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April 23, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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America’s Mayor Live (653): "FRANCISCUS"—Pope Francis’ Body Is Moved to St. Peter’s to Lie in State
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Good evening.
This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor Live, back where it all began.
Well, not everything.
It all began way back with Adam and Eve, right?
Since we're on a religious theme tonight.
But back where it all began for America's Mayor Live, New York City.
And tonight, we're in New York City.
We're at the Trump Hotel on Columbus Circle, a beautiful, beautiful spot.
If we switch to camera two for a moment, we can show you that it's become dusk now.
On the earliest show, we had a better view.
But you still can see, you're looking up Broadway.
Those cars are coming down Broadway, the ones you see with the lights.
But near the top of the picture, where you see the reflection of a sort of a white building, that's Lincoln Center.
That's where the Metropolitan Opera is, the New York Philharmonic, Avery Fisher Hall, the Juilliard School of Music, the New York Ballet, some of the greatest cultural institutions in the world.
Right across the street from me is something I required when that building was built because it was a city and state property that was sold for the building across the street.
It was called the Time Warner Building.
And I required that there be a Performing Arts Center place there so that Lincoln Center would start about four or five blocks earlier as he entered Columbus Circle.
And I had the pleasure of looking out the window before and seeing the Rose Arts Center, which is the premier place for performing.
And I should say it's the premier place for acoustics for the performance of jazz.
It's where jazz musicians prefer to record because the acoustics just turned out to be beautiful.
It's very interesting, up at Lincoln Center, when the acoustics at the Metropolitan Opera are unreal.
I mean, it's the largest opera house in the world, and it's a little bit easier to sing in than some of the smaller ones.
Remember, true opera houses like La Scala.
The Vienna Opera, Covent Garden, Paris Opera, no electronic magnification of the voice.
It's all natural.
So you've got to fill that auditorium.
And the biggest indoor opera auditorium in the world is a metropolitan opera.
It's really the test not only of the beauty of your voice, but the athleticism of it.
And so that's right at the upper end of the...
Of the streets that you're looking at, if you're looking at it now, on the left-hand side where the white building I actually think is Avery Fisher, or it may be the Juilliard, but they're all in a big, giant, beautiful square, not unlike the palace,
come to think of it.
So now, let's...
Let's see if we can take a look at Pope Francis, who's waving goodbye to us.
And we covered a good deal about Pope Francis on the earlier show, about his background and his life and what happened and will happen.
The very interesting issue, of course, will be as we get closer to it, who are they going to select as the new cardinal?
There are about eight front row candidates, and then a couple of acknowledged long shots, and then who knows?
But the real issue is, what orientation will the new Pope have?
Not so much who it is, but who it is as a reflection of, is it going to be a continuation of what has been regarded as the...
Very progressive policies of the Pope, which for progressives, of course, has been very, very much appreciated, but for more conservative traditional Catholics has been frightening.
As, gee, the one thing they were hanging on to the church for is to escape wokeism, and all of a sudden the Pope is giving lectures on climate change.
Is that going to continue or isn't it?
You should realize that it's got to be about 70% of the cardinals that are going to vote were appointed by Pope Francis.
Now, does that mean they reflect his viewpoint?
Not necessarily.
viewpoint on religion and theology and moral philosophy and theology is different than you know
It isn't like the intellectually limited politicians who they call themselves left-wingers and then they look at how the other left-wingers vote and then they put their hands up because they can't analyze an issue.
Or like Pelosi acknowledged, they don't read bills.
These men, these cardinals are almost all intellectuals.
That's why, as you know, whether you like a pope or not, they are extraordinarily...
I can't remember a pope that doesn't speak five languages or hasn't been published either as a truly extraordinary theologian or at least a good one, which is a philosopher, but a philosopher of religion,
right? So I think you can be sure whoever's selected can be a brilliant man.
The question is, is he going to be wanting to...
Make the church more in tune with what I guess I would as a conservative regard as moral relativity of our current society, if not immorality of our current society.
Or is he going on to reinforce the bedrock principles of the Catholic Church?
And one of the things that might be very persuasive is that the...
Major increase in Catholics in the last year to two years has been among people seeking structure, including the converts from Episcopalian and other denominations where the feeling is they have become completely...
Their moral philosophy doesn't exist anymore.
It's just completely a reflection of whatever the latest trend is.
To be acceptable in modern society.
So that's going to play itself out with these different candidates.
And it is without any doubt going to be one of the major discussions which we're going to have to view by interpretation.
We're not going to have, this isn't like a courtroom television.
We're not going to get to see the deliberations of the conclave.
The funeral will be on Saturday.
President and Mrs. Trump are going, which is really following up on what President and Mrs. Bush did when Pope John Paul II passed away.
hmm
So we'll have to see.
We'll have to see what happens.
We're going to have to see what happens.
The president has indicated with regard to tariffs, again, that we're very close to agreements.
And also, he took some pressure off the so-called trade war with China by announcing that he would engage in hardball with China.
We're going to be very nice and see what happens.
Now, his indication that there are several trade deals that are on the cusp of being signed and his indication that he's not going to play Russian roulette with China has had a big marked impact on the market.
Yesterday, it had a major increase of 1,000 points or more.
Today, it was headed for an increase of at least that or more.
And then it kind of corrected it, but it ended up 400 points ahead.
The NASDAQ up by 2.5%.
So it seems like things are calming down a little.
Now, my good friend, Michael Goodwin, who if I had read this earlier, I would have invited over.
Hopefully he's in New York.
Maybe we'll see if we can get him for tomorrow night.
Wrote a very challenging column today.
Now, Michael is a very big supporter of the president, has been now for several years, actually has been for some time, but strongly for the last several years because he saw the continuation of the Biden administration as pretty much a destruction of America as we know it.
But he thinks the confluence of events now is really hurting the president's great start.
In the first couple of weeks, he got off to such a whirlwind start that he had great public approval.
Now, this is Michael's view, not mine.
I'll tell you mine in a little while.
Michael basically said he put too many balls in the air at once.
And without having thought through how long is it going to take to resolve...
How much can you sustain?
And when do you lose public approval?
Which I don't think he has, but Michael does.
The sheer number of balls in the air is one thing, Michael says.
But even more so is Trump's hyper-aggressive move to impose tariffs on nearly every country as a way to fix trade imbalances.
now um yeah
I don't know that it could be done one at a time.
There are too many of them.
And unless they know you're serious and there's something they can negotiate their way out of, how are you going to get them to change years of behavior?
And right now, I don't know that it's time for a conclusion because it looks like it's working.
Now, I do admit that one hasn't been signed yet.
And I think if I were executing this strategy, instead of keeping all the balls in the air at once, I keep them in the air, but I get one of them.
I get the best one resolved.
I think the best way to get the rest resolved is to get one resolved.
Joe Torre had a theory.
How do you come back in a 10-0 game when you're down 10-0 in the third inning?
He said you score a run.
That's how you come back.
You score a run.
You don't think about scoring 10 runs.
Think about scoring a run.
And how often does it happen?
I remember a game pitched by Clemens for the Red Sox, and I was there with my friends, and it was the second inning, and the Red Sox went ahead 9-0.
And all my friends wanted to leave.
They wanted to go have a nice steak, have dinner.
What are we going to sit here and watch this ridiculous game for?
Dave Winfield hit a home run so far.
Into center field, you couldn't see it anymore.
It shook up, Clemens, who generally didn't get shook up.
By the end of the inning, it was 9-9.
And then the Yankees went ahead and won it something like 13-12.
And I've seen it go the other way, too.
But that's the one that I remember.
This is sort of like what, right now, there are no agreements.
But right now there are allegedly somewhere over 80 that are in negotiation and about 20 that are virtually done but for the last minute details.
But, as Michael points out, the market took a tremendous nosedive.
I don't know that I'd give too much credence to that.
The same market that took a tremendous nosedive Had a tremendous increase yesterday just on the assurance that there will be an agreement.
Circumstances haven't changed between when it took a nosedive and yesterday and today, except taking Trump's word that there is going to be an agreement.
For some reason, last week they doubted it.
This week they seem to be agreeing with it.
They agreed with it a lot until midday.
Then there was a little dispute.
It's all still speculation.
If these agreements get negotiated in the next three to four to five months, it'll be extraordinary that you can do that many in that period of time.
So if you really do want to locate a problem, maybe it's creating, by trying to push too many through the bottleneck all at once, pick one out and pull it through and see what happens.
See how many others are going to want to have theirs go through as quickly as possible.
The extra that Trump added today seemed to have an impact on the market, too, which is he's not going to go balls to the wall with China.
Although I think he's going to have to.
That's the one thing I disagree with.
I think the other ones are all going to happen, and they're going to be very favorable, and they're going to be very helpful.
But I think China is...
And even if China agrees that it's only going to work for about six months, same thing with Iran.
Then he cites the situation with Pete Hegset as people losing confidence as a result of that.
I don't buy that.
I think that's a politically orchestrated attack.
I think that it's very hard to evaluate a person's performance when You know, if you're playing basketball and you get called for, every time you get within three inches of something,
you get called for a foul.
And they bang you in the head and they don't get called for a foul.
And they're considered to be a better basketball player than you are.
I mean, there was no violation of the law in what he did.
The rest of it is political propaganda.
Now... I do think, now that the three people have been removed, we've got to find out why.
What was that all about?
But, I mean, that's what they wanted him to do.
Then he also, Michael raises the federal courts, blocking him on so many things.
Well, I mean, if you're going to...
If you're going to change, you're going to have resistance to it.
So he's only got four years.
I think you fight all the battles and you win as many as you can.
He's probably not going to win all of them.
How did Ronald Reagan?
Ronald Reagan won two out of the big three.
He got rid of communism in Eastern Europe.
He took our economy from...
Stagflation to one of the strongest economies in American history.
And he raised the debt.
He couldn't possibly have outspent Russia without doing that.
He had to make a choice.
Same thing can happen with Trump.
He can get most of it done and some will have to be sacrificed.
We'll be a hell of a lot better off than where we were.
He also cites the Abrego case as they screwed themselves by first saying that he was sent out with an administrative error.
And then he was sent to El Salvador legally.
And which is it?
The person who said that he went illegally is a deep state person who cooperated in pretty much the biggest double cross of the United States in American history, which is letting anywhere from 15 to 20 million people invade this country.
Without the slightest bit of examination of it.
And we have no idea who's here, but we know it's bad.
Well, this guy was one of the people who sat back and watched that.
Of course, he's going to look for any opportunity he can to interpret it that way.
This guy had only one thing that was holding him up from being deported from the United States.
He is, without doubt, He's not an alleged member of MS-13.
The documentary evidence proves that he's a member of MS-13.
Also, the documentary evidence sitting on his damn arm proves it.
Today, all the facts were brought out with the car that he was driving for the two highest levels people in MS-13.
There are reports and affidavit form and complaints over a two-year period from his girlfriend.
That he was beating the living daylights out of her.
He was found by two immigration judges to be a member of MS-13.
The reason he wasn't sent back to El Salvador originally, because he was a member of MS-13, because a rival group was going to kill him.
The rival group's been eliminated.
They're not there anymore.
So there's no reason to hold them back anymore.
Not when you're dealing with an emergency and you have, who knows, 20 million of these people, 15 million, 10 million, 5 million.
We have no idea.
You get a guy with this background, you throw him out.
And then they describe him as a Maryland man.
It's like when they describe the murderer of Lakin Riley as a man from Athens, Georgia.
Yeah. From Transiragua.
From Venezuela.
So I don't know.
And then he raises Harvard opposing his penalties for anti-Semitism, which Columbia agreed to.
And it's making them a hero to a resistant movement, looking for leadership.
And then finally, this all comes about because the White House emphasized that he and Netanyahu are on the same side of the issue, and Michael says that there's no question that Trump turned down a request by Israel to bomb the living daylights out of the nuclear facilities,
and that he's following Whitcoff's advice.
And playing a sort of like the same appeasement game that he accused Obama of playing and then reversed.
Now, I think that one, that last one, certainly the facts that are out there through leaks do suggest that possibility, but it's certainly inconsistent with Trump's behavior throughout.
And hard to believe that ultimately Trump would end up with a nuclear agreement with Iran that did anything but allow us to do massive inspections immediately and even before we agree.
So let's see what happens.
I do agree there's some confusion on that, though, that I wish were clarified.
The others, I think, Strangely, I think Michael's taking the spin.
There's only a certain amount you can do when 80% of the press is against you, if you want to stick to your principles.
I thought it was very, very useful, the press conference held by Robert Kennedy.
With the two doctors, and the one with Marty McCary is the one in which they are banning eight synthetic dyes.
Now, this has worried me for a very long time.
You see all this stuff, all this little candy with painting.
It's like they put paint on it, and I'm eating paint.
It's almost like that.
I mean, some of these are toxic.
And it's been known for some time.
Also, if you look, if you look at all of the different things We know for sure with autism, it's gone up 220 times in 20 years.
I mean, 220% in 20 years.
Now, they say that's detection.
It can't be that much more detection.
And some of the other illnesses are physical illnesses.
So if you want to take a look at this chart that I took from the post, you'll see the things that they're taking a look at.
So blue dye number one, blue number one dye is used in M&Ms.
It has a blue U to it.
And it has been rumored, these are tested and done with mice, which is how we do all of it in terms of cancer knowledge and detection, in which a disproportionate number of mice who were eating this blue dye were getting kidney tumors.
And that's according to the Center for Science and the Public Interest.
A test tube study also raised questions about the possible effect on nerve cells.
Then you have blue dye number two, which is used in Skittles and in blueberry Pop-Tarts.
Also, disproportionate number of tumors in male rats, and particularly brain tumors, in male rats exposed to dye number two.
Citrus red number two.
It's used to color the peels of oranges, particularly those grown in Florida, to make them look better.
Why don't I get to see what the orange look like?
Also been found to cause cancer.
Green dye number three is used in canned foods.
Peas, it's used even in sherbet.
It causes a disproportionate number of cases of bladder cancer.
I might go on and on, but orange B, bile and liver cancer, red dye number 40 in Kool-Aid and Starburst and NyQuil.
Allergies, irritability, hyperactivity.
Yellow number five, DNA damage.
That's found in Mountain Dew and Twinkies.
And yellow number six.
Can you believe this?
Lucky Charms, Airheads, Jolly Ranchers.
What is the likelihood?
It contains a carcinogen known as benzinine.
What is the likelihood that this was a subject of a board meeting in a corporate company where they said, "Well, you know, they're harmful," but they said, "Well, you know,
How often when these investigations of pharmaceutical companies do you find the reports alerting them to these problems that were just overcome because you made a billion dollars?
I mean, this concern that Robert Kennedy is raising has been his concern for 20 to 25 years.
And I've been worried about it forever when I see this crap.
But it was with the integrity of this whole process was put in grave question with the introduction of the vaccine for COVID-19 because it was never tested.
Vaccines are supposed to have three years of tests because vaccines are very complex.
At least the way they're doing it now with manipulating the DNA.
And some of the dangerous side effects don't show up for two or three years.
So if you just take it for a year, you don't see it.
Now, it turns out that the COVID-19 vaccine, first of all, was a lie.
It wasn't a vaccine.
Take the polio vaccine.
You don't get polio.
Take the COVID vaccine.
You can get COVID-19 like Mrs. Biden did four times.
That's a vaccine?
Imagine if Jonas Salk had presented the polio vaccine and people took it, and as many people who took it got polio as didn't.
It's taking the damn thing off the market.
And then they started a bunch of lies.
I mean, Biden, first of all, started telling people, If you don't take the vaccine, you're a killer.
You're killing people.
You would kill yourself.
And not only that, you weren't killing people.
You would kill people if you took it, but people would think you were perfectly fine.
And it turns out you had the same capacity to spread the disease if you took the vaccine, if you didn't.
The whole thing was a scam.
It wasn't even a good medicine.
Then they tried to sell it as it reduces the occurrence of it and reoccurrence of it and the symptoms.
Well, for a while, it looked that way.
Then you got people like the first step.
Oh, my God.
Can I make a comment?
And everybody involved in that vaccine became billionaires.
Absolutely. In fact, one of them had a party for when they became billionaires.
Very, very proud of how they suckered us.
They started out by saying...
That it's going to take 10 years or 20 years to develop a vaccine.
And then within 10 minutes, they had a vaccine and of course they knew everything about it.
It was going to do this, that, and everything else, right?
Because remember when they first started announcing vaccines?
Yes, yes.
They told you the scientific knowledge of vaccines that they take a long time to develop.
They very often can't be developed.
You fail more often at developing a vaccine for Particularly a virus, then you succeed.
And finally, it takes multiple years of tests because they're enormously complex.
And sometimes the side effects don't show up for two or three years.
In this case, they showed up immediately.
And they just lied about it.
The news reports contradict each other.
Well, we've been talking about doublespeak, right?
Yeah. Like when they say Department of Peace.
And it's really the department that has all the nuclear weapons.
When they say this is a vaccine, it was the opposite of a vaccine.
It didn't prevent the disease for sure.
It didn't lessen the symptoms of the disease at all.
It didn't reduce the number of times you would get it or the severity by which you would get it in the future.
And there's even a possibility that it increased the possibility that you would get it more severely.
But it made a lot of bureaucrats and...
And pharmaceutical companies rich.
Well, it tripled Fauci's net worth.
Right. And we know that from the leaks.
And the little stuff that...
Fauci made a lot more than...
Fauci's worth about $16 million now.
Think about that, people.
A government servant all his life.
Right. Worth $16 million.
He was worth $7 million when it all started.
Because he made a fortune off AIDS, too.
And a big scandal there as well.
Well, thank you, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
And thank you, Marty McCary.
Marty went through hell in his warnings that he gave us.
Dr. McCary went through hell in the warnings that he gave us about COVID.
And he's now the head of the Food and Drug Administration.
Just the right guy to have.
Thank God.
And boy, is that a screwed up organization.
Whoa! And the Center for Disease Control?
I haven't trusted the Center for Disease Control since West Nile virus.
Told me it wasn't.
And my health department told me it was.
And I just went ahead and said, screw you.
And I saved a lot of lives.
So these petroleum-based synthetic dyes are going to be phased out.
They're going to be studied.
And boy, it's the beginning.
It's the beginning of looking at a lot of things where the empirical evidence shows that we spend more money on health than any country in the world, and if we're above the middle, we're doing well.
We've got poor countries that are healthier than we are.
Okay, Ted, I want to engage you, and Rob also, in the following conversation.
What's going on with what our friend Pete Hague said?
It seems to me they're hounding him.
And my advice, and I haven't been asked for it, but I'll tell you, if I see the president, I'll give it because I've got a big mouth.
I don't think you should roll over for it.
And I think they'll go away.
Pete has the right idea of what has to be done with the Defense Department.
And the Defense Department doesn't want to do it, or a lot of people don't want to do it.
So you start tossing people out like this, you're not going to get anybody to do it for you.
Everybody will be a Chuck Schumer, which is...
Trump doesn't realize the intelligence is going to get him.
Yeah, well, they did.
And I think a lot of people in his prior administration were affected by that.
You've got to protect these people against the insidious creeps in the deep state.
I mean, they're terrible.
They're terrible crooks.
That's right, Mayor, and you hit the nail on the...
And as you correctly pointed out,
Mayor, with the...
Piling on by the unnamed sources, these leaks to the reporters, and the way they keep what seems like career people who are just not happy that Hegseth was chosen because they seem to think that they're the ones that get to decide, not the duly elected president of the United States who is to run the Pentagon.
And so you're correct, Mayor.
The more the media attacks him, I almost feel that the secretary is in a safer position because...
You can't give in.
If they give in here, it gives the Democrats and the powers that be a roadmap on how to get somebody out.
So they were hounding Kennedy and, I mean, look, for a while, they weren't going to nominate Kennedy.
Nobody else would have had the guts to do what he did.
I'm sorry.
I mean, you may not like him because he's a Democrat, but...
Guy's got balls.
Right. I'll keep it very short, what I think.
I think that all of the hubbub is nothing more and nothing less than Trump derangement syndrome.
After all, he's Trump appointed.
That's the reason why they're going after him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know, in a way, you're right.
It almost...
They probably got the message, it doesn't matter if they go after Trump.
After they indicted him, and they indicted him four times, they convicted him of 33 felonies, and they got elected president on what would be considered a modern, at least electoral landslide.
Arguably, they might have even helped them become president.
I don't think, arguably.
The spies who lied?
The 51 spies who lied?
Are you kidding me?
No, I think they're repetitious indictments.
Oh, against Trump, yeah.
They always overdo it, even January 6th.
I would tell you, and I say this, I never gave up on it.
I always thought he was going to be able to come back.
If there was any time I ever had any doubt, if there was any time I had any doubt, it was January 6th to about March of 2021.
Because they did a very, very, and this is very frustrating for me.
I knew from 7 o'clock at night, On January 6th, it was a phony.
That it was orchestrated by the left wing, the same people who orchestrated the violent riots during the summer of 2020, the same group.
They started organizing this way back in September.
We had emails inviting people in to disrupt it.
We knew that Pelosi...
Was working for creating a major problem.
But they did a very effective job of turning America against them.
And then let's take a look when we come back at what happened because they keep doing it and maybe we shouldn't warn them because you can almost count on it.
We'll be right back.
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Cars are coming downtown, the ones you can see.
But there's a two-way street heading up to Lincoln Center.
And then beyond that, the 72nd Street, where there's a divide between Broadway and Amsterdam.
And then it'll go up.
It stayed on that street, and it just kept going into the 110s and 120s, which we incorrectly described as the most anti-Semitic school in America.
That title is now being very, very strongly assumed by Harvard, which also has a much more disgraceful history of anti-Semitism than Columbia.
It was probably the most anti-Semitic university in the country.
Oh, gosh, you know, from almost its inception until the 1980s.
Jews, no need to apply to the medical school.
I had several...
Doctors, including the doctor who delivered my child, who was a world-renowned doctor, who couldn't get into Harvard because he was Jewish.
Like in the 1940s.
In the 1940s.
Well-known.
Very well-known.
Law school, too.
The Abrego Garcia thing is driving me nuts.
I mean, completely ridiculous.
It's completely ridiculous.
First of all, he is illegal.
He's never been found to be illegal.
He has never even claimed asylum.
He claims something different, which I don't even know what the illegal effect of this is.
He calls it withholding of removal.
Because asylum is the same thing as refugee status.
If you're overseas and you say, I want to go to the United States because the communists in red China are going to kill me, you can be granted refugee status and the United States will take you.
If you get into the United States, having escaped China, and you say, I'm...
Escaping persecution by the Chinese communists.
They're going to put me in jail.
You can be granted a cell.
Now, you get a hearing because obviously people can claim that when it's not true.
Spies can claim it in order to get in.
So you have to have a hearing.
And there's the rub.
The hearings take five years.
So you come in.
And honestly, most of them never come back for a hearing.
And most of them that do end up not making a valid claim.
Now, he never made a claim of asylum or refugee.
He didn't say that he would be harmed by the government of El Salvador.
He said he would be harmed by a
a Competitive gang And The
who
The second judge who had determined he was a member of MS-13.
It's not alleged.
The judge determined it.
He said, but we're going to withhold it because you might be killed by this gang.
Now, that's a couple of years ago.
The new president, who they all hate because he won't let him go, the new president eliminated the gang that wants to kill him.
And by the way, at that time, when he got that exception, and he was facing that risk when he left, he was eight years old, unable to defend himself.
Now he's a gangbanger, arrested with two of the major violent criminals in MS-13, charged by his wife and beaten the hell out of her several times.
This is not a due process issue.
First of all, the nature of due process for a non-citizen is very, very debatable.
The nature of due process for an illegal as opposed to a non-citizen legal resident is extremely debatable as to exactly what it entails.
You get the helpful guidance that it's less than the full due process Or that a citizen has.
Less than.
So definitive reports determined by courts that you're a member of a violent, murderous gang that's afflicting many parts of America and that you originally came in illegally and you were returned but for the fact that some gang that doesn't exist anymore might kill you.
Certainly is enough due...
I certainly didn't get that kind of due process when the Bidenistas were going after me.
Trump never got that due process.
He still doesn't know what he was charged with fully in the case in New York.
He was charged with furthering a felony.
We don't know which one.
The jury didn't have to reach a unanimous verdict.
That's a hell of a lot more of a violation of due process for an American citizen, much less the future president, than a MS-13 wife-beating bum.
And Democrats from all over the country are taking the money given to them by their constituents to get reelected in order to defeat us Republicans and spending it on this guy.
They really want this guy back.
What, so we can beat the shit out of his wife again?
Or go back working with MS-13?
Oh no man, it's because they're so worried about the civil rights.
Well, it doesn't affect anybody else but him.
They didn't have us believe that when we know what it really is.
Another grift.
They certainly weren't worried about the American hostages in Gaza, some of whom were killed.
Not only did they never go, they never said anything about them.
I mean, the American people can't still be falling for this, right?
They didn't get due process either, but they also got tortured, right?
So I don't get, I really don't get this, and it is another time when they've gone overboard.
The Department of State is getting rid of 2,000 staffers and closing down 132 bureaus.
Altogether, they might be getting rid of about 2,700.
It's going to be a 15% cut to the domestic staff and also a cut to the foreign staff.
Absolutely necessary.
Boy, I would have, I mean, I would have gotten rid of all of them and started all over again, but I think they are the worst department in government.
And actually, you're even doing a Democratic president a favor because although they lean very left, if the Democratic president isn't left enough, they'll cut his cool owners off just like I would a Republican.
I don't know of a president, when you read their memoirs, I don't know the president that has trusted the State Department, except maybe when, well, no, even when Condoleezza Rice was there.
Bush could trust Condoleezza Rice, but you couldn't trust the people in the State Department.
Not only because of their dishonesty, but also their incompetence.
Kennedy couldn't trust him, Johnson couldn't trust him, we're talking Democrats now.
Clinton couldn't trust him, and Obama, they just lied to him.
They told him, everything's going great.
We're beating al-Qaeda.
Meanwhile, Trump comes in, and al-Qaeda is back in control again.
Someone there also worked with Obama to make sure those pallets of cash got to where they needed to be in Iraq.
Yeah, and a lot of them share the communist Marxist views that he has.
Well, there are two types in the State Department.
There are very few good ones.
One are straight out, not Marxists.
And the other are arrogant intellectual assholes who think they know everything.
You can't win.
Well, the problem is they don't know much.
They don't know much, and they're completely flipped by the country they go to, represented by George Shultz when he would put a new ambassador in.
They went to ambassador school.
Let's say he was the ambassador to Egypt, the new ambassador to Egypt.
He'd have his final discussion with George Shills, who was a great Secretary of State, and Shills would bring him over to the globe and he'd say,"Show me the country you represent, Mr. Ambassador!""See, I know where it is, Egypt!" He said,"We never should have appointed you.
Here's the country you represent, the United States of America.
You don't represent Egypt.
Egypt has an ambassador.
What are we going to happen to?" Wow, that's amazing.
I love that.
Yeah, it's true.
It's true.
That's a great...
I dealt with the State Department way, way back when I represented them during the post-Watergate hearings.
I've represented even Secretary Kissinger.
That's how I got to know him so well.
And he would tell you that.
He would say, you know...
I would say, you want somebody in here?
Finally, when he got his own counsel in the State Department, that was his government counsel.
But even he didn't want him in the room.
He said, you can't trust anybody here.
That's sad.
He said, they're all working on an agenda.
He said, you know, there's always been the history of communist infiltration.
But the worst part is their intellectual insecurity.
He said they all think they were the smartest people at Harvard or Yale.
Yeah, rely on a fake persona.
And they'll say what they think makes them sound intelligent.
And usually criticizing the United States makes you sound more intelligent.
And whoever's in office, the president at the time is just an inconvenience.
I should be the president.
A four-year inconvenience.
I should be the president.
I mean, what the heck is that?
And then you add Trump.
What the heck does Eisenhower know about foreign policy?
He just won the Second World War.
Right? Right.
And then you have someone like President Trump come along who's willing to call him out.
What does he know?
He doesn't know anything.
He's never been to Washington.
How many years has he spent in Washington?
Thank God!
How fast did you get out of Washington when you could, Mayor?
Yeah, how often did I go back in the last four years?
Right, oh my goodness.
Just to get framed in the trial that I did.
Yeah, only when we, involuntarily, when we had to go.
To get framed.
I just went back to get framed.
So now, the student loans are going to get collected, and the government's going to go after the pensions of the federal student.
The federal government employees who owe student loans.
Oh, and they are squawking like hell!
Because they said, Biden promised us we wouldn't have to pay.
Sorry, guys, it doesn't work.
From before Biden promised you that, and you're supposed to be like these brilliant, intelligent federal workers.
Biden and Nancy, insider trading Pelosi, said, it's unconstitutional.
The president can't do this.
And he tried to get Congress to do it, saying it was unconstitutional if he did it.
Then Congress didn't do it, and he did it.
So you had to know there's a little doubt about whether when he had originally said it was unconstitutional.
And then he gets ruled unconstitutional.
And some of you are relying on a forgiveness he did after it was found unconstitutional, which has also been found unconstitutional.
So I'm sorry if you relied on this, you're a major jackass who shouldn't even be working for the federal government.
And they're willing to make deals with you.
I mean, I would imagine you're not going to have to pay the whole thing if you make a deal with them.
you.
I agree with you it was Biden engaging in out-and-out election fraud.
It was like offering you a bribe.
It was like saying, let's say you owe 20 grand.
It's like saying if you vote for me, you're going to get $20,000 that you're not entitled to because the courts have actually said you're not entitled to it.
Now, you've got to be stupid enough to think that it's not going to get pursued again.
Now, that's your fault if you're that stupid.
Instead, you know, that had been a good time to go in and settle with them because you probably could get a hell of a deal.
When Biden had said you don't have to pay it, you come in and say, you know, I feel bad.
I can't pay all of it, but I'll pay some of it.
I bet you could have gotten a hell of a deal.
Yeah, yeah.
But that's not good enough.
It's not good enough.
They've got to screw the government completely.
Or they've got to screw us completely.
They got so used to doing it.
So, I want to show you this press conference here.
This happened right here in New York yesterday.
You know that's Tom Holman and that's Mayor Adams and that's the police commissioner, Jessica Tisch.
And they arrested 27 members of the organization that never existed.
This is the one that the governor of Feliz Navidad and the boy mayor of Denver says doesn't exist.
And that was exaggerated.
Tren de Aragua.
27 were arrested on two related, separate but related RICO cases.
That's the statute that I used.
In fact, pretty much initiated the use of to go after the mafia and then to go after financial crimes.
And this is fabulous because this will allow them not only to put these bums who were You know, very much like Abrego Garcia, to put him in prison forever or send them back,
whichever we feel better with.
And since we're talking about Venezuela, we probably can send them back because they'll just come back again.
Well, maybe they won't come back again because of what we have established.
But who knows?
We could get a bum president again, right?
We could get a traitor president again.
The party sounds crazier than it was even before.
It's going crazier and crazier.
There doesn't seem to be irrational.
I mean, so far...
Is there any hope that there would ever be a Democrat president that could be trusted?
I don't think so.
No, I mean, it was a bit of a jerk job, but at least Newsom said that they're making a mistake with Abrego Garcia.
At least he said that.
I mean, I don't trust it very much, but it's better than not saying it.
But it's logical.
But okay.
So 27 have been arrested.
I'm sorry.
27 have been charged for yet to be arrested.
And according to Jessica Tish, police commissioner, They've been operating in New York since 2023.
So they are clearly Biden invitees, right, to the United States.
Thank you, President Biden.
This is part of your legacy.
These people are charged with massive drug transactions, but worse than that, human trafficking, and particularly children and women.
They targeted vulnerable women from Venezuela.
Forcing them into sex work and threatening to kill their families if they didn't comply.
This is according to Commissioner Tisch.
These are depraved criminals with absolutely no regard for human life.
This is the same.
I mean, is MS-13 worse than Trendy Uruguay or is Trendy Uruguay worse than MS-13?
I don't think there's any difference.
Now, this is two different groups.
It's Trendy Uruguay.
And the anti-trend organization, which is the group that broke away, that fights with them, but they get together to do certain crimes.
It reminds me a little bit of when the mafia used to have wars with each other, and then they'd make up and start working together, or the Sicilian mafia and the American mafia.
So they have charged leaders of both.
For example, gang members for months threatened an area near Prospect Avenue outside
Cortona Park.
They held a guy up there and said they'd blow his effing head off if he tried to run.
And they, well, they robbed them.
Sexually abused him.
It also includes Anderson Smith Zambrano Pacheco, who was involved in the gang's shocking takeover of the Aurora, Colorado apartment building, the one that was denied by Governor Feliz Navidad as an exaggeration of,
I guess, the right wing.
and also the mayor of Denver who claimed that it was exaggerated.
Now, you should know that seven counties of Colorado are suing Governor Feliz Navidad and
or the county that surrounds Denver, for luring these people into
because in Denver, and Trendy Aragua has this tendency more than some of the others.
They like to spread out into the suburban communities.
And so they diffuse their head
You put your headquarters in Chicago.
Chicago always, they always had Cicero as a place to run away to.
But these people like to spread out.
And Aurora is one town they took over completely.
But apparently there are about a dozen of them in Colorado that thanks to Governor Feliz Navidad, who allows anybody in, and Denver, which allows anyone in, per capita they've had more illegal aliens than New York.
These guys spread out all around.
And the counties all around Denver are not sanctuary cities.
So they're saying they're being hurt by the illegal activities of the governor and the mayor.
And Sanctuary City is damn illegal.
There's nothing legal about it.
The mayor, Mayor Adams of this city we're in right now, put ICE back at Rikers Island so that we don't have screw-ups.
We have some people killed where people got out of Rikers Island.
They're illegal aliens.
We lose track of them.
They kill somebody and we find them.
But they could have been grabbed right away, put into...
We now hold them in detention.
We don't do what Biden does and release them.
And we send them off to that nice prison in El Salvador instead of killing some kid in the Bronx.
So Adams restored the ICE office at Rikers Island.
That was there way back when I was a U.S. attorney.
Of course, it was a different organization, a different immigration organization, IADS.
It was there when I was mayor.
It was there until Communist de Blasio took it out.
And Adams put him back.
Now, catch this.
Listen to how perverse the Democrat Party is.
Adams' own party, well, maybe not anymore, the city council of New York City, who passed the illegal sanctuary law, sued him.
And a damn machine-created Democrat judge in the Bronx, I think, maybe Queens, told the mayor he had to take out ICE.
Whatever happened to the supremacy cause of the Constitution?
That the federal law trumps state law, local law, and the area of immigration is one.
That is assigned to the federal government, not the state government.
Of course, it's like waging foreign war.
The state government doesn't wage foreign war.
The state's rights has two parts of it.
the responsibility of the state and the responsibility of the federal government.
you.
But can you imagine all What Adams is trying to do is to make sure that these criminals don't slip through the cracks and kill New Yorkers.
And the city council wastes money going to court to stop it, and you got some...
Do you understand how crooked and dishonest the New York City court system is?
Because, as I keep telling you, they're not elected.
That's a farce.
They're appointed by the county leader.
And I can't tell you how bad the county leaders are.
Since you started saying that, Mayor, you start to hear other people saying a little bit here and there in the news.
But I never heard it before the mayor started saying that.
They've only been going on for 150 years.
Yeah, you started something with that.
But, you know, I appointed 100 judges.
And I interviewed every single last one of them.
And I required three for every one.
So that I made the choice.
I didn't want Republicans to start doing what Democrats did.
You have to be willing to go to war with your enemies if you want to be the mayor of New York City.
You have to be willing to go to war with your enemies to be the mayor.
Yeah, yeah.
Look, Republicans, now, the new Republicans, not so much.
But in the old days, I mean, a lot of the Republicans, this is true in Michigan.
A lot of the Republicans take the crumbs that the Democrats leave on the table.
And when they get empowered, they don't do a damn thing about the Democratic corruption because maybe they want to do the same darn thing.
Gee, I'll be a county leader and put judges in.
Let me see how many personal injury cases we can make some money on.
There's nothing about the selection process of a New York City judge.
that leads you to believe that it's a process of integrity including the bar associations which are prostitutes complete democrat prostitutes big
So there was a defacing or vandalism at Trump Tower today.
We're at the Trump International Hotel.
We actually thought we were going to stay at Trump Tower.
When it originally was arranged, but that was silly because I know the Trump Tower doesn't have, Trump Tower has residences, not hotel rentals.
God, I've been there so often.
I should have known that.
But we're at the Trump International Hotel.
This also was very famous in my history because when I awarded the contract, which was a major coup for me because this Columbus Circle project here was going on for 20 years.
And the Democrats corrupted it three times.
They sold it three times.
Kickbacks. Finally, I did it.
Got a great prize for it.
Got five bids, roughly the same prize.
And one of them was a Trump organization.
And of the group, Trump was my best friend and also my very big political supporter.
At that point, they were all my political supporters.
Because you've got to understand the real estate industry.
I was an incumbent by then.
And I won by a landslide.
And at that point, you know, you don't even have to ask them for a donation.
But it didn't matter.
I would tell people that donated to me.
I'd look in their eyes and I'd say, you know, you're not getting anything for this.
And then I would make the decisions on the merits.
So this one, they're all offering the same price.
I could have tried to negotiate it up for a little more money, but that would have been gone.
So I came up with a great idea, I thought it was at least.
I said, I'm going to put together a group of five people and I'm going to have them do a study for me of the five projects.
And I want them to give me their best advice on which one will improve the value of the area more.
Because this area wasn't as nice as it is now.
And where it was particularly not so good is what you were looking at before, which is from here, which is 61st Street up to 66th Street, which is where Lincoln Center is.
That area right there.
The dangerous area when I became mayor.
And by this time, it wasn't dangerous anymore.
But I wanted to improve it.
I wanted the project here.
To be, of the five you were going to select, which is the one that's going to raise the real estate values in the surrounding square more than any other?
And they selected a different company than Trump.
And I had, over the years, sometimes selected them, sometimes not most of the selections I didn't make.
I'd have the experts make the selection.
And I'd only review it if there was a dispute.
I didn't want any political garbage from it.
Trump never complained.
To this day, he's not complained about it.
When they opened across the street, big, big ceremony opening.
On the top of the building I'm in right now, he had a big sign that you could see from a helicopter, which said, Trump International has much better view of city, of park.
On all floors.
And he put out a big advertisement.
This place also has one of the great restaurants in New York called Jean Georges.
And I just heard that they re-upped for something like 20 years or something.
So, they...
Do we have any pictures of what they did at Trump Tower?
Why don't we get them ready?
We'll take a break, and when we come back, we'll conclude with a show you what they did to Trump Tower and also what they did to the bull yesterday.
And then a little bit of, since I'm back in New York, and very few people know as much about New York as I've done, I'm going to give you a couple of helpful hints on New York.
We'll be right back.
I'm leaving today.
I want to be part of it, New York, New York.
These vagabond shoes are longing to stray right through the very heart of it, New York.
Here we are pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory.
It's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep grain, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because we like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know.
All Arabica beans.
No robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh my goodness!
Look at these!
my goodness
You're gonna want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's Coffee.
doesn't sleep.
And find I'm king of the hills.
Top of the heap.
These little town blues.
It's a block right before Lincoln Center.
So Lincoln Center is being obscured by the hotel.
That's Caddy Corner to the square at Lincoln Center.
Tomorrow we'll go up to Lincoln Center and take a picture of...
And we'll take a picture of the daytime, too, so you can see what this area of Manhattan looks like.
But, I mean, that's one of the great cultural centers in the world, Lincoln Center.
I mean, I'm prejudiced, but...
Probably the best opera company in the world and has been since Caruso back at the turn of the 20th century.
Look, La Scala is fabulous and all the rest are, but it's a bigger stage.
It's much more full productions.
It's a much more of a test of the strength of your voice as well as the beauty of your voice.
It can take massive operas like Like the big Wagner operas with 120 orchestra, or it can do, you know, beautiful, intimate Mozart operas with a 40-person orchestra.
And it's blessed with fabulous acoustics, which sometimes are just...
Now, I'm not an expert on that, because as I think I explained, if I didn't do it on this show, I did on the earlier show, that Avery Fisher Hall has always been accursed with what they thought was very bad acoustics.
Because they used to be at, the New York Philharmonic used to be at Carnegie Hall, which is on 57th Street, which is about, oh, four blocks south.
I mean, it's a walking distance for me.
Carnegie Hall is much smaller, but has, the experts tell me, world-class acoustics.
The Philharmonic moved to Lincoln Center, to Avery Fisher Hall.
Now, Carnegie Hall is still used for visiting orchestras.
And many, many things.
And classical music aficionados prefer the acoustics.
Remember, these places do not have electronic enhancement of the voice or the instrument.
They rely completely on acoustics.
Hard to believe, right?
If you stood on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, which holds 4,000 people, and you looked out, You said, there's no way that people in the back are going to hear me.
Now, I've performed there.
I did.
I performed on New Year's Eve twice as a prisoner.
I've got to tell you, it's embarrassing.
What? I performed in the Metropolitan Opera twice.
Okay. No one ever did a review of it because they were too nice.
I gotta know more.
It's a speaking...
It's a speaking...
De Fledermaus by Strauss.
Strauss is De Fledermaus.
Okay. And it's a very much utilized New Year's Eve opera.
Okay. It's performed in Austria on New Year's Eve.
It's performed in the Metropolitan more often on New Year's Eve than...
Because it's about New Year's Eve.
And it's a comedy opera.
And at one point, they have a prisoner who's drunk.
And they usually would use, on New Year's Eve, they'd always use a celebrity to play that prisoner.
Sometimes it was an actor.
So I got to do it twice.
I got to play the prisoner twice.
Is there any video of that?
I'm sure there is.
Yeah, you know, I was a pretty accomplished actor.
I performed eight times.
I performed eight times in the parody that you would do of the press.
With a Broadway play, I dressed up as the Lion King.
Took an hour and an hour to put that...
It's attachments to your face and stuff.
But the really tough one was The Beast and Beauty and the Beast.
That was an hour and 15 minutes to put it together.
And I decided to make it harder by repelling.
I decided to...
Because I wanted to just increase the funniness of it and the shock value of it.
I always try to do something at the very, very beginning of the performance that would make people laugh.
Like, I did Grease, and I came into the ballroom of the Sheridan of the Hilton Hotel.
I came into the ballroom in a motorcycle on a Harley.
Harley Davidson.
Knocked over a few tables.
I had set up the tables so nobody had them.
I probably should have knocked over the New York Times table.
So I went in.
I had my black leather jacket on.
I looked like John Travolta.
And I drove my Harley Davidson right up to the stage.
I want to see it all.
I want to see that.
Then I decided to, they don't do this in Beauty and the Beast, but I decided to make my entrance by coming in like Peter Pan, rappelling.
I didn't realize, I went out, I went to get trained to do it, and I had a lieutenant from the fire department who ended up being a hero of 9-11 that survived, and a hero of 9-11, a great guy, he taught me how to rappel.
And first time I went up there, you know, brave, tough guy, I'm looking down.
Holy, my God, I'm going to go out there with just this thing on my back.
He said, you know, I'm going to tell you what.
Just trust me.
Go out.
Just stay there.
I won't move you right away.
Just stay there.
Get used to it.
I bet you're not going to want to stop after you do it once.
Oh, that's right.
Because you get an endorphin release from it.
You become a daredevil.
Then I did it.
Yeah. It was all safe.
You can maneuver.
Did it a second time.
I was there for three hours of practice.
By the time I did it, I was really good at it.
I went back one or two times to the firehouse to see if he would take me up there.
He said, no, you can get hurt doing that.
We were lucky.
Particularly with all that crap you had on you.
I had the whole beast outfit on.
First, I had to learn how to do it in regular clothes.
Then I had to put the outfit on because we had to make sure the weights were correct.
I came in.
And I got above the audience and I made my opening speech making fun of them that way.
Making fun of the press.
But I was up there.
My last performance was Godfather the Musical.
And we did it with the help of the cast of The Sopranos.
And I played the Godfather.
Black suit like this.
Oh, man.
We need this.
I know.
I put cotton in my cheeks because they told me Marlon Brando did that.
I watched the show numerous times.
I even got a little pussycat.
You might not remember, but at the beginning of it, he's petting a cat and then he gives it to...
So I got the cat.
I got a little pussycat.
That's funny.
So you come to me on my...
You come to me on my daughter's wedding day and ask me to do murder.
You love that woman.
Oh, of course I do.
Yeah, yeah.
I really do.
I really do love that movie.
I'm glad I waited.
We have to watch the movie Conclave.
Conclave. We got to watch it.
Maybe tonight.
I'm telling you, I hate that I'm...
Look, they're up 300%.
And the ending of the movie is sacrilegious, it's disgusting, and it's stupid.
The rest of the movie I thought was good.
I think the actors are terrific actors.
And I think the description of how the conclave takes place is about as accurate as he's going to get for Hollywood.
As good as Shoes of the Fisherman.
Now, if you don't want to support this piece of trash, because the end of it is a piece of trash, you could watch Shoes of the Fisherman, which is the older movie, with Anthony Quinn, who plays a pope, Pope Kirill, and Laurence Olivier,
who's one of the greatest actors ever, playing the Russian premiere.
It is fabulous.
Now, of course, it was a better book than a movie.
And it is not considered one of the great movies, although it's a little bit of a far-fetched story, but very interesting.
And again, interesting for what it tells you about a ceremony that's very, very secret.
They may allow a few photographs inside the Sistine Chapel, but they do not allow any video of it.
And the Cardinals are prohibited from talking about it.
I think they can tell little human interest stories about it.
I think.
But they can't talk about how they voted and things
So, um...
So I'm not going to get into it because you really can't start this.
You can't start this without finishing it, which is going through the list of candidates.
And we have plenty of time for that because the funeral will be on Saturday, 3 a.m.
If you want to watch it live.
think,
I'm trying to figure this out.
Again, I call Alan tomorrow and get my expert to tell me I can look it up.
I kept reading it as it's got to be 8 to 15 or 20 days after the death.
But I think it may be it has to be 8 days after the funeral.
I think that's right.
Before the conclave.
So we'll have to see.
See, I think they'll be able to do this pretty quickly because, frankly, they were getting ready for this very quietly when I was in Rome in February.
Or was that early March?
I don't remember.
I think it was February.
And getting ready for it, meaning they weren't doing anything physical.
Although I think they had the robes already.
The guy may have made the robes a few years ago.
They make three robes, three white robes.
Small, medium, large, depending on whether we get a big bull, medium-sized bull, tiny little bull.
We'll see.
So do we have any shots of what happened at Trump Tower?
Because yesterday, the day before that, they attacked the bull down on Wall Street, and they wrote on it, F-U-C-K, Doge.
Um...
Charges were not immediately filed.
Of course not.
They're probably going to get an award by the Soros corrupted DA. Like
Before we get to that, I want to announce that there's going to be one month of $1 Pizza in New York.
From April 22nd to May 20th, you can order pizza from Seamless, and you can get it for $1 a slice.
What's the catch?
I have no idea what it is.
Mayor, I feel like a real New Yorker a little bit, or an honorary New Yorker.
We've got to find this tomorrow.
I know $1 a pizza place in Times Square.
Do you know what the average price of a slice of pizza now is in Manhattan?
$4. I'm going to say $6.
I'm going to say $4.
$572. Is that pepperoni or cheese?
Just regular pizza.
And by the way, I haven't bought a slice of pizza in New York in probably 10 years.
I just know where it's going to be.
Well, as of a year ago, Mayor, I know of a dollar slice place in Times Square.
Now, let's see.
I'll go there tomorrow.
It doesn't do a good job, I got to tell you.
It doesn't do a good job of telling you how to get it.
Yeah, there's got to be a catch.
You got to download something.
Michael McDowell, CEO of Grubhub, which owns Seamless, agrees this marks a welcome renaissance.
The $1 cheese slice is more than just pizza.
It's part of the city's DNA.
So you can get it at Grubhub.
Or you can order it from Grubhub.
Isn't that online?
They're their own entity, right?
Do they have Grubhubs?
I guess they do.
Grubhub is an app, kind of like DoorDash.
The other thing they have is on the other side of the spectrum.
This is a $30...
Major, gigantic pastrami sandwich from Kansas Deli on the Lower East Side.
Now, Mayor, if someone needs to, I'm willing to bite the bullet and test both of these for you.
Yeah. Both the dollar pizza.
I'll pay for the pizza.
How about you get the sandwich?
Okay. But, you know, I actually prefer...
They also make...
I've gone to Cats since I was a kid.
In law school, I would eat there a lot.
It didn't cost $30 then.
That's where they filmed Harry Met Sally, if you want to locate it in your head.
The 1989 film, When Harry Met Sally.
We may have to try that sandwich tomorrow.
You never want to have a big lunch, though.
You want to have a productive afternoon.
Easy on your lunches.
Well, maybe we'll get it and put it away.
Maybe it'll last us a couple days.
$30 sandwich.
That better be a big sandwich.
Maybe we'll share it.
We'll cut it in half and share it.
Show us the picture, Mary.
Hold that up.
Oh, it looks great.
Yeah, we'll have to get one of them.
Okay. Now, is that...
Yeah, I got to see the real size of this thing.
See if it's $30.
We could eat like at noon or something.
What a brilliant marketing move.
I'm telling you, they should do a better job of telling you how to get it.
Catches is easy, but they tell you a better job how to get the $1 pizza.
Sure, but the catches, imagine, you sell a $30 sandwich, chances are people, you know, your catches deli, so people are going to be intrigued.
They're going to buy it at least once.
Maybe not more than that.
And I love their Reuben sandwich.
Sarge's Deli in Murray Hill charges $31.45 plus tax for a Rubin.
And $26.95 for pastrami.
Just a standard sandwich?
And Second Avenue charges $29 for pastrami.
Is this like, is there a shortage of pastrami or something?
It's just the price of everything that's up is through the roof, you know?
How do you not get sick to your stomach halfway through, says one guy.
What was it, $40 under Biden?
Little sissy.
Yeah. Oh, yeah, it was all Biden's doing.
Well, let's see.
One person said $27 is highway robbery.
What generous amount.
Oh, half the ingredients, half the price, please.
No one is eating a small animal in a bag of cheese between two pieces of bread.
Lots of luck.
Well, we'll have to test this before.
I'm going to want to test it before making any final conclusions.
Another one said, Catch Deli, a must visit in New York City, now one of the only kosher places left.
Amazing food and a scruffy restaurant, perfect.
Had it a week ago, worth its weight in gold.
Wow. It's cured for weeks in a saltwater brine.
I believe that is accurate.
The sandwiches are totally amazing and worth it.
Yep, I believe it.
This is a custom.
The meat is incredibly rich and it would be difficult to eat an entire sandwich.
My wife and I split it and really enjoyed it.
We'll have to try it out.
In December, Taste Atlas named Katz's the most legendary restaurant in the Big Apple and the eighth most iconic eatery in the world.
You've got both sides.
Some people say that it wouldn't be worth it at half the price.
Others say it's the best.
Sandwich they've ever had.
So shall we show the...
Speaking of New York, here is the vandal from earlier today at Trump Tower.
We have some video here of the incident
Thank you.
So there he is standing.
This must be before he makes his move here.
People are watching.
He's standing there.
Oh, he's already made...
If you see the plaque, he's already spray-painted it.
Security is not there.
There comes security.
What are you guys doing next?
Hey, guys, you got leaks.
What do you got leaks?
They're being very nice.
I would have dragged him out of there.
They're being very nice.
Don't touch him.
Take that guy with him.
What's in that backpack?
Get that guy away.
This guy right here is a security threat.
Look at that backpack.
Yeah. I would have them out so fast with those cameras.
Get those guys out of there.
Yeah. Yeah.
Elf. Like an elf.
You guys took Elf and put him right out the door.
Everybody's got back out.
Everybody's got back out.
Oh, a casino too, yeah.
Who's the guy in the backpack?
He's accomplished.
Likely accomplished.
They're ruining the planet.
Alright, I want to give this guy a chance to get his message out.
We're going to mute him.
You don't get to vandalize the president's property and then get your two minutes of fame.
You know, the other thing is...
The president's not even there.
They're inconveniencing and frightening other people.
Yeah, the public.
It's like the same thing they're doing with Musk.
That guy in the backpack, I don't like him.
That guy makes me nervous.
It should even be like Bronx Tale.
Now you can't leave.
Don't these people work?
They should handcuff him and they should go to jail.
Yeah, it's the middle of the day.
Get a job.
Remember we used to say that?
Get a job.
Well, we'll be back tomorrow.
We'll be, again, Coming to you from New York, so we'll have a little New York flavor to it.
We'll see if we can get our hands on those sandwiches and pizza and who knows what else.
We know our way around here, Ted, right?
We know our way around here, even the little catty corners.
I remember when this was being built.
Across the street here.
It was fabulous.
Well, it's very nice to see some of these places.
And there's also a certain sadness because the city has slipped so much.
It should never have happened.
And again, it's not because of Bloomberg.
Bloomberg did a very good job of maintaining and in some senses improving on what I did.
But boy, since de Blasio...
Put a communist in charge.
Now, why the people of the city voted for this guy has to really discourage you.
In fact, why they vote for the people they voted for.
The last two governors before this one had to go out on scandals, including the one they want to elect mayor now.
It was a long field somewhat successful.
Bloomberg was somewhat successful because he was able to afford legal representation.
No, no.
He was successful because he was basically a straight guy who had common sense.
That's why.
But he wasn't getting sued?
No. Yeah, he didn't get sued like everybody else.
And he was handed a city that was...
I was getting sued too.
It didn't stop me.
But no, it isn't because of being sued.
He wasn't a crooked Democrat.
That's why he did a good job.
You look at the mayors who weren't Democrats, and that's where you're going to find the great mayors of New York.
Well, he started on third base as mayor.
You had it over a city that was in a very different shape.
I know, but he could easily have deteriorated it, and he didn't.
So I know people make that argument, but sometimes it's even harder when you start at a high standard to keep it up.
He did a good job.
He shouldn't be deprived of that.
Even though he's become...
Always a class act, Mayor.
Always a class act.
Since then, he's been ridiculous.
I'm just trying to get down to the box.
And his hatred of Trump is purely personal.
Purely personal jealousy.
He wanted to be president.
He got negative votes, I think.
Yeah, I think he had minus 2%.
And he spent a billion dollars.
Probably didn't spend it all.
Was going to spend a billion.
Yeah, I think some of the steps.
When you see in back of me, the group that's visiting and paying tribute to the Pope, I believe it's open all night, which means it's, what are we now, about 9.30, 10.30, 11.30, 12.30,
1.30, it's about 2.30 in the morning in Rome.
And we'll have to keep up with what's going on for the funeral.
And I still, although I have two days left, I still think my prediction will be borne out that there'll be a trade agreement this week.
I do, and I'm going to stay with UK as my pick.
And you want to stay with Japan?
I said Vietnam.
Vietnam, okay.
All right.
Yeah, you're like, stick with that one, right?
Okay, I'll stick with it, Mayor.
We're not out of time.
I mean, you could also get it done.
Would we consider Saturday this week?
Yeah, we would, right?
Yes, that's usually how I do it, Sunday to Saturday.
We know he works on Saturday and Sunday right from the golf course in Malaga.
Seven days a week.
That man is always working, just like you.
How many times have we seen him come off the golf course and hold a big meeting?
Oh, yeah.
Well, pray for the people of Israel and pray for the people of Iran so that they can become free people of Ukraine.
Pray for Pray for the wisdom of the cardinals who are going to select the next pope, which is going to have an impact not just on the Catholic Church, but on the whole world.
And we are all going to pray a prayer of thanksgiving for God looking after America.
God bless America.
God bless America.
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our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
It was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers in which Thomas Paine explained by rational principles the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate From the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom...
It hears 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.
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We're able to talk.
We're able to analyze.
We are able to apply our God-given common sense.
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