-Carson covers news on the Kennedy Center Honors lineup—including Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, and Kiss—and critiques socialized programs like a failed Kansas City grocery store.

-Politico reporter Daniel Lipman joins to discuss D.C.’s homelessness crisis, policing, and the upcoming Trump–Putin meeting in Alaska, debating the prospects for a peace deal in Ukraine.

-Carson closes with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal challenge against Beto O’Rourke (“Master Beto”) for allegedly violating a fundraising court order, framing it as part of broader Democratic hypocrisy.

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