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May 30, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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America’s Mayor Live (680): Remembering My Friend & America's Cop, Bernard B. Kerik
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Good evening.
This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor live on a, again, still a sad night for me.
This is about 24 hours after I learned of the passing of my best friend, my good friend, my friend for 35 years, and my soulmate, Bernard Carrick.
but We're one day along and we've had time to reflect on his life and have long talks with his family and with Mayor Adams and things are moving well toward a very fine funeral and the kind of commissioner's funeral that he deserves.
A great hero of New York, a great hero of America.
I'll just outline real quickly my friend's career, which astounds even me.
He grew up in very difficult circumstances.
Never let that stop him.
He wrote a great book about it.
And why don't you get a copy of the book out so we can show a picture of it.
And he also wrote some novels that were very good.
So if you want to see how talented this man is.
Well, he began his life in the military.
Became a security, one of the main security people for the royal family of Saudi Arabia after he had served in the Middle East.
Came back, worked in New Jersey, was head of a jail in New Jersey, and then decided that his goal in life, what he always wanted to be, was a New York City police officer.
And I think he was like in his late 20s or early 30s when he decided to make the switch to the PD.
And immediately he was, well, I'm going to tell you in the period of time that he was a police officer and detective working in the, this is when I first actually met him, but didn't get to know him really well.
when he was working in the federal joint terrorism task, uh, Sorry, he worked for the Terrorism Task Force, too, by the way.
As a U.S. attorney, they worked to a large extent with me, as well as with the Special Narcotics Prosecutor.
We would divide up their cases and figure out where they would best be tried.
The reality is, I don't know how to say this, but he was one of the most decorated police officers in the history of New York City.
100 decorations, 40 for valor, one the highest decoration in the department, another involved the saving of his partner's life by putting his life at risk.
When I took him out of the police department to become The number three person at the corrections department.
I was taking away one of our best cops, but I knew his record in New Jersey in corrections, and I had the worst jail in America.
60 Minutes had just done a piece explaining that Rikers Island was the worst jail in America.
I didn't like having the worst anything in America.
I had the worst city in America.
2,000 murders a year in which people in my city were getting slaughtered, particularly black people and the black politicians of the city didn't give a damn.
They didn't do a damn thing about it.
The ones that could, I mean, the ones that represented Harlem, left it that way for years until I came along.
And you can tell all the lies you want.
You can do all the bullshit you want.
I'm the one who turned around Harlem, none of them.
And I didn't pull out millions of dollars doing it.
I got the reward in here for it.
I saved more black lives than any mayor in history.
Bernie Kerrick is one of the reasons for it.
He went into the corrections department and about five years later, he was the commissioner.
Mike Wallace wanted to come back to show how things had improved marginally and what he found out with the revolution had happened.
And you can go get the 60-minute piece if you want.
Bernie Kerik reduced violence in Rikers Island by 90%.
It went from the worst jail in America to the best.
It became the model for some years until the Democrats got control of it again.
You really should look into that.
It really is the reason why our cities deteriorate.
It is really true that Malcolm X is correct.
The worst thing that ever happened to poor black people are liberal Democrats.
And the reality is that that jail went from the worst to the best, like New York City did.
We were the rotting of the Big Apple, 1990, and in 2000, And Bernie was a very big part of that.
He took over for two great police commissioners.
The question was, oh, he was younger, not as experienced.
He would never be able to exceed what Bratton and Howard Safer did.
He didn't exceed it.
He matched it.
Maybe he did.
We can argue about it.
There are some areas in which Bernie brought down crime more.
Some others where it was more difficult for them, but boy, I was extraordinarily lucky.
I had the right police commissioner at the right time in the right place.
The one who was going to reform it, the one who was going to institutionalize it, and the one who was going to make it reach everyone, including the minority communities.
And the cops in the street.
He did that right away, right out of the box.
He went ahead and arrested four people on his way to work.
Did it four more times.
You have any idea what that does for the morale of the police department?
Bernie didn't do it as a grandstand.
Bernie couldn't do anything as a grandstand.
He's a real cop.
He went in and led the arrest like he was the captain in charge.
He probably was one of the most capable of the group with him.
He was a black belt karate guy.
Man, did that take the morale right up to the top.
And then we had September 11. I rushed down to him, got out of my car.
First plane had hit, second hadn't.
Went right below the towers to see Chief Gansey with my police commissioner, with my chief of staff, and Bernie joined my side then, and he never left it.
We made decisions together.
Shut the terrorists out of the city.
We got ready for other attacks.
We went through anthrax.
We went through another plane crash.
And we went through keeping our people alive in the most dangerous rescue mission that ever existed.
We went on Saturday Night Live, as you see right there, to tell people to come back.
Come back.
Time to come back.
I don't know where we were there, but I was sure upset about something.
Looks like Bernie wasn't too happy either.
Oh, I see what you mean.
It could be a funeral.
It could be a memorial service.
Who knows?
There were just so many times like that.
That was a memorial service, of course.
There he is.
Man had balls.
And you could call on him anytime.
And it never wavered.
We were reported as missing and thought by the governor to be dead.
Bernie helped me keep everyone, all 40 or 50 that were with us, calm and able to use their wits so that we could figure our way out of a difficult situation and then figure our way to the top and figure our way to keep the city going.
As we were losing one thing after another, I couldn't have had a better soulmate, and I had two others also.
The police commissioner, Tom Von Essen, and the unfortunately departed, Richie Shearer, and my counsel, Denison Young.
Just Tom and me now.
Well, we went on from there to do a security company.
It was enormously successful.
We worked in Mexico.
We worked in Qatar.
We worked.
We worked in jungle.
And then he went off to Iraq to be the acting minister of security.
And I would call him at night to see how he was.
And I'd call him at night for the joint projects that, And we're getting gunfire in the back.
I say, Bernie, how close is that?
He said, I don't know.
Not close enough to hit me.
You can't believe how brave this guy was.
You just can't.
I'm going to show you a few of my pictures here.
That's me with Governor Pence.
Thank you.
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Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory, not like a factory, it's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep grain, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know.
All Arabica beans.
No robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh my goodness!
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This is what goes into Rudy's coffee.
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U.S. Army Major Scott Smiley paid a high price serving our nation.
Scott was leading his platoon in Iraq when a blast sent shrapnel through his eyes, leaving him blind and temporarily paralyzed.
Scott would become the first blind, active-duty military officer before medically retiring years later.
Thanks to friends like you, the Tunnel to Towers Foundation gave Scott and his family a mortgage-free, specially adapted smart home.
Show your support for America's heroes now.
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218 channels and it's only $69.95 a month.
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That's cheaper than everyone else.
Your favorite sports.
Movies!
Even daytime dramas.
We're talking about ESPN, OAN, Newsmax.
Channels you can't get anymore in certain areas.
Compared to the competition, this is a way better deal.
Endless selection.
Not to mention all the free music channels.
There's over 700 premium and classic movies all ready to go.
Plus, they got catch-up TV that allows you to go back and watch what you've missed or want to watch again.
Cut your cable in half and get twice as much for free.
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After the first year, the subscription then drops to $57.95 monthly, where you change or upgrade anytime.
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Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory, it's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep grain, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because we like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know.
All Arabica beans.
No robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh my goodness!
Look at these!
my goodness They're going to want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's Coffee.
Are you ready for some action?
I'm ready for action.
Get the Elite TV plan only through the portal.
218 channels and it's only $69.95 a month.
Wow.
Including your free portal.
That's cheaper than everyone else.
Your favorite sports.
Movies.
Even daytime dramas.
We're talking about ESPN, OAN, Newsmax, channels you can't get anymore in certain areas.
Compared to the competition, this is a way better deal.
Endless selection.
Not to mention all the free music channels.
There's over 700 premium and classic movies all ready to go.
Plus, they got catch-up TV that allows you to go back and watch what you've missed or want to watch again.
Cut your cable in half and get twice as much for free.
Way more channels for half the cost.
After the first year, the subscription then drops to $57.95 monthly, where you change or upgrade anytime.
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Use promo code RUDY.
Act Fast!
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Here we are pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory.
It's like a hospital.
This is the beginning of the process for roasting.
Deep grain, very good quality.
Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because we like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know.
All Arabica beans.
No robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
Oh my goodness!
Look at these!
My goodness!
Ha ha ha!
You're gonna want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's coffee.
We're back.
Welcome back.
This is Rudy Giuliani with America's Mayor Live.
Live from Palm Beach.
Even though that American City, USA behind us, we have that there since Labor Day.
Because we're celebrating, not Labor Day, Memorial Day!
We're celebrating Memorial Day week in honor of those who died to keep us free.
So let me finish the last thought that I had.
Not the last thought.
There'll be many more.
Bernie's funeral right now, and I think it's pretty well settled with his wife, Howa, and the mayor, Mayor Adams, and very, very kind, I must say.
I have nothing but...
The wonderful statement he made about Bernie, because we know Bernie is a fellow police officer.
So he knows what Bernie's made of.
Well, the funeral will be at St. Patrick's Cathedral.
It's called the name in New York, a commissioner's funeral.
It is a very solemn and beautiful event used for some tremendously great heroes.
Some of our great heroes of September 11 as well.
And the wake will be, I'm not certain yet about that, probably in New Jersey in part for the day or two before, but we'll keep you informed of all of that.
You know, he has a son who's a police officer and a decorated police officer at that, a police officer who also, I believe, in a shooting incident saved the life of his co-worker.
Joseph, his name is.
And two beautiful daughters who are my goddaughters and who are, of course, crushed but have the strength of their dad and how is holding up brilliantly.
And we miss him.
The president had Elon Musk in the White House today.
I thought that was a very nice thing because, look, Elon Musk was scheduled to leave no matter what.
He's a temporary employee.
I think he may be at the actual statutory end of the time he can work for the government.
The man took unbelievable...
People say it's hard to feel sorry for the richest man in the world.
Of course it's not hard to feel sorry for the richest man in the world.
Notice that word, man?
Human?
We all have feelings.
I'm sorry.
And we all are entitled to just treatment.
The richest and the poorest.
Isn't that what we're about and what the commie bastards aren't?
What they did to this man is just a sign of how much Marxism and communism and hatred and insanity in the Democrat Party has infected the press.
And all he tried to do and all he did was try to find out how we can straighten out this completely out-of-control government where we could lose our freedom over our inability to deal with our wealth or lack thereof.
And the things that he pointed out that the president did a very, very good job of explaining today, they weren't even debatable.
The fact that he didn't completely reach goals yet, those are goals for four years.
He got off to a heck of a start and he got us pointed in the right direction.
And as the president said, Doge is now a way of life.
It's like Buddhism.
I don't know if it's like Buddhism, but it's like a way of life.
And this is a guy that's made so many contributions to us.
I mean, his space program is better than Russia, China, maybe even ours.
It had to save ours, didn't it?
So let's take a look.
We have a little bit of the event, don't we, Ted?
We do.
We're waiting now.
Yeah.
Thank you.
How did they already fix the trade, or not fix it, but to cut it in half, that's crazy.
So there wasn't a lot of front-loading of things that they needed before.
Thank you, Elon.
Thank you.
Take care, yourself.
Thank you.
It goes to very special people, and I thought I'd give it to Elon as a presentation from our country.
Thank you.
Thank you, Elon.
Thank you.
Take care, yourself.
Thank you.
You see the lot.
The luck on this is amazing.
Large luck.
Well, let me say perhaps a few words.
This is not the end of Doge, but really the beginning.
My time as a special government employee necessarily had to end.
It was a limited time thing.
It's 134 days, I believe, which ends in a few days.
So that comes with a time limit.
But the Doge team will only grow stronger over time.
The Doge influence will only grow stronger.
I liken it to Buddhism.
It's like a way of life.
So it is permeating throughout the government and I'm confident that over time we'll see a trillion dollars of savings and reduction in a trillion dollars of waste and for reduction The calculations of the dose dose team this far We expect that number will probably go over $200 billion soon.
So I think the Doge team is doing an incredible job.
They're going to continue doing an incredible job, and I'll continue to be visiting here and be a friend and advisor to the president, and I look forward to times being back in this amazing room.
By the way, isn't this incredible?
Like, this incredible – I mean, it's stunning, I think, the way that the Oval Office, how the president has just completely redone the Oval Office.
Well, he's done a great job for his country.
He actually should wear as a badge of credit.
Almost as important as the medal I'm sure the president will give him in due time.
The attacks on him.
Because it only reflects how accurate and how important what he pointed out and brought out was.
And maybe a man that isn't as rich as he is wouldn't have the independence to be able to do that.
Because he took on some of the most powerful structures in this country.
And he will continue to.
And let's just...
He would, in my view, deserve great credit for saving free speech in this country with X, which many of you are watching us on right now.
That's a singular accomplishment that could make a whole life, particularly given the attack on free speech in our country.
So thank you very much, Elon.
Israel is supposedly...
I don't know if that's true or untrue, or that's just a way of creating room for the negotiations.
The negotiations are strange.
The president says they're going well, but then all we hear from Hamas is how they don't agree with whatever proposal we make.
There is a proposal that was made and it cleared the Israeli War Council or whatever they are, the group that Bibi has put together to advise him on the war, and it was sent along to Hamas with the president's approval and Bibi's approval, both on the same page.
Immediately Hamas said it wasn't adequate because It doesn't assure complete exit of Israel, a whole bunch of other things in it.
That would be totally unrealistic, since they haven't in any way demonstrated that they're not going to kill the Jews and Israelis anymore.
Nor have they guaranteed that the government will be in the hands of non-terrorists.
Nor have they forsworn terrorism.
We're still dealing with a terrorist group, which is a little tricky.
I don't know.
I'm not in the middle of it.
I'm not going to criticize it.
The accepted wisdom was never to negotiate with a terrorist group.
There's exceptions to everything.
This president wouldn't be a really good one if he didn't figure out that there are exceptions to everything.
But this may be showing us why you don't.
I mean, they just basically string you along at every minute.
But right now...
And it's their hero Hamas that hasn't.
Now, you know, we've given them any number of warnings that if they don't, all hell's going to break loose.
About time?
Governor DeSantis thinks so.
Governor DeSantis made a talk yesterday in Florida, and I didn't see this.
I hope this is not seen as disloyal.
I hope this is seen as, you know, this is a very, very important issue, and patriots can have somewhat different views on this.
And this patriot, Ron DeSantis, has voiced skepticisms about the ongoing negotiations.
on this theory that you can't trust this regime.
And also we're negotiating with this regime without...
And they've killed a lot of Americans over the course of the Iraq War, before that, hostages.
And every Friday, including, I'm sure, this one, which is, I guess, over for them, huh?
They will pronounce death to Israel, death to America, death to the MEK in Tehran.
Well, that's been going on for a long time.
Yeah, yeah, death to America.
So, reach an agreement with them?
Seems a little unrealistic.
I'm going to show you why in a minute.
The president has said that the only agreement he would agree to is one where they will remove all of their nuclear capacity.
They cannot even have the capacity for the peaceful use of nuclear power.
And he says what he really would prefer, and I've said this any number of times, if it's going to be anything less than a military attack.
It should be a regulated military attack.
Here's what I mean.
And the president has outlined this.
He said that what I'd really want to be secured is that we'd be allowed to go in.
We go to every nuclear facility.
They remove all the people from as far away as they have to so nobody dies.
And then we get rid of the nuclear facility and we assure ourselves that it's gone.
And then we move on to the next one, and the next one, and the next one, and the next one.
We'll do it with Israel, or without Israel, or Israel will do it on its own.
And then at the end, we'll have certainty that they're all gone, and then we'll have an ability under our control to inspect whatever we want.
The president has outlined that, and it seems to me that that's where we are.
Either they say yes to that, Well, we accomplished that, as the president says, the hard way, which, as far as I can tell from every bit of snooping around I do, Israel has been ready for this for a year.
And they had a little practice at it and were quite satisfied that it's going to work.
They haven't failed us so far.
I don't know if this is appropriate, Ted, to take a poll.
I didn't take this poll, but it just happened to have fallen into my hands.
So I think it's worth the American people hearing it, right?
So Rasmussen, a well-established pollster, right?
And this is an issue you generally don't poll on war and peace, right?
57% of the American people favor taking military action and taking the nukes out against Iran's will.
And 77% of Americans believe they want to establish nuclear weapons no matter what they say.
I don't know what the other 20% want.
I mean, they want to hit us with nuclear weapons, I guess.
Maybe they're just the other 20% that don't think and voted for Biden, right?
Now, that 57% is opposed by only 30% of Americans who say that they would oppose a U.S. strike against Iran.
And only 17 strongly oppose it.
That's a very small number.
And 13% aren't sure.
I mean, I guess there are always people that aren't sure of anything.
Some people aren't even sure they're people.
Right?
I mean, the people who walk around take their monkeys or whatever.
Now, you want another thing?
77 Republicans want them to hit.
I wanted to take them out with no bullshit, no agreement, no paper.
Paper is not worth the ink on it.
Of course it's not worth it.
What do we need to get hit in the head?
Like, I know my, I know my good friend, Mark Levin is apoplectic over this, but Mark, This is where he's been leading it.
We'll talk about it after it's over.
These things are coming out.
77 Republicans.
57% of Americans.
Of course, the Democrats.
What do you think the independents are?
And how about 77%?
That's almost 8 out of 10 Americans think they're going to go nuclear.
That all this stuff about the peaceful use of nuclear power is as much a lie as I have been telling you it's a lie for 10 years.
And Biden at all and Obama have been financing it.
And as I told you, Hamas has said no to the deal.
The terror group says, Steve Witkoff reports, that it doesn't meet their demands.
Since when did the terror groups have demands?
They shouldn't exist.
We shouldn't have to listen to their demands.
They want to kill us.
They do kill us.
How about the two kids that got killed?
The other day, how about the embassy they were going to bomb?
The longer this goes on, the more that's going to happen.
And I guarantee you with this, please take my word for it.
I'm good at this.
Not everything, but I'm good at this.
I'm telling you this weekend, if we took out a rant, Putin would be hiding in his bathroom, under the sink, under the toilet.
Wherever the hell he went during COVID when he was peeing in his pants.
Yeah, yeah, he may have been a COVID killer, but that doesn't mean he ever fought anybody one-on-one.
My father used to say about the mafia, they're all cowards because they got to fight in groups and they got to carry guns.
No, I don't know.
Putin, tough guy.
Any guy that pretends to be as tough as he is, Bernie never pretended to be tough.
Bernie could kill you in about two seconds.
Bernie never pretended to be tough.
He just was.
So, I hope we see action on Iran and we see action fast.
This is a lot of Americans.
Americans don't like war.
Americans don't like military action.
You've got 57% of them.
You've got 77% of our people that want this country hit.
They've been going through this now, what, for four or five decades?
We've been getting killed by these people?
It's time to end the reign of terror.
The only thing worse, In this world are the Red Chinese.
Take them out.
Mr. President, you real quickly reestablish the Ronald Reagan factor.
You need that working for you with Putin.
Well, who the heck knows what's going on with the With the Supreme Court, right?
I mean, the judges, all these district judges who are appointed for a specific geographic district now think they run the United States.
And it seems like United States district judges never took a course in constitutional law.
They never learned about, like, there are three branches of government.
And the legislature passes the laws.
The executive enforces the laws.
The judiciary interprets them.
But that's it.
The duties are carried out by the executive and the congressional branch.
So we have this case.
Involving a number of the immigrants who were thrown out under the authority of the old law of 1798.
And the question is, Does the president have emergency authority to remove these people and to remove them as expeditiously and as fast and as easily as he can?
And the court originally took the view that he didn't.
Now, The Supreme Court has held that up.
And the question, you know, ultimately, some places will be one way and other places will be someplace else.
And this is going to change a bit over time.
Some districts will allow it, some won't.
But there are two big questions that overlay this, right?
One big question is, can a singular district judge issue an injunction against the whole country?
So he has a group of people, let's say from Boston, right?
Who iced throughout.
Now that was a particularly, I think they may have selected this group to make this judge look like some kind of criminal.
Because this group was some of the worst criminals I've ever seen.
I mean, most of them were perverts.
And preyed on women and children.
I mean, raped them, killed them.
And the ones that didn't do women and children, a couple did little boys.
And the judge, Murphy, was it the judge's name?
Murphy wants to bring him back.
So they were going to send him all the way to South Sudan, and they got him about halfway there to an American base.
And that's where they're sitting, and it's a ping pong ball now.
The judge says you didn't have the authority to throw him out under that act.
the president and the administration's and first injunction, then it went up on appeal.
The court is now But the question ultimately is, when that law says that the president can take extraordinary action to protect the United States when we are incurring an invasion and have a national emergency,
is he correct when he says that fentanyl was an invasion of this country?
And therefore, that applies to the tariffs that have been placed on Mexico, Canada, and China.
And then anyone else we can prove or...
And you don't have to prove it.
I mean, the question is, do you...
Or is this a sign to the good judgment of the President of the United States?
And I would say that many constitutional scholars would say, The court doesn't have available to it the ongoing day-by-day intelligence upon which to make that decision in the best interest of the country.
The court is not an enforcer of laws.
It's an interpreter of laws.
The court is not a military authority.
The president is the commander-in-chief.
All the court gets to say is, did Congress authorize you to do this or not?
And there's no question Congress authorized him to do it.
If not him, who else?
So the scope of the Supreme Court review should be rather narrow.
But these judges, these right, left-wing crazy judges, Think that they can just, they can play president.
They can review everything he decided and pick it apart.
No, it wasn't serious enough.
No, there weren't enough cases.
No, there weren't.
If you understand me correctly, the scope of the review by the court is, does the president have the authority?
Did Congress give it to him?
Answer, yes.
Case over.
Now, if the president made that absolutely insane decision, suppose he said nothing can come in here from England because drugs are coming in from England.
And suppose no drugs were coming in from England.
Would you be able to have that reversed on the grounds that there's a theory there called it's unconstitutional as applied.
Now, if he takes action that he doesn't have authority to take, it's unconstitutional per se.
If he does take action, but he does it in a way in which He defies all rationality that theoretically could be unconstitutional, but we're not there.
There is certainly enough evidence that Mexico does allow and has over the last four years allowed record amounts of fentanyl to come in and killed record amounts of Americans that Canada has and that China has.
And the court is not supposed to be weighing Was the president right and wrong in the way that he judged that?
It's for him to do that.
So I think those cases are going to come out.
I think that's going to come out all right.
Here's the second one.
Can the president do a more general restriction on immigration and, even more importantly, tariff adjustments?
Based on the fact that we've had an invasion of the United States, the likes of which we've never seen.
Now, the liberal judges say, no, we can't do that because Congress didn't say anything about tariffs.
They just said, take action.
And they would have said tariffs if they meant tariffs.
And anyway, you know, we've had illegal immigration forever.
And it's never been seen as an emergency.
Well, that's kind of a very weak argument because we've never had illegal immigration at this level.
Not even anything close.
We've never had legal immigration at this level.
So how is this not an emergency?
Now, I think the government's got to put on the table something that, for some reason, we're shy about, and those are the people we don't see.
So, you got a whiteboard, Ted?
Good old white one.
Any old white one.
One of those little things, you know, that I have.
Or you can give me a bigger one.
I don't care.
All right.
I always have a pen.
See?
I just want to show you this.
I mean, this drives me crazy because they never report this.
And this is very, very critical because it has something to do with the emergency they have.
I may have to interrupt the Supreme Court and walk in with my chart.
So, I want you to watch this.
Since we had the traitor, moron, idiot, and pervert in the White House, Joe Biden, right?
A bare minimum number that we can count.
Eight million.
Okay, see that?
See my eight million there?
Eight.
Can everybody see eight million?
Eight million?
Okay.
These people, we stopped at the border.
He let them all in.
Actually, we really had about 9 million.
He let 70% of them in.
That's the 8 million that got in.
Trump has so far had about 100,000, and he's let like 3% in.
I mean, if the world has changed.
Then we have what are known as gotaways.
We didn't get their names.
We got descriptions.
Or we just got noticed that somebody came in.
So we could write it down.
That's about 2 million.
Okay, so you say we have, and these numbers could be low.
Okay, now, there's a group of people that came in that we never saw.
They came in in those 50, 100, 150-mile stretches between the border points.
The best estimates of those done by Ivy League schools when they used to teach arithmetic is anywhere from 50% to 200% of the people that we see at the border come in without seeing them.
And let me give you another thing that will make it difficult.
The thinking was that the more the numbers are coming in at the border, And sort of crashing the border, the fewer resources we have to stop the ones sneaking in.
And I'll add to that, these numbers and statistics were done before the cartels were major league.
It was when the cartels were back in minor league baseball, minor league organized crime, not mafia level, Columbia cartel level.
Now they may be better than that.
Your high-value people, large numbers, are going to come in without the possibility of not being allowed in the 8 million, right?
Because they all could...
Very few, but some.
The 2 million, well, they didn't know they weren't going to get caught.
So you want to bring in a lot of them the other way.
So it could be 50%, which would make it...
Could be 100%.
And there's one study, I think, from the University of Pennsylvania.
Oh, boy.
They think it could be around 10%.
I mean, they could be about 10 million.
Sorry.
So, that means, bare minimum, we have 12 million people.
Right?
16 million people, or 20 million people, and we don't know who they are.
There we go.
See it?
That's not an emergency?
Now, how do you judge an emergency?
Emergency never happened to you before, just about.
You know how many people came in in all of Ellis Island in 70 years?
12 million.
These people came in in three and a half years.
That's like...
And in 60 years, 12 million people came in, and we knew who all of them were.
So that's not an invasion, an emergency.
This is all we have to have is an emergency so that the law is Now, you've got to be lying if you tell me that's not an emergency.
You've got to be living on some other planet or you have to like the fact that we have lots of murderers here.
What the hell is wrong with you?
And judges, don't you interpret language anymore?
Of course you don't.
You're like the crooked judges in Pennsylvania.
That said that if an inspector is present for an inspection of a ballot, if he's a Republican, even if he doesn't get to see it, even if he doesn't get to see 7 million of them, as long as he's in the room, and the room can be a basketball court, and he can be 200 yards away, but he's present.
The law says you must have an inspector present.
One judge who I think, I don't know what they did to this judge.
We can't find her anymore.
But one judge said, well, present means, with meaning, it doesn't mean you're a potted plant.
It means you get to look at the ballot.
The other judges, all the Democrat hack judges from probably one of the most crooked places in America, Pennsylvania, said, no, no, no.
Just being there is enough.
That proves they're prostitutes.
That is so intellectually dishonest.
Wow!
Sell your soul to the crooked democratic machine of Pennsylvania?
Or in particular, Philadelphia?
Is that what they did in Chicago?
They do do it in New York.
That, I can tell you.
So, I don't know how these cases are going to come out.
It's kind of silly tracking each one of them because they keep going this way and that way and this way and that way.
And there's so much to work on right now that I don't think it's materially holding them up because if this group gets held up, they got another group they can get and then another group and another group and another group.
And they're getting such great cooperation from the sheriffs who really turn out to be honest and decent Americans, not like some of these Democratic judges who I don't know where they found them.
I mean, the guy in Boston who wants the animals back, I don't get it.
Or Senator Van Hooperman, who went down to El Salvador to bring the wife beater and human trafficker back because he didn't hit his wife enough.
I mean, that guy wants to come back so he can complete the damage he did.
What?
Well, I The other battle the administration is, isn't it wonderful how they're taking on everything that has to be done to fix America?
I didn't think it would be done this fast.
And it is very hard to do it all at once.
And you are going to win some and lose some.
These balls all have to be put in the air if we're going to bring our country back to the country that was founded.
By, you know, Madison and Jefferson and Franklin.
Because these are the principles where that separation of powers argument all comes from them.
Well, Harvard is suing because it wants its cake and it wants to eat it too.
It wants to be a communist university serving the People's Republic of China, the Chinese Communist Party.
It wants to have communist spies working there who get arrested and get put in jail, as some of them have.
They want to be able to take anybody they want from a foreign country without giving the government any information about them.
And then they want billions of dollars in government money.
I mean, it doesn't have to stop somewhere.
Like, you don't get the money?
You want to bring the communists in, you don't get the money.
You want to teach them to hate Jews or do nothing when they put Jewish kids in jeopardy?
You don't get the money.
If you want to teach them to hate America, I'm sorry, we're not going to teach you to train people to hate America.
I mean, you haven't been a decent university for years.
You're a joke.
And only stuck-up snot noses go there.
Harvard is an embarrassment to a decent American.
It has been for some time.
They've been taken over by Marxism.
And it's really their lack of education, real education, real understanding of history that allows them to, well, I mean, some of them know it completely and are part of it.
And some of them, some of them, I don't know, they just fool them or whatever.
But I mean, look at the country they're giving us.
On this issue of accountability, I've got just two examples for you that come out of two different states.
One of them is the state of Maryland, which does reflect a lot of the D.C. thinking, right?
So listen to this.
Just listen to this.
A Maryland teen got arrested for breaking into 121 cars.
He was...
He was released within hours.
121 cars!
The next day, four dozen were looted.
And he was proven to be the one who did most of them, if not all of them.
He's 16 years old.
At least three dozen.
The next day, after the 120 the night before.
And the judge let them loose.
Now you figure next time, right?
We can put them in jail.
Send them to a juvenile facility.
They let him out again.
Then then 100 The same thing.
and they execute a search warrant in his house and they find keys from 20 cars credit cards stolen items They let him out again.
Maryland.
They like electing Democrat governors who want to be president.
God forbid.
God forbid.
What a joke.
New York!
Now, New York is the city of the broken windows theory, right?
You gotta pay attention to the little things in order to solve the big things.
Gee, who introduced that?
Me!
Who's the first one to propound it?
Bill Bratton likes to say he is.
Bullshit.
First one to propound it was Professor Wilson from Harvard, when Harvard was a real school.
In 1981, I worked with him on the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime.
That's when I learned it, not from Bill Bratton.
Bill did a great job, but gee, Bill, we got to try the truth sometimes.
So now, apparently we have an enormous number of accidents of different kinds occurring because these delivery bikes...
A tremendous number of accidents.
And they're getting summonses.
And they have to go to court with the summonses.
And we've had people go to the hospital.
We've got people complaining about it.
Last weekend, a three-year-old child was struck by a speeding cyclist.
And seriously injured.
Not the first one, not the last one.
And the City Council of New York wants to do away with the laws.
You shouldn't get arrested if you're speeding on one of these bikes and you even hit somebody.
Because it applies to people of color more.
In other words, they hit people with their bikes more than others do.
I have no idea if that's true.
Now, I want you to just don't have to be a lawyer.
All you have to do is be just an American.
Isn't that racism?
So if I hit the kid with my speeding bike, I go to jail.
But if I'm black and I hit the kid and the kid becomes a paraplegic, I don't go to jail.
Because it might interrupt my making a living.
Now how about you drive the bike safely?
So the police commissioner is refusing, because there happen to be 65,000 of these deliveristas around New York, and many of them are driving like maniacs, and they have to be brought into control, otherwise it's going to get people killed.
But they want the laws changed so that this area of ticketing is done away with.
That is the...
New York City Council that voted several years ago and then weren't even as nuts as this.
People who aren't citizens should be allowed to vote, even though the Constitution of the state of New York has as a requirement for voting being a citizen.
But they don't believe, you see, they don't believe that the Constitution applies.
No one ever told them that believe is about faith.
These are laws.
You don't get to believe in them.
You have to comply with them.
We don't really give a damn if you believe in them.
If you don't believe in them, go live somewhere else.
Get the hell out of here.
The president is trying to get the head of the Fed to reduce the interest rates.
Powell's not going to do it for him.
He'd only do it for Biden.
And the idea that the president shouldn't remove the head of the Fed because it's apolitical is a complete lie.
Last year, all Powell did is suck Trump.
I'm sorry, I can't say that.
Biden's...
The request Trump is making, given the fact that inflation is now leveled off, is not an irrational request.
But, of course, I'm pointing it out, really, just to show you how politicized it is.
And the president's efforts are making a big difference, but they're ongoing.
They are ongoing.
They still...
Well, we've got a real problem.
We've got a real problem in Ukraine and with Russia.
I mean, this is a real problem.
Putin is escalating his efforts.
When there was an interchange last weekend, and the president said that he doesn't understand Putin any longer, here they are talking about a ceasefire.
I guess when he was on the phone with them, they sounded like they'd be reasonable about it, but then they need a little more time.
And then before he even gets off the phone, they go hit four places in, this is last weekend, they go hit four places in Ukraine.
Well, three in Ukraine, one in Russia where there were Ukrainians, And they, altogether, over a two-day period, they have 600 drones and 100 missiles, and they kill a whole bunch of civilians.
Described up to that point as the biggest attack of the war.
Now, you're going toward a ceasefire, and you unleash the biggest attack of the war on civilians.
Then we have a few more talks, and apparently yesterday they unleashed possibly an even bigger attack.
If you take a look at the board, you'll see one of them.
This is in Kharkiv, the city that you know I focus on quite a bit because I helped to develop an emergency management center there, and that's a trolleybus depot.
Where civilians were hurt and possibly killed, I'm not sure.
And then if we go to this, you'll see that this is another, this is a very, very different part of Israel.
This is down by Odessa, which is near Crimea.
This is an area where they're actually, I think, trying to stretch out and take more land than they have.
This is one you may remember several times I've questioned why they didn't take Odessa.
Because it would block Ukraine off from the sea if they could take Odessa.
This happens to be perilously close to Romania.
One of those damn bombs goes over into Romania.
We got a NATO issue.
You know that.
I'm going to show you how reckless this guy's been.
You know I haven't been the most enthusiastic.
About this Ukrainian war.
I see a lot of problems with it.
I see a lot of problems with Zelensky.
I see a lot of problems with the crooked government of Ukraine.
And I see that crooked government maybe even extending this war so they could take money.
But this is unacceptable.
I mean, the one thing you have to realize is that these Ukrainian people are really good people who love Americans or used to love Americans.
And I don't want to see us going to war.
But I do think we have to pay some attention to the fact that if we let Khrushchev just do whatever the hell he wants, we're eventually going to be at war.
The same thing with Xi Jinping.
These people have got to be stopped early and often.
Like Hitler should have been stopped early.
Like Ben Laden should have been stopped early, but Clinton...
And you know the other things he was interested in.
It wasn't protecting us against bin Laden or 9-11 may never have happened.
So that's what we're looking at, right?
So now, let's take a look, as we often do, And what this looks like on the map, because it's pretty simple.
I don't know if it's simple, but I think we can see on the map pretty much what's going on here.
We've got to go down here.
Here we are.
There we are.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Right there.
Okay?
So, their attack yesterday that I showed you pictures of, and I'll show you how far apart they were.
So, one of them was here.
That's Odessa.
You see what I mean by going across?
And this is Odessa over here, actually.
You go across here, right?
You take this, right?
You've cut Ukraine off from the sea.
This is the only...
access to the sea they have.
That's why he probably is now making a move for He hits this country.
They're not NATO.
They're a country he'd like to take, meaning the killer Putin.
And this is Romania.
This is a free country.
This country is part of NATO.
NATO requires that if they're attacked, we go to war for them.
Didn't seem to be too concerned about hitting this.
Doesn't somebody have to put the fear of God in them?
I think it's possible.
So basically in the last couple of days, He's trying to drive them out.
They're hitting there.
Karkov is about right here.
They're hitting here.
They've hit Kiev.
And then they've gone all the way down here into Odessa, right on the border of NATO.
Before this goes any further, somebody's got to punch them in the nose to stop them.
Now, how do you do that?
One, you hit Iran.
Because it shows how tough you are.
And it shows you're not afraid.
And you can do things other people can't.
Number two, you impose crushing, unbelievable, unheard of sanctions on him.
And since you've got almost all of Europe behind you now, that's not going to be impossible.
You just cut off their trading with anybody.
Cut off their trading with China.
Now China may try to evade it.
China might just say it isn't worth it.
We gave you jackasses enough money and you couldn't conquer Ukraine.
And you're making us nervous about whether we can conquer Taiwan.
But maybe China will say, let's live to fight another day.
At least you get a chance to do that.
You just sit there and send Whitcoff back and forth, you know, with another agreement.
And then you do what we are doing, okay?
I'm going to show you another.
I'm going to show you something else that should make you feel a little better.
That there may be some real, real wisdom and strength behind a little of this messing around.
You know what that is, don't you?
You know what that is?
They got a whole bunch of those there.
That's an AF-16.
They started getting them about a year ago.
They didn't know how to fly them.
They've been trained to fly them.
There are a whole bunch of Ukrainians now who know how to fly them.
Chancellor Meyers of Germany announced the other day for the United States, for the United Kingdom, for Germany, and for France.
But they now have permission to take those things as far into Russia as they want.
The Russian MiG is nothing compared to that.
We've got another one coming along that's better than it.
And they have a bunch of ours, and they have a bunch of ours from other countries.
Because some of those other countries are now working on the next stage.
But this one, this one, It's very effective against the Russians.
When they use it inside of the area they can, it's been enormously effective.
They've just been restrained in how far they can go with it.
You change that, and while Putin is delaying, they're doing to the largest and the second largest city in Russia what Russia is doing to the largest and the second largest city in Ukraine.
He can go to war against the whole world?
How does he justify that?
I've been bombing their cities for two, three years, and they bombed my city, I'm going to go to war?
They should have been bombing their cities back from the very beginning, but Biden wouldn't let them.
Maybe they wouldn't have taken all that land in Ukraine.
Maybe the people of Russia would have risen up and said, what the hell are you doing with Putin?
We don't need Ukraine.
You want it because you want to be a czar or something.
Czar Putin.
Jesus, don't you know what happened to czars?
Most famous Russian opera about a czar.
He gets killed at the end.
What happened to the last czar, Ted?
They chopped his head off.
Yeah, and I don't know about you.
It's hard to figure out who your wife is, but they may pick up a bunch of them.
So I don't know.
Vladimir, it may be time you start acting, or at least make believe you're sensible.
We know you're not, but just kind of make believe you're sensible.
It's possible to do that.
Well, we're coming up on the weekend, and we want all of you to have a really good weekend.
And we'll come on if something happens.
I do think, if anything did happen, Don't think it would be at this point.
I don't think there's anything really that can happen over the weekend with Russia.
I think one of the reasons people say, why the two weeks?
I think the two weeks is sensible in the sense that I'm not sure that if we want to do this right, we don't need two weeks.
I don't mean for the military stuff.
I mean for the diplomatics, for the financial.
It's very, very complicated what we want to do now.
You know, we've sanctioned them about as much as you can sanction them directly.
And there are experts who don't really understand the second level of sanctions because they've never been involved in them that say, well, sanctioning won't work.
We've sanctioned them enough and they've gotten around them.
But they don't seem to understand secondary sanctions.
And they're much harder.
Now you're sanctioning the whole world.
You're basically saying that anybody that buys from Russia and tries to resell it, they're going to be sanctioned.
So that's going to cut out all but the countries where they can squeeze their coupons.
And not a lot, by the way.
It might not even be China.
I mean, you've got a 50-50 chance China breaks with them over this.
China's not going to go public with this.
China, for the longest time, has not been happy with this war.
It's not their war.
They don't see what Russia gains by taking Ukraine, by the way, in the kind of wars we have now.
Ukraine was enormously important when you had to march an army through Ukraine, and they could bog you down there.
I mean, so they beat Napoleon that way.
They didn't even beat Hitler that way.
Hitler came around.
They beat him because America invaded Normandy.
And they had to take a million troops out of the Russian front.
That's how they beat him, the big liars.
But it wasn't Ukraine.
He didn't even go into Ukraine.
But that's always been there.
It's always been there.
And psychologically, it gives him a barrier with NATO.
Although he has a NATO border with Finland, and it doesn't seem to matter very much to him.
It hits right next to Romania.
So I think there's a lot of But I'm expecting one day I'm going to get up and we're not going to have a nuclear Iran.
I'm praying for that day.
And I'm praying for my good friends in Iran to become free.
Because I've been for about 12 years promising them I want to go to Iran.
Every time we have our meetings in Paris, we always end by saying, Next year in Tehran, so that there's freedom and liberty there.
I don't think there's anything better than to see people liberated.
So uplifting.
I need some uplift on the day after I lost my best friend.
Well, you pray for Bernie, okay?
He deserves our prayers.
Pray to God that God takes him in his embrace and gives him the reward he deserves.
And that St. Michael the Archangel looks after him.
And pray for him.
All these people who are on the point of a spear, huh?
People of Ukraine, the way they've been badly, so badly used.
People of Russia that he's killing for nothing.
Now for nothing.
People of Iran that live under terrible tyranny and get killed by the Ayatollah.
And somehow we go easy on them.
We have, I mean, Democratic administrations go so far as to give them money.
For some reason, we just delay.
We want an agreement.
We want this.
The guy kills us.
he doesn't look for agreements.
Pray for the people of Israel.
How many years have anti-Semitism gone?
2,000.
I thought it was over.
Let's pray that it is over.
Let's do everything we can to make sure it's over and support this.
Brave president who's trying to do that.
And let's pray for the president.
He needs all the wisdom and all the strength.
We'll see you next weekend.
We'll see you next week at 7 o 'clock on Monday on Wendell TV.
And it's 8 o 'clock on X. And if we come back this weekend, it'll only be because something very important is happening.
Okay?
God bless America.
God bless America.
The sound that saved a wretch like me I once was lost,
but now I'm found Was blind, but now I see.
T'was grace that taught my heart to fear, and grace my fears revealed.
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