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This is the Rob Carson show, our number two of the the radio program. We've got Sarah Bedford, Washington examiner at the bottom of the hour. She's written some really great pieces including why Democrats may Be Structurally Screwed. We'll talk about that. And what protests in the street have in common with deep pocketed radical movements. Really deep piece on this. So looking forward to talking to her. They do a very good job at that. At that paper or that online. I haven't, I haven't read a newspaper in forever. Wait, have you read a newspaper lately? Do you get a newspaper? I mean I see every once in a while I see, you know, the Washington Post being delivered to the apartment complex, but I haven't read a paper. I used to take the newspaper and I had a razor blade and it used to freak people out when I did my show prep because I had to put the razor blade between my lips and then I just take it, cut the piece out, lay it to the side and photocopy it. And I never cut myself. I just had the razor blade in my, in my mouth. I was like, there you go, you got to cut it. And so anyway, I don't do it that way anymore. But I do tell you, I do like to have hard copy in front of me, so I do print stuff off. I don't like keeping windows open on the, on the laptop. Call me old school, whatever. I do like to have the hard copy and the, in the highlights. That's how I roll. You know, you got to combine a little bit of analog, a little digital. You know, that's like the show or analog. We're digital. We are analog on radio stations across the country and we are digital streaming live on all Newsmax social media. You see, you see how that works? It's kind of cool, right? It's pretty darn cool. So I moved to Washington D.C. about five months ago. Two weeks after I moved here, Donald Trump brought in the National Guard. And because the Democrat Party is so anti Trump then and anti common sense, they said, oh, he's going to take over this city. He's going to weaponize this city. He's going to kill black people. I don't know what the hell he's going to. It's going to be terrible. He's a tyrant and all that. And what he ended up doing is reducing crime dramatically. Like 80%. Carjacking's down, it's safe to go out. People in minority neighborhoods that are otherwise, you know, have been hell holes since Lyndon Johnson. They're able to go outside, sit on the stoop and watch your kids ride their bikes without getting murdered. It's pretty crazy how that happened, right? Yeah, it's pretty crazy. I remember the first day, it was about two weeks after they started the, you know, CNN and MSNBC and the local news stations, they were like, donald Trump is weaponizing the, you know, the military against American cities. And DC doesn't need this because dc' crime rates coming down. And the problem was that there were people on staff at these, these news stations in Washington, D.C. cNN, you know, ABC, all of this, who said, oh, no, no, Hell, I had my car stolen last month or oh my God, I can't tell you how many times my friend was carjacked or how many times I was assaulted by a homeless person. And it was, it was such, it was so transparently bogus that, that DC's crime statistics were coming down and I just saw this this weekend because they're saying this. Oh yeah, Chicago cr. No they're not. No they're not. The Democrat party doesn't care about crime in their cities because it makes people needy and desperate. That's what it does. Nine people, one shot fatally Friday into Sunday in Chicago. 14 year old, 17 year old among individuals injured in shootings Friday into Sunday on October 6, 2025. There had been 1500 shooting victims, fatal and non fatal victims combined in Chicago up to the point that point in 2025 showing the shooting victims consisted of 276 who succumbed to their wounds and 1224 who were wounded and survived. And thus far 385 people have been killed in Chicago in, in 2025. And you got to kind of wonder if they're lying about the stats because that's what they did in Washington D.C. they just got rid of this awful, woke Karen police chief and she was lying about the stats. Bill, good morning to you. Those House Oversight Committee Republicans say the bottom line of what their investigation found is that the outgoing D.C. police chief was essentially cooking the books on crime data and trying to make the city seem a whole lot safer than it really was. Now those House Republicans say what their investigation consisted of was interviewing all seven commanders of D.C. metro Police's patrol districts, including a former commander who is currently suspended for allegedly tampering with crime stats in his own district. These are some of the conclusions they've made in their report. They allege that D.C. metro Police Chief Pamela Smith pressured commanders to report lower crime stats by any means necessary. The commanders testified that Chief Smith even pushed them to pursue lesser charges that aren't publicly reported. Whoa. Even for serious crimes. And she required certain crimes to be reviewed by her office. Now the report also says police commanders testified that Chief Smith punished them and retaliated against them if they tried to report accurate rising crime data, even berating them in meetings and individually to pressure them into reporting those lower crime figures. Now, in a statement on the report, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says in part, quote, chief Pamela Smith coerced staff to report artificially low crime data and cultivated a culture of fear to achieve her agenda. Wow. That is, that's frickin. Filthy, rotten, corrupt there. I mean, it's as bad as it gets that you let crime rise and then you tell your officers lie about it. What the hell? What the hell? Now the mayor's stepping down. She's stepping down. The mayor had to admit it's working. You wouldn't believe. Washington D.C. come visit, look me up, we'll hang out. You can go downtown. There's bus crews on street corners, there's no homeless people attacking you. There's no heroin addicts on the floor. There are no homeless encampments across from Union Station. Union Station is so clean you can eat off the floor. It is remarkable, the Union station, the giant 20 foot wreaths in front of the doors down there. And you could walk around and you're not going to be accosted, you're not going to be murdered, you're not going to see a homeless person with a needle in his arm laying on the ground. You're not going to smell the weed coming from the homeless encampment. They've all been cleared out and there's no denying it. There's no denying it. Here is Carl Higbee talking to Jim comer about the D.C. crime statistics. Lie. No, look, everyone knew that crime was escalating in the city despite the fact that the Democrats in Congress and the democrats in Washington D.C. tried to convince the American people otherwise. They tried to say crime was down when we knew that didn't sound right. But thankfully in this investigation, when we launched it, we had whistleblowers come. When you lived in Washington D.C. i swear to God, if you lived in Washington D.C. the last decade, you know someone who's been carjacked, you know someone who's been robbed, you know someone who's been assaulted. That's just the way it is. That's why it was undeniable. Forward. These were active duty Metro police officers in Washington D.C. who said they were told to be dishonest about the crime statistics to make it look like crime was going down in a city that was infested with crime. You know, this is happening in Chicago. This is why all of the, all of the caterwauling, all of the screeching about. Donald Trump sent in the National Guardian to fix it when he went into Memphis. Crime has dropped dramatically in Memphis. Crime is dropping dramatically around the country because Cash Patel sent FBI agents around the country. We're looking at the lowest murder rate in recorded American history coming up in this year. It is remarkable what has happened. But the Democrat Party, they love their narco terrorists, they love their, you know, their murderers. They love their. They love their criminal illegal aliens. They don't want to kick them out. They release them by the hundreds. In places like Illinois. 1700 illegals in Illinois with criminal records released. 700 in New York City. They don't care. It's like emptying out the prisons before Saddam Hussein fell. That's the way they do that. That's the way despots do things. And then they just watch the chaos. They don't care about the pain and the suffering. Here is Jim Comer talking about, you know, what you got to do in D.C. to even go to jail? Well, in Washington D.C. unless you commit murder, nobody's going to jail. That's been the problem in Washington D.C. they have a liberal metro council that has passed excessive criminal justice reforms to the point to where unless you commit a murder, you're not going to have to be held accountable. And even then. And what you see is criminals. They commit crimes in the morning in Washington D.C. and then they're out back on the streets. And by the evening they commit the same crime again. This happens over and over and over. And our brave men and women in the Metro Police Department, they finally came forward and said, enough is enough. Not only are our criminal justice laws in Washington D.C. a joke that, you know, inspire criminals to come to Washington D.C. but we also have crime statistics that are not factual. We've been told to lie about the crime statistics to show that. I'll tell you about the Democrat Party, you're just frickin evil. You can't be a member of the Democrat Party in good standing and feel good about yourself. I'm being very honest here. Just that right there. Just that right there. Lying about the crime statistics, telling your police officers to lie about your crime statistics so it'll look better for you. Honestly. What the hell is wrong with you people? Here is Tom Homan. Here's another thing. Tom Homan. The Democrats said the border couldn't be fixed, could not be fixed without massive legislation and spending, presumably to go to NGOs to bring more illegals across the southern border like they did 20 million of them when Joe Biden was the president, despite no vetting for disease or criminality. And look what Tom Homan did. He decided to take a little ride, a little fly over the southern border. You know, it's always an honor for me to be in the Oval Office with the greatest president of my lifetime. I know, he kicks butt. Yes, I said it. Yeah, I meant it. You know, I Was just, I just got home last night. I toured the border in California. Yeah. Arizona and Texas. I did in a four wheel drive. I did it on the river. Wow. I did it from the air. That'd be fun. Hundreds upon hundreds of miles of border. I didn't see one illegal alien. Wait a minute, you didn't see like 14,000 Haitians under a bridge? Not a single one. Really? I've done this since 1984. You didn't like chains of people coming across Rio Grande? I worked for six different presidents. No one has done more than President Trump. What he has done is gave us the most secure border in the history of this nation. That's what we voted for. Hard stop. Yeah, I went to hundreds of miles of border, didn't see one illegal alien. Incredible. Considering the Biden administration, we had 10, 12,000 a day. Can you imagine what it would have been like to have Kamala Harris as the president? Oh, it would have been the end of the republic. It would have been the end of the republic. Most released in the United States. I'm proud to be with these patriots behind me. I'm already proud to be in the overall office of president. But being with and for those of you Democrats who, oh yeah, I can't believe, you know, you guys are xenophobic and all that. Here's what stopped when Donald Trump sealed the border. 6% decline, 96% less people are coming. How many women aren't being raped? How many children aren't dying making that journey? How many women and children aren't being sex trafficked into this country every day? How many known suspected terrorists are just walking across that border? President Trump in this administration is saving thousands of lives every month. That's true. Hard stop. That's just a stone cold fact. I'm just proud to be a part of this. The Democrats hate him because he's him. No matter what happens, no matter who suffers or who dies. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Fasten your seatbelt deep state. It's gonna be a bumpy ride. It's be gonna the Rob Carson Show. You know, Hillary and Bill are. Well, I'm hoping that hell comes for them. New piece in the Washington Post. Inside the Clintons fight to avoid testifying in the House Epstein inquiry. I wonder why they wouldn't want to do that. I wonder why they wouldn't do that. Oh, that. He helped actually set up the Clinton foundation, the global initiative that did nothing but take hundreds of millions of dollars from Russian oligarchs and whatnot. Here's John Solomon talking about that. What you end up seeing in this story this morning is that even during the first Trump administration, there were people in the Justice Department and the FBI who were protecting Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton from the sort of justice they should face. Yeah, the FBI was filthy, rotten, corrupt. I After the rain on Mar a Lago, I said they ought to just disband the whole damned organization and start over again. I'm still not convinced that's still not a good idea. Certain. With the CIA pay to play scheme involving their foundation and Hillary Clinton's decisions as Secretary of State, she did the Uranium One deal and then she got $150 million from Russian oligarchs into the Global Initiative. Extraordinary memos, extraordinary details. We learned for the first time in these documents that Catch Patel and Pam Bondi gave to Chuck Grassley. Chuck Grassley gave to just the news that the FBI first intercepted information suggesting a pay to play scheme with Hillary Clinton back in 2010. They were sitting or they had a recording, a consensual recording made of a conversation by a famous Democrat, Indian American Democrat donor fundraiser named Chotwell. He would eventually go be convicted of some fundraising crimes. But the concern in that call was not excessive limits or contributions exceeding the limits. It was the idea that foreigners were lining up and they were going to give money to the Clinton foundation so that Hillary Clinton could make favorable decisions like the Uranium One deal for them and their countries and their foreign companies. That didn't go anywhere during the Obama years. In 2016, three separate FBI offices, as you and I talked about, because these were earlier documents we got opened up. And then on the Clinton Foundation, Little Rock, Washington D.C. and New York all believe they had clear evidence of a pay to play corruption scheme involving the Clintons. As we mentioned the last time we talked about this, Sally Yates gave a command from the deputy attorney saying shut it down. But inside the FBI, 16, 17, 18, it kept getting shut down. Andy McCabe kept shutting it down, kept putting pressure there. Yeah, there you go. So that's what's happened, you know, and nobody's above the law. Well, yeah, you are if you're an Obama or you're a. Or you're a Biden. Biden got, you know what, $25 million from the Chinese Communist Party. He got money. His son worked for an oil company that was corrupt in the Ukraine. And I can go on and on. Got $160 million to the Biden Penn Biden center from the Chinese Communist Party. It is remarkable. And, you know, you kind of wish that these SOBs would pay, but, you know, they're the ruling class, right? Isn't that the kind of way it is? It really is. So thoroughly bloody disgusting. I can't stand it. Cannot stand it. I would love to see them rot in prison. I would, I would, I would. I really, really, really, really would. Did you watch any of this presser? Yesterday, with the Brown University shootings, we had two young victims. Muhammad Aziz Mirzakov of Virginia. He was going to be a brain surgeon. A beautiful young woman, Ella Cook. She was the head of the gop, the Young Republicans on campus. And here's some of the Charlie Foxtrot that was yesterday's press conference, six hours after the shooting. And you said you don't know what Luke was. This is the president of Brown University, another liberal. Karen, what's going on in that classroom? How does that happen? Were they taking an exam? Were they for a club?
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I don't know.
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I don't know. Six hours later, you're the president and you don't know? I do not know.
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So President Donald Trump has said that Brown University is to blame for this.
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Shooting, saying it's the school's problem.
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Is that a fair criticism or do you.
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I don't think it's fair, Chris. Colonel, can you expand on that? Why not? Because Brown University is not collaborating with you guys. You're lying to the press. Over here, they have facial recognition. We know that because they follow the student. They follow everybody in the neighborhood. Facial recognition. Yeah. And the guy apparently said something before he fired the bullets and nobody knows what it is. And nobody can figure out who this guy is. And there were no cameras near the doors in the, at the university. There was no face recognition technology, none of that stuff. It sounds like they didn't know what the hell they were doing. Here's Eric Pratt talking about one of the biggest mistakes you can possibly make, saying that your institution is a gun free zone. It'd be like saying you're a liquor store and you're a gun free zone. Just tell the thieves to come in and steal everything. This is. Despite what you hear from the left, guns were not the problem in Rhode island, certainly not Australia either. In fact, in both cases, you could say a lack of guns. Guns was the real failure because law abiding people were, oh, this means I can go in and murder everybody vented from being armed. You know, I personally know two people who have stopped mass shootings, and in each case they've used their guns to stop the bad guys before probably going to start up the guy in Bondi beach as the the police down there waited 20 minutes and then ultimately a guy without a gun took him down. Police arrived and that's how you stop a mass killer. But gun control in Rhode island, as you pointed out, it made it more likely there would be no one armed who could fight back. And you know you mentioned that Brown University bans possession of firearms. So it's a gun free zone. But the state also has universal background checks. It's got red flag gun confiscation laws, it has a seven day waiting period for gun for purchasing firearms. None of it worked. And it just shows that disarming law abiding people doesn't stop mass killers. It empowers. If you want to watch where we are right now, watch the movie Demolition man with with Sly Stallone and Wesley Snipes. It is exactly what Brown University is the possession, use or storage of weapons or firearms strictly prohibited by all university property and at university sponsored events except as authorized under this policy, blah blah blah. You can, if you're a licensed concealed carrier, bring a gun on campus and it basically broadcasts the entire world. You can commit any act of violence you want. You'll be able to get away with it because we are unarmed. It's, it's, it's honestly just insane. And look, it caused the death of two young people, 19 and 18 years old, missing their entire lives. Unbelievable. But not really on the way. Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner Dudes go anywhere. My nightly ritual now is a little ice, a little vanilla yogurt, banana, a little milk and a scoop of chocolate brownie Beams Dream Powder in the blender. A little while later I hit the sack and I sleep until sunrise. It's amazing. These days everything moves so fast and it certainly can mess with your sleep schedule. That's why I'm here to tell you about Beams Dream Powder. It's a healthy nighttime blend packed with science backed ingredients shown to improve sleep so you can wake up refreshed and ready to take on the day. Dream is made with a powerful blend of all natural ingredients including Reishi, magnesium, L theanine, apigenin and melatonin. I've been using Beam's Dream Powder for a year now and I can honestly say I feel sharper, calmer and more focused. And I'm not alone. Beam has improved over 28 million nights of sleep for people across the country. So if you've been waiting for the right time to try Dream, this is it. Go to shopbeam.com Newsmax use code NEWSMAX and take advantage of my exclusive offer. For 40% off, you can get their best selling dream powder for just $39. So seriously, think about it. Go to shopbeam.com newsmax today. Yeah, you're exactly right. And unfortunately for Democrat voters, the only thing Santa will be bringing them this Christmas is a sleigh full of idiots like Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris. And of course there's Joe Biden who would lose a cognitive matchup against Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer. But there is a serious point here and Kellyanne was hitting on this. The Democrats don't have a political bench. What they have are a bunch of political misfits and political baggage. And when you stack up the Democrats to the successes of President Trump, whether that's securing the border or cutting taxes or bringing about world peace, I think Democrats will look small as we round the corner into 2026. The economy is going to take a lot, take off like a rocket ship Q1 and Q2. And every single Republican has to be out there telling the story about how the economy is doing great, how President Trump is the one who got it done and how we can win and we're best prepared to lead this country, not Democrats. Yeah. And just being contrarian to everything that Donald Trump does, including having love affairs with narco terrorists, isn't gonna work. It's not gonna work. And I've been saying this. If you think that the Democrat Party is gonna win the midterms just because it's the midterms, you're high. Because there are when this economy takes off, they won't be able to lie big enough to cover all of the successes. Sarah Bedford is an investigative editor of the Washington Examiner. The Washington examiner, one of my favorite papers of record and she the Newsmax hotline. How you doing? I'm great.
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Thanks for having me.
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Glad to have you on. I saw the headline. I thought this is pretty entertaining and true. Why Democrats may be Structurally Screwed. Now you're leaning into the the demography of the country, et cetera. Explain the premise of your article.
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Well, there's all this talk of redistricting going around and it's sort of drawn attention to the fact that Democrats have already sort of maximized their advantage in their most populous states like Illinois. And in New York, they've already gerrymandered quite aggressively where Republicans have not taken chances to do that. And so if we do have a lot of mid decade redistricting across states, there's more juice in the lemon as J.D. vance put it, for Republicans to squeeze than Democrats. But beyond that, there's a few things coming down the pipeline over the next few years that ought to really scare Democrats. And one of them is the fact that the Supreme Court is considering whether to end the racial requirements of Section 2 of the Voting Rights act. And that would let states draw maps without regard to where minority communities are located. The Voting Rights act currently forces them to do that. We're talking about a significant number of states, potentially as many as 19, but likely a dozen states that could, excuse me, districts that could be redrawn have a GOP advantage if the Supreme Court makes that decision next year.
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Yeah. And the Democrat Party has done a good deal to socially engineer, particularly the inner city black community, to make them impoverished, uneducated because of poor schools and dependent. And that has done very well for them over the years when you redraw districts according to race.
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And during oral arguments in October, it was Justice Clarence Thomas, I believe, who sort of asked the question skeptically, like, are Democratic groups who rely exclusively on suing states over Voting Rights act violations, are they really concerned about any racial discrimination that's going on because in the context of voting that doesn't really exist anymore, or are they just using this law improperly as a partisan weapon? And so those are the types of things that the justices are considering. And then the third thing that Democrats have likely working against them, it seems like a long way off now, but it's really not, is the 2030 census is going to redistribute House seats and electoral college votes to red states. And when you add up all of those things, mid decade redistricting, this likely Supreme Court ruling, and the 2030 census, Democrats are looking at losing their advantage in dozens and dozens of House suites in just the next five years.
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Well, also, if you factor in the possibility of not including illegals in the census and the massive outpouring of people from Democrat run states like California, like Maryland, like New Jersey, like New York, for God's sake. I mean, it is extraordinary. And they're taking trillions of dollars with them.
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Yeah, you're right about the problem of counting legal immigrants in the census. And you know, there's a push on Capitol Hill. You have some Republicans in the House and Senate who have introduced legislation to exclude illegal immigrants from the census count for the purposes of apportionment. And J.D. vance has talked about it. But I think if that fight ever got really serious and Republicans made, you know, did a real college try to make that policy A reality before Donald Trump leaves office. You would see an absolute knockdown, drag out, fight. There would be such a fierce opposition from Democrats because that could lock them out of power forever.
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Of course, of course, of course. It's obvious why they want the illegals counted. They are luring illegal aliens into their states like California. Gavin Newsom finally admitted. Oh, yeah, hell, the free health, you know, government health care for everybody doesn't matter if you're legal or not. And we have seen government largesse lure people in from around the world. And that's the only thing that keeps impoverished people from out of our country in those states is the rich welfare benefits, which are rich compared to the living standards they experience from their, you know, from their country of origin.
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And to be clear, the effect of not including illegal immigrants wouldn't be entirely beneficial to Republicans and negative for Democrats. I mean, Texas would take a substantial hit to the number of people they get to send to Congress. Right. So there's a little bit of a. But the net effect would certainly be beneficial to Republicans. And you know, the argument that you always hear from Democrats about why in the context of voting, illegal immigration doesn't matter. They say, you know, illegal immigrants never vote, which, you know, that's a whole separate conversation. But what they are doing is distorting congressional representation in this country because congressional seats are being taken away from states that have higher shares of voting American citizens and being given to states that have fewer of them because the presence of illegal aliens is distorting the apportionment process. So it's actually really important for democracy to have these conversations. Even though those illegal immigrants don't vote, they're still skewing the process.
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Of course, of course. Then you look at what Harmeet Dillon is doing. You look at what Tulsi Gabbard is doing with regard to clearing up the voter rolls. The Democrat Party resident reticent to share the people who are enrolled to vote. You look, Tom Fitton uncovered 100,000 illegals registered to vote in the state of Pennsylvania. And then of course, the possibility of limiting or eliminating mail in voting and late voting, that's really going to screw the Democrats, right?
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I mean, it's kind of remarkable to see how hard some of these Democratic states are fighting not to expose any of their voter registration. In Michigan, you have a big fight over that. And it's actually illegal for states not to maintain clean voter rolls. But for so long, they've gotten away with not having to clean them up because, you know, for Democrats, I mean, they make an argument that you could accidentally disenfranchise someone by removing them from the list.
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Yeah. And requiring an ID is racist. Right.
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I mean, you know, and studies show that that actually doesn't reduce participation in elections at all.
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Well, they showed that in Georgia. They showed that in Georgia when they were Jim Crow 2.0. And it turned out more people showed up for the ballot. And then, you know, in California, you know, they say no illegals are voting, but there is no investigation at all of voter fraud whatsoever. In California. There is not. So you could vote as much as you want. You could be dead. You could be. It's not pursued. It is verboten to even pursue in the state of California. California.
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It's, it's. Yeah, it's remarkable the level of disinterest that Democrats have in actually ensuring that elections are, you know, not only definitely trustworthy, but. But perceived to be trustworthy by.
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And there's no voter fraud. And there's no voter fraud. Come on. You know that, Sarah.
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Well, regardless of whether there isn't, There isn't. There is a real crisis of trust in the process.
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Yes.
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You know, for Democrats have been complaining about threats to democracy all the time. Public perception is like one of the most important elements of. And you would think that they would want to fix that.
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Can you hold on through the break? I'd like to continue the conversation. Also, you got another piece. What protests in the street have in common with deep pocketed radical movements. Would you mind holding through the break? Sure.
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Thank you.
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Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner. More with her on the other side of the break. This is the Rob Carson Show. I've got a long list of things that we're investigating. We have the back of the best.
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Going after this election, integrity being one of them.
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We have evidence of how these electronic voting systems have been vulnerable to hackers.
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For a very long time and vulnerable.
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To exploitation to manipulate the results of votes being cast, which further drives forward.
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Your mandate to bring about paper ballots across the country so that voters can.
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Have faith in the integrity of, of our elections. I think what we ought to do is just give people a little basket of rocks and then you go in and you got big baskets of rocks and you just put your rock in each one. You know, what the hell, I mean, why not even make it even more analog than paper? Because honestly, believe it or not, electronic things get hacked. I know it's kind of strange when you sit there and look at your phone and your computer that occasionally get hacked. Hard to believe. Sarah Bedford is What? The Washington Examiner. She joins us on the Newsmax hotline. There are Donald Trump has said in the last couple of days that a mountain of evidence is going to happen with regard to the 2020 election. I absolutely wanted to present because it's not called disinformation anymore. Believe it was a fraudulent election because I'm not stupid. That's the number one reason. What are your thoughts on what Tulsi's doing, what Donald Trump said about the 2020 election?
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Well, you know, there's so many things that he has promised to shed some transparency on. And I'm personally most interested in some of these prosecutions of Donald Trump. We learned just today that the FBI never believed that there was probable cause to conduct the raid on Mar A Lava. Yes, Your DOJ leaders insisted on it. That is the sort of thing that he has a really limited Runway to fix. Right. Politicization at the doj. He's got three more years to fix that. And so that's, I think, one of his more important missions.
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Yeah, well, I'm still kind of pissed about 2020, so. Sorry. I just kind of am. Usually, you know, you don't see the vote counting stop in the bat in the, in the battleground states the night of the election and then start recounting the next day. And of course, a supposed sewer break or a water main break at the convention center in Atlanta, that never happened. So I'm still kind of ticked about that and wondering why so many lost their journalistic curiosity with regard to that election because there certainly were a lot of questions to ask. Let's move on to another piece you wrote. And clearly the no Kings. What happened to no Kings, by the way? Sarah, it was the biggest thing in the world until about a month and a half ago. What the hell happened to it?
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Oh, now it's, it's morphed into a bunch of other things. I think it's the We Ain't Buying it boycott.
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Yes, it is. I forgot about the We Ain't Buying it in the Black Friday. And that didn't do. Didn't do so well, did it?
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Not at all. Record breaking sales, in fact.
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Oh, I'm sorry, we thought you meant Buy More. Oh, man, that must have been what happened. But clearly we were in a different situation when Ronald Reagan took office. He was the first person I voted for and the country could get behind his policies and whatnot. You have a Democrat party that has been anti Trump for a decade. It was so bad. I remember in 2015 when Donald Trump was Running people were showing up and Teva was putting people in lines at Trump rallies to start fighting. So they clearly had targeted him since the day he came down the escalator. Since he took office, it has been one temper tantrum after another. It was Epstein a couple weeks ago. Then Epstein came back with some doctored photos. And then it became Pete Hegses as a war criminal. And then of course, all of these protests, which are clearly bought and paid for.
B
That's right. And you know, in the piece I sort of walk through how George Soros, probably not surprised to hear his name in that conversation, gave some of the sort of startup money to the group that organizes the no Kings protest. Indivisible. But that what this movement does in a lot of ways, even though it's a nominally nonviolent movement, it encourages peaceful protests. It sort of creates a permission structure for the more violent elements of the left wing faction because it engages in this rhetoric about stopping Donald Trump at any cost, that there's no divide on the left that is worth litigating because opposition to Donald Trump is the highest calling a leftist can have.
A
And they never put down the violence. Never, you know, say, that's wrong. We can't do that. It's absolute crap. Everything they say is a lie. Listen, we got to run this piece. What protests in the street have in common with Deepak. This is a deep dive. It's a great read. And then all your work is great. Sarah, where can people find all of your glorious work?
B
Oh, thanks so much. You can find it all@washingtonexaminer.com it is.
A
Just really nice to see journalism back and you are one of the people who are doing it. I know a lot of journalists, Matt Taibbi, Matthew Shellenberger, you know, John Solomon. You guys are just doing great jobs. And I just, I love, I love, I love great writing and you're doing a great job. So thanks for joining me. Hope to have you on again soon.
B
Thanks for having me.
A
All right, let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show.
B
Former President Joe Biden is falling far short of the money needed to build his presidential library. The New York Times finding through public filings that Biden received no new donations.
A
For that library in 2024. Well, wait, hold on. I thought he was going to be on Mount Rushmore as the greatest president ever. Why would somebody who got 81 million votes not being raising a damn dime for his presidential library? Oh, yeah, maybe because he's pudding for brains. Yeah, I think it's what it was. It's a failure. No way. We gotta win the super bowl again. We gotta get him back loose, man. Yeah, sure. He has a marshmallow brain That's Joe Biden with a head Empty as it can be. Merry Christmas. Everybody at the Eagles game didn't know his name Jose Nyland is clear to see I made a poopy. He's a dumb dummy Joe he has lost it Keeping him president was insane his voice is weak Help he ought to seek Joe Biden has a marshmallow brain I thought he could be the president. Two more years. Folks at the White House protected Joe. Yeah, they had to know a long time ago. What a joke that Joe Biden wasn't all there. They were poorly aware. Yeah, they were. Can't believe he still shows up in public. He is someone they need to restrain. He might slip and fall. Gets lost at the mall. Joe Biden has a marshmallow brain. Yeah. If you want to help out Jim gossett, go to patreon.com Jim Gossett Comedy US gold futures rose to $4,374 an ounce last week. Strong demand from investors. Three months of solid central bank demand have caused gold to go through the ceiling. Silver, too. 63.73 per ounce. Hit a high of 64.65 last Friday. It's up 120%. Why not have gold and silver in your. In your portfolio? How about that? How about you go with Burt's gold? You'll get both. You invest $5,000 in Burch. Gold, gold. They're going to throw in a 3.3ounce of silver. Okay, that's gone up 120% this year. Oh, my gosh. So what you got to do is just text my name. Rob to 989-898. Gold and silver are going through the ceiling. If you saw that gold future number and you saw the numbers on silver, why haven't you done this? Don't wait until it's too expensive. Don't wait until your money is not worth as much when you're buying gold and silver. Text my name, Rob to 989-898. $5,000 invested in gold. Get your free silver. But you gotta get on it because it's gonna be done by the 22nd, which just happens to be six days away. Text Rob to 989-898 for Birchgold. It's the company that I rely on because, listen, I wouldn't give my money to somebody I don't trust. I mean, I was married to a person like that. For a while, I trusted her. But anyway. You know what I'm saying? Saying 989-898 for birch gold. We got another hour of the show. The FBI knew they didn't have probable cause to raid Mar? A Lago. Yeah. Told you. It's coming up. Don't go anywhere.
Episode: Gun-Free Zones, Open Borders, and Other Bad Ideas
Date: December 16, 2025
Host: Rob Carson
Guest: Sarah Bedford (Washington Examiner)
In this episode of The Rob Carson Show, Rob examines the consequences of gun-free zones, critiques the manipulation of crime statistics in U.S. cities, laments open-border policies, and dissects the alleged structural weaknesses of the Democratic Party. Featuring a humorous, acerbic tone characteristic of Carson, the episode is punctuated by in-depth interviews and pointed commentary about current political events, institutional trust, and media narratives. Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner joins to discuss demographic shifts, redistricting, and the changing political landscape.
With Sarah Bedford, Washington Examiner (23:51–32:01)
Sarah Bedford Interview (35:04–37:59)
Rob Carson’s commentary is candid, irreverent, and often combative, with a heavy dose of sarcasm and parody, especially when lampooning political opponents. Guest Sarah Bedford provides analytical and data-driven insights, with clear, succinct explanations of complex electoral topics.
This episode asks hard questions about political and institutional trust, the effectiveness of gun-free zones, media narratives about crime, and the future of both parties amid rapid demographic shifts. It will appeal to listeners seeking pointed conservative perspectives, deep dives on election law, and a blend of humor with political invective. Key takeaways include skepticism about gun bans, wariness of manipulated public statistics, and a forecast of significant changes on America’s political map in the coming years.