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May 9, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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America’s Mayor Live (665): Pope Leo XIV—The First American Pope
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This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor Live, and we're live from Palm Beach, Florida, the winter White House.
Soon to be switched to Washington, D.C., I guess, or maybe to New Jersey for the weekends, so that the president can play golf, which he better play, because I think that's the reason why he's so successful.
So it's a little quieter at the Vatican today.
Get me the date, I had it, but I didn't write it down, of the Mass, when the Mass is going to be.
Pretty soon, I think.
They don't take a great deal of time.
They take a great deal of time to crown the King of England, like nine months or eight months or something like that.
It's nothing like that here.
I was looking forward to a drawn-out conclave because this has been such a fun look into the history of the church that I wanted to keep kind of the project going.
Well, I mean, he could resign if you talk to him.
Sounds like if you make him manager of the White Sox, he might resign.
Yeah, not the Cubs.
Yeah, oh God, if you said the Cubs.
His brother got so upset when you said the Cubs.
Right, right, right.
Right.
So let's begin this one.
Let's begin this one with, let's begin this one after our last show with what's, I teased him with, what's the big announcement this week before we get to the Pope and the UK deal and what's going on in Ukraine and what's going on in Israel, Iran, meetings with China, all that's going to come up.
Let's use our heads now and figure out when Trump told Carney and the world that he was going to come up with a big, big announcement that everybody's going to love.
It's going to be one of the biggest ever.
One of the biggest ever.
What was he talking about?
And it's not.
It's not trade.
He gave us a hint.
No, it's not trade.
It's not the UK deal, which he would never say was the biggest one.
The UK deal was big, but it wasn't the biggest one.
He's got a couple ahead that are going to be bigger.
Right.
I agree.
So what do we think it is?
So, Mayor, obviously, you kind of have an inside track with how long you've known the man.
You may have some.
I'm going to attribute my guess or the direction I'm going in.
Ed Henry, who's on Newsmax and said this right afterwards.
And the analysis makes some sense, right?
He said, but there's a gap in it that I'd like to ask Ed how he gets over that.
He said he's announcing it toward the weekend, and he keeps kind of putting it off Thursday, Friday, or the end of the weekend.
What's he doing after the end of the weekend?
He's going to Saudi Arabia, Qatar.
I think the Emirates.
He said, I think it's going to be another Abraham Accord.
And the big one that would be earth shattering is Saudi Arabia and Israel.
Right.
But I don't see how that could be done.
I do not understand how it's possible that you're going to get over the anger on the street of Saudi Arabia.
With the Hamas and the Palestinians being thrown out of Gaza with an American and or Israeli occupation.
Not that the Saudi Arabian royal family would mind it.
They don't want the Palestinians there.
But they're extremists, of which they are legitimately in fear of overthrowing the kingdom.
Might go crazy.
This is why they've always been reluctant to make peace with Israel, even though at times they've been close allies.
On Iran, they're as close allies, and maybe even closer than we are, or certainly than we have been under the Democrat administrations who favored Iran.
Well, they can find time after time after time where working together with Israel is definitely to their benefit.
Yeah, no, Saudi Arabia— And it's a modern country.
If it weren't for the fear of the Saudi Arabian—well, let's call it the street—the extremist population of—we're talking about Sunni extremists, not Shiite extremists.
Shiite extremists are in Iran.
Sunni extremists are in Saudi Arabia.
And they may hate each other more than they hate Israel, but that's a different story.
The story here is the royal family would probably have done it last time, but for the fact that there is, and I would agree that it's a legitimate one, but it might be exaggerated.
I don't know.
They believe that if they, without the Palestinian issue being resolved, That the street will see them as traitors to...
I think the Palestinians are also Sunnis, to fellow Sunnis.
See, if they were Shiites and it was doing something to Iran, there'd be no problem with the...
They'd just wipe them right out.
Well, they'd be happy about it.
Yeah.
But we're talking about fellow Sunnis.
So that's why...
That's why Trump has been trying to figure out some way to settle the war there.
But he's got to settle it so that the Palestinians don't yell and scream that they've been screwed, because then you can lose Saudi Arabia.
Unless Saudi Arabia now has come to the point where it's got sufficient enough control of its street and their Saudi Arabian people, who are much better educated now than they were 10 years ago.
They may have moved beyond that.
Well, yeah, and MBS has modernized the country significantly.
Well, he wants to.
Yeah.
But smaller countries don't have that kind of a major.
They have much more control over their population.
So for Dubai to do it, for the Emirates, which is part of Dubai, to do it, for those countries to do it, you're talking about countries that have, Very, very strong control over their population, and they don't have many extremists in those countries.
The extremists come in.
The extremists are imported by Iran.
So it was easier for them, like for Jordan, all the way back to Egypt, although it resulted in the killing us of...
Sadat.
Okay, so you think that the big announcement is some sort of solution for the Palestinians?
No, no, I told you Ed Henry thought that.
Oh, Ed Henry thinks that.
I'm having a hard time working my way through how you could do that, which I've just explained to you because this is a 30-year problem.
You could have had peace between Saudi Arabia and Israel 20 years ago.
And is it almost distasteful to, like, tease a big piece playing in the Middle East like that?
He didn't do that.
He didn't say it was the Middle East.
Yeah, no, that's what I mean, though.
I don't think he would tease it in the way that he did if this was what it was.
So now, at least, what do you guys say it is?
Man, that's such an educated guess.
It's tough, right, to go against it, Mayor?
Don't go against it!
It's not trade.
I'm not sure.
I want to, you know, the competitor side of me.
I'm not sure I agree with it.
Okay, so.
Okay, that's good to know.
I think there's a big hole in it that hasn't been fixed, which is, what do you do about the Saudi Arabian extremists?
Is he leaving Sunday?
I think he's leaving Sunday.
Yeah, Sunday night, I think.
Well, he's leaving Sunday.
He's making number stops.
I think that the papal selection might have interfered with some of this.
Public affairs campaign that we're having going on.
That is true.
We might have to shuffle some things around.
He picked the wrong time.
He was hoping for a three-day dominating the news.
He could always rekindle it and put it off and say, I'll do it next week.
I think that's where we're at, probably.
When are we expecting the news?
Yesterday?
Friday, Saturday, maybe tomorrow.
Or...
I think he said before he leaves, which will be Sunday.
Okay.
So...
Is he coming down here for the weekend or staying up there?
My understanding that he was planning to come down here, but let's...
I haven't seen confirmation of that.
That's right.
His travel schedule.
So maybe we commend guests.
We want our...
If you're watching, comment below.
Let us know.
What is your guess?
What is the big announcement?
Some of the people watching this actually...
Probably.
They might know, actually.
Somebody knows.
He's planning it with somebody.
Yeah, you have to buy tickets and stuff.
And Caroline Leavitt has been very cagey.
We could ask for some insight.
We should ask McDonald's who has a big order, like what country has a big order.
Who's the weakest one there?
We'll call them and say...
You're so unimportant, you don't know?
Right, yeah.
Just tell us.
And we know the whole concept.
Those guys, maybe they're watching, maybe they're not.
It's got to be a weekling there.
Maybe I'm calling you this weekend.
That works all the time.
That works all the time.
Somebody got some leaks out of the conclave.
That's right, Mayor.
We'll call him this weekend.
I'll have you on the phone.
I'm with the mayor here.
Monsignor, you've been with the Cardinal for 10 years, and you don't know what's going on?
He doesn't tell you?
Wow, you're not really very important.
When you first told me that, Mayor, I laughed.
It's so true.
I wanted to show you this last night, but we didn't quite have it ready.
Yesterday, of course, there was a massive ceremony in the selection of the Pope.
They're doing five ballots, finally getting a two-thirds vote.
The senior cardinal going up to the selection and saying to him, will you accept the chair of St. Peter as the vicar of Christ?
And the cardinal...
He said, excepto.
He took it, came out.
We had the ceremony.
Cardinal blessed everyone, became Pope Leo XIII.
And he became the 267th successor of Peter the Apostle, who was buried right below the altar on which he is going to be made, invested as the Pope officially.
Now, this is based on Matthew 16. The key chapters are about 20, maybe 10 to 20. Those are the key chapters.
I've seen many, many renditions.
I've seen many, many renditions of that.
And you have, too, if you've watched movies about the life of Jesus.
The greatest story ever told, Jesus Christ.
The passion doesn't deal with this, which may be one of the greatest movies about Jesus.
But I think the greatest movie done about the life of Jesus Christ is an ongoing series called Chosen.
And I think the actor who plays Jesus is inspired by God to play this role.
Whether you...
And I thought the same thing was true in The Passion.
I mean, that man had to speak Aramaic and play Jesus.
Incredibly.
And he did.
And of course, he didn't get the Academy Award because the Chinese communists wouldn't allow it to go to a religious movie.
And they control Hollywood.
But Gibson is doing another passion.
But this chosen...
Instead of just focusing on the Passion, it's in its fourth season, and this was toward the end of the fourth season.
Actually, the fourth season leaves you with Jesus being arrested.
So the fifth season is going to be about the Passion.
So this is, as I said, Matthew.
We can set the scene.
If you want to find it and follow it in your Bible.
It's Matthew, well, the key words of Matthew in 16, 18. But really, it's important to know the background of it because this is where Jesus proclaims Peter the rock on which he is going to build his church.
Now, you have to know that Jesus didn't make that decision.
If you read Matthew carefully, Jesus gives all the apostles the opportunity to answer correctly, who am I?
And they don't know, or they're not strong enough, or their faith hasn't gotten to that level yet.
It begins at 13, it'll probably be the place where it begins.
When Jesus came to the reason of Cheserai Philippi, He asked his disciples, who do people say the Son of Man is?
They replied, some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, still others Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.
But what about you, he asked.
He looked at Simon Peter.
Who do you say I am?
Simon Peter answered, You are the Messiah, the son of the living God.
Based upon that testimonial, Jesus concludes that's the one that his father has selected to be the rock on which to build the universal church.
Now, let's watch the dramatization of it in that brilliant series, Chosen.
Who do people say the son of man is?
Who do people say the son of man is?
Some say you are Elijah, the one who preaches repentance.
Others say Jeremiah, because he was rejected by the leaders of his time.
And still others say one of the prophets, those that spoke on God's behalf.
Thank you.
Okay, what are we gonna have to do, huh?
Cast lots?
Nathaniel, this is your moment.
Be yourself.
Some say John the Baptizer.
Which obviously isn't true.
Okay.
Well, that's everyone else.
But who do you say that I am?
You?
You are the Christ, the son of the living God.
These carved statues of Baal and Pan and other idols that we passed, they're dead and decaying, but we worship a living God, and you, you are his son.
Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah.
For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my father in heaven.
All your life, you've been called Solomon on all years.
But today, I call you Peter.
Rock.
It is on this rock that I will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
This is a place of death.
I brought you here to tell you that death has no power to hold my redeemer.
Pretty powerful, huh?
Very, very, very, very honestly.
Honestly conveying Matthew.
Now, when you saw at the end the young man writing, you saw him several times writing.
That's the person who plays Matthew, who, of course, recorded it.
And, of course, the...
I don't know exactly which ones of the other disciples spoke up and gave the incorrect answer.
But when Simon Peter gives the answer that, yes, you are indeed the Christ, the Son of the living God, you can see the expression on his face.
That was the signal from his father.
Because God, the Father, selected Peter.
And that's how he determined who the leader of his church was going to be.
Now, there are competing interpretations by the Orthodox Church and by some of the Protestant churches.
And their analysis of the same language would be...
There's one kind of silly one, which says that the Greek word was actually stone, not rock.
And you wouldn't build a church on a stone.
But even in the Greek text, it's the same word that's used.
So even if he said...
You're Simon Peter.
You're the stone.
He then goes on to say, you're the stone on which I'm going to build my church.
And the gates of hell will not prevail against you.
So that's a bit of a stretch.
The early heretical and then some of the Protestant interpretations of it.
Are a little more arguable.
What they say is, and this is biblical interpretation, this is also interpretation that, you know, rabbis do all the time.
But the words mean so much because they're the words of God, right?
So the question is, when Jesus says, you are the rock, Okay, or he actually says, this is important, let me get the exact words.
That you are Peter, and on this rock, I will build my church.
Does he mean Peter as the leader of the church, which for 2,000 years Catholics have believed?
Or does he mean...
On your confession.
Because before that, Jesus is the one who says, you are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.
And is that confession by Peter?
Acknowledgement by Peter?
Testimonial, actually, would be the better word, by Peter.
Is that the rock on which the church is built?
This is what Methodists would tell you.
This is what Presbyterians would tell you.
This is what Episcopalians would tell you, but that'd be more dishonest, because that ain't the basis on which Henry the Eric established the Anglican Church.
He didn't go into such fine biblical analysis.
He just wanted to get rid of Catherine and Mary Ann Boleyn, either as a matter of lust or wanting a male child, until he decided that Ann couldn't accomplish it either, and he chopped her head off.
So the Anglican analysis is a bit after the fact.
But the analysis by Luther, the analysis by the founders of the Methodists and the Presbyterian Church, I mean, it has some basis in it.
Although it does seem pretty clear.
Particularly when he goes on, we left that out, but Jesus goes on to give Peter the keys to the kingdom.
He gives him the keys to the kingdom.
And then gives him the power originally, before anyone else, to...
To forgive sins or not.
Or to announce doctrine or not by saying, you are the rock and on this rock I will build my church and the gates of hell will not overcome it.
Then he says, I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven.
Whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven.
And whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Now, here's the argument made by, again, the more solid argument by the establishment Protestant churches.
And that is, here he was giving that power to all of his disciples.
Because later on he repeats that for all of them and gives them all the power to whatever you bind on earth will be bound on earth.
Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed on earth.
Although he uses somewhat different words.
And it's the words that create the sacrament of confession.
He says, whatever sins you forgive on earth will be forgiven in heaven.
And whatever sins you do not forgive will not be forgiven in heaven.
So is it a different power that's being given?
Which is given to all of them.
The power to...
Confession is a sacramental power possessed by all priests, including the Pope.
The thing he does not give to the other disciples, however, are the keys to the kingdom.
So these are very, very difficult biblical arguments for which these churches should have great respect for each other because they're all attempting to read The words of Jesus Christ.
And what did he mean?
And, you know, as a Roman Catholic trained that way, of course, I'd be probably biased in that direction.
But I've been through quite a history as a Roman Catholic, and I questioned everything before I became a true believer again.
And I would say, as intellectually, honestly as I could, when you consider all of it in context, Including the giving of the keys.
It is quite clear that he wanted Peter to be their leader.
And of course, it would be inconsistent that he wouldn't want them to have a leader.
Right?
If you want a church built, and I think everyone, all Christians agree he wanted a church built, it's just who's in charge of it?
Aren't you going to put somebody in charge of it?
I mean, it would be inconsistent with the theory of the day that you were going to have some kind of a loose, you know, Vermont-style town hall meeting every time you wanted to decide something about the church.
It would make sense that there'd be some structure to this, particularly if you have to stand up against the Roman Empire.
So...
I could give you a lot more arguments one way and the other, because I've been through this from the time I was a kid, arguments about this.
But it is a beautiful passage in the Bible, either way you interpret it.
And I would say the Roman Catholic interpretation is as valid as any other, and then became the tradition of the church.
I mean, Protestants didn't come...
Come along for 1,300 more years, 1,400 more years.
The Roman church did a pretty good job of carrying this from Jesus to Luther.
They may have screwed up, but there would have been no church for Luther to deal with if it weren't for the first 20 pontiffs who were martyred.
And Jesus himself.
And Jesus himself, yeah.
Look, one of my good friends, I had him on, Pastor Leymire, is a great admirer of St. Augustine.
Well, St. Augustine is a saint in the 500, before there was, where all Christians were together.
He's as much their saint as our saint.
And Augustine is the order that Leo XIV belongs to.
He's an Augustinian friar.
I would like to show you this picture of the Pope in Class 2B.
There he is in Class 2B at St. Mary's School.
Those girls look like exactly the uniform the kids used to wear at St. Francis of Assisi that I went to and St. Anne's later on.
So they're educated together, men and women?
Or boys and girls, I suppose?
In grammar school, we were educated together.
In high school, it was all men.
And in college, it was all men.
Well, here, the boys may have been brought into the girls' class for the group picture.
Oh, no.
It looks like extra boys were brought in.
Oh, you're right.
Boys are sitting in the chairs.
They may be in two sections.
You know, 2B can mean there are two sections to grade two.
Or 2B could mean it's the second half of the year.
So it's safe to say they could not choose their gender when this was taken.
I doubt that any of these people had gender dysmorphia.
I would think going back to their Irish or Italian or Polish parents, this would not be a discussion that would be entertained for too long.
Can you imagine being one of his classmates?
Think of it Chicago.
So who are these kids?
These kids are Italian, Irish, Maybe in the other order, Irish, Italian.
There's as big a Polish population in Chicago as there is Italian, maybe even Irish.
We have Germans in Chicago.
There are Germans in Chicago.
And then by this time, there'd be a big, big group of Eastern Europeans.
Czechoslovakia, Hungary.
A lot of the Eastern Europeans tended to go toward the Midwest.
So I just don't think this was a group that spent a great deal of time creating doubt in their children that if they had the physical attributes of a male, that really they should start thinking they were a female.
Well, if you want to get the left crazy, look, I mean, they're going to definitely complain about the diversity of St. Perry's School back in 1962.
Look at that.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, that's what Biden wanted.
He didn't want his kids to go to school in the jungle.
Exactly.
Right.
Which is the wrong opinion.
It is the wrong opinion.
And this is a little before the civil rights...
I mean, it's even before Brown against the Board of Ed, which was 54. So this is...
No, no, it's after.
62. I'm sorry, I thought it was 52. It's 62. Yeah, he's a lot younger than me.
But I tell you, it could be St. Francis of Assisi.
I believe that school is now closed, but maybe this will inspire an opening.
You skipped what?
I skipped the 2B.
What does that mean?
What that means is I had to change schools, and we had a strange system.
So I was like, I completed the first half of the second grade, and then when we moved to Long Island, When we moved to Long Island, I could either have to redo the first part of the second grade, or I could be skipped ahead to the third grade.
Oh, skipped ahead.
Well, they skipped me ahead.
So I've always been a half a year younger than my class.
I graduated college at 17. How hard is that?
You can learn subtraction in like a week.
But then I was 18 very quickly.
But I was a half year.
Everybody was basically a half year older than me in class.
Oh, wow.
After I left St. Ann's, no, after I left St. Friends of Assisi and went to St. Ann's.
But it could be either classroom.
Even the girls, you know, the thing that's really interesting is they have a little more diversity in their uniforms, these girls, than we were allowed.
Notice the little girl, I gotta have my...
I hope you find this interesting.
I do.
Notice this little girl.
Oh, maybe they're the same.
Maybe she just has hers.
Oh, no, no.
There's differences.
Look, she has a whole thing down the middle of hers.
All the rest of them have big bib things.
And this one looks a little different.
In my schools, the girls were exactly the same.
I don't remember.
You notice the Pope.
It's wearing a different tie.
Ah, yes!
Everybody else has a dog tie on.
This other kid has it.
You got a Colonel Sanders looking guy in the corner.
Yeah, and we got a regular bow tie.
We got a regular bow tie.
We got one bow tie and one leg.
I don't even know what you call those Colonel Sanders ties up there.
Oh, you got the kid in the plaid shirt.
There are a couple other kids that looks like with white ties.
Right here.
Back here.
Look at the boy sitting down.
He's got a checkered shirt.
Checkered shirt on the far left.
Sitting down on the far left.
I can't remember.
I think we had a tie given to you or you bought from the school that had the name on it like St. Francis or it had like an insignia of the school.
It looks like they may have a few of those like here.
Also, it's really important that you have very small classes.
I think that's two classes.
Look at those guys standing.
They've got standing room only.
Class 2B.
It could be two classes.
Because there are boys and girls equally distributed here.
Not equally.
There's like three or four boys sitting there.
Maybe they had them fill them in.
Maybe the Pope will explain this picture.
We need an explanation for the 2B.
The 2B could be there were two Two second grades, 2A, 2B.
2B could be, this is the second half of the year.
2A, 2B.
In my school, we had A days and B days.
So one week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday, we would go to our A classes and then the Tuesday, Thursday would be B. The following week, we would switch them.
So it would be an every other day kind of thing to give you some time to study, give you reading time.
So that's a different use of 2A and 2B.
So I can think now of three uses of it.
So we're going to have to go, why don't we call the Pope tonight and ask him when he gets up in the morning?
See if Eleonora can go over and ask him.
Ask him a quick question.
Okay.
Would that be okay?
Let's think of a better question, maybe.
Does he really root?
How about the other Chicago teams?
Well, that's what I've been working on.
And if his father was a Cardinal fan, how did he become a...
Usually you follow your father.
Well, local White Sox...
A local White Sox blog.
There is a picture.
There's a video.
Of him in a Chicago Bears game.
Yes.
Bears or White Sox?
The Chicago Bears football team.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
Well, here's the White Sox.
With Jenks on the mound.
Mostly in the crowd.
They're two strikes away from a win here in 2005 in Game 1. There he is.
With Jenks on the mound.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at that.
This is the 2005 World Series.
There he is.
There he is.
He looks like a young guy.
He looks like a young guy.
I mean, that was 20 years ago.
Still in his 40s.
Isn't that something?
They're two strikes away from a win here in 2005 in Game 1 with Jenks on the mound.
There he is.
There he is.
We got a Pope who's a baseball fan.
I'm glad you found that one.
Isn't that nice?
That's really to see a Pope at a baseball?
Where is he in this one here?
Can you show me the uniforms again?
Sorry.
Go back to the baseball players.
That's the same World Series.
That's the same World Series, yes.
What's he doing there?
At that World Series.
What was that one?
Same World Series.
Put it back on.
That was a little foggy picture.
So it's actually a picture of somebody else.
It's a picture of somebody else.
He's in the upper left.
That's him up top.
He's like caught in the picture.
He's praying on the phone.
He's calling Jesus, Phil.
He's certainly not calling a bookie, right?
He's a Catholic.
He is from Chicago.
Who says he did not call on a bookie?
We're going to give him the benefit of the job.
Hey, if we're going to go there, maybe he brought some of his Chicago friends over for the conclave.
I'm kidding.
Any of Mayor Daley's...
Where's Mayor Daley this week?
We have an extra bag of ballots.
What's Mayor Daley's son doing walking around the concrete?
I didn't know.
Are you sure you're a Catholic?
How did he get in?
But in all seriousness, Mayor, there's got to be something there.
The fact that Americans, we can now relate with the Pope at a pretty, I don't want to call it intimate level, but, you know, as a baseball fan.
No, we can have fun like this.
Right.
Like what happened about the Pope?
Streets of Chicago, Villanova, he went to school.
I mean, how bad can he be?
I mean, there are a lot of right-wing people going wacky, wacky.
Yeah, they really are.
A lot of non-Catholics, too.
Eddie Johnson has had some things to say, I would say.
Look at Matt Walsh.
I think Matt Walsh had a good point.
Give the guy a break.
Give him a break.
And by the way, I can argue, based on this, I can show you a guy who's sending you both signals.
And I think this guy is smart enough to know that one of those things mentioned a million times about Pope Francis.
Oh, yeah, that's even the better picture.
You see, cute kid.
I mean, he was a cute kid.
That whole room, a bunch of cute...
That's when they wore uniforms.
You know, they're dressed nice.
They're smiling.
They're sitting in their seats.
Yeah, they don't look like they're oppressed, even though if they talk out a turn, they get hit by the nuns.
But they still don't look like they're oppressed.
Hey, my dad went through the same schooling as my parents, right?
Catholic school, the nuns.
The nuns?
You feared the nuns more than the brothers.
I agree with your dad completely.
And I'm going to tell you what also, and ask your dad if this is true.
It's more humiliating.
Ah, right.
If a brother smacked you, even punched you, it was almost a sign of manhood.
You could take it.
If a woman did it, even if she didn't hurt you as much, it was like embarrassing.
Yeah, you're right.
Yep, that's a good point.
I was really ready when I went to high school to be with the brothers.
I enjoyed that immensely.
Yeah, but you were learning from them.
You ate it up.
I was educated for eight years by the Christian brothers.
And they are a wonderful order.
They're a French order under St. John the Baptist de La Salle.
They are brothers, not priests.
They don't become priests because they dedicate their life to teaching.
Most of them, every single one of them has a master's degree.
Most have doctorates.
They are wonderful teachers.
And they run a lot of colleges you wouldn't know, like Manhattan.
How would you know that was a Catholic college?
Because it's an old college, and it wasn't allowed to have a Catholic name in the 19th century.
Interesting.
Same thing with Fordham.
Fordham, I knew that.
Fordham should be named after a Jesuit saint.
It would have been if it was founded after 1900.
Fordham must have been a gentleman person.
I don't even know who Fordham was.
But I mean, it was...
If it were...
If...
So...
Fordham neighborhood in the Bronx.
It was named after the neighborhood.
Okay.
Fordham neighborhood.
The Manhattan College would have probably been named LaSalle.
So there are...
You've heard of LaSalle.
There was several famous LaSalle schools.
Those were all Christian Brothers schools.
Right.
Because the founder of the order was...
LaSalle.
Right.
LaSalle's a very...
Well, if you want, actually, I've been doing some research on the Pope, and I have some pictures of his church that he attended in Chicago.
In a sense...
Closed down, right?
Yeah.
Can you go for...
Is that St. Mary's?
St. Mary's of the Assumption in Chicago, Illinois.
So the building is still there, but it's shuttered its doors, right?
Yes, sir.
No!
I'll buy the window.
I have a feeling it might see a revival.
We can only hope.
Tell me the name of the church.
St. Mary's of the Assumption.
I wonder if we can locate it on the map.
St. Mary's Assumption.
We're looking at it here to see if it's a vacant Southside church.
It is vacant.
Now we're on the Southside again.
Right.
Chicago's far south side.
Near the suburb of Dalton.
He was raised in Dalton.
That's where he was raised.
And then his home parish was St. Mary's of the Assumption.
We're going to take a break.
And we're going to start doing it.
We'll be ready with our maps when we come back.
We're going to figure out this geography thing.
And then we're going to take you through the effect on China.
I mean, Trump is kicking them around big time.
And I don't know if this is the time to think about easing up on the tariffs.
Again, like I told you with Iran, when you got them on the ropes, that's when you punch harder.
We'll be right back.
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She better not see this.
We're looking for where the Pope's church was in Chicago.
Oh, goodness.
Southside.
We're talking south, right?
It really is in the community of Dalton.
Now, is that part of the city of Chicago?
No, it's a suburb, but it's just south.
Does the mayor of...
Does Chicago have jurisdiction over Dalton?
I believe Dalton has its own mayor.
Or does it have its own mayor?
We'll find out.
Remember, it's no longer the second city.
Its population is below Los Angeles.
Well, I was going to say, some people are saying...
Yeah, I know, I know.
They're getting all excited because of the Pope.
The Pope doesn't make you the second city or the first city.
Remember, he's only religious, not secular.
Render to Caesar, that which is Caesar's, and to God, that which is God.
Separation of church and state?
I have a street view of the area if you want to go.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Show it.
I can accomplish that too, I think, on here.
So this is the building, if I'm not mistaken.
That might be the school.
It doesn't look like the church.
But if you can tell, I'll bring you over.
That was like an old picture.
You know, like way, way back.
Way, way back.
There's garbage.
Oh, my goodness.
Look at the garbage.
Oh, is that now?
Yes.
That's what happened to it?
This is July of 24. Yeah, well, it's a...
July 24 this year?
July of 2024.
We can walk over here.
I do believe the church is standing, though.
Oh, look what happened to it.
Well, let's see if we can find...
Oh, my!
The south side of Chicago is kind of known to be this type of area.
That looks better.
Well...
It looks a little brighter, but I don't know about that.
Where's the church behind us?
Well, let's find the church.
We'll come back to that.
Yeah, we'll come back.
So, he can find the church.
His father, by the way, was a Navy veteran who was a lieutenant who became a superintendent for public schools.
His mother was a librarian.
The family came from Spanish.
French and Italian descent, and the Pope was raised to speak the languages, all three, at a very early age, which is unusual, right?
He was born in Chicago on September 14, 1955.
His father's name was Louis Marius Prevost.
So you see, Louis would probably be the Italian part, and Prevost is the French part.
And he married Mildred Martinez, whose family came from Spain.
Mildred was a very, very devout Catholic, and she brought her sons to St. Mary of the Assumption Church, which is the one we're looking for right now.
Oh, I found it.
On East 137th Street, where she, Mildred, sang in the choir.
Of course, his first role was, like many of us, as an altar boy.
We don't become popes.
Throw it up, Ted.
He was an altar boy, which means back then he was saying the Mass in Latin.
He was responding like I was in Latin.
Oh, we have to revive this church.
Look at this thing.
It's getting foggy.
Can you zoom in?
It looks like it's still standing.
It's so beautiful.
Is it empty?
Can you zoom in?
There it is.
There it is.
Oh, my gosh.
Yes, it's empty, and it's actually a little bit...
I want to fix...
I want to put some blood, sweat, and tears into this thing.
Gosh, it almost looks fairly, I would say modern, but it doesn't look like a really old, old church.
But you remember those pictures we were scrolling through earlier?
There's a lot of, you know, decay, some mold.
There's a hole in the ceiling.
Well, you never know.
Oh, there is?
Yes, but, I mean, we need to fix this thing and put a beautiful garden right here.
Look in this area right here.
Oh, that'd be beautiful.
If only they had a halfway decent mayor who could get behind something like that and see it through.
Oh, and then you have like a little house there.
Oh, this could be very beautiful.
The house must be the rectory.
Right.
So he grew up with two other brothers, both of whom were older.
He was called Rob as a child.
And from the very beginning, he wanted to be a priest.
They say from the time he could walk, that had even been before he was an altar boy.
And a neighbor once said he was going to be Pope someday, his brother says.
He did.
He consistently rejected the idea, even as an adult, when it was brought up.
It was a shocking moment, his brother said, when he found out that his...
Imagine your brother being the Pope.
This is one of his brothers.
Let's play a short clip.
This courtesy of ABC News.
There hasn't been a chance to think about it because it's been constant phone calls, emails, messages, interviews.
So I don't think it's really sunk in.
It's kind of surreal.
Initial, it's great pride.
This is an awesome thing in the sense that the first, not only Pope, but first American Pope, Pope from Chicago, and a relative.
Not a lot of people can say my brother is the Pope.
That's correct.
And I can now say it.
So when you found out, obviously you have pride, that's your brother.
Did you expect this?
To tell you the truth, no, because I kept hearing there will never be an American pope just because the politics in the United States has too much world power now.
They don't need also into the church.
So I did not expect it.
Well, it's amazing.
It's amazing and Godspeed.
And whatever your prejudice is or your biases or your political affiliations, like the success of a president, the success of a pope can benefit all of us.
All of us.
Because all the success of a pope is going to do is bring about a more peaceful world and a loving world.
And that's what a pope attempts to do.
They may get involved in controversial things or things that you think are controversial.
But I mean, I guess it's abortion that creates the most animosity.
But I don't know.
Maybe it's my background, even though I've had at different times different views on abortion.
And I can see.
I can see why people can have different views on abortion.
And as I got when I was younger, I looked at it one way, I looked at it a different way.
But what I find hard, and I think what drove me to becoming I would have considered myself pro-choice because I thought there should be a window, and I wasn't sure exactly how long that window should be.
But, you know, in the early stages where a woman should get to make the choice, even though I personally am completely, I mean, 100% against it.
So if it affected me, and how would it affect me?
It would affect me if my wife...
Got pregnant and wanted to have an abortion.
Or if a woman got pregnant as a result of me and wanted to have an abortion.
Now, I realize as a man, I don't have complete control.
We're going to lock her up.
But I would do everything in my power to try to have the woman have the child.
Support it, take care of it.
If the woman didn't want to have the child at all, give me the child.
When my mother was alive, my mother and I will bring the child up.
Or I'll...
I'll hire people to help me or whatever.
And I would go counsel friends.
I would do that.
And when I was mayor, I set up a whole program for adoption, which was a great deal of interference from the pro-choice people who don't want you to tell people that are going to have abortion.
Adoption is an option.
And this is what started to turn me off with them.
I think they're more extremists.
And then...
And then when they got really enthusiastic about late-term abortion, which was sort of an issue and it was hard to focus on it.
It didn't seem terribly different than the other issue.
But then all of a sudden, they got very enthusiastic about it and one of the laws passed.
Basically change rows so that in the last three, four months they could start killing babies.
That's when I said, yeah, the slippery slope worked and they went down the slippery slope right to murder.
And that turned me off on a whole thing.
So at this point, I really think it'd be a lot better for society if you let nature take its course.
And let God's will work out.
And I could probably got pushed that way because the right was abused.
So that's my history.
It is not totally religious.
But I do not understand why anybody would be angry at people who were fighting for life.
Okay, so they're a little bit of an annoyance because you want to have an abortion.
But they are counseling you to do the better thing.
The other is unfortunate that you have to do it.
I don't think you should be allowed to do it.
But I'm not the only person in this country.
This is a democracy, not a theocracy.
But I sure think you shouldn't be doing it with joy.
And when you do, Very subtly, you erode the value of human life.
And having done that now for 50 years, it's gone.
The Western civilization that took human life and put it up here on a pedestal is now not much different than the other civilizations where we just trample all over life.
If it gets in our way, including all the assisted suicide garbage that's going on now.
We need a Pope who can, as Bishop Barron said brilliantly, What's the most important qualification of the Pope, the one who can preach the resurrection of Jesus?
The best.
And the religion of Jesus, the best.
I think this guy would be good at that.
I really do.
Interestingly, none of the possible contenders that we put up, we never put a picture of them.
We put up a lot of pictures, Ted.
Yeah.
Maybe about 12 different Cardinals.
We did.
We had them all.
We didn't have them all, obviously.
We have to say, but I'm going to tell you another thing.
Neither did NBC, ABC, CBS, Newsmax, Fox.
The Catholic Channel didn't have them.
Yeah.
The Catholic Channel, Polymarket didn't have them.
Eh, eh, eh, eh.
You're right.
One person had them.
Monsignor Alan Plaka.
Yeah.
Which, the more I think about it, We had him on the show, and I think he was tied up a few other times we wanted him on.
We should have leaned on him.
This man obviously knows the Catholic Church.
Well, he does.
And we did, and we called him and talked.
We did a full special with him.
You're right, we did.
You should understand that Alan is a monsignor.
He is a lawyer and a member of the bar.
He's a lawyer and a member of the bar.
He has written four books on theology.
I would not say he's an expert.
He knows canon law backwards and forwards as a lawyer, but I don't think he's a civil lawyer, not a canon lawyer.
And he's just inherently brilliant.
Multilingual.
Eight, nine languages.
Wow.
Yeah, you're dealing with quite a mind there.
But it also, It underscores you go in as the next pope, and you come out a cardinal.
Bingo!
Twelve of them went in as the next pope, and they went out as cardinals, which ain't a bad thing to be.
So, the Wall Street Journal is still insisting that Trump is instigating trade wars.
Except, I don't know, are they realizing we're winning them?
Is that okay if we win the trade wars?
Is it okay if America wins something, or should America just be the doormat of the world?
I mean, here he is with the guy from Canada and the guy from England, and he explains how unfair they've been to us all these years.
They don't even disagree.
Because they have been.
We've been subsidizing the world since we started Lend Lease with England to help.
And to really be the decisive force to win the Second World War, not Russia.
That's the communist view and that's the Putin view.
The real view is if our boys didn't come into that war with a fresh army, there is no question Hitler would have captured them and never had to remove most of his army to the Eastern Front to confront us in the bulge, which is the border between France and Germany.
So, hopefully the Pope knows that.
His father was a lieutenant.
You should know that for all of the fake news, according to a much more reliable publication than the fake news, the Epoch Times, Chinese exporters, Begin to feel pain of tariffs as containers stack up.
I should have gotten this picture for you on my screen here, but I do have it, and maybe you can see what it looks like at a typical Chinese port.
They won't show you this picture.
The Chinese won't show you this.
That's all money they're not getting.
That was in Qingdao.
In the Shandong province.
That was just April of 15th of 2025.
Didn't look that way last year when the guy they had bribed was letting everything in.
China's economy will continue to hemorrhage unless its domestic demand can compensate, said Taiwanese economist Edward Young.
They're going to have to become their own market.
They're going to have to buy their own products.
Do they have the wherewithal to buy their own products?
In an economy where their currency has devalued and devalued, and all they do is devalue their currency in order to engage in unfair trade.
So now if they are They are boxed in with many alternatives removed from them.
They're already one of the biggest, America.
But we get half the cooperation we're entitled to.
We can crush it.
And that should be our objective.
Our objective should not be helping China develop a great economy as it has been in much of the 20th and even the beginning of the 21st century.
One might say that we created the Chinese economy.
They suddenly stole everything from us.
And we encouraged it.
And their Chinese infiltration, their Marxist infiltration, on one level, and our greed for the allure of the Chinese market is what has destroyed us.
And we have to wean ourselves of that.
And if there is a little pain involved in that, then it's worth it.
It's worth it to save yourself from communism.
It's like we were living under Biden.
Where, you know, if you want to have 13 people for Thanksgiving, you can't because Governor Wang Doodle in Minnesota tells you, no, you can only have nine.
But of course, he was trained in China.
It's got to be that that guy's got some kind of a crazy relationship with China.
30 times he went there to teach?
They funded his business?
That's so bizarre.
The Chinese communists don't fund businesses for fun.
They weren't paying for Hunter Biden's expertise $31 million, right?
They were paying for the easily purchased Biden integrity, which they probably could have gotten for a third of the price.
They were stupid.
They did overpay.
Well, you've got one shipper after another complaining like hell.
Pretty soon they'll complain and say Xi Jinping should go.
I think that's already started, too.
Yeah.
I think it has.
Real quick, let's hear Trump on some of this.
What?
Are you open to pulling back your tariffs in order to get China to the negotiating table?
No.
Pretty simple.
But now there's a report that he's thinking of cutting them in half.
Cutting the tariffs in half.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
You've got to stay.
Mr. President, I love you.
Please listen to this.
You've got to stay consistent on this stuff if you're dealing with a dictator.
I don't know.
Maybe you've got a couple of sissy pants and a couple of tough guys, right?
Sissy pants, tough guys.
Sissy pants, tough guys.
Right.
You don't have to be as tough as the toughest guys, but they've got to be afraid of you.
They've got to be afraid of you.
And you haven't lost it yet, but the delay in hitting Iran, the idea of negotiating with them, and the pussyfooting around with Putin and not getting that result.
And not giving Putin a real message.
Like, at least let's pull the trigger on the sanctions on Putin.
Start letting him bleed.
Right.
We need a show of toughness if we're going to do the Ronald Reagan thing.
It needs it now because there have been too many delays.
And also, whatever is going on with Israel isn't helping.
Going ahead and making some kind of a deal with the Houthis without telling them.
The deal with the Houthis is ambiguous.
We don't know yet.
I guess we'll find out in the next couple of days.
Does it mean we don't hit them if they don't hit us, meaning America?
Does it mean we don't hit them if they don't hit us and our allies, which means the ships in the Red Sea and Israel?
If it means the latter, we've got a good agreement, and we've got one that will shake people up a little.
If it's the former, you're going to have Xi and Putin thinking, eh, there's some room here.
And the idea of cutting back now on the tariffs after what you said before, I hope that was a ridiculous leak from one of the sissy pants in your administration.
The UK deal we've gone through, and we do believe it is a fabulous deal for everybody.
And this is the way to make a deal with a friend.
Look, we're the richest of all.
So they're all trying to take a little of us.
And we let them take so much of us, we might not be rich very much longer.
So the idea is we've got to cut them back to something fair.
We're more than happy to help them, but they've got to help us get back to a more stable state than the ridiculous debt.
And particularly from COVID through Biden's $3 trillion giveaway for corrupt political purposes, we've got to straighten that out if we want to be the dominant nation so we have the wherewithal to buy arms more than anyone else, so we have the wherewithal to be at the highest level of technology.
And we don't have our imitator, China, beating us.
It would be absurd.
They will have beaten us from having stolen it from us.
Right.
Right.
So if you want to know the deal with the UK, here's just a little analysis of it that you can keep in your head.
10% baseline tariff on UK goods to remain in place.
Now, remember, There's a teeny bit of a problem there, and the problem there is this.
The problem is the tariff right now is only 2% that we put on that.
So that is a major, that baseline that was tough to get England to accept, except for the fact if you don't come in early, you're going to be dealing with 25%.
So England figures they may be one of the few countries that has that.
Now, I think that is probably what Vietnam got itself by coming in very early.
I think that's what Japan got itself by coming in early.
Maybe a couple others that I'm not aware of.
I think it's going to be out of the question for the EU.
Unless Italy and Hungary want to make their own deal.
But I don't think he's given that deal to Germany and France.
Particularly not Germany that's doing so much business with China.
A lot of this has to do also with England cutting off China.
Not a major part of the deal.
Of course, a very major part of the deal.
Not emphasized.
Right?
Remember the deal with Ukraine.
Ukraine has had to get rid of every one of the Chinese acquired You had to throw them out.
Now, that wasn't too hard to sail to Ukraine because Russia is the primary financier of China's primary financier of Russia, just like we are of the Ayatollah.
Or at least up until Trump came in.
Isn't that amazing?
When Doofus shows up with his wife.
Acting like Bulbul brains.
And she acts like, I don't know, somebody that came from the dance hall.
And they're answering their questions and lying to us and all the stuff they did to us, including keeping a numbskull in the White House for four years so she could be on Vogue.
You look at her, she should be on Vogue magazine.
Jeez, I wouldn't buy the magazine if something like that was on the cover of it.
She's probably a good looker.
UK market.
$5 billion worth of U.S. exports.
That means we send $5 billion to them, including about $250 million in agricultural products and $700 million in ethanol.
Expedited customs procedures for U.S. goods, which means it saves our people money, right?
U.S. eliminates tariffs on U.K.-made planned parts, including Rolls-Royce engines.
Now, we use the Rolls-Royce engines.
Remember, you're thinking of cars.
We use it in the Boeing aircraft.
This is something that helps them, right?
Something that helps us, too.
When we do tariffs, there are things where it's okay if we put a tariff on it.
Others are going to hurt us.
But when you can negotiate, you don't have to do it across the board in order to discipline them.
You can make a great deal where...
In fact, today, the Prime Minister of England was explaining how in the back of their pocket, there were a whole bunch of things they needed from us.
And in the back of our pocket was a whole bunch of things.
And they put them on a table.
And they couldn't resolve every one of them.
They resolved 90% of them so that we got what we wanted and they got what they wanted.
This could happen with every country in the world.
It won't.
If it happens with two-thirds of the countries in the world, that's all we need.
And wean ourselves from China and let them go starve.
Because their people will overthrow them.
Their people will overthrow them.
And the will of Pope Leo XIII to rid ourselves of atheistic communists will have been satisfied.
UK zeroes out tariffs on ethanol.
So we were selling.
We were selling $700 million in ethanol, but they were putting a 19% tariff on it.
Imagine how much they'll buy now without it.
That could double.
Everybody in Iowa should stand up and cheer now.
Yeah, right.
I mean, you think we make corn now to eat?
We make corn for ethanol.
100,000 UK-made cars.
Subject to 10% tariff rather than 25%.
So they get to sell cars in America.
They don't get to sell all the cars they want.
The 10% is an increase of the 2%.
So even that is a little bit, we are going to get a little profit on their selling the cars.
And put our cars in a more competitive position.
If they're doing subsidies, which they probably are, and that's probably why it's there.
But I mean, it doesn't say that.
We'd have to go into more detail, but I'm almost positive.
You got to understand there are two things when you're dealing with tariffs.
That's the percentage itself.
But then there are all the things the government may do to subsidize.
China is, of course, absolutely vicious about that and dishonest about it.
And it's the whole way in which they got the monopoly on.
Mineral rights and rare earth minerals is by buying it up all over the world and then selling it below cost.
And then when they have you by the teeth and you can only buy it from them, they double the price.
Exactly what the monopolies did at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century that the Republican Party had to break up.
Wall Street Journal doesn't remember that.
UK to match 25% U.S. tariff rate on imported steel and aluminum.
That, apparently, we didn't work out.
But he said he wasn't going to try to work that out.
He wants to have that 25% tariff on steel and aluminum because he wants the steel industry to grow in the United States.
And already, we're doing something like, the last time I checked last week, we got about half a trillion invested.
New money.
In rebuilding our steel and aluminum industry.
So, that's the deal, so that when you hear it, you'll understand it.
And the whole editorial in the Wall Street Journal about a trade war?
Mm-hmm.
Mm-hmm.
I wish I had a real copy of the paper version.
Eh.
The whole paper's not wrong.
They got some good stuff in here.
Good point.
Good point.
You make a good point.
Oh, here's another one.
Tariff chaos.
There isn't any chaos.
What?
Chaos?
There's tariff chaos in China.
Yeah, I can't imagine how they're freaking out.
They got a real American...
Honestly, I gotta be fair.
If you read the article, that's what it's about.
Oh, okay.
I was gonna say.
The chaos in China.
They're probably...
We have an American president who's looking out for America first.
This is crazy.
They never...
This is crazy.
It looks like we're not gonna be getting too much...
Made in China Christmas crap.
Yeah, I don't think the made in China stuff has much to do with the birth of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Well, that was the label growing up.
They're having real trouble with the TV shopping network Christmas in July.
They're not selling anything to them because it's 145% tariff and on some things, 245%.
Oh, geez.
You know, one of the things this is doing is it's going to clean a lot of the crap out of America.
Yeah, we're doing all the stuff that doesn't work.
All the little crap that people buy from China.
Little knickknacks, little...
It used to be that everything made in China was all cheap crap, and everybody thinks they became this great, sophisticated...
Well, they have.
They have done...
At the high end, they do a lot of stuff, but they still do a lot of the cheap crap.
It's not all other countries.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They make...
I mean, Timu, China, these are all cheap crap companies.
They're sending us the crap.
And I know everybody gets annoyed when the president says you don't have to have all the flowers at a wedding that you want, stuff like that, because Americans don't like to hear that they should.
Oh, I missed that.
But come on.
Come on.
I didn't know the flower.
I didn't know floral.
Interesting.
Flowers are such a waste.
So that's where that came from.
You were on this the other day.
Yeah.
It was in reaction to the president saying something about...
Yeah, yeah.
People are complaining they can't get...
Certain flowers come from China?
Oh, real flowers.
4,520 flowers at your wedding so that people with allergies sneeze like hell.
Yeah.
But they're saying...
They're complaining that...
They're talking about fake flowers from China?
Get some real flowers.
It's a funeral.
Or a funeral.
How about a funeral?
How about a funeral in which you walk into the wake and you start choking?
There are so many flowers.
Oh, yeah.
And what are you going to do with these flowers?
You're not going to...
Well, those are the fake ones, I'm sure.
There would be room in the grave for the dead person.
And at the funeral, get some locally sourced real flowers.
My family, and I learned to do it as a mayor, sends them to the hospital.
Very nice.
But after, I'll tell you what Dr. Maria says.
Uh-oh, what do I do with them at the hospital?
How many flowers can I take?
You're probably getting them all the time, too.
You're taking care of people.
You don't want to be dealing with flowers.
Well, that's the other thing.
If you get a nice flower arrangement, you got to water it.
Keep it nice.
In my room in the hospital, I don't want flowers.
Keep your damn flowers.
Yeah.
I want Diet Coke and...
I was in the hospital for four days with COVID and for five days with my emergency knee operation.
I would just...
I'd have them give me the cards of the flowers they sent me.
Right.
Never even looked at them.
Yeah.
I didn't have the time to look at it, so I just wrote back a little thank you note for the beautiful flowers.
Right.
I'm sorry.
I don't want people to send any flowers.
I'm sure you're very pro-flowers for me.
Like, you know, I don't...
Oh, you want flowers?
You want your hospital room?
No, no, no, no, no.
I get nervous if people start sending me flowers.
If you're a mayor and you go to the hospital.
Everybody who wants something.
Oh, that's a good point.
They're not even goodwill stuff.
Well, actually, send me money.
If they send me money, I go to jail.
Only legally.
Legally, yeah.
Send me money legally.
When I was in private practice, you sent me new cases, something like that.
That's a good point.
But I can't do that anymore because the liberals have taken away my private practice.
Mayor, that was very astute of you.
I'm not sure every mayor would understand that.
When people are sending you flowers, right?
Why they're really doing it.
Oh, the union sent me flowers.
Yeah, these union guys.
The union sent you flowers.
Yeah, right?
That's the last group that sent us flowers.
At least send me a book about baseball or...
A candy bar.
Or politics.
Any book about politics.
Or a new camera.
Oh, now for us, no.
Equipment.
That'd be good.
What kind?
We've got to get a wish list together for your birthday.
These are American-made.
We should get one of those Go Hero cameras.
Yeah.
GoPro.
Are we 100% sure?
Are we 100% sure?
100% sure, American-made.
Okay.
GoPro, make a gimbal, please.
I would really agree with that.
And by the way...
We're dropping any DJI products we have left.
I'm starting to think.
I'm starting to think.
They may get hit.
Those products, those Chinese products, electronic products, may get hit with big tariffs.
I've already bought a handful.
Well, I'm hoping...
Yeah, well, I'll talk to you off-air, but I'm hoping that you can relay on some of the Chinese goods.
Well, Blackmagic is American.
ATEM Mini, the Rodecaster Pro.
Those are all made in America?
The cameras, the lights.
Yeah, the lights are.
We're doing pretty good, I think, for Chinese-made products.
That's Blackmagic.
I think we're just down for a few gimbals and some side products.
Oh!
Are you done?
Slashing tariffs.
We're on hour four.
Oh, at nine you're saying?
Slashing tariffs is something that we're not sure of.
I don't think he should be slashing tariffs with China.
We should keep him up.
We're going to take a short break.
We'll be right back and we'll do the conclusion.
How's that?
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All right, ladies and gentlemen.
Been quite a week, right?
Let's see what the last group of things that we want to get across to you are.
We're going to be watching this weekend for what happened in the meeting with the Chinese, with the Secretary of the Treasury and the trade rep, with regard to the deal.
I'd like to see very little give on the tariff, unless they're going to drop a lot.
But it's very, very important to keep the pressure on China, which is under tremendous pressure.
And we want them to remain under tremendous pressure.
India-Pakistan, we'll see if that escalates or not.
Hopefully, they've all taken the shots they want to take and it's over.
The UK deal is in the books, so let's see what follows it.
Probably we're not going to get anything over the weekend.
Oh, let's go.
Bayer's one for one on your guesses.
Who's next on trade deals?
Who's the next one to get an Inca deal?
Next one to get a deal?
You're one for one, so this is...
India.
Ooh, okay.
Oh, wait, wait.
India may be too tied up right now to negotiate the Don thing.
So then I think it could be Vietnam because they came in early and they should be benefited with one.
Yeah, I'll go with Vietnam.
Really?
Okay.
I'm going to say EU.
Yeah, I think it would have been India.
Unless they can do two things at once, maybe they can.
Right?
They have to.
I mean, it would be a sign of real support for them if they were able to get a trade deal with us.
You know, it would be sort of a sign to Pakistan on what side we're on.
Yeah, use that trade deal to buy some big old weapons.
From us!
Yes.
We'll sell them.
The president is talking.
Absolutely beautiful.
Wow.
Absolutely beautiful.
Right.
Absolutely beautiful.
The whole ceremony for the Pope.
Right.
That was beautiful.
The millionaire's tax.
Come on, Mr. President.
Forget about it.
We've been through this before.
You're not for that.
This is a Democrat thing.
There's a socialist thing.
Millionaires.
How much more are millionaires going to pay of the percentage of tax?
How about getting some of the other people that don't pay taxes to pay tax?
How about just be good for them?
Mayor, how about keeping them the same where they're at now?
Yeah, yeah.
Come on.
Not cutting it, though.
Not cutting their taxes.
I'm thinking from a political standpoint.
We don't have to cut their taxes.
We just leave it the way it is.
We don't want to take away their tax benefit that they got four years ago.
What's AOC and Bernie's big thing?
Something about the billionaires, yada, yada, yada, right?
Politics is politics, and sound economy is sound economy.
It's not sound economy to tax millionaires anymore than you're doing right now when they're paying about 80% of the tax and half the country isn't paying taxes.
That's a very dangerous situation to be in.
Very dangerous.
Okay.
You've straightened me out on that one.
I think despite the president's tremendous persuasive abilities and political power, I don't think he gets it through a Republican Congress.
The Republicans do not want to go back to some of these districts having passed a millionaire's tax.
Any tax.
It's anathema to the Republican Party.
Pass the GOP tax bill.
That's what you should pass.
Just extend the tax as it is.
Don't fool around with it.
It did great things for our economy before.
It's going to be a great thing for our economy this time.
The president's 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine.
Some people are criticizing.
This one, I think, is a good idea.
I mean, while people are putzing around about what to do, why should people die?
And I don't think if you do a ceasefire, it extends the war.
Well, it does extend the war, but it extends the war without people dying.
So I can't imagine why they were opposed to a ceasefire.
We should be all in favor.
And I think Jeanine Pirro taking over in the District of Columbia is a great idea.
I don't know if she's doing that temporarily or on a...
On a temporary basis, but she sure as heck has the same view of the Ashley Babbitt case that I do.
Maybe we'll finally get that guy investigated for first-degree murder.
Letitia James has found out that a grand jury, not in Manhattan, but in Albany, has begun an investigation of her fraud, which seems to be obvious.
She went and got a mortgage and claimed it was her permanent residence.
At the time, it was a permanent residence in Maryland or Virginia.
At the time, she was the Attorney General of New York.
It was just a straight out and out fraud.
Like real fraud.
Not the kind of phony fraud she tried to do with Trump.
Oh, and by the way, nobody's above the law.
Right?
Madam Attorney General?
You sure is not above the law.
And you come out of a crooked Democrat, Brooklyn, Democratic machine.
So I'm not surprised you were involved in what seems to be obvious fraud.
It's on record.
Like it's real fraud.
Now you'll find out what fraud is.
You didn't know what it was when you charged Trump.
When you don't have a loss, there's no fraud.
Sorry.
Columbia University, let them come into the...
Let all the pro-Hamas, pro-terrorist, anti-American, Jew-hating creeps with the towels around their head come in and terrorize people at the Butler Library again.
A bunch of people were arrested and released in two minutes.
When the hell are we going to get serious about this?
And if you're Jewish, what the hell are you going to Colombia for?
You're out of your mind.
Just give up on it.
I think everybody should give up on Harvard and Colombia.
No students.
See what they do.
They can spend down their endowment.
They can teach each other for advanced courses on Marxism.
How to remove God even further from our society.
Let's see if we can do that.
Or how can we exterminate the Jews and make sure they never rejuvenate themselves?
Because just exterminating might not be enough for the people at Harvard and Columbia.
I mean, and the judges in New York, don't you hold these people?
And they're walking in with the masks on still?
We can't get it straight that this is private property?
Somebody walks in the door here, right?
This is our property, right?
And he's got a mask on.
I say, take your mask off.
He says, no, I throw him out.
That's what you can do in a college.
It's your property.
You don't think these people are dangerous?
These people have got their faces covered with towels?
Those towel things are to protect your ear from the sand.
Because these people come up from the sand.
That's where they come from.
These are sand people.
That's why many of them...
That's why Muhammad had such a great success converting them because they were ignorant and illiterate.
The other Arabs told the epileptic to go to hell because they thought he was possessed by the devil.
Of course, everybody was wrong.
He wasn't possessed by the devil with the epilepsy.
He got possessed by the devil later when he started mass murdering Jews and Christians.
So.
Oh, and also, our good friend Betsy McCoy has another great idea.
How about taking away Harvard's tax deduction?
What do you think?
Any tax benefits?
Gone.
Isn't the anti-Semitism and anti-Americanism enough and the pro-terrorism enough?
Or how about, you know, years of teaching to hate America?
Yeah, well, that seems to me like that's enough.
What about you guys?
Yeah, I mean, what a...
And Harvard's non-creative approach to their business curriculum is just atrocious.
It's actually turned our world into a bunch of drone, you know, corporate losers, right?
There's no creativity.
I don't like the way they teach business.
And then they all end up running the economy, or I mean, running the big companies who just kowtow to the woke agenda nonstop.
So, screw Harvard.
Well, fortunately or unfortunately, Harvard Business School has never...
Something I had to seriously consider.
I don't think I was ever in the running to attend Harvard Business School.
Affirmative action would have gotten you in the running.
That's a good point.
Yeah, well, I don't want to get...
I'm the minority that actually hurts me in my minority status.
We are very, very supportive of the program put out by Secretary Duffy of the Department of Transportation to immediately revise the air traffic controllers and the air traffic system and to put a fortune into doing it.
And I think that's a place we got to spend money because things I mean, they're so confused.
I can't figure them out.
Biden, we're not going to play it for you.
It's not worth it.
But Biden was on with the the most frequently depicted woman on the cover of Vogue based on her great beauty, the first stepmother or the former first stepmother.
It was on The View.
He basically looks like he wouldn't even be accepted in a nursing home any longer.
They'd have to put him in a place where he could be watched 24 hours a day.
Well, now that you mention it up, we can't not show.
She interrupted him to finish his sentences for him.
I'm surprised she wasn't feeding him.
I don't think she feeds him anymore.
I think he now has to put his head in the bowl and just take the ice cream out.
No, I don't want to show him.
Who needs to show that anti-American criminal traitor?
He's cost enough American lives and other lives.
Biden is not surprised that Kamala lost.
Give me a break.
Give me a break.
Can't we forget that?
That was the worst period in our history.
And, just in case...
Just in case you're getting thoughts of we should have an agreement with Iran, Mr. President, please talk to the UK where they had to stop an alleged massive attack by the Iranians in Britain, in London, a city they own.
I mean, the mayor probably would have given them some kind of award.
I personally would like you to take a look at this because they tried to do this to me twice.
Once in Albania and once in France.
That is, blow me up.
A group of Iranian men recently arrested in Britain have been planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in London.
And we're negotiating with them?
How about we just take out the damn nuclear facilities and get it over with?
Those bunker-busting bombs are getting old.
They like to be used.
It's like, you know, you've got to exercise a dog, right?
You've got to exercise a human being.
You've got to exercise bombs.
And our pilots, they're going to loot, you know.
But let the Israelis do it.
They're pretty good the last time they hit everything in Iran.
I hope, Mayor, we don't look back in 40, 50 years and look back at a time when the United States leadership across the board missed an opportunity to keep Iran from becoming...
You mean the way we look back now and we see how Clinton could have prevented September 11 if he had been on?
Will we look back now and see if we had taken Hitler seriously, the Holocaust would never have happened?
Yeah.
When you put it that way, it just makes it even...
We've got other examples of that, too.
It's awful.
So let's finish the week on a hopeful note.
The Roman Catholic Church, the largest church in the world, has a new pontiff.
He's an American.
Seems to be a very nice and balanced man, a very religious and intelligent man.
There may be things about him in his past where some of us don't agree with his political position, or maybe some of his political positions and others.
But let's see what happens.
The Pope is an extraordinarily complex position.
And complex meaning the man is operating on a different thing than public acclaim.
He's operating on his best ability.
To discern the will of God.
And he looks like a very sincere man of integrity.
I think that's the way he's going to approach it.
And I have noticed that there's sort of a balance of symbolism that he's put forth to kind of say to us, yep, I'm like Francis, but I don't go that far.
Free enterprise, I understand.
It may be necessary to bring people out of poverty.
How can an American from Chicago not know that?
Of course he does.
The guy was a math major, after all.
So, let's see what happens.
It is in the hands of God, right?
Good hands to have him in.
And pray for the people of Israel, and pray for the people of Ukraine, and pray for the people of Iran, who we've talked about tonight.
How about India and Pakistan, too?
They don't need a war.
And pray for our president.
He's going to go off on a very, very big mission in the Middle East.
And he's got a big announcement to make, and let's hope it's as great as he says it is.
And we'll comment on it as soon as it happens.
So you stick with X and you'll see some of our comments.
They may be live, they may be taped, but we'll say something about it.
As soon as we find out what the big announcement is, we'll let you know.
So, what a week.
267th punter for the Roman Catholic Church.
Ready to bring God back to the world.
Big time.
Because that's his job.
I think Bishop Barham said it best.
His job is to preach the gospel and the resurrection of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and bring it to all of us to save us.
God bless America.
It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
It was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense.
Written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers in which Thomas Paine explained by rational principles the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech.
The ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past.
And see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country.
A country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason.
We're able to talk.
We're able to analyze.
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