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May 26, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani

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America’s Mayor Live (676): Honoring America's Fallen Heroes on Memorial Day

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	Welcome to America's Mayor Live on Memorial Day 2025.
	And we're going to start with the full version of God Bless America, sung by the Irish tenor Ronan Tynan.
	And I believe he sang this at the first baseball game at Yankee Stadium after September 11 attack, December 11. 2001 attack on the United States.
	So let's listen to the original lyrics with the preface that often is not used but that explains to you that this is a prayer, not just a song.
	Let us gather far across the sea.
	Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free.
	Let us all be grateful for a land so fair.
	As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.
	God bless America, land that's by love.
	Stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above.
	From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans, wide with love.
	God bless America, my home sweet home.
	God bless America, my home sweet home.
	God bless America, my home sweet home.
	Well, it's always my favorite version.
	I know Kate Smith, for many, is the favorite version.
	It's the one that was sung at Yankee Stadium for the longest time.
	And those are just the original Irving Berlin lyrics.
	But I love the introduction, the prelude to it, because it puts it in the context of a hymn, which is what it is.
	While the storm clouds gathered far across the sea, let us swear allegiance to a land that's free.
	Let us all be grateful for a land so fair.
	And here's the part, as we raise our voices in a solemn prayer.
	And then the rest of it, we're thanking God for America.
	And it is a hymn, and it was sung yesterday, I might say.
	At the mass that I went to here in Palm Beach, the priest played that, had us sing that hymn as one of the hymns during the mass service.
	And quite appropriately, this was written as a solemn prayer.
	So Memorial Day has a very, very, as everything does, right?
	Not really disputed, but yes, a little disputed history.
	It's real definite, almost like Columbus discovering America.
	That would have been in 1868.
	But there were Decoration Day celebrations.
	The earliest one that Associated Press discovered.
	Is that over 10,000 people held a private celebration, a parade and private celebration in 1865.
	And they were a combination of blacks and whites.
	And they decorated the graves.
	They decorated the graves of the Civil War dead, I believe.
	They decorated the graves of the Union dead there in the South.
	So that would have been in Charleston, South Carolina, on May 1st, 1865.
	Newly emancipated slaves and white missionaries organized a commemoration at a former racetrack.
	Where Confederates had held captured Union soldiers during the year's final war.
	There were 257 prisoners that died at that site, many from disease, and they were buried in unmarked graves.
	And the black residents of Charleston decided to give them a proper burial.
	They had obviously just been freed, or many of them, some of them could have been freed before, but many of them were just freed.
	And in the 10 days leading up to the event, roughly two dozen black Americans reorganized the graves into orderly rows.
	They constructed a 10-foot-tall white fence around them and an archway that proclaimed martyrs of the race course in black letters.
	And then on May 1st, approximately 10,000 people showed up.
	It began at 9 a.m. with approximately 3,000 schoolchildren, mostly, parading around the racetrack and carrying roses and singing the Union song, John Brown's Body.
	And then as that got around, people started to show up, including, as I said, white missionaries.
	It was largely suppressed for the longest time, and it showed up eventually in a U.S. National Park Service webpage dedicated to the history of the day.
	And in other parts of the snows, such demonstrations also were held by the freed slaves, but most of them have been lost to history.
	the The one that became the one that put, it was called Decoration Day originally.
	The one that put it on the map was in 1868.
	On May 30th, 1868, Commander-in-Chief John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic proclaimed the day to honor Union soldiers who had died in the Civil War.
	And a national celebration followed in many places.
	And it really was more a recognition of diverse services that were taking place in different parts of America.
	And it was a woman by the name of Mary Ann Williams who decided to add to that decorating the Civil War soldiers' graves with flowers.
	Now, that goes back to Columbus, Mississippi in April of 1866.
	And from then on, it became a celebration at all different times of the year.
	Believe it or not, it didn't become kind of fixed until 1968.
	Now, up until that time, many, many towns had their own.
	A celebration since 1868, as I said.
	But in 1968, the Uniform Monday Holiday Act was passed by Congress on June 1, 1968, and it went into effect on 1971.
	And they set the last Monday in May.
	And that's why the date keeps changing.
	The last Monday in May as Memorial Day.
	Well, originally they set, I'm sorry.
	Originally, they set it as Decoration Day.
	And General Logan called it Decoration Day.
	And that was the original one back in 1868.
	And by the time we get to 1968 and the legislation being passed, it becomes Memorial Day.
	And they put it on a Monday to make a three-day weekend to make it easier for people to travel.
	Easier for people to go to the gravesites.
	It also started to change the nature of it a little bit, right?
	Because many people have complained over the years that the purpose of the day is lost by the holiday celebration, a bit like July 4th, right?
	But I mean, I think the fireworks and the other things maybe emphasize it enough.
	The president today asked for a period of prayer at 11 o 'clock when he was at Arlington Cemetery.
	There was a minute of silence at 3 o 'clock so that we could remember.
	And I would say that we're reestablishing Memorial Day now.
	And the one confusion about it is It's confused with Veterans Day, right?
	So people will make the mistake, and it's inappropriate to do it, but it's so easy to make the mistake.
	No one should really be criticized for this.
	They make the mistake of saying, Happy Memorial Day.
	Well, this is a day where we honor the dead.
	So it's hard to say.
	It's like saying, Happy Good Friday, right?
	Right, yeah.
	It should be something like have a blessed Memorial Day or like so.
	Yeah, it's almost like.
	Let's think about those that sacrificed for us on Memorial Day or have a holy Memorial Day.
	Yeah, I would say even – Yeah.
	Now, what we don't have, and the president is now going to fix that.
	Most of our European allies who fought in the two World Wars have a Memorial Day on November 11th, which was the Armistice Day for the First World War.
	And we have Veterans Day that day.
	That's the day we honor everyone in the military.
	So the president is now going to revise all of that.
	We're going to have a parade on the 16th, I believe, which is both the 250th anniversary of our army.
	It is also the 78th or 79th anniversary of the birth of Donald J. Trump.
	We're going to have a massive parade in Washington, D.C. Whoa, whoa, we got something else coming up in two days.
	I'm not sure we're going to mention it or if you want to.
	Two days from today?
	Somebody else is having a birthday.
	Well, my birthday, yeah.
	We have the D-Day celebration on June 6th, right?
	Now, is that a celebration?
	No, it really isn't, but people do remember the president does note it and sometimes goes to France.
	And you could say it is in that it was the beginning, right?
	It was a pivotal point in us taking down the Nazi.
	But what the president is going to do is he's going to make, I think he's going to use the 16th as the day to honor the entire military in the future.
	But the point that he makes is they all celebrate winning the war in Europe, and we won it.
	And I know Russia loves to say they won the war.
	I can point out for you a hundred reasons why they didn't.
	There's no question that we won both wars.
	And then the 11th, which will go back to being the day that we remember the victory in World War I. Now, the president is doing this because, believe it or not, people don't study history anymore.
	And 30 years ago, it probably wouldn't be necessary to do this.
	We all learned this in school.
	They all teach this stuff in school.
	This is history of America's valor.
	We teach whatever we can find that's wrong with America, and then we make up a lot of stuff that's wrong with America.
	And that's the way in which the Marxist teachers who dominate the American teaching profession from preschool to PhD.
	So this is a very, very smart thing the president is doing.
	Now, he did make the point, I don't know exactly how he's going to roll it out, but he did make the point that these two extra holidays, this doesn't mean you're going to get off.
	Because we get off for too many holidays.
	He thinks we will honor the people who sacrificed us more by going to work.
	Well, right.
	It's like, look what, I mean, these guys gave up a lot more than we did.
	I mean, let's face it.
	Because of the long weekend, Memorial Day rolls into picnics and whatever.
	Right.
	July 4th, too.
	I mean, it rolls into...
	The middle of summer.
	Labor Day.
	Labor Day, we should be celebrating people who work, but we take off.
	Yeah, what's that about?
	That should be considered lazy.
	This is a day to celebrate being off.
	That is a good point, Mayor.
	Shouldn't we be working on Labor Day?
	Yes, we should.
	We should.
	I mean, to honor work, we should all be working on Labor Day.
	We're working.
	I don't know why they can't work.
	Right, we're working.
	I wouldn't miss a day like today.
	These are the days I want to talk to you because these are the days that give us a chance to make small steps in repairing the damage that's been done to this country for 50 years by communist propaganda in which America, in which they have attempted and in many ways succeeded in obliterating our culture, our civilization, our background, the greatness of this country, the unusual nature of this country.
	I mean, it was not uncommon for everybody in this country 50 years ago to say, this is the greatest nation on earth.
	We used to get criticized for being so arrogant or whatever we were.
	Well, we shouldn't have been arrogant.
	That was wrong.
	I never liked the idea of the ugly American that goes around bragging about the country.
	But we should hold that in our hearts.
	There's a difference between bragging and being honest and educated.
	If you don't realize this is the greatest country in the history of the world, You're an uneducated person.
	There's no country that's accomplished what we've accomplished.
	There isn't a close competitor.
	Now, that's very hard to say to people from other countries, except maybe we prove it by the unbelievable number of people that want to come here.
	I mean, they have immigration issues in Europe, but they're all Muslims.
	European immigration to France?
	To England, England is becoming a Muslim country.
	There are parts of England and parts of France where, even though it's against the law, Sharia law prevails.
	The most common name in the United Kingdom, the land of Shakespeare, is Mohammed.
	That's not uniform immigration from all over the world.
	That's what we have.
	Whether we do it legally, whether we do it with an attempt to have control over it, or we just open the doors.
	There's no country that comes close to us with people who want to come here.
	So let's internalize that and find out why and learn our history.
	And these celebrations can allow us to do that.
	So I'm going to spend a little more time on Memorial Day than some people might like because this is a teaching moment.
	I read a great piece in the Epoch Times.
	I don't know why.
	It's just I'm calling it new.
	There's nothing new about it.
	It's a great newspaper, and it gives you a very, very good perspective on the world, but it also gives you the best perspective on China of anyone.
	But there's a great writer who I don't know, and I wish I did know him, Jeff Minnick, who writes for them every week, and he wrote a great column about Memorial Day.
	And he listed three things that you should note about Memorial Day.
	And I'm going to change it.
	I'm going to give you the three things that I think you should note.
	They're very similar, but the first one he noted was, we should reestablish in our young people an understanding of the love of the flag.
	Why the flag is so important.
	And that it's not just a group of decoration.
	It's not just decoration with the stars and the stripes and the, and very beautiful, whatever it's a, It's a living symbol.
	Symbols can't be living.
	Oh, yes, they can.
	When a thousand men follow it up a hill and give up their lives in order to free Europe of Nazism.
	Or when thousands of Union soldiers go to war to thousands of white men go to war to make black men free.
	Yeah, they did.
	You know, nobody ever tells you that.
	Right.
	And so they'll say, oh, the Civil War was over other things.
	Yeah, it sure was, but it was mainly over slavery.
	Just go look at the Declaration of Secession in South Carolina.
	The first reason is slavery.
	Particularly, you know, the northern part of, and particularly the New England states, were well known for their massive amount of abolitionists, even considered to be crazy abolitionists.
	There is such a thing.
	Right?
	It's like, you know, now they'll say, they probably would have been considered the radical Right-wingers, you know, those terrorists and radicals now who like Latin mass, for example.
	But the radical part of what eventually began the Republican Party was in New England.
	Those people went to war to free the slaves.
	And Lincoln, when he had to revive the morale of the Union Army, that's when he decided on the Emancipation Proclamation, which is Well, I guess Jefferson would be the first one with the Louisiana Purchase, but where he used what is now the heavily debated executive powers of the president.
	Before he got legislation freeing the slaves, he declared them free.
	The question was, was that even legal?
	Well, he didn't care.
	It was in the middle of a war.
	He had emergency power.
	And you know why he did it, right?
	He did it to revive the morale.
	Of the Union Army, because they were getting beat, and they were getting tired.
	Both sides thought they were going to win in one year, and it turned out to be the biggest loss of men in American military history, because we lost on both sides, of course.
	But half of them, 300,000 or more, died, mostly white men, with black contingents in it that we've read about now and finally learned about.
	As we're learning about the black women who decorated the Union graves.
	But we still can't take away from the fact that there was a large segment of this country that abhorred slavery.
	So much so that they gave their life for it.
	And they were white people.
	So yeah, we have evil white people, but we have white people who are saints.
	And we have black people that are saints.
	This is what I always thought the Civil Rights Movement was about.
	Not the bastardization of it under the Al Sharptons and the white hatred people.
	White hatred is just as bad as black hatred.
	There's no special sin in hating white people, black people, brown people.
	Hating God's children is the sin.
	God never said, you know, take care of these to least of my brethren who are black or take care of these to least of my brethren who are white or take care of these to least of my brethren that are brown or pink or yellow or purple or from Mars, if there are such things.
	So the first thing I would agree with Jeff Minick is teach your children and people around you.
	Fight very hard for the flag.
	Get them to understand why this is not just another piece of something or other.
	This is the thing that has helped to bring liberty and freedom and liberation not only to us, but think of Eastern Europe with Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul and Margaret Thatcher.
	The millions of people in Eastern Europe that are free because of the American flag and what it stands for.
	Or think of the people of France that are free of Nazism.
	We can go on and on.
	Hats off.
	Along the street there comes a blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, a flash of color beneath the sky.
	Hats off!
	The flag is passing by.
	Blue and crimson and white it shines over the steel-tipped ordered lines.
	Hats off.
	The colors before us fly, but more than the flag is passing by.
	Sea fights and land fights, grim and great.
	For to make and to save the state.
	Weary marches and sinking ships.
	Cheers of victory from dying lips.
	Days of plenty and years of peace.
	March of a strong land's swift increase.
	Equal justice, right, and law.
	Bye.
	Sign of a nation great and strong toward her people from far and wrong.
	Pride and glory and honor all live in the colors to stand or fall.
	Hats off!
	Along the street there comes a blare of bugles, a ruffle of drums, and loyal hearts are beating high.
	Hats off!
	The flag is passing by.
	That was written by Henry Holcomb Bennett, and just one of many, many great songs and poems that have been written about the flag.
	And I don't know.
	I don't know about you, but I still get goosebumps.
	Train your kids to get goosebumps.
	It's a lot better than training the burning, huh?
	Number two.
	Teach them about the sacrifice.
	Teach them about the people who died and had the ability to give up their lives for something greater than them.
	Now that's not a universal human attribute.
	The the the the The newspaper that I was talking about, the Epoch Times, is where I got the poem.
	But Rich Lowry today, just pick one example.
	Let this example stand for all of them, please, okay?
	This is a story that I'd never heard before of a soldier in the Second World War 80 years ago.
	And he was born in Buffalo, raised in New Jersey by, it happened to be, Italian-American parents, but I didn't pick this.
	Rich Lowry did, but I'm very proud that he was Italian-American, as you will see.
	He signed up for the Marines in 1940.
	That's as the storm clouds gathered, right?
	All across the sea, before we got into the war.
	And during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942 as a Marine, he ran through Japanese lines to get the ammunition, defending himself with just a Colt.45.
	He fought for days, and by the end, he and his comrade had basically annihilated the Japanese attackers.
	As General MacArthur put it, he was a one-man army.
	Nash Phillips, a private who was wounded in the fight, recalled, Bassalone had a machine gun on the go for three days and nights without sleep, arrest, and food.
	Phillips described Bassalone coming to see him when he was getting medical treatment.
	He was barefooted and his eyes were red as fire.
	His face was dirty, black from gunfire.
	And lack of sleep.
	His shirt sleeves were rolled up to his shoulders.
	He had a.45 tucked into the waistband of his trousers.
	He just dropped by to see how I was making out.
	Me and the others in the section.
	I'll never forget him.
	He'll never be dead in my mind.
	Of course, Bassalone.
	Not of course.
	Bassalone on the recommendation of General Douglas MacArthur.
	One of our greatest.
	Generals ever was awarded the Medal of Honor.
	And the Marines had told him he was more valuable at home selling bonds and getting recruits.
	But he was a machine gun section leader.
	In 1945, he was there for the first day of the invasion of Hiroshima.
	Bassalone flanked a Japanese blockhouse.
	He climbed the top of it and he took it out on his own.
	And they were slaughtering Marines, made it possible for them to come up the hill.
	Then he let a Marine tank out of a minefield before getting fatally hit.
	For that, posthumously, he received the Navy Cross.
	The citations refers to him as stout-hearted and indomitable.
	He praises his intrepid initiative, his outstanding skill, and his valiant spirit of self-sacrifice.
	Bridges have been named for him.
	U.S. Navy ships have been named after him.
	He's a featured character in the Spielberg HBO series The Pacific.
	Raritan, New Jersey has an annual parade in his honor and a very, very large statue of Barcelona.
	Barcelona had a tattoo on his arm.
	Know what it said?
	Death before dishonor.
	Hmm?
	Isn't that right for everyone?
	Is that right for everyone?
	Let's listen to, if we can get it, Ted, because Winston Churchill puts this to the, I believe, as a modest historian, that this was the key factor in convincing Hitler not to do the obvious and attack by land Britain.
	Because facing this would have been very, very difficult.
	Just listen.
	This was given, I believe, in Parliament.
	By the Prime Minister, who had been a much maligned figure in the years leading up to the war, because for a while he was one of the sole people in England that was warning people about Hitler and saying, stop the appeasement, stop the appeasement.
	Why don't you read Mein Kampf?
	Why don't you read that he wants to capture us and take us?
	It reminds you a bit of communism and are not listening to the communists who say, Like Xi Jinping has pronounced that by 2049, he wants to control the world.
	Or other forces that we face.
	Ben Laden, who declared war on us several years before he attacked the World Trade Center and attacked American ships like the USS, like the coal, the USS Cole.
	And we did nothing about it.
	We hit empty fields.
	It's sort of the history of the last century.
	Appeasement.
	Or as we've done with the Ayatollah for all these years, right?
	Look at the number of people the reign of terror, how the number of Americans the reign of terror has taken out.
	But let's listen to Churchill.
	And this, this, this, might have been one of the most critical moments in the 20th century.
	Here it is.
	Come on.
	This is in Parliament, and it's during the Battle of Britain.
	It's while in the middle of this, it's quite possible everybody in Parliament would have to go underground as the Germans began.
	Hitting London.
	They began bombing military facilities.
	That didn't do any good.
	So then they tried to take out London during the Battle of Britain to defeat the spirit and to defeat the English people.
	Here's Churchill's response.
	This is a dramatized version.
	With his own life at stake.
	This is a dramatized version.
	This is We Shall Fight on the Beaches.
	Is that the correct one?
	There has never been a period in all these long centuries of which we boast, when an absolute guarantee against invasion could have been given to our people.
	Amen.
	But I have myself full confidence that if all do their duty, If nothing is neglected, and the best arrangements are made, as they are being made, we shall prove ourselves once more able to defend our island home,
	to ride out the storm of war, and to outlive the menace of tyranny, if necessary, for years, if necessary.
	Alone.
	In any event, that is what we are going to try to do.
	That is the result of His Majesty's Government, The British Empire and the French Republic, linked together in their cause and in their need, will defend to the death their native soil.
	Aiding each other like good comrades to the utmost of their strength.
	Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen.
	What may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of the Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.
	We shall go on to the end!
	We shall fight in France.
	We shall fight.
	On the seas and oceans.
	We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air.
	We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.
	We shall fight on the beaches.
	We shall fight on the landing grounds.
	We shall fight in the fields.
	And in the streets, we shall fight in the hills.
	We shall never surrender!
	And if...
	And if...
	This island or large part of it were subjugated and starving.
	Then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet, would carry on the struggle.
	Until in God's good time, the new world will all let go.
	Its power and might steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.
	The end of the day is the end of the day.
	The end of the day is the end of the day.
	I want to pause this one.
	I have to find out.
	I just have a photo.
	Thank you.
	The point of that is, would every nation, would this nation, fight to the very last person to secure our freedom?
	Or would we negotiate, make a peace, give up our freedom for life?
	So, John, pass along.
	Who we spoke about just a little while ago.
	Deliberately gave up his life to free people.
	Oh my goodness, our history is filled with people like John.
	John may be a little bit more exceptional than most, even of our great heroes.
	But each one of the firefighters and police officers that ran into some...
	to save America.
	And they did, didn't they?
	Because the next day, the story was not about a submissive, frightened, cowardly group of people called Americans.
	The story was about the heroes, wasn't it?
	It was about the hundreds and hundreds of firefighters and police officers that ran into hell, showing the same spirit that they're...
	fathers and grandfathers have, like John.
	And that's what Winston Churchill was talking about.
	Another of his speeches, he said, we'll fight you until...
	I don't know if everyone in England agree with that.
	But you sure need a lot of people like that if you're going to defend liberty.
	And you've got to train our young people that there are things, there are principles and there are values that are greater than life.
	And greater than them.
	And the defense of liberty and freedom.
	God-given rights are among those, aren't they?
	And that's where their being God-given is so important.
	Please don't misunderstand this, and if you do, it's your fault.
	I never, even in the days I was going to be a priest, I never went to church so often as I did in the three months, four months after September 11. I'm going to say another thing that's somewhat controversial.
	I haven't went to a Catholic church as much.
	70-80% of the services were in Catholic churches.
	Many of them were, many of the firefighters and police officers in New York, as you might realize, are Catholic, right?
	I mean, they're a big tradition in Irish family.
	It doesn't mean I didn't go to synagogues.
	I did.
	It doesn't mean I didn't go to Protestant churches.
	I did.
	But if you're asking me, where did I go?
	If I went to three funerals in a day, for three days in a row, they would all be Catholic churches.
	I know all the Catholic churches in New York, Nassau, even out in Staten Island.
	Their belief in God and their belief in Jesus in particular, a man has no greater love than to lay down his life for his friend or for his country.
	And we need to bring that back.
	We need to bring back honor.
	And we need to bring back love of country.
	And we need to bring about your life is not complete when you do everything you can do for yourself.
	Your life is complete when you find the way to contribute.
	That is your strength.
	And your life is complete when you figure out how you can be of benefit and service to others.
	Because we're social animals.
	God made us that way.
	And when we just are of service to ourselves, that's when we become a country with disproportionate amount of depression, disproportionate amount of drug addiction, disproportionate amount of criminality.
	A disproportionate amount of immorality.
	And when we serve others, we're still not going to be perfect.
	The people who serve others aren't perfect, but they're about as close to it as you can get as a human being, unless you're Jesus.
	So teaching these values of self-sacrifice, And of the fact that to succeed and to protect what we have, we have to sacrifice.
	And we have to be ready to give up our lives if necessary.
	You know, Ronald Reagan, another one of our great, great presidents who loved America passionately, used to say that, you know, tyranny is just one generation away.
	If it becomes weak.
	And this is a good day to remind people of these heroic stories, particularly young people, so that they too can emulate that.
	And third, so one is encourage them to love the flag.
	Encourage them to embody a sense of Personal heroism.
	And that it isn't just all about them, it's about how they serve other people.
	And it's about whether they have honor.
	The New York Post on this day always repeats the Shakespearean speech that was given I guess it was by Richard III, right?
	In which he encourages his men to go off and fight by saying that should they live through this battle and they become old men and if they hadn't been here.
	They're going to be very, very dishonored and feel very depressed because this is where you had to be to save your country.
	Those are attitudes and those are principles that make great countries that assure the blessings of liberty for others.
	Not a country where you just strive to be all that you can be for yourself and for your own for your own.
	Thank you.
	This was the Battle of Agincourt.
	It's from William Shakespeare.
	It's from Henry V. It's Henry V, Act 4, Scene 3, delivered by the young king.
	on the eve of the battle, where the English ultimately were totally outnumbered by the French, were surely going to be slaughtered and all die.
	And the end result of the battle at Agincourt, where 700 English died and 8,000 Frenchmen, including seven princes of the...
	These people that he was talking to believed they were going off to death, a sure death, like the people who embarked on D-Day.
	Ye that shall live this day and see old age will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors and say tomorrow, His St. Crispian.
	Then he will strip his sleeve and show his scars and say, those wounds I had on Crispin's day, all men forget, yet all shall be forgot.
	But he'll remember with advantages what feats he did that day.
	Then shall our names familiar in his mouth as household words.
	Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot.
	Salisbury and Gloucester, be in their flowing cups, freshly remembered.
	This story shall be the good man teach his son, and Crispin Crispian shall near go by from this day to the ending of the world.
	But we in it shall be remembered, we few, we happy few, we band of brothers.
	For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother.
	Be he never so vile that this day shall gentle his condition.
	And gentlemen in England, now abed, shall think themselves accursed that they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap, whilst any speaks that fought with us upon St. Crispin's day.
	Okay.
	That's how it became the world's leading empire for three or four hundred years.
	And that could be said of us too.
	That could be said of General Eisenhower or General MacArthur or...
	And our country has more of that than even England.
	And we've done it even with more self-sacrifice than England.
	And for much more altruistic reasons.
	So we're going to take a short break and we'll be right back on this very, very special day.
	The day to remember.
	All the lives that were lost.
	So we can be here in the freest and best nation in the history of the world.
	We'll be right back.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	you Sigh If we look up on the screen, we'll see.
	That's just one of the most significant, of many, many significant battlefields.
	That's the battlefield at Gettysburg where men laid down their lives to keep America one nation, laid down their lives to free other men.
	And this is just...
	This is just...
	Yeah.
	And Abraham Lincoln wrote it across the street.
	Or wrote most of it across the street.
	There's so much about American history, and that's the third point.
	One.
	Teach them to love the flag.
	Two, teach them that their nation, the liberty of their nation, the liberty of their children and grandchildren is more important than their lives.
	And third, teach them to love America because there's so much to love.
	Don't teach them to love America blindly.
	Blind love isn't love.
	But teach them to love it because it deserves to be loved.
	America is not just a word.
	It's not just a thing.
	America is millions of sacrifices of many, many people that has created the most exceptional nation in the world.
	That can give so much to the world, so much more to give.
	It's the only thing now that stands between the homicidal maniacs of red China and domination of this world.
	Just like it was the only thing that stood between Hitler's domination of the world or the Soviet Union.
	That may resolve itself at some point.
	We may become more peaceful and spread it.
	At some point.
	That isn't the point we're at right now.
	We have to live in the time that was allotted to us.
	So teach them to love America.
	Teach them the history of America.
	Teach them the real history of America.
	Sure, sure, the founding fathers, half of them were slave owners, and half of them were ardent abolitionists.
	But even among the slave owners were abolitionists.
	Jefferson was an abolitionist.
	He just didn't know how to do it.
	But he wrote the poison pill that made emancipation necessary.
	All men are created equal.
	He knew he put it there.
	When he put it there, so did his friend Benjamin Franklin.
	And then all these people who gave their lives for freedom.
	Well, these battles are going on around the world now, aren't they?
	So in Israel, we have the battle here of the appeasers and those who understand the nature of total and absolute evil that you stare in the face and have to eliminate.
	It's the same thing as we saw there with Churchill.
	History repeating itself.
	There is a group within the confines of the original grant of land to the Jewish people, Gaza, and they are dedicated to the destruction of the Jewish people and the destruction of the state of Israel.
	They're not only dedicated to it, they have many Americans, even Jewish Americans, chanting in their favor.
	And they are people who do not share the value of life that we do or the civilization that we come from.
	Instead, they murder at will.
	They rape.
	They plunder.
	They use children as shields.
	And they are even now not willing to say that they'll live peacefully with children.
	So to allow them to continue is to allow the eventual annihilation of your state or at least a threat of annihilation ad infinitum.
	And Bibi Netanyahu is doing what any leader would do.
	And the fact that he's being condemned by England and France and Germany for doing that shows you how those nations have deteriorated.
	Into nations that no longer love freedom.
	Even though so many Americans gave their lives to free those two countries and to turn one of them around.
	And unfortunately, we had a President Biden who sided with them.
	And I don't know if there are mixed signals now.
	I sure hope not.
	Because we owe Bibi Netanyahu.
	The fact that we can eliminate the nuclear weapons in Iran by taking out all of the proxies, including, most importantly, Assad.
	And instead of giving him a difficult time, we should help him wipe out Hamas, as well as the Houthis, if we want to have peace in the Middle East.
	Look at what happened just over this last couple of days.
	The two young people, right, who were killed in Washington, D.C., by, well, by a left-wing maniac.
	Someone very much influenced by the rhetoric of the Democrat Party, which comes from within the Democratic Party.
	And is not stopped or condemned by any of its members.
	It turns out that the killer was funded by pro-Palestinian, pro-Hamas organizations and belonged to those organizations.
	Organizations that are funded by communists.
	Organizations that are funded by groups of people that want to see the destruction of the United States, and not just the destruction of the state of Israel.
	And now we have Joseph Neumeier, who was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport, but originally arrested in London.
	Who was going to bomb the U.S. Embassy, the Israeli Embassy.
	I'm sorry, the U.S. Embassy.
	He was going to bomb.
	He was going to bomb the U.S. Embassy.
	What he thought was the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv.
	What it really was, was the office of the U.S. consulate in Tel Aviv.
	Because the embassy was moved several years ago by Donald Trump to Jerusalem.
	But he was going to bomb it, and it's still a very, very big facility.
	And he posted on May 19th his plan.
	Join me as I burn down the embassy in Tel Aviv, Delta to America, Death to Americans, and F the West.
	It very, very nicely sums up what we're facing, doesn't it?
	This is not a battle just for the existence of the state of Israel, and that would be enough to justify.
	This is a battle for the existence of our civilization.
	Join me as I burn down the embassy in Tel Aviv.
	Death to America.
	Death to Americans.
	That's us, Ted, over here.
	Death to Americans.
	And F the West.
	And then messages to assassinate President Trump.
	He's been arrested.
	He's been indicted.
	He's in jail.
	The Eastern District of New York now.
	And he's a German-American citizen.
	He's a dual citizen of the United States.
	And of Germany.
	I don't know what that means.
	He comes from Colorado.
	And he arrived in Israel in late April.
	And he has been making several social media posts that were provocative, like the ones I just read to you.
	And he walked in front of the building with a backpack.
	He walked in front of what he thought was the embassy building.
	But it's really, I guess it would be more accurately described as either an extension of the embassy or a consulate where you go and get visas and such.
	And that was on May 19. He got into a confrontation with a guard, and he ran away.
	He dropped his backpack, and of course they found it, and they caught him, and he's 28 years old.
	And this just follows on a few days.
	The murder of that beautiful young couple in Washington, D.C., right?
	By a member of the Party of Socialism and Liberation and one of its front groups, the ANSA Coalition.
	I just want you to know that this guy was not, this guy, Elias Rodriguez, was not just a, it didn't like come out of the air.
	It came out of the rhetoric of the last four or five years, a lot of different places, but like the squad in the Democrat Party, about how or about the terrible tactics of the Israelis in Gaza.
	They're not terrible tactics.
	We don't correct them.
	We just allow them to be said.
	The Israelis do not by any means attempt to kill children.
	Children are the collateral consequence of the vicious Hamas attack on them.
	And the 50 years of recitation by Hamas and other Palestinians, deaths to Israel, deaths to America, thousands of terrorist attacks.
	It's a question of self-defense and survival.
	And you can imagine that the last thing in the world Netanyahu or Israel wants It's the death of children.
	First of all, they're humane human beings like we are, not like Hamas or many others of the Palestinians.
	And second, it is impractical and terrible for them.
	It's used against them.
	And it's so obvious.
	I mean, the Hamas and the Palestinians know the more kids they can get killed, the more support they're going to get from England and France.
	Germany, and even the United States.
	This guy was trained to hate America.
	And all the things that I said on this memorial that we should train our children to do are really to protect against people like this.
	He graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago.
	There's no question that a lot of that hatred of America, I'm sure, was embedded in him by professors there.
	Because unless they're very, very different than the professors in most of the universities in this country, they have a chip on their shoulder, a big one, about America.
	He graduated an English degree in 2018 and immediately joined the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which avowedly despises America, is communist and hates the Jewish people.
	And he was part of...
	But not the murder of white people in South Africa.
	That would not be racism.
	That would be not happening.
	And we're going to cover it up no matter how many articles I can show you of people that were killed there.
	He also joined Black Lives Matter.
	Now, to join Black Lives Matter...
	Black Lives Matter unabashedly hates the country.
	It wants to destroy the country.
	They are not allegedly communist.
	They're very proud to say that they are trained Marxists.
	They want to destroy the nuclear family.
	First, they want to get rid of the men, and then they want to take the kids away at about two years old, following in the glorious footsteps.
	Of Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Joseph Stalin, and Adolf Hitler.
	They want to do away with private property so they can become multi-million and billionaires, as many of them have become already by taking this sucker money from American corporations and many of the sports leagues.
	One of the teams playing in the NBA Finals.
	I think the Minnesota team honored George Floyd the other day, which, I mean, is really very, very good for young people so they can grow up to be drug addicts, to beat the living daylights out of women and children.
	Because George Floyd met an end that either was the doing of the police officer or his own doing, but he was a person whose life was, other than that, Which is questionable one way or the other.
	Not questionable at all.
	He was an evil person.
	He was a danger to women, a danger to children.
	And the last thing you'd want to emulate or put up as a symbol for young people and, of course, the basketball leagues and the baseball leagues, man, they all bowed down and genuflected for Black Lives Matter.
	All they had to do is Just a little reading.
	You know, if you read, you'll stop being a stupid liberal.
	What you have to do is read Kowars, who says how much he hates America.
	You've got Major League Baseball, basketball, football, honoring an organization that hates America, that is founded by first, Transgender, lesbian activists who turn to the race issue when they realize that that can be more divisive.
	These are trained Marxists trying to bring America down.
	I mean, the NBA will do anything China wants.
	I'm shocked at the NFL and Major League Baseball, however, having caved into Black Lives Matter.
	Well, this guy was a member of Black Lives Matter.
	The organizations he belonged to, the organizations that I was talking about, one with the shorter-named answer, which is part of the Party for Socialism and Liberalism.
	Let me give you an example of how it's described in News Nation to show you how this just continues right up to this day.
	A group that fights against racism and war with organizing centers in cities and towns across the country.
	It's a group that organizes in cities and towns in America to destroy, based on Marxist principles, the United States of America.
	And News Nation is lying their backside off.
	Now, what is News Nation, Ted?
	I get them all confused.
	What pathetic make-believe organization is that?
	It's a news network.
	I feel like we're attempting to follow what Newsmax successfully did.
	We can't call NewsNation a success yet like we can Newsmax.
	It sounds like they're a bunch of ignorant left-wing fools.
	Bingo.
	So you kind of hit the nail on the head a little bit.
	I don't watch enough to speak for the whole network.
	But yes, it appears that they're trying to be this, they claim objective source for news, but either the problem hiring...
	Oh, you know the Cuomo family pretty well.
	Oh my god, Andrew.
	Chris Cuomo?
	He was fighting with all the knives?
	Yes, so Chris Cuomo.
	You've known him since he was a baby.
	I knew him before he became completely disjointed and irrational with Trump derangement syndrome.
	He did have that.
	I'm going to show you some clips of him.
	Or defend my brother who kills old people syndrome.
	Well, yeah.
	I'll show you some more recent clips of Chris.
	Let's see what we think of him.
	So yeah, so he's on News Nation.
	No, no, I've seen recent clips of this.
	He occasionally says things, but then he goes off crazy all the time.
	Yeah, sure.
	He still goes off crazy.
	They have Leland Vitter, who used to be on Fox.
	Yeah, Leland Vitter was the left-wing jackass on Fox, yeah.
	So they took him over.
	He left Fox.
	Yeah, well, of course he left Fox.
	Now they probably take him back.
	I was going to make a joke.
	But he was a joke at Fox.
	Yeah, so I don't know how they're doing financially.
	Look, they don't have the same juice that Newsmax has done considering – But why do they describe this group?
	That is a group of avowed Marxists.
	Who, by the way, I should point out- Is this Black Lives Matter?
	No, no, no.
	This guy belongs to two groups.
	He belongs to the party.
	For socialism and racism.
	Okay.
	And one of its front groups is the Answer Coalition, which is act now to stop war and racism.
	And he was identified way back in 2018 and going to protests with them.
	And they are one of the people, they are one of the groups, not as famous as Black Lives Matter, that, you know, did many of the protests in which they burned the hell out of American cities.
	Then he belonged to Black Lives Matter.
	And he took part in many of their marches, particularly in Chicago.
	And News Nation describes Answer as an activist group that fights against racism and war with organizing centers in cities and Crown.
	No, it isn't.
	It's a communist activist group seeking to undermine the United States.
	That's what it is.
	They're just lying about it.
	So they're lying about it because they're ignorant, lazy bums, or they're lying about it because they've been reached by communism and Marxism.
	There's no good answer for it other than they're part of the problem, not part of making America a free country again.
	They're part of the censored press that is consistent with a communist or Nazi country.
	I mean, and the people you're describing to me would suggest that, I mean, they're not honest press people, Cuomo and Vitter.
	I mean, that people with massive chips on their shoulder.
	And Cuomo's got too much to defend.
	I mean, he's not his brother.
	He's got his hands...
	Never was as bad as his brother.
	I guess he's got to defend his brother, even though...
	I'll give you an example that he should be calling his brother out for.
	His brother passed a law that changed parole in New York so that there are now, what is it, 42 cop killers that have been released.
	Since Cuomo passed that law.
	Murderers.
	Cop murderers.
	Please murder us.
	No wonder Black Lives Matter lives.
	I mean, so when you get News Nation saying that this is, I mean, this is just misleading, lying to the American people.
	It's what Pravda used to do in the Soviet Union.
	Who owns News Nation?
	What communist owns that?
	We actually do know, we had talked to them briefly a couple years ago.
	Oh, good.
	I'm glad we didn't do anything.
	They were still new and they were beefing up their network.
	Every time I've looked at...
	Every time I look at their ratings, I mean, they have a hard time getting out of the hundreds.
	Nextar Media Group.
	So they're owned by Nextar Media Group.
	Doesn't give us the answer we're looking for.
	Would you like to know who sponsors and pays for this group?
	A gentleman by the name of the biggest funder is not Soros.
	He could be, but he's not.
	Black Lives Matter.
	Neville Roy Singham and his wife, Jody Evans.
	Now, they're a power couple within the global left-wing movement of the Communist Party, the Chinese Communist Party.
	Evans is the co-founder of Code Pink, which is a group that organizes street mayhem.
	He is a multimillionaire.
	He lives in Shanghai, China, where he shares premises with Shanghai Macul Cultural Communications Limited, a Chinese propaganda firm focused on presenting a positive image of the People's Republic of China.
	Now, it's pretty hard to do that for the country that has killed more of its own people than any country in the history of the world.
	But they do.
	He funds it.
	So, I don't know when the American press will tell you the truth.
	When they describe Black Lives Matter, the facts that should be most prominent, because they're true, is they are a communist front group admitted by the founders, and their 20 guiding principles lead up to destroying America as we know it.
	End the nuclear family.
	Get God out of America.
	Get rid of all of these ridiculous morality things like, you know, you shouldn't be a pedophile.
	I mean, it's a pathetic, obvious, underground, a group that's trying to undermine our culture, our civilization, whatever you want to call it, our laws, our country.
	That's Black Lives Matter.
	This other group is directly funded by a communist from Shanghai, China.
	I mean, this guy is like another tampon Tim who goes to teach in China 30 times.
	Nobody even asked who the hell's paying him.
	Who paid for his businesses to bring kids over to China so they could be brainwashed?
	And the guy is still running.
	They still don't print it.
	They still don't print it.
	I mean, I...
	Let's take one more short break and then we'll tie everything together.
	For our friends who are enjoying Memorial Day.
	And I hope you're spending a little time with us.
	Because I want to take advantage of a day like today to get us all together.
	Because, you know, we've got to teach people.
	We've got to teach them to read.
	We've got to teach them to think.
	We've got to teach them to do their own research.
	Because they're going to get directly lied to.
	Like they did when that crook president of South Africa showed up.
	And the president presented evidence from the Daily Mail of all the white people they kill.
	And they said, well, they kill a lot more black.
	Well, they sure do, but only 7% of the population is white.
	Do they do more black-on-black killings?
	You're damn right they do.
	And that's a defense?
	The black people who run the country don't care enough about the other black people, do they protect them?
	Well, that's like Chicago, right?
	You got a black mayor and black people getting killed all the time.
	You had two black mayors in a row and black people get slaughtered every weekend.
	I gave a damn.
	I reduced black murder by 80%.
	I saved more black lives than any mayor in history.
	All they do is sacrifice them to their, to their communist Marxist principle or the desire to, That's right, Mayor.
	You've done more for black Americans than Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, all of them combined.
	Yeah, like all of them.
	Charlie Rangel became millionaires while they sold out their people.
	And the media lets them get away with it.
	Meanwhile, you actually put in programs and policies in place that supported the black family, the black community, and really all New Yorkers, but specifically you were looking to help them by helping them find work, find dignity, take them off the streets.
	As you correctly told me, Mayor, It's not a loving thing to do to allow homeless people to stay on the street.
	If you love somebody, you wouldn't let them stay on the street.
	And that's what you did in New York.
	And by the way, hundreds of other mayors, if not thousands, around the country have used your I like your shirt.
	Anytime you talk about the mayor, he's got to change the subject.
	Trump!
	But we'll show off the shirt here.
	Trump.
	Palm Beach.
	It's the second best shirt on the show tonight.
	Well, I don't know.
	It might even be better.
	No, that's right there.
	Yeah, come on.
	I'm a flag.
	There's a flag waving in the wind.
	So shall we take a short break?
	We'll take a short break and we'll be right back with more.
	So get me a little...
	Yeah, yeah,
	yeah Let's just
	show them that one.
	We posted that one.
	Yeah, that's beautiful.
	You know, I used to live, oh, maybe a third of a mile from there with that exact view.
	Can you believe that?
	In the 1970s, when I did the Ford administration, you will not believe that my rent for the apartment was $300 a month.
	Wait, $300 a month?
	Yeah, but this was 1974.
	Then I came back to Washington and I got an apartment in 81 on Capitol Hill for about $800 a month.
	And I was very upset because it was about the same size, but it didn't have a view.
	Same size, no view?
	No view, but $800 instead of $300 or $350.
	I feel like you were always working, Mayor.
	You weren't enjoying any views.
	That's a good view.
	My entire family came to visit me.
	I was like a visiting service.
	Since I had to work really hard as associate deputy attorney general.
	You were number three at Justice.
	No, no.
	This is when I was just a chief of staff to the deputy attorney general.
	Okay.
	And I printed out my own guide so they could take themselves around.
	And you used to have mimeograph machines that used to be blue.
	Yeah.
	And it had like all the places, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, how to get there.
	Right.
	I drew little, you know how I like maps.
	Right.
	I drew little maps for them.
	Right.
	If it was on weekends, I would take them myself.
	So let's really go quick through the news because Rudy spent his time preaching about Memorial Day, which is what I wanted to do.
	I was even willing not to do anything but Memorial Day.
	But let's just catch you up on this stuff.
	So the big bill is now all of the so-ons in the Senate are in the two and a half days that they work.
	Also with about, oh God, if they work eight months at two and a half days, it's a lot.
	I mean, they work less than teachers.
	I mean, that's hard.
	That's tough.
	You've got to be trying.
	You've got to be trying to do that.
	The reason I use the word so long is that's what my boss, the deputy attorney general, used to call the members of Senate who he has to deal with all the time.
	And so on, I think, are the designation for the wise men, the sages of old Persia, I think.
	But, you know, he did it in a way that they were all so self-important.
	And the last thing they are is wise.
	But the big bill is there, and, you know, they're going to try to shoot it down so that we end up with the biggest tax increase in the history of this country because they can't get the reduction they want.
	But really, what they probably want is something some lobbyist wants them to do that's going to get them a big contribution.
	They can't give me that crap.
	There are a few of them that are legitimate.
	Notice I said a few.
	I really like the fact that my good friend and the great president, Donald J. Trump, looks like he had enough with Putin, where he described him as absolutely crazy.
	He is absolutely crazy, and he's absolutely crazy because everybody's talking about peace, and he's killing people left and right.
	And the president criticized Zelensky as well.
	I am the last person in the world that wants to defend Zelensky.
	I know everything bad about Zelensky.
	I know things about Zelensky that you're not even going to believe.
	And he knows it, too.
	So I do have to say that.
	But right now, Zelensky is not creating any of this problem.
	We can go back historically and say he created some of this problem.
	Not the invasion, but he created some of the problem in getting a piece.
	But right now, there's only one immovable force.
	It seems to me.
	Now, I could be missing something here.
	There may be some things where Zelensky is still holding out and being difficult.
	I don't know.
	Because there is a heck of a motive for Zelensky to want this war to continue.
	I mean, there was an excellent article today.
	I don't remember exactly where, but how Europe is not really helping with this peace at all.
	And the reason is they like all the spending that's going on, which is what I always suspected with Zelensky.
	When he said there's going to be a long war, this war is going to continue.
	But he snapped.
	And right now, I can't find anything that he can do except find it.
	And right now it is definitely Putin who is a massive obstacle.
	And not only that, but he's showing that the man has no soul.
	And he's not a decent human being at all.
	The guy is a homicidal maniac.
	You got people that want to talk about peace.
	And you're still slaughtering civilians.
	And remember, they talk about the Israelis killing civilians.
	The Israelis kill civilians, believe me, by accident.
	The last thing in the world they want to do is kill civilians.
	They're not dumb.
	He kills civilians all the time.
	What do you think happens in Kiev when he blows up a building?
	He kills soldiers?
	What do you think he's done to my city, Kharkiv?
	Where I love those people.
	He didn't kill soldiers in Kharkov.
	I didn't probably kill the...
	They're all women and children.
	But there is a very big body of opinion that Europe, and by Europe, I mean England, France, and Germany.
	They're the three scoundrels.
	They are an obstacle.
	They certainly aren't helping.
	And I think the president has pretty much let them know he's at the end of his rope.
	And I think that should be followed.
	I think that should be followed by sanctions.
	Now, there was another analysis that said that you can't sanction Russia much more.
	That isn't true.
	That is not true.
	Whoever wrote that, I don't want to get into an argument with somebody.
	Whoever wrote that doesn't understand sanctions.
	We have no secondary sanctions on Russia to speak of.
	If we put secondary sanctions on Russia, we crush them.
	Now, the guy who said that said, and this is smart, I agree with this, but I don't agree that we sanction Russia to the extent that we can, that we should sanction China.
	Because of their support for Russia.
	Now, that's brilliant.
	That's a very, very good idea.
	We should sanction China just to sanction China.
	How about for all the people they killed here?
	COVID.
	Fentanyl.
	How about requiring them to give us back Bagram Air Base?
	Get the hell out of Bagram and give it back to us.
	Biden gave it away to you.
	You know, so you leased it for four years.
	That's what you get for your $21 million.
	That's it.
	Time's up.
	Rent is over.
	But in any event, hitting China with sanctions would get Putin to the bargaining table quickly because the Chinese economy is on the...
	Goodbye, Xi.
	There are plenty of people who want to take you out, pal.
	Although, man, how many people did you screw?
	You didn't kill them all, either.
	You put some of them here.
	Man, do they want to come back and get you?
	I can't even count them.
	Man, they want you bad, you murdering bastard.
	China is even more inscrutable, but you can be sure that things are really, really tough.
	In China.
	Now, it is, you know, Biden made us a communist country by every definition possible other than when you live with a dishonest press.
	He certainly introduced a socialist economy for us.
	Look, our budget went up over 50%.
	The government took over everything.
	People can make more money by not working than working.
	It could be we're close to more people not paying taxes and paying taxes.
	We've become a country with the greatest dependency ever.
	A country where most people, or many people, or a majority of people are living off the government as a socialist country.
	And where the government has become the big kahuna.
	They're going to tell you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, where to do it.
	And how about taking over your children?
	They're taking your children away from you.
	The schools have.
	People like Tampon Tim will let your kid go there, get mutilated, and you have other say about it.
	Parents can't even object.
	That makes the kid a property of the state.
	So now this book, which comes out tomorrow, I didn't know it came out tomorrow.
	I thought it would, I think they've probably revealed everything in it.
	That's Original Sin.
	The one with Jake Tapper and the guy that nobody knew until now.
	The book apparently, which they've leaked out beautifully in terms of trying to sell it, the book likens the group running our country for the last four years before Trump as like the Politburo.
	Now, I think you probably all know what the Politburo is, but it used to be used more when the Soviet Union was around.
	But they have a Politburo in Cuba.
	They have a Politburo in Venezuela.
	They have a Politburo, the most famous of which is in China.
	And it's a group of people that are vaguely known.
	You never know exactly how much power they have.
	Usually you know the top one, and he will pretend that he's all-powerful.
	Now, like Xi Jinping does, or like in the old days, Khrushchev did.
	Now, he may or may not be at any given time.
	You never know.
	We just watched 13 Days, which is the movie about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
	And during that, the Kennedys weren't sure if Khrushchev had been deposed, which will give you an idea of how inscrutable the And we don't know if Khrushchev is in charge or not.
	Well, right now there is tremendous speculation that there's a big effort to depose Xi Jinping.
	And when they look at the people in the army structure that have been taken out, his allies, Either he took them out, which he does all the time.
	He turns on his allies all the time.
	Or they took them out so he doesn't have the kind of control over the army that he used to have.
	They meaning the rest of the Politburo.
	Those are the things you don't know.
	Well, our country was being run that way because Biden didn't know what the hell was happening.
	So if you want to give me my book, I can read it again.
	I noticed a great analysis of this by Ryan King in the Post.
	But Ryan King does not point out.
	And I'm surprised.
	And we know Ryan King.
	He's talked to both of us.
	Yeah, I'm surprised he doesn't because it's his paper.
	And and and maybe he should have talked to Miranda Devine on this article.
	And Miranda has done a great article on on.
	But these people knew that Biden was demented as of at least 2019 because we have in the hard drive that the FBI had a year before I got it.
	We have a conversation between Hunter Biden and his psychiatrist, the disreputable Keith Ablo, that his father was demented.
	Now, nobody told you it was in the hard drive.
	I put it in my book.
	If you want an honest book, here's an honest book.
	Now, I'm not saying their book isn't honest, but it's written by at least one dishonest person.
	I mean, this is like one of the co-conspirators to a RICO enterprise writing a book about how terrible the RICO enterprise was.
	And all he did all the time was work with it and cover it up.
	I mean, Jake Tappert played a material role in the cover-up that he's now writing about in condemning.
	He was one of probably the most enthusiastic liars and cover-up artists because he's not stupid.
	And to think that Biden wasn't demented, whether you had the inside information from the hard drive or not, you'd have to be a complete fool.
	So here at page 143, if you just...
	I'm just going to give you the little summary.
	Ablo says, does he recall details, though, with the dementia and all, to which not much these days says his loyal son, Hunter?
	But since it's all fake news anyway, I don't see the problem.
	Now, that was January of 2019.
	The action wasn't until a year, almost two years after that.
	When they set up, this Politburo was more than two years after that.
	So they knew going in that they were going to have to set up a group of people that would act for him, and they would make his decisions.
	So who are they?
	Well, first of all, we can never let off the hook.
	I think the principal co-conspirator here, who clearly should be prosecuted, is the first stepmother.
	She was hiding and lying, and so was Hunter Biden.
	And they were both part of...
	The book points out that he was a key force in trying...
	Pardon me?
	I'm just letting folks know when you say the first stepmother for maybe some of our newer viewers, our long-time listeners know, but some of our newer viewers, the first stepmother is Dr. Jill Biden.
	Well, that's because of her loving treatment of Navy.
	I mean, she's right out of one of those horrible fairy tales.
	I don't know why they would call it a fairy tale, because they have Cinderella with the terrible stepmother.
	So we have people like Mike Donilon.
	He's one of the, a former pollster, a media consultant.
	Made millions.
	Made millions.
	They all made millions.
	Well, yeah, that's what it is.
	Steve Verschetti, who also made millions.
	He was trained by the slimiest guy of all, Bill Clinton.
	He, at various times, personally went on the offensive about how smart and bright Joe was.
	He was furious at Clooney when Clooney ultimately said the obvious after he lied.
	Clooney all of a sudden decided that the guy was blah blah blah when his kid Hunter knew in 2019.
	When in 2019 and 2020, he thought he saw Roosevelt on television, and Roosevelt was dead before there was television, or he liked little girls touching the hair on his leg.
	Maybe they liked that.
	I don't know.
	I think he got a message from Obama.
	Another one was Steve Reschetti, Mike Donilon, Bruce Reed, who was the deputy chief of policy, Ron Klain, who I think you all know, his first chief of staff, but he kept involved.
	I wonder how much classified material was shared with him that's illegal.
	Or with the first stepmother who doesn't have security clearance, nor should she get it, given who she is and how unreliable she is.
	Or Hunter Biden?
	Hunter Biden was part of making government decisions?
	The guy is a massive criminal and a completely unreliable degenerate drug addict.
	Now, somebody said to me, Of course this can be prosecuted.
	And it should be prosecuted.
	The only point that Miranda Devine makes in her column, isn't it more important to prosecute the cover-up of the massive crimes committed by the Bidens?
	Of the 30 million they took from China and sold out our country?
	Or the who knows how many millions from Ukraine?
	Which made every decision that he made about Ukraine completely conflicted, and Zelensky had them on the shorthairs.
	Or the money they got from Russia, which we only know a little bit of, $3.5 million.
	Nobody's investigating that.
	And Miranda, who was the one who had the guts to originally publish the hard drive when I gave it to her, points out that the FBI going.
	who was a major FBI cover-up guy for Biden.
	Actually, what kind of case is the laptop thing?
	He asked Peter Courtney at 5.28 p.m. on October 14, 2020.
	This is the day that the New York Post broke the story, which is five days after I gave it to them.
	And here's what Courtney says.
	Corruption, campaign financing.
	Courtney replies.
	Close hold.
	It's a money laundering case on Hunter Biden.
	Oh, crap, says Chan.
	Okay.
	Let's end it here.
	And then they put out the story and support the story that the alleged hard drive is Russian disinformation, when they've had it for almost a year, have completely verified it, know it's completely true.
	And one of the agents subscribes to the other that it lays out a corruption case.
	And then Twitter employees were strong-armed not to do anything with it, as were all of the other social media crooks like Zuckerberg.
	again.
	Well, Facebook described it as hacked materials, which the FBI actually had in its possession since December 2019.
	And knew everything about it.
	And let them lie.
	and let Biden lie on national television and his debate with And what they did, it gave Facebook and all these outlets the cover they needed to censor it, right?
	Well, look, the authorities are saying this is hacked material.
	We can't cover it.
	So my friend Miranda says I'm Despite the fact that Donald Trump is back in the White House and his ally Cash Patel is FBI director, there's been little progress on unraveling one of the most egregious abusers of FBI power, coercing social media companies to censor the post and cover up evidence of Biden's corruption before the 2020 election.
	It's the cover-up no one is talking about, drowned out by supposedly tell-all books, about Joe Biden's cognitive decline.
	How convenient for bad actors that we dwell on the lies told about Biden's mental and physical health while ignoring the institutional corruption of Joe Biden and his cohorts.
	But Senator Grassley isn't letting go.
	He intends to keep investigating this.
	Now, there's a difference, though.
	There's a difference here.
	And then she writes, the FBI clearly had not anticipated that repair shop owner John Paul McIsaac would retain a copy of Hunter Biden's laptop and then provide a copy to Donald Trump's lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who gave it to the Post.
	That's me.
	Agent Shan is just one Biden-era official who defied subpoenas issued by the Republican-led House Judiciary Committee to testify in 23 and 24. Members of Biden's White House Politburo, who covered up his cognitive decline, also defied subpoenas.
	They all got away with stubbing their noses of Congress, unlike Trump advisors, Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro, who were put in prison.
	She writes, as a final statement, it's time Republicans got equally tough.
	Yeah, and they'd be doing it to vindicate the truth.
	Rather than what the Democrats were doing, which was to frame an innocent person.
	Personally, Miranda, I agree with you.
	That's the more important one.
	The government corruption, the bribes, that's the more important one to do.
	But they're both important.
	They're both extremely important.
	The cover-up of his physical condition, his mental condition, his inability to know what is going on is also very important.
	You can't have a president functioning like that.
	It's all part of the whole thing.
	I mean, these people are...
	There couldn't have been anything like this ever in the White House.
	I mean, I know American history well enough, even though I don't know the personal lives of all of the presidents.
	First of all, he has to have taken the most amount of money because there wasn't that much money around in the past.
	Remember, it was $2,500 that brought Spiro Agnew down.
	$2,500.
	There also should be an investigation of Zuckerberg and his involvement in this, as well as what has now come out, which is a very, very disturbing report that made it new that Instagram was involved almost in an organized method of steering underage users to groomers.
	We're trying to get them away from their parents to use them for human trafficking.
	Nearly two million accounts operated by minors had been recommended to groomers.
	Two million!
	And according to the testimony, Zuckerberg did nothing about it.
	He can get away with everything now because he supports Trump?
	Or does he?
	I don't know if he does.
	How about the 400 million in illegal campaign contributions and the Zuckerboxes?
	You know, these people need to be prosecuted, not as vindication, for justice and deterrence.
	But we forgot about those two main purposes of the criminal law.
	Also, I don't know if this is frightening or not, but you should know.
	That a recent poll back in my old city of New York has AOC defeating Chuck Schumer.
	Let's see how much.
	54-33.
	including by 11 points among Jewish voters.
	Murray Litwack, a co-founder of Jewish Voting Action Network, says there's a massive wake-up call for Schumer.
	He's not only bleeding support in the Democrat Party overall, but also in the Jewish community.
	Well, of course, the guy's a traitor to his own people.
	And she's leading him among Jews.
	AOC is leading Schumer among Jews.
	45-33.
	No wonder he does everything to suck the backside of the squad.
	And no matter what anti-Semitic thing or whatever, he goes and hides somewhere in Biden's basement.
	Well, tomorrow we'll be back again, and we'll see what's going on with the big bad bill, the big wonderful bill.
	We'll also see if there's any progress made with Ukraine and Iran.
	Iran is very, very hard to read.
	The president keeps saying things are going well.
	Everything we hear is that Iran will not allow any limitation on their ability to at least keep some uranium and uranium enrichment.
	I don't see how things are going well if they're not.
	Nor do I think that they're going well if we reach any kind of paper agreement with Iran.
	We can't trust it.
	We have to take out their nuclear facilities either with their cooperating and just standing aside when we bomb the hell out of them and then inspect them forever, or we just bomb the hell out of them.
	I don't know what we're waiting for.
	The world needs that.
	I think it would immediately.
	Now, the president's attitude change may very well change that.
	And words are important, but actions are more important.
	And we don't want to see a nuclear war, and we don't want to see a war.
	So maybe you accomplish a lot of things if you take out the Ayatollah and his And his nuclear facilities.
	And you solve that problem.
	And you've shown them this is what can happen to you.
	You know, during the missile crisis, we did a couple of experimental explosions of atomic weapons to show Khrushchev.
	Khrushchev had to look at that and think, gee, that could be put on my bald head.
	I can say that, see?
	Well.
	We're going to end with really the most important musical song about America, and that's our national anthem.
	And we'll play that as we sign off.
	First, we'll say on Memorial Day that our prayers should extend and it should always be included for all the souls who died to fight to keep America free.
	It's a shame that you have to fight for freedom.
	But you do.
	There are a lot of things that are a shame.
	There are a lot of things that are difficult in life.
	And it will always be that way.
	But the sign of an effective, decent human being is standing up to evil.
	And the nations that become slave nations are the ones that can't do that.
	And we've never been that, and we're never going to be that.
	And, um...
	It's a shame to say this, but the whole world is counting on us.
	No one else can stop China than us.
	We have some very, very strong helpers, allies, and they want our guidance and assistance.
	And I'm not talking about England, France, and Germany until they get rid of their corrupt, useless leaders.
	I'm talking about a lot of countries.
	If I mention one, I have to mention all of them.
	But we've got some very, very strong allies.
	And the president, I think, has organized this very, very well so that the inevitable no longer seems like the inevitable, that China is going to take over the world by mid-century.
	But there's a lot of work to be done, particularly in the area of technology.
	Where they've stolen everything from us.
	And they continue to.
	They infiltrate it at a level that we can't even comprehend during the four years that Biden invited them all in.
	I mean, the Chinese got in easier than anybody else.
	There's a reason for that.
	And it's also because we don't accept the corruption of the Biden administration and the Politburo.
	So, if we don't accept the corruption, it's hard to envision the length and breadth of the jeopardy it's put us in.
	So, we've got to be prepared, like our predecessors, to die for freedom, if that's necessary.
	And we need to present to the Chinese and the Russians a country that is much more brave than theirs.
	A lot of people write and say that the Chinese population does not want to risk war over Taiwan.
	Well, that's good, because we don't want to risk war either.
	But we will if you try to take our freedom away.
	And you won't get to do it.
	Because there are enough of us that will fight you, and you're going to have to do something that's impossible, and that's conquer this place.
	Which you're not going to be able to do.
	And we've got to present that to them, and they have to believe that.
	And the more we present that to them, and the more they believe that, the more lives we save.
	And the more we appease, the more lives we've lost.
	Now, if we haven't learned that over the last 150 years, then we're too dumb to deserve what we have.
	And we're not.
	So, this Memorial Day, thank you.
	To the people who gave up their lives, thank you to just as a symbol to all those young men mostly, but some women, but mostly young men at that point that are lying in Normandy and never came back, right?
	Every time I've been there, which is like three or four times, I just keep thinking of these were all people that could have had children and grandchildren and never got to live beyond 19 or 20 or 21 and left.
	Their bodies there on the beach, buried in that cemetery.
	And what do they do it for?
	They did it to save our country, because ultimately there was the realization if they took Europe, they'd come and take us.
	But we did it, really, the immediate thing was to save them.
	And that's why the president is right to remind people that we won both wars.
	And the people who did it for us deserve to be remembered eternally, like the people in the Battle of Agincourt that Shakespeare immortalized.
	These are our best people, our greatest people, our best families, not our billionaires or millionaires or illegal aliens, and the people who want to bring them in.
	So let's pray for all of them.
	Let's pray to God that he's helping us develop people like that now.
	When we needed it, you know, on 9-11, we had them.
	I am a little worried, but I still believe we have them and enough of them.
	When you look at how enlistments went up to record levels as soon as Trump took over and Pete Hanks said, that's very encouraging.
	So on this Memorial Day, let's thank God for having given us people who sacrificed the last full measure of their devotion for this country that we have.
	Please ask God to continue to give us people like that and give us the courage to do that if we have to.
	You never know, right?
	Just pray to God that you have that courage.
	And pray for the people of Ukraine.
	People of Israel who are at war and the people of Iran who continue to be subjected to the reign of terror and want to be rid of it if we'd only get about the business of destroying their nuclear capacity and not rely on paper.
	Not worth it with them.
	Just be making the same mistake the third or fourth time.
	We'll be back tomorrow.
	We'll be back at 7 on Wendell TV.
	And tonight on Wendell TV, we had an older show that was repeated like a podcast because Mike was very, very generous to give everyone a Memorial Day off.
	But this show is independent.
	And it's been on every Memorial Day.
	It's been on every Christmas.
	I love to be with you.
	And for me, it wouldn't be right not to have a chance to do the best I can to help my country so that my people that I love, the American people, hear the other side of it because it breaks my heart that we have so much censorship.
	We love you.
	We thank you very much for supporting our show.
	We had some really very big audiences last week.
	And we need you to keep going.
	We need you to watch.
	We need you to follow up.
	We need you to tell other people.
	And we need that so we can keep the American people informed.
	So now we're going to say, as we always say when we conclude, but very specially and very deeply, as a statement of prayer and thanksgiving, then we'll play the most beautiful anthem in the world.
	God bless America!
	And now to honor America, especially the brave men and women serving our nation in the Persian Gulf and throughout the world, please join in the singing of our national anthem.

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