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Jan. 8, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
02:43:52
America's Mayor Live (577): President Donald Trump Ushers in New Era of American Expansionism
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Edition, Ted.
And...
We are on episode 577. Wow!
That's 577 weekdays, Monday through Friday.
All right.
Over two years.
Everything they've thrown at you, we've never missed a show.
I just got to point that out.
There are so many things that have to be investigated in the next administration.
And it has to be done by the rules.
Not the way they do it.
I don't want to see any of our people, you know, doing search warrants that aren't approved by a court.
I'd like FBI agents to go back into suits rather than Gestapo outfits.
I mean, I never remember ever once, and I did probably more FBI arrests than anybody, and I never remember any of them walking around dressed up like soldiers with machine guns.
I arrested mafia guys who went out to machine guns.
They arrested Roger Stone with machine guns.
They put leg irons on Peter Navarro.
I didn't put leg irons on Fat Tony Salerno.
They're Gestapo.
The Biden regime became a dictatorship, including eliminating free speech.
Going after people, not just me, hundreds of people.
Now, here's one investigation that maybe will be overlooked, but it shouldn't.
I don't say it's the most important.
Maybe, maybe.
We now know what I've known for four or five years, because I knew the miserable pervert for 35 years.
And he's demented.
Seriously demented.
They knew it before he ran in 2020. So, of course, the press doesn't pay any attention to this.
And I'm so glad that I got the hard drive and was able to put it out, for which they're trying to destroy me.
Remember, the guy bringing the case for those women was Hunter Biden's law partner and a lawyer for the crooked company Burisma, organized crime company in Ukraine, that I uncovered.
Singularly.
You don't think they want to get me?
So this goes back to 2019. That's a year before he ran.
And this is in the hard drive.
On the afternoon of January 2, 2019, Hunter Biden continued a text exchange with his psychiatrist, Keith Abloh, where they started discussing a potential presidential run.
From Hunter's father, Joe.
Having discussed other Democratic hopefuls, Ablo declared that Joe was the only answer for the country.
After Hunter joked about a reporter's previous declaration that Joe was nothing more than the empty vessel for the idea of others, Ablo responded with a quote of his own.
I want you to hear this now.
This is...
This is in the hard drive.
You can see it in black and white.
Any man who can triumph over dementia is a giant.
This is in 2019. And as a doctor, think what he could do for our country.
He texted, talking about himself in the third person and referencing the possibility that the older Biden had dementia, a claim that Ablo himself made in 2012. Remember, Ablo in 2012. After Biden finished the debate for vice president, said that he showed signs of dementia.
I did not evaluate Joe Biden, but if someone said to me, we want you to do what's really required to know what happened there, you have to put dementia on the differential diagnosis, the then Fox News contributor declared, following what conservatives termed a bizarre appearance from Joe Biden.
At the vice presidential debate against Paul Ryan.
Rather than disagreeing with Ablo, Hunter seemed to acknowledge that his father had dementia, saying that Ablo was such an asshole, but that the quote made him laugh out loud.
Continuing to satirize himself and his previous public discussion, Ablo then added that perhaps he can help us remember all we intended to be as a people, since he can now remember his address.
Hunter declared that Joe doesn't need to know where he lives because that's the only thing the Secret Service gets right at least 75% of the time.
There are other discussions of the father being demented back in 2019. I want to remind you that in 2020, he said, That he remembered watching, as a young boy, watching Roosevelt on television, reading the funny papers.
There was no television when Roosevelt died.
And Roosevelt never read the funny papers.
It was Fiorello LaGuardia, the mayor of New York.
And he did it on radio, not on television.
But he remembers him on television doing.
Before the 2020 election, he claimed that he graduated or he went to a black college.
Not true.
He never did.
And then, of course, the most frightening of all was the little speech that he gave to a bunch of kids in which he talked about his experiences as a lifeguard.
And do we have that, Ted?
The one where he talked about enjoying the little children touching the hair on his legs.
Of course, that's from...
When was that from?
2020. When he was vice president?
No, no.
That was when he was running in 2020. Oh, my goodness.
I might have even...
Yeah.
So this is a very, very famous clip from about that time.
I want to see...
Maybe this is it.
I sit on the stand and it get hot.
I got hairy legs that turn blonde in the sun.
And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down so it was straight and then watch the hair come back up again.
They'd look at it.
So I learned about roaches.
I learned about kids jumping on my lap.
And I've loved kids jumping on my lap.
Now, if you had a chance to look at all of the photos in the Hunter Biden hard drive or actually his computer, which was put in a hard drive, I remember the first person who analyzed it for me was a young woman.
And she came to me, and I didn't know what was there.
And when I took a look at it, I was embarrassed that I had given it to her because there was so much pornography in it.
But her observation was, For an adult male, he seems to have a lot more children in these pictures than adult women.
And many of them were in sort of sexualized poses.
And two were just absolute child pornography.
And they were his niece.
We turned it over, Bernie Kerrick and I, to the Delaware State Police.
They had had it.
The FBI had had it for a year.
Plus, never did anything to protect the child, even though that violates Delaware law.
So when I read that the daughter said that Joe used to take showers with her, I said to myself, this is a family of perverts, and they can get away with anything.
Who the heck ignores child pornography?
Just because he's a senator or whatever the hell he is.
I mean, this is a really bad guy.
Not to mention the $50 million in bribes that he whacked up with his son.
Remember, his son in December 25th, can't forget it, 2018, texts his daughter, Hunter's daughter, that for 30 years, I've paid all the expenses of the family.
And I still have to give half of all of my income to Pop.
Now, I don't know what you need to prove that there's evidence that he received money.
That's called evidence, what I just mentioned to you.
In fact, it even has a description in the law.
It's called an admission.
And admission is allowed in evidence as an exception to the hearsay rule.
And judges often charge juries.
That an admission that's offered, you know, without any prompting by law enforcement is much more convincing than a confession because there's no pressure.
Now, you could say he was exaggerating, but anybody could be, there'd never be evidence if you were to say, oh, he could be, I mean, Sammy the Bull could have been exaggerating that he did 19 murders with Gotti.
And of course, you know, they argue that to the jury.
And then the jury decides it.
But when they say there's no evidence that Joe Biden got money, there's actually the most powerful evidence we can have.
And that is the testimony of the man who gave him the money.
And what did Hunter Biden get the money for?
He got the money to use his father's influence.
And the worst part of it is, unlike most of our...
Crooked politicians who take money left and right.
They took money from our worst enemies.
The vast majority of money comes from Red China.
$31 million from Red China.
No wonder he gave up an airbase 400 miles from China.
Do you know who occupies that airbase now?
You got it.
China.
Had to do something for the...
31 million that he got, right?
Good riddance.
And stop all the silly stuff about, you know, poor Joe and poor America.
That's the real problem.
Hunter Biden's therapist said Joe Biden had dementia back in 2019. That's what it says here.
So now let's go look at all the people that covered it up.
What about the first stepmother?
She didn't know he was demented.
How about his daughter?
She didn't know he was demented.
How about the big drug addict?
He didn't know that he was demented.
Nancy Pelosi didn't know he was demented.
His two press secretaries, the two liars in chief, didn't know he was demented.
The president of the United States.
You've got an obligation to protect our country.
It didn't mean anything to them.
That should be prosecuted.
Because people should learn that it should never happen again.
I mean, the man could destroy the world.
Ronald Reagan used to say that the thing that frightened him the most about mutually assured destruction, that means that both Russia and the United States could destroy the world and therefore neither one will.
He said, well, that's fine, except if some insane person gets control of the buttons.
And then the whole theory, poof, and the whole world goes.
That's why in the nuclear age, you can't have a mentally deficient, cognitively impaired, that's such a nice way of saying it, right?
People that don't have any brains anymore.
I mean, the guy thought he was seeing dead people.
He pointed out a congresswoman who he had just sent a condolence letter for her death in the audience.
He walked off a plane in Cambodia thinking he was in Colombia.
And he greeted the Cambodian president and congratulated him on winning the election in Colombia.
Geez, you know, Cambodians and Colombians don't look alike, pal.
The point is, there are people that aided and abetted that, and they did a great, great disservice to the United States.
This incompetent criminal president probably cost more lives than any president in peacetime in America.
You look at the people in Afghanistan, right?
He took out the soldiers before he took out the civilians.
That's insane.
I mean, a nitwit would figure out you got to keep the soldiers there to protect the civilians as they exit in a country surrounded by terrorists who want to kill them.
Well, those people died and they wouldn't have died if we had had a president with a brain.
You know the war in Ukraine wouldn't have taken place.
You know that because Putin invaded three times under four presidents.
Bush.
Obama, Biden, not under Trump.
So had they not cheated and taken the 2020 election away from Trump, hundreds of thousands of people would be alive today that are dead.
Oh, here he is walking off into the sunset.
I see that one.
Did people see that?
Walking off, and Georgia Maloney goes and saves him.
See how nice Italians are?
Now, she's a conservative.
Well, the fake news.
Tried to make it as though Maloney was setting him up.
She didn't have to go over there to get him.
He might have gone up in one of those balloons.
Didn't they know where the hell he was?
He put his glasses on.
It makes him happy.
He's so happy.
He sees that guy there.
There he goes.
Goodbye, Joe.
Bye, my moron.
There you go.
What a class act by Prime Minister Maloney.
Nobody else is going over.
All these other world leaders, they let them over there.
The other ones, you know, were all COVID people.
They probably think they could catch it from them.
Yeah.
Look at this.
Look at them walk off.
They see them do it, but they're talking about look, but they don't...
They're trying to pretend it's not happening.
What would have happened?
You know, we met her.
We met her on Saturday night.
She came up and said hi to the mayor.
I was kind of annoyed she did that.
I want to see what he was going to do.
Oh, let him keep going?
Yeah.
What was he going to do?
We're going to get him one of those.
Yeah.
I'd have put a parachute on him and just sent them off.
And the sunglasses.
What the hell is he putting?
I guess.
Maybe they are looking into the sun.
Who knows?
Oh, I don't know.
We've got to keep...
We don't want to play...
We can play the one where he fell down at the Air Force Academy.
Imagine those cadets.
The commander-in-chief is there.
They're graduating.
And the commander-in-chief falls down in front of them.
That was bad.
Or how about...
Someone told me it happens more often than I realize it.
But I don't remember ever seeing somebody falling down going up the steps.
Yeah, actually I have heard that that does happen.
Do you remember?
Did you ever see it?
What happened to President Ford?
Did he fall up or down the stairs?
He fell.
He used to bump his head.
I don't remember him falling.
He used to hit people in the head with golf balls.
I mean, that's not easy to do.
I mean, it's not your fault if you hit somebody with a golf ball.
If you can hit somebody's head and hit them with a golf ball, you're a very good golfer.
In a way, right?
Who the hell can hit somebody's head with a golf ball?
I guess Donald Trump could.
Yes.
But look at this guy.
And they didn't know he didn't have a brain left.
Crazy, right?
You know, he was close to demented when he was normal.
That's right.
You've always told us that.
I told you a long time ago he was the dumbest man that I ever met.
I mean, ever met.
Including family, people, defendants I put in jail.
I don't remember anybody as big as jackasses as him.
But I'll tell you what.
I didn't know he was a crook.
I was shocked when I found out that he was a crook.
And it was handed to me.
Thank you.
It was handed to me by the Ukrainians.
I didn't go looking for it.
They hate me because I brought it out.
That's why they bring in that case with the guy who was Hunter Biden's law partner.
But it was handed to me.
Ukrainians came to me and said that Hillary and Biden And Obama were doing in Ukraine what they were accusing Trump falsely of doing in Russia, that the Ukrainians were colluding in the election, and that Hillary was developing a false charge against him in Ukraine, using Ukrainians to help her.
And when I began investigating it, the undercover guy came and said, and of course you know about Joe Biden's big bribe.
I said, of course I don't know about it.
And then he played the tape, showed me the evidence, and produced five witnesses.
And it was not just Joe Biden who got bribed.
It's the president then of the Ukraine, Poroshenko, who got away with it, which Zelensky knows all about.
So all these years now, we've been given Zelensky, what, $200 billion?
And he's got the goods on Biden.
Zelensky can just lean over to Biden and say, You know all that stuff Giuliani has?
I got the rest of it.
And he does.
He's got tape recordings between Biden and Poroshenko, the president of Ukraine, in which they completely fixed the case against Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden's boss.
The White House won't release him.
Four tape recordings in February of 2016. Hopefully Trump will release him right away.
So Biden now is almost spiteful.
He's doing everything he can to hurt Trump and the United States.
For example, he just closed off about 650 miles of offshore oil and gas possibilities.
With a provision that the next president can't change it.
Now, I really do think that's unconstitutional and it isn't going to work, but who the heck knows?
I mean, it's certainly going to hold things up.
And exactly why he wants to do that, I don't know.
He wants to do it because of global warming.
So I want to show you global warming at the White House today.
I'm going to show you, I mean, we really do have to worry about global warming.
This is really a terrible situation.
Ted is going to get that ready.
Also, you know, this carbon dioxide that keeps getting released into the atmosphere, really, really dangerous.
Now, that's the White House today, which really you can see how warm it is.
There you go.
Joe got up this morning, and he saw the snow, and he said he got a little concerned, and the first stepmother said, oh, we just put it there for fun.
It really isn't cold out.
It's actually freezing in Washington.
It's going to be freezing for the next month.
We're going to have a very cold winter.
But we're having global warming.
Because of carbon dioxide that's emitted, that half the scientists don't believe has a damn thing to do with warming the atmosphere.
Half of them think it's dangerous from the point of view of pollution, but not from the point of view of global warming.
And the other half think if we don't have it, we're going to disappear.
Because it provides us with the oxygen that we need in order to live and also for food to grow.
So this whole global warming thing, which they changed into climate change, is a big con job.
The mafia might have made it up.
I mean, it made Kerry into a multi-millionaire.
It made Gore into a multi-billionaire.
And they sell all the credits.
They make a fortune on a complete con job.
And meanwhile, people are starving as a result of it.
This money could have been spent on curing malaria.
This money, which actually kills people.
This could have been spent on hunger.
There you go.
There's global warming.
Did we show them, Ted?
Yeah, oh yeah.
It's actually quite a pretty picture of the White House.
Too bad it's still occupied by the perverted family.
I think there's any cocaine in there.
Or all that white stuff around.
You know, that's another one.
You know, that really was a tough case for the Secret Service.
Who the heck could have put the cocaine in the locker?
Jeez.
Couldn't figure that one out.
I don't know if you people aren't old enough to know about Charlie Chan, are you?
Charlie Chan was a movie, a series in the 30s and 40s.
And it was a Chinese detective, an American Chinese detective.
And he would solve these crimes.
And he always used to say, you know, the person you have to pursue first.
Is the person with the biggest motive.
So now, let's think about it for a moment.
There are a lot of people in the White House.
Who was the biggest drug addict in the White House?
Because that would be likely to be the one who has the cocaine.
Oh, I don't know.
Gosh, the Secret Service couldn't figure that one out.
Because they've been covering up for the Bidens for years.
The Secret Service showed up at the...
At the gun dealer and tried to take the records away so that gun crime would never be known about.
The guy had the guts to say, go to hell, I'm not going to give them to you.
And he gave them to ATF because he didn't trust the Secret Service.
And now they're investigating the two assassination attempts along with the FBI that tried to frame him for five years.
I mean, I hope you don't think.
That they're really conducting an investigation.
The first guy who shot and killed someone and almost killed Trump, he's the only guy in America, the only person in America who doesn't have some kind of a history of any kind.
Like, he was nonexistent.
I don't think he ever existed, that guy.
We don't know anything about him.
And the second one, Was clearly motivated by all of this Democrat demonization.
But they don't want to talk about that or lay it out.
Well, we're going to take a short break because Ted is going like this.
I mean, that's a universal sign.
That's a universal sign for break.
Oh, it's like a wishbone.
We have a live audience tonight, which makes it much more a lively live audience.
We'll be right back.
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While the getting's good, I mean, Biden did something that I don't know.
Well, no president ever did this.
I wonder if a leader of a country ever did this.
Completely opened his borders for three years.
Anybody could come in who wanted to, and you basically wouldn't be checked.
It's incomprehensible that he did it.
We have...
It's hard to say how many illegals we have.
The reason it's hard to say is...
You have the group that was stopped at the border, should have been incarcerated or sent back, but they were paroled to come back in three or four years.
So they got a parole date like 2029. I mean, that's absurd.
And then they got a ride to wherever they wanted to go.
So that's one group.
I think that amounts to about eight or nine million people.
Okay.
The second group are what are called the gotaways.
The gotaways are the people that they almost get their hands on, but get away.
But they have a record of them.
It could be even a name.
It could be an identification.
It could just be that they got away and they have a very sketchy, but they have something.
And that's about...
That all adds up to about 12 million people with the...
Ones that are recorded and the ones that are semi-recorded.
Now, we don't know anything about the Godaways.
And believe me, we weren't really vetting anybody who came in.
The Chinese are asked four questions.
I guess, you know, what do you want for lunch?
Who knows what they're asked?
Are you a spy?
They all answered no.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
Four questions.
And Biden took it down to four questions because they were being delayed in their illegal entry into America.
So we got it down to four questions.
So we got 12 million people, for sure.
And I would say if we know something about 2 million of them, that's a lot.
Now, here's the group they never talk about, and it's the most dangerous group.
It's the people you never see.
So in between all those border checkpoints, There's a lot of Texas and a lot of New Mexico and a lot of Arizona and a little bit of California.
And on the other side of the border are some of the most sophisticated and most dangerous organized crime groups in history.
And you probably don't know that.
The Mexican cartels, which over the last 20 years have become an enormously powerful And very, very well-funded organized crime group.
For 20 years, they've been working with the Islamic terrorists.
For 20 years, they've been working with China, making a fortune on drugs, particularly fentanyl.
And for the last 20 years, they've developed the biggest human trafficking organization in history.
America does more human trafficking, particularly with children, than any country on Earth.
Are you proud of that?
That's horrible.
And those cartels control the border.
They are like, think of them as well-armed toll booths.
You want to come over, we're not going to know if you came over, they are.
So now if you're a Chinese drug dealer moving fentanyl in, And you want to get your fentanyl across the border, which, by the way, they do in partnership with the cartels.
They're not going to bring it over at one of those checkpoints.
I mean, it's the jerks who do that.
The high-quality people, the high-value people come over where you don't get to see them, which is most of the border.
So while they keep us busy with 5,000 people coming in at El Paso, 20 miles from El Paso, 200 of them can be coming in with fentanyl, with children, with women, with arms.
They can be spies.
And they can be from ISIS and the other terrorist groups who have a 20-year relationship with the Mexican cartels.
But this has been a bonanza for them.
I mean, we did a pretty good job, even under Obama.
And then when Trump got criticized so much for focusing on, he wasn't going to let any Muslims in.
But what he did, and I know it really well because I helped to develop this program, he focused on the countries that had the largest number of terrorists.
And all he did was do much more extensive vetting for them.
So if somebody's coming in from Afghanistan, you're going to do a lot more vetting than you are if somebody's coming in from England.
Unless the person coming in raises some suspicion.
That was a good program.
It kept a lot of terrorists out of the United States.
And by the way, it was upheld by the Supreme Court.
There was nothing unconstitutional about it.
After all the craziness over how he's being so unfair to the Muslims.
It didn't apply just to Muslims.
It applied to any.
A group that was a terrorist group.
Now, it's unfortunate that most of them are Muslim.
But I didn't create that situation.
You know, I didn't create the situation that all the mafia was Italian.
It embarrassed me, but I didn't create it.
What am I going to do?
Look for mafia members among Chinese?
I would if I was stupid.
So, Biden did away with all that.
So there were calculations that had been done before all of this by Marxist universities like MIT and Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania.
And basically the calculation was that the unknown was anywhere from 50 to 200 percent of the number of knowns.
Varied very much by how active that year was.
So the more that came in that we had to deal with and process, you could assume more would come in unknown because they were using up the people that we would use to stop people at the border.
So when you consider that we had months with 100,000 people that came in, 200,000.
We had a one-year under Biden with 3.5 million illegals that we recorded.
The highest number before, I don't think, had even been a million.
Had even been a million.
I think the highest number was like 700 or 800,000.
He got to 3.5 million in one year.
Well, they had no time for anything else, which is a field day for the high-value, big money.
Entries.
The ones that China is going to pay you a fortune to bring in.
Or the ones that ISIS is going to pay you a fortune to bring in.
So we don't know how many of those people are here.
But let's take the 50% analysis, right?
That's another 6 million people.
And we don't know who the hell they are.
And we don't know where the hell they are.
And that's what got Christopher Wray, who could be one of the biggest scoundrels in history.
That's what got him to eventually, at the beginning of last year, go in front of Congress and protect his backside and say there are more terrorists in the United States now than ever before and we don't know where they are.
Now, that's a hell of a thing for the FBI director to say.
If he doesn't know where they are, how do I know where they are?
And what the hell was he doing when they were coming in?
He was sucking Obama's you-know-what and making sure that all of his crimes were covered up.
He was making sure that the hard drive never got out, which he held and concealed for a year and a half.
Now, that's a guy that's got to be prosecuted.
You can't let him get away with doing that.
He sat on that hard drive when Biden falsely claimed during a presidential debate that it was Russian disinformation.
20% of the electorate said if they knew about it, they wouldn't have voted for it.
So even before you get to the cheating on the voting, the fraud during the election concerning information ended up in a dishonest election.
So the first thing that has to be done is we have got to go back to border enforcement.
So I want you to take a look at, I want you to take a look at, yeah, let's just show them.
This is a little group of four.
So these people belong to a gang that we didn't even know about four years ago, and it might be now one of the larger organized crime groups in America.
It's known as Tren de Aragua, TDA. They began in the prisons in Venezuela and Los Angeles.
And the four you see there were just arrested on New Year's Day.
One of them is a high level.
One of them, Segundo Ocondo, the one on the left, in the left corner there with the little stars on.
Those are like a general.
So he's Segundo Ocondo Mejia, 39 years old.
Incalculable number of murders that he's a high-ranking member of TDA. And, you know, caught him coming in.
The Texas police.
Not the Federal Border Patrol.
Because they're not allowed to do that.
If we're up to Biden, even now, what is supposedly focused, at least four would get in.
And you can be sure within the next three months they'd kill, rape somebody.
The guy on the left, I think, probably kills the person a month.
This group now has their two big places in New York, particularly in the Bronx, and Aurora, Colorado.
And they're in Aurora, Colorado because the nitwit crazy governor of Colorado and the mayor of Denver are like Adams in New York, a super sanctuary city.
In fact, Denver, Colorado has more illegals per capita than New York.
So the illegals in Denver spread out because they mostly would trend Diaragua.
And they took over a town called Aurora.
And when Trump and Vance pointed this out, they were attacked.
And the governor said that there's no problem there.
And the mayor said there's no problem there.
And now there probably have been a hundred arrests of them.
And they control the town.
And four counties in Colorado are suing the governor for the damage that he's done to them.
Now, the governor is a very, very skilled dancer.
So we're going to show you him.
We should have shown this for Christmas as part of our Christmas program.
But he's Governor Feliz Navidad.
Can we give him a chance to...
Because he's going to be on Dancing with the Stars after he's governor.
Is this guy real?
Yeah, he's going to be on Dancing with the Stars.
Because we feature him so much, we've made him into a star.
Yeah, we want...
This guy right here.
I mean, would this guy frighten you?
If you were Tren Diaragua.
He's the reason why these people are getting killed in Denver and in Aurora.
And he convinced the media that Aurora was fine, that Trump was making it up.
Feliz Navidad.
Prospero año y felicidad.
How could the people of Colorado voted for that?
I mean, he's a nitwit.
A complete idiot.
And you know, by the way, the Democratic Party considers him one of their real stars of the future.
Probably there isn't a governor of Colorado who's got more people murdered than him.
But I guess that's now a sign of...
Success.
So these four, thanks to Governor Abbott, are now being held by the Texas law enforcement.
Now, in a few days, something unusual is going to happen that hasn't happened in four years.
The Texas law enforcement will be working with the federal government and will not be interfered with by the federal government.
In their attempt to stop people from coming in.
Yeah.
The Border Patrol had turned into like the ushers at Radio City Musical.
If you came in illegally, they'd find you a seat.
They wouldn't arrest you.
They wouldn't put you in a detention center.
They wouldn't even ask if you were, you know, a multiple murderer.
And that's why so many people have been killed.
It's tragic, but that's what's been going on.
And that's what President Trump has to stop.
And he's made very, very good choices, but I have to say none better than Tom Holman, who is going to be running that operation.
You don't want to come up against Tom.
The mayor of Denver said he would stand.
At the city gates and stop the border patrol from coming in and get arrested.
And Tom, you should have seen how Tom Holman's eyes lit up.
He said, well, fine, I'll arrest him.
Now, first of all, Denver doesn't have city gates, so I don't know where he's going to stand.
I've been to, it doesn't have city gates, jerk.
Ted.
Who's that?
The mayor.
I hope Feliz Navidad is with him.
He actually said at one point that he'd be with him.
But I don't know.
He probably doesn't want to...
Tom's got that look too, doesn't he?
Yeah, you don't want to mess with Tom Holman.
I'm telling you.
He'll change it in a couple of days.
We've had him on.
We've had him on a few times.
We've got to get him on here.
Maybe before January 20th, but if not, let's see where he is.
Just put him on, then we'll play it over and over again.
It's going to scare the hell out of people.
Yeah.
Let's catch him.
Let's see what he's done.
In my nation, it's to save lives.
Look at him.
There you go.
I don't even know what he's saying.
You know, you're scared.
In my country, and for children, that's why this whole thing needs to be fixed.
And you're the member.
Fix it!
We agree on that, but I disagree.
And he doesn't have to be confirmed.
They can't stop him.
They can't stop him.
He'll be there January 21st, probably on the 20th.
Ted and I had the opportunity as we were traveling around the last couple of months to talk to sheriffs all over the country, and they are so excited the Sheriff's Association is going to work with him.
So he will have not only the Border Patrol and ICE, but he'll have the sheriffs all over the country working with him to pick up the illegals, both the ones that are coming in now and the ones that we have to deport.
So, yeah, it's going to be difficult.
It's going to be tough.
But it's in about the best hands that it could possibly be.
I think I recognize her.
She's like anti-American.
He's the worst.
So I have to raise a question, and I probably get myself in deep trouble here.
But what's wrong with the Pope?
He appointed as the Archbishop of the District of Columbia, Cardinal Robert McElroy.
Who is a critic of Donald Trump?
I mean, Trump becomes president.
He points as the archbishop.
Somebody, I mean, how many archbishops in America, you know, get involved in criticizing the president?
I can't imagine too many.
So you pick the guy who is a critic of Donald Trump.
Here are some of his quotes.
I pray that President Trump's administration and that all of those state and local legislators that govern across the whole of the country will work together to make our nation truly better.
It is a demonic mystery of the human soul why so many men and women have a profound and visceral animus toward members of the LGBT community.
I don't know who they are.
And of course, he has denounced Trump and people in his administration, including J.D. Vance, for opposing illegal alien migration.
The pontiff is very close to him.
He also feels that he's very, very close to Biden, who's one hell of a Catholic pope.
And, of course, he announced during the election, interfering in it, that America had to choose the lesser evil of the two candidates between Harris and Trump.
Now, did anybody tell him that the real leader of the religion is not him, it's Jesus Christ?
Does he remember Jesus saying, you know, render to Caesar that which is Caesar's and to God that which is God?
So why the hell doesn't he get the hell out of politics?
And I'm allowed to say that even though I'm a Catholic.
He only has authority over me on matters of faith and morals when he speaks ex cathedra from the seat.
And when he does this kind of crap, he's not doing that.
Now, this is the guy that works with Red China to appoint bishops in China.
What the hell is that all about?
We get the communists to consult with us?
I don't know.
Maybe he should go read about...
Our Lady of Fatima, who came to warn us about the dangers of communism, Pope.
I don't know where this guy came up.
No, yes, I do.
This is what liberation theology did to us in South America.
And I am really, really embarrassed because the guy is a first-generation Argentinian, and his family comes from Italy.
I don't understand that he really doesn't like our country.
He does not like America.
America probably does more to support his church than any country on earth.
Why doesn't he retire the way Benedict did?
I didn't know that was a thing!
Is he still alive?
That was like a decade ago, right?
That is amazing.
That was a decade ago, and then we got him.
He's still alive, right?
Is he?
I mean, right?
We wouldn't know if he was.
We wouldn't know if he died.
He didn't remember.
It'd be a big funeral.
Pope Benedict, former head, former head of the Catholic Church.
They don't even want to say former pope.
He resigned.
Wow.
February of 2013. 12 years ago.
And of course, I don't think, but I'm not sure any pope would ever resign.
And I don't know that you can resign.
Such history, right?
This goes back thousands of years.
But I'm not sure you can resign.
When Jesus made Peter the rock on which he was going to build his church, he didn't say, you know, and you have, you know, resignation rights and a pension.
Hope.
Peter never got a pension.
They do that now?
These cardinals get pensions?
Of course they do.
The only way Peter got out of being Pope was they crucified him upside down.
So we've had a few.
We won't go through all of them.
Well, we will.
There's six Popes that have resigned from the Catholic Church.
Pope Pontian resigned in 235 to allow for the election of a new Pope after being exiled and condemned to work in the salt mines.
Pope Benedict the...
Fourth, I believe, this is what...
No, the ninth?
I and then an X. Is that nine?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's nine.
Sorry.
Resigned in 1045 after selling the papacy to his godfather, Gregory VI. His godfather?
I've never heard of that.
Pope Celestine V. Resigned in 1294 after five months in office, overwhelmed by the demands of the position.
That's an official reason.
What a flake he was.
And then Pope Gregory XII. Resigned in 1415 to help end what is known as the Great Western Schism.
I think we had two popes.
Oh, wow.
We had two popes.
So Pope Gregory blinked first.
Pope Gregory XII. Pope Silvarius, he was deposed.
He was deposed in 537 after being kidnapped by the Byzantine Empress Theodora.
And that would be my name.
If I were female.
Theodora.
She kidnapped him and they deposed?
Deposed in 537. That's different than resignation.
We'll have to dig into that.
And then Pope John the 18th?
Yeah.
He resigned in 1009, no reason given.
So there hadn't been one in a thousand years.
That's what, yeah.
That's very, very good.
Yeah, wow.
And that might as well be.
So how sick could he have been?
He's still alive.
He's 12 years later.
He's still here.
He reminds me of Joe Bonanno.
What about Joe Bonanno?
Joe Bonanno claimed for 25 years that he had a heart condition that would kill him if he ever went to court.
And he got out of about three cases as a result of that.
I didn't buy it, so I had a hearing in front of Judge Owen in Tucson, Arizona.
And I brought my own doctor with me, Dr. Weld.
And Dr. Weld testified that he had a stronger heart than anybody in the courtroom.
And we found notes from Joe to his doctor, telling his doctor what to say.
So Judge Owen, who was an honest judge, unlike some that we have now, held him in contempt and put him in jail.
For the first time in, like, 20 years, they put him in jail.
Wow.
And myself and my associates, once it happened and they took him off on an airplane to take him to the prison in Kentucky from California, we were afraid that, my God, he could have a heart attack.
Anybody could have a heart attack, and boy, we would be ruined if that happened.
You know, he lived another 14 years?
After that, he lived 14 years.
He never had a heart condition.
It was just completely made up to stay out of.
And it worked.
The stupid federal authorities just went along with it.
Or maybe he paid off.
I don't know.
I mean, it's amazing.
It is.
That is something else, Mayor.
But he never had a heart condition.
He just faked it.
He just faked it for all that time.
So I want to show you these two very, very good-looking gentlemen here.
Because Joe is making sure, right up to the end, he can do as much damage to this country as possible.
These two here, Moaz Hamza Ahmed Al-Aoui and Sula Abdul-Anam Al-Sharabi, yes, were bin Laden bodyguards.
And they were at Guantanamo.
Well, they were at Guantanamo.
Joe Biden let him out.
Along with how many others?
About 12 of these people who work with Al-Qaeda.
What the heck?
You know, they should have another opportunity to kill Americans.
Right?
Critically fair.
Well, what the hell is wrong with Biden?
Aside from being demented.
So somebody around him made that decision.
Probably not him.
That's the concern.
So who's that person?
Who's the person that lets people like this out of prison?
Someone in the audience says Obama.
Somebody said Barack Obama.
He's definitely a part of that.
And Barack Obama definitely has a soft spot for Islamic terrorists because he would never let us use the term Islamic terrorists.
Yeah.
Which was outrageous because I don't know how you defeat your enemy if you can't name him.
It's absurd.
We've defeated the Nazis if we couldn't say Nazi and identify them.
I mean, people would walk in and shoot five people in a recruiting station yelling Allah Akbar, and Biden would scratch his head and say, well, we can't tell what kind of a crime this is.
I mean, the guy is kind of telling you, I'm doing it for Allah.
How about the guy on New Year's Day?
If Obama was around, he would say, well, you can't say that was ISIS-inspired or Islamic extremism, even though the guy left in his trailer.
A copy of the Koran with a red marking on the passage, I think it's 9-1-1-1, that says from the murder of Muhammad that if you slay or are slain in the effort to spread their religion, you will be rewarded in paradise.
He pointed right to it.
So now I've got to figure out why he's doing this?
I mean, it's a big mystery.
I mean, this does not take Sherlock Holmes to figure this out.
It's all about perpetuating this sort of activity, and it's all about power for them, right?
It's not about protecting the American people.
It's about the quickest path to power, and they've made the calculation that...
You know, they not only turn a blind eye, but they're almost encouraging this sort of activity by not allowing us to talk about it.
The people we've let out of Guantanamo, including Bush who did this, have come back and killed Americans.
Yeah.
It's all about power.
Again, it's not about the American people.
It's about how can we shame Americans, guilt trip them.
I mean, in the case of Republicans who do it, it's...
Because they don't have the guts to stand up to the media.
That's right.
Yep, that's right.
The media has been able to shame us from telling us truth.
To make it sound like...
That's exactly right.
To make it sound like Donald Trump.
But for the media, right, let's go beyond that.
For the media, it's all about not allowing us to talk about these things because they want to perpetuate this sort of division and it keeps them in power.
It's not about protecting the American people.
It's not about looking out for the American people.
So it's 11 that were released.
That's disgusting.
Eleven terrorists were released, and they were sent to Oman.
I don't even know why Oman took them.
Oman happens to be probably the nicest and best country, Islamic country.
I mean, they are one of the few, if the only one who's actually had a Jewish...
Ambassador of the United Nations, at least as of about five years ago, unless it's changed, they're also the only one that allows Catholic churches, Protestant churches, and synagogues to put out markings.
So in Dubai, I think I'm right about this, in Dubai you can have a synagogue or a church.
Yes, of course you can have a synagogue.
I went to one.
So you can have a synagogue, but you can't mark it as a synagogue or a church.
In other words, you can't put out a cross or a Star of David.
But they do allow it.
Whereas in some other, like in Saudi Arabia, you can't.
In Oman, they allow you and have for time immemorial, because they're very, very different kind of tolerant people, they've allowed that to go on and they actually have Jewish members of their government.
They also have Iran coming in every month and killing their police.
Every month.
And of course, we can thank Jimmy Carter for that.
And I'm sorry to say this, you know, at the time that he's being eulogized, but it's too important to fake it.
This guy was not a good president.
And he wasn't a good ex-president.
He's anti-Semite.
Hated Israel.
Hated Israel.
I mean, Ronald Reagan got elected by a landslide because he got more of the Jewish vote than Donald Trump did.
And he got it because they couldn't stand Jimmy Carter because he was anti-Israel.
He's the one who started the two-state solution.
Which has consigned us to decades of not being able to solve the problem.
How are you going to solve the problem in the Middle East if you say to Israel, you've got to accept a country that wants to destroy you.
You've got to carve out your land and give it to a group of people who are dedicated to eliminating you.
Not just eliminating you, eliminating all the Jewish people.
Oh, and then we come next.
And we want to create a country of terrorists?
It never made any sense.
And it started with the peanut farmer.
Also, we can thank him for the reign of terror in Iran.
If the guy had half a brain, he would have kept the Shah.
We had the military power to do it.
We certainly were unrivaled at that time in the Middle East.
Nobody could have said no if we moved in Marines and said, that's it, out.
No religious theocracy.
Can you imagine how many lives would have been saved if we did that?
Imagine how many young American boys would have been able to live out an entire life if they hadn't been killed by Soleimani in Iran.
I mean, they probably have murdered more Americans in the last 30 years, I would think, than anyone.
It has to be.
I mean, in the war in Iraq, they were doing most of the killing, not the Iraqis.
They wouldn't have existed if we had a real president and not Jimmy Carter.
If Ronald Reagan had been in office, then they would have been turned out in a day or two or three.
They may not even have tried.
Remember?
They released the hostages while he was being sworn in as president.
And they did no advance during his presidency.
And that reverted somewhat under Bush because Baker was also anti-Semitic.
And anti-Israel.
Two, corrupted by the oil industry.
And then, of course, Clinton suckered completely by Arafat.
So it's been one after the other.
Do you know that they're predicting snow for northern Florida?
I did not know that.
Hopefully that impacts the Tampa Bay...
Global warming, yes!
Global warming.
Global warming in northern Florida.
Is that Jacksonville or is that the Panhandle?
It starts at about Daytona Beach.
That's north of us on the east coast.
And on the west coast, it starts at Sarasota.
And then it goes up to the Georgia border.
That could impact Tampa Bay.
They have a playoff game on Sunday.
So how do you feel about that, Ted?
You have a dog in that fight?
Well, we'll see.
Are you betting on someone?
I mean, I don't know.
I actually stepped back from betting since being with the mayor.
Because I'm against it.
There's never a big bettor.
I'm morally opposed to it.
The mayor really is.
And he kind of, look, I probably saved a few bucks.
Again, I never spent money.
I love betting on NFL games because in a way, you know, you like to win.
I can't stand betting on NFL games.
It is hard to do, though.
It is hard.
Especially because of the point spread.
I can't stand, like, my team wins, but I don't win because they didn't win by seven points.
I don't like that.
I think that's stupid.
I don't bet on my own team.
You're right.
I never bet on the Giants.
I told you the story about my uncle, right?
Tell me again.
Tell the audience.
My uncle, Rudy, same as me, was a New York City police officer for 27 years and a Navy hero in the Second World War, and my hero.
And he was in terrific condition for an 85, 86-year-old man.
And he fell down the steps and broke his back.
Otherwise, he probably would have lived at 95, like my mother did.
And he was in the hospital during the Giants' last Super Bowl win against the Patriots.
And he went into the hospital about two weeks before Christmas.
And unbeknownst to me, my uncle bet on every Giant game.
And my cousins...
Offered to help him make his bets.
But he didn't trust them.
I don't know why.
They used to all bet together.
So he would give me the money and he would tell me to go bet it.
Now, I had no idea how you do that.
I never bet.
I was a prosecutor from the time I was two years old.
And I had no idea how you bet.
And I was going to go ask one of my cousins to do it.
And then I decided, well, I've never done this illegal betting before.
Why would I do it now?
So, you know, maybe the Giants won't make this spread, and if they do, I'll pay them.
It wasn't that much money.
Well, they made this spread in six games in a row, and I had to give them a fortune.
And I kept pretending that I was betting it.
And I would give them the money, and I was starting to think about rooting against the Giants.
But I couldn't stand that spread thing.
It just drives me nuts.
Basketball too, right?
Well, I want people to see what is happening in my city because...
Have you seen this dog?
Let's take a break.
You want to see an interesting dog?
I'm being told I have to take a break.
We love this.
You think I'm in charge?
If it isn't Dr. Maria, it's Ted, and they tell me what to do all the time.
Oh, come on, but we got to show this dog.
That's a Trump dog.
How about that tie on that dog?
A lot of people think it's like a stuffed animal.
It's not.
It's a real dog.
That's Vinny.
That's Vinny.
We love Vinny.
Vinny the dog.
Look at him.
Hey, Vinny.
Don't you love him?
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I think it's going to be very cold, though, which is good enough to prove that global warming is really climate change.
Now, I believe in climate change.
I don't want you to think I don't.
Because spring, right?
Summer, fall, and winter.
I don't know what the big deal is.
We have climate change.
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This is Rudy Giuliani, back with America's Mayor Live and back with a world traveler.
Pauline, who has been on many times, as you know, has been missing for almost a month.
Yeah, it's been a month.
We've watched her on Instagram, actually, right?
With all those pictures, beautiful pictures.
And recently...
You did some religious quotations that I found very beautiful.
Thank you.
I have to tell you, going through a rather difficult time, some of them were very helpful.
Yeah, I agree.
I'm so happy you saw the same thing I saw in them.
Yeah, they were very helpful.
It's a joy to share it.
I feel like if I could find inspiration in it, other people can too.
The trip was really lovely.
We started out in New York, and then we flew to London.
Then from London to Copenhagen.
We were there five days before Christmas.
We saw the mermaid.
Oh, the little mermaid!
I love the little mermaid.
It was lovely.
We went to national art galleries and museums in every country.
So after Copenhagen, we went to Malmo.
And then from there, we went to Hamburg, Germany.
And we spent Christmas in Germany.
It was very lovely.
Were you there when the attack took place?
Oh, so I went to Germany.
The attack took place the day before I went to Germany, so we were a bit hesitant.
I traveled with my friend Ingrid.
She's in Vanderbilt Law.
You met her.
So we were confident.
I mean, being from New York, it's relatively easy to get around.
But yeah, Germany was lovely.
We actually went to a bunker in St. Pauli where all the Nazis would go when it was crumbling.
So it was actually incredible to see, and you felt so much from it.
It's like when you're reading a history book in school, you felt that things happened there.
I'd say Germany, there was a darker energy there, but it was beautiful to see.
An experience, like a midnight mass in German where they sing Silent Night and all the beautiful Christmas markets.
It's a shame that it's such a target.
Was it a Catholic or a Lutheran service?
I think it was Protestant.
Yeah, a Lutheran service.
They're very close.
The Lutheran church in Germany is much closer to Catholicism than the Lutheran church in other parts of the world.
They're much closer.
Romanized, I guess, you would say.
It was super similar to a Catholic Midnight Mass.
But yeah, the Christmas markets were lovely.
That was the whole objective of the trip, and we probably went to about 50. They weren't concerned.
The attack was an attack on a Christmas market.
Yeah, so I mean, we always had our eyes up behind our head, too.
We went to the relatively smaller markets.
They were all so lovely.
Like the mulled wine and all that stuff.
It was a great experience.
It's like when you read a childhood book, you're in it.
Highly recommend.
Germany is the country that probably preserved Christmas more than most others.
Yeah, it's super traditional.
It was a very traditional Christmas, to say the least.
But yeah, the bunker was such an interesting experience in St. Paulie.
There was so much history about it.
Aside from that, I saw like a Monet in every country.
So then we went to every art gallery.
Monet was following you around?
Yeah, I loved it.
He's one of my favorite painters.
And then after Germany, we went to Dublin.
So it was more of a fun city to be in.
So where were you on New Year's?
New Year's, I was in Scotland.
Wow, that's great.
What's New Year's like in Scotland?
Normally, it's very fun, but it was very windy there, so they had to cancel their fireworks show.
But it was another great place to be, another place that's very traditional.
Where were you in Scotland?
Edinburgh.
Oh, yeah.
It was very nice.
And then from there, we took a plane, we went over the Swiss Alps, and we went to Milan.
Wonderful.
I felt at home in Italy because my dad is from there.
It was great.
It was familiar footsteps.
But it's funny.
Out of all the countries I went to, everybody would talk to me in their language.
I was honored.
And did you understand?
It happened, yes.
German, yes.
A little bit.
I couldn't really speak back, though.
They couldn't speak back in German.
No, but luckily everywhere we went, everybody mainly spoke English.
I was talking to someone who has one of those things where it translates contemporaneously.
Oh really, like handheld?
Yeah, like we would put it in between us and we would talk and I would say, how was your trip?
And I would put it in Italian and then...
I don't know how they work.
I'm trying to find one.
I think I've seen an ad where they're making that with glasses or something where you can see or like lenses, contact lenses, so you can see what they're saying and it translates it.
Migrants.
No, I'm not kidding.
Really?
Probably.
Which one are we here?
I got it.
So actually, when a lot of the migrants were coming to town, some of the cities would actually They would give them the phone, and the phone would come with the software where they could...
So they have it, and I don't?
That is my understanding.
The illegal migrants have it, and I don't.
And I probably...
Judge Lyman won't allow me to get one.
He'll take it from me, so I can give it to those women who got $148 million.
Judgment against me.
I think it's the only $148 million judgment in the history of Georgia.
It must have been $148 million worth of damage, don't you think?
I missed it.
Did we already go over the European vacation?
We're not going to go over it again.
I'll tell you about it.
I do have a question about it.
Did Trump ever come up in your travels?
How is he perceived, maybe from any foreign news that you were able to watch?
What was your observations on that?
Between the states and what I observed in Europe is that the states, people are way more friendly, way more helpful.
For example, the airports, JFK is like a dream compared to some airports.
Yeah, record that.
You've never heard that before.
No, it's true.
It's like a dream.
True.
We had a connecting flight.
It was snowing in Scotland, and we were flying back to Copenhagen, and the snow kind of delayed it.
We missed it.
We bought new tickets, whatever.
But nobody would help us.
We were scrambling on fun.
But in JF, yeah.
And we were stuck in Copenhagen for an extra day.
Of course, we were Americans, or was it just in general?
Ethic in Europe is just way, it's not to an American standard, I'd say.
I mean, it's general.
It's not just, it isn't discrimination against Americans.
It's mediocre service, I'd say.
And nothing against Europe.
How do they feel about Americans?
Probably that they're in a bit of a rush, but that's very efficient in an airport.
That's why JFK, I say, is so much better.
Oh, you mean they think we're in a rush?
Most likely.
Yeah, because we want to get things done within this century.
I agree.
But that's why I kind of loved the trip, because it made me take a step back and move at a nice pace for life.
Right.
So I like the balance between both.
I definitely think the States is way more efficient in most things.
That's a change in Germany.
Yeah.
I mean, Germany was a decade ago and more extraordinarily efficient and very different than other...
European countries.
Yeah.
And it's become, you know, not quite as lazy as Greece, but pretty close.
Another thing, since you mentioned the things I've been sharing about God, I'd say Ireland was the most God-oriented.
Like, when you get off in the airport, it's like a scripture.
It's funny because the government has become, the government of Ireland has become very anti-religion.
Yeah.
We went to see the original St. Patrick's.
That was really cool, considering being from New York to see the original one is quite special.
I bet.
Yeah.
And walking on the street, you know, we didn't go out much, but we did do a pub walk in Dublin.
And then you're walking on the street and you see a sticker that says, God is love.
And I think that's really special.
And I'm happy that you could find, you know...
Uplifting and positivity.
Because it's true.
God and Jesus, they really renew the mind and give you a great outlook.
Did they ask you a lot of questions about America?
Not so much.
That's unusual.
Customs was really easy everywhere I went.
It's funny.
When we were in Dublin, my friend and I, my friend Ingrid, we pretended to have London, you know, British accents because we didn't want the whole American stereotype.
But it's not bad because like when you say you're from New York, it's not.
People are like, oh, that's so cool.
You go there and I bet you you represent the United States of America with class, with dignity.
So I wouldn't want you to tell them you're American.
Put on a good.
You know, you represent, I believe, you represent a successful country and they've basically failed countries.
Yeah, I agree.
Well, I never understood this.
Oh, we should see what Europe is doing.
Yeah, so we can fail like they do?
I mean, it's ridiculous.
I have to say, my highlights from the trip were the art galleries and museums.
I think that's really lovely.
I think the art galleries are terrific.
I think the history is terrific.
But Europe is history.
Yeah.
Got nothing to do with the present.
No, it's true.
And probably, unless it really changes, not much to do with the future.
I'd say the most alt-left, you could say, city was probably Copenhagen.
Because outside the museum, there was a modern statue sort of rejecting the fact that they're preserving stolen statues and stuff.
You know, it's like a middle finger statue.
It's ridiculous.
It's modernist.
I have to say, I should make an amendment to that.
The fact is that Eastern Europe is very progressive in the right way, meaning they are hardworking, they're very productive, they're extremely...
I guess they value their freedom because they lived under Soviet tyranny for so long.
So if you go to a place like Poland or Latvia, you're going to find a very different spirit than you are in France, where they think working 30 hours a week is very unfair.
And a one-month vacation, it really should be two.
And they should get paid overtime after 28 hours a week.
I mean, they're like falling apart.
And when I said Greece, I mean, Greek-Americans are the hardest working Americans.
The ones in Greece, I mean, they haven't worked in 100 years.
And it's not very much different in Italy, so I'm Italian, you know.
But in Italy, you say work, and everybody, work.
Well, hopefully our friend Kimberly is going to go over there and show them what hard work is like.
And maybe the future ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle.
We'll have to go visit her.
We'll have to go visit Mayor, I think, on a fact-finding mission.
I don't mind going.
I think it's fun to go to Europe.
What I find completely useless is trying to model ourselves on them or ask for their advice.
Why would you ask a failing country for their advice when you're a successful country?
Didn't they run out of money about 10 years ago?
Greece.
They ran out of money.
And they couldn't even borrow any.
Well, they don't work.
I think the Germans bailed them out.
The Germans are starting to not work.
Germany is becoming that way.
Are they paying their fair share, NATO? They better.
Yeah.
Want me to tell you a great story about that?
Oh, yeah.
So when Trump went to his first, whoever has 19 countries, G-19 or whatever, maybe it was NATO. He came in late.
Oh, they're all sitting there.
And the very officious woman who was the chancellor of Germany, remember her?
Angela, Angela.
And Trump loves to say Angela, Angela.
She was presiding.
And she said to him, Mr. President, you're late.
And he said, hey, when you're paying, you're allowed to be late.
When you're the one paying for this, you're allowed to be late.
Then he sat down and he said, Angela, you got the most successful economy in Europe, right?
I read about how great your economy is.
And she said, yes.
Well, I don't understand why you're a deadbeat.
She didn't know what it meant.
And he said, well, you're not paying your bills.
Some of these little countries pay their 2%.
You're paying like a quarter percent.
So the guy from Albania, Rudy, not Rudy, May, May, Eddie May.
He's a big fan of May and Julian.
He said, well, Mr. President always annoyed us.
He said, I know, little Albania pays two percent, Angela, and big Germany, you know, is stiffing us.
So we've got to straighten this out.
And that's when they asked him, you know, would he defend a country that didn't pay their bills?
I don't know if he meant it.
He said no.
Why would I defend them if they don't pay their bills?
Well, it's the encouragement.
Why would they start paying their bills if they know the United States is going to step in no matter what?
I call that great.
Sucker country.
We were the sucker country.
The suckers.
Because we always thought they were better than us.
Yeah, the same suckers that gave away the Panama Canal for a dollar.
We protect all Europe and, you know.
We charge them nothing.
You think they're going to mention that in Jimmy Carter's eulogy?
No chance.
That he gave up the Panama Canal and it's now be controlled by China, by the Red Chinese?
Well, we love having Paulina on.
We've got a few other folks to get to.
I wanted to mention I'm reading a new book.
I brought it with me.
I'm reading Melania.
It's pretty good.
I finished the first chapter.
My thing is, it's a new week, a new book.
A book a week?
Yeah, so when I left Germany...
Thank you.
That's a lot for someone like me.
I don't read anymore.
When I left Germany, it's so good for the brain.
When I left Germany, I got Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.
That was a great, great, great book to read after leaving Germany because it recounts true stories during times of the war.
And it's really interesting.
I always knew this, but they don't really teach it to you in history class, but they were communists, Nazis.
And you see, the book tells you how...
It slowly develops.
And it's a great book to read.
What's the name of it?
Say to you.
Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood.
So how recent is it?
That's a good question.
I mean, I got an updated version of the book, but I think it's...
I don't even think he's alive anywhere.
We'll go on Amazon.
It is a 1939 novel, so that's very important.
This came out in the waning days of the, I want to pronounce this right, the Weimar Republic.
Oh, 1939, Hitler was in charge.
Yeah, the Weimar Republic was gone.
But yeah, if the book came out in 1939, it was obviously you were talking about...
Oh, you mean it's about...
Yeah, I'm guessing.
It goes back.
I'm guessing.
By 39, by 39, he already possessed Poland.
That's right.
Already taken Poland.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's right.
So, what an interesting read.
You've just, you know what?
You know, we're always reading nonfiction on the news.
Isherwood.
Isherwood.
Christopher.
Write this down.
We're going to call it Paulina's Book Club.
We're going to start Paulina's Isherwood.
What's the name of it?
Goodbye to Berlin.
Anglo-American writer Christopher Isherwood So he must have been over there Yeah, he was So it gives you an idea Of how they turned How the Nazis took over Yeah, but it's very personable.
It's true stories.
Obviously the names he uses for the people aren't the same, but the stories are very much true.
Good.
We'll take a look at it.
I'll let you know how this one is.
So Amazon's dropping a documentary about military.
I know that.
I want to read the book before I watch the documentary.
Well, several people have read it and said it was very interesting.
Yeah.
The book was very interesting.
She's so interesting.
So in the first chapter, she essentially says goes against the grain, which is a great outlook for life.
No matter what you do, you do the opposite of what the majority does.
Well, Ted should read it because he got to know her father.
At the Super Bowl a couple years ago, right?
That's right.
Great man.
He's more into hockey and basketball than he is into football.
You were trying to explain football to him, right?
As a fan, I love talking and explaining football to people that have no idea about it.
It's fun.
It's interesting.
It pumps me up.
It makes me feel so knowledgeable.
It makes me feel so knowledgeable about something.
I'm an expert for once, right?
Watching football.
It's good.
Well, we'll take a quick break.
Paulina, I'm sure we'll see her again real soon.
Anytime.
She's terrific.
Thank you.
We missed you.
I missed you guys, too.
Oh, yeah.
It does feel like so long, but we did keep up with you on Instagram.
We texted throughout the trip.
Should I read the quote before I go, the one that you liked?
Yeah, I would.
I do want you to read that.
It might be helpful to you, too.
Meaning, out there.
So, it said...
Let me get to it.
So we have just a few more guests on this very busy Tuesday night.
Here we go.
God is saying to you today, just fight a little longer, my friend.
It's all worth it in the end.
But when you got nobody to turn to, just hold on and I'll find you.
I believe that was the one.
Yeah, that's the one.
Wow.
Very good.
Very good.
What a good quote.
Isn't that beautiful?
And that quote is quite true.
Give Paulina a follow.
What's your Instagram?
It's my name, Paulina Palladino.
So just give her a follow.
She's always got great stuff.
She does.
Very, very interesting and very, very diverse.
And we'll be right back in just a moment with another exciting guest.
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And we are back.
So tell us, Ted.
So we've got a great guest now, friend of the show, longtime watcher.
He'll always pipe in and give me some pointers or suggestions.
I would call him an expert on a lot of what's happening in the Middle East, but even here in America, as just a world-class real estate developer and a well-known person in South Florida and a great man, Chagri Canver.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you.
So, Tiger, tell us about your background just a little bit, and then let's talk about the subjects of the day.
Well, I came to this country in 1996. It's up a little closer.
It's a very sensitive micro.
I know it's hard to move those.
There you go.
Now it's all yours.
Anyway, I came to this country in 1996. I studied architecture, MBA, worked for an architectural company, worked for Deloitte Consulting, worked around the world for different types of projects, especially in the Middle East and up and running countries.
So I think I traveled over 100 countries in the world.
100?
Over 100. 100?
Where have you?
Now, Mayor, have you been to 100 countries?
Yeah.
That's right.
Yeah, just about.
Maybe...
Last time I counted, it was about 97, 98. Which was the most...
Most interesting?
You know, I... You come up with one, I'll come up with one.
The most interesting country.
Give us...
Kazakhstan was kind of interesting.
Oman, the place that they're sending.
How about Sudan?
I haven't been to Sudan.
Let me pick another one.
That was kind of interesting.
Some of the little South American countries.
How about Turkey?
Turkey, I was there twice.
Both of the times, I was there on a mission.
So I didn't really try to get a prisoner released.
And I met with Erdogan.
I was born and raised there.
And I didn't get a chance to really see it.
You know, I was there on business.
And it was very, very sensitive, nervous kind of business.
So I thought it was beautiful.
I thought Constantinople of Istanbul was beautiful.
1453. Yeah, I mean, beautiful, beautiful.
Just a history there.
Turkey?
Oh my goodness, yeah, sure, sure.
But I really wish I had gotten a chance to see the country, because I was there a long time, but it was all work.
We're trying to do a prisoner exchange.
So speaking of Turkey, Shagri, why don't you tell us, what is President Trump's reputation?
I'm sure they even know the mayor, Mayor Giuliani, but what is...
What is the feeling, if there is one, on the incoming administration with President Trump?
Especially what's going on in Syria, which is right next door, right?
Well, everybody is very excited of him coming on board again.
Turks love, I don't know why, they love three presidents love from U.S. Kennedy, Clinton, and Donald Trump.
Kennedy?
Kennedy, Clinton, and Donald Trump.
I wonder why.
An interesting combination.
Interesting combination.
I bet you the Kennedy one, part of it is just the media, right?
Even then, the global media.
I know.
Tell us.
Tell us.
Yeah, why am I telling you?
It's being sincere.
I think Donald Trump, President Trump, is very sincere.
And he talks about it, whatever he thinks.
And people receive it very positively.
And I don't know, like...
When I was in Turkey recently, they're all excited about him being back again.
So tell us about Kennedy and Clinton.
What are the reasons why they're held in such high regard?
Clinton is very easy.
There was an earthquake in 1999, and he came to Turkey.
That makes a difference, doesn't it?
Yeah, he was very attentive for the people who lost their lives, and that's why people loved him.
Because of that.
And Kennedy, I think it was just a figure back then.
Yeah, it was very dynamic, very dynamic.
And there was no TV, barely TV, no internet, nothing right back then.
So people just react with what they see a little bit and what they read.
I think that was Kennedy.
Now, how is Turkey now?
How would you describe the condition of Turkey now?
Well, strategically, Turkey is in a very difficult location.
You know, there are so many events happening every day in Syria, Iran, Iraq.
I think they all understood one thing.
You cannot do well in the region without Turkey.
You cannot do well in the region without Israel.
And you cannot do well...
In the region without Donald Trump.
Yeah.
I think Democrats made a horrible job for the region and messed it up more and more.
I think it's getting better now, even with President Trump's wind.
Well, I mean, Trump has a very realistic, very open and willing to deal with you if you're willing to deal with him.
Correct.
And there's not a lot of mystery to it, which I think helps a lot.
And I think President Trump and President Erdogan are getting along.
I mean, he is willing to talk to anybody.
And you have to be.
I always thought the criticism of him being able to deal with Kim Jong-un was ridiculous because he reduced.
Dramatically, the risk of nuclear confrontation.
Correct.
If you can talk, it doesn't mean you're going to completely eliminate it, but at least you have some ability to keep us safe.
Correct.
Yeah.
It's all about Trump.
So now, you tell me the most interesting country that you've been to, or the most unusual.
Well, I went to Africa.
Every African country was...
Different.
Sudan?
You're saying Sudan?
One of them, yes.
Now, why Sudan?
Construction.
Pardon me?
Construction.
Yeah.
Because Turks go to these weird countries to be able to execute the job.
Get the job done.
Turkey is known for construction, isn't it?
Correct.
Around the world.
Yeah.
In Kazakhstan, too.
Kazakhstan.
But you named what country in Africa?
That's a continent.
Sudan.
Sudan.
And, of course, there's ongoing issues right now.
There is Sudan and South Sudan, but not everybody recognizes South Sudan.
Is this true?
Correct.
That's a religious issue.
That's right.
And I think the U.S. is operating in a lot of these regions, special forces, correct?
Yes.
That's a Muslim-Catholic issue.
Oh, wow.
That is interesting, the Catholic element of that.
Well, you know, I mean, Africa is one of the fastest-growing Catholic countries.
Wow.
Which is why there are so many African cardinals now.
That's a good point.
That's been going on for quite some time.
That's right.
Africa and even Southeast Asia.
As Europe becomes secular and atheistic, Africa is becoming...
I think in Africa it's Catholic and in Asia it's Christian sort of mixed.
Protestant, Catholic.
Evangelical.
Yeah.
So before we let you go...
And the Catholics in Africa are very conservative.
That's interesting.
And so...
Because here in America, I would call them a conservative Democrat, but they vote Democrat in America.
I never understood that.
Who?
I know it probably goes back to Kennedy, but the Catholics in America that still vote Democrat.
Right?
It's changed a lot, though.
It has changed.
And President Trump, he's probably the...
President Trump probably won the Catholic vote by about 10%.
That is fascinating, especially with Biden being the Catholic attitude.
First Republican to do that in a while.
And, of course...
Ronald Reagan did, too.
Ronald Reagan, you know, the Catholics were a lot of the Reagan Democrats.
Well, before we let you go, Chagri, tell us, in your words...
What makes America so unique and so special?
As someone who's lived elsewhere...
That's a great question.
I've always loved to hear this because I haven't really lived anywhere else.
What makes America so unique and so special?
Well, whatever happened good to me, it happened because all in this country.
You know, this country gave us hope, gave us power.
We've been all recognized as being someone.
As long as you work hard, there's always reward in this country.
So I'm an American now, like I'm a U.S. citizen.
But long story short, Ted, if anything is going to happen, it's going to happen in this country for an individual and for their future.
I tend to agree with that, yeah.
That's wonderful.
That's what makes America great, what you just said.
And that's the wonderful side of immigration.
We keep getting renewed by new people who come here with the same spirit.
But in some cases, they even revive our spirit.
Because sometimes Americans can get a little self-satisfied.
Of course.
So somebody coming new can revive us.
Wow.
Thank you.
It's been 28 years, like I mentioned earlier.
Wow.
28 years.
It's like yesterday and what happened to all of us?
Immigrants?
I think we're all immigrants by the way, whoever lives in this country.
As long as we obey the rules, the law, being good citizens, there's future for everyone in this country.
Well, that's the spirit.
That's the spirit and that is just wow.
Well, thank you, Chagrin.
He's a big fan of the show, Mayor.
He's a big fan of yours.
He's not getting into it on the air here, but I just want you to know how much...
We got two more special guests, and so we're going late tonight.
Late night with Mayor Giuliani.
We'll be right back.
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Rudy Giuliani, America's Mayor Live.
We're going deep into soccer time tonight because we have such interesting guests.
We do.
But just if you give me a moment, I want to show people that chart there because it relates to the city of my birth.
And it's a tragedy.
That represents the number of people who have taken the police test.
And the change from 2017 to 2024. If that trend continues, they're not going to have cops in New York.
So in 2017, 18,463 people took the test to be a New York City police officer.
Now, you watch that.
It keeps going down.
15,000, 14,000, 14,000.
How about 6,000, 9,000, and 8,000?
That 18,000 has been cut in more than half at 8,177.
It means a couple of things.
It means there aren't going to be enough people.
First of all, the police department is down to 33, 32. I mean, they lie about it.
So 32, 33. So when I left at the height of it, it was 41,000.
And I did a lot of great things with the police department and the police department did a lot of great things with me, but I wouldn't have done it without having enough policemen.
I mean, the strategies like ComStat and broken windows theory and safe at home and all these things required, first of all, a sufficient number of police and then well-trained, intelligent, qualified people.
That 8,000 number indicates to me the quality probably has decreased dramatically.
Yeah, I mean, this is saying that the morale is broken.
And Adams has done nothing to change it.
In fact, it's almost worse because he was an ex-cop who was a phony ex-cop.
I mean, I don't know.
He was a cop when I was the mayor.
He even supported me for re-election.
However, I can't remember an arrest that he made.
Basically, he was a political bullshit artist.
And 8,177?
He should be ashamed of himself.
That's a reflection of how people look at the police department.
If it doesn't change, this is a disaster.
And when we finish, I'm going to tell you something very surprising, because running against him is Andrew Cuomo.
And it's quite possible, despite what I just said about Adams, we might go from bad to worse.
But we're going to talk about that right at the very end.
So now...
Well, we've got our friend.
You might remember her from last year.
She's been traveling all over the world.
So she's back here in Palm Beach, I'm guessing, for the season.
I don't know.
You're from...
Let's see what happens.
Let's see what happens.
Let's see what happened.
If you stayed this cold, you're not going to stay, right?
Yeah, probably.
She's a world-class gardener.
Global colding.
And she wants to come on.
She's a big fan of yours, Mayor, and the show.
You loved our last conversation when we had our moon landing.
By the way, the book just came out.
Do you remember when we spoke about space?
The book is out.
Art landed on the moon.
We officially launched art royalty.
This is what we've been kind of plugging everywhere.
And it's the very first art to land on the moon in history.
And it landed on February 22nd of last year.
Launched from Kennedy.
The hologram?
Yeah.
That's a hologram, but it actually launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9. It was aboard the Odysseus mission that was powered by...
So this book explains the mission?
Yes.
Chapter 22 explains the mission.
Like the previous, which is the final kind of grand finale of that book.
It talks about the Art Index, which was...
That was me as an intern at the Palais in Monaco in France.
The Prince Albert, which was fabulous.
So it chronicalizes my early days as a Sotheby's Institute student.
Many exhibitions that I curated, such as this, and the J.P. Morgan Library.
I've done a lot with J.P. Morgan.
They sponsored.
My show at the Guggenheim Museum recently for the Art Index, which was the major project that kind of crescendos in this book, where I was the first to put the old masters on the blockchain.
And they are now kind of like the blue chip indicator of fine art on the blockchain.
And so we basically authenticate the works.
That's hard, isn't it?
There's got to be a lot of fraud out there.
You know what?
Is there not?
We work closely with, it's called the Artist Rights Society in New York City, which is basically the watchdog of copyright for artists.
And it's a fabulous institution because it's by membership only.
They only work with the most prestigious artists in the world, the most museum quality.
And you have to apply to be a member.
They only accept you by membership and they basically go around and just, you know...
Contemporary works can't have to be easier to authenticate.
Yeah, well said.
Well said.
I mean, that's absolutely right.
And my master's degree is from Sotheby's Institute in Contemporary Art.
So throughout my career, I've worked with contemporary.
And that's fabulous because you're working with the artist.
You can authenticate everything.
There's no question about authenticity.
Old masters.
The beauty of this project on the blockchain is that we took the pieces that were previously in the public domain.
Like Monet, Van Gogh.
We started this probably seven years ago.
We were the first to put old masters onto the blockchain.
So it does exactly what you just described, which is it removes the question of authenticity because we are validated as the first to do that on the blockchain.
So I kind of ask you a question I've always thought about.
So if somebody does a great job of copying a Monet, right?
Doesn't it mean they're a great artist, too?
If they do such a good job that it makes it difficult, you can discover it, but it makes it difficult.
Well, I think that...
No, it's a great point.
I mean, there's actually...
I mean, I couldn't do it.
There's a term called...
There are appropriationists where they're deliberately taking art that has been already created and they're copying it verbatim.
Literally copying it verbatim.
And they're appropriating the art.
Okay, but that's a good thing.
I mean, but I'm talking about somebody who tries to fool you.
That would be called like a, you know, like you see it in the movies, like Thomas Crown Affair, where they're like...
Does it actually happen?
I don't see it in the contemporary sector, but I mean, people, you see it even walking through Soho, where people have like a Warhol, you know, on the side of the...
They have tons of Warhols.
You know, on the street.
Yeah, but they're not.
They're $15.
Right.
They're in the style of identical Warhol, you know?
And is it easy to spot those?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they're definitely, you can spot them a mile.
Right, right.
Well, I think it's a fascinating, it's like detective work.
Well, you know, it's really interesting because the current price record in the art market is $450.
Million dollars for the Salvador Mundi that was created by Leonardo da Vinci.
And the major issue with old masters is you just can't get them anymore because they're all behind closed glass in all the major museums.
I mean, you can't get them privately.
Yeah, you can't.
Private collectors can't even know.
I guess if they're great works of art, you want them available for people to see them.
Yeah.
I mean, it's great there are museums.
Even some of the great art collectors have taken their art and made it public in certain periods of time.
Right.
I mean, but, you know, like, great art collectors always want to own the piece.
It's just the instinct of great collectors.
Right.
And so they basically have a new way to collect old masters on the blockchain.
Right.
Where they can now collect the Mona Lisa.
And there's only one of those on the blockchain.
Right.
It brings a whole...
They can now collect that Leonardo da Vinci.
There's only one of each.
Yeah, only one on the blockchain.
There's only one in the real world, which is in the Louvre in Paris.
But, you know, that is a part of the public domain in the copyright.
So we authenticated that on the art index.
So because we were able to do that, we've gotten tons of back support through Wall Street reviewed as like the You probably are familiar with, obviously, Anthony Scaramucci from Skybridge.
He helped do the due diligence and make a recommendation for the art index as an investment vehicle for funds, pension funds, hedge funds, which is extraordinary because in the past there have been conservation issues and limiting factors that might not have been ideal for a school teacher's pension fund.
The floor price is pegged to the actual art market.
So it's available, the floor price is 1% of what the actual comp value is.
So there's transparency, there's a lot of upward growth, and the school teachers can now say, hey, we own this Mona Lisa and put it in their close works, you know, and then profit when they retire.
It's fascinating.
So how can people get art royalty?
It's now on.
Amazon.
And I do have to say I'm very proud of the fact that Pat Hackett, the editor of the Andy Warhol Diaries, was a longtime friend of mine.
I was on the board with her at the National Arts Club, and she edited it for me as a favor to help me finish this book that's been in progress for five years.
On the back here, you have Mona Stacey's limited edition.
What's that?
Thank you for asking.
That's actually...
You know, I've had a column in W Magazine for many years.
It's called Stacey Engman is a work of art.
And so it's always me posing.
I don't know if you can see it.
And this is a picture of me as the Mona Lisa.
So it's called Mona Stacey.
It just kind of ties into the work that I've been doing.
Well, thank you very, very much.
This is fascinating.
I love it.
We have now two books, right?
You can get Milani, and we can get Art Royalty, right?
Yeah.
All right.
We'll be back very, very shortly.
Yeah, but we'll be back.
It's our fun little guest.
You'll want to stick around.
Steven?
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This is Rudy Giuliani, back with another old friend.
Giant friend.
Let me get this right.
Prezioso.
Wow, you did it well.
I got a lot.
My goodness.
You could be Italian.
Not bad for a non-Italian Midwestern.
That's amazing.
That's your friend.
Dear friend.
This is the book I just finished reading that I wanted to tell you about.
I'm getting nothing for promoting this, and I don't even know the authors.
It says Tom Clancy, but obviously it's in the Tom Clancy tradition.
The authors are Andrews and Wilson, both of whom are military professionals.
And it's a fabulous book and quite timely because it's about a Chinese plot by a Chinese prime minister to attack Taiwan and to make it look like Taiwan instigated the attack.
And, you know, Jack Ryan, who is in all of the Clancy books from way back with the Hunt for the Red October, is at this point the president.
And his daughter is one of the undercover and intelligence operatives.
And it is quite interesting.
It teaches you a lot about China, about their preparedness or lack thereof, and it holds your attention.
It's a very, very good book.
It's called Defense Protocol, and it's a Jack Ryan novel by Tom Clancy, and I enjoyed it a lot.
So, Joe!
Mr. Mayor, it's been such a long time.
Yeah.
We've had so many great experiences together, mostly at the St. Regis Hotel.
Yes.
For election nights and dinners.
Cigar smoking.
When we were allowed to.
That's correct.
I mean, Brad doesn't put you in prison for murder, but cigar smoking, you'll go.
For sure.
And I'm here to support one of the greatest mayors of New York, but also one of the greatest people that New York has put out there.
Oh, you're too much.
No, it's true.
What's happening to you now is absolutely criminal.
So I just wanted to make that point.
Well, thank you.
And whatever can be done by me.
Well, your support and your friendship means a lot.
And the friends that stay with you at a time like this, you know who your real friends are.
You lose a lot of them.
Nobody knows better than I. You lose a lot of them.
No doubt.
They run for comfort.
They're afraid.
And, you know, these people, that's part of...
This is part of what they're trying to do.
I mean, they're trying to frighten people from, in essence, not just supporting Trump, but being part of the magma.
Well, it's even worse than that.
They're actually trying to physically intimidate and really try to hurt you financially, spiritually, and mentally in every way they can.
So I basically wanted to say...
Don't let them take the mind.
The mind is critical.
Honestly, they make me stronger.
I'm like the Forrest Gump of the hospitality industry.
I got to meet him in my blessed career.
He is and was the greatest.
Thank you.
I'm going to ask you a question from old New York.
Right now, I was just reading today that Andrew Cuomo is denying it, Every indication that he's going to run against Adams in the Democrat primary.
And he's ahead.
They didn't give the poll, but they said he's ahead.
And Adams got a lot of problems, but Cuomo's got a lot of problems, too.
He does.
He does.
And I have a certain amount of experience with the Cuomo family in that...
Governor Cuomo, original.
Very different.
Very different.
Extremely, extremely intelligent and extremely, extremely bright and well-spoken.
And I had a very good relationship with him.
I did his daughter's wedding at the St. Regis.
Oh, you did?
Yeah.
Was he governor then?
He was governor at the time and was fortunate enough, even though being a Republican, he wanted me there.
He asked me to be with him on stage at Madison Square Garden for his...
The DNC delivery.
And I told him, I said, Governor, I said, you know, I'm not a Democrat.
He said, that's okay.
I want you there, Joe.
I want you there with me.
And I did.
I went to support him.
And I always thought very, very highly of him and his ability to be across the board fair.
I think he was actually too...
He's intelligent for the electorate.
And his thoughts...
And somewhat indecisive.
Indecisive, yes.
Brilliant, but indecisive.
But a brilliant guy.
And I actually miss him.
He was a very good friend.
But, you know, you always say that the sons have a long way to go to be the father.
And in this particular case, it's not even close.
Well, we're not going to talk about Chris.
Chris is a different situation.
And he's a reporter, so it's different.
But Andrew...
My goodness.
I mean, so you look at what's wrong with New York, right?
Particularly the people that go out now with no bail.
I think there are about 5,000 to 7,000 people walking the streets that would be in jail if I were mayor or Bloomberg were mayor.
The law that did that was passed by Cuomo.
Yes.
Yes, it was.
He passed that law.
Yes, it was a big mistake.
And again, my wife...
Like everything else, he won't take responsibility.
My wife, 22-year veteran of the NYPD, is a sergeant, retired.
She's here with me tonight, Joanne.
Thank you.
And she makes the famous point that the minute they started to allow water bottles to be thrown at police officers and get away with it...
That's a very, very good point.
Was the time that it started to deteriorate and police officers had lost the respect of the people.
Why don't you go back and find that?
Are you thinking of the same one I'm thinking of?
I'm thinking of the time when they threw water.
It was an Asian police officer.
Yes.
And they threw water on him.
I think it was in Harlem.
They threw water on him.
And I expected watching that, knowing...
Five uncles who were cops.
He was going to turn around and beat the shit out of them.
Instead, he puts his head down and walks away.
And then I know a lot of cops, and I even defended him a little, saying things are different now and he had to worry about his career.
But you knew that that was a turning point.
And I think that the second turning point, I think that was before the mayor of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Gave up the police station to the riot.
100%.
But that, again, was...
As a former mayor, I said, I want to go there and, you know, like the Alamo, we're going to fight.
100%.
That was actually years after that particular incident with the water.
And it slowly declined to that point, which was almost a crescendo.
But now if you see what you have today in the police department when it comes to leadership, it is...
Criminal, what's going on.
Just recently, you had everyone in that whole administration just either resign, retire, or get fired, especially at the commissioner's level, all the way on down, chief of department.
We never had that before.
No, we didn't.
You look at those numbers that I put up before, they don't lie.
I mean, you go down from 18,000 taking tests, wanting to be a police officer, to 8,000?
Yeah, it's a sad statement in New York, and it's unfortunate because as you and I both, native New Yorkers, love the city so much, to see it deteriorate in such a precipitous way is terrible.
You're missed.
Let me say that.
You are missed.
The reason we could do the things that we did is the police department inherently back in 1990 and 1980. They inherently had great talent.
It just wasn't being utilized right.
Correct.
But you can be the biggest miracle worker in the world, and if it doesn't have great talent, you're not going to accomplish anything.
100%.
And that's what they're doing.
They're giving it away.
It's like the military.
But I think Trump will straighten that out.
I mean, once again this year, there are less people volunteering for the military.
Because the military, you know, You have to go through six weeks of training with a drag queen.
Yep.
It's unbelievable.
Common sense is not common any longer, and I'm hoping that he brings it back.
Yeah.
And I know he will.
Again, like Forrest Gump, I was fortunate enough to work for Mr. Trump.
I would not want to be in a foxhole with a drag queen.
No.
With Donald Trump, yes, but not with a drag queen.
I may have missed this.
You worked for President Trump?
I did.
I served six presidents, both in and out of office.
Reagan twice, Clinton twice.
And like I say when I say Forrest Gump, you know, Bibi Netanyahu, the Shah of Iran, served the Queen of Thailand, the King of Morocco, you name it.
And I've served them, including his honor, many, many times.
And Erdogan.
And I'll give you an anecdote on the Trump when I was working for...
Ivana and Donald Trump at the Plaza Hotel for a short period of time, two years.
We did an event in the terrace room at the Plaza that eventually went up to the ballroom, and it was the opening party for the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City.
At the time, they were promoting one of the big fights that was going to be the opening extravaganza at the Taj Mahal, and I was given...
As head of banquet services, I was given the two head tables.
Mr. Trump, at the time, President Trump, was sitting at one, so we were on point.
Everybody was there, had all of the top waiters with me, and served 20 people, two tables of 10, that morning breakfast at about 8.30, 9 o'clock.
All the top executives from Trump Taj Mahal to Trump...
The other Trump Hotel in Atlantic City, there were 20 top executives, president of casino operations, Donald Trump, Ivana was sitting there, and served them breakfast.
I got to know a lot of them.
One of them was the grandson of, his name is Edis, his last name was Edis, was the grandson of...
I believe Grossinger's.
Grossinger was the great Jewish resort.
Correct.
He was in the hotel business for many, many years.
He was top of top.
Grossinger's was worldwide.
That's a sad story because at 9 o'clock I served them all breakfast and at 10.30 they were all dead.
They all crashed on the Trump helicopter, not the Trump helicopter, but the helicopter that was bringing him back.
To Taj Mahal in New Jersey.
I remember that.
President Trump or Donald Trump at that time got on, had another meeting and was not on the chopper going back.
What a story, Joe.
Yeah, they took a third party helicopter.
He was supposed to be on that helicopter?
Yes, he was.
Well, that's the second time then.
The third time if you count the golf course.
So, you know, you say that God has a plan.
God saved his life that day.
I remember when...
How many people died on the hell?
I think it was 12. It was 10 or 12 that died that morning.
No, no, no.
It was before I was mayor.
It was 1988. It was around the time he was doing the ice rink.
That would be the period of time he was...
He took up Kocha's challenge and did the ice rink.
Yeah, I mean, Eric and Ivanka Trump at the time were babies.
I had them in my hands, one on the other hand, while Ivana was, Joseph, we need to move this, and Joseph, we need to move this.
She was very involved, hands on, with the decorating, with the events.
She came around quite often.
She actually recruited me from the St. Regis.
Again, a funny story.
She came for an event in January or February of 88. And they had just purchased the plaza at the time.
And I got a phone call the next day after I greeted them.
Because I even served as mom and dad at the St. Regis before we closed the hotel.
And April, she calls me and says, you know, Joseph, I'd like you to come over.
I want you to be here.
Director of Banquet Operations for the Plaza.
I said, Mrs. Trump, I said, you know, I'm really gratified.
Baby.
Baby.
I said, I really was gratified, but I love the St. Regis.
I love this hotel, and I really don't have any interest in moving.
Well, thank you, but if you have a change of heart, you know, come by and I'd like to speak to you.
So that's April.
June, we get letters in our mailbox at the St. Regis that they're closing the hotel.
For renovation.
They were doing a $250 million renovation at the time.
So immediately I went to go see the GM. I said, what do I do now?
He says to me, he says, Joe, he says, you know, if Mrs. Trump, call her, go.
And when we reopen, we'll bring you back.
So that's what happened.
I called Mrs. Trump.
I said, Mr. Trump, you know, you called me a little while ago.
And are you still interested in my service?
Was it still open?
Was it still open?
Yeah.
You were lucky it was still open.
It was in June.
I went to the plaza, and as soon as we closed the doors, I closed every box at the St. Regis, went to the plaza for the two years, and then I was recalled to St. Regis to go back to open every box when we reopened and do all the training for the...
And then you stayed at the...
Then I stayed at the St. Regis.
When did you retire?
I'm out since 2004. Yeah.
But now I'm doing private work.
Yeah.
Actually, security work along with my wife.
We have a little small security company.
It does event security throughout New Orleans.
You live in Florida?
I live in Palm Beach.
I have some clients down here as well.
Living on Sierra.
He's a refugee like I am.
Exactly.
The free state of Florida.
Thank God.
Refugee!
We're refugees.
The free state of Florida.
Unbelievable.
What a difference, huh?
Yeah.
And I'll never forget.
And what a shame what happened to our whole city.
Well, it's just a tragedy.
It's a tragedy.
And to see something knocked down, tore down.
In such a rapid fashion.
And I think the person that was really responsible was de Blasio.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
De Blasio was really responsible.
Adams probably would have been okay if he took over the city from me or from Bloomberg.
And you see his tone is changing, Adams.
He sees the writing on the wall.
A lot of Adams' problem is he's okay.
He's just not a great mayor.
Succeeding de Blasio, you needed a great mayor.
Who could revive the city.
And that was you, but they couldn't bring you back.
And I say this with a great deal of love because I can tell you one more anecdote and then I'm done.
But back in...
All right, I'll give you a couple.
He's got some air to him.
No, no, he's got some great ones.
This is a great Giuliani story and probably one that many do not know.
My mom was ill, took ill back in...
Was it 90?
I'm going to say 91 or 92. When was your mom in the hospital?
Do you remember?
Around that time.
Mount Sinai.
She did Mount Sinai a couple of times.
91 or 92, she had a triple bypass.
Correct.
She had a triple bypass.
His aunt's mom, Mr. Giuliani, was in Mount Sinai.
Yep.
And my mom, coincidentally, is in ICU at Mount Sinai.
With something that no one could figure out what was going on.
Some guy said, she was down here, and I said, Mom, I'm taking you back to New York.
We're bringing you on silent.
So we did, and somebody up there says, oh, she's got bone cancer.
I said, bone cancer?
Out of nowhere in bone cancer?
And then the problem with lungs, they were guessing, going back and forth.
She winds up in ICU and completely out of it.
And my dad is going up in the elevator, about to go up in the elevator.
I'm at work at the St. Regis.
And who walks on the elevator?
The mayor.
So my father, of course, recognizes him and says hello to him.
I don't know if you remember.
But he says, Mr. Mayor...
Now that you're saying this, I remember.
Mr. Mayor, he says...
I remember it now.
You know my son.
He says, well, who's your son?
He says, Joe Prezios from the St. Regis.
He says, of course I know Joe.
What are you doing here?
He says to my father.
He says, well...
Joe's mom, my wife, is in ICU. Absolutely.
He was getting off the elevator.
Instead of getting off the elevator, he says, come on, get back on.
I'm going to come up with you to ICU. And there weren't any people allowed in ICU at the time, but my dad was allowed.
And he came in with Giuliani.
The whole ICU stopped at the time.
He walked into ICU, went to my mother's bedside, and...
True story.
He said to my mom, you're going to be okay.
Said a prayer.
And they found out the next day that she had a staph infection.
An infectious disease guy came by and said, don't listen to anybody else in this hospital.
She has staph infection.
His name was Dr. Gumbrick.
Great guy.
Yeah, I know him.
They solved the case in a week with heavy doses of antibiotics.
And she was good for another 20 years.
She passed away two years ago.
How old was she?
92. But when that happened, it was in the 70s.
My mother died at 92. There you go.
So it was just a coincidence that he was there that day and took the time to go up to see my mom.
Which I was apparently grateful for.
Well, I'm glad I did.
That's a good one.
I'm glad I did.
Yeah, I'm glad you did, too.
I'm really glad.
Well, thank you for telling people that.
But that's the kind of man he is.
He means a lot.
And there's not many like that around.
There's not, and he's not going to tell me these stories.
He'll be the last one to tell me these stories.
So I am very thankful, Joseph, that you came on and told us this story.
Because there are countless stories like that with this mayor.
I don't want to get into the media and these people today, but thank you.
All I can say is thank you.
The media are prostitutes.
It's unfortunate.
They're prostitutes.
The other day, Judge Lyman sort of accused me of not telling the truth.
I saw that.
Which I don't do.
I tell the truth.
I'm thinking to myself, he's accusing me of not telling the truth.
And he walks out, and he comes back 10 minutes later and pretends that he had made the decision after I testified, when in fact, he's a liar.
It's a complete fraud.
I testified for nothing.
The whole testimony meant he had written his opinion before I testified, before my lawyer argued, and then he thinks I'm a fool, and I'm going to think that he wrote it in 10 minutes.
And he's accusing me of being a liar.
He's the liar.
He's the dishonest person.
They're the ones that say everything that they say you're doing, they're doing.
I'm telling the truth.
I can't imagine why I would lie about...
I've given them everything I know I have.
They've taken away everything I have.
They have no idea that, of course, it bothers me.
But I'm very proud of myself.
You wear it as a badge of honor.
I'm very proud of myself because I'm standing up in my country.
And they're acting like a bunch of Nazis.
They're worse than prostitutes.
And if we don't stand up to them, the country's going to go in that direction.
And I feel at least I'm playing a role in fixing my country.
And that's worth anything.
And so every time we get tested, it turns out I'm telling the truth and they're lying.
And then we got to do it again.
Like I was telling the truth about Russian collusion.
They were lying.
I was telling the truth about the hard drive.
They were lying.
I was telling the truth about Ukraine.
They were lying.
So how many times do I have to be telling the truth and they're lying for them to trust me?
Then they try to make everybody else believe their story.
And they pretend that Biden isn't one of the biggest crooks ever in American history.
The guy took millions.
Millions is probably an understatement once everything is revealed.
It's a terrible thing.
Of course it's terrible.
It puts a whole country at risk for personal gain.
The people that died because of him.
A lot of people are dead.
These people would have been alive.
100%.
The only thing, like I said, is a plan.
God has a plan.
Trump is part of that plan.
And hopefully he's going to be able to right a lot of wrongs.
That's an amazing story about the helicopter.
I had forgotten that he was supposed...
I remember the incident very well.
But I don't...
I didn't remember that he was supposed to be on the...
I'll tell you one more Trump story at the plaza, which is a funny story.
And it's not...
It didn't involve you, but it's a funny story in that I had to...
Wherever he went, I went.
If he was in my space, I was there and I took care of him.
So we had a kosher event in the palm court.
I'm sorry, in the terrace room again.
Right, I remember that.
And then it went up to the ballroom.
We sat down and it was at one of the...
I forgot the name of the organization.
It was American Jewish Appeal, AJC. One of the big, big...
And he was being honored.
He's at the head table.
And I have the head table.
Was this at the plaza or at the...
Plaza.
So now I'm at the plaza.
And, of course, it's kosher.
Kosher catered by Newman and Leventhal, I think, at the time.
And, again, I have him.
Where he goes, I go.
So he sits down.
At the table, 10 people, all very high-profile, high-asset people with him.
And I know he's not eating kosher food.
He's just not because he's being anti-Semitic or anything, but it's not for him.
And I know in advance.
What, you got to get a hamburger?
So listen, so now he sits down, he sees me.
How you doing?
How you doing, boss?
Okay.
He sits down.
Joe, how are you?
Okay, good.
He sits down.
No problem.
Now, the first course, I see him.
He pushes it away.
I think it's a solid.
In the meantime, I run down to the palm court.
Right.
I say, give me a steak.
And I want it burnt.
He has it just like the sole of your shoe.
He eats it burnt to death.
I say, give it to me.
It's for the boss.
So, of course, they give me the 14-ounce, 16. No, I know, but I had to use that.
So I give him steak and French fries.
Right.
So I go up, and I'm running into the ballroom with it, and who sees me?
The kosher caterer and the rabbi are standing at the door.
They say to me, Joe, Joe, Joe, where are you going?
You can't go.
Listen, guys, you got your guard.
I got mine.
I ran right by him.
I put it down right in front of him.
He looked up at me and winked.
He said, thanks, Joe.
I really appreciate that.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think by doing that, you decoshered it.
I don't know.
I said that day I was the Mishkiak.
Sure, I don't remember.
Yeah, I don't remember the rules.
I said that day I was the Mishkiak.
I told him.
I said I did the costurization.
But yeah, he's a great guy, great man.
Another guy, nobody knows him.
Nobody really, really knows him.
Donald Trump.
He's done more philanthropic things without his name.
Yeah, I knew that.
That no one could even imagine.
You know, the two of them were like twins on that.
He and Steinbrenner.
Yes.
Steinbrenner and...
Sinatra, same thing.
Yeah, they would love to do it and be anonymous.
I used to try, because a lot of it they did when I was mayor, they would call up and ask to help.
And I would say, no, I don't want you to say anything.
And I didn't for many years.
I did it at George's funeral.
George used to be like that.
They were very good friends.
He had a big heart.
And you had mentioned earlier, and again, one more.
Do we have time?
Yeah.
Have a little time?
This is a funny story.
You mentioned Secret Service earlier.
You were talking about the Secret Service.
So in my line of work, I've dealt with the Secret Service quite a bit.
A lot of head of states, a lot of presidential...
What's the first president?
You go back to Reagan?
Well, I served Nixon when he was not in office afterwards.
I served Ford when he was not in office.
I served Carter when he was not in office.
I saw Reagan twice in office.
Okay, so Reagan is the first president.
First president I really served in office.
And then I served Clinton twice in office.
You know he's the only president I work for.
Yeah.
I only work for one president.
No, I don't.
I was the lawyer for Donald Trump.
So we're doing an event and it's at the New York Hilton where I worked previously to all of these when I started out in training.
And I had the East Penthouse.
And there was a very famous Staten Island Indian, American Indian, from Staten Island who was an artist.
I forgot his name.
I forgot his name, but maybe...
Very famous in his art world.
And he painted Ronald Reagan and Mrs. Reagan on horseback in cowboy outfits.
As an American Indian hero with American flag on horses, all decorated horses.
Because he knew Ronald Reagan was a big horse guy from California, ranch and all.
But the painting was spectacular, beautiful.
It was up in the East Penthouse.
So now, before we serve the president, they always have Secret Service come in, check the food, check where we got it from, check everything.
They went through everything.
Two days and three days before for the presidential.
We go off to the East Penthouse.
Okay.
The day of, they have to do a sweep, and they clear the East Penthouse.
The East Penthouse in the New York Hill was probably 10,000 square feet, 12,000 square feet.
It's huge.
Duplex.
Now, what they do to Secret Service, they hire, they don't hire, they bring in people from West Point that have P-4 explosives with them.
They allow them to plant the P-4.
Throughout the penthouse.
Unbeknownst to anybody.
What they're doing is they're going to test NYPD's bomb squad dogs.
So these kids come in.
People from West Point come in.
They plant throughout the penthouse.
One in a book.
One underneath the table.
One in a couch.
One in a drawer.
Here comes NYPD bomb squad.
NYPD comes in with the two dogs.
Two labs.
And they release.
Search.
Here goes the dog.
Running all over the place.
They run, run, run, run, run.
First dog sits down, starts barking, carrying on.
Sure enough, they find the first P4. Second dog, on the second floor, they find the second P4. The third one, the second dog finds.
The fourth one, they find right away.
Boom.
One, two, three, four.
Everybody happy.
Now the dogs are still running, the dogs.
It's now that the two bomb squad guys are looking at each other.
They can't figure out why the dogs are continuing to search.
All of a sudden, the two dogs sit down at a coffee table, start barking again.
Now, they all know that the four P4 explosives have been found already.
So now they're looking at each other, Secret Service, the bomb squad.
What the hell's going on?
Now, the bomb squad guys go over, just to tell you the Secret Service conference.
On top of the table, there's a woman's purse, like that, on the top of a coffee table.
Now, they're all really scared.
What the hell could this be?
The bomb squad guy goes in, puts his hand in the bag.
Comes out with a.357 Magnum.
Wow.
They picked up, the dogs picked up the gunpowder.
Yeah.
A Secret Service agent, woman, Secret Service agent, left her pocketbook with her gun in the pocketbook on the side table.
They are good.
The dogs are great.
The Secret Service, I can tell you, may not be so great.
So it goes back a long way with sometimes the incompetence of the federal government.
You know, there's nothing like that when it comes to law enforcement.
Even the FBI. Same thing.
The rank and file.
When I did the mafia cases, the RICO cases, a lot of them involve having to prove homicides.
Now, homicide is generally not a federal crime.
So federal prosecutors and the FBI, they don't do a lot of homicide cases.
So I required the FBI. I told them, hell yeah, I'm bringing in the NYPD to do the homicide cases.
You don't know homicide?
No, no, we have a laboratory.
I said, look, when I came into office as mayor, and this is when I was a U.S. attorney, they were doing 2,000 homicides a year.
The FBI doesn't do 2,000 homicides in a century.
I said, these people really know homicide and stop being assholes.
We want to solve a homicide.
Let's go to New York City.
If they were to learn their lesson from that time, the collaboration between agencies like the federal government and the local government, maybe 9-11 might not have happened.
A lot of that is at the federal level between the CIA and the FBI. Let's see what happens with the people he's putting in.
He's got some very, very good and different kind of people who understand the problem.
I am so excited about Kash Patel.
I know him.
I know him really, really well.
You helped support him.
But it's wonderful to put a guy in who knows the problem.
He lives the problem, so he knows what's wrong with the FBI. He'll fix it.
That's right.
Thank you, John.
I love you.
You've got to come back and tell the story.
We've got to get his better half on him.
Go ahead and meet him inside.
She spent 22 years with the M.I.P. She's a lot better with it.
And number two, she's got to have great stories.
Well, yeah, we have to hear her stories next.
But she will tell you that Mayor Adams, as you said, never made an arrest.
They referred to him as a broom.
A broom is the person that would stay in the precinct.
And basically just sweep up, you know, as a cop.
So never really...
And he just went through the, you know, the test, you know, to get to where he was.
Well, that's why he didn't tell...
You know, people thought, well, this is going to really help the morale of the PD, the mayor, but the cops don't...
They hated him.
First of all, it's worse.
They don't consider him a cop.
They give him a politician.
He was so...
When he was a cop...
He was so...
Anti-cop.
Not only anti-cop, but he was a racist.
Yes, anti-white.
And he hated the white hierarchy of the police department, which was for hundreds of years.
Crazy.
In place.
Yeah.
And it just showed...
Turn that down.
He surrounded himself with his own kind, but I think it was part of his demise.
If you look at everybody that...
He surrounded himself.
Well, you remember before he got himself in trouble, he pointed out how all of his deputy mayors...
Yeah, look at the chocolate here.
Yeah, we're all...
He did.
That was not long.
So you're all surrounded by chocolate.
Have you ever seen this much chocolate in a leadership meeting or something?
I've never seen as many deputy mayors under investigation here.
Look at this last one with the police chief of patrol.
Yeah.
You know, four-star chief.
I mean, how to resign.
I won't say Americans...
People very close to the mayor have been telling...
Ever since I've been working with the mayor, I was always asked, who's this Eric Adams guy?
And some people very close to the mayor had said, this guy's going to be under investigation before you know it.
Oh, boy.
A person who you know very, very well and understands New York very, very well said to me, he's not going to make it four years.
I said, why?
Is he sick?
He said, no, he's going to get indicted.
Oh, boy.
Oh, boy.
Welcome, Joe, back for sure.
Thank you.
Great guests tonight.
What a great show.
Thanks for all of you sticking with us in the hour three.
Yeah, we had a great night.
A little, a little, a little, a little different.
And I see we put up there all the ambassadors that have been appointed by Trump.
That's quite a few ambassadors.
He's really...
He's moving right along.
I mean, I've never seen the administration get put together as fast as this one.
And they really owe it to him, to whoever has to be.
Whoever has to be approved by the Senate, I mean, come on, just get it done.
And from the Democrat point of view, give him his people.
And if he fails, you can criticize him.
You can't criticize him if you don't give him his people.
The only way I could succeed is through other people.
You have to surround yourself with smart people, otherwise you'll never succeed.
But that's the way we were in the hospitality business.
You always want to have the best people with you.
In order to be as successful as you can be.
Because you can't do it alone.
You can't do it alone.
It's an amazing way.
But the Republicans, they have all the cards.
Just make it happen.
Well, first of all, we have a lot more talent and a lot more common sense.
Well, we're going to be back tomorrow at 7 on the Rudy Giuliani show.
And that'll be on...
Well, they're all on X. Everything's on X, on MusX.
But we're also on Rumble, and we're on Facebook, and we're on YouTube, and we're on Getter, and we're on QUX, and we're on Newsmax, and we're on Facebook, and I don't know.
We're not on TikTok.
And the president-elect and I, Disagree about that.
TikTok, out.
Get all the Chinese spies out.
Throw them out.
I don't want them reporting to Xi Jinping.
Just force them to sell a company.
Yeah.
I mean, out.
Goodbye.
We let the Chinese immigrants trade us too damn much, and Trump has got to just relentlessly throw them the hell out and get them out of our universities and get them out of our country because they're trying to destroy us.
I worked a lot on Russian spies when I was in the Justice Department, helped to create Pfizer.
And a lot of that was for Russian spies.
And the Russians were nowhere near as creative and as determined as the Chinese.
Their infiltration of our government and our businesses and our universities and our unions.
Hollywood.
They own a third of Hollywood.
You can't do an anti-Chinese movie.
You're underwriting.
Is this book here?
This book here, which would make a great movie?
I bet they don't make it a movie.
Because it's about the homicidal tendencies of the Chinese Communist Party.
I mean, they just love to kill people.
They disappear.
They have killed 100,000, 100 million of their own people.
100,000, my God.
100 million of their own people.
They call the population control.
Yeah.
You know, Fauci once said during COVID, that's when I knew he was a communist.
Fauci said, you know, the Chinese wouldn't have just deliberately done this.
They don't want to kill their own people.
And I was saying to myself, what are you, crazy?
You little rat?
I mean, the Chinese didn't want to kill their own people.
If you walk into Xi Jinping and say 5 million Chinese just died, he's a good population.
Remember when they used to kill the girl babies?
That's like Herod, you know, unbelievable.
Well, we could go on all night, in which case...
The Uyghurs?
Yeah, eliminating them.
We could go on all night and everybody but Joe and me would be asleep.
Like we used to do at the St. Regis.
We'd have a drink.
We'd have a good time.
That's right.
We'd have a good time.
I always made sure you got home okay.
You did.
You had a good detail.
I did.
I had a great day.
They all loved you too.
Patty.
Yeah, Patty.
Patty.
Jerry.
Jerry.
Jerry was fabulous.
But Patty did the best rescue of me, of anyone.
So after I threw Arafat out of the UN, right, a couple of days later, maybe a day or two later, I was down, believe it or not, at the World Trade Center, and going from one building to another.
And this cab driver, obviously named Mohammed, gets out, and he starts yelling at me, and he says, basically, I'm going to kill you or something.
He starts running toward me.
All of a sudden, the guy is down and handcuffed.
She was good.
Patty was good.
I don't know if she played football.
She tackled him.
I go crazy when I watch the cops having such difficulty, you know, cuffing people.
It's very difficult to do that.
Patty tackled him, turned him over.
He's a little fat guy.
She turned him over, and boom!
She put the handcuffs on him, and the guy was so fat, and he had little arms.
They could hardly...
I think she broke his arms.
Good.
She put it behind him, and...
She got it over in seconds.
I looked at all the big guys and I said, see?
Yeah, Bo was standing there looking at it.
And John Uvane.
Yeah, John Uvane.
Tommy Wilson.
Oh, yeah.
Wilson was a tough guy, too.
Oh, he was a tough guy.
I had very good people.
They were all real cops, too.
Oh, yeah.
They all had backgrounds in different parts, but they were real cops.
Mickey Mouse.
Yeah.
They all had great stories and great backgrounds.
I love Carrick as commissioner.
You know he made me an honorary commissioner, you know that, right?
Carrick, all of a sudden, I get a call at 6 o'clock in the morning at Gracie Mansion, my press secretary, and she says, your new police commissioner just made an arrest.
I said...
And she said, this is going to be very, very tough.
The press is really going to go crazy.
The police commissioner tackled somebody and arrested him.
I said to her, Sonny, that's great.
That's great that he made an arrest.
I mean, this would be fabulous for morale.
And she said, you've got to stop him from doing that.
He sounds like a cowboy.
I said, well, that's why I put him there.
I needed somebody that would revive.
We had had three or four, four, five, six years of reduced crime.
I needed somebody who could continue it.
Jack Maples was big on that.
Oh, Jack Maples was great.
He was the operator.
Smart guy.
Great mind.
So, we'll be back tomorrow, 7, with the Rudy Giuliani, so 8, with America's Mayor Live, which goes on forever.
America's Mayor After Dark.
And we'll see what happens.
We never really got into describing in great detail the Jimmy Carter funeral.
We'll do a recap tomorrow.
Yeah, we'll do a recap of his administration in a minute.
May he rest in peace.
Yeah, God bless him and may he rest in peace.
And I did know him personally and liked him a lot, personally.
I just think he was a terrible president.
And here's the one thing I really disagree with.
I think he was a terrible ex-president, too.
Not helpful and in some ways disloyal.
He'd undercut the American presidency.
But in any event...
Very much like David Dinkins.
David Dinkins was one of the nicest human beings you'll ever meet as a gentleman.
But he was, as a mayor...
But the good thing for Carter was Obama and Biden.
And the good thing for Dinkins was de Blasio.
Yeah, that's exactly what happened.
Makes him look like a giant.
Well, thank you very much.
And God bless America.
It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
It 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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