Ken Matthews dissects Trump-era chaos, from Dan Bongino’s NDA-bound media return to FBI "blather" over the Charlie Kirk shooting, citing a veteran’s explosive Fort Huachuca testimony. He slams Pete Hegseth’s "too fat or too dumb" remark but defends renaming the Kennedy Center as progress, contrasting it with Confederate statue removals. With Epstein files due by midnight Friday, Matthews warns of Bondi obstruction risks and mocks Hunter Biden’s immunity while AOC’s 2028 lead over Vance signals a GOP demographic collapse. Friedman’s tax truths and drone restrictions close a segment packed with political landmines. [Automatically generated summary]
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My name is Ken Matthews.
Always thrilled to be guest hosting for Roger Stone, 800-848-9222 on the Red Apple Audio Networks.
And of course, 77 WABC New York.
What a busy week.
Holy Schneikes.
I will say this.
There's never a dull moment when President Trump is in office.
It's never, it's never boring.
It's so exciting.
We're one week before Christmas.
I think we're, what, five days into Hanukkah?
I still have not received any type of gift.
That's okay.
Don't worry.
Don't worry about me.
I'm going to be okay.
Can't believe it's a week from Christmas.
I still have to finish 90% of my shopping.
And I used to mock people that would put it off to the last minute.
And now even my kids get their shopping done before me.
I mean, my sons were shopping for mom and grandma and grandpa, you know, four or five days ago.
What are you doing?
Dad, it's Jesus' birthday.
Get with the program.
I guess the big news this week, Dan Bongino resigning as deputy director of the FBI.
We knew it was coming.
We don't know why.
There's a lot of speculation.
I'm sure Dan is toying with the idea of returning to media, but he probably has a 700-year NDA.
So I don't know what type of information we'll get from him.
But the good news is the rumor is, and again, this is a very weak rumor because as you know, I don't have any contacts at the White House and they refuse to return my calls.
But nevertheless, the girlfriend, Alexis Wilkins, may be the next deputy director.
And this would be the perfect fit for the two lovebirds.
Cash would be able to work right next to his girlfriend, the deputy director.
They can spend more time together.
They can set up some of the flights.
I don't know if you've been following the whole flight situation.
In fact, here's a little dialogue of their latest podcast interview.
This is the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States of America and his girlfriend.
I've never had to step out of a meeting because if it was an emergency, I obviously would.
And thank God nothing like that has had to have happened.
I've had to step out of meetings for some family matters that arise with everyone else.
But yeah, I've literally never had to do that.
I think I had to call you during a dinner, though, when I cut my finger open.
Oh, yeah, there was that.
I did.
Yes, I was not in D.C.
And she informed me she accidentally cut her finger open.
And I said, okay, are we getting stitches?
Are we at the hospital?
Are we good to go?
And her mom was sending me funny texts, and I knew it was fine.
Yeah.
Woo!
Ha ha!
Do you feel the synergy?
Yeah, that's the director of the FBI 48 hours ago.
Let me make it clear, and I do want to make it clear, that this particular interview was before the Brown University shooting.
So I do want to make it clear on that.
But still, it's roughly three months after someone shot Charlie Kirk's throat out.
Still don't know who that is.
And so I just found that very interesting.
I wonder, and you and be honest, I'd love to get your feedback.
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Let's say you're a drug cartel and you're watching that interview.
Are you laughing your butt off?
I am.
I'm thinking, are you serious?
You know, I thought it was bad enough.
You jumped on the internet because we were picking on you and making fun of you, Kash Patel.
You're the highest-ranking law enforcement officer, I think, other than the Attorney General, but I think technically you are.
And you're worried about being memed and trashed online.
And then you come in and talk about your gal friend, and then you do an interview with her, you know, heading into the holidays when we have chaos and unsolved crimes and cartel boats being blown out of the water.
And, you know, the Charlie Kirk cover-up just grows in dimension.
I thought it was pretty weak.
I don't know.
You tell me what you think.
I mean, I get it.
If Cash was 19 years old and this was his 18, legal, 18, let me just say legal, legal, 18-year-old girlfriend, but it wasn't.
It wasn't.
It was crazy.
Next, let's go to, let's move over to the military, okay?
Because we do have some of the highest recruitment rates in history.
And I do believe that's thanks to the tone that President Donald Trump and his administration set.
I don't know how long that is going to last.
And I simply say this because I think we're kind of overextended at the moment.
I think a lot of people thought, oh, we can finally get in there and we don't have to deal with this woke stuff.
And, you know, it's not like we're going to end up in Ukraine or Gaza or Venezuela.
That's what I'm thinking they were thinking.
These have been historic recruiting numbers.
You guys have all delivered.
And I know it's not easy on the basic ingredients on recruiting that too many of our young people are too fat or too dumb.
That was a mistake, Secretary.
Can I call you Secretary of Defense?
That was a mistake saying that.
Now, it might be true at some level, but I think you'd probably do better.
You've already called people fat.
I don't know if you want to call them dumb because, you know, then, I mean, I put on a few pounds just last week because my son bought me a dozen donuts and I ate four of them.
Too fat or too dumb?
Not dumb.
That's wrong.
You know, we're just not educating them properly or they've got criminal records or PT or ADHD, all these other things.
There's a lot of things contributing to what someone may or may not qualify to get.
See, I think one of the problems with the Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, in my opinion, this is just my observation as an older guy looking at him.
Okay.
He should take notes.
He should take better notes and he should refer to his notes.
Not everybody can speak extemporaneously.
Not everybody can host a talk show or a podcast.
Not everybody can give a presidential speech.
And what we find with him is every time he opens his mouth, he puts a combat boot in it.
And this was one of those things.
Now, you can argue, yeah, there was some truth to what he said.
I mean, we have a generation that I think we have a very unique younger generation.
I think they're waking up.
I think they are paying more attention to government things and whatever.
But they're also addicted to digital media.
They're addicted to their phones.
A lot of them were raised or raised by people that were raised on Sesame Street.
And that's part of the government's problem.
So it goes full circle.
The government intentionally wants your kids dumbed down.
Now, that may make somebody wince, but that's a fact.
And the government needs a weaker population, not a stronger population.
So, this is what Pete is running into.
But he could have said, you know, we need to educate our children better on everything from civility to the Constitution.
And that would have been the perfect opportunity.
Again, I am a speechwriter, but not for Pete.
I would have encouraged something like, we have some of the smartest young people in the world, and we need to make sure they're educated on things like grammar and just communication and math skills and technology.
And we just have to find the right formula because we know they're out there.
They're out there.
I mean, every person is an individual, but we're confident that we're going to get them into the military.
And there could have been a million ways.
Instead of saying everybody's fat and dumb, there's too many.
We know that.
We know that.
But you know what?
Sometimes the parents play a role in that.
So if you have a parent that, you know, is hating on America, I don't know if the kid's going to want to enroll.
If you have a parent that doesn't really care, and again, I'm not blaming parents, but there's so much more to it.
And I know people are still reeling from the speech that Pete Hegseth gave to all the military leaders that showed up there.
I don't know if you saw this.
This is an exciting moment.
Carolyn Levitt, Caroline, I always get their name wrong.
I'm sorry.
I don't mean to do that.
I don't want to go on a list.
Caroline, she said, this is what she just tweeted recently.
I've just been informed that the highly respected board of the Kennedy Center, some of the most successful people from all parts of the world, have just voted unanimously to rename the Kennedy Center to the Trump Kennedy Center.
Holy moly, you want to talk about triggering people.
That's going to be big.
That's some triggering right there.
Oh, my goodness.
Because of the unbelievable work President Trump has done over the last year in saving the building.
Okay, I hear that's true.
I hear he raised a lot of money for it.
Not only the standpoint of its reconstruction, but also financially and its reputation.
Congratulations to President Donald J. Trump.
Likewise, congratulations to President Kennedy, because this will be truly a great team long into the future.
The building will no doubt attain new levels of success and grandeur.
So, wow, some people would think that's a cool thing.
I'm not big on modifying history that way, just like what are we just, and I forget her name, and forgive me.
I might still have it here.
Hold on, it may be in my notes.
But they just put the statue of a civil rights icon where General Robert E. Lee was.
Remember, they took the General Robert E. Lee statue down and they replaced it with a civil rights leader, woman.
I forget her name.
Please forgive me.
I had it in my notes, and I just must have dropped it on the floor in the studio here.
Anyway, point being is, I don't know why they couldn't both be there.
That's my, there is a point to this.
There really is.
Why can't you leave the statues up?
And if you want to add statues, because history grows, it modifies, it evolves, it progresses, why not leave these statues up?
Because a lot of these men were better than what the history books say.
And some of these men were worse.
But why not leave the statue up?
I think it's even more impressive.
You recognize a general who fought and was a great leader in the Civil War.
And just because he fought with the South doesn't mean he was bad, okay?
And then you have side by side a black leader that is finally getting recognized for their contribution.
If that doesn't say our country is growing, our country has evolved.
Our country is an amazing country when you say 250 years ago, or 100 years ago, this was happening, or 130 years ago, this was happening.
Or can you believe what was happening 200 years ago?
Look at this.
But to tear down history, you know, that's what conquerors do.
You don't want to do that.
You don't want to be erasing history and statues and books.
That worries me.
That worries me.
And yeah, I think as far as leadership goes, Robert E. Lee was very impressive.
There were several Confederate generals that were impressive.
And, you know, there's good and bad on both sides of that.
You want to weigh in on that?
I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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Do you remember when we went through the tearing down the statute phase and everybody was cheering?
Yes, we're going to put up a bronze statue of George Floyd.
That's America.
Remember that?
Yeah, well, Floyd is still up and General Lee got torn down.
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And I would add to that that as a political analyst and author, he's probably one of the sharpest dressed people in that industry.
I mean, the guy knows how to dress.
I mean, did you ever read that book, Stone's Rules?
I have it right here on my bookshelf.
It's a cool book.
It's a fun book.
I mean, he's written other books, but that's a fun book.
I want to go back to, because this always freaks people out because there's so many people that still believe the FBI and the government.
And, you know, if Senator so-and-so said it, it must be true.
So there's a U.S. Army veteran who has come forward, and he has come forward in name and he's gone public.
And he told Candace Owens he is 99% certain he saw Erica Kirk, Turning Point USA Security Chief Brian Harpole, and Nevada Congressman Mark Ahmadi attending a high-level meeting at a military base in Arizona days before the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Army Veteran's Testimony00:03:16
And here's what that testimony sounded like.
In case you hear this going around, it's not a conspiracy theory.
It's an actual living, breathing human being who's putting their life and reputation on the line to counter some of the FBI blather.
That person matches who I saw at Fort Wachuca in the lobby the night before.
And she was with that man in the lobby.
And that man, he was present at that meeting the next morning.
If you had to put it at a percentage that you saw that the girl in the ponytail matches the description of Erica Kirk, what percentage would you put that at?
Those are really rare eyes.
That's 95 to 99%.
I can't imagine somebody else.
So that's pretty explosive stuff.
Just curious if you saw it on any network news or anything.
I'm just curious.
There's a lot of things that have come out, some explosive stuff.
Like it turns out that's not the gun.
And the fact that, you see, this bothers those of us that follow things very close.
We follow it closely, no matter what it is.
Just like it bothered me when they lied about January 6th.
And it bothered me when they said, stole an election in 2020.
What are you crazy?
That was the most secure election in history.
Joe Biden got 47 trillion votes.
Don't you try to undermine the election doubting us.
You see, and this is what's happening with Charlie Kirk.
And Tyler Robinson is the Lee Harvey Oswald of the day.
And I'm waiting to see if someone's going to dig deeper.
Now, there are a handful of people digging deeper.
And I can tell by the level of mockery they get and attacks and threats that they're obviously near something.
But this Camp Watucha, by the way, I think that's how you pronounce it.
It's a military intelligence base.
It's not like an Air Force base or, you know, it's a million.
They train military intelligence.
They train young soldiers, men and women, how to operate on the stage and in the environment of intelligence gathering, disguise, surveillance.
I just find it fascinating.
What do you think?
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Voters And JD Vance00:14:49
And I don't know if you saw this, but Representative Eric Swalwell, as you know, is running for governor of California.
And he has missed most votes on the floor of any active member of the House, according to an analysis by the Washington Post.
He even missed more than Arizona Representative Raul Grillvarliol, who passed away, by the way, and I mispronounced his name, but not intentionally.
So he missed more votes on the House floor than a dead man.
And he's running for California.
He's probably going to win now.
There's a good chance.
There's a good chance because they need puppets like Gavin Newsome.
Who do you think has better hair?
Eric Swalwell or Gavin Newsom?
I don't know.
Other big news this week, and we're on the eve of it.
It's not only Friday Eve now, but this is a huge, huge deal.
And this is the deadline for this, by the way.
Okay.
This is Congressman Roe Conna, and tomorrow is the big day in case we've been losing track of this particular case.
Tomorrow at midnight is the deadline for Pam Bondi to release the Epstein files.
That is what Thomas Massey and my bill calls for.
It passed this body 427 to 1, passed the Senate 100 to 0, and the president signed it.
Now, three federal judges have ordered the release of all of these files in Maxwell and Epstein's grand jury.
Here is the reality: any Justice Department official who does not comply with this law will be subject to prosecution for obstruction of justice.
If Pam Bondi does not comply with the law, she will be held either in inherent contempt of Congress or subject to impeachment.
We will not rest until the law is complied with and justice is served.
Thank you.
Wow.
Well, I forgot.
I forgot it was tomorrow.
I wonder what's going to happen.
It's always midnight on a Friday.
Midnight on a Friday when all the news is dead and no one cares.
And it's the week before Christmas.
It's a perfect time to release it.
I wonder how much is going to be redacted.
You know, you really got to ask yourself what's going to be redacted from the Epstein files.
And I know there's that contingency of people.
Just move on.
It's child trafficking.
Get over it, dude.
It's kind of like Russia Gig, right?
Move on.
There's nothing we can do about it now.
It's not like we can, you know, arrest people.
I mean, look what happened with Comey and Letitia James.
I mean, it's not looking good.
I want to see more people in handcuffs.
There's not enough people in handcuffs.
And it's discouraging.
It's discouraging to see some people get targeted and some people like Hunter Biden live a wonderful life of wealth and who knows what else.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC.
Now, you may want to sit down for this, but we have to accept the reality that there's going to be a lot of polling and hypotheticals, especially now as we head into the midterms.
Now, I'm not optimistic about the midterms as far as conservatives go.
I just don't know.
I think it's going to be sad.
But anyway, that's just my thought because things aren't going like we were promised they would.
There are some good things happening, though.
However, AOC edges the likely Republican nominee, which everybody's saying is JD Vance.
I'm not sure if it's going to be J.D., but a lot of people think that could be the case.
I have no idea.
I'm sure there's a lot of boneheads that are going to get in it because, you know, a third of these senators think they're presidential material.
And I mean, look at Jeb Bush.
Okay.
Not that he's going to get back into it, but I'm sure Ted Cruz is going to want to play.
I'm sure Marco Rubio is going to want to play.
And they're totally going to forget that it wasn't just Trump that beat them in 2016.
It was the people that didn't choose them.
You know, that's the other part of it.
You could say, well, Trump isn't in the race.
It's a different thing now, Kennett.
Trump is not in there, so they might win.
Well, no, Trump beat them then, and he had zero experience.
So a guy with zero experience that came off a reality show that everybody was pounding on still didn't vote for Ted Cruz.
I'm just throwing that out there.
And the fact that AOC, 51%, JD Vance, 49%, If the election were held today, right, hypothetical 2028 presidential matchup, that's not a good thing, is it?
I don't think it is.
Now, that'll change by tomorrow.
Polls change, elections change.
Who knows what's going to happen?
There's a margin of error, so it's basically they're tied.
But if you told me three years ago, or even if you told me last year, AOC will tie JD Vance in a potential presidential race in a poll in a year, I'd be like, no way.
But that gives you an idea that there's a shift that you're not being told about as often as you should be.
And I think that the more you avoid the truth, the less strategy is going to be effective because you're going to be building strategy on propaganda and false intel, basically.
And JD Vance would know about that, being a Marine, right?
The poll also found that JD Vance was more popular among white voters.
57% saying they would vote for him.
But listen to this: 43% said we'd vote for Ocasio-Cortez.
Now, what if someone said that?
What if someone said five years ago, you know, almost half the voters are going to, almost half the white voters would vote for Ocasio-Cortez over Senator JD Vance?
I wouldn't have believed it.
But, and here's the thing that concerns me: President Trump and the MAGA folks, and I voted for Trump three times.
We did such a good job.
Conservatives in particular did such a good job of bringing new demographics to the party.
And Trump really did a phenomenal job.
He did a phenomenal job with that.
And we saw it.
I mean, we saw it when he was out of the gate, just right out of the gate in 2015, 2016.
The women votes.
And I think that's why the Democrats put the they work so hard on trying to create, remember the big women's rally that was, I was there for that.
I wasn't at the rally, but I was there when a lot of these women showed up and were hating on Trump during his first inauguration.
And then you had a march with a lot of different voters early on to try to target Trump as being anti-black, anti-women.
And he had huge numbers in 24 and 20 among women, among young people, among black voters.
And now, again, this could be an outlier, but I'm telling you, I see this trending this way.
And it's sad because it seems like we're losing some of the momentum.
And I know that to be a good conservative, you're not supposed to say this.
You're supposed to say, you know, rah-rah, we're on top of it.
And I'm telling you, out with the people.
I'm not a pollster.
I'm not a politician.
You know, when I'm shopping at Walmart and I bump into someone I know in the parking lot and we're talking about guns and how I should put the right antifreeze in my car or it'll corrode it, we also talk about what's up with Trump, what's up with this?
You think Bongino is going to resign?
You think cash has an issue with his vision?
I don't sorry.
79% of black voters and 64% of Hispanic voters would vote for AOC for president over JD Vance.
So that is, if it doesn't concern you, which it shouldn't, unless you're running for president, it certainly should concern JD Vance.
So something is going on in this dynamic of MAGA and America First, where these groups, including the split in gender, now 54% of men voting for Vance, 56% of women for Ocasio-Cortez.
So what you're seeing is almost a return to the way I believe the Republicans and the Democrats want it to be.
And I'm talking about the parties.
And this is where I, you know, I freak people out when I say there's really not a lot of difference between the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.
Trump came in, bull in a china shop.
He flipped everything over.
And you'd run into entire families of black voters, grandma there too, at Trump rallies.
And it was phenomenal.
Some of the Trump rallies that I experienced were just wonderful memories, wonderful experiences, like slices of Americana and patriotism.
And what we're falling back into now, and I think it's a combination of some people are disappointed with the performance so far, and media, of course, is reloading because they're not going to tolerate any more of this.
They're not going to tolerate the level of success.
Even if it's there, it's getting back to normal.
And that's where the Democrats and the Republicans want it.
That's how it was set up.
This color should vote for those people.
This gender should vote for those people.
And this person's always going to vote for those people.
And that's why the parties take for granted the voters.
Democrats have always taken black voters and gay voters for granted.
And then Trump came and shook everything up.
And we blew that out of the water in 2020 and 2024.
But again, this is nothing to lose sleep over this particular survey, but it did, you know, it's something to pay attention to.
Let me grab a phone call here.
Gail, Gail in Pennsylvania.
I'm familiar with that state.
Welcome to the Roger Stone Zone.
Hello.
How are you doing?
Very well.
And you?
Good.
With your discussion of the Trump Kennedy Center, I think it's great.
And I think your point about having history side by side is what they're doing.
Trump Kennedy Center.
You know what?
That's a good point.
I didn't even think about that.
I was thinking statues and not signs.
But you bring up a good point.
And I was just at the Kennedy Center a few weeks ago for a classical performance, and I'm going to go again the end of January for Fiddler on the Roof.
Oh, man, that's awesome.
Gorgeous, gorgeous building.
The National Symphony, which we saw a few weeks back, outstanding, magnificent.
They start the performance with a rousing national anthem.
Oh, beautiful.
I just felt a lot of patriotism.
I love the building.
I hadn't been there in years, but I wanted to support it because I do support Rick Renell and President Trump.
Well, thank you so much for calling.
I appreciate it, Gail.
You brought up a great point.
So I guess that, in a way, it reinforces the argument that why not have the statue from one era and it represents a certain belief or ideology, some things we did wrong, some things we did right.
And then you see this evolution where Martin Luther King Jr. is honored, and there is a level of dignity and patriotism with so many different races and people as it evolved throughout the years.
I just, it's sad.
I'll be honest.
I was born in New Jersey, but I grew up in the South, and I know a lot of wonderful people from the South.
And, you know, the South gets a bad rap in the North.
And I'm not going to lie to you, the North gets a bad rap in the South.
You know, there's damn Yankees, and there are those darn rednecks.
And that's really not the case.
It's just a little piece of it.
But some of the most incredible soldiering and military tactics and military valor can be found in both the North and the South during the Civil War.
And one of the reasons was because we were all Americans, which sometimes we forget.
So we had all these American people.
It had to be a horrific time.
The country divided, but it evolved to the point where, you know, we've had a black president for eight years, and we have probably the best, I would say the best race and gender environment of any other country on earth.
And everybody has an opportunity to succeed at levels never before even imagined.
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Hope you're enjoying your Hanukkah time and your countdown to Christmas.
It's one week from Christmas and whatever else you're celebrating.
And again, don't worry about me.
I've got enough gifts.
Don't be wanting, you know, I know some of you might be running around.
Drones and Future Warfare00:04:07
What are we going to get, Ken?
Anyway, Milton Friedman, the legend, Milton Friedman, said this.
First of all, the government doesn't have any money.
Only people have money.
The government only gets money by putting its hand in your pocket and taking it out.
And that's the truth.
And this is the hardest thing for people to understand.
It's especially younger people.
We get programmed into believing that that's where the government gets its money, that it creates its money.
But we don't understand.
We are the source of all money in this country.
We're the source of all of it.
We pay for everything, you and I. Our jobs pay for everything.
Our taxes pay for everything.
A school, a bomb, a wing repair on a fighter jet, a new bus, a desk in a senator's office.
It's all our money.
And, you know, this is where I'm going to say, I'm not going to go into my tangent about if we all just agreed to stop paying taxes for one month, we could control the world.
I'm not going to say that again.
Just going to move right on to where we are now seeing more restrictions on drones here in the United States.
And I fear that this will lead to private ownership of drones being either further restricted or eliminated.
Why is this?
Because the drone warfare that is taking place, not only in the Ukraine with the Russians, obviously, drone warfare is taking place all over the Middle East.
And now it has become so easy to buy a commercial drone and modify it.
People are using drones to, not to drone on, but people are using drones to deliver things.
But they're also using drones as small as a shoebox and as big as a small prop aircraft.
I don't know if you've seen some of the drones that we fly over battle spaces thousands and thousands of feet up in the air to bring amazing intelligence and deliver payloads of devastating weaponry.
But also most special ops have had drones as part of their kit for almost two decades.
And now you can pull a drone out of a backpack and launch it into the battle space.
And there's no risk to get that intelligence.
So to train for these drones, they have to do it in America.
But civil authorities restrict the use of GPS jammers and other electronic warfare weapons because of the Constitution, right?
Just like you can't have, you know, soldiers can only do so much in American cities.
And the last thing they're going to do is train in a populated American city.
So this is kind of a this is kind of a thing that they're caught in the middle of.
They have to decide where are we going to train where we can do it secretly but effectively.
But this is the future of warfare.
And they have to find out a way now.
What they're working on doing is carving out airspaces for these systems.
And one in particular is the 6th Battalion 2nd Special Warfare Training Group.
And they did an interview with Defense One magazine.
And the FAA will be ruling on it along with government agencies to see if, you know, your son may have to keep his drone out of the airspace.
But why, mommy?
Why?
Because the military's coming, son.
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