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May 29, 2023 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (E156): Memorial Day—Home of the Free, Because of the Brave
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Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani, and here we are on Memorial Day evening.
This is America's Mayor Live.
I hope you had an appropriately good and peaceful Memorial Day, one in which you had a chance to enjoy yourself with your friends and your family, but also one in which you got a chance to reflect or honor either or both those who died Create the freedom that we have here in America.
It didn't happen by magic.
It didn't happen by accident.
It didn't happen by happenstance.
It happened because there were people willing to give the last full measure of their devotion in order to fight off evil forces who didn't want to give us freedom and then wanted to take it away.
Simple as that, isn't it?
Or as complicated as that.
And we need those people just as much today.
We've got those forces in the world.
We saw it on September 11 with the attack by Islamic extremist terrorists.
We see it in the various terrorist attacks they bring about throughout the world, even as of today.
We see it with the threat of those attacks ever present and still possible, unfortunately and tragically.
And we see it in the designs of some of our, what shall we call them?
Certainly not friends, maybe not completely enemies, but those who would want to destroy us.
Destroy what America is and what America stands for.
And I have no reason to be coy about it, of course, China being the leading one, Russia being another, Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, all organized around Except maybe Russia, which has freed itself of that ideology, but organized around communism.
And it's the organizing force for much of, if not all of, the disruption that we feel in our lives.
When you wake up in the morning or you're sitting with your friends and you say, I can't believe things have gotten like this.
I can't believe this is really happening.
I never would have thought this would have happened, uh, 10 years ago or 15 years ago.
My goodness.
I mean, look, look at the, so now we have, um, you know, we started off with Budweiser and Nike, uh, trying to, um, really indoctrinate our children.
And convinced them that they should doubt their sexuality.
Essentially, that's what they were doing and that's why we objected so much because they were aiming at indoctrination, not trying to deal with prejudice or bigotry or And they've paid an appropriate price, particularly Budweiser, because the American people, particularly American parents, organized against it.
Well, now we've got Target doing the same thing, giving out advertisements of garments
And I don't even know what these things are.
These are the things in which you can actually hurt yourself by hiding, hiding your genitals.
I mean, it's absurd for what is it called?
Dr. Maria.
I think my thing is on.
Yes, it is.
My thingy is on!
It's being done in a different way.
It's called Tuck Friendly Outfits.
This is the problem most Americans have.
We don't really care if an adult wants to be Transgender, it's don't push it on children.
Stop the sexualization of children.
And it was onesies, children's bathing suits, and it has all this queer stuff on it.
Teenagers with a picture of a girl saying, I'm dreaming about girls.
This is perversion, but you know what?
We're learning, right?
When we get upset about something, before we would just complain to each other.
Now we use our economic dollars, and Target has lost nine billion dollars.
Yeah.
Yeah, probably going to be 10.
Probably going to be 10 billion.
Don't forgive them.
It was actually 10 billion.
They've updated it today.
Okay.
Thank you, Mike.
I thought I saw that, Mike.
Thank you, Mike.
Yes, sir.
No problem.
And growing, growing, growing, growing.
There's a new entry that you mentioned on the radio show before.
Tell us the new entry into the list of those who would pervert children and indoctrinate them.
I am a big Kohl's shopper and I cut up my Kohl's credit card today because now they're doing it.
It's not the transgenderism, it's just pride, homosexuality stuff.
Again, I don't care at all about homosexuality.
I don't want it.
Put in our children's life.
And again, onesies, three-month-old stuff, six-month-old stuff.
And I'm asking you all, stop going to Kohl's.
Stop going to Target.
You're not drinking Bud Light anymore.
How about Nike?
Nike used a man for a woman's bra.
And how about all these outfits that our Time Life Woman of the Year was a man?
Well, Dr. Maria, I don't know if you heard, but Lululemon is a popular brand.
They actually fired mayor.
They actually fired their employees for calling the police on shoplift.
Do you believe that?
No.
When we were talking about it at the radio, I want you to think about this with Lululemon.
And by the way, I didn't know what the store was and Rudy thought it was a restaurant.
Yeah, I've seen it.
I thought it was a restaurant for kids.
Maybe they made ice cream.
So they have a policy.
They're not to stop any robber.
And I do understand that because maybe they're looking out for the safety of their employees.
They don't want them to get hurt.
So I didn't have a problem with that piece of the policy.
But this is what they're told to do.
Don't get in the way of the robber.
Okay, fine.
After the robbery, they have a QR code.
You're to scan that.
Don't write any notes.
Don't do anything.
And that lets the store know there was a robbery.
You're not supposed to call the police.
They did the right thing.
They called the police.
It was a robbery.
It's against the law to steal.
But they get allegedly fired because of that.
But here's my concern.
Say I have a young 17-year-old kid who has a part-time job at Lulamon.
Well, I'm going to want to know how many times that store was robbed, what risk is my child at working the evening shift.
Heck, even when we send our kids to colleges right now, we ask about what the crime on the campus is.
Absolutely.
That way we could help in the decision-making for our children.
You don't want to go with this, you know, 50 rapes a year on campus and not much is being done to deter that.
Same thing with Lulemon.
They are, yeah, whatever it is.
Whatever it is.
No reason, no reason to remember the name.
I call it Lululemon.
I don't care.
What do I care?
That's my Brooklynese talking.
At this Atlanta store, apparently it's been robbed several times.
And I think that's a disservice.
To the employees there if they don't know the risks they're taking working in that store.
And the worst part of it is, one of the things that is going up epidemic style is youth crime.
With crime theoretically leveling off to some extent in New York City, which is a bit, as The Post has pointed out, a bit of a canard that it's leveling off.
It's leveling off, but it's 30% to 40% higher than it was two years ago.
So it's leveling off at a very, very high rate.
Murder's up by 35%, 40% over two or three years ago.
Rape is up.
Actually, rape is up this year.
They live that demographic, right?
Oh my god, among children, it's ridiculous!
In the 18 to... 18 to... do they have the exact, maybe 30 something category?
Yeah, yeah.
No, these are teenagers to about 26.
So here's what you got.
You got an 80% increase in robbery this year.
80%.
From 451 to 816.
Almost double.
Robberies.
You have a 23% increase in felonious assault.
And you have a 45% increase in rape among children.
They're the new leaders in committing crime.
Which is what is happening because That's what the politicians are teaching them.
They're saying, go ahead, go rob a store, rob up to $900, whatever, if you're in California, nothing will happen.
And the society feels like it's falling apart.
A baby found dead in the Bronx.
Right right right near right near Yankee Stadium.
They call it the woods near Yankee Stadium.
There are no woods near Yankee Stadium It's totally ridiculous right around Yankee Stadium a three-month-old baby found on Sunday morning dead a Queen's man fatally shot by one of his relatives and the other one another person wounded a woman A Brooklyn teen shot and fighting for her life.
A Staten Island woman who was 22 years old was shot in the leg on Sunday night.
And a knife fight in the East Village left one man dead and another wounded over the weekend.
That was our weekend.
Also, in front of this house.
It's not funny, right?
In front of this house in St.
Albans, Queens, 20 gunshots.
And then now we move to, of course, our unbelievable report every Monday or so on The Weekend in Chicago.
Spend your weekend in Chicago and get shot or wounded.
Good.
Chances of getting shot or wounded are better than getting a hotel room.
So really, I mean, pretty close.
We had 12 dead in Chicago this weekend, and it's approaching now 60 wounded.
This has been going on for decades.
That's the thing.
And you know, wounded is just, he missed a shot.
I mean, wounded is, well, he hit over here instead of over here.
Wounded can also be because our medical science has gotten to the point where we probably saved 20, 30% more than, you know, when I was mayor, who would now be dead as a result of that, as is true in war.
We save, we save a lot more people and we have a lot more disabled people as a result of it.
But thank God we saved them.
And in any event, 60 shootings plus the 12.
What cracks me up in one city that has a million people.
Chicago has some of the strictest gun laws.
And I used to speak there four or five times a year at conferences.
And I used to always say to the good people of Chicago, how does it feel to have the strictest gun laws?
But you, as a good citizen, can't carry a gun to protect yourself.
But every hoodlum has a gun and can come into your store and kill you.
It's crazy to me.
Well, I don't know if this is still true in Texas, but it used to be, my goodness, if you came in and held somebody starved, they'd go shoot and kill you.
Keep a gun behind the counter, take out the gun and shoot you.
You'd probably go to jail to do that now.
Oh, yeah.
God knows.
Somebody comes in and holds you up, right?
Now, every once in a while, somebody holds you up and says, give me the cash and then kills you.
Doesn't always work out that they don't kill you.
Once that gun comes out, you better assume it's going to be used.
Yeah.
I mean, that's at least the way I was taught and the way I would teach anyone to defend themselves.
Once someone is crazy enough to pull a gun out, they're crazy enough to use it.
What do they have it out for?
Now, they may very well take your money and blow you away.
So if you want to be safe, if you can get the drop on him, you grab your gun from under the counter and blow him away.
I don't know legally how that would all work out nowadays, but my goodness, I mean, 40 years ago, the guy would get a medal for doing that.
To your point, Mayor, California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and D.C.
are the only states who prohibit open carry.
And they're all liberal run states.
Give me the states again.
Sure.
California, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and D.C.
So Chicago has the most murders, I think, on the planet, including if there are if there are human beings in outer space.
It has more murders than the people in outer space.
Right.
And every one of those cities is, you know, top cities for murder and for killing.
Correct.
And how, I mean, all of this crash and grab and all this stuff, if a couple of those people that were going in there to crash and grab got shot dead, it would end pretty fast.
It may stop.
Now, of course, you can't do it now.
And the reality is these are out of control criminals.
The whole idea to get them out of jail to be much better for them if they're out of jail.
I don't know what the left wingers think in letting them out of jail.
They're going to get good.
They're going to become they're going to be out and they're going to be good people.
I mean, there there is a career criminal that until and unless incarcerated forever, they're going to commit crimes every day.
Oh, for sure.
It's in their DNA when they're when there's so much recidivism by such few people, there's no rehabbing them.
When you see a guy like the guy that That, uh, the Marine Sergeant Penny, uh, uh, killed in order to defend all the other people on the, on that train.
I mean, that guy's going to commit a crime, a couple of crimes every day he's out until he got killed.
I mean, he, he did, we got 45 as a matter of record.
He was doing two or three a day at the end.
He wasn't caught for it.
He hit the woman that was 67 in the face.
That's the one he got caught for.
Yeah.
How many 67 year old women did he hit?
He didn't get caught for.
Didn't the day before he tried to.
How many unresolved crimes do we have in the city?
Yeah, he tried to kidnap a little girl.
Yeah.
That we know about that.
How about the little girls we don't know about?
Yeah.
Yeah.
They glorified George Floyd.
Well, George Floyd has a statue, I think.
And they take down George Washington.
But even the El Sharpens of the world, they only care when the person's dead.
Right.
All of a sudden, this person needs all this help.
I was going to pile on to that, right?
We all can.
We can't jam up over this.
So, Mayor, Daniel Penney, whatever, he unfortunately choked Jordan Neely out, whatever, right?
But I just want to bring up a point that in Staten Island and in Queens, in St.
Albans, Queens, a 16-year-old girl was killed by gang violence.
Mortally wounded.
She was a vegetable.
The parents had to pull the plug on their black girl.
And then a 13 year old African-American boy also shot in the head from gang violence.
Where was Al Sharpton?
Where was BLM?
Where is Hawk Newsome, the leader of BLM in New York City?
Where are these politicians that they want to be heroes and this and that?
Where are these heroes when black children are being killed?
Probably shaking somebody down.
That's all they want.
Put Reverend in front of your name, don't pay taxes.
Yeah, they really don't care about the black communities.
They really don't.
It's a disgrace.
It's a disgrace.
I want to say something.
You have to watch Gotham.
Yeah, you know I will.
Gotham, the fall and rise of New York City spans six mayors.
Obviously, the big star of the show is Rudy Giuliani because nobody in the history of New York City, nobody in the history of any American city reduced crime.
In that documentary, you hear, and I don't remember the gentleman's name, but he said, Rudy Giuliani Saved more black lives than anybody and he literally had a graph of how many black lives were saved and how it murders of black people and killings of black people went down under Rudy.
One of my favorite songs, the Marine Corps hymn.
You didn't like me bragging about you or what?
From Moscow to the shores of Tripoli, Come on!
We fight our country's battles in the air and in the sea.
We fight for life and freedom and to keep our honor clean.
We now proclaim the title of United States Marine.
Flags unfurled to every breeze from... We used to sing this after dinner.
I have a very patriotic family.
I just thought we'd do that in honor of Sergeant Penny.
Do you want to get rid of it?
There you go.
Alright.
All right.
Thank you for having me on.
Thank you, Dr. Maria, and thanks for the contribution.
I'm all about protesting and using our economic dollars to drive a change, because what we've been doing has not been working before this.
Yep.
Amen.
Now you're going to get to see a face that you've heard.
Dr. Maria, do you think you could get some water?
I can.
Good.
The horses need to be watered.
I brought my American flag.
Oh, look at that, man.
Oh, I love it.
I took one to work with me today.
Look at that.
All right.
Look at that.
Rob, C-O-F-F-M-A-N, correct?
Yes, correct.
A lot of you know Rob Coffin.
He is one of our moderators on our YouTube channel.
Very active in the chat nightly.
And of course, Rob is a regular call-in as well, not just to our live stream at night, but of course to WABC radio.
And he always has, he always comes prepared and ready to go.
I think even tonight he's brought some briefing materials for the team.
Well, Rob and I have been talking about all of these things that happened.
That seem separate, that are aimed at, it looks like, destroying America.
Why would Soros spend $40, $50, $60 million getting DAs elected in places he doesn't live or even go to?
Who don't enforce the law, put criminals out on the street, and then set records there for murder, which he's done in maybe 12, 15 cities, trying to do it in 40 or 50.
Why would you do that?
What's the purpose of that?
Or why do you bring about a horrible economy where people can't work by overspending us into oblivion?
Or why do you try to break up basic morality, the father, the mother, Nuclear family.
Children feeling secure in their sexuality rather than trying to make the whole population of children completely destabilized.
So Rob, you've been giving some thought to this.
Maybe you want to enlighten us a bit.
Yeah, well, like something that's notorious in a young person of being an area of contention, sexuality, right?
Don't they just go after the low-hanging fruit as they're trying to take the country down?
They go for the easy pickings, you know?
You have a young person already perhaps as you know historically everybody's always known any young person feels a little funny about the you know and some are more sensitive than others more sense or at least appear to be so you you and they do and it is known even before this among bullies i mean they'll pick on they'll pick on the one that looks the most sensitive yeah well you know you know my my take on this mayor you know that i believe it lies very deeply within
Machiavellian style brainwashing.
You know, they've learned these lessons centuries ago and they repeat in cycles, 50 year, 100
year cycles, whatever it takes, as long as it takes them to be able to get into the education
system and look at what they're doing to these, you know, isn't it?
Kids are in the top of the news right now.
Isn't that strange?
Why would they?
Wouldn't political news, and hasn't it historically always been the contention between adults
arguing over policy and so forth?
Now all of a sudden children are in the mix.
Why is that?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I think, I think the answer is there is a concerted effort that's been going on
for 50 years and probably 100 years that comes out of Marxism, which is to destroy it.
So to destroy us, you have to fracture our society completely.
I mean, things like, why lie about our history?
And pretend that we're an evil country when in fact we're a human country.
We're a country that has mostly been better than most other countries and has at times done bad things because we're human.
But we correct them.
Yeah, the human race had made incredible leaps and bounds as far as racism is concerned.
I think that was globally even.
It's just mind-boggling, and it's been said, and how can you argue the point?
How can you argue the point that this is the least most racist country in the world?
I mean, our policies are literally designed on allowing all people from all parts of the world to come.
That's rare, right?
Yeah, no question about it.
I mean, of course, we do it to an absurd Dangerous criminal extreme.
Basically, Rob, the way I look at what Biden has done to immigration, it's like you live in a big house, you have a big family.
You leave your door open and you let anyone in.
You don't ask who they are, what they are, or why they're coming in.
You don't ask whether they have a disease or they don't have a disease.
Who would do that?
You don't ask if they're sane or insane.
You don't ask if they have a weapon or don't have a weapon.
You let everybody come in and you feel really good because you're letting a lot of poor people come in that are really good people.
Then all of a sudden one person comes in among them and this guy's a rapist and he rapes your daughters.
Or another guy is a robber and he robs everything you have.
Right, was that worth it?
Or another guy is a sadist and he shoots everyone in your house.
And every time you let someone in, since you don't do anything to check them out, you have no idea what you're letting in.
Well, you want to do that with your house, fine.
Don't do it with our houses.
That's what is happening at our southern border.
People are coming in and we have the foggiest idea who they are.
They have nothing to lose.
We have no idea who they are.
They come from China.
They could be spies.
Yeah.
If you were the Chinese Communist Party and you saw that big group of people walking into the U.S., boy, nobody's checking them out.
Let me stick a couple of spies in there.
Yeah.
Or if you're the cartels, you take over and run it.
And you say, man, we can make a lot on this.
You know, we can get all that fentanyl in.
And wasn't this one of the biggest issues that Donald Trump brought to the forefront in 2016?
Was he not right about it?
I think it's pretty...
I think it's pretty safe to say.
Very observant.
You know, I mean, people forget.
People forget about a lot of things.
People forget.
Yeah, I'll just pick and choose from stuff.
See this?
This is what you call people later.
You can call and ask and talk to any of us.
Everybody will be close to a microphone.
We can answer it.
We got a nice, we got a nice, we got a nice- I like round table.
Dr. Maria walked out on us.
Uh, she's doing something or other, but we got, we got Mike, we got Ted.
One mention about fast forward- Good looking guy, right?
You thought he was a bad, when you heard him on, when you heard him on.
Another not bad looking guy right here.
Okay. Well.
Oh, man.
You look great.
Yesterday was my birthday.
The lighting is great in here, I guess.
Did you know yesterday was my birthday?
Oh, yeah.
Oh, by the way, can I... Hold on one second.
Oh, gosh.
What did I do?
There are many people wishing you a happy birthday.
Oh, my... Oh, I don't know if we can do... Oh, we can do it on the airwaves.
I think so.
I just wanted to bring you your present.
Happy birthday, Mayor.
19... This will now add to the false rumor that I'm some kind of alcoholic.
Yeah, right.
I mean, this is really ridiculous.
Nobody's allowed to even live their life anymore.
No, no, this stupid case, I'm not going to even mention it, but alleges that I wake up and I drink scotch in the morning for orange juice, in place of orange juice.
I mean, actually, when I think about that, I do like a drink.
Every now and then, sure.
And I particularly like scotch.
And as you see, I like single malt scotch.
But I really like I don't want to shock everybody, but I actually drink orange juice in the morning.
Yeah, I don't think that's bad.
Even when I had terrible colds, I don't think I had scotch in the morning.
Yeah, the guy that took down the mafia.
I think of this guy's life's work.
Yeah, he wakes up and all he can think about is drinking.
You don't think he has a sense of self-preservation?
We're gonna check this out.
I don't think alcoholics drink in the morning.
Well, Rob, whatever he did, I want to do that, right?
I wish I could be half as successful.
Tell me about it.
Right?
Mayor, I gotta learn from you!
On a daily basis successful, you know what I mean?
Don't have scotch in the morning.
I'm against it, and I'm not against scotch, and I'm not against drinking, and I'm not a prohibitionist, but I don't recommend For scotch in the morning.
Well, Mayor, if anyone actually knows you, they know Diet Coke is your favorite drink.
Well, that's true.
So if anyone really wants to argue, I mean, come on.
A nice swig of water.
Does everybody remember the precursor to Donald Trump by the name of Ross Perot?
Wasn't that an interesting... I do!
I remember Ross Perot!
That was an interesting case study.
I'm gonna do away with inflation!
I'm gonna do away with inflation!
Texas billionaire Ross Perot, running for president as an independent, receiving 20% of the popular vote, comes on TV with bar graphs and pie charts explaining how the current trajectory will bankrupt our children.
I wonder if he knew that a bankrupt nation and its key industries were the goals of technocratic totalitarian takedown of the capitalism in some modern day iteration of Machiavellian protocol.
You know, uh, he may or may not have known it, but if he said it back then they would have accused him of being some kind of a conspirator.
They already did that.
McCarthy-like, some kind of McCarthy-like communist hater.
You know what I love?
He would sometimes bring attention to observations that he made backstage upon his arrival to
debates.
He would talk about how he went to get an eight dollar haircut prior to the debate,
drive himself in his Chrysler K car, and when he got there he'd see people
coming out of limousines with makeup artists and handlers, and he says, is this politics or Hollywood? Later in his
campaign when polls suggested he was a force to contend with,
he mentioned his daughters receiving disturbing threatening calls,
his security detail chasing intruders off his property, and the media
recap of his comments were quick to label him as a crazy person that's in foil hat
rabble rouser.
Really?
I was quite sure he was telling the truth as, you know.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, they've been doing that for a long time, but it reached its apex with Trump.
I mean, I remember them doing it way back to Barry Goldwater.
Barry Goldwater was going to destroy the world.
In fact, they did an ad, Johnson did an ad, I think, evoking a nuclear attack if Goldwater
were present, he had to pull it.
A false flag type stuff.
A lot of that goes on.
And then they did similar things to Nixon.
Nixon may have played into it with some of the things he did, but they exaggerated that.
I mean, when you look at what Durham revealed the other day, Watergate looks like a traffic
jam.
in better shape if they would have left Nixon alone, I think.
Yes.
Probably, yes.
I mean, when you think about it, we certainly didn't improve the ethics in Washington.
The ethics, if anything, got worse.
We created a press that wants to become heroes by bringing people down, except if it's Democrats.
I mean, I never understood why they covered up the hard drive story when that could have made you a tremendous hero as a journalist.
But maybe not.
In these days, you get the Pulitzer Prize for writing about the totally false, completely contrived, paid-for Russian collusion And you get fired if you write about the hard drive.
I mean, this is your country, guys.
Yeah, you voted for them.
I mean, I keep pointing out, like, Chicago tragedy.
As I said, 12 dead, 60 wounded one weekend.
Just a few weeks ago, they voted for the most left-wing of the Democrat candidates.
I loved what you once said.
You once said that.
They got what they asked for.
It's a shame.
It's a tragedy.
If the Democrats want to save the Democrat Party, vote Republican.
Yeah, and change... I also have a... He's so right about it, because at this trajectory, both parties will be abolished in some kind of totalitarian regime, right?
Well, the Democrat Party should be abolished because it's connected too much to slavery.
Yeah.
If we're gonna change names because these people have a connection to slavery, you know, some guy had three slaves, and now, you know, they can't name a college auditorium after him.
You shouldn't be able to use the name Democrat Party.
They didn't have three slaves.
They had millions of slaves.
They fought for them.
They fought for keeping slaves.
They killed Americans who wanted to do away with slavery.
They then put together the Jim Crow laws and the Ku Klux Klan.
They voted against the Civil Rights Bill.
The history of slavery is inextricably combined with the Democrat Party.
And for them to use that name is insulting Politically incorrect.
Yeah, and in spite of it, the United States of America still set a precedent for letting people understand how terrible slavery was.
No thanks to the Democrat Party.
No thanks to them, but we still, you know.
This is the number to call.
646-573-5177.
There it is.
646-573-5177. There it is. Okay.
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Decoration day began and then sort of emerged from the ground up into a holiday.
It wasn't like dictated from above.
A truly American type holiday.
And, um, It's one that is really one of our most important, one of our most important holidays, because it honors the people who keep our freedom for us.
So here's the one with all of the different cities and at least 16 dead in shootings across the US.
Well, I mean, 12 in Chicago alone.
It must be more than 16 now.
At the beaches, high schools, motorcycle rallies, eight states, There was a big, big altercation, of course, in Chicago, caught on camera at the Telemundo Chicago studio.
Two groups of people on Chicago's North Avenue beach led to first fighting and then gunshots.
In Baltimore, Maryland, at around 3 p.m.
on Friday, five people were injured due to gunfire in Mesa, Arizona.
Irene Byers, 20, was taken into custody for multiple shootings.
She was going around shooting people.
Most serious of which was a 36-year-old woman who is still in critical condition being operated on.
She was booked with four count, plus she murdered someone.
First-degree murder and first-degree attempted murder.
Roxbury Lanes Casino in Seattle, Washington, three people were shot.
Red River, New Mexico, another three people were killed and five were injured.
Uh, including the shooter himself.
We'll take that one out.
We don't count the shooter.
And then, um, Garden Grove, California, we had three people injured too seriously in a shooting at the restaurant, Hot Restaurant and Lounge.
Garden Grove, another shooting.
Sunday morning in Atlanta, one teen was killed and another injured in a shooting at an unauthorized gathering at Benjamin E. Mays High School.
And then we have Washington, D.C., a person killed there at the Green Line, a train at the Navy Yard station in Washington, D.C.
I could go on and on and on.
This is Biden's America.
This is Democrat America.
This is based on the criminal-friendly policies of the so-called progressives, otherwise known as the followers of the demented.
And Rob, I don't know what, I mean, I mean, basically, the only way to change this is we got to take him out of office.
Well, it appears that the Democrat Party has become the conduit for some cockeyed Marxist revolution that they're attempting, you know.
And a lot of people will say, oh, you know, and it's true.
Somebody once said, what was it?
You can't vote for a Republican.
Well, you shouldn't vote for a Republican, but you can't vote for a Democrat.
But of course you should vote for a Republican.
But the thing of it is, There are of course there are terrible Republicans as well, but when you have a political party who is hanging their hat on policy that suggests children should have their shillelies
Removed at the age of six and a half without parental consent and the border should be wide.
All of the crazy, we don't have to keep going, all of the crazy policies.
Now, if that's what they're campaigning on, well, how do you vote for them?
That's what I don't understand.
Even if you're a Democrat.
Isn't it interesting how the common sense Democrats, like RFK, you like him, I like him in a sense, right?
I do.
He certainly raises important, critical issues that others are afraid to raise.
And he is a avowed enemy of the deep state.
Shouldn't he change his party to Republican just long enough to get this whole thing straightened out
and then go back and be a Democrat after that?
Isn't it interesting?
He can be part of a new...
I mean, some of his social thinking and some of his environmental thinking is very far left.
So I don't know if he could be a Republican in that sense, or he would wanna be.
But his thinking with regard to the deep state, the deprivation of rights.
He's right on the money.
Even crime.
Yeah.
And communism.
Yes.
Is right there.
He sees that.
And he dares to say it.
If you had to pick somebody in Congress who's one of the biggest liars, other than Schiff, that's hard.
I mean, because nobody could be a big liar.
Chuck Schumer.
Oh, that's good.
I want to pick somebody in the house though.
Oh, oh, I thought, oh, the house.
Sorry.
I thought you were talking about sex.
I'm sorry about that.
Sorry about that.
Eric Swowell.
Oh, Eric Swowell.
Yeah, he had sex with a Chinese spy.
Okay.
Yeah, there you go.
Nancy Pelosi.
Yeah, there you go.
That woman from Southern California.
Oh, he's just asleep all the time.
He's also a liar.
How'd that mummy get elected again?
You know how long he was sleeping?
An hour?
Two?
Five minutes.
And nobody, everybody's afraid to wake him.
Nadler.
Yeah, Nadler.
His staff would come in.
See this guy behind him?
This guy behind him just sitting there afraid to wake him up.
Remember when he went in his pants?
He's not fat anymore, but he used to be.
I heard that conversation.
He went in his pants.
I was dying.
He did.
Imagine having to sit next to him.
I'd rather not.
Can you imagine a member of Congress being the ranking Republican on his committee?
Well, now he's the ranking jackass on his committee.
He's a big liar.
What a liar, too.
This is another Russian collusion liar that got away with trying to overthrow a lawfully elected president by illegal means.
I mean, it's really crazy.
So do we have any calls?
Is that what you want me to do?
Listen in so you can help us.
You can bail me out here.
Okay, we got 20 seconds?
So here's another interesting thing as to why we're not going to straighten things out.
There are so many issues where the Democrats really are deliberately trying to destroy this country so we become part of George Soros's or Klaus Schwab's one world.
For example, there's a district in Harlem, District 5, Education District 5.
It's the only district in the city where there are more children in public charter schools rather than in regular charter schools.
The difference between a public charter school and a regular charter school is most of the public charter schools don't have to exist by union rules.
Now, you want to know what really holds the children back?
The teachers union holds the children back.
So here's the difference in performance between the kids who are in the public charter schools, all of whom are a minority, same percentage, same percentage as the ones in the public school.
19% of the ones in the public school are proficient in math.
51% of the ones in the charter school are proficient in math within two years.
English proficiency, the difference is 31% to 56%.
And the success rates in going on to college are like four and five to one.
Now, this district is over 50% public charter schools because the parents are so happy with the performance of their kids.
The legislature has now made a law that any place you have more than half the children in a charter school, you can have no more charter schools.
In other words, they want to cap the success of the children.
They don't want all the kids in the district to be successful.
They want half of them not to be able to know English and math.
I mean, this is totally insane.
And many of these are minority members of minority groups themselves.
They just want to hurt their own people.
And Mayor, let's take our first call.
This is sick.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
Let's take Julie in Washington.
Hello, Julie.
Julie, how are you?
It's Rudy Giuliani.
Well, hello, Rudy.
How are you, Julie?
Oh, I'm happy to talk to you.
And I wanted to wish you a happy birthday.
I know it's one day late.
That's okay.
I'm still accepting happy birthday wishes.
Oh, nice.
I've been watching and listening to every single podcast you do and, you know, every show, every day.
Well, thank you.
I just love you, Rudy.
What's going on on your side of the world, dear?
side of the world, dear?
Well, my biggest thing is this border crisis, you know.
Do you feel it?
I don't.
Do you feel it?
Oh yeah.
Do you mind telling us your town again?
I'm in Hoquiam, Washington.
Right.
We looked it up on a map, I remember, the last time we talked.
Yeah, it's near the Pacific Ocean.
It's about 16 miles away.
Do you have a significant number of illegal migrants or not?
Well, I have seen them when I have gone to the store.
I've seen, I saw a guy that was about six foot eight wearing a bandana and real dark eyes.
He was scary looking.
Um, I know he wasn't from around here, but I've had, I've had a few of them pull right up alongside my car, smoking a joint and uh, just, you know, thank God I was leaving.
I got the heck out of there, but I've, I've seen a lot of stuff around here.
Well, we hope it remains safe.
I understand that your community is quite a bit safer than other parts.
I keep a lot of track.
I don't know if you've seen Law & Border, but there's a good one coming out about the real, everything that's really, really going on.
I'm sure it'll get to our government, I hope.
Well, let's hope so.
And you be careful, Julie, okay?
And thank you for the happy birthday.
I really appreciate it.
It's so nice to hear from somebody on the other side of the country, isn't it?
Let's see what's going on there.
The debt crisis is on its way to being solved.
I guess they're going to kick it down the road, right?
Oh yeah, that's recent, current news.
But there are a couple of things.
They are going to cap spending.
They are going to introduce Workfare for some of the dependency programs, which is better than none.
Better than nothing.
And a start toward something intelligent that Biden used to be in favor of, by the way.
And so was Clinton.
And do you know who helped to start it?
Me.
I did it two years before they did it.
And then they decided to do it.
And I think that was one of the better accomplishments.
I know you're going to say, well, you know, it should have been universal.
It should have accrued Medicare.
I think the start is the important thing.
You know, to change the way we look at social policy, you're just not going to do it all in one sweep.
So I wouldn't be as mad as some of the conservatives are at McCarthy that he didn't get everything that they wanted or he wanted.
My hero, and I hope yours, Ronald Reagan, used to often say, it's better to get half a loaf than none at all.
And if you can get three quarters of a loaf, that's also good.
You rarely get the whole loaf right away.
Well, I remember you were right about McCarthy from the get-go.
You said, this guy's going to be better.
It's the right move to go that route.
There was a lot of opposition coming from The Florida guy, what was his name?
They were really... Gates.
Gates, yeah.
Matt was really dead set against him and a whole bunch of others and look... Rudy said... It is also the art of the possible.
You cannot... You can't...
You can't get a whole bunch of crazy progressives to vote for these things if you hit them all at once with it.
But maybe you can sneak enough past them so you get the momentum going.
And after all, we need control of both houses of Congress and the presidency to really get it.
Before you can do it in any way.
Yeah.
That's right.
Let's go to Sherry in California.
Sherry, you're on with the mayor.
Hi, Mayor Giuliani.
So happy to finally meet you.
I'm doing great.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And what would you like?
Well, you know what?
We are very concerned out here in California because of especially all the people coming across the border and all the crime that's going on down there.
Yeah.
And it's like here locally in Santa Barbara County, people are starting to really speak out in the Next Door app.
You know, that they've had several of their, um, Cadillac converters stolen.
Right.
I'm one of them.
Yes.
Yeah.
So the courts are basically letting all these criminals go.
In Secaucus, New Jersey, I have a van that I keep parked outside to facilitate the advertisement, the marketing of a business.
It's a hair salon that I run in Secaucus.
And one day I thought I saw something hanging from the van.
I don't use it often.
It stays there with a big sign on the roof.
It facilitates all location and setback.
And I got under the van, looked, sure enough, that catalytic converter's gone.
And those trucks, those big Ford E350s, those catalytic converters, I mean, the money they get for them, it's unbelievable.
And it takes them two seconds to buzz it off.
That's the crime in New York that may very well be up more than anything else.
Auto theft and auto, theft of the auto itself or theft for parts, one or the other.
If they get a high-end enough vehicle, they get it.
on the highway and they get it out of the country or some other part of it right away.
Yeah, put it on a boat.
Or if they get one that they don't want, they just strip it for parts.
Absolutely.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Big business.
Big business.
Sherry, thanks for calling in.
Please do it again soon.
Okay.
Santa Barbara is such a pretty city.
You got the nicest courthouse in America.
I love Santa Barbara.
Beautiful, beautiful city.
Let's go to Andrew in Florida.
Hello, Andrew.
You're on with the mayor.
Yeah, hi there.
I have a Yankee trivia question, uh, for the mayor.
Okay, go ahead, shoot.
Uh, but, uh, well, okay, let me start with that one, uh, mayor.
By the way... What's Andrew doing?
Can you, can you repeat that question?
It was a good question.
Andrew, can you repeat the question, the trivia question?
We couldn't hear you, Andrew.
Oh, okay.
Uh, I know you graduated from Loughlin, Bishop Loughlin High School.
Yeah.
What Catholic high school did Joe Torre graduate from?
Wow.
Brooklyn Prep.
He guesses Brooklyn Prep, Andrew.
Well, which one?
Brooklyn Prep.
Brooklyn Prep?
No, no, no.
He graduated from St.
Francis Prep.
Oh, St.
Francis Prep!
Okay, great, great.
Wow.
I know that for a fact because I graduated from St.
Francis Prep.
Yeah, but that's when it was in Brooklyn, right?
Yes, he graduated about a good eight, nine years ahead of me.
And were you in Queens?
No, I wasn't in Queens.
I was in Brooklyn.
I was in the Greenpoint North 6th Street prep.
Yeah, my cousin graduated from St.
Francis Prep.
Then at some point it moved to Queens, and it's right off the expressway.
Beautiful campus, right off the expressway.
People see it who don't know anything about Queens, because they just fly through Queens to go to the Hamptons.
You know those people.
They don't know Brooklyn, Queens, or Nassau County.
They just fly right through.
Give us a call again next week.
We enjoyed that trivia question.
Okay, I have some more baseball for you when I call back.
Yeah, I'll be better next time.
No, I actually, yeah, I thought it was Brooklyn.
I did think it was Brooklyn Prep.
Brooklyn Prep was a Jesuit school.
I'm not sure that's there either.
It isn't.
It isn't.
Maybe a charter school now, Brooklyn Prep.
Brooklyn Prep used to be right off the Long Island Railroad, the second to last stop before you got to Atlanta.
Of course, Mayor, this is the fastest hour on the internet.
We're almost done. We want to get one more of our guests here.
We want to thank Rob for joining us in studio and we want to remind our other moderators and friends of the show,
let us know when you're in New York and we'll see if we can make it work where we have you live in studio.
Rob is a good friend of the show.
He'll be back for sure.
The mayor is the best, and we all know it.
Thank you so much.
Mike.
Mayor happy birthday.
Thank you, Mike.
Pull up closer.
So, uh, I heard you talk about the, um, the migrant stuff going on in the city.
And, uh, you know, you asked me prior to the show, I actually, uh, so I work on Rikers Island.
I do investigations for the healthcare, um, for it's called correctional health services.
It's run by New York health and hospitals, you know, New York health and hospitals.
Basically, you asked me before about migrants coming to Rikers Island, and you know, that's a myth right now.
It's a rumor.
Well, it's not being done, but it's been proposed by John Castamettini.
He's proposed using Rikers for the illegal migrants rather than Well, I mean, I'd rather have him there than in schools, but I'm wondering what you think of the whole idea of moving the prisoners out of Rikers, I don't get.
I don't agree with that either.
Rikers Island is a segregated prison.
It's gigantic.
Correct.
Explain how big it is.
So basically, for those people who don't know, there's a common misconception that Rikers Island is just one jail.
It's actually, as you know, it's about nine jails.
Yeah, and it's a it's a it's a for an island.
It's large.
It's extremely large.
And it could actually at one point it was up to 22 23,000 feet.
Yeah.
So right now the TC we call it the census.
We probably have about 7,000 inmates.
Think about that.
20,000.
Well, when Bernie Kerrick was was the commissioner.
That's what he was telling me.
Yeah, well, Bernie, Bernie had it and Bernie brought it down actually from about 15 to about 12.
He also brought violence down 90%.
A lot of slashes and stabbings prior to his arrival.
And if you ever want to see that documented by a hostile force, 60 Minutes went there to rip it apart and then did a piece on it in 1999 saying it had been made into the safest jail in the United States.
Safest?
Based on our team's program.
Long time ago.
Yeah, long time ago.
Now it's one of the worst.
Yeah, well, you know, unfortunately in Rikers Island people are getting very crafty when they send drugs in.
So what they're doing is they're soaking fentanyl in mail, in papers, and literally soaking it in a piece of paper.
They're sending it through the mail.
Visitors are bringing stuff.
We're actually getting body scanners in Rikers as we speak, like the ones at the airport.
To stop smuggling of contraband, especially fentanyl.
And there's a new drug that actually hit the market.
It's called Trank.
It's actually an animal.
I don't know if you heard of it, Mayor.
Yeah, we covered it.
Dr. Maria covered it yesterday.
Yes.
On uncovering the truth.
Apparently, there's a tremendous epidemic of it in Philadelphia.
Yeah, it's killing people in Philadelphia left and right.
It will be here before we know it.
Especially in Rikers, like I said, uh, we don't, there's a DOC unfortunately does not have enough staffing at this time because the city, it's not DOC's fault.
I just want to make that clear.
If you tell Bragg, he'll let the people out who give it out because he has a fellow DA in Krasner is the DA in Philadelphia who was put there by Soros.
He was one of Soros' original guys.
He's presided over a record number of homicides in the city of Philadelphia, thanks to Soros.
Right.
So Bragg has to really make up a lot to catch him.
So maybe if they tell Bragg that there's fentanyl in the jail, they'll let him out of jail.
They might.
I mean, you know, we're doing searches and stuff every day.
We're trying the best we can.
But I just want to, you know, everyone thinks that corrections officers aren't doing their job.
And, uh, five minutes.
Corrections officers aren't doing their job, but really what it is is the Liberal City Council will not grant DOC classes to put corrections officers in so there's more staffing at Rikers Island to prevent drugs, to prevent violence.
This is what's going on right now.
Actually, Mayor, the City Council is so clueless that they just passed... I don't want to laugh.
They just passed a law.
Dangerous.
They create...
City Council creates 20 to 30% more crime in the city than we have here.
Do you know what law they just passed, by the way?
I'm sure Dr. Maria knows.
Don't tell me.
If you're fat now, no one can discriminate against you.
It's going to be whatever.
You can get charged with a crime.
If you're fat, are you allowed to sit on a little chair, even if you're fat?
Employers can't discriminate against you.
You can sit on a little baby chair and crush it if you're fat.
Meanwhile, there's a crime wave in the city.
There's a migrant crisis, but we're worried about fat people.
Fat people are going to go and sit on those chairs.
People are going to stop them and they can sue.
Correct.
And say, I'm allowed to sit on that chair.
Correct, yes.
Just because I'm fat, you can't kick me off that chair.
That's right.
But actually, so back to the migrants thing at Rikers.
So they're actually opening the Harlem jail.
I believe it's 125 in Central Park.
Do you remember?
I think it was a teenager jail.
Yeah, I have a picture of it somewhere.
I remember.
I remember, yeah.
So they want to open up that now-shuttered jail.
I used to run up there a long time ago on a bicycle.
Right.
I believe that's a state prison, actually.
I don't think it's a jail.
I would think it's for juveniles.
It was for juveniles.
It was a low-security state prison, exactly.
It was not a jail.
It was a state prison and very, very low security.
Yeah, so now they want to... It was like a halfway house.
They want to reopen it and put all the migrant influxes into there, which I think... I mean, listen.
You know, migrants are human beings.
Putting them in a jail is kind of cruel.
Just a little bit.
I don't know.
Would you agree?
Or prison?
I mean, you don't think so?
First of all, what about the kids?
The kids, though?
Oh, you don't want to put the kids?
I think the...
I think the tremendous amount of sympathy we should have are for legitimate people and not for the people who come here illegally.
I agree.
I don't think they should be treated in an inhumane way.
No.
But I don't think they should be treated as if they're, oh my goodness, poor things.
I mean, we have, first of all, it's a different group than used to come in here.
I was going to ask the people in California if they see a difference in the migrant today.
The migrant 30 years ago, the illegal migrant there, it was a Mexican who wanted to work.
Today, it's hard to find a Mexican that wants to work among them.
I mean, you're talking about people from Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua, China, Middle...
Africa, you name it.
They're from all over.
You don't know who they are.
Terrorists.
You don't know how many of them are being put there, either by the terrorists or the cartels or the Chinese.
Well, this goes back to the fentanyl.
It's coming through the border.
Yeah.
People are bringing it in and it's ending up in the major cities.
Remember, in the old days, most of them were checked in one way or another.
Right.
And then got in.
Uh, and the few who weren't were coming back and forth every, every planning season.
This group is, uh, we don't know who they are.
And we know what we're catching a disproportionate number of terrorists.
We know that the fentanyl directly comes from China to the Mexican cartels, right into the United States.
Biden, Biden, I mean, basically, I'm surprised he hasn't given them.
I was going to say, why does Joe Biden want this?
He's basically escorting them into the United States.
Like he escorted the balloon around.
He ended title 42.
Who do you think is the strings behind Biden?
You think it's Obama?
Yeah, I do.
Oh, 100%.
I do.
Yeah, I think it's Obama.
You think it's Obama.
I think Obama is running the ship, and the whole idea is to make us one world.
I think he's part of that.
Sorrows.
Klaus Schwab, One World Group.
And I think he got plenty of training, you know, with communists as a young man.
And he always seemed to me to have an affinity toward communism when he was president.
Did anyone ask you, before I know we're getting close to ending, did anyone ask you what you think of DeSantis entering the presidential race?
I don't know if anybody asked you that lately.
Well, look, he has a right to enter the presidential race.
I don't subscribe to the fact that he's a terrible governor or whatever.
I don't see the point of it because he's just going to help Biden by attacking Trump.
And at this point, we're too far gone to help Biden.
I have a little loyalty problem with him.
Of course, obviously.
I mean, I was there.
I campaigned for him at Trump's request.
Right, right.
Of course.
And there's no exaggeration in the fact that Trump made him.
And I just don't think I'd run against a man who made me.
Right.
Well, I think moderate Democrats are starting to wake up.
And you know what?
I'd feel bad about myself if I did.
Yeah, moderate Democrats are starting to wake up.
They won't even vote for Biden if he runs for another term.
So that's actually a good sign.
Well, that's good.
Yeah, that's good.
Moderates, not leftists.
I'm actually disappointed in DeSantis because I thought of him as a guy down the road could be a president.
But if he has this level of disloyalty, then there could be a character flaw there.
I mean, in politics, as in business, I mean, some guy brings you into the business, he teaches you the entire business, then you try to take it over from him.
We're already up and into soccer time.
What is your message on this very special, of course, day where we commemorate Memorial Day and all the fallen men and women who have paid the ultimate sacrifice for the rest of us?
What is your message on this most solemn of days?
My message is it's the greatest country on earth.
Do not let people convince you to hate it or that it's a hateful country.
Don't buy the false history of, you know, our forebears were all, you know, slave-owning sadists.
They were men and women of their time.
They were somewhat better than the men and women of their time, morally.
Even the ones who wrote the Constitution, who were slave owners, many of them opposed slavery and wanted to do away with it.
They just didn't know how to.
And Thomas Jefferson put in the Declaration of Independence poison pills against it.
For example, all men are created equal.
Jefferson knew when he wrote that, that that would eventually lead to the freeing of the slaves.
He knew that that would create a contradiction right in the very heart of our founding documents, and he did it knowingly.
So, you know, history is much more complex than the communists want you to believe.
Communism takes over by getting you to hate your country.
And isn't that what they've been doing?
Trying to get us to hate our country?
Isn't that what they're doing when they tear down statues of Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln?
Who freed slaves.
Who literally freed the slaves.
Isn't that what they're doing when they kneel during our most solemn national anthem?
Or burn our flag?
Or tell us how we're a systemically racist country?
How dare they?
Yeah.
I mean, I think the guy who tells us that is one of the biggest racists in national politics, Joe Biden.
And I thought he was a racist even before he was a president.
You know what kills me the most, Mayor?
Men and women died for our flag so people can speak like that.
And they don't even realize that.
Some guy's being prosecuted for putting paint or something on one of those, what do they call those?
Pride flags.
One of those pride flags.
I don't get it.
Destroying property.
But if you burn an American flag, you get an award.
It's a messed up country we live in.
To all of you, you still have a few more hours during Memorial Day, so enjoy yourselves.
I hope you're having an enjoyable time with your friends and your relatives.
A lot of people do at this time of year.
I had a wonderful time with my relatives yesterday.
But I also hope, before it ends, you once again cast your mind toward what people paid to create this country, and if there are some things you have to do that are tough, Don't be afraid to do them, okay?
Just because you're taking a little heat because you don't go along with all this crazy left-wing stuff.
Don't go along with it.
Just stand up.
Stand up to the people who want to mutilate our children.
Stand up to the people who want to destroy their education.
Stand up to the people who want to take away from us What God gave us, the greatest country on earth, no one's taking it away from us and we're going to get it back and make it even better than it used to be.
So, and when they tell you, when the demented one in the White House tells you MAGA Republicans are terrorists, he doesn't even know what MAGA means.
He doesn't know what it means.
He doesn't know what anything means.
Do you think they feed them?
I do.
I would really like to get into the White House, take a picture.
Maybe baby food.
Gerber.
Gerber.
Gerber food, I think.
Well, she's a doctor apparently, right?
She gives it off to somebody else.
She definitely feeds him.
Maybe he's in that condition because she really isn't a medical doctor and she's taking care of him.
She's a doctor of education from my understanding.
Is that correct?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
She must really care about him too.
She lets him go out in public.
Fool out of himself.
Going to Cambodia and saying he's in Colombia.
Oh my God.
Turning around and thinking his sister's his wife.
That's an interesting one, huh?
With all the craziness in the Biden family, he's starting to get his wife and his sister confused.
All right.
Okay.
On that note, we better sign off before we get in deep trouble.
Oh my God.
We're just having a little fun.
We got to make light of something.
I mean, that's good.
God bless all of you and God bless America.
and we'll see you tomorrow night.
Peace.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
There was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom
of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past.
And see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country.
A country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason.
We're able to talk.
We're able to analyze.
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