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July 4, 2023 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (E182): Celebrating the Fourth of July
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Oh, he's come, he's come, he's come to the vineyard where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He has rose the lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Glory, glory, the new
his true the more she the
welcome Happy Fourth of July to everyone.
This is Rudy Giuliani with America's Mayor Live, and I bet you don't know where I am.
Guess!
We are tonight in Staten Island, and we are looking out, I think across the other way would be New Jersey.
Later on, we may see some fireworks in the background, and we're at the home of a great New Yorker and a great producer, Jules Nassau, beautiful home right on the water in Staten Island.
And shortly, at some point, there'll be some fireworks toward the end of the show, so you'll be able to hear us.
Hopefully, we'll create some fireworks during the show as well.
Because we have things we want to create fireworks over.
As you know, we always do, don't we?
Let's begin with something about the Fourth, and about the meaning of it, because there's a lot of... Well, I mean, the country is in a great deal of crisis, we know that.
The country has been taken over, as far as I can tell, the edge, so that we can no longer really say that we're being governed by the principles of our founding fathers or the principles of our fathers and mothers.
We're being governed now by principles that have more to do with Karl Marx than they do George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and John Adams or John Marshall or Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt or Dwight Eisenhower or John F. Kennedy.
Or Ronald Reagan.
And we can go on and on.
These seem more similar, as I said, to Marx.
More similar to the way in which governments exist in countries like Venezuela.
Witness the way in which our law enforcement is conducted.
In which it's a weaponized political instrument now, having very little to do with justice itself.
Criminals set free in significant and large numbers to the point where we've got blood on the streets of almost every major American city governed by a socialist Democrat.
So how do we look upon this July 4th?
We look upon this July 4th to go back and remember what the true principles of this government are.
To start with, all of it, all of it, every single part of it, all of the rights guaranteed in the beautiful Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights, they really mean nothing if we don't have law.
If we don't have law, we have chaos.
And if we have chaos, we don't have liberty.
I remember when I first became mayor of New York, New York were governed by the drug addicts and the drug and they terrorized the people of the city might as well have been living in a Soviet Union rather than in America because they weren't living under the rule of law where you can count on government to give you at least a reasonable degree of protection and you can you can feel that if accusations are made against you you'll be treated fairly
Well, that's not the case in America now.
You're not treated fairly if accusations are made against you.
I'm not.
Those people who believe the way I do... ...of course, the former president... ...then we see, on the opposite side, massive crimes being revealed.
Crimes such as I've never heard before.
Either in my history as a prosecutor, and a very active one, or as a historian.
I'm having a hard time figuring out what American president has compiled the number of crimes the Biden family has compiled.
You tell me, well, they haven't been proven and they haven't been shown, and I tell you, stop it.
They've been suppressed and you know it.
They've been suppressed and they are proven.
All you have to do is go to my podcast, 1 to 10, and you got about 40 felonies there, including a whole outline of a RICO case that I could approve three years ago and convicted them.
And Joe Biden would be sitting in the correct house right now, which would be a prison with a facility for a demented man.
And his son would be exactly where he belongs in a prison for a long, long time.
Instead, they're ruining the country.
That's what we have to have as our guiding light.
That is the restoration of law in this country, the restoration of a fair, Impartial legal system.
And the application of the law.
So, what kind of 4th of July has it been?
It's been an extremely violent 4th of July.
Several law enforcement officers in different parts of the country have now announced that July 4th is the most violent day of the year.
That's a hell of a thing, isn't it?
The great, wonderful birthday of our country has now become the most violent day of the year, and we're letting this happen to us.
Remember, you and I are letting this happen.
We can stop this.
Let me give you just a few of the statistics.
They probably have changed a bit because these go back an hour or two, and they're still murdering people as we speak.
Philadelphia Philadelphia, in one incident, had five people killed and two children shot.
One of them less than two years old.
Just one incident.
The person who did it had a bulletproof vest on, an AR-style rifle and a handgun.
He is a Black Lives Matter activist, and he's been seen on social media at times dressed up as a woman.
The person of interest, if that's what he is, I won't give you his name yet because I'm not sure if they have identified him or it's just been leaked who the person is.
But the facts that I'm giving you have been put out.
Black Lives Matter activist, history of dressing as a woman.
That's in Philadelphia.
In Texas, in a place called In a place called Como, which is right next to Fort Worth, 11 people shot.
11 shot.
Last night, while people were celebrating the Fourth of July.
Another part of Texas, three people dead and four wounded.
Baltimore, 28 shot, two dead.
Well, 28 shot plus two dead.
Las Vegas, a man showed up with a gun, pushed his way in, was about to shoot, and he was shot dead by an armed guard.
So much for gun control, huh?
What kind of gun protects you?
How many people would that guy have killed?
Another eight?
Another ten?
Lucky for the armed guard.
And I know, I know, we're gonna listen to Demented talk about gun control, right?
This is one of the reasons we're in this trouble, because for the last 10 years, all the Democrats say is gun control, gun control, gun control.
And then they put every conceivable criminal back out on the street, including early parole and release for cop killers, murderers.
The people who trained Black Lives Matter are people who killed New York police officers and were released early by Democrats.
There's an alliance between criminals and Democrats.
Very close.
In my city, they just passed a resolution for the city council giving police officers about 50 new types of paperwork so they have less time to arrest people.
We also refused to change our bail laws, which have resulted in massive numbers of crimes.
We have a law in which we no longer treat 15, 16, and 17-year-olds who engage in vicious murders as adults.
We treat them as juveniles.
We keep it confidential, and we let them out of prison sometimes before we even bring them to trial.
There are probably 7,000, 8,000 criminals walking the streets of New York that would be in jail if I were the mayor or Mike Bloomberg.
They're the ones who are committing these crimes.
Chicago, should I mention, it's not finished yet.
Chicago had, uh, 31 shot and three dead so far.
Altogether, it adds up to about 219.
Uh, it looks like, uh, about 219 for the country shootings.
It looks like about 219 for the country shootings.
I don't know how many, I'm sorry, 220 wounded.
500 incidents, 220 wounded, and well over 10 killed.
I mean, we've got five killed in Philadelphia.
We've got three killed in one part of Texas.
We have another part of Texas where 11 are in the hospital.
We have 31 shot in Chicago and three killed.
And there are a lot more in other parts of the country.
And this is not the result of anything else other than democratic policies.
It's the result of releasing people without bail.
It's the result of releasing people on short sentences.
And then as soon as they come out, they do what they're trained to do.
Rob, steal, cheat, rape, murder, in ever-increasing numbers.
In my city, the crimes are less than they used to be, because the crimes were horrendous.
But they're a lot more than they were just a few years ago.
And in other cities, people are setting records for murder.
Of course, these are cities that have been graced with Soros prosecutors for some time.
Philadelphia, two years ago, set a record for homicides.
More homicides than ever before in the history of Philadelphia, and of course, This day, we've got, just in one incident, two children killed in Philadelphia.
Every single one of these increases and these records in murder Which have taken place in St.
Louis, in Philadelphia, in Rochester, New York, are all places in which we have a so-called progressive Democratic governor.
I do not consider them at all progressive.
I consider them regressive.
They practice a philosophy called socialism, which is 150 years old, which means regression,
going back, and one that has failed every time it's been utilized and results in massive violence
everywhere it's ever been.
A babbling idiot AOC.
If we don't straighten this out, we're not going to have much of a country left.
And we are going to straighten it out.
And that's what the 24th election is about.
And that's what we're going to focus on.
Laser beam.
If we don't fix it now, I don't know how much worse this is going to get.
There was a guy who writes for the Daily News named Steve Cuozzo who says that I was mistaken when I said that crime is worse now than when I was mayor.
And he's talking statistically.
Of course I know crime isn't, there aren't more crimes now than when I was mayor.
I know more about crime statistics than he could even think about in a lifetime.
What I was talking about is they're different, they're bolder.
A different kind of crime.
And then he also creates the very false impression, he says, and murders are up from the time that I was mayor.
Because when I left, there were 600.
What he doesn't point out is that when I came in, there were 2,200.
I reduced murder more than any mayor in the history of New York City by four to one.
Corso notwithstanding, his fake news notwithstanding, and he should apologize for leaving that misimpression.
Of course they're down since I left being mayor because they continue to go down after I left office.
But if you want to look at the amount I've reduced murder and the amount my successor reduced murder, I did it five times what he did.
And I took over a city with, oh, somewhere around 2,000 murders, two riots that had just taken place, 10.5% unemployment.
And virtually bankrupt.
And he took over a city that was the safest large city in America.
And he kept it that way.
And he continued to make it safer.
Which is why it went down.
And I credit that.
And I praise that all the time.
But then don't misrepresent about me, Cuozo.
I think you should correct that if you are really a journalist.
But at any event, they are bolder now.
What I mean by that is, and this is anecdotal, it's not statistical.
Statistically, murders are way down, as I said.
We reached a peak under David Dinkins, who was the mayor with the most murders in history.
He had two years of over 2,000.
2,200, 2,400.
So now we're gonna be somewhere in the four or five, now we're somewhere in the four or five, 600 vicinity.
Pretty soon we're gonna be at 600 or so.
That's way down.
Here's the point.
The murders are bolder.
And the other crimes are much bolder.
For example, these retail thefts.
When I was the mayor, even when the statistics might have been higher, toothpaste wasn't put behind a cage.
Was it?
Uh-uh.
Why is that done?
Because people walk into a store now and walk out with anything they want and virtually the security guards applaud them and help them.
And by the way, if you turn them in, you get fired.
I don't remember, and I lived in the city as long as anyone, I don't remember too many people when I was the mayor being thrown on the subway.
I remember people shot.
God almighty, of course I do.
I remember a lot of crimes.
I don't remember just some poor old man standing by the subway and somebody just pushes him on the subway.
Or walks by in the street and punches him in the head and walks past him.
No motive!
Doesn't take his wallet, doesn't take his anything, doesn't do... Just hits him in the head!
There's a reason for it, and we won't go into it in detail, because we've got a lot of other things to cover, and we will over time.
It's called the riots of 2020.
It taught the criminal element, which is large, spread wide, concentrated in the Democrat cities where they are coddled and taken care of.
It taught them they can do anything they want and the cops can't do anything.
Even back with all those crimes in the mafia, they were afraid of the cops.
And every cop will tell you now they're not.
That's the difference.
That's what I was talking about.
And it's a point we better understand or we're not gonna be able to reduce it.
If you don't understand what you're reducing, you can't reduce it.
Well, Mayor, City Council just passed a law, or they're in the process of passing law, that now any minor interaction NYPD has with the community, even if it's a wellness check, whatever, they want the NYPD to use their body cameras.
They want to just catch them slipping.
If they say something wrong to a citizen, they just want to discipline cops for anything and everything at this point.
There's no point in being an NYPD officer anymore in New York City.
It's done.
Yeah, I don't know.
There was a list in the Post yesterday or the day before of the new things that police officers have to do, which will take up about half their day, that have nothing to do with arresting criminals.
We're already down, by the way.
I had 41,000 cops.
We're down to about 33,000.
Now, you enforce all these paper things on them, you're effectively down another 2,000, 3,000 cops.
So you might as well just turn the city over to the criminal, because that's what Adams is doing.
Now, I'm going to change the subject, because it is the 4th of July, and we want to enjoy, reflect on our freedom so we can fight to bring it back.
So I've got Dr. Maria with me.
Then, I'm going to have a big surprise for you.
Unless he disappeared on me.
Jules?
No, no.
Well, Jules for sure.
He's got to come back.
And Johnny Tobacco of Wise Guys has better come back.
Otherwise, I won't put him on.
And I will not remind people that his Hunter show is coming up on Newsmax.
I won't remind you that it's a great show.
The Wise Guys show?
Yeah.
Well, it's great to be here tonight on the birth date of our country, the Declaration of Independence, written by that committee of five famously Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
And they did a wonderful, wonderful job.
And it's such a momentous... There was a little amazement here in the audience, but see, she went to school when they used to teach it.
They taught something, none of you young people know this, it's called history.
It's called H-I-S-T-O-R-Y.
And I had a curious mind, too.
If you get a Republican elected in 24, we might start teaching history again.
I read a lot as a child.
I was fascinated with our founding fathers.
You read?
Go back and look at our history, and you will be fascinated, and you'll find really unique things.
Like, besides the Sons of Liberty, you know, pushing the envelope, wanting this independence, wanting the 13 original colonies to be free, a sovereign nation, that took guts, right?
And then to put together a whole new government?
It's ingenious the way we did it, too, with three distinct Branches of government.
We're supposed to have checks and balances.
And it's just such a beautiful thing.
And I know the last two or three years, all of you have been very dissatisfied with our government.
We don't trust the Department of Justice.
We don't trust President Biden.
And I know, because Rudy and I have a radio show together on covering the truth.
And you talk to us all the time about how you feel disgusted and you've lost all faith.
I see it changing.
I see groups coming together, the Muslims, the Catholics, working together to have election integrity, to have our kids be left alone to be children.
In school, they should be learning literature, mathematics, history, science.
There should be no grooming of transgender.
Doctor, we're going to get thrown off the air if you say stuff like this.
We'll be banned.
We got to talk about gender dysmorphia.
And every child has to be convinced that they don't really know what gender they are.
No, we're ruining our society.
And if parents don't want to do this, they shouldn't be told anything about their children.
I know many acquaintances, people who came from communist countries like Russia, for instance, and they fled to the United States, that beacon of freedom.
And they're saying everything that's been happening lately is signs of communism.
Yeah, we had a woman call us up.
Yep.
There's no more value of the family unit.
You know, BLM even stood for that.
You don't need a father in the home.
Take your kid at two years old, put him in a state school, have the state put their values on your child, not your own values.
But I'm telling you, I have optimism.
I do too.
I do.
I really do.
I really see, particularly with the parents fighting back, I see the big mistake that they made Going after the children.
Like that chant the other day.
Oh boy.
We're coming for your children.
How disturbing.
Wow.
Yeah.
Boy, that got parents all upset.
Does anybody remember that chant?
I'm here.
I'm queer.
I'm coming for your children.
It was at the New York City Pride Parade.
Don't care if you're here.
I don't care if you're queer.
You come for my children.
Forget it.
Well, I want to apologize to your audience, Mayor.
I did.
It's very humid out here on Staten Island, so I jumped in the pool.
So I'm sorry about appearing a little, you know.
Like I normally would be?
Wet.
She appears like a normal human being, which is great.
So today the winner and champion for another year of the Hot Dog Eating Contest, which has been going on since 1916 down the road here in Coney Island, down that way, is Joey Chestnut.
I love the name.
225 pounds he weighed in at.
He's probably about 340 pounds now.
He consumed 62 hot dogs in 10 minutes with rolls.
I think it's a statement.
With rolls.
It was his 16th win.
When he started, he was 110 pounds.
And his record, however, as we say, 62.
Wow!
His record was 76 in 2021.
That was the year his stomach was removed and he had to have a new one put in.
Hot dog and bun.
We learned something, right?
We had Curtis Sliwa on your radio show today at three o'clock, Monday through Friday, wabcradio.com.
And Curtis Sliwa was once in the contest, maybe many times.
Came in third in 1996.
Yeah.
He came in third?
Came in third in 1996.
I don't think he ever mentioned that during his campaign for mayor.
That may have gained some votes.
It's a non-controversial sport, right, Dr. Maria?
Yeah, they train their stomachs.
No, they might have also thought he's a little crazy.
Well, the cats.
They drink lots of milk.
Yeah, and they don't chew it.
Yeah, yeah.
But this is how they train.
They eat cabbage with lots of water.
Please don't tell people how to do this.
Well, I guess I'm always wondering how they do these things.
This is the doctorate.
But this guy, Joey Chestnut, right?
He's on the circuit.
So he's not only a hot dog champ.
Can you see him?
Can you see Joey?
Yep.
He did oysters, haggis, and there was something else, some other fish.
He makes four million dollars a year!
No, he's made for a million.
He's made for a million.
Is it worth it, though?
Is Joey Chestnut an athlete, in your opinion?
Oh, is this an athletic thing?
I would say no.
No.
No.
Mickey Sudo.
He is not.
There's training, but I think he's ruining his body.
Should I have a question though?
And the female winner was Miki Sudo.
Yes.
Both of them claimed they were going to break their records and did not.
Miki was last year, she's the number three competitive eater in the world, but she came in first and she had taken a little time off for pregnancy and she's back and she did 39 and a half hot dogs and her record was 48.5 in 2020.
His was 76 in 2021.
Joey, that's Joey Chestnut and Mickey Sudo.
And then of course, the last question is, should biological males who become female
be allowed to compete in the hot dog eating contest as females?
No, as you can see, I'm proud of you doctor.
With a biological male, how much more he could eat.
See?
But hey, I have breaking news here.
I gave it to Curtis Sliwa on the Rudy Giuliani show today, said he believes, because these records are being blown like crazy, in where we had steroid use in baseball, biking, That he believes there's certain enzymes that help break down foods.
This is his theory that maybe they're taking these enzymes because they do not chew.
I didn't know this.
They just shove the pieces of hot dogs down.
And the reason they cap it at 10 minutes is because they're so afraid someone's going to choke.
But they are not chewing, and that I learned new today.
Well, hello everybody.
It is the 4th of July here in Staten Island.
They're beginning, they're beginning.
Sounds like they're beginning.
So you wanted me to mention something about Trank.
Yes, I do want you to mention about Trank because everybody talks about fentanyl and people actually, they've developed like a little test for fentanyl.
They've developed an antidote for fentanyl.
I don't suggest relying on this at all, but at least there's something out there for fentanyl.
But this new thing, Trank, nothing to detect it, nothing to neutralize it.
Yeah, and it's got its name Trank because it's a tranquilizer.
The drug's name is xylosine, and it's an animal tranquilizer.
So, as you know, the precursors for all these look-alike drugs come from China, Work with the cartels comes through our southern border.
So what they would do is they would make a Percocet.
So somebody would say, hey, I got these from my grandmother's cabinet.
It's a Percocet.
It looks like the real thing, but it's not.
And instead of having oxycodone in it, it has fentanyl.
Now it's about 50-50.
50% fentanyl because xylosine is actually even cheaper Than fentanyl.
So they're mixing it in.
But that's the problem that Rudy said.
At least with fentanyl, they sell strips so you can identify if there's any fentanyl in your drugs.
And if you overdosed and someone got to you right away, you could be given Narcan.
Because it is... Fentanyl is an opioid.
There is nothing for xylosine.
Which, by the way, is more potent than fentanyl.
In the medical examiners, they're saying they're seeing more and more of these fentanyl murders, poisonings.
They're really not fentanyl anymore.
It's the xylose.
Okay, so you did it.
You did it.
With all the stupidity about marijuana.
Yeah.
You did.
We have a lot more people using drugs now.
We have a lot more people using marijuana now, for sure.
Like two to three to one.
But we have a lot more people using drugs in general because you have no idea how the broken windows theory works, right?
And if it starts to get worse at the bottom, it starts to come all the way up and it gets worse all the way through.
So what you did with marijuana is you broke down the social and legal prohibition against marijuana.
You opened the barn door.
As I predicted for years in fighting any kind of legalization of drugs is, People say, well, let's legalize drugs.
There'll be less drug users.
Those are very stupid people who have absolutely no experience with crime, criminality, or the human personality.
You legalize it, it's going to go up two times, three times.
Places in Colorado now are destroyed by the fact that they did this.
We're making these things normal that shouldn't be normal.
And marijuana turns out to be a lot more dangerous than people say, including for the brain.
How about the safety?
Particularly for young people.
Yeah.
There's a high incidence between that and mental illness.
In psychosis, yeah.
We have a thing, a diagnosis called marijuana-induced psychosis.
It doesn't have to be a large amount of marijuana.
You may just react to it in a certain way.
Yeah, and it's prolonged use.
We talk about this all the time.
Defining deviancy down.
We're making things little by little, pushing the envelope, making it normal, but we're hurting society.
We're hurting mankind.
It's okay to say something is wrong.
Just like it's okay to say we're a sovereign nation and we're not going to have open borders.
Same thing with drugs.
You know, some of these states, I think New York actually has heroin sites, right?
Heroin is illegal, but Places like New York offer you a space to do an illegal drug that the addiction rate is so hard, high, that you'll do anything to get that drug.
Rob.
Mayor Adams.
You lie, you destroy your family, you destroy yourself, but it's just, I don't know.
It's just crazy that so many politicians are really hurting America.
You see the pipe in Hunter Biden's mouth?
Yeah, it's a crack pipe.
Have you seen the crack pipe in his mouth that he was using when he was driving the automobile?
Driving an automobile with a crack pipe in his mouth?
That was within days or months of when he illegally bought a gun.
That was within days or months of when he signed a document saying he was not a drug addict.
That was within days and months when he possessed it.
And it's a federal felony, 10 years in prison, for a drug addict to possess a gun.
By the way, the Attorney General and the not-very-special prosecutor decided not to prosecute him for that.
Why?
Why?
You can't think of someone that's a more aggravated drug user.
That crime of possession of a gun by a drug user, it's a 10-year felony.
That's a serious crime by Congress.
Unless you're the king, you don't get to change what Congress wants.
I mean, it's just been reversed by the Supreme Court for acting like a king or dictator.
Definitely a dictator.
But I'm going to tell you why it's aggravated.
It's aggravated because this guy has been a 30-year drug user.
This isn't like a guy who used drugs twice and he's carrying a gun.
This is a 30-year drug user, in and out of rehabilitation more times than you can shake a stick at.
And most of the time he goes to rehabilitation, he gets really close to a house of prostitution so he can have prostitutes stay with him while he's being rehabilitated.
And a couple of times he's had his father's credit card paid for.
With the Secret Service bailing him out.
The Secret Service bailing him out!
I mean, what a life of privilege, what a life of excess, and what a life of screwing you, the American taxpayer.
What a family.
Mayor, isn't this really a Joe Biden scandal?
They paint it as a Hunter Biden scandal, but really this is a Joe Biden scandal, the president of the United States.
Who knows?
Maybe at 18 years old, if Joe Biden didn't use his kid as a bag man, like a lot of mafia guys wouldn't do, maybe he wouldn't be in this condition.
The kid is in this condition because his father abused him.
His father used him as a bag man with some of the worst criminals in the world.
He made him a partner with Whitey Bulger's nephew, and you don't know that!
I think it's a scandal for both, though.
Hunter broke the law, yes, but it's a whole Biden crime family of corruption, of money laundering, so they all need to be prosecuted.
But Hunter's not innocent either.
Why don't they know that Whitey Bulger was a partner of the Biden crime family?
Yeah.
Because the press is corrupt, and you know something?
You know what everyone around the world is saying?
The United States is corrupt.
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Well.
And he's here with his lovely partner, Cara Castronova.
Okay, but here's where we are, right here, see?
Notice the little thing here?
North Atlantic Ocean.
Isn't that impressive?
North Atlantic Ocean.
So we're right here.
So Manhattan... Let me make it smaller so you can see it better.
Don't make a face.
So Manhattan is up here, see?
Up over here.
This is, this, this over here, this over here is Brooklyn.
Is it too little?
No, we're going to zoom in and get it.
Here's Brooklyn here.
Right here is Brooklyn.
I'm going to move, Mayor, while you're showing that to make room for Mr. Nassau.
There's Coney Island right there.
There's Coney Island right there.
Just Dr. Maria's heading out, Mayor, so we want to send her off.
Okay.
And we're going to have Jules.
We've got Mr. Nassau coming.
World famous.
Have we, have we seen the map?
Have we?
Yeah, I'm showing them, zooming in on it now.
Zooming in now?
Okay, the little blue dot here is where we are, right there.
Okay?
Now just to orient yourself, up to the north here, see Penn Station?
That's the middle of Manhattan right there.
There's LaGuardia Airport that many of you will know, in Queens.
Right over here is Coney Island.
Right here.
The famous Coney Island, where all those hot dogs were consumed.
And here is Jules Nasso.
A producer?
Director?
Writer?
Director, producer, regular guy from the neighborhood.
Tell us, okay, well, regular guy from the neighborhood we'll talk about in a minute.
Tell us, tell us a few of your, the ones you're most proud of.
Well, I'm very proud.
The Belafonte documentary, the Belafonte documentary is one of your most recent and beautiful works of art.
Yeah, man, I was very honored.
To work with Harry over the past 25 years.
I produced his first documentary.
His first?
Yeah.
All those years?
Just one documentary?
First one I did in 2011.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
Sing Your Song.
We got shortlisted and went all the way up to the Academy.
And over the past 12 years, you know, we've been following Harry.
He requested that We do a second one on his life all the way till the day that he passes.
Yeah.
So for the past 12 years, we were following him and videoing him.
Gotta be fascinating.
Cause that was, I mean, cause that is quite a bit different than what you, I mean, you've done a lot of different things.
Let's put it that way.
You're not, I wouldn't say you're typecast Jules, right?
Well, I'm best known as an action, uh, film producer.
That was a while ago.
That was my first documentary.
And then later on, I've been on and had privilege.
Well, some of my favorite movies, of course.
Thank you.
You know, some of my favorite movies.
I've been my idol since I was a young kid.
I mean, because they came out when the crime was really bad in the city, you know, and they were I think they were the best of that group, like Death Wish.
And, you know, I think these were the best because you had somebody to cheer for.
But then I was blessed.
I mean, you know, I had the opportunity of producing and co-directing one of the largest concerts for Andrea Bocelli.
He's quite a man, isn't he?
He's such a such a good human, good human.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And you met him.
Well, I met him.
I met him a number of times.
But the one time I met him that I really will always remember, he actually came down to Ground Zero and did a concert and sang down there.
And everybody was very worried about his voice and everything else.
But he was so kind.
Yeah, he's an amazing human being, you know, and and he's not in any way A Hollywood guy.
I mean, he's a family man, you know, good principles.
He just did a wonderful documentary that I couldn't do because I was busy on a Belafonte one called The Journey.
Oh yeah, sure, sure.
Yeah, which was... Very nice.
Yeah, Don Christian.
It was really, really a good, positive piece, especially for... Want to tell us what's coming up?
Well, I'm in a process of finalizing a couple of films.
I just did Harry Belafonte's Following Harry, which we're opening up in Sundance in January.
And my political views are open.
I mean, you know, I can't, you know, being a producer, you have to be able to put politics aside, you know.
Uh, and when you're, uh, asked by a legend to, to, to, to produce his life, you know, uh, um, it's, it's, it's an honor, you know?
Uh, and can we mention what I'm going to be doing with my next documentary?
Well, yeah, we can, we can imagine. Somebody, somebody we know, well, Ivan, somebody we know,
We know mute.
He's a mutual friend of Jules and I. I've been following Mayor Giuliani since I was a young boy.
Coming up the way he did in a regular neighborhood with our values from the schools we went to.
And he was always an idol.
And, you know, being an immigrant coming here when I was two years old, you know, we had nothing.
Dad never spoke a word of English and our idols were people that came out of the neighborhood like Mario Cuomo and yourself.
Oh, thank you.
And that gave us the incentive to know that it's possible to get into another level in the world.
Oh, thank you.
And you've been my idol since you were a kid.
Save all that for the documentary.
Okay, now, my next documentary... It's gonna be really hard to make me look good.
Which is more than an honor and a privilege.
I mean, Belafonte, that's not so hard.
Try to make me look good.
Well, Mayor, you know, you've done so much for the city.
You've done so much for the American people.
Tell Hootrange.
My first film, I worked with Sergio Leone.
He was my master.
He gave me the opportunity.
I was his technical advisor, technical assistant on a film called Once Upon a Time in America.
What a film.
One of the great American films.
Thank you.
And that's where I learned everything about filmmaking.
And he was very instrumental in me getting an overall deal at Warner Brothers, where I was there for 15 years.
Uh, he was a maestro, you know.
And did you follow, uh, would you say you followed a lot of what he taught you?
Actually, you know, it's like you blended it to yourself.
You know, I, I tell students, you made a different kind of movie, a different genre of a movie, but I tried.
Yeah.
After I came out of Warner's, I tried a lot of different genres, family, Drama, you know, concerts.
I didn't want to go down in history as being just an action producer.
But you were so good at it.
I mean, they're classics.
You know, again, that all comes from... I'd watch them all right now.
From Leone.
You know, if you look at the texture of the negative, I mean, he was my professor, he was my master.
I mean, you know, I tell the students when I do guest lectures in film schools around the world that If you take a carpenter and you're an apprentice learning how to be a carpenter, your style is going to be the carpenter that taught you.
You see?
Yeah.
So that's something that I'm blessed with.
We're going to have Jules on a lot.
We're going to work together very closely.
We never told him about the documentary.
We're teasing him.
Okay.
But while we're doing it, we'll have him on quite a bit.
And there's a guy, there's a guy I see walking around with an American flag.
He's wearing an American flag.
Where did he go?
You know, I said if he doesn't, if he doesn't come on, I'm not going to, I'm not going to point out that his 100th show is coming up in two weeks.
We want to thank you for hosting us and for being so kind to the mayor.
I've seen it up close.
And for all the great work you've done in the arts.
You are a treasure to this country, sir.
Thank you.
You are an American treasure.
Thank you.
Okay, you can feed him now.
And up next, I don't think this guy needs an introduction.
Well, Mike, why don't you give this guy an introduction?
Do we have any music?
You can do the introduction.
The voice of God.
Up next, we've got a friend of mine.
Johnny Tobacco from Wise Guys and Staten Island Sun.
There he is.
You know, when it's off camera, they call the introduction the voice of God.
And now, John Tobacco of Wise Guys!
Yeah, I like that.
You know, years ago, I was good friends with former Governor David Patterson.
I used to spend a lot of time with him.
Yeah, I love Governor Patterson.
But I used to spend a lot of time with him.
And when he had like big fundraising events, he would say, JT, could you announce me?
And then, you know, I would be in the back there in the DJ's booth and say, no, the governor of the great state of New York, David Patterson!
And he used to get up there and say, no, that's not the voice of God.
That's my friend Johnny Tobacco.
Tell us about your hat.
Tell us about your hat.
When I got the call, you know, I heard you guys were light on major leaguers today.
So you went down to the minors, made a call to a local cat like me.
No way.
And being, Jules is a legend in Staten Island.
I live just down the block in a little catty shack compared to this amazing place.
I said okay I'm getting a call to be on Rudy Shaw I gotta kiss his ass a little bit so I'll wear the Giuliani hat and this is a piece of memorabilia which I will cherish because it's from the great and valiant run of Andrew Giuliani in the gubernatorial primary when the establishment hacks turned their backs on
him and he still fought like hell and to me had one of the greatest turnouts
and results for someone who was not the establishment and I cherish those
days and I love you son and you guys and I wore the hat in honor of you today.
So the 100th episode of Wise Guys comes up in two weeks, John?
Yep, that's right.
So for those of you who have seen Wise Guys, I don't have to tell you how good it is or how much fun it is.
And once you see it, you keep watching it.
But you have to see it.
And tell us about it.
I was a little torn on it, yeah.
For those of you out there in Rudy land who don't know, smarten up, first of all, because you got to tune into Wise Guys.
And by the way, Every time Rudy's on, those are our highest rated episodes.
So we got to get you on for the 100th episode.
But I was kind of torn when they said Wise Guys.
Of course, the other day on the street.
Yeah.
Oh, that was amazing.
That was a great episode.
That was a fun one.
Yeah, Ted was like, I don't want to be in the episode.
I said, Ted looks too good.
And the editor, I said, Ted looks too good.
He said, I'm going to fight.
Take a hike.
Yeah.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
I do not sound like that!
TAKE A HIKE!
Woah, woah, woah!
Mayor, that's a flag.
That's a flag.
That's a flag on the play right there.
So, as you know, I'm Wise Guys.
Lucky for me, Newsmax created this little nook where an Italian guy who understands the streets pretty good from New York can Get on national television and talk to people.
Lucky enough for me, they paired me up with Cara Castronova, you know, two-time Golden Gloves champion, beauty queen, brain surgeon, rocket scientist, everything you'd ever want in a co-host and more.
100%.
And, you know, thankfully, you know, Maya, we go out, we talk to the people.
I always say... Tell them what you did this week.
I watched the show on Sunday.
It's on Saturday and Sunday.
That's right.
So you can catch it either way.
And I caught it late on Saturday.
On Sunday.
Yeah.
And you had on a homophobe and a... Homosexual.
And homosexual.
Yeah.
And I thought, listen, this whole Pride Month thing is out of control.
You know what I mean?
When I heard you say, we're going to have on, you sort of... I teased it.
You teased it.
And I said to myself, what is he crazy?
You're going to have on a homophobe.
Homosexual.
No, a homosexual and a homophobe.
It was amazing.
Okay, here we go.
But look, that's one of the things about Wise Guys.
We bring it to the table.
We make an agreement that there's not many places on television where you could have both points of view.
Bring it to the table.
Kick it around.
And the one rule is, you know, at the end of it, we shake hands and we part friends.
So, when you have a homosexual guy, and by the way, Brandon Strzok is the homosexual guy we're talking about.
He started this amazing thing called the Walk Away Movement, where he's running a nationwide effort to encourage people in the gay pride community to walk away from the Democrat Party.
And his feeling is that the Democrats are basically creating gender identity to tell you that Republicans hate you.
And he wants people to... They've completely politicized what is in fact a civil rights movement, a human rights movement.
That's right.
And they've also been very much influenced by Marxism.
And I said, let's have a convo.
Didn't Brendan Strzok, wasn't he also wrongly accused of some January 6th stuff?
Well, I think he served jail time for January 6th.
On this issue, I was like, you know what?
I happen to think that, like, the whole Pride movement, you know, those people worked hard for, like, lesbian, gay rights.
They really worked hard.
And I had one woman on there who was a little bit, you know, a little bit older than, you know, all these young Unidentifiable, asexual type people.
But she was proud to be a lesbian.
And she said, you know, everything they're doing right now, they're trying to make the whole movement trans.
And it's not about the T. It's about the LGB.
Well, we fought for the equality.
And they're kind of turning the tables on everyone's hating the movement because they don't like the trans on kids.
Yeah, that's really it.
I imagine there are some people that just don't like and hate, but the reality is the vast majority of people, I don't think have any... If you want to be trans, be trans.
I mean, that's up to you.
But that whole thing about going after the kids, I mean, you gotta be crazy.
Two things.
You gotta be crazy.
One, I said it on the show this week, but It's supposed to be up to the states in this grand republic, right?
So leave it up to the states.
Whatever year you could drink, drive, and get a tattoo, that's when kids should be allowed to make their own decisions.
If it's 18, whatever the state says, right?
Then you become an adult.
I'm okay with that.
But, the minute you start pushing this trans stuff on the kids, there's so much science out there that it's really more of a mental disorder, that kids are awkward, kids don't feel accepted in their youth, that, you know, they think, maybe if I try something else, I'll feel less depressed.
That it's really a mental issue.
Right, right.
And I just want to tell you this, you'll like this.
I went to, Karen and I went to a rally to cover the Pride, right?
And it was hijackers.
And all these people were screaming at the cops, you know, fry like bacon, all this other crap, you know what I mean?
And I was saying like, when, when did the, I remember a time when the Pride, the gay leaders in New York were lobbying maybe you and others to have police presence at the gay parade because they were getting attacked.
You remember that?
Yeah, of course.
And now, just last year, they were saying they don't want cops on the Pride parade because it triggers their people.
And it's like almost reverse to what they fought for.
My reaction to that would have been real simple.
Tough luck.
Yeah, right.
I'm having police at the parade and it's to protect you and to protect the rest of my city.
And if you don't like it, how about not having a parade?
Yeah.
And I said this at the Blue Lives Matagala two years ago when Joey and Peratrice let me speak for a few minutes.
But I said, I remember a time in New York, because my father worked in the 6th Precinct, when the 6th Precinct softball team played a softball game against the All-Stars of the Gay Homosexual League down in the village there, right?
And they had a really good ball team, right?
And the Community Affairs Department had posters.
I remember when I was a kid, it said, Cops vs. Queers.
No, right?
This was like the initiative from the precinct, and every gay bar had the signs up.
They were proud that they were playing the cops, and they hung out, and they played ball, and they all drank beers afterwards.
To me, there was a time when the cops and the queers actually got along and loved each other.
That's what mature human beings are like.
What you do with your personal life, as long as you don't hurt anybody else, is up to you.
Cops on the line now, man.
In fact, Republicans should be more comfortable with that than anyone.
Cops on the line now, but who would want to be a cop now?
It's terrible.
It's terrible.
Of course, that's right.
And what happens is you've got a situation like we have in New York.
We have way too few cops in New York right now.
We've got like 32,000.
I used to have 41,000.
It's down to 32,000.
I used to have 41,000. It's down to 32,000. And it's not getting any better. And to the
extent that people want to be cops, they want to go someplace else, not New York.
Per capita, Staten Island had a 250% rise in violent crime and murder last year, right?
And we got this, if you ask me, wolf in sheep's clothing, a progressive DA who masquerades as kind of a moderate.
But crime is up.
We have the least police ever on Staten Island.
I think it has something to do with where you voted.
Yeah.
And you know, we don't even have a Republican DA candidate in the general election.
So, you know, maybe one day we got to get Rudy out here to restore some law and order in the outer boroughs.
I mean, this is the problem with a city that's under the control of one political party, which is what happens in, you know, a communist country, not in America.
We should have two parties, not one, and they should compete with each other.
Well, I'm trying to encourage our great borough president here in Staten Island to put together a gold medal panel to secede from the city and let Staten Island be our own little county here, you know what I mean?
Like, leave us alone.
I got elected.
The year that you voted to secede.
Right, we had a referendum that people overwhelmingly voted to secede.
Well, I think the governor didn't want to let us secede at that point, wasn't it?
We needed two-thirds votes at a legislature's assembly.
You also had to do the referendum a second time.
That's right.
And Ron Lauder got involved.
Was that Ron Lauder's referendum?
That can be interesting to see what happens.
Well, listen, something's got to give.
Ted was bringing up when you were on Wise Guys last week.
I want to encourage everybody out there, if you get a chance, Saturday nights at 10, Sunday at 11.30, tune in to Wise Guys.
I think it's one of the more entertaining and intelligent shows out there.
Isn't Newsmax the fastest growing cable station?
We're the fastest growing cable station.
Last month, I believe Nielsen said Newsmax was number one in viewer acquisition and growth, so we're growing.
Uh, the fastest.
You know, Fox exposed themselves.
They're going left.
It's not interesting.
It's keeping up, isn't it?
The Fox erosion.
You know, some people thought it would only last a week or two, John.
It's going on now.
It's going on still.
I mean, look, their numbers are still monolithic in the lead, but there is definitely, like you said, deterioration.
And, you know, I know me for one, I've been at Newsmax seven years after leaving Fox.
And right now, there's no place I'd rather be.
You know what I mean?
You look at a sports team, you want great management, you got great management, and you got a lot of prospects, if you ask me.
And you can cover what you want to cover.
Yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
That's another thing.
I got fired from CNBC for saying one bad thing about Obama.
Only one?
Well, I'm saying, I only got in one bad line on Obama, and I got canned in two seconds.
I gotta see that.
I gotta see that.
Well, we always love having the great Johnny Tobacco with us.
He's been on our show a number of times now, Mayor.
And of course, we love being a part of Wise Guys.
100 shows coming up in two weeks.
What a wealth of knowledge.
Friday night, Saturday night at 10 p.m.
and Sunday night at 11.30 p.m.
But I do want to, my last word, I know you were under the weather the other day and you had a tag team here of Ted and Rago.
You got a pretty serious farm team here.
Good!
That's the way I'm seeing it.
Thank you, Johnny.
Next time Ted will give me a decent intro, you know what I mean?
I mean, that's a big...
Thank you, man.
That's a big...
Well, Mayor, well, Mayor...
You didn't see the note pass before that happened, did you?
That was off camera.
The note passed off camera.
I gave him a $20 bill on the table.
So do we have any calls here?
No, we're actually going to the soccer time, Mayor.
We're going to stay on a little bit longer tonight.
We have fireworks.
We're going to play some music, Mayor.
What do you think of the 4th of July and how does it make you feel?
Give us your thoughts on this celebration.
Do you want to know if I have a tingle of my life?
Yeah, I'm Chris Matthews, yeah.
Like Nicole Wallace the other day.
We played that last night.
Nicole Wallace brings on our friend Obama and she says, I'm so excited to have you here!
I'm so excited to have you here!
I'm so excited to have you here!
Like a five-year-old.
And Obama said, I'm excited to be here!
He didn't even know where he was!
I mean, it really is getting rather pathetic, the condition that he's in now.
The 4th of July is, I mean, it's a time to just reflect maturely on the fact that we're extraordinarily fortunate to be here.
And if you need any external proof of just how great this country is, Particularly under the barrage of criticism that comes from the left, and including our president, who's not reluctant to tell us that we're systemically racist, which means we're evil, right?
Then if we're all this bad, why are all these people coming here?
I mean, why is it impossible for us to maintain a border?
Of course, a lot of them coming here are coming here because they're Chinese spies, or they're working with ISIS, and working with the cartels, or they're bringing in fentanyl, or this new stuff, Trankin.
I mean, it's disgusting what's happening.
But the reality is that people are suffering.
that the people are suffering.
In New York City, we have about 80,000 illegal immigrants now.
illegal immigrants now?
All new.
And they're finding different places to put them every day, Mayor.
By the way, invited by our mayor.
Invited to be here.
Now, allowed to come over the border by our mentally unstable, brain-deprived president.
But invited to specifically come to New York because they'll get much better treatment in New York than any place else.
Now, having created this problem, having been the most vocal about wanting to have these people here, he doesn't know what to do.
Well, Mayor, he told every illegal immigrant this is a sanctuary city and we welcome them all here and now all of a sudden Mayor Adams is crying poverty, begging for federal money for all these illegal immigrants.
So what changed?
He wanted all these people here and now he doesn't want them here anymore.
Well, I guess when God told him he wanted him to be mayor, he didn't tell him about this.
That's right, that's right.
So shall we?
You want to take a look at a few?
Continue to talk about the beauty of America.
Listen, you've given so much to this country.
We're going to show the fireworks and that around us, but the people want to hear from you, so if you wouldn't mind... Which ones do you want to show first?
If we're going this way, we're going toward Brooklyn.
And we're watching...
And Mayor, while we, while we, uh, it's playing and while we look at the fireworks, we're going to play Battle Hymn of the Republic in the background for your listeners.
Okay, good.
Oh, look at that.
So we're looking at.
Yeah, we're definitely looking at Brooklyn there.
Bye.
Thank you.
Bye.
How do I turn this down?
Without turning it off right away.
Those are, those are quite... Don't touch it.
Okay.
Hey, the music, how come it's not playing?
What's that?
It's playing!
You're just barely behind.
It's playing.
It's playing.
Yeah, it's playing.
We don't hear it.
It's playing.
Okay.
Your listeners can hear.
They can hear?
Okay.
So, am I finished?
No, you can still talk.
Because you don't want to.
Hallelujah.
Glory, glory, Hallelujah.
Glory, glory, Glory, glory,
Hallelujah.
His truth is you
I have seen him in the watch fires of a hundred circling camps.
They have built him in an altar in the evening news and dance.
I can read his righteous sentence in the linen flaring lamps.
♪ Bearing lamps, this day is marching on ♪ ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪ ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah ♪
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
♪ This truth is marching on ♪ Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on!
♪♪ ♪♪
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.
He hath loosed the gate for lightning, God with terrible swift sword,
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory.
Glory!
Hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah, His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps.
They have built Him in an altar in the evening dews and damps.
I can read His righteous sentence in the linen flaring lamps.
This day is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! This day is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! This day is marching on.
In the beauty of the living, Christ was born across the sea with a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me.
As he died to make men holy, To make men free, while God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
My eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.
He is trampling out the vintage where the graves of man are stored.
He hath used the faithful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
the the
Glory.
Glory!
Glory!
Hallelujah!
Glory God!
Glory God!
Glory!
Glory!
Hallelujah!
Glory God!
His truth is marching on.
I have seen him in the watchfires of a hundred circling camps.
They have built in him an altar in the evening jewels and lamps.
I can read his righteous sentence in the dim and flaring lamps.
His day is marching on.
Let's hear it for the great man.
He is trampling out the vintage where the graves of Bacchus go.
He hath loosed the faithful lightning of his terrible swift sword.
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His truth is marching on.
I have seen him in the watch fires of a hundred certain camps.
you They have builded him an altar in the evening news and dance.
I can read his righteous sentence in the linen flaring lamps.
In the limb and flaring lamps, His day is marching on.
Jory, Jory, Jolly, Jolly, Joy!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on!
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on!
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.
We are able to apply our God-given common sense.
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