From Graceland to Ground War: America Turns the Tables

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Rob Carson Show

Episode: From Graceland to Ground War: America Turns the Tables
Date: March 24, 2026
Host: Rob Carson (Newsmax Podcasts)

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Overview

This episode of The Rob Carson Show blends humor, political commentary, and substantive discussion to cover current U.S.–Iran tensions, dramatic changes in U.S. domestic crime policy, cultural touchpoints like Elvis Presley, and the political climate around antisemitism and radical Islam. Rob is joined mid-show by guest Brooke Goldstein (founder of the Lawfare Project), and later features a brief, spirited debate with Joe Kent on Iran and the U.S. intelligence community. The tone is irreverent, combative, and steeped in conservative commentary, punctuated by parody and personal anecdote.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. U.S.–Iran Conflict and Trump’s “Turning the Tables”

• Rob Carson opens with breaking news on the ongoing U.S.–Iran conflict, expressing incredulity at Iranian military claims of ongoing resistance following devastating U.S. strikes.
  • Quote: "We've destroyed 90% of your missile capacity...Your Navy is now a scuba destination. Honestly, with what exactly? With what, Paintballs?" (Rob Carson, 01:47)
• Rob mocks the bombastic statements from Iranian generals and draws parallels to perceived empty boasts from U.S. political figures.
• Discussion of Karg Island – a critical oil hub in Iran, now considered vulnerable to U.S. action. Rob delivers snarky commentary, riffing on the island’s name and its strategic significance.
  • Quote: "Karg island, the tiny oil hub in the Persian Gulf...Trump could seize at a major escalation of war against Iran...holds 94% of Iran's oil exports." (Rob Carson, 03:40)
• He suggests that foolish pride from the Iranian regime will spell their doom, adopting a hawkish tone.
  • Quote: "They are being foolishly proud, which means now we just have to kill all of them. We have to kill every one of the B words. That's what we got to do." (Rob Carson, 06:24)

Segment Timestamps

• Iran segment and parody: [01:47] – [08:02]

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2. Domestic Security, Media Critique, and Airport “Scare”

• Rob ridicules media speculation that ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) would cause chaos or violence at American airports.
  • Quote: "You had Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, all of them saying that ICE was going to move in and kill people in America's airports, which is so profoundly stupid and absurd as to be laughable." (Rob Carson, 09:08)
• He plays coverage from an airport reporter, mocking the disconnect between media sensationalism and mundane on-the-ground realities.
  • Quote: "The lines are getting shorter...the average wait time now is under 40 minutes." (Airport Reporter, 10:22; Rob responds with sarcasm.)
• Rob posits that Trump’s calm response defanged “the Democrat rage machine."

Segment Timestamps

• ICE/airport/media critique: [09:08] – [12:40]

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3. Memphis Transformation: Declining Crime under Trump

• Rob shifts to praising Donald Trump for an apparent historic reduction in violent crime in Memphis, likening it to improved conditions in Washington, D.C.
• He reminisces about his Elvis fandom and notes Trump’s recent visit to Graceland, adding personal and cultural flavor.

Trump’s Memphis Speech Highlights:

• Quote (Trump, via narration): "We've achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded...includes a 60% drop in robberies, a 74% drop in carjacking and motor vehicle thefts..." (16:36–17:04)
• Rob emphasizes the breakthrough for families, especially Black inner city families, as reflected in Elvis’s song “In the Ghetto.”

Delicia Ballinger’s Testimonial

• Quote: "For years, we looked to our local leaders...But nothing did. And that was until you, my president, stepped in. In a matter of weeks, we felt a difference...For the first time in five years, I don't hear any gunshots in my neighborhood...My children can go outside and play...That silence means everything to me." (Delicia Ballinger, 18:26–19:29)
• Rob sarcastically calls Trump the “worst white supremacist ever,” mocking the disconnect between accusations and on-the-ground realities for Black families.

Segment Timestamps

• Memphis testimony & crime discussion: [13:20] – [20:15]

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4. Antisemitism, Anti-Americanism, and the ‘Woke Right’ (With Brooke Goldstein)

• Brooke Goldstein joins to discuss the Iranian regime, the futility of appeasement, and the complicity of Western elites.
  • Quote: "There is no appeasement. There is no deals with terrorists, with these fascist, oppressive regimes. And they are absolutely on their way out." (Brooke Goldstein, 23:20)
• Rob and Brooke assert that antisemitism in the Western left is being leveraged as cover for radical Islam and anti-Americanism.
  • Quote: "It's not just antisemitism...it is anti-Americanism, anti-Judeo-Christian values...If you want us to look like Europe two or three years from now, then we sit here and do nothing." (Brooke Goldstein, 25:03)
• Brooke describes foreign influence, notably Qatar’s funding of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs at U.S. colleges, as an ideological Trojan horse.
  • Quote: "Qatar...the host of the Hamas terrorist group, is funding diversity equity inclusion programs...propagating ideas and radical ideology that undermines the family, that undermines democracy, and undermines Judeo Christian values." (Brooke Goldstein, 26:27)
• Discussion of Democrats’ perceived lack of patriotism and amnesia about socialism and antisemitism.

Segment Timestamps

• Brooke Goldstein interview, part 1: [22:47] – [29:51]

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5. Debate: Iran Intelligence, The Woke Right, and “Narrative Manipulation”

• Joe Kent calls in, downplaying U.S. intelligence on Iran’s nuclear threat, attributing alarm to Israeli or media sources, not U.S. evidence.
  • Debate gets heated; Rob and interjecting commentators push back with references to congressional testimony and U.S. intel sources.
  • Quote: "President Trump said no nuclear weapons. And then through official engagements...the media echo chamber that wanted regime change in Iran..." (Joe Kent, 32:05)
• Rob and Brooke Goldstein blast Kent, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and others on the "Woke Right" for “narrative manipulation” and undermining the war effort.
  • Quote: "This is about narrative manipulation...The goal is to undermine our war effort." (Brooke Goldstein, 32:52)
  • Quote: "It's a betrayal of his brothers in arms, for God's sake. You don't do this when we're two weeks into a military campaign and you declare that it's somehow a failure." (Rob Carson, 34:49)
• They allege Kent and others deliberately distract from serious issues like Qatar’s influence and recent Islamist-inspired terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Segment Timestamps

• Joe Kent debate & narrative discussion: [31:42] – [37:38]

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6. The Future of Iran and the Will for Freedom

• Rob presses Brooke for predictions on Iran’s future and broader Middle East democratization.
  • Quote: "This is a Berlin Wall moment...Freedom and patriotism sweeping the globe and these monsters falling." (Rob Carson, 29:51)
• Brooke expresses hope but stresses the need for “the will to survive and to govern themselves” among Iranian and Gazan people.
  • Quote: "They need to have a will to survive...to get rid of radical Islam, they themselves have to purge their society from this virus." (Brooke Goldstein, 38:14)

Segment Timestamps

• Iran freedom discussion and Goldstein outro: [37:38] – [39:20]

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Notable Quotes & Moments

• Parody Song: Rob performs a Gilligan’s Island parody about Karg Island, lampooning the conflict:
  • "Just sit right back. Listen to a tale of an oil filled paradise...It's called Karg Island. It's worth a hefty price." (Rob Carson, singing, 07:08)
• On ICE/airport scare:
  • "They were hoping someone would get murdered." (Rob Carson, 10:39)
• On media bias:
  • "The suffering off of the table, which Democrats like to use as a weapon because suffering and fatalities are their ammunition." (Rob Carson, 12:51)
• Personal Touch: Rob’s Elvis anecdote and emotional connection to Memphis’s transformation.

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Conclusion

This episode weaves together sharp-edged political humor, anecdotes, and fierce debate on U.S. foreign and domestic policy. Rob Carson's distinctive voice and irreverent delivery set the tone—laced with parody, cultural nostalgia, and skepticism toward both the political left and the “Woke Right.” Key highlights include the ongoing U.S.–Iran standoff, transformations in Memphis, spirited exchanges over antisemitism and foreign influence, and a standout story of a Memphis mother’s relief at neighborhood safety. Brooke Goldstein adds legal and international perspective, particularly on the ideological battles shaping U.S. policy at home and abroad.

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Timestamps – Important Segments

• Iran conflict overview & parody: [01:47] – [08:02]
• Airport/ICE/media reaction: [09:08] – [12:40]
• Memphis crime drop & Trump in Memphis: [13:20] – [20:15]
• Brooke Goldstein on antisemitism & Iran: [22:47] – [29:51]
• Joe Kent debate & the Woke Right: [31:42] – [37:38]
• Vision for Iran’s future: [37:38] – [39:20]

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Transcript

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[Delicia Ballinger]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Rob Carson]

This is the Rob Carson Show. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey, it's Tuesday and this just in. It's kind of interesting. Just when you hear, you know, the Trump administration, administration saying that Iran wants to make a deal and everything and you know, there's a possibility that somebody in the regime might take over and all this, they hand us a gift. This is fantastic. An Iranian spokesman for its top military command says armed forces will fight until complete victory. With what? With what exactly? We've destroyed 90% of your missile capacity. We've destroyed 90% of your drone capacity. We've wrecked your military infrastructure. We've sunk 120 ships. Your Navy is now a scuba destination. Honestly, with what exactly? With what Paintballs? What do you got? We were literally now able to fly a 10 Warthogs all over the place. Any aircraft doesn't have to be stealth. They have no possibility of shooting down anything. I love the fact that they're so foolishly proud that they're going to keep going. The comments made by this should be kind of a metaphor for people with gigantic egos and nothing to back them up. The names, you know, when you got a name name like this, you're full of yourself. So, Major Jenna. General Ali Abdullahi Ali Abadi of the Katam Albaya central headquarters trying to fit that on a football jersey. The Ali Abdoli Hali Habada Haba Habadah appeared to be related to US President Donald Trump's announcement. They were negotiations ongoing between Tehran and Washington. Iran has denied that any talks are in place, though its foreign minister has been talking to counterparts around the region. Iranian state television quoted Ali Abu Dhabi as saying, Iran's powerful armed forces are proud, victorious. What do you. What is victory? What. What is victory? What is victory if everything's been destroyed? I don't know. Maybe I'm. Maybe I'm wrong. It's like the Kamala Harris claiming victory after 2024. It'd be like that. It would be like that. Oh, yeah. We spent $2 billion, you know, trying to sell a crap sandwich. That didn't. That didn'. Still a victory. It's still a victory. So victorious and steadfast in defending Iran's integrity. Again. Again, integrity. And this path will continue until complete victory. When is the victory going to take place? I mean, it's not going to happen in the next, I don't know, decade. The general did not say what complete victory would look like, but it appears likely. Iran's military was trying to warn against offering concessions in any possible negotiations with the United States. I say, you know what I say? I just say, okay, then keep on bombing, baby. Keep on bombing. There you go. Keep on bombing. They're going after Karg Island. That's where the pirates live, I guess. Car island, the tiny oil hub in the Persian Gulf. That's where they get all their ship out, all their oil. Karg island, the tiny island of the Persian Gulf that Trump could seize at a major escalation of war against Iran. Karg island holds 94% of Iran. Did anybody else. When you hear Kharg island, do you think pirate. Do you like IR Carg? I just thought that as soon as I heard it, I thought it was funny. Holds 94% of Iran's oil experts. Could choke off the country's economy for years as the US with war. With war. It's not a war. It's not a war. Yeah, Whatever. Continues, attention is turned to the tiny island off the coast of the Middle Eastern country. Kharg island. Total area 7.7 square miles. Despite its small size, the island holds 94% of the country's crude oil for export, mostly bound for China and its main oil export terminal. We've been nice about it. We've been not bombing the snot out of the oil, you know, where you can, you know, get rid of the oil. You can sell the oil and stuff. We want the people in Iran to have some way to pay the bills, you know. But Donald Trump considering putting American troops on the ground in Iran to seize the key oil terminal in the Persian Gulf. Maybe we could get Israel to do that. How about Israel put your boots on the ground? You guys are good at that. You've already got boots on the ground in Iran, by the way. The possibility of US Troops seizing the island is a starkly different tone from the one struck by president on Friday who said he is considering winding down the war with Iran. Mr. Trump top spokesman confirmed the details to the telegraph but cautioned that he had not made a final decision. Caroline Levitt said it's a job of the Pentagon to make preparations in order to give the commander in chief maximum, maximum optionality. Oh, yeah, because they're dug in on Carg Island. Former Pentagon official Michael Rubin says we should, should he take Carg island rather than destroy it, he can not ensure the regime can never again pay the salaries of bureaucrats and soldiers. But also in the future after regime change, he can ensure now that the new Iranian regime can finance its own rebuilding. So there you go. Look. I look at it as a positive. They are being foolishly proud, which means now we just have to kill all of them. We have to kill every one of the B words. That's what we got to do. Because honestly, they're foolishly proud. They're abusive. They've murdered tens of thousands of their own people. They have been waging war against the United States for 47 years in the rest of the free world. And I say we, we bomb them to powder. How's that sound?

[Rob Carson (Singing/Imitating)]

Just sit right back. Listen to a tale of an oil filled paradise.

[Rob Carson]

Carg Island.

[Rob Carson (Singing/Imitating)]

It is called Carg Island. It's worth a hefty price. Karg. It's a major asset that Crump has his eyes on.

[Rob Carson]

Let's kick its ass in it.

[Rob Carson (Singing/Imitating)]

If he wants Karg island, you know it will be gone. You know it will be gone. Soon it will be getting croc. The island will be lost. Y will surrender. We pay a hefty cost. Yeah. Yes, we pay a hefty cost.

[Rob Carson]

Baghdad Bob over there.

[Rob Carson (Singing/Imitating)]

When they seize our oil fields, it will be a Blow to K the Mullers.

[Rob Carson]

Who?

[Rob Carson (Singing/Imitating)]

The Minister of Defense and his wife, the goat. They all know Donald Trump. They'll never stop when he takes over the card island.

[Rob Carson]

There you go.

[Rob Carson (Singing/Imitating)]

There you go.

[Rob Carson]

And the skipper will be there and he'll be sleeping on the top bunk and Gilligan will be on the bott bottom there and the professor will be making a radio out of coconuts. And you know, Jim Gossett, by the way. That's, that's Jim Gossett there for you. Gen Xers. There's, you know, we used to watch that show after school in syndication, all of that stuff. So, yeah, the Iran foreign minister signaled readiness for deal and calls with the US that was yesterday. And now they're being foolishly proud, which I think is fantastic. I want them to be foolishly proud because it will ensure their absolute doom. Absolute do. Meanwhile, a new CBS poll. The Trump coalition appears to be collapsing. Not at all, actually, not at all. Not one little bit. The maga, MAGA followers, people who are MAGA conservatives, who are soldiers in the battle for another 250 years of our great country not letting it fall to the left and Marxists and Islamists. You see, we know this is a war we're in here. So we're not going to abandon our general like Joe Kent and Tucker Carlson and all of that. New CBS poll shows Republican approval of Donald Trump just jumped five points to 92.3%. Yeah, 92.3%. So people are very happy about this. Of course, it may be hurt by the carnage at America's airports yesterday with the TSA or the, the, the TSE being assisted by ICE and all of the, all of the people that ICE murdered yesterday in America's air. Oh, actually, no, I guess that didn't happen. It didn't happen. Despite what Democrats said yesterday, ICE was going to go. It literally. Literally. It's so utterly ridiculous. You had Chuck Schumer, you had Hakeem Jeffries, you had a whole bunch of people saying that ICE was going to move in and kill people in America's airports, which is so profoundly stupid and absurd as to be laughable. And that's what I did yesterday. Here's what actually happened.

[Airport Reporter]

Finally, we can take a deep breath here. The numbers have dropped off, the lines are getting shorter. I think the average wait time.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, but people, it's because people are. So many people were murdered and people had to step over the bodies of the people who were murdered by ICE to go to their, to their plane.

[Airport Reporter]

Now it's under 40 minutes.

[Rob Carson]

So, oh my God, it went from like eight hours to 40 minutes and nobody got murdered.

[Airport Reporter]

Today it's a good time to come to Hartsville Jacks International talking about the DICE agents. You can see a few behind me right there. And then I'm going to walk you this direction.

[Rob Carson]

And see, this had to be hard for CNN to take.

[Airport Reporter]

More of them gathered over.

[Rob Carson]

They were hoping somebody get murdered.

[Airport Reporter]

This is what they've been doing for the most part today.

[Rob Carson]

You see that the thing is that you can't try to run over an ICE agent in the airport unless it's on one of those little handicapable golf carts. You know, if you're. You can't walk to your thing, maybe they might be able to hijack one of those and run over an ICE agent with it. But I'm not thinking it would kill

[Airport Reporter]

them doing the PAT around the airport, talking and gathering.

[Rob Carson]

Wouldn't be able to just walk up to one and kick the tail light out and then bring your concealed carry and threaten officers like you would, you know, in Minneapolis.

[Airport Reporter]

Not really helping the public in the sense of they're not taking tickets from anybody.

[Rob Carson]

But surely they're terrifying people and trying to murder them.

[Airport Reporter]

They're not interacting with the public we've seen so far.

[Rob Carson]

They're not, they're not harassing people who. With brown skin.

[Airport Reporter]

Anyone's ID at the TSA checkpoints? They're not.

[Rob Carson]

No, no. Surely they're looking at people with brown skin and saying, hey, hey, hey, you look illegal.

[Airport Reporter]

Doing that as.

[Rob Carson]

As well.

[Airport Reporter]

So the big question is, what have they been doing mostly? Well, it's been providing perimeter security. As you can see over here. If we come back this direction. Yeah, here come the murders.

[Rob Carson]

No, no, here come the murders right over here. Here are the murders here.

[Airport Reporter]

And the reason why is what we're being told is there's a protest scheduled against ice.

[Rob Carson]

And then they had these idiots go in there yesterday and this one woman decided to pitch a fit and whatnot. She was taking down my ice age and did the same crap they did in Minneapolis and they were screaming profanity and I hope you're effing happy with your eff and this and F and that, you know, and it's like, you don't do that in airports. You can get away with that in a leftist crap hole like Minneapolis, but you can't get away with it in airports. You just look like an idiot. You get a beat down. So there you go once again. What did Donald Trump do? He did exactly what he did in Minneapolis. He defanged the Democrat rage machine. He took the suffering off of the table, which Democrats like to use as a weapon because suffering and fatalities are their ammunition. And once again, well played. Well played. We've got a lot of stuff to get to on the show. Unbelievable things happening in Memphis, Tennessee, which has been run by Democrats forever. It is not the hellhole. And a generation of children in the inner city can be raised while being able to play outside without being shot, among other things. An amazing turnaround. Another loss for Democrats. That's all coming up on this Tuesday edition of the Rob Carson Show. Let's take a break and come back. Don't go anywhere.

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This is ROB Carson show on a Tuesday. Yesterday, the president was in Memphis. It's pretty cool. I, I knew he was an Elvis fan. I had a feeling he was an Ellis fan. I was, when I was a kid, I, I, I discovered Elvis was like when I was in second grade and by this time he was already on his decline. And, and I just became the biggest Elvis fan that you could possibly imagine because I never heard the music before. I lived on a farm and it was like new to me. It was like if you were a kid in the 50s and Elvis sprung on the scene, it was like inventing music for me. And I just became a fanatical Elvis fan. I have all of his records. I had every wind, you know, every, every wall in my room covered with Elvis memorabilia when he died. I was in fifth grade, I, I cried for a year, the whole deal. And when I saw the president. No, actually, let me explain this. So I was at Mar a Lago a few years ago and I noticed he's playing a lot of Elvis music. I'm like, this guy's a lot. We're similar in some ways. We are. We are very similar in some way. I know it's kind of weird we have the same middle name and, but that it ends about there. But anyway, I figured he kind of liked Elvis and I, and I asked him about it in an interview a couple years ago. I said, do you like Elvis? He says, I like Elvis. He went to Graceland yesterday. I want to get to that in a moment. But I'm going to tell you real quick. If I were the President of the United States and I walked into Graceland as the President of the United States, what would you do? If you're an Elvis fan, what would you do? You'd say, Take me up to the bedroom. I want to see the bedroom. I want to see the bathroom where he died. I want to stay. I want to make sure he's not living up there. You know, maybe he's been hiding out up there. Comes out at night, goes over and plays racquetball. Well, he's got a little racquetball court back there. Whatever I want to know, I want to see the bedroom. That's what I do. If you're the president, I would do that anyway. That's just me, though. That's just me. Here's the President yesterday. Because Memphis, Tennessee has been a hellhole for a very long time. Well, so was D.C. by the way, when I moved here to Washington D.C. seven months ago, it was a hellhole. There was. The Union Station was an absolute crap fest. There was a homeless encampment across from the Union Station. You could not go downtown. You could not go to Adams Morgan. You could not go to any of the famous places. George. Georgetown was a ghost town. There was graffiti everywhere. Then Donald Trump brought in the National Guard and the media went ape crap and said, oh God, he's gonna kill people, he's gonna murder people, he's gonna martial law and all this. And what happened? Well, half the people on the staff at CNN and whatnot said, no, no, this is a good thing because every time I'm in Georgetown, I get either carjacked or, you know, or terrified by a homeless person on crack. So Donald Trump turned Washington, D.C. around. The crime aid has dropped dramatically. There are bad neighborhoods here, Anacostia being one of them. You can actually, you know, particularly people of color, black people, where the murder rate in America's inner cities is 10 times the national average. They can let their kids ride on their bikes and go to the store without being murdered. Okay. And this is remarkable. And the Democrat Party, because they're so fixated on hating Trump, they cannot celebrate the fact that Donald Trump is turning back 65 years of Democrat politics that have made America's inner cities into absolute criminal, tribe ridden hell holes. And here's the President yesterday in Memphis.

[Rob Carson (Narrator/Host)]

But just as we have in D.C. here in Memphis, we've achieved one of the largest, fastest declines in violent crime ever recorded. So that's something, right? Ever recorded. In fact, you're a half a percentage point away from the record. So we'll catch them in the next month or two.

[Rob Carson]

You think you'd be happy to happen. Yeah.

[Rob Carson (Narrator/Host)]

But that includes a 60% drop in robberies.

[Rob Carson]

Wow.

[Rob Carson (Narrator/Host)]

A 74% drop in carjacking.

[Rob Carson]

Wow.

[Rob Carson (Narrator/Host)]

And motor vehicle thefts. We have always achieved numbers that are good. These numbers are right online to be among the best that we've done. And wherever we do this, we have very similar results.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, it is remarkable, actually. And one of the platforms of my entire career has been the welfare of children, particularly in America's inner cities. And since I started in broadcasting in 1990, I've seen two generations of young black men slaughtered in America's inner cities. And every. Every week, we would do reports from Chicago, about a dozen young black men, particularly murdered, injured. You know, the. The tragedy of the inner city in America. Elvis did a song on it in 1972 called in the Ghetto. And it was about that day. And his mama cried because his Finn went out and robbed it, got a gun and. And got shot and died. And, you know, and then we went on, and another day dawned in the ghetto, which you can't say that anymore because it's politically incorrect. So I'll just say America's inner cities. That said, a mom showed up yesterday who just happened to be a woman of color and spoke to Donald Trump, the worst white supremacist in world history. I'll just throw that right there. Donald Trump is a white supremacist and a Nazi. He's the worst ever at being those things. And here's what she had to say, because she's got a young son who could have easily ended up dead by his 18th birthday.

[Delicia Ballinger]

My name is Delicia Ballinger, and I'm a lifelong nymphian. And I'm a mother. For years, we looked to our local leaders, hoping that something, Democrats, anything, will change. But nothing did. And that was until you, my president, stepped in. I need you to understand what that meant for families like mine, because in a matter of weeks, we felt a difference.

[Rob Carson (Singing/Imitating)]

Wow.

[Delicia Ballinger]

Today I could sit down on my porch and drink tea and pee.

[Rob Carson]

What?

[Delicia Ballinger]

My children can go outside and play in our backyard again. And for the first time in five years, I don't hear any gunshots in my neighborhood.

[Rob Carson]

Unbelievable.

[Delicia Ballinger]

It's been unbelievable.

[Rob Carson]

Worst white supremacist ever. Absolutely terrible.

[Delicia Ballinger]

It's been almost six months, and it's like a whole new world. That silence means everything to me. It means safety. It means peace. It means that I can breathe again.

[Rob Carson]

As a mother, how many mothers have seen their young men die pointlessly in America's inner cities? She brought her son.

[Delicia Ballinger]

So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you for seeing communities like mine. Thank you for taking action. Thank you for putting Americans first, especially right here in Shelby county, in Memphis, because this isn't politics for me. This is my life. Yes, this is my and this is for my children. In fact, President Trump, my son, my beautiful son is here today and he would like to wave and say thank you because now he's free to live a normal childhood.

[Rob Carson]

Stand up for me, man. I love it. I just love it. I absolutely love it. Meanwhile, in places like Chicago, they could have this. But J.B. titsler, Pritzler, Pritzker, whatever, and, and, and the idiot mayor of Chicago are standing in the schoolhouse doors just like Democrats of the past standing in the way of saving these kids. In places that are run by Democrats, San Francisco, Chicago and other areas, kids are still dying at a much lower pace thanks to the FBI sending out field agents across the country and also shutting down the southern border. But the numbers are still higher in cities that are keeping Donald Trump from going in and saving kids. What a glorious, glorious story. Coming up, Brooke Goldstein, she's amazing. She is the founder of the Lawfare Project. We're going to talk about anti Semitism in America and elsewhere on the other side of the break. And this is the ROB Carson show. This fall, you're invited to experience Washington, D.C. in a truly unforgettable way with me, Rob Carson and other Newsmax listeners. Imagine strolling through our nation's capital as America celebrates 250 years and seeing history come alive with an expert guide. Together, we'll tour the White House Visitor center, step into the halls of democracy with a guided tour of the U.S. capitol building, visit Arlington National Cemetery and the Changing of the Guard, stand in awe before the towering figure of President Abraham Lincoln and take in the beauty of DC's legendary memorials with a special nighttime illumination tour. Our adventure includes premium hotel accommodations for four nights in the heart of D.C. in addition to six meals, ground transportation guides and gratuities. Space is limited, so don't wait. Visit travelwithrob.net to book your DC getaway today or give our friends at Cruise and Tour a call at 800-383-31311. That's 800-383-3131 or travelwithrob.net. It is a Rob Carson Show Tuesday edition as we stream live on Newsmax social media and on radio stations around the country. Somebody who I have been following for a while, I enjoy her commentaries. I frequently use her audience on this show. Brooke Goldstein, human rights attorney, award winning filmmaker, founder of the Lawfare Project. I hope that doesn't surprise you Brooke Goldstein, welcome to the show.

[Brooke Goldstein]

Thank you for having me. I'm happy to be here.

[Rob Carson]

Absolutely. There are so many things going on. I want to get to Joe Kent, among other things. But I want to start with these mixed messages coming out of Iran yesterday. The Trump administration was saying they wanted to reach a deal. Then we had this. And I love this, by the way. Today you've got a spokesman for the top military command saying that they will fight until complete victory. Which begs the question, what are they going to fight with? Because we've kind of annihilated. I love their foolish pride. Brooke, what do you think?

[Brooke Goldstein]

Yeah. And what are they fighting for? We have to remember these are theologically motivated mullahs. They're not in it to win. They'd rather burn the whole place down. They'd rather kill 40,000 plus of their own citizens, then capitulate. They see this as a religious obligation to fight and kill the infidels. They've been screaming death to America since the moment they got in power. There is no appeasement. There is no deals with terrorists, with these fascist, oppressive regimes. And they are absolutely on their way out. We have something unprecedented here. I said it once before on live television. We have a citizenship, a citizenry of a country that is cheering for foreign governments to come in and overthrow their government. And the insanity is the Western media is trying to continue to keep the Iranians imprisoned under the mullahs.

[Rob Carson]

I don't even know what to say about the. I've said that the Democrat Party is intellectually and morally bankrupt for a very long time. And I knew that there were real signs of problems when a week after October 7, the. This rise of faux anti Semitism around the country and they distracted from Israel's second holocaust with a fake hospital bombing. And I always like to say that the left always exposes its flank so we can kick its ass. And it gave me a real understanding of this anti Semitism that exists not only in our cities, but also in our universities. And actually, I'm less worried about, and I'm more optimistic about the spreading of freedom through the Middle east than I am in the Western world right now.

[Brooke Goldstein]

Yeah, it seems as though the people in the Middle east, specifically in Iran, want democracy and freedom more than we do here. And it's not just anti Semitism that's a problem or Jew hatred. It is anti Americanism. It is anti Judeo Christian values. And the intentional misdirection, the deliberate misdirection away from the issue. The real issue is the spread of radicalization and radical Islam within our borders, away from that issue with false accusations of Islamophobia, with spreading blood libels about Israel. They want to redirect our attention, say, oh, this is about the Jews. This is about Israel. This is only a problem of anti. Semitism. It is not. This is a problem for America. If you want us to look like Europe two or three years from now, then we sit here and do nothing, and we'll have radicals take over our streets and take over our campuses.

[Rob Carson]

You know, we've got. Well, New York City is Tehran in 1979. You've got the Red Green Alliance. These are. And I said of Zoran Mandami, I said, there's a reason why a man who could be so pro LGBTQIA and yet have radical imams still love him. It's because he's an Islamist first and he's using the useful idiots of the left. These young people who have no clue and just like they have always done, what Islam does is it will use the left and then slaughter them once they achieve their, you know, their rules, school. And that's exactly what they want to do here.

[Brooke Goldstein]

It's the same reason why Qatar, the number two state sponsor of terrorism, the host of the Hamas terrorist group, is funding diversity equity inclusion programs, schools in the United States, which is what we found out when we sued Carnegie Mellon University, which happens to be, I think, about the third or fourth largest recipient of funds from Qatar. Why is a foreign government with which is hostile to our values, regardless of the fact that we have a base there? They host Hamas. They are Islamist regime funding our education, and they're doing so by propagating ideas and radical ideology that undermines the family, that undermines democracy, and undermines Judeo Christian values. Again, I cannot repeat that enough. It is not just about antisemitism.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, 100%. And I guess I'm. I'm not surprised. I'm just amazed that the Democrat Party has become. Well, you know, Hitler was a socialist. The German Socialist Workers Party is what the Nazis were. And I saw a survey the other day that only 12% of Democrats have a favorable view of Israel. And I'm like, wow, where have we seen this before, Brooke?

[Brooke Goldstein]

Right? They don't even have a favorable. Sorry, favorable view of themselves. They don't have a favorable view of America. They're cheering for America to lose while we're in the middle of a war. I mean, it's the same when you look at Europe, right? Europe has no armies. European countries, they have no Air defenses. Germany is buying missile defenses from Israel. They're a sitting watch. We know Iran can reach them with their rockets and yet they still will not go on the record and call out Islamist terrorism, radical Islam, and support and thank. Frankly, they should be thanking the state of Israel and the United States for taking care of the problem for them.

[Rob Carson]

Well, you know, it's remarkable. Yesterday I saw Chuck Schumer on with Joe and Mika. Dear God. And Chuck Schumer couldn't even admit that the destruction of Iran's military and the deposition of the Ayatollah was a good thing.

[Brooke Goldstein]

Thing.

[Rob Carson]

I mean, seriously, what, what sort of td,

[Brooke Goldstein]

Stay in power? What's the alternative here? And this whole notion wasn't an imminent threat. They tried to kill the President on American soil. Okay. I don't know what more of an imminent threat is other than that, other than the fact that they've been funding terror process, other than the fact that they've been developing and attempting to develop nuclear weapons and they have ballistic missiles. They've outwardly declared that they're going to use them. And death to America and death to Israel. This is an imminent threat, but again, it's not constitutionally required. The president has the power as commander of chief under the War Powers Resolution. And even though Congress has tried to limit this authority unconstitutionally, he has the power to deploy our forces and report to Congress. And he can do so for between 60 and 90 days. And he is absolutely within his constitutional power to do what he needs to do to keep not just our country, but the world safe from the head of the snake, the number one state sponsor of terrorism, I don't know how many years now.

[Rob Carson]

Well, my favorite line that I've heard the last two weeks is Donald Trump is not starting a war with Iran, he's finishing one that's been going on for 47 years. Brooke Goldstein, can you hold on? I'd love to talk to you a little more on the other side. I'd like to get into Joe Kent also. What do you think is going to happen in Iran? Who's going to take over? Because I've been waiting all my adult life for this moment. This is a Berlin Wall moment. It's spreading around the world. I said when Donald Trump was going to be elected, I said that this was going to happen. Freedom and patriot. Patriotism sweeping the globe and. And these monsters falling. So if you could hold on through the break, I'd love to continue the conversation.

[Brooke Goldstein]

Of course.

[Rob Carson]

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[Joe Kent]

We had no intelligence that said that Iran was working to develop a nuclear weapon. That information came from, from the Israelis. And then the.

[Interjecting Commentator]

No, it came from Witkoff who directly said we were negotiating with the Iranians. That they told us. Hold on now, hold on. I need the public to understand this.

[Joe Kent]

No, there's nothing.

[Interjecting Commentator]

All right, you go first, then I'll go.

[Joe Kent]

President Trump said no nuclear weapons. And then through official engagements, through the Israelis. And then also the media echo chamber that wanted regime change in Iran said, no, no, we need to say that the Iranians can't.

[Interjecting Commentator]

What about the media echo chamber? Your buddies who didn't want regime change in Iran. There's a lot of echo chambers out there, wouldn't you say?

[Joe Kent]

It appears that your media, your media echo chamber was much more successful.

[Rob Carson]

No, it wasn't. I gotta tell you, I am so disappointed in Joe Kent and others that he would say such absurd things when. When John Ratcliffe, the, the director of the CIA said under oath in front of Congress last week. Oh yeah, there was a nuclear threat. Dear God in heaven. What the hell? Brooke Goldstein. What the hell is wrong with Joe Kent? What the hell is wrong with Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens? What's going on?

[Brooke Goldstein]

Well, I'll tell you. I don't trust anyone who does a 180 degree flip in their opinions. Just Overnight, like Melany Kelly, like Tucker Carlson, like Steve Bannon, like Joe Ken did. Again, this is about narrative manipulation. It's about deliberately misdirecting the American public away from the real threat, which is radical Islam both without and within our borders. To blame the Jews, blame Israel. It is the oldest trick in the book. The goal is to undermine our war effort. So if it lasts more than 60 to 90 days and the President does need to go back to Congress for authorization, then there's going to be debate whether or not we should continue and whether or not we should assist the Iranian people to achieve freedom. Joe Kent is a product of the Woke Right podcasters. The reason he became famous, because he went on Bannon, he went on Tucker. He is a known leaker. His wife is a radical. She publishes for the Gray Zone, which is a pro Islamist, pro Russian propaganda outfit. He himself has a neo Nazi affiliations when he was running for Congress and frankly, he was on his way out apparently. But instead of the focus on his wrongdoings and on the threat, he is diverting our attention away from that. It is no coincidence that his letter came out right before the Senate intel hearings because he does not want us to focus on Qatar funding our education. He does not want us to focus on the fact that there were four Islamist inspired terrorist attacks within our borders a week and a half before he, he published that letter. That's what this is. It is a spook trick. It is narrative manipulation. It is the height of intellectual dishonesty and frankly, trying to undermine our war effort.

[Rob Carson]

It's a betrayal of his brothers in arms, for God's sake. Are you out of your mind? You don't do this when we're two weeks into a military campaign and you declare that it's somehow a failure. The Democrats did that on day one. How dare he do such a thing when we are having such a resounding, profound effect on taking down Iran's military. I mean, in a brilliant fashion. How utterly, utterly ridiculous and unforgivable.

[Brooke Goldstein]

Not only that, we have Qatar funded publications like Al Jazeera even admitting that our war effort is successful and necessary to take down that. And you have these useful idiots on the left and on the Woke. Right, Right. Who are arguing against him. Again, I'd ask the question, what do they want? They want the regime to stay in power. They want the mullahs to stay in power. They want the continued slaughtering and subjugation of the Iranian people. Is that what they want?

[Rob Carson]

I don't know.

[Brooke Goldstein]

You know, but it's not a massive battle, Israel dragging us into forever wars. You have a complete misunderstanding of the laws of cause and effect. If you think that Israel is the reason why Iran has been at war with the rest of the. The civilized world. I mean, it's called Islamism. That's.

[Rob Carson]

Yes. And another thing, also by the Jews, this nonsense about Donald Trump's hand being guided by Israel and Netanyahu is freaking laughable. When does that ever happen? Ever, ever, ever in that man's life? It's so utterly ridiculous. And another thing, Donald Trump took months to make this decision, months to get our troops over there. He gave Iran every single opportunity, opportunity to come to the table, and they didn't do it. It was the most deliberate I've ever seen of an American president in my lifetime, Brooke. And you think Donald Trump's from sort of a, you know, flies off the handle. It was the most deliberate. More so than either of the Bushes, more so than anyone I've seen.

[Brooke Goldstein]

And don't forget Israel attacked Iran prior, and Iran was in the middle of sending ballistic missiles over to Israel, and it's still sending missiles over to Israel. Israel is in the war whether America comes or not. The Jewish state is fighting for its survival against its biggest existential threat. And it was America that stopped Israel in the first round from finishing the job. That's why the attacks are so targeted, and that's why the Iranian regime remains in power. But now when the President of the United States says that he has received intel and the Iranians are about to do something, something he doesn't have to wait for them to slaughter us. And they have killed thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of people through terrorism. We don't. The whole doctrine that you need a gun pointed directly at your head, and they're about. They have to. About to, you know, pull the trigger in order for you to do something. It's naive.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, well, I said that if you had the opportunity to bomb the train tracks to Auschwitz, do so. And I don't even care if you want to call it regime change. Hell yeah. That regime's been waging war, war on the world for decades. In wrapping things up here real quick, do you believe that we're going to see the people of Iran, the Persians, the Kurds and whatnot, living in freedom anytime soon? I believe it in my heart.

[Brooke Goldstein]

I certainly hope so. But again, there's only. There's only so much that we can do in the Muslim community. And it's the same with the, you know, the Arabs in Gaza. They need to have a will to survive.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Brooke Goldstein]

Govern themselves. And to get rid of radical Islam, they themselves have to purge their society from this virus.

[Rob Carson]

Well, listen, if they were, if they were willing to put themselves in harm's way to the tune of 35,000 people to protest, I know it's in their heart to, to lead that country and I want to give them 100% support. Brooke Goldstein, I. You're fascinating. I love having you on. Thank you so much for being on the show to today. Where can people find all of your awesome work?

[Brooke Goldstein]

Well, please do follow me on social media, on Instagram. It's real. Brooke Goldstein. And I also want to mention I'm going to be speaking at CPAC this Thursday and I encourage everyone to come. It's an incredible, incredible organization and it's about solidarity and moral clarity, obviously, in the face of the threats that we face and the west and protecting Western values. And if you care about fighting against radical Islam and you want to stop blaming the Jews in Israel and you want to talk about the real issues, come to cpac. I'm speaking this Thursday and I'm really looking forward to it.

[Rob Carson]

All right, well, God bless and Godspeed. Thanks for the time today. We appreciate it.

[Brooke Goldstein]

Thank you for having me.

[Rob Carson]

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