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Feb. 18, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (606): Honoring the Great American Presidents on Presidents' Day
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This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor Live from Palm Beach, Florida.
And we're here and had quite a really wonderful weekend, I must tell you, that we're going to report on to you because it's filled with both news of importance to you and some very interesting facts and things that happened.
Of course, this was the weekend in which a decision had to be made about whether to let all hell break loose in Gaza.
And there ended up being a complex situation created by Hamas.
Hamas, a week ago, had said that it wasn't going to deliver the hostages on time this Saturday.
That provoked the president and the prime minister to say, And they upped the ante to, if you don't deliver all of the prisoners, including the ones that are scheduled for the next week or the week after.
I'm not sure exactly how many are left.
We're basically going to resume the war, and all hell is going to break loose.
Bibi backed that up quite effectively by putting his army on their border, like he did a year and a half ago before he invaded.
And the president made one threat.
He maybe reiterated at one time one question, but he didn't.
It was fairly low.
She said, oh, hell's going to break loose.
He didn't go on a kind of mission, nor did Bibi.
Bibi made a speech, very factual.
I think they had no doubt all hell was going to break loose.
Then all of a sudden, right before the deadline, Probably they got notice of it the night before.
Hamas agreed to live up to the agreement.
Not the additional request or demand for all the hostages now, but every single one of the ones they had promised.
So now the decision was, what do you do?
They sort of broke the agreement verbally.
By saying that they wouldn't deliver on time, but they followed the letter of the agreement, meaning they delivered the people on time.
And I thought our president did something very, very wise and showed the extraordinarily close brothership between the United States and Israel, as opposed to the hostile relationship with the Democrats.
And he said, I'll leave it up to the prime minister.
I'll leave it up to Israel.
And the prime minister didn't do it on it.
The prime minister brought in his, I guess, what he calls his war cabinet or his, I think that's it, his emergency cabinet.
And he said, we'll vote on it.
And they spent quite a bit of time discussing it and decided discretion is the better part of value here.
You know, we need the opinion of the world.
We don't need it on our side.
It'd be a lot easier for us if we moved it a little more toward our side.
Let's put it that way.
And we got plenty of time to do this.
And maybe B.B. even wanted, as I had heard during the week, a little more time for this because the president pulled this.
We'll have hell break loose pretty quickly.
And you never know how much advanced discussion there is.
Not that B.B. would ever complain about it because, gosh, it's all in his favor.
But sometimes he may be caught short.
In terms of the President says something and it takes three weeks to prepare and you've got one day.
Now, if you work with President Trump, you get used to that.
And I'm sure he is.
But still, you'd prefer one more time.
So I got the sense when the President tossed it to them, they were going to say, we'll give it a little more time and see how they act.
So what they're saying now is...
They'll let the thing play itself out, they'll get all the hostages back, and they're not saying anything.
And I will say nothing about that, I think, until I think about it more.
But all I can tell you is, a few months from now, there will be no more Hamas.
They've done enough acts against humanity, and they will do more.
That like the Nazis, they have no future right to exist.
So without sacrificing many more lives, then you will sacrifice by eliminating.
I don't know if they will pull the string, because I think they're in a different position now than they were before.
You do remember when Biden was the president.
How many agreements they pulled out of?
I can't even count.
As many times as Assad crossed the red line that Obama told him if he did, he would destroy him, and never did.
Every time that Dodo Bird and his administration would announce a peace agreement, Hamas would back out, and then he would make more concessions to Hamas.
So one time they tried to back out of a peace agreement with Trump, and they quickly changed their minds and lived up to it.
You see a difference of massive proportions in how he can protect a country and the other guy gets you killed?
You see the difference in peace through strength.
Strength of arms and strength of purpose.
So, we'll see what they do next week.
Each week, you've got to take it one at a time.
I suspect if they comply this week, they would comply next week.
But I didn't expect them to comply this week, so my prediction here might not be worth anything.
They may have wanted one more week to prepare for hiding and stuff like that.
Maybe.
Maybe.
The Israelis might have thought if we put it off a couple of weeks, maybe they'll stop hiding.
You got lots of calculations going on here, not all of which are going to be obvious or ever should be, given the fact that these are very, very important decisions that have to best be executed secretly.
Well, the president had a fascinating weekend.
I got to follow a good deal of it.
I went over to the golf course on Saturday.
And I was informed by his good friends that he wasn't even able to start playing golf before he was called into the Situation Room, where he spent, I'm not sure because I was there later, but I would say it seemed to me about an hour and 45 minutes, and then came out, played a little golf, got interrupted again, played a little golf, got interrupted again, and then finally left.
And I had a chance to talk to him a few times about other things, and he said, all it does is make you wonder at his energy and his ability to do so many things at once so well and remain on top of things.
And then at night, he was there for dinner at Mar-a-Lago, albeit for a little bit shorter period of time than usual.
And we had dinner with Daniel Penny and his fiancée, Isabella, and the president greeted them very warmly.
Of course, the president throughout had followed that case.
So he went back to Washington today, this morning, and there's Dr. Maria with...
There's Dr. Maria with Daniel and Isabella.
Aren't they a beautiful couple?
They're going to get married, and I offered to do their wedding, but then I remembered they're devout Catholics, and my goodness, I'd never replace a priest.
Never.
You want a priest, you get a priest, not me.
Or a rabbi, or a minister.
You get somebody who's a man of God to do it.
Always better.
You come to me, and you're going to get married with God being talked about, so might as well go to a priest.
You know, I've done 200 weddings.
I bet you didn't know that.
And I have...
I got a couple of extras.
So when I applied to do a wedding here in Florida for my friend Jake, they gave me two for the price of one.
And in D.C., I think they gave me three for the price of one.
I don't know if they're still valid.
They were a bit ago.
I don't know if that's valid for life.
I never looked.
Is it a year or two years?
I'm going to take a look and see.
Otherwise, I'll...
But, I mean, I could always do it.
Now that I'm an indicted felon, I don't know.
What do you think?
You think they'd take me, Stephen?
I mean, I am indicted by Fannie the Ho.
I'm just waiting.
See, I think there's a motion you can make if your prosecutor goes to jail before you.
You can ask to dismiss the case.
Yeah, and I feel like a lot of- If your prosecutor is a crook, and she hasn't yet been investigated for taking her campaign funds and using it for personal reason.
In fact, I'm getting the impression that in Georgia, they yawn at that.
That's like such a minor crime.
Well, she's talked about it like it was like- No, yeah, she took it from my campaign.
Under oath.
The cash.
Even the judge, a judge is supposed to be a symbol of rectitude, right?
Even the judge is sitting there like, oh, well, hmm.
Ho, ho, ho.
There's me.
There's me.
Did you show that?
Okay, so that was last time.
Skip your head a little bit.
Dr. Maria and I went to see, you know, I hope you know who that is.
That's Andrea Bocelli, and he performed in a heroic way.
His singing, which I have some on my, I captured some of it on my phone.
I'll cue it up for you later.
He did a first segment of arias, all from Italian opera, and basically, not all, but mostly from Verdi and Puccini.
He began with Verdi, La Donne Mobile, and he ended with the Puccini duet, O Suave Fanchula, from La Boheme, with a beautiful, wonderful soprano who was with him.
Then, the second half, he did...
Anywhere from quasi-classical to very popular music, like the music he's done with Dion and Sarah Brightman.
And he had very wonderful young sopranos on, including one lady from Pia.
I'll remember her name.
She deserves the attention.
In fact, I'll get all their names before I'm off.
From Queens, who had a fabulous voice.
Wow.
And this was done in Fort Lauderdale at the arena where the Florida Panthers play.
And it just, I don't know why, it just completely fascinated me that there was ice blowers.
And I told them that because they didn't want him to trip.
I don't know if he got the joke.
But I had a chance to talk to him and Maria got a chance to talk to him and his wonderful wife and his dog.
His dog?
And her mother, Mrs. Mrs. Bocelli's mom and all these people from Italy.
And now they're going on a trip to, they're finishing America and they're going to Colombia.
And they're going to Venezuela.
But I told them I didn't think Maduro would have the guts to do anything to them.
And they're a little nervous about Venezuela, as is their traveling party, who looks to me like they're, I think a bunch of them are Cuban-Americans.
They were really anti-communist.
Wow.
They were telling me stories about Cuba.
Everybody has this benign view of Cuba.
Castro was killing people, left and right, while the Hollywood people came and kissed his ass.
They didn't care.
It's like now.
It's like now.
Castro used to kill homosexuals.
And then all the people who claimed to be for rights would come and honor him.
He killed people with AIDS. Thought it was the best way to stop this spread of AIDS. Then he put him in prison.
And then he finally caved in when the Hollywood actors would no longer come to see him.
Or who told him about it, I guess.
Let's take a look at what a weasel Macron is.
I don't know.
I just feel like picking on a weasel.
Macron set up a meeting of NATO without America so they could part against Trump.
Who the hell does this guy think is paying for NATO? Him?
He doesn't even pay his 2%, which now the head of NATO, who has criticized Trump, I think, but he has said they better put up at least 3% because he wants to make sure, I think, that all of them are well above their 2% number.
Where Trump has said, I won't defend you if you don't put your money in.
Except Trump and Vance have now indicated they're going to lift it to five.
They'll probably give him two years to do it because we're going to need two years to do it.
But that's about where we should be.
That's where we were under Reagan.
Five.
Somebody said the other day five to six.
I don't think it was six.
Maybe if you round it off, maybe five and a half, 5.6.
That's the percentage of GDP we spend on.
It's down to the lowest it has been since anybody can remember.
Because we had an appeasement communist president who really wanted to see us run by China.
Well, I mean, if you judge by who paid him, his loyalties would be 20 million to one China.
This president, his loyalties are a zillion to one America, like mine and yours.
So, this little rat, Macron, has a little meeting with NATO behind Trump's back.
Like, that's going to do a lot of good, right?
French President Emmanuel Macron, with the approval of his wife, of course, because she beats him up, has summoned European leaders to Paris on Monday for an emergency summit about President Trump.
They're having a meeting.
About our president?
And then they're annoyed that he doesn't have him at the meeting on Ukraine.
Of course, they stopped contributing to Ukraine.
Macron has been on all sides of Ukraine, like he's been on all sides of Iran.
This guy's been a big supporter of Iran as well as a big critic.
Now, I have to say in his defense, can't imagine Macron has given Iran...
And the terrorists there, as much money as Obama and Biden.
So, I mean, with them, we had a hard time complaining.
If Biden were to say, why are you giving money to Ukraine?
Macron could say, well, why are you the single biggest financial supporter of the Islamic terrorist government?
Who kills your own people?
They don't kill too many French people.
So it would have been hard when we had a double-crosser traitor president to do that.
But now that we have a real president who doesn't give money to Iran and is trying to wipe him out, who really is truly against anti-Semitism, how do we get a guy like Macron that wants to plot against him?
Hmm.
So I guess they would have no...
The Polish foreign minister indicated he might not show up.
I want to find out.
Maybe we'll find out.
How many showed up?
Because I have a feeling they're going to be on a list.
Not my list.
Not the president's.
My list.
We're going to Europe next week, and we'll go look for them.
What do you think?
They better watch out, these guys.
They may have to defend themselves.
Last time France defended itself, it surrendered.
The time before that, it surrendered.
I mean, it's been a long time since Napoleon won or anything.
Of course, they did lose the bottle of Moscow to the Russians.
They're the ones who finally defeated Napoleon and chased him out.
So I don't know.
Their record here, if you guys bet on wars, I don't know.
They sure as heck wouldn't go in as a favorite.
You might even want to take money on would they surrender before the war even started.
So now they're all upset because the president with the working group has excluded Ukraine and the European Union or NATO or both.
Well, can we be honest with each other?
That'd be good because maybe we get off on a better foot.
They'd be useless.
They're not going to fund their commitments to start with.
They'll make all kinds of bold commitments and then we'll behold.
They are holding the bag.
So what, is Trump a sucker?
I take into negotiations with me when we're going to share the burden, guys I can trust.
You double-cross me all the time.
You don't come into the negotiations with me.
You hold a meeting and exclude me.
I don't know if I talk to you again.
Meanwhile, I don't know about the president, but if you can trust Zelensky, you really are stupid.
Guy's a major crook.
Comes from a crook.
Completely dominated by a crook.
Covering up more incriminating information about his government and ours.
And information that could save his government.
Information that would provide the money that they're stealing from every place else.
And finally, he now says $100 billion?
Or $100 million?
It's got to be a billion.
$100 billion didn't get there?
I'm not sure about that.
Where did it go, little guy?
Take a look somewhere or other.
When we take our break, we're going to take a look and see if it's $100 million or $100 billion.
Now, there is $5 billion outstanding from the Clinton...
Obama the thief era that they never accounted for.
They don't know where it went.
When they first started looking, and a lot of it went to Soros' crooked non-governmental organizations.
There's one that was supposed to be for prosecutions in Ukraine and never got out of Italy.
And it was Soros.
I mean, if you think these non-governmental organizations are some...
You know, some variant of the Red Cross or something like that.
There's some variant more similar to a Ricoh-type enterprise, that kind of thing, where they waste money.
They call it wasted money.
But then every once in a while, you find that all the people involved in it get rich.
I was shocked the other day.
Someone said that Schumer is worth $18 million, $20 million?
Yeah.
I know Schumer all his life.
He's never had a real job.
He's always been on what they call the government tit.
He's been a, I think he was an assemblyman or a congressman.
I mean, maybe he was getting tips from Nancy Pelosi.
How the hell do I know?
I'm not going to say he's worth that.
I'm going to say I was told that by a number of people yesterday, and I have to say it was all in the Trump circle, and they were all Jewish.
And they were all telling me how much they hate him.
And they all tell me how much of a traitor he is.
And they say, you know, they get really annoyed at the Jewish people that didn't vote for Trump.
But that's one thing.
They realize that the cultural pressure and the historical pressure, and they also appreciate the movement that's taken place.
They say, but the one guy that they really think should be just drummed out of politics and whose reputation should be disgraced as a traitor to his people is Schumer.
Because from the moment AOC and her...
Her communist and anti-American, anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic group started talking up.
He's been like hiding like a little rat deep down in the subway, trying to avoid Adams, getting him shot by the rat squad.
Imagine coming out against your own country, your own people.
No, his country is America.
His background is not Israeli, Jewish.
That's the homeland, by the way, of the Jewish people.
That's the place that was put up so there wouldn't be another Holocaust, Schumer.
He doesn't have a particular affinity for Israel at all.
He did!
Interfering the election and saying Bibi shouldn't be elected?
Bibi saved the Western world.
If it weren't for Bibi, Syria would still be there.
I think Iran would be nuclear by now.
Hezbollah would be powerful as hell.
Hamas would be controlling parts of Israel.
And the Houthis would be kicking the hell out of the Red Sea.
He, without any help from Biden, with interference from Biden, has changed all of those materially.
Virtually Hamas is on its last legs if we give him a chance to finish them.
Hezbollah disappeared.
Frightened the hell out of the Iranian people.
Syria frightened the hell out of the Iranian people.
Those were their two big bulwarks.
They went down faster than Hamas.
And now there's only one thing standing, and that's the Houthis.
And they're really not much protection.
They're all the way in the south.
They don't stand in the way of Israel and...
Iran.
Iran, by its adventuresomeness, has created a straight shot from Israel to Iran.
And even if they were to become nuclear tomorrow, it would take them 10 to 15 years to reach the level of an Israel.
It would probably take them 10 to 15 years to figure out even a credible way to avoid their missile defense.
So if they played a game and attempted an attack, like the two attacks they attempted and killed no one, If it was a nuclear attack, I can't imagine would suddenly be justified in destroying them, except for the Kurdish part of Iran, who are loyal to Israel, loyal to the United States.
Then he would do it with tactical nuclear weapons.
Of course, they have an effect beyond, but much more limited.
You don't have to use nuclear weapons now.
They'll all destroy the world.
They just destroy limited areas and they create problems in limited areas.
And if the limited areas are the areas of your enemy, what are you going to do, right?
So we're going to take a short break and we'll be right back.
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This is Rudy Giuliani, and I'm back with you on America's Mayor Live.
And we were talking about the European...
I don't know, European summit on Trump?
We've got to find out what happened with that.
And we've got to...
I don't know how far they progressed.
I don't think there's much of a leak yet on the issue of Ukraine and how it's going to be dealt with.
Now, with regard to Zelensky, even though I don't...
Trust him as an honest person.
Obviously, toward the end, he's going to have to be involved in the final negotiations with Ukraine.
And I don't think that's the real problem.
I think the problem is that Trump and Putin...
For the United States and Russia, it's a lot bigger problem than Ukraine.
So don't get, like, you've got two countries, the most powerful in the world, the third or fourth most powerful in the world.
Maybe with regard to nuclear weapons, the second most powerful in the world, maybe the third, probably the second at this point.
And certainly nuclear capability.
China might have more in arms, but not in expertise and capability.
I'm not underestimating China at all.
I think there are ways in which they are much smarter than the Russians, particularly intelligence and infiltration.
But I think this area of nuclear power, Russia has owned for much, much longer.
And although they're not the incredible spies that China is, they don't know how to steal technology quite the way China does.
They can do their share of steel.
It isn't as if they're total incompetence.
It's just that China...
It's at such a high level that there's never been like it in the world in terms of their ability to virtually borrow their whole country from another country.
So probably what is happening is they're just as much talking about global issues as they are issues related to Ukraine.
Now remember, He has objectives and we have objectives.
His objectives are to keep Ukraine out of NATO forever.
He can do that, although how can you ever be sure it's forever?
He doesn't have to worry about the further border of Ukraine.
He can stay with what he's got.
In fact, if you had given him that before he invaded, he might not have invaded.
There'd be no purpose.
Well, I shouldn't say there'd be no purpose.
It wouldn't be that much of a purpose to lose a hundred, maybe a million men and demoralize your army.
Right now, Putin is a sitting duck in terms of somebody...
I mean, if China decided we're going to invade Russia, but we really have always hated the Russians, we want to take them over.
Except for the fact that I don't know how good the Chinese army is because they've never been tested.
They would have the advantage with a much bigger army and a much fresher army, although maybe an army that's so inexperienced that they could match the Russians because the Russians have fought war.
The Chinese haven't really fought a war.
The real war against a real enemy since Japan.
You can't consider Korea a real war.
We just caved in because of the communism.
And they only ran it for a month or less.
So NATO has now tried to placate Trump by raising it to 3%, except they missed something.
Rubio and Vance have already raised it to 5%.
They say, now you want to be part of NATO? You got put in 5% of your GDP. That's where America's going, and you've got to be there when we're there.
So it's going to take two or three years for us to get up to 5% of our GDP. Right now it's at the lowest it's ever been, which is frightening when you consider that China used that to its advantage to create a bigger navy than ours.
But I think it's a great challenge, and it's going to happen.
You can see with the aggressive way in which Musk...
It's taken apart the spending.
Man, has he frightened them.
This is the most I've seen them frightened since Trump's election.
And now maybe even more because it's like their worst nightmares are coming to.
Maybe they thought, well, if Trump gets elected, maybe he won't really come after us.
When I say come after them, I don't mean what they talk about.
German or Nazi-style prosecutions like they did of me and him.
I'm talking about coming after their money, cutting off their gravy train.
I think they're even more worried about that.
They don't think we'll put them in jail because they think we're wussies.
We've always been suckers.
We've always taken the scraps they were willing to offer.
And we've always been, well, we're better than that.
And we are better than that.
I'll tell you what we're not better than, and that is to subvert justice.
You tell me somebody acted like a traitor to the United States.
I'm supposed to overlook that.
I'm supposed to overlook Joe Biden taking $31 million from red China and giving up the pogrom base so that America gets destroyed someday because it isn't 400 miles from China.
I'm going to overlook that.
I'm the bad guy for prosecuting him?
Boy, you've turned the world around, haven't you?
You've got Satan in charge of the world now.
He's deciding the vocabulary, which is what you were doing.
Well, during the pandemic, you had Satan deciding the vocabulary.
Now, I don't say Fauci is Satan.
He's too short.
But I don't know.
One of those guys probably was.
So, this is a very, very intense...
This is going to be a big battle.
I mean, they're taking out all the stops.
I get plenty of protection.
Not only for Musk, but for his key people.
These people are clearly capable of murder.
And what they have at stake now, you and I don't even know.
I'll include me in that.
I was told yesterday by people, I don't think they were trying to impress me.
This is worse than you think.
Now, you can't believe how bad I think it is for them to say it's worse than I think.
But this is not the first time they've said to me it's worse than you think, and it is.
I did not assume this level of sell-out of your country.
I always thought it was possible to get to a Democrat by saying, this is terrible for your country.
You know, you really got it.
Now they look at me like, get out of here.
And I know what's going on.
If I can make money, I don't give a shit.
I don't give a damn.
I don't give a damn.
So they're going to court, right?
Over the weekend, there were 40 different lawsuits.
Now, I've been doing a lot of research.
So I began with Google to try to find articles on criticizing overreach by Congress into the president's executive functions.
I had to go to, like, you know how you got to go down below 1, 2, 3, 4, 5?
I had to go to my number 11 before I found the first one that took the position that Congress can overreach, even though there are numerous Supreme Court decisions saying that.
What I'm trying to point out to you is they haven't changed their censorship.
It's very hard to research the conservative side of an argument.
They hide it.
They obscure it.
They might not even have it.
I had to go to other websites to find stuff.
Then I had to use the legal website.
Even they screw around.
They've got to stop.
This is what we mean by ending, violating, trashing free speech.
Some of it is subtle.
It isn't just they want to put you in jail for 22 years.
Because you said that the election was stolen.
I mean, any time in history, if you said an election was stolen, nobody's going to put you in jail, even if it wasn't.
You know, I know this is hard to think about, and I don't want you to get the impression I'm defending myself this way because I'm not.
I had every right to say what I said as a lawyer.
I mean, I don't even have to defend myself on the citizens issue.
I had a right to argue.
Not only did I have a right to argue on facts and whatever, I had a right to argue in the light most favorable to my client.
In other words, if a fact were presented to me and there was any ability to argue for the rationality or truthfulness of it, even if it wasn't the greatest, I had a chance to do that.
Which is why you'll get legal opinions that say lawyers can sometimes be covered by Things that might be considered lies.
Really because what's a lie to you may be either the truth or an extended argument to somebody else.
Or when they say that Professor Eastman was arguing for a point of war that has no grounding in any legal authority.
How about the other side of it, which they all know is equally valid and very important in the law, if we're ever going to be able to develop it?
Because these people are good lawyers.
They're just horrible human beings.
If there's no legal opinion on what the vice president should do, if he's faced with a challenge to the integrity of the electoral vote...
And the Constitution of the United States says that the state legislature is ultimately the sole primary supreme arbiter of who won, which is what it says and has said from the beginning.
And it's been interpreted by the Supreme Court to say the legislature has supreme power.
Why wouldn't you, as a legal interpreter, be perfectly entitled to interpret that as, if there's a dispute, it must be sent to the state legislature?
And any change in that by law is unconstitutional, because the law can't change the Constitution, right?
So that argument, which had been out there for 30 years, accepted by I never did a test, half, half, what appears to be half or more of the law professors, or half or less, including in one very, very dramatic case, Professor Tribe of Harvard, who represented Gore in Gore v.
Bush, and wrote a law, not only argued that in his argument where...
He would be entitled to argue it even if he didn't believe it.
But then afterwards, when it was all over, he wrote a law review article in favor of the same principle that Professor Eastman.
He's one of the people claiming that Professor Eastman should go to jail now.
And you should hear Alan Dershowitz talk about that.
He was his friend at one time.
The guy has become a monster.
So Professor Eastman's view...
It's not contradicted by the Constitution, and it's not authorized by the Constitution, which makes it a fair argument to make on the grounds that you must view the law and the facts in the light most favorable to your client.
That's how we have novel opinions about the law.
That's how we end up with changes in the law, like we once had segregated schools.
Was it a crime to say that those opinions were illegal?
Of course not.
It was vigorous advocacy that happens in a democracy that has basic fundamental rights.
And that doesn't happen in the Soviet Union, which is what they turned us into.
So, the arguments that are being made against Musk and Trump, I'll have to divide them as an article.
A very good article in the Wall Street Journal did, although I don't agree with it completely.
Some of the arguments being made against the injunctions are 100% correct.
And the injunctions are being brought by the same crooked Democrats that brought the cases against Trump and me and funded it all, came up with millions and millions and millions to torture Trump lawyers and Trump supporters.
One very, very simple one is trying to block his doing away with the money for USAID. All of their other cases are based on the fact that Congress has created a specific purpose for the spending of the money, and he has to spend the money that way unless he wants to utilize impoundment.
Impoundment has been narrowed by a 1974 law, the Impoundment Act of 1974. And impoundment means now, if I as president want to stop spending because I think...
They're going broke or it's excessive.
I have to give a message to Congress and I have to bring Congress into it.
I can't just do it on my own.
Until 1974. In all of the other couple hundred years of our democracy, the president had the power to do that as an inherent power of the executive.
Particularly if we're talking about an agency that's spending money to the point of they're not going to have any money left.
Having been a mayor and having had...
The right of impoundment, the way presidents originally had it, in other words, had more power than the present president, I used it maybe four times, maybe five.
You don't use it a lot.
You use it when your agency's going wacko and you can't get control of them.
And they're really working more with the legislature than with you.
I was challenged on that five times, I believe, and I won four out of five.
I lost one.
But I didn't really lose it.
I made a settlement and saved a lot of money.
I had strange circumstances involving a legislative friend of mine, and we made a deal.
But a president can't do that.
A president can't do what most mayors, most governors who have that to protect.
Their agencies, because it's their agencies, from overspending.
But USAID doesn't have a specific grant.
USAID has a grant of a huge amount of money that the president can spend for any number of purposes, one of which is USAID, which means if he spends it for other purposes and doesn't have any money left over, he doesn't have to spend it on USAID. And there's nothing Congress can do about it and nothing the courts can do about it.
So they should take that injunction.
And they should shove it in the crooked judge can, okay?
Which is very big.
Those all should go.
Those are ridiculous legal challenges.
The legal challenges where he's stopping complete funding of authorized, specific congressional programs, he's probably going to lose those cases.
Although it will allow him, if he accumulates enough of them, to raise a very interesting question, which I think has already been decided by the court, but not a bad idea to get decided again.
Does Congress really have the right to prevent the president from managing the agencies in a fiscally wise and intelligent way?
Isn't that when they made him the chief executive?
They gave him all of the inherent powers of an executive.
Higher fire, right?
When they want to limit it, they have to limit it.
So he doesn't have the higher power completely.
There are certain offices where he has to share that with the Senate.
Those are the confirmation offices.
So when I was appointed associate attorney general and I was appointed U.S. attorney, I had to be confirmed by the Senate because the president didn't have the sole power.
To appointment.
Difference.
When I was appointed an assistant U.S. attorney, I didn't have to be confirmed.
There I worked solely at the discretion of the president.
So does everybody else in the government.
Also interesting, when Congress intruded and took over certain very high and sensitive positions where they took the power of confirmation, they fought very hard.
Should they also have power over the dismissal?
In other words, they confirmed the Secretary of State, correct?
The President wants to fire the Secretary of State.
Shouldn't he have to come back and get the same vote, majority or two-thirds?
And a very bitter debate, very close debate in the Constitutional Congress.
Very interesting if you want to read it.
They decided no.
That's different.
On advising consent, he needs help, and we've got to make sure he gets the right person.
But once he decides somebody is the wrong person, how can he ever work in the administration, even if we think he's the right person?
He's not going to trust him.
So it is one thing to say we want to roll in deciding on the very top and most sensitive positions.
Another thing to say, we can hamstring him with a bunch of bums that he doesn't like what we like.
So you can see how sensitive they were to the proper role of the executive.
So it isn't a constitutional amendment that creates impoundment.
It's a law of the Congress, which means it can be changed.
It means it could also be unconstitutional.
Too far of an infringement into the executive power of the presidency.
So I would tell you that, number one, this is being done, of course, to give the president the maximum power to clean up the most corrupt government we've ever had in our history.
More corrupt than...
More corrupt than I can describe to you.
More corrupt than I completely understand.
And probably even more corrupt than is going to come out, but plenty is going to come out.
The people I talked to today said, don't worry, this is going to come.
This is nothing.
And by the time it's finished, people's breath will be taken away.
And I said, well, tell me how much of it is corruption and how much is inefficiency.
He said, come on, you know the answer to that.
I mean, I thought they were a bunch of crooks forever.
But, of course, I thought maybe I'm too much of a prosecutor.
So these cases are going to come out a little differently.
Some he'll be vindicated completely.
He'll be allowed to go right straight ahead.
Some, he's going to have to wait for the Supreme Court.
And in the long run, I have to do a lot more thinking of my own to know what the right answer is.
I know what the right arguments are.
I know that's hard for people, but I'm a lawyer, and there are differences between the right argument and the right answer.
See, when I'm an advocate, my job is to find the right argument for you.
My job as a commentator, legal expert, judge, arbitrator, is to find the right answer.
So we'll work on the right answer.
I think it's going to be...
They're going to loosen up and vindicate a little more executive power for the president.
Will they go as far as he wants?
Or should they?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I mean, not every president's going to be...
Donald Trump.
So when you give this power, you've got to remember you may be giving it to another Joe Biden.
So you've got to think about it.
Wisdom suggests that you think about it.
Wisdom in Washington?
Jesus, that went away a long time ago.
I also think that the judge's decisions here are hysterical.
I don't mean hysterical funny.
I mean hysterical like out of control of your emotions.
Like, the blanket halt on spending is devastating.
A two-week halt in spending in the federal government is hardly noticed, much less devastating.
And by the way, the key programs for the people that are really poor are all continuing.
So stop it.
Stop the January 6th contrived hysteria.
You pulled that once and it didn't work.
Nobody's starving.
Nobody's...
Do we have a government that is out of control financially to such an extent it could be destroyed?
Yes.
Have you done it, you effing liberals?
Yes.
So, I know you put the judges on the bench to let you do it.
Now, how about this one?
How about this one?
This is good.
A second federal judge on Friday paused Donald Trump's order halting federal support for gender-affirming care for transgender youth under 19. U.S. District Court Judge Lauren King granted a temporary restraining order after the Democratic attorneys of Washington State, Oregon, and Mississippi sued the Trump administration.
So now they temporarily blocked the executive order that was filed on behalf of families with transgender children or binary children who didn't want their kids mutilated.
But this temporary restraining order says during the period of the temporary restraining order, unless it's been limited in some way, not indicated here.
They could get mutilated.
Now, whatever happened to irreparable harm in a temporary restraining order?
It's pretty irreparable to cut somebody's penis off.
But this awful, after all, did happen in Minnesota or Washington or any one of those.
Minnesota's the worst because of tampon.
It's the center of mutilation for children.
It's the center of children.
As a property of the state, because if your 13-year-old kid is brought there and the kid says, I want to change my gender, they can give him any kind of hormones.
They can chop the kid up any way they want.
And if you went there, you wouldn't have standing to object.
Tampon Tim owns your kid, which is maybe something he promised to China during the 30 trips he made there and the fortune that he got from them.
You think so?
You think it's possible that he's not a communist?
Then tell me how they let him into China 30 times.
And if you do, then you're extremely naive.
A U.S. district judge in Washington has stopped the president from laying off the financial control board staff until.
Until March 3rd.
So we'll see.
I mean, there's probably twice as many as they need.
So they should make a deal, let half go, and we'll fight about the other half.
You know, I don't know.
I don't know if I'd have been successful.
I got rid of, I think, about 8,000 hospital workers.
Now, I'm going to tell you the end result.
I said, not only did we miss them, the hospitals got better.
When I came into office, of the 13 hospitals New York City owns and operates to the Health and Hospitals Corporation, five of them had some form of suspension.
I don't know if any of them had complete, pretty close to complete, like different parts of the hospital were, the word isn't suspension, it's something else.
Dr. Maria, you know the name of the word when they cut a hospital off?
No, she's not there.
They say the hospital has been suspended.
Well, let's say suspended.
That's a good enough word.
I'll find the word for tomorrow.
Yeah, decertified.
We were decertified.
Even a stronger word.
We were decertified.
Like major units, like the hard care unit or the maternity units, because we were killing people.
We were dirty.
Or our staff didn't know what they were doing.
So I promised when I ran that by the time I left, they'd all be certified and they'd all be at least, if not profit-making, they'd be able to support themselves.
And I did it.
I did it, and I got rid of 8,000 people because we had hospitals that were political entities.
Have you ever heard of hospitals used for political patronage?
Oh, yeah.
Crooked New York congressmen, some of whom you know, like Charlie Rangel, used hospitals to put people there who helped with their campaign.
Or maybe, I'm not saying for sure, but somehow Charlie is one of those guys like Schumer that never worked all his life except for the government.
He was in the military, so we'll give him that.
But you don't make a lot of money in the military.
And Charlie left, you know, Charlie came out with about $27 million.
Now, could it be some of these hospital workers kicked?
I don't know.
There was a guy in the Bronx.
He made his, the head Democrat in the Bronx.
When I was U.S. Attorney, required to put him in jail, I put a lot of the Democrats, they really loved me.
He was taking, if he gave his driver a raise or some of his other staff, he was taking the raise.
You know why the driver turned him in?
He wouldn't pay the taxes.
So let's say the driver was earning $50,000.
And the driver got an increase to $60,000.
The driver now had to pay about $3,000.
He didn't get anything.
He only got $50,000.
But he had to pay $3,000 more in taxes.
So now he was actually earning $47,000.
Then when he got a second raise, up to $70,000.
Wow!
He's the biggest driver in the Bronx.
Except he was making $8,000 less than the $50,000 he started with.
After the third one of these, when the poor guy had no money to live, he went to see the top Democrat of the party of the poor.
And he said, why don't you at least reimburse me for the taxes?
He said, get out of here.
You're lucky you got a job, you bum.
This guy used to get invited to the weddings.
To Democrats, you're a piece of crap.
For too often, they've had indentured servants.
When you get indentured servants, you lose your sense of humanity.
I am absolutely shocked at all this money they say Schumer has, and I'm going to look into it.
I'm going to look into it for reasons that I may be able to reveal now.
Okay.
So let's take a short break and we'll come back for the last segment of the show, which will prove to be very interesting.
But then you're going to hang around and you're going to go on Newsmax and you're going to see me there live with Lydia, okay?
We'll be right back.
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Am I back?
Yes, sir.
I'm back.
All right.
So let's cover the necessary things we have to let you know so you're informed Americans and you are free of the censorship and we go around it and we screw them.
I don't even know if the communists who now run the media will tell you it's George Washington's birthday, but it is.
It's actual birthday.
Now, why he has to share his birthday with every other American president, some of whom were buffoons and the last one of which was a traitor, I have no idea.
But if there's one guy that's entitled to have his own birthday as a holiday, well, if there are two, it's him and Lincoln.
And I'm sorry, I would put in...
Ronald Reagan.
But the rest of them, they could all be in one, except for Trump, he'll eventually have his own.
So, but I mean, really, let's not even obscure it with that.
Who the heck could disagree?
We've got so many ridiculous holidays in this country.
Who the heck could disagree with George Washington's holiday being a singular holiday?
Somebody who doesn't love America.
The poor Bebas family, I don't know if you remember this, but the father and the mother were released, and now it hasn't been proven, but it has been said by the animals, meaning Hamas, that the babies who I think were one and two when they were captured are dead.
But there's also some counter-information that they're alive.
Now, that's torture.
This comes about because they're holding the dead bodies.
I don't know.
I guess it was, in terms of discretion, the best decision not to go bomb the living daylights out of them, and maybe we'll get a few more alive people that way.
But I am sure as heck out of patience.
I mean, I really am.
I spent some time with a couple of special forces people and I asked them, you know, what were the odds that we'd get them out?
They said, actually, this would have been a situation that would have been tougher because basically it's more when they're in homes and mountain hideaways, that kind of thing.
When you do it deep in the ground, it's a little bit harder, but not impossible.
And it should definitely have been looked into, particularly with the help of the Israelis.
Who have superior intelligence.
So very often, they operate with very sparse intelligence about where they're going, and it works out.
He said here, the one energy to have is a very difficult extraction from the ground, but a superior amount of information about how to run the operation.
And they also agreed that they probably would have come up with a better survival rate.
And also agree with me that the best thing that should have been done is they should have been terrorized.
By terrorized, I don't mean terror.
I mean, like, what Trump, you know, like, would you like to keep Hamas?
And would you like to keep alive Palestinians?
Then tell Hamas to give up.
You'd have to take, make Palestine a thing of the past if they keep your hostages.
They've been threatening the elimination of the Jewish people long enough so that it would be a perfectly justifiable position to take.
Unless you're a fool that thinks you are required to die.
And don't believe in self-defense of any kind.
I tell you, the people at Mar-a-Lago and the Trump golf course believe in self-defense.
I can't imagine that there was a single one there that didn't come up and say thank you to Daniel Penny, where he's greeted, by the way, all around the world as a hero, except for Democrats, which is why the party should be over.
It should be gone.
It should have nothing to do with America, because it has to do with all the worst parts of America.
and a new political party should be born to oppose us Republicans because we sure as hell not write all the time.
So the citizens they released this time, they cleaned them up and put them in a little better care.
A migrant transgender woman, wanted by the FBI and immigration officials, allegedly stalked and raped a boy in Manhattan this week.
So we are feeling the after effects of the Biden invitees.
And we're going to be feeling this for 20 years.
Because there's, who knows, the total number could be 15 to 20 million.
The total number of criminals is extraordinarily large and impossible to determine.
But it's in the millions of criminals, not the hundreds of thousands.
So this guy who did it, It's Nicole Suarez.
And he is an illegal alien.
And he's a transgender woman.
He followed a 14-year-old into the bathroom of a bodega across the street from Thomas Jefferson Park in East Harlem, and he attacked him.
Suarez, 30, is originally from Colombia, was arrested, and he's been charged with first-degree rape.
Now, okay, they better hold him and get rid of him.
However, he was wanted in New Jersey.
He was wanted in Massachusetts.
He was wanted by the Immigration and Naturalization Services.
And they think he's been wanted elsewhere.
That's all they have right now.
And the ICE detainer was declared, we don't listen to it because we're a sanctuary state.
According to ICE, ICE could just pick this person up and deport them back immediately.
But due to our sanctuary laws, that was obstructed.
Shouldn't the people who obstructed that go to jail?
Isn't that obstruction of justice?
I mean, they convicted all of those J6 people for obstructions of a government proceeding with an illegal statute.
It had to be taken away because all the maniac, crooked judges in Washington applied it.
This is an absolute obstruction.
This is an obstruction of justice that led to something real.
The rape of a 14-year-old by a transgender person.
Judge Elizabeth Chamas, who became a judge in January after she was elected on the Democrat ticket, Lowered the amount of $200,000 bail or $200,000 bond online record show.
And that person got out.
Thank you, Elizabeth Chamas.
And thank you, the Democratic leader of the Bronx, Democratic hack from the Bronx, who appointed whoever the hell Elizabeth Chamas is.
And would you like a good Japanese person would do?
I'm not asking you to kill yourself with a sword.
Just get off the effing bench, huh?
We got enough crooked judges in New York.
We got enough crooked judges in New York.
We don't need a new young one.
Look, you get appointed in the Bronx.
You get appointed in Brooklyn.
You get appointed in Queens.
You get appointed in New York.
Presumption, you are a political whore.
Because you get appointed by a political operative.
And you're going to do crap like this.
You're going to get people killed.
Wow.
Wow, wow, wow.
Okay, time.
Time to play.
We should probably play Time to Say Goodbye.
That was sung by Bocella yesterday.
But we have tried hard to recreate my own recording.
I hope this is not, whatchamacallit, copywriter or something.
But first, I want to show you my new hat.
And I want to know, I'm going to have it on long enough while we play this, where you tell me if you think I should wear this on the show or it's distracting.
I have to tell you, it's a little tight for my head.
I've got to tell these people, what do they think?
Some of us have big brains.
Look at that.
There's that one.
I like that hat.
I know you do.
I love this hat.
I was looking for it all over and I finally got it.
That's the signature.
Wrong way, yeah.
Up there.
Up there.
Turn around, turn around.
There.
There.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, let me turn this around.
Now the other way.
Fashion model.
See that?
Now you want to see that?
I'll show you this way.
I have no idea how you get them.
I'm not selling them.
I'm just showing it to you.
I just think the gold one looks good.
So the other one is the famous Elon Musk hat.
So if you want to cut money in your business, okay?
Like, have some very wise ideas about cutting money in your business.
I recommend wearing this cap.
Wearing this cap.
Who knows what kind of ideas you're going to get.
Now, this cap is hard.
I don't know if they can make out on this cap what it says there.
Can they?
No, I don't think our cameras are quite good enough for that.
It says DOGE. Everybody come up front with that one.
Shall we play Bocelli?
Yeah, let's go with Bocelli.
So this is the mayor's own personal video that he took, so I think we are good when it comes to copyright.
Let's see it.
I don't think he's in business.
I don't think he's in business.
I don't think he's in business.
I don't think he's in business.
Did the second one.
Did the second one.
Did the second one.
who hopefully are going to be free, and let's pray for all of the people of America.
Let's thank God for giving...
Mr. Bocelli, that beautiful voice.
You know, that ending of Nessun Dorma, which is the aria he was singing from Turandot, which happens to be the president's favorite.
He did it twice.
When he does Vincero at the end, that's the great part where he has to hit the high C. And not every tenor he can.
Not every tenor can do that.
The President of the United States plays that as the second of the concluding songs when he leaves the stage.
The first, he'll do a popular song, and the second, he'll do that, largely because of the last couple of words, which are victory.
Vincereau, vincereau.
So he did it a second time as a kind of an encore.
Now, it's remarkable to hold your breath for the first one, but the...
Two seconds later, do it again when you're 65 years old.
God gave you something.
A great gift.
He sings that better now than he used to when he was younger.
And his voice has gotten much stronger.
And it's even gotten more lyrical.
Although he's always been one of the very, very best singers in the world.
And he's going to be a singer for the ages with all the music that he's created.
Also, the beautiful songs with Celine Dion and Sarah Brightman and so many others.
He sang with every popular singer.
He sang with Pavarotti.
He sang, of course, with Placido Domingo and Jose Carreras.
He sings with everyone.
Wonderful man, humble man, decent man, wonderful family, great wife.
Watch a documentary about him.
It's almost like a home movie.
You'll love it.
We'll be back tomorrow night, and we'll see you.
A lot going on in the world, and I think I'd be surprised if there isn't some movement in one of those two places between now and then.
But we'll be back with you at 7 o'clock and then again at 8 on Rudy Giuliani's show and then on America's Mayor Live.
God bless America.
God bless America.
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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