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Jan. 25, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani

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America's Mayor Live (590): President Donald Trump Travels to Western North Carolina & California

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	Back to America's Mayor Live.
	And I think what we want to do is focus on, rather than reviewing the things in the prior show, which will pick you up in the end, because I never know how many are overlapped and how many aren't.
	And most of these things I select, because I think these are things you have to know, because you're not going to get them.
	I'm not sure you're going to get them.
	With all the surrounding facts elsewhere.
	I know you won't get this one with all the surrounding facts elsewhere.
	I'm not sure you're even going to get it from the point of view of anything positive except, oh, what a bad thing he did.
	Trump pardoned the J6 people and he pardoned all those people who were preventing people from exercising the right to the integrity of their body.
	Oh, how about we take a look at it from their point of view or the point of view of established morality for 2,000 years until it got changed.
	They were trying to prevent people from killing babies.
	Well, you may not agree with that, but that's what they honestly thought.
	And don't we prosecute people for intent?
	And aren't they entitled to have a good-faith difference of opinion about this?
	Or do you put the ones who are exercising their First Amendment rights to convince women not to murder their fetuses or babies from their point of view in jail, and the ones who do, who protest and break...
	Things, destroy things, burn things, including flags.
	Nothing happens to them.
	These other people, these pro-life people, go to jail for more time than just about anybody in New York City under communist brag.
	I mean, the president was commuting sentences of 10, 14 years.
	These people didn't hurt anybody permanently.
	I don't know of one that led to a death.
	I don't know of one that led to anybody going to the hospital.
	They say they interfered?
	Maybe brushing up against somebody?
	Maybe?
	Maybe not?
	23 people were pardoned by the president.
	He did it.
	I guess he waited a little bit on this because he did it for, I'm sure, so that the attention could be obtained at the pro-life rally today.
	But he had said he was going to do it, and boy, unlike the last congenital, pathological, insane liar, this guy is a complete truth-teller.
	He's doing what he said.
	You know, some of the pro-life people are upset with him because he agrees that there has to be some room.
	For people to disagree about this with regard to early stages.
	He agrees completely that at late stages it should be a crime.
	And that it's murder.
	A lot of people believe it's murder throughout.
	And have, you know, sort of...
	They may have voted for him, but they sort of condemned him.
	In fact, Paris today was very thankful for the pardons, but condemned him for the other part of it.
	Not harshly, but he did.
	So the president here is not making a political decision.
	He's doing the best he can with his conscience, like I do.
	I've struggled with this issue probably more than anyone because I wanted to be a priest, and theology is important to me.
	And I'm not going to get into it because I'd go off on it.
	I've got to get my friend Alan here.
	We could talk about it until four in the morning.
	But I can recognize when they go off the handle on either side, you know, when personally, I think abortion is murder and when personally, I think abortion is murder and wrong.
	And if you came to me, I would tell you you don't have an abortion.
	I'll help you find a way to take care of the child if that's the problem.
	If it were my wife or girlfriend or whatever or daughter, I would urge her in every way I possibly could other than exercising extortion of some kind.
	But because I do believe ultimately it's her decision.
	To a point.
	It's our decision in the early stages.
	But there's got to be a point at which that decision ends because the life of another person has now intervened.
	Now, some say at the beginning.
	I believe at the beginning.
	It's very hard to understand.
	But I also believe that it's reasonable to disagree with me about that.
	I do not think it's reasonable to disagree with me.
	Let me take you to the far end of it.
	At seven, eight, nine months.
	Which is what these wackos do.
	Who are murderers.
	So I think the president's position, which on mine is slightly different, I'm probably more opposed, but is a perfectly reasonable one in a country that has very sharply divided opinions about this, with many people who are good faith people, moral people, believe in God, and just have different opinions.
	On the other hand, there are an awful lot of troublemakers involved in this.
	On their extreme side, those troublemakers have now taken over.
	And they've pushed us to the point of no return.
	They've pushed us to the point of murder.
	When you terminate a six, seven, and eight-month pregnancy, you're committing murder.
	You don't have the right to do it.
	I don't care if you're a mother.
	You're not a mother.
	It's a rape.
	It's an incest.
	It's a whatever.
	The kid didn't do the rape.
	The kid didn't do the incest.
	You did or were a victim of it.
	If you're the victim, that's terrible.
	But why should the kid die?
	That's me, okay?
	That's my opinion.
	Why do you put these people in jail like they're Nazis?
	Because you think they're terrorists.
	That's why.
	Because you're sick.
	Garland, you're sick.
	You're the one who put them in there.
	Look at this girl.
	Beverly Beattie Williams.
	She's been reunited with her family and her baby.
	I don't know if you want to see the reuniting, but it's quite beautiful.
	It's quite beautiful.
	It'll make you cry if you see it.
	She was reunited with her family after being released because we have a president with a mind, a heart, and a soul.
	She was among participants who blocked a treatment facility in Florida, causing delays in treating a dozen people, including three who needed urgent care.
	Nobody died.
	Nobody got hurt.
	They were eventually able to kill their babies, just like they wanted to.
	The babies are gone.
	Her baby has been...
	Absent a mother for two years.
	I don't know what her sentence was.
	I think it was 10. This is a person who never committed a crime in her life.
	And all she did was yell.
	I think you go to hell for this, Colin.
	one.
	I do.
	That's what I believe.
	Here she is.
	Here she is meeting with her husband.
	who supported all throughout.
	They attempted to block abortion centers.
	Which, from their point of view, please try to remember their point of view, since crime does have a lot to do with the mental state of the alleged criminal.
	Murder halls.
	And one of them, I don't know if it was her, her crime was she put her hand in the door of the clinic so that you couldn't open it or close it.
	She didn't beat anybody.
	She didn't burn anything like Antifa did over and over again, all of which they got away with.
	She didn't murder anybody like Antifa and Black Lives Matter did.
	They got over and over and over again.
	I mean, how many times did Antifa and Black Lives Matter burn a building in 2020 for which nobody went to jail?
	They made money from Soros and Harris and Biden.
	They did far worse than this.
	What about this summer when they burned buildings in college campuses?
	Not one of them went to jail.
	She got sentenced in July 2024. I don't have right here her sentence.
	But she was in jail and let out by the president.
	One of 23. I think more are going to be let out.
	I think there are more that are there.
	They were convicted under the freedom of access to Clinical Entrance Act.
	Passed, of course, and signed by, oh, I guess exactly the right guy who should sign it, who desperately needed abortion as a backup, Bill Clinton.
	Anti-abortion activists criticized the Biden administration for protecting supposedly nonviolent pro-justice.
	I'm not sure these even qualify as protests under...
	Neutral First Amendment principles.
	They barricaded doors with bike locks.
	And they prevented patients from receiving care.
	No, they didn't.
	They delayed the care.
	Part 23. They should not have been prosecuted, said the President.
	Many of them are elderly people.
	They should have been prosecuted.
	This is a great honor for me to sign.
	It not only is it a great honor, Mr. President, I don't know.
	If you're willing to have me as your lawyer in front of St. Peter, this is like at the very beginning of my presentation for you.
	There'll be a lot more things and a lot more lawyers, but this might be the one that affects them the most.
	I don't know.
	Some had actually been released from supervision, so the pardon was in the nature of clearing their name.
	But some, the part was the nature of a commutation as well.
	So, we will endeavor to get some of them on for you, like we did with Kara earlier, and find out their personal stories.
	I remember some.
	I recall an 80-year-old plus refugee who was a victim of the Holocaust, who was put in jail.
	I may be wrong, but I think it was eight years.
	That's a life sentence.
	And what she did was, since she couldn't walk, she was sitting down protesting.
	So sitting down protesting, I can't imagine she interfered too much at 84 years old.
	Here's what she did, and here's what they all do.
	They make them feel guilty because they know they're committing a sin.
	Or at least any of those women walking in there.
	With this much of a conscience, knows they're committing a sin.
	And what the pro-life homicidal movement doesn't want to ever happen is for a woman to have to feel any guilt for an abortion.
	She's got to feel like it's wonderful.
	That's why they all applauded when New York approved murdering six and seven and eight and nine-month babies in the womb.
	They all applauded.
	That's really a good thing.
	Because they don't want anybody to feel guilt.
	If they feel guilt, the multi-billion dollar murdering fetuses and babies industry dries up.
	Ain't going to get no organs that you can sell.
	A lot more people who maybe vote against us get born.
	Let's try to keep them down and let's see if we can stop those damn Blacks just like the founder of Plan Life Manawana.
	Those Blacks really shouldn't even exist.
	And you're doing a good job of getting rid of Blacks.
	By the way, she'd be very, very happy.
	More Black babies are aborted, killed.
	Before birth in Harlem than a born.
	She really liked that, huh?
	So the pro-life pardons took place.
	The Thomas More Society, who I've worked with, the Chicago-based public interest law firm.
	Oh, Thomas More was the saint who refused to sign Henry VIII's pledge that he was the head of the Church of England.
	And he chopped his head off.
	That is the founder of the Episcopalian Church, Henry VIII, the guy who chopped Thomas More's head off, to which that bishop, Buddy Boop.
	Buddy.
	Whatever the hell her name is.
	Not a buddy of Trump, though.
	Not a buddy of human life.
	A tremendous supporter of massive abortion.
	Right up to the second of...
	Oh yeah, and no guilt for abortion.
	Just, you can kill him you want.
	And what a great time.
	What a religious leader.
	Wow!
	And completely ignores.
	Completely ignores what we're going to show you later about the illegals that they're getting out of the United States.
	Like, it doesn't matter if Lake and Riley gets raped and murdered, huh?
	Let's save the rapist and the murderer.
	How about the child molester?
	Bishop, you're good with that one?
	You're going to protect us against a child molester by teaching him the religion founded by a murderer and an adulterer?
	That could work well.
	Oh yeah, what are you?
	I'm an Episcopalian.
	How did your religion start?
	Well, this guy who wanted to divorce his wife because he wanted to marry a younger woman and also wanted to have male children.
	He kind of like divorced her and that got him thrown out of the church.
	But then he got tired of her.
	He saw a prettier one and he chopped her head off.
	He's the head of our church.
	No wonder they have only 400,000 people on a Sunday They used to be like 5 million.
	You're disappearing.
	You know why?
	You don't stand for anything moral.
	Nothing moral about what you stand for.
	Nothing that you stand for comes from the words of Jesus Christ.
	How about all this confusion about men and women?
	Jesus was confused about men and women?
	The Old Testament was confused about men and women?
	You know, Protestants used to lecture us Catholics that we didn't pay attention to the Bible enough.
	I think the Protestant movement should throw the Episcopalians out.
	I mean, they reject the first two chapters of Genesis.
	God, which Justice Jackson doesn't seem to have ever read, Genesis, helps her with the question she didn't have the answer to, which is, what's a woman?
	Well, a woman is one of two types of human beings created according to our creator.
	In chapter 1, verse 26 of Genesis, oh, he created them man and woman.
	Man and woman he created them.
	It doesn't say trans man or cat or whatever the other 57 genders are.
	I'm telling you, you should believe that.
	It's a lot simpler than going to get cat litter for a kid that says he's a cat and put it in a classroom.
	You know, if Trump doesn't completely turn us around, and he will, because we're being run by, we're being run, the country was being run by sick people, but dangerously sick people, like the Chinese communists are dangerously sick people, like the Venezuelan communists are dangerously sick people, and who are here now in record numbers, thanks to a dangerously criminal president.
	We'll be right back.
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	Well, we are making a lot of progress.
	Thank you.
	I'd say we are making a lot of progress with illegal aliens because a lot of it is changing around the rules.
	And this will pick up steam when you just stick with it.
	So yesterday we had raids and we went right into the sanctuary, but we meaning the forces of law and order and the people who are enforcing the supreme law of the land, which is the federal law,
	operating against Local mayors who are the equivalent of George Wallace during the resistance by the states to integrating the schools, which was a federal decision, which the states said they could each have their own decision about.
	And then the states were reminded that whether you like it or not.
	And however you define states' rights, and I am a very big believer in states' rights, and I do think in many ways they are enormously valuable, like in this abortion issue or in schooling or in decisions that have to be made as close to the people as possible.
	Now, immigration decisions are just the opposite.
	Immigration decisions are decisions that have to be made on the level of the nation.
	Because immigration defines your sovereignty.
	You take in the wrong people, they can undermine your nation.
	It's happened.
	So quintessentially, the decision about immigration would be a federal decision.
	Another example.
	Basic law enforcement is a fundamentally...
	A decision that is encompassed within what we call the local police power.
	It is presumptively local, not even presumptively state, presumptively local.
	So was education forever until we ruined it.
	And the communists convinced us to put together the Department of Education.
	You know, it was supported by one of the biggest known communists in Washington who worked for it for years and finally got it passed.
	A moron administration.
	And of course, it's been a complete disaster.
	But certain things, you know, you just...
	I love when President Trump says common sense, and I do have to say, and I know he hasn't stolen it, but I do have to say that was the name of my podcast.
	And if you listen to the end of the show, you'll see my description of common sense.
	I think it is a great, great way to define...
	How we should analyze these things because they try to confuse us so much.
	But think about this.
	If you're going to have a federal government and a state government, they have to have separate powers and shared powers.
	So here's a separate power.
	And the separate powers have got to be largely in the national government because the states are very similar.
	If one state has a power, all the rest of them have a power.
	And some of them need the help of the federal government.
	So the state has the biggest role, but the federal government can help.
	Like on law enforcement, right?
	Law enforcement is primarily the responsibility of the local and state authorities.
	And the federal government should play, when it isn't Biden, a useful role.
	So we should be all on board with regard to illegal aliens.
	They should have no place in America.
	Now, that may be too idealistic if we talk about illegal aliens.
	If we, in fact, have 15 to 20 million of them.
	I'm an ultimate realist.
	I had to be as a mayor.
	I do not pretend that we're going to easily get rid of 15 to 20 million.
	But I believe it's a wonderful opportunity for us to set priorities and to start small.
	Get great victories, and then who knows?
	Who knows?
	That's what I did with crime in New York.
	I started with the squeegee men, and I ended up with the biggest reduction in crime in the history of America.
	I started with a few people on Workfare.
	I ended up with the biggest reduction in welfare ever, and the most unique lot about it is 500,000 people working.
	So I'm a big believer in start small, make it work, and who knows what can happen.
	You'll improve for sure.
	You may solve it.
	So here's what you do.
	You do exactly what they're doing, and don't listen to the propagandists.
	Nobody is going after poor little Mary, whatever her name is, and her little baby, who are just struggling, trying to get by.
	She's doing sewing for everybody, and look, you know, okay, we'll have to deal with Mary someday, and we'll see what happens, and more likely than not, there'll be great sympathy for Mary.
	However, what about the guy in Boston?
	Who sexually abused like a dozen kids.
	And we want to treat them like Mary.
	Like it's good that the Boston police don't turn him in.
	It's not a crime that Boston has a rule and a law that says he can't.
	The mayor isn't committing a crime when the mayor says you can't.
	The mayor is not obstructing federal law.
	Now, I don't want to pick on Boston because I'm a Yankee fan.
	It's even worse in New York.
	It's even worse in Chicago.
	Is Boston the worst sanctuary city?
	Is New York the worst sanctuary city?
	Yeah, until a little while ago.
	Until Adams made a flip around.
	Adams really created the worst sanctuary city in the country because he tried to be the place that was going to get the most...
	For some reason, which I have to attribute to his not being as smart as he likes to think he is, he thought it was really a good thing if he got all these illegal aliens.
	And then it turned out he's spending more on that than he is on the police department.
	And it ruined his homeless.
	American homeless are being killed.
	I mean, they're being starved.
	And so are veterans to make room for.
	The 220,000 illegals that came in, not like the old illegals, which he confused also, where we vetted them, but we don't know who they are.
	And they are doing things in Queens and elsewhere.
	60% of the crime in Queens, Mayor, are illegal aliens, and you're still struggling with cooperating fully.
	The people of Queens that are on Roosevelt Avenue have a strip.
	They had a funny name for it.
	I don't remember.
	But before some riot was going to take place there or after a riot took place there about a year ago or more, Ted and I took a ride down there to look at it because I used to live in that area.
	When I say I used to, I lived in a lot of places, so I don't think I'm pretending.
	I lived in that area of Queens and commuted to U.S. Attorney's Office for about two years.
	And it's Roosevelt Avenue really heading ultimately to where the Mets play and where their tennis stadium is.
	And along there was a relatively, at one point, a beautiful strip.
	With an Irish area.
	And when you look deeply, you'll still see some of the Irish bars there.
	You look a little more closely, you'll see Colombian grocery stores and restaurants.
	And then if you look really even more carefully, you see shit joints.
	You don't know what they are.
	Well, they're drug places.
	And they're brothels.
	They're places filled with brothels.
	You go at the wrong time, it's filled with pathetic young girls wearing hardly any clothes, some of them clearly underage, being operated by the illegal alien mobs.
	Could it be Tren de Aragua?
	I don't think so.
	Tren de Aragua has confined itself and taken over a lot.
	It hasn't confined itself, but it operates out of the Bronx, and they're treacherous.
	Explain them at another time.
	So those people that live there on Roosevelt, they have written a letter to the president.
	And they said, please come and save us.
	And I have a way to do it.
	Because they did it for the people of the Lower East Side when I became mayor, when I became U.S. attorney in 1983, with the cooperation of Mayor Koch, the police department, and Congressman Green, who was the Republican congressman, who all wanted me to wipe out the drug dealing on the Lower East Side.
	Which I did by arresting them and taking them to the federal court once a week, where the next time they saw the street was four years later.
	Because every time they got arrested and taken to the local, like now, they were out in two hours, three hours, four hours.
	If it was more than four hours, they were complaining.
	People in the neighborhood became completely discouraged, stopped turning them in, and started to think that the police were corrupt.
	The police weren't corrupt.
	The courts weren't.
	Courts were made up of wacky, crazy, insane liberals like we have now.
	The prime one, the poster boy for it being, set them loose, Bruce Wright, who Ed Koch used to beat up mercilessly.
	If you think Trump can do a job on somebody, you'd ever listen to Ed Koch.
	And Ed would beat the crap out of him as symbolic of people who really didn't give a damn if New Yorkers got killed or not.
	In order to play the racial game.
	By the way, his son now has put all the judges on the court in Manhattan.
	He's the one who's responsible for the two judges that framed Trump, Mershon and Ngomoron.
	They would not...
	Mershon's never been elected.
	He's just been a creature of...
	He's been a puppet of the Democratic crooks forever.
	Sounds like it passed down because his daughter...
	Was making a fortune off that case, including half a million from the Biden-Harris campaign after he framed Trump.
	And a moron has been elected three times.
	How satisfying is it to get elected when you don't have an opponent?
	Thank you.
	It's about to get the feeling that maybe you're in Russia or Nazi Germany or China.
	No, no, you're in equally fascist New York, Democrat New York, 150 years of it.
	And that's what these people are asking Trump to deliver them from.
	The U.S. attorney in the East District of New York can do what I did.
	Once a week, take them to the federal court, see what happens.
	I don't know, maybe the federal court judges have become silly, crazy.
	Lawless liberals also.
	I doubt it.
	You're going to find a couple that aren't.
	Half the judges in the court even then hated me for bringing the...
	We're not here to do little cases.
	The other half loved it.
	We do big cases.
	We're federal judges.
	My answer was, well, then get rid of the statutes.
	Who the hell put you here that you were God?
	Please understand, as you have found out, Judges are not God.
	Many of them think they are.
	I learned it from a judge, the greatest judge I ever knew, who taught me to be a lawyer, Lloyd F. McMahon, chief judge in the Southern District of New York, who did great things.
	And as a prosecutor, prosecutor of the biggest mobster in the country, Frank Costello, when convicted him, argued that Rosenberg's case on appeal to victory in the Second Circuit.
	I can go on and on.
	Judge McMahon used to say the following, and this was repeated at every lecture I gave on leadership for five years, of which there were about 500. I said, very often, when someone becomes a federal judge, they begin to think that they were appointed by God.
	God put me here.
	Particularly the robes.
	Where they look like some form of preacher or angel or whatever.
	And then when they walk in, everyone stands up.
	Your Honor!
	Your Honor!
	He said, not all, but every once in a while.
	A few weeks of that.
	And they start to believe they were appointed.
	They were here by God.
	The law doesn't matter.
	It's their brilliant minds that had them selected as judges.
	That's much better than 2,000 years of law.
	He said the most important thing to do is to remind them they were selected for only one of two purposes.
	They're either a Democrat or a Republican, and they sucked up enough to either the Democrat or the Republican and sucked up more than somebody else in order to get appointed.
	Okay, that's why you're here.
	Cut the shit.
	I think as chief judge he had that conversation a couple of times.
	They should be entitled on the bench to great respect until and unless they start railroading people and destroying human rights, in which case they should be investigated and put in jail.
	And the ones who did it to the J6 people should be thoroughly investigated.
	We should spend as much resources.
	On trying to find out if the judges of the D.C. Court, if the judges of the D.C. Circuit, if the prosecutors in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office and their handlers in the Biden regime deliberately violated federal laws and therefore should go into the prisons, the gulags they had established for the J6 people.
	And if they are not guilty?
	Fine.
	If they're guilty, they should be punished.
	Now, they're going to have the advantage of being tried in a district that is by far the most warped federal district in the country, where you can't possibly get a fair trial.
	So I don't exactly know what to do about that, but it still has to be exposed, and these phony judges have to be exposed.
	What they did shocks the conscience.
	And the failure of...
	Other judges to react to it and discipline these animals is disgusting.
	I mean, you know how many Nazi prison guards we have in this country?
	Really amazing.
	What was the quotation?
	I don't have it just right.
	Was it Bonhoeffer or it just takes a few good men?
	Look up that quotation.
	I think you were referring to Nazism.
	When he said that, it's a very, very relevant quote.
	And to focus your thinking, it's very often to remember We don't have to always recreate wisdom.
	In fact, we can't.
	We've got to look at what worked in the past.
	Respect it.
	When we disagree with it, respectfully disagree with it.
	And then figure out the solutions for the fusion.
	Was it Edmund Burke?
	Okay, so this is one of the quotes often attributed to Edmund Burke.
	Maybe not his, and it's a little bit of a variation, but go ahead.
	It's close enough.
	The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
	Edmund Burke.
	Yes.
	Okay, yeah.
	There are other variations of it, but that's the one that's usually used.
	And it was used, I believe, by Klinghoffer.
	Oh my goodness, poor Mr. Klinghoffer.
	To this day, killed by Arafat.
	There's the quote.
	The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
	And maybe not-so-good men.
	I don't know if the Nazi prison guards were good men doing nothing or not-so-good men doing nothing.
	They weren't as bad as the Nazis themselves.
	He's enjoying doing this.
	Look at that picture.
	He's a man who's really, really enthusiastic about what he's doing.
	I don't even know which one of the Biden illegal...
	Unconstitutional, inhumane orders he's getting rid of.
	I mean, Mayor, we went from a president...
	Does it matter?
	We went from a president that we never saw, didn't even know if we had one, to a man who's probably the first one there and the last one out each day.
	And he's basically live streaming his entire presidency.
	We see him throughout the day from morning to night.
	Well, I am glad that these 23 people who were put in prison for somehow maybe I am glad that these 23 people who were put in prison for somehow maybe violating, maybe not violating what
	And receive prison sentences that I see here 42 months.
	30 months, 24 months.
	I see a lady named Eva Etel of Aiken, South Carolina, who survived a Soviet concentration camp.
	She frequently supported not so much pro-life, pro-choice, but imprisoned activists.
	And she used to attend the Faith and Freedom Coalition of Freedom.
	And she saw it as getting him out of the gulags.
	And she was at one and she got arrested.
	Maybe there should have been some understanding that she wasn't even part of the pro-life movement.
	She was objecting to the confinement.
	I don't know, maybe she got in the way of somebody.
	Do you think any left-wing activist in this city who gets in the way of somebody going into Columbia University?
	He's going to go to jail under Alvin the Crook Bragg, Alvin the Communist Bragg, Alvin the Coward Bragg.
	You know why I call him a coward?
	He wouldn't try the damn case himself because he's not capable of it.
	Nor does the completely disgusting Attorney General that we have.
	These people don't show up in court.
	I tried my own cases.
	I argued my own appeals, damn it!
	That's why they disbarred me.
	I'm dangerous.
	You know, I hadn't forgotten about it, but you sort of put her on the back burner with J6.
	But I remember the other very elderly lady, I don't know, she went to jail for three years, and she's like in her 80s.
	She's going to die in jail.
	They're just sitting there saying to these women, please don't go in and kill your baby.
	But they don't want any guilt.
	They want abortion to appear to be not just necessary in certain circumstances, but wonderful.
	That's a great thing.
	Nobody can criticize you.
	How horribly dangerous for the woman who has an abortion, by the way.
	If, in fact, at some point in her life she develops a conscience and she starts to say, What did I do?
	I killed somebody.
	You've heard those people.
	We've talked to those people.
	We've talked.
	Dr. Maria and I know very, very well in Pennsylvania a woman who was born despite the fact that her mother was raped.
	We'll say that whole thing.
	when they do the rape and incest thing, it's like, oh my God, you have to agree with that.
	The woman who was raped or with incest, you got to kill the baby.
	What did the baby have to do with it?
	Thank you.
	Why is that innocent wife not entitled to some form of protection?
	Don't we pride ourselves on protecting the weakest among us?
	There used to be a bunch of liberals who said that's how you define a society.
	Treat the weakest among us.
	Quite honestly, if you look at the statistics, the weakest among us are the unborn.
	When you end up with more kids aborted in Harlem than born.
	The gratitude for the pardons was terrific.
	I mean, the people loved it.
	But I gotta take it.
	I gotta take my hat off to the Catholic Church because very often I get annoyed at the Pope, who I'm not sure.
	I mean, he's a pope, obviously, but I'm not sure what the hell else he is.
	That liberation theology really fucked up his mind.
	Sorry, pope, but that's the word that applies to you.
	And I can say that.
	You're only my dictator or whatever in matters of faith and morals.
	And the stuff you talk about has nothing to do with faith and morals.
	In fact, a lot of it's immoral.
	Father Fidelis, a member of the Friend, distant fathers of the renewal, issued his own statement expressing gratitude to President Trump for the pardons.
	The pardons corrected the injustice of our prosecutions and incarceration.
	I don't agree with him, but I respect him for the following.
	But the daily and horrific injustice of abortion continues.
	And it must be stopped!
	At the same time, the Catholic priest leveled criticism of the president over his position that the state should decide abortion policy.
	Although it might be politically expedient to say that each state should make its own laws about abortion, this position is morally incoherent.
	We invite President Trump to abandon this incoherence and show himself to be a president of all Americans, born and unborn.
	There is a great deal of moral strength to that.
	But there is a great deal on the other side of what a pluralistic, true democracy is about, where even where you strongly disagree, you have to respect the opinions and the rights of others and not go too far, but go far enough so that you can keep yourself together.
	And Father, I love you for that, and you may very well be right.
	And you may be exactly where Cardinal O'Connor was, where if you don't oppose abortion completely, you're going to lose your immortal soul.
	I hope that's not the case.
	But I think the president has done more, by far, than any American president to save our babies.
	More than you could have ever expected.
	Maybe he can do even more.
	I understand your frustration and I understand your feeling.
	I also, having been involved in government for so long and understanding democracy and the gentle way in which it has to be dealt with, you gotta have some play here for a period of time in which a woman can make a decision.
	Gotta respect other people's rights as well.
	And then when it gets too far...
	Then you gotta insist, okay?
	That's my view, just mine.
	And we're a democracy, and I hope you respect it.
	I respect yours.
	Mayor, if we want to give you a live update, President Trump and the First Lady, Melania Trump, are in Los Angeles right now, specifically the Pacific Palisades, where they just met with firefighters.
	They are currently hosting a roundtable along with your friend, Ambassador Rick Grinnell.
	And of course, remember we've had him.
	And we've had Rick.
	they would not be here, I can tell you that.
	And-- - What is it, governor? - We're gonna override the call of permitting The only thing you have to do is get your state people, which should be very easy, because that's literally so easy to do.
	And I know the mayor and I know she's working very hard.
	It's called an emergency petition.
	And you can petition very quickly, and I just hope you can give them, because it's very rare that the federal government would be ahead of the state government, because the federal government, the federal permits are much tougher.
	But you essentially already have your permits.
	You can just go and go wild.
	Brad, as soon as you can get those permits, whatever you can do, if you can put that genius of yours to work on getting a permit, You'll be doing much better than some of the other things you've said, okay?
	But we do appreciate you.
	So, Mayor, could I just leave you with that?
	It's a big permitting deal.
	We're going to be back, and I'm going to put Rick in charge of just representing me for a period of time until we figure out exactly who we want to do it, whether we want a commission or an individual.
	You know, if you have a good individual, if you have a really good individual, and they are rare, But if you have a really good individual, it's always better than a commission.
	Because a commission gets bogged down a little bit, Darrell, right?
	So if you had the right individual, and I know we do, we have a lot of great individuals in this community.
	But it's an honor to be with you.
	It was an honor to be with your firemen before and your policemen.
	We met some great people.
	And these are people that are leaders and they're...
	It's a fantastic group of people, and they were very brave.
	I want to tell you, your fire people are so well thought of.
	You had big fires, and it was hard to put them out, but boy, were they brave.
	They were really fighting against a tough thing, and everybody in the country knows it.
	Everybody in the country knows it.
	And it was an honor to be with you.
	I'll be back and we'll work very hard and I hope you guys can start doing your clean-up starting like tomorrow around 12 o'clock, okay?
	Thank you all very much.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Thanks, Brett.
	So there we see the president.
	Look at the mayor is rushing over.
	You see, notice how the mayor is rushing over to the president's side.
	She ran over there.
	She was the first one to get over.
	She's everything we know about her and the governor.
	They need help.
	And he's bringing them help.
	And he's got those conditions, but I don't want to say anything about that because I know him and I know what he's trying to do.
	If you can't understand by now that this is a good man, there's something wrong with you.
	You really need help.
	You should go to some kind of a psychiatrist, psychologist, or re-education camp.
	And don't let these evil Marxists who are trying to...
	I think that's Daryl Issa.
	That's Congressman Issa, who we were just with not long ago.
	Yeah, maybe we'll call him tomorrow.
	Get a little video or tape from him for the next week.
	And of course, Rick.
	And he put Ambassador Grinnell in charge of kind of representing him.
	I mean, I really do wish he runs for governor.
	Well, you heard the interview with my friend Bill Simon, who ran for governor and tragically lost by 4%.
	I'm going to tell you a very strange thing.
	It's like, you know, suppose Ronald Reagan hadn't been elected.
	We might not be here today, right?
	We never would have maybe been able to get to Donald Trump if Ronald Reagan wasn't elected.
	If Bill Simon had been elected, this wouldn't have happened at this level.
	He was a substantive guy.
	I mean, Arnold was an Arnold.
	Big disappointment.
	Like Berlusconi was in Italy.
	I pick him and support him, and I've been disappointed more often than I haven't.
	Most people can't measure up to the demands of public office and to the Self-sacrifice of your own safety, your own best interests, very often your own political interests, that is necessary.
	By and large, if there's an endemic problem, and it's not always true, but by and large, there's a lot of public support for it.
	So to unravel that support, you've got to take a risk that you're going to be destroyed.
	And if you don't have the courage to do that, You don't have the courage to balance the need for that against the need for you.
	Because sometimes there may be battles you shouldn't take on.
	Because if you can get rid of your ego, there may be a need for you.
	You may be the only one.
	So you can't sacrifice it over a matter of principle.
	But when that isn't the case, and most often it isn't, you've got to fight for consistent principle.
	And that's difficult because, as I said, look at the schools now.
	Look at the complete irrational brainwashing they've gotten the critical citizenry in.
	Most black parents support vouchers for their children so they can get the hell out of the communists.
	They don't know this completely, but the communist-dominated public school system where their children are pawns.
	In a Marxist philosophy.
	And poorly educated, which now goes through early education, right through, unfortunately, the so-called, well, I would say the worst colleges in America.
	You could not pay me to send a child of mine to an Ivy League school.
	And I paid for going to an Ivy League school.
	And I'm not sure if it was a mistake or not.
	It wasn't.
	It was headed that way, but it wasn't quite there then.
	Certainly not like now.
	She turned out to be a very, very intelligent woman.
	I do remember earlier when my son was at not an Ivy League school, but kind of an equivalent, I guess, of some sort of Duke because he wanted to play golf.
	He experienced A certain level of prejudice in education.
	He also lived through the ridiculous persecution of those four kids for a rape that never occurred because women would never lie.
	Have we gotten over that?
	I don't want to get women angry at me, but ladies, you lie as much as we do.
	And we lie as much as you do.
	You see, when God created us, he didn't make us morally superior one to the other.
	So the prostitute that came to those Duke children was lying her backside off, and those children were destroyed.
	Still not having their lives put together.
	This is what Trump is trying to fight.
	It's all of that.
	It's the history of that.
	But I've never seen a better...
	More complete offensive on so many fronts.
	DEI, brilliant solution.
	Don't get rid of DEI. Well, yeah, get rid of it.
	Get rid of the people who promote it.
	Anyone in charge of it, anyone in charge of DEI programs is now on leave with an investigation of whether they're necessary for anything else, and then by the end of the month they can be fired.
	Oh, they're going crazy.
	But, you know, I love it because I knew how the deep state in Washington for four years was trying to kill us.
	That's not a figure of speech.
	Remember Butler.
	Remember the Palm Beach, the golf, the Trump golf course.
	And remember the fact that it wasn't a surprise.
	I went at the urging of Commissioner Carrick to the president a year before and said, if they would do everything to you possible to stop you from being president, some things that are so odious, they may never have happened before in America, like trying to take out an American president on a paid-for fall story, what would stop them from killing you?
	You and we and I and all of us are into something much bigger than we realized.
	We don't have any choice.
	We've got to keep going if we want to save our country.
	That's why I see in him now.
	Maybe you see it too.
	I see a joy that I haven't seen even when he was first elected.
	Sometimes there can be joy.
	It can be a bit childish.
	No matter how old we are, you know, we're entitled to it.
	This is joy almost in the biblical sense.
	Because no matter how confident he was, and I cannot tell you he ever expressed this to me, this is me, just judging human beings, there had to be some degree of doubt.
	And given the stakes, there had to be doubt.
	Because it was so important.
	What I mean by that is I knew he was going to win.
	Every political bone in my body, every logical ability of analysis told me he's going to win and he's going to win handling.
	And every emotion I had told me he was going to lose because of what they did to us last time and what I knew the press could do to us.
	Now, I suppressed it.
	It didn't affect my confidence that I displayed, nor that the effect is, but you can't tell me it didn't affect him too.
	And when we won, I was shocked when I woke up the morning after and I wasn't like giddy.
	I was very calm, very satisfied.
	kind of that kind of reaction rather than wow like january 20th when i was sitting in saint john's church with dr maria next to me and with uh vivek uh there and with um with um with so many of his family and friends and people who love him
	and he came in, and we were going to repeat the ceremony I remembered from eight years earlier.
	That's the first time I started to let my heart accept joy.
	And when we got to the Capitol, despite the fact that I had a difficult time with my knee that needs to be operated on, I got myself a really good seat, you can see.
	I got my camera out, and I was a tourist, baby.
	I took my own pictures.
	And Dr. Maria helped me.
	And I experienced probably one of the four or five most joyous experiences of my life.
	It wasn't just to see my friend win, and, you know, like a stubborn victory, we finally won.
	It was to see my country deliver.
	I don't know how many times in American history you'll get to observe that.
	I hope not too often, and I hope never again.
	But, you know, being a scholar, and I am of the Constitution, maybe not of history, although I'm an amateur scholar of history.
	Our founding fathers predicted this would happen.
	I really believe that, gosh, if I end up in heaven and I ask, did you think this would happen?
	They would say, hey, stupid, what the hell do you think we were warning you about?
	When we said, you can have a tyranny of democracy.
	You can have a tyranny of the party.
	That's what happened to the Democrat Party.
	And it was more likely what happened with their party than yours.
	The party was born in slavery.
	How come?
	I think one of them would ask me.
	Even Jefferson, who often is credited for founding the Democrat Party.
	Unfortunately, he actually founded the Republican Democratic Party.
	It's Jackson who founded the Democrat Party.
	But, okay.
	I'm sure Jefferson would say to me, you know...
	Rudy, I hope he may even call me Rudy, whatever he would call me.
	Mrs. Murray.
	I told you what happened.
	And then Hamilton, who did I go along with and say, I told you too, jerk.
	Mr. Paul, Mr. Peters, Mr. Reed, Mr. Rick.
	And then, you know, then it was Trump who turned it around and saved us.
	Like Lincoln saved us.
	Mike Washington saved us.
	Mike Jefferson saved us.
	Now Trump, who has the extra mark of God having saved him.
	I'll push that all aside.
	At least ponder it.
	It might get you to a level of wisdom you've never had before.
	His performance at Davos.
	I don't know if you agreed with him or not.
	He stood up in front of the world, in front of the richest oligarchs of a Western type, some of whom are positively anti-democratic, some of whom are descendants of Nazis.
	And he told them off in a very, very businesslike.
	And nice.
	Well, not nice, but a very businesslike way.
	He disagreed.
	I'd have to go look.
	I don't know what he missed of their agenda that he disagreed with.
	Disagreed with their agenda.
	Attributed to them in the EU as a structure in Western Europe.
	Basically called them cowards.
	And then when he had a chance to have one of his own who was...
	Who was complimenting him?
	He said, will you stop discriminating against conservatives in your bank?
	Who the hell would do that?
	I'll tell you who.
	Theodore Roosevelt.
	Abraham Lincoln.
	They're both Republicans.
	I wonder if that has something in common.
	So, as Charles Gasparino says today in a fascinating, almost like two columns, it was a very Trumpy speech.
	The globalist crowd, the Donald dominated every conversation at the Global Forum as he walked around.
	Isn't this fascinating?
	The globalist crowd is scared.
	To the death of the Donalds.
	You've got to understand, Charlie is a New Yorker, probably the premier Wall Street reporter for years, particularly during the time that I was prosecuted, Milken Boski, and revealing for the first time the depths of Wall Street.
	Charlie was probably 10 years ahead of me.
	So I have great respect for Charles Gasparino.
	I disagree with him sometimes, but I have great respect for him.
	He's already issued an executive order halting foreign aid for 90 days.
	So he goes in front of them, a lot of them are foreign leaders, and said, I ain't giving you money for 90 days.
	He tells them, because they're against our drilling, because it's going to make the climate warmer, even though it doesn't make a damn bit of difference to what China's doing, and they're afraid of saying anything to China.
	He says he's going to drill baby drill.
	They disagree with that 100%.
	They're like green people on steroids.
	However, they're now sitting there and saying, knowing that they can't defend a damn thing, that they owe their protection to a man who doesn't sleep all day.
	Not a single person here wants a future speaking Chinese or Russian.
	Very wise, Charlie.
	A very Trumpy speech.
	Reminding big banks like J.P. Morgan, there'll be penalties for going woke.
	In his words, debanking conservatives.
	He said, diversity and equity, gone.
	Any form of racial or gender equalization, out.
	It's the past.
	The reaction, Charlie says, going around off the record was pretty damn positive.
	Pretty damn positive.
	And not hostile.
	These are smart people.
	They knew they were being extorted.
	Statements they made about that was like the Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson extortion.
	They're not in favor of let's pick somebody because they're purple.
	They're in favor of let's pick somebody because they do the job best.
	But they had to go along with picking purple people.
	The reaction actually was pretty positive and at least not hostile.
	Ditto for Trump's tweet warning.
	Vladimir Putin, he better negotiate a real peace in his year-long conflict with Ukraine.
	He basically said, you know I can impose sanctions unlike anyone else.
	Now, that's really true.
	Before anything else, when he first came into office in 2017, he sanctioned Iran into poverty.
	Before he got the new sanctions.
	Because the Democrats, my friends, they actually don't enforce the sanctions.
	All he's got to do is take the ones that are there.
	Hey, how about putting Buddha Rita on it, who's been off it because she paid off $3.5 million to the Bidens?
	You want a bribery payment?
	Quid pro quo?
	$3.5 million to Hunter, went into the Hunter Bank, where, as you're never told, and that jerk Coomer couldn't figure it out for his impeachment report, 50% of everything that went to Hunter went to Joe.
	So Joe got...
	50% of $3.5 million from the Russian oligarch, who is the only one he now eliminates from the people who are sanctioned.
	Not a bribe?
	No.
	By circumstantial evidence, with 20 other situations like that, except in the District of Columbia, I could convict him.
	Probably could convict him in Russia of it.
	So he told them right to their face, stop debunking conservatives, get rid of diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates, which is really just racism and insane gender equalization.
	The globalists used to believe that Trump was about to sell out Ukraine to appease Vlad.
	But Trump sees World War III as not being in the U.S. interest.
	And if Putin doesn't play ball, Trump will make whatever sanctions imposed by Sleepy Joe look small.
	Obelis are always worried about something.
	But I saw a bit of hope.
	Because there's a new sheriff in town.
	And he's not falling asleep.
	And he refuses to fail.
	So Putin?
	I don't know.
	That economy of yours is in really bad shape.
	You've lost a percentage of your army.
	You're killing North Koreans now to substitute for it.
	You better not lose an edge against this guy.
	Because, you know, just based on ego, he'll come and take it from you.
	Even though he likes you.
	It's a different ballgame.
	It really is, and our world is a lot safer.
	Now, the other thing that Gasparino picked up, and this I have to, I've got to cover this, Ted.
	You know I'm not going to miss a godfather.
	Some quick breaking news.
	Senator Tillis has tweeted that he will be supporting PHXS for Secretary of State.
	So that should do it, right?
	That should eliminate any 11th-hour drama.
	That was the 11th hour drama.
	Do you think this makes the rest of them easier?
	Kennedy?
	What do you think?
	I don't think so, no.
	I don't.
	You think it makes it easier?
	Why is that, Mayor?
	I think this was the battle to set the formula of whether they could roll us and how far they could roll us.
	And what they found out is, with a few exceptions, We're freaking a lot more united than we are.
	And as far as I could tell, and I may be wrong because I don't have the background, they haven't had to put the president out there too much on this one.
	Yeah, I just think it's so different.
	I think the issue folks have with RFK, well, at least the special interest groups, right?
	The special interest groups.
	I watched how Reagan did this.
	Reagan, nice guy, right?
	Wonderful guy.
	Great sense of humor.
	Politically, as tough as Trump.
	This is how he got his tax bill through a Democratic Congress.
	It took a year and a half, two years.
	And it was a Democratic Congress.
	They picked out about 18 Democratic seats that were in places that had voted or come close to voting for him.
	And over a year and a half or two years, this guy who was too old for the office went there.
	He gave speeches.
	And they turned around from, you know, 52% Trump districts to Reagan districts, 60% Reagan districts.
	And all he did is explain to them in his very, very brilliant human way the benefit of a tax deduction and what their congressman would do to them if they didn't get it.
	And then they signed up the names of people who could run that district.
	It was like a campaign.
	And by the time they got to a year and a half later, The Democrats, he took it away from them.
	They couldn't control their caucus.
	And Chip O'Neill, Chip O'Neill chipped his hat to him.
	He said, Chip O'Neill tried to get him back.
	He was dead set against the tax reduction.
	But he said, hey, you got him.
	My members say that if they don't vote for it, they're out.
	I lose the majority.
	Remember, they didn't lose the majority until they had the majority for like 45 years.
	It would have been a tragedy for them if they lost the majority.
	They finally lost it because Clinton was after Trump.
	I always say Reagan and Trump.
	It was after Reagan.
	So, he got his vote through.
	And I will say about the speaker, it was a very different kind of speaker.
	He understood the game, and Trump beat him fair and square, and he had great respect for that, even though he didn't disagree with it.
	He used to continually remind people the tax reduction will ruin us.
	Of course, when it turned out to give us 20 years of our best economy, he kind of shut up.
	And then Clinton was in favor of the tax reduction after he was against it when he had to get reelected.
	So, there are ways to do it.
	And I think when Trump says to Putin, we can do it the easy way or the hard way, what he's saying to him, please understand the meaning of that.
	We're not dealing with Biden here anymore.
	We're dealing with a real man who has a real objective, and he has ideas behind what he's saying, not a puppet of the communists and, at best, a nitwit.
	So here's what he has in mind.
	I don't know.
	He spelled it out to me.
	If this guy doesn't get out of Ukraine, two things are going to happen.
	Number one, he's going to make sure that the present sanctions are really being enforced.
	I doubt they are.
	Obama never did.
	They bribed him too much, the Russians, for him to do it.
	But...
	Let's say they are.
	He has then promised to impose many more sanctions.
	Some idiot who doesn't know what they're talking about, but there aren't many more to do.
	What?
	You know what he can do that he hasn't done?
	What Biden hasn't done?
	They can cut off every country from using any kind of American bank or money to deal with Russia.
	That would cut the Russian economy, which is really on the balls of its ass right now, in half.
	Half.
	Wouldn't hurt us.
	We don't do anything with Russia anymore.
	We get our oil from places where Russia has no control.
	We don't depend on them for natural gas.
	Europe has gone a long way to free itself from their natural gas.
	And very quickly, we're in the position to help them get our natural gas.
	You can isolate them in a way that will destroy them.
	Our economy...
	Their only place they can match us, to some extent, is nuclear power.
	Their army, as we have seen, is for shit.
	Can you imagine they're going up against us?
	I mean, you look at the Iran army.
	Seven years back and forth in Iraq, and they won three miles each.
	We go into Iraq, it's what, 60 days?
	I don't want to get you unnecessarily confident, but I also don't want you to be unnecessarily, unrealistically frightened of the assets that you got.
	And a man who's willing to utilize those assets, and by the way, Putin and Xi Jinping know our assets better than we do, or as well as we do.
	Probably not better than Trump.
	Because they are, and never misunderstand this, They're both very intelligent people, which is good.
	Much easier to deal with very intelligent people than stupid morons like Biden and intellectual inferiors who the Democrats usually appoint because you have to be intellectually inferior to believe the crap they believe.
	You have to have been brainwashed.
	So, very, very simple.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Whatever signals Putin is sending in his continuing sort of propaganda war, this is like he's still carrying on the phony statements and the phony, but he's now confronting a realist.
	Work with Biden.
	Ain't going nowhere with him.
	Now, he hasn't said anything about using military power yet.
	I seriously doubt it will be necessary.
	I really doubt it.
	I mean, the economic damage we can do to them is catastrophic.
	And I now want to report that the representative of Red China, Senator McConnell, Who has received more money from the communist China than anyone but Joe Biden voted against Pete Hegseth because I'm sure his Chinese father-in-law,
	who has been made a multi-billionaire by the murderous red Chinese, required that vote.
	Screw you, McConnell!
	Get the hell out, you demented old man!
	And you...
	F-ing traitor to the Chinese and they protect you and nobody knows about your 5 million from her old man that sold his soul to the red Chinese who've killed 100 million people and you're in Congress?
	Gru you.
	Somebody should impeach you for that.
	So what is it now?
	Now we have to get J.D. Vance?
	Yeah, and the vice president is in the building.
	Can we put it on?
	Is it being broadcast?
	Can I do my godfather first, or should I wait?
	I guess this is more important than the godfather.
	It was great.
	I mean, Gasparino did a great column today.
	I wish I could have gotten him on.
	This was ingenious.
	And I even thought he might have been...
	I thought Tom Hagen said this.
	Turns out it was Rocco Lampone.
	And anybody who knows The Godfather better than me, I just have great respect for them.
	But it contains all the wisdom in the world.
	I mean, for bad purposes.
	For bad purposes.
	But as a person who put more mafia people in jail, I think than anybody, except maybe my great friends in Italy who I helped, who were assassinated for it.
	It's not only anyone in America.
	What Charlie did was he went around Davos, where he's like a fish out of water.
	He is.
	I know he disagrees completely with those communist schmucks.
	And he went around Davos and he asked them, what do they think about Trump seeking Greenland?
	Because you would expect they would say, like the left-winger assholes here who hate America, oh, ridiculous, he's going to have a war.
	We're going to have a war with Greenland, 56,000 people.
	Denmark, the king of Denmark is going to lead the army on horses?
	You've got to be kidding.
	So we went around asking all the people that basically a year ago were like Trump haters, do you think he'll get Greenland?
	You might recall the answer that he was given was, as a consensus, difficult, not impossible.
	You might recall that was the exact answer given to Michael Corleone in The Godfather II when he asked about the feasibility of murdering his rival for power, Hyman Roth.
	Michael gave the hit to one of his best hitmen, Rocco Lampone, to meet Roth, now a fugitive, at the airport and whack him despite being surrounded by the feds.
	Difficult?
	Not impossible.
	Roth was indeed met and murdered.
	Oh, what a high price.
	Lampone was killed.
	Difficult?
	That's a long way from the first time he answered.
	Wow.
	So now let's take a look, Ted.
	Can we go down to the floor of...
	Yeah, we've got it up.
	I'm telling you, read Advise and Consent.
	You want to find out about these guys?
	It goes back like 40 years or 50. We are watching now.
	Some of them can't even walk, Ted.
	A couple of them seem to not be able to walk.
	How many can think?
	So we're trying to get a...
	Do you think I'm too irreverent?
	Not at all.
	Not at all.
	Sorry, I would be reacting more, but I'm trying to...
	Would you tell me if you think I am?
	That's great.
	And you're spot on.
	Dr. Maria will tell me if I am.
	I'm going like this.
	You are...
	I would tell you.
	I think I would tell you.
	Maybe not on air, but I would tell you.
	All I can tell you is what their great hero, John McCain, told me.
	If I had been elected to the Senate, I'd be within the five top intelligent people in the Senate.
	Top five intellects, and that's not...
	What is that?
	You know what he said?
	That's not even a compliment.
	Exactly.
	And then you get to the House.
	He didn't mention the House.
	He was in the House, too.
	But he doesn't think about the House anymore.
	I think he liked the House better.
	In a strange way.
	I never knew why.
	Senator Tom Tillis, I'm just writing this out.
	Senator Tom Tillis has tweeted that he will be supporting.
	Who?
	Oh, but he hasn't voted yet?
	So can we put this on the screen?
	We have it on now.
	Oh, for our listeners?
	Yep.
	So you tell me what's going on, because I can't hear it.
	No one talking right now.
	They're walking around.
	There's a live update.
	What does that say?
	What?
	Well, now we're there.
	Yeah, well, Vance is here.
	Do we have a...
	Do we have a...
	I can say it better on that.
	Thank you, Maria.
	Thank you, Dr. Maria.
	You know, Dr. Maria has been under the weather.
	I'm very worried about it because doctors are the worst patients.
	They don't take care of themselves.
	A combination of me and Ted and her daughter and Stephen and other rough, tough guys we bring in, women.
	We're beating her into submission, so she has to take care of herself.
	But then when we don't look, she starts working.
	It's 50-50.
	That means he's got it with the tiebreaker.
	Yeah, it's done.
	The vice president is there.
	It's done.
	So who screwed him at the end?
	Ah, the puppet of Red Shiner.
	Is there any time we open an investigation of him?
	So the president, busy week, busy first week, ends it in California.
	Can you keep yours there for a bit?
	But has he come yet to the floor?
	Alright, you keep that.
	But Teddy will have that one there.
	Yeah, we got it here.
	But I think you have the actual feed from the floor and Maria has the Fox thing.
	The numbers and the numbers.
	I can get one of those.
	I can get one of those.
	I think.
	Well, we know a 50-50 vote.
	As long as J.D. Vance did not.
	Yeah.
	We've known this about Murkowski for years.
	Yeah, Alaska had the chance to get rid of her.
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	And welcome back to America's Mayor Live.
	America's Mayor.
	I am inviting everyone to join me on X to watch J.D. Vance come in and save the military with a vote
	to confirm.
	What you see now is a live shot from the floor of the U.S. Senate.
	There's Senator Kennedy up at the dais.
	You got someone jumping up and down over there.
	There's Chuck Schumer.
	There's Schumer holding court with some Democrats.
	up top you got McConnell there Ted Cruz and save the military with a vote to confirm okay all right here we go all right next people you just gotta you just gotta I used to say tweet but post You just got posted.
	Come on.
	We're going to enjoy this moment together.
	This is just an aftermath.
	But another thing we can celebrate, because we won a majority of the House, we got a couple of traitors.
	They will remain in my memory for two reasons.
	I'm a Republican and an elephant, and our memories are unbelievable, not like Biden.
	And number two, I'm an Italian.
	And you know it's true about Italians.
	We remember.
	We're fiercely loyal.
	And remember the double-crosses.
	Forever.
	That's not going to affect anybody, because they're not listening to me, but they may listen tomorrow, and you start screwing around with the other people.
	You keep your hands off RFK Jr. If you vote against RFK Jr., you go on my list of, I show up in your district to campaign against you.
	I'm pretty good at that.
	You probably don't know, but I am.
	Go take a look at your polls, jerks.
	You better forget a Republican primary if you vote against Kennedy or who are the other tough ones.
	There may be some secret tough ones we don't know about.
	So Tulsi Gabbard, of course.
	Keep your hands off Tulsi Gabbard.
	It shouldn't be an issue.
	Noam's going to go through right after this, I think.
	Cash Patel?
	We'll go to war over Cash Patel.
	That should be a no-brainer, but you know how some of these...
	It won't be a no-brainer.
	He's the one that frightens them the most.
	He probably has to investigate a third of them.
	You think these people are honest?
	No chance.
	This is not an honest group of people.
	Of course not.
	This isn't Mr. Smith goes to Washington, you know?
	Of course not.
	They were pretty dishonest back then, too.
	I don't know what is wrong with our Congress, but I know why the American people have an approval rating of 17%.
	And it's justified.
	Let's see if we can change it.
	Well, now all we are awaiting is...
	Now you're...
	We are as president.
	We voted for the communists, the criminals, the rejects and the perverts that Biden put up for cabinet positions.
	I mean, some total clowns.
	Just out of courtesy.
	Never again.
	You got it?
	Never again.
	Until they change.
	This is ridiculous.
	This is a matter of you give the guy his people, and if you really think Pete's bad, he'll hurt Trump.
	He's not going to hurt the country.
	Pete Haig said it's not going to hurt the country.
	The stuff that you brought out on him, guys, first of all, most of it's not true.
	You brought it out because it was very familiar.
	Because most of it is true of you.
	How often are you guys drunk or running after women or others?
	Do you think I'm a naive fool?
	I look down on you.
	I don't have the eyes that I had when I was 12 or 13. There's the Congress.
	I have the eyes of a prosecutor.
	I wonder how many of you I could put in jail easily.
	Just one good undercover agent.
	JD's horse must be having a hard time finding the white horse to get him down there.
	Right.
	They're going to start claiming they're getting old and tired and have to go home?
	I wish J.D. would get there.
	Come on, J.D.! You're a young guy.
	So the Senate has voted 50 to 50 on the confirmation of PHX after Secretary of Defense, and we're just awaiting the arrival of the Vice President.
	Three Republicans have voted against.
	Confirmation, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine, and Mitch McConnell.
	of Kentucky.
	Well, we'll get rid of him just based on aging.
	We tried to get rid of her and we couldn't beat her.
	I don't know why.
	We are just awaiting the arrival of the Vice President.
	We saw reports that he was at the Capitol.
	He may be close.
	Let's see, Ted, I'm looking something up.
	So, of course, we are awaiting...
	This is the eloquent Theodore Goodman, former House employee, right?
	That's right.
	I spent some time.
	I was comms director to...
	Not everybody knows this.
	Mike Pence had an older brother in Congress.
	So this would have been back when Mike Pence was the vice president.
	His older brother, Greg, took over his congressional district in Indiana.
	Pence was congressman governor, right?
	That's right.
	His brother was a successful businessman in Indiana.
	Great guy.
	And so I was his comms director in 2019. And so I got to know the Hill.
	That's the House side.
	And so there is definitely a difference between the House and Senate side.
	You know, the Senate side likes to think of themselves a little bit more sophisticated, right?
	Six-year terms, only 100 of them, two per state.
	And, of course, one of their big powers here are these confirmation votes for the president's, you know, top positions.
	The House side, you got how many members?
	400 and 435?
	Around that, 435 members, right?
	All representing under a million people.
	Two-year term, so it's almost like you're always running for office, right?
	You're running every two years, so you spend a lot of time.
	You split your time between your district and Washington, D.C., oftentimes flying in on Mondays and flying out on Thursday nights.
	To get back to your district.
	And each member of Congress on the House side, they have a staff of about 18 to 20 people.
	And that's split between the district offices back home and then the Washington office.
	And of course the Senate side, those staffs are larger.
	And that doesn't even include your committee staff.
	The Senate side working late tonight with this vote.
	A majority of the staff probably isn't in the office.
	Or asleep, right?
	Yeah, yeah.
	How many of them are over the A's of 103?
	So the Senate, right, every six years, so that's interesting.
	You can see a number of them here on the screen.
	If you look closely, we'll make this a little bit larger for you.
	Up top, you can see the Republican senators.
	There's Mitch McConnell.
	We're kind of in the middle of the...
	Is he standing or sitting?
	He's standing.
	Oh, he could fall any minute.
	So he's there, and you have a number of other senators right there to the...
	I think I see Shifty Schiff.
	He has his hands in the pocket of somebody.
	Chuck Grassley sitting down.
	He just took somebody's wallet.
	There's Chuck Grassley sitting down there.
	A woman with the ridiculous white hair.
	There's Ted Cruz.
	No, the woman who looks...
	She looks a little like a horse.
	Is that...
	Caputo or something?
	She looks like he's a horse that should be brought in a barn.
	I'd have to think of who that is.
	She's talking to Shiff.
	I'm not being...
	Shiff.
	Just got to tell you that hairstyle is ridiculous.
	That's Ed.
	What's his name?
	It's still there, huh, Ed?
	Well, Shiff is lying to everybody.
	Who is that from Massachusetts?
	Ed.
	I thought it was done in the Senate.
	No, more.
	Maybe more.
	How did McConnell?
	He was one of the three.
	And then you have this coach.
	Is that Coach Tuberville?
	I can't tell.
	It might be Senator Coach Tuberville.
	It's interesting, though.
	There's still a large number.
	I thought I'd know all these guys.
	There's a large number that I cannot identify on the Senate side.
	Imagine the House side.
	Of course...
	A hundred senators, two from each state.
	One of their major powers is the confirmation process, right?
	They vote on the president's top people to head these large departments.
	So, and again, they're voted in six-year terms.
	They run statewide, so often they're not as ideologically to the right or left as the House.
	Then you end up with someone like Adam Schiff.
	That's not an ideological problem.
	He's just a liar.
	He doesn't know how to tell the truth.
	There's Senator Mark Kelly leaning up against the desk there, speaking with...
	We know that senator as well.
	Who's that there?
	I do.
	Who is it?
	What's his name?
	It'll come to me.
	There's Mark Kelly leaning against the desk and trying to act cool, very cool, cool guy.
	He's a cool astronaut.
	Okay, so there's a chance that Dr. Maria is telling us that they are debating whether or not to stick around for a vote on Christy Nol.
	We'll stick around until Pete does his thing.
	But meanwhile, can we show him the piece from The Godfather?
	For a little entertainment?
	Sure.
	Do you want to set it up while I pull it up?
	Oh, yeah.
	So I think I explained this, but Charles Gasparino, who was walking around Davos yesterday after the president spoke, said that he was really shocked to see that the president's proposal to take Greenland was not met with any kind of ridicule or The kind of thing that happens with the stupid,
	dumb, idiotic, unpatriotic, communist-influenced liberals and Democrats in America.
	But instead, the business leaders said, with a very simple reaction to it, difficult, not impossible.
	So he analogized it to a scene in The Godfather.
	Where Michael Corleone wanted to make sure that his rival, Hyman Roth, who had double-crossed him, was murdered.
	But his rival was under the protection of the federal government.
	And he gave it to his best hitman, Rocco Lampone, who said, and these people must know Rocco, difficult but not impossible.
	So if we can play that scene from The Godfather, it'll help you get ready for And if J.D. Vance comes in on the white horse and casts a vote, we'll tell you, is he armed with a sword or a gun?
	Or just with the power of righteousness?
	We'll see.
	Maybe just a pen.
	Ready?
	Play it?
	Pen.
	Play it?
	Yes.
	I don't know.
	All of a sudden it started.
	I don't know.
	Look at Mr. Rock.
	I understood he was coming.
	Hey, Ream.
	What's your protocol?
	How long should we stay around?
	Oh, I don't know.
	I think a half hour or two.
	Just long enough to bring in the new year.
	- - - - -
	- - -
	- - - -
	- - - - - - - - - Tell them we're finding the right one.
	We have to go more toward the end, and we have to put down the words, difficult, not impossible.
	Is there a way to...
	Yeah, I'll find this.
	Difficult but not impossible.
	Here is the way the post, if you want to show him, this is the way the post showed him today, look.
	Can you kill anyone?
	Look.
	That's it.
	That's funny.
	Is this it?
	You can kill anyone?
	Oh, it's so dark.
	I can't see it.
	Different.
	Here it is.
	Yeah, Rocco, there it is.
	Here it is.
	I found it.
	That's it.
	Rocco, you know.
	I'm going to bring up the right clip now.
	You're going to say, can you do it?
	Rocco, can you do it?
	Rocco.
	Difficult.
	Not impossible.
	Difficult, but not impossible.
	Hear that?
	Play it again.
	Rocco.
	Difficult.
	not impossible that's what the say uh
	That's what the sages of the world told Charlie Gasparino yesterday about whether the United States of America can acquire Greenland as the 51st state or a possession so that we can have the necessary defenses there to save the world.
	If these half-wit morons who are in the World Economic Forum The EU and the terrorist organization known as the United Nations had half a brain.
	They would give us Greenland because, as Charlie makes the point, they really don't want to be speaking Chinese and Russian.
	English is a much easier language to learn.
	And we, except for the Biden administration, we really are pretty fair people.
	An era of fascist government in which people were persecuted.
	Possibly...
	I don't know if anybody's murdered.
	There certainly might have been a couple of attempts.
	But in any event, they resorted to every form of criminality possible to destroy Donald Trump and thousands of his supporters.
	In a thing that was reminiscent of Soviet Russia, Red Chinese, the Nazis, Venezuela.
	But that's gone now.
	That's gone now.
	We're not like that.
	You know Trump is not like that.
	You know we're not like that.
	We were a party that was built to end slavery.
	They were a party that was built to fight a civil war over slavery.
	They were a party that continued enslavement of the black people way after...
	They were emancipated.
	We were the necessary votes for the civil rights bill.
	And not that we've politically handled the issue as well as they have, but we don't lie the way they do.
	And I think Trump has handled it better than anyone ever.
	Oh, he's here.
	He's here.
	Are we down on the floor now?
	Yeah, finally.
	He's here.
	Do you wish to vote or change a vote?
	If not, on this vote, the yeas are 50 and the nays are 50.
	The Senate being equally divided, the vice president votes in the affirmative, and the nomination is confirmed.
	Applause God bless America, land that I love So that's it, folks.
	Pete Hegseth is officially confirmed as Secretary of State, or sorry, Secretary of Defense under President Donald Trump.
	The Majority Leader?
	President, I ask unanimous consent that with respect to the Hegseth nomination, the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, and the President be immediately notified of the Senate's action.
	Further, that the mandatory quorum call with respect to the Noem nomination be waived.
	Is there objection?
	Without objection.
	The clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture.
	Cloture motion.
	We, the undersigned Senators, in accordance with the provisions of Rule 22 of the Standing Rules of the Senate, do hereby move to bring to a closed debate on the nomination of Kristi Noem of South Dakota to be Secretary of Homeland Security.
	Signed by 17 senators.
	Well, I believe that although this is a very important nomination as well, I believe it's a preordained conclusion with J.D. not leaving on his white horse but staying there, that she's going to be confirmed.
	Now we've got a bunch more to go through.
	Of course, I'm going to locate...
	Kennedy is probably the toughest one.
	But I'm not sure.
	My feeling was, and we'll see if I'm right, that if they could get Pete through, they got the necessary unity.
	And I congratulate Thune, who I'm not a big fan of.
	It is true.
	We just made it by the skin of our teeth.
	But that was tough because he had to go against his patron.
	The very, very prone to communist China, McConnell, who's gotten a lot of money from them, but you don't know that because he's protected.
	But it's beyond doubt that he's gotten five million from red China and then changed all his positions on red China, which makes him, to me, worthless.
	Oh, beyond worthless.
	Country with not a two-tier system of justice.
	McConnell would be under investigation for treason.
	And his wife.
	But they don't even mention it.
	Don't even mention it.
	But in any event, he tried to do what he could to keep Pete Headset out.
	Sure, it makes him very, very popular with his father-in-law, who is beholding to the red Chinese government for his billions.
	Because Pete Hexet is going to be one hell of a defense secretary.
	Going to make us into fighters.
	World-class killers for justice.
	They're going to be so scared of us, they may be even more frightened of us, the Red Chinese, than they are the Japanese.
	Which is another idea.
	How about we arm the Japanese?
	You want to see the Red Chinese piss in their pants?
	On the Japanese.
	Well, okay, okay, okay.
	I know.
	I have to stop.
	I have to stop at some point, although I'm very happy now.
	And when I'm happy, I'm happy.
	Here we go.
	So...
	See you on Monday.
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	Of course, they're afraid.
	Gee, I wonder where that's coming from.
	I wonder why I'm playing that.
	Isn't that the best song ever?
	I guess he had to include that.
	New York, LA.
	Yeah.
	Thank you.
	To be an American, at least I know I'm free.
	Forget the man who died made a life for me.
	Please stand up to you.
	I'm just chill today.
	But ain't no doubt of this land.
	Bless the U.S.A. And I had to start again Just my children and my wife Thank my lucky stars To be living here today
	Cause the flag still stands for freedom And they can't take that away Ladies
	Ladies and gentlemen, President Donald J. Trump.
	From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee, Across the plains of Texas.
	From sea to side of the sea.
	Detroit down to Houston.
	And New York to L.A. There's pride in every American heart.
	And it's time we stand to say To be an American Where at least I know I'm free And I'm born again The men who died Who gave that right to me And I gladly stand up Next to you In December still today
	Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the USA And it's time to be an American Where at least I know I'm free And I won't forget The men who died Who gave that right to me
	And I gladly stand up Next to you In December still today Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless Fabulous
	It's our purpose to bring to bear The principle of common sense And rational discussion To the issues of our day 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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