lives within your blood.
Be now alike to those lost in the dark.
Be not afraid to teach them how to stand.
And you, good souls, whose hearts were forged in America's promise, show us here the medal of your sacred call.
Let us swear you are worthy of this fight.
For none among you lack the spark of courage divine, the gleam of God's own truth within your eyes.
Confront the scribes of media's false tales, the Hollywood deceivers cloaked in charm, and politicians with seditious lies, who lead astray the hearts of honest men.
Their words, like venom, poison liberty's well and purposely try to bring you all to hell.
Reject their lies and let truth's banner soar.
I see you stand like warriors of the cross, straining for the charge.
The fight is now.
Follow his spirit.
And upon this charge, try God for Charlie, faith, America, and turning point.
Robert, I want to thank you for joining us with those moving words.
I was moved by them when I read them this morning, and I really appreciate your making yourself available to share them with us today.
At just 31 years old, Charlie Kirk was gunned down in what appears to be a premeditated attack by a loanshooter, propped up on a roof.
There's still many, many questions about his assassination.
I'm not prepared to just accept the claims of the government because of the lies they told us in the past about the murders of JFK, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Dr. King, and others.
This horrendous act of violence not only robs us of one of our most dynamic voices in the fight against tyranny, but it also exposes the dangers that lurk under the occurrence of radicalism, which has been fostered against us this past decade.
Charlie Kirk's death makes him nothing short of a martyr.
Kirk was not just a political activist.
He was a beacon of hope for young Americans, deluded by the progressive indoctrination running rampant in our schools and our universities.
I spoke at a number of his Turning Point USA events.
I was honored to do so.
I saw how he inculcated and educated young people about the virtues of free speech, free enterprise, capitalism, reverence to God.
This idea that he somehow brought this horrible wrath upon himself because of his radical ideas.
This is particularly repugnant to me.
Yes, me too, Roger.
Roger, remember when Hillary Clinton called everyone the basket of deplorables?
And the left has continued this on since Donald Trump put his hat in the ring because they knew he was a disruptor of the status quo and the corruption that buried us for decades.
And this is what it leads to, and they have continued.
They have continued these voices of hatred and division and violence.
And they're walking it back now.
It's strange to me how they're walking it back now.
And we just have to go forward, not violence, but I hope it encourages people that have been silent, that have been frightened to speak because of being blacklisted or not being invited to a cool party or having Thanksgiving dinner.
But to be able to carry on that tradition that Charlie did in terms of going into places that didn't want to have discussion and discussion, it's what you've been doing your whole life, Roger.
No, it's exactly true.
He went right into the belly of the beast, but always in good faith, always up for a good, robust argument, but he always came in peace.
They now try to demonize him.
Oh, The Guardian, which to me is the most despicable so-called media outlet in the world, calling him a racist, a bigot, a white supremacist.
We've heard it all before.
When Hillary Clinton called us deplorables, that wasn't just an off-the-cuff comment.
That was something that they had focused group.
They had polled.
They had tested.
They thought that it would energize these mindless left-wing zombies who were voting for her and for the continuation of the corrupt regime that she represented.
It is despicable, some of these voices on media and the attacks on, and also watching those exulting in his death.
It's really nauseating.
I've had a very hard time with this because I have spoken in these outdoor rallies.
I've spoken to these outdoor events.
I've had to travel with professional security.
My own family fears for my safety, but I'm afraid...
Roger, they blew down your door in the middle of the night.
You have to tell me.
29 heavily armed FBI agents fully arrived in SWAT gear.
Why?
They could have called my lawyer.
They could have said, oh, we're charging your client, bring him in.
I certainly would have volunteered successfully, but no, they had to do this over-the-top raid on my home.
And the worst part, of course, Robert, as you know, is the CNN camera crew is 25 feet from my front door.
And when a local Fort Lauderdale police officer who'd been called in to back up the FBI tells the CNN camera crew that they have to go back behind a rope line with all the other media, you know, roughly a half mile away from my home where the rest of the media was kept at bay, he got chewed out by an FBI agent who said, no, no, you don't understand.
They have special permission to be there to capture my humiliation, to capture my wife being frog-marched out of the house in handcuffs when she's done nothing wrong.
So these over-the-top bully tactics, these Gestapo tactics, were utilized by the previous administrations, and they continue to be used against individual conservatives today.
Can I ask you something which really gets me upset is Gavin Newsom.
Gavin Newsom is, I don't know why people don't confront him more directly.
I don't understand how he gets a pass.
It's perplexing to me because he's part of their thing, part of their thinking, but yet there seems to be a certain kind of air.
And it's horrific.
The only thing you can say about him is he's got great hair.
Other than that, there is no there.
He's evidently running for president if he can squeeze out J.B. Pritzker, which who knows.
But what's he going to run on?
He'll do for America what he did for California?
California, one of the most beautiful states in the nation, is a basket case in every regard, homelessness, taxes.
I left it.
You left it.
I left it after 48 years because of this.
But yet what happens is you have the Jimmy Kimmels and the Bill Maher's and the MSNBCs and the Hollywood elite.
Bill Maher said, and he had David Bett David on the show, going that Gavin Newsom, I want him to run because he's a winner.
But David said, well, what has he done?
He wouldn't answer him.
He says, it doesn't matter.
He's a winner.
But what has he done?
This is Bill Maher, who pretends to be a nice liberal moderate that says something, but then yet is back in the tank for the most absurdities in the political process.
You know better than I.
It's perplexing to me and frustrating.
Yeah, I've done Bill Maher's show several times.
Actually, as a favor of a friend, I did his initial pilot for politically incorrect.
And I can tell you right now, without a platoon of comedy writers, this guy isn't even faintly amusing.
I mean, this guy can't do anything off the cuff.
He'd be mute without that.
Goonies Anniversary00:06:59
And when you get there, they take you to your dressing room.
It's very nice.
You have a nice-looking young lady who's a page, takes you to your dressing room.
They've got your star on the door with your name on it.
It's very cool.
And then his producer comes in and he says, so we're glad to have you on the show with Bill today.
But, Roger, there's one thing.
What is it?
Whatever you do, don't try to be funnier than Bill.
He said, pardon me?
Don't try to be funnier than Bill.
I said, well, but Bill's working with a phalanx of comedy writers.
And I use that old joke.
I said, I live by my uncle's.
Pardon me.
I live by my wits, my uncles, Leibowitz and Markowitz.
No, I'm Italian.
But this is, it's a Hollywood facade.
This guy is not clever.
He's not quick-witted.
He's not entertaining.
It's all on index cards.
Controlled.
It's all controlled.
It's absolutely controlled propaganda.
And what it is, is that people, it just is.
We have to have people that speak up and stand up and tell the truth continually, much more that are inside Hollywood.
I know many people, very known, frightened.
They won't say a word.
And if they did, it could make a difference and have a turning point.
But they don't.
And no one confronts this Gavin Newsom.
They'll do his show.
They'll sit down.
And I'm sure he's a charming guy.
But you have to say at some point, Gavin, you're full of SH.
You know what I mean?
Come on, let's be honest.
You ruined California.
You ruined San Francisco.
You gave over a billion-dollar contract to the Chinese for masks during COVID that never made a mask in their life, but did what they do?
Electric cars and electric buses.
And that's right before they went into Afghanistan, a couple of days before the Chinese got that mineral rights.
Nobody brings it up to this guy.
And what they're doing in Pacific Palisades with the fires, no reservoirs, when a Republican Pete Wilson in 1990 wanted reservoirs in California to collect trillions of gallons of rainwater, and they said no because of a spy fish that's a quarter of an inch that could be put anywhere.
And the left did that in California, but yet it continues.
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And we're back in the Stone Zone.
I'm here with my friend Robert Davi, the international multi-dimensional star, actor, singer, screenwriter, director, producer, but above all, patriot.
By the way, Robert, you are my favorite Bond villain of all time.
Above all time.
It's not even close.
And, you know, my grandchildren are so impressed that I know you.
It's beyond belief.
That's very sweet.
And all the guys, all the young guys who work for me, to them, every one of them, Goonies, is their favorite movie of all time.
They always say, oh, you got the Goonies guys coming back on.
Goonies is assembled.
It's the 40th anniversary of Goonies.
I'll be in Orlando next week doing a comm.
We're signing autographs to Tasko be there.
It's actually going to be a lot of fun.
But yeah, Goonies, the kids love it.
It's been generational.
You also had the opportunity to work with Frank Sinatra.
I mean, I had a chance to meet him when I was working for Ronald Reagan in his re-election in 1984, but you knew him on a whole different level to me.
Oh, Blue Eyes, that is the gold standard.
That's as great as it gets.
That guy, let me tell you, I always say for Italian Americans growing up, there were two figures, the Pope and Sinatra, and not necessarily in that order, because he did so much for the Italian-American immigrant community.
He did so much against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry.
And then his amazing contribution to the American songbook and America Around the World and his volunteer work and the billions he raised.
And he was quite an individual, Roger.
He was really, I did my first film with him in 1977.
And he and I got together.
He saw that I was a forceps baby because he saw the scarring I had.
He goes, You're a forceps baby.
I says, Yeah, he showed me his.
And then he helped with the Derma blend makeups.
He says, Yeah, this will help your makeup.
And we were just, you know, he was Sicilian, and his mother was from Geno.
His father was from Sicily, and my dad was from Sicily.
And anyway, over the years, we became very close until he died.
And I was friends with his son, Frank Jr., who died a few years ago.
It was the daughters, no.
The daughters, because they did like me, and then my politics, they did not like me.
They refused to play me on Seriously Sinatra.
They had me on.
I did playing favorites.
And then when I went to Trump, they took my music down from Seriously Sinatra.
I want to thank you for joining us today, folks.
We have been joined by Robert Davi.
He is indeed a superstar.
He's also a man I'm very proud to call my friend.
Honored again by the Italian American Civil Rights League this past December as one of their men of the year for his outstanding contributions to the culture and for his patriotism and the fact that he refused to be silenced about his love of country, his love of God, and his support for one Donald J. Trump.
Robert, thank you for joining us today in the Stone Zone.
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