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June 20, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
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America’s Mayor Live (695): President Trump to Make Iran Decision "Within Next Two Weeks" (REPLAY)
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Good evening.
This is Rudy Giuliani and this is America's Mayor Live.
And boy, you don't recognize this one, do you?
Because we put this one together at the last minute so we could put this show on.
But we're going to put this show on because it's an important one.
It really is an important one.
We are in the kind of like fairyland city of Dubai.
I say that because Because it looks like a fairyland city.
I think I had to get a ticket to get in here like Disneyland.
It is one gigantic building after another.
The boulevards are bigger than Sunset Boulevard or the freeways in California.
It really is amazing.
How big it is.
No, no, and Dr. Maria is warning me that it was also true yesterday, and it was true yesterday, in Kazakhstan, because that's a new city, and they kind of modeled it on this, I think.
But in any event, it's quite an impressive city.
This is probably the second most moderate country in the Arab world.
The most, or at least as of 10 years ago, when I was more familiar with this working here, was Bahrain and this.
And Bahrain is really not as popular with tourists.
It's more of a business city.
And the other Emirates are all moderate by the standards of Iran or the nutjohn places.
But this is a place where a Westerner will feel extremely, extremely You see women with the hijab and you see women with some of the traditional dress on.
Very few.
You literally see more men in the white robes than you see women dressed in, I guess, the very strict Orthodox Muslim gear.
In al-Mahdi, I remember.
When I worked there, but in Astana, which is the capital of Kazakhstan, you don't see any Orthodox women.
Maybe one every 100.
And it's different than it was 10 years ago.
So it is definitely moving.
This whole thing is moving.
And remarkably, To all of you and to Ted, who's running this show in Detroit or Michigan, I think, I would tell you that there isn't a great deal of tension or concern about the war.
Do you know I'm about 100 miles from the Straits of Hormuz?
So if you look on a map, the Straits of Hormuz Right on the other side is Iran.
And we're not too far from two nuclear facilities.
Also about that amount of distance.
I don't know.
If I were living here, I'd be nervous.
I'd detect nothing.
Nothing.
Not that I've gone around asking like Ted would.
Ted would be walking around with a microphone asking people, are you nervous?
He'd probably create a whole big stir here.
Right, Ted?
I mean, if you were here, you'd be saying, do you realize you're only 50 miles or whatever?
It's 200 miles in the Straits of Hormuz.
that Iran is believed to be ready to block it completely with warships.
And by the way, there are two nuclear facilities right on the Right nearby, you could almost throw rocks at them.
Oh my gosh, we didn't know anything about that.
we're getting very nervous now but this place looks like Everybody seems to be happy.
They're walking around.
We went to dinner tonight, and you're looking at it.
Yeah, I took some great pictures.
Is that my picture of everything you've got there, or is that somebody else?
Ted, you put up a picture there of the tower.
Is that mine, or is it somebody, just some second-rate photographer?
He's not able to answer me, so I can't tell.
Yes, sorry.
That's your picture, Mayor.
Come on.
Yeah, I did it.
You're not an amateur photographer.
You're semi-professional at the very least.
I took that from a boat.
They arranged a little boat trip for me, and I took that from the boat.
They've got an enormously interesting architecture here.
If you like architecture and you like buildings, and when I was an amateur photographer, my specialty were buildings.
I love architecture.
It's really challenging and beautiful.
It's not like crazy, stupid modern architecture.
It's very modern, although occasionally you'll see a beautiful...
It's very modern, yet it has evocations of Greco-Roman style.
And you would never think it was 20 years old.
You'd think it was 100 years old.
But that's neither here nor there.
What's really important is whether they know it or not.
About 120 miles away is a place that at some point, if this thing goes on, there's no doubt the Iranians will block it.
Because the Strait of Hormuz, something like 30, used to be almost more than 50% of the oil that we use in this world goes through it.
It's probably down to about 30 now.
But so much of it goes through there that it has an impact on the price of oil.
So where are we right now?
I mean, as I can analyze it and sort of interpret it for you if I can, and that is that the president has for some reason picked a time period of two weeks.
He says within two weeks he's going to make a decision on whether he is going to join the Israelis in the aerial attack on Iran.
He didn't say it specifically, but I do think what it means is that he's going to bomb the facility at Fordo, which is not able to be penetrated by the weapons that Israel has.
And as far as I can tell, it can only be penetrated by the, let's call it, super bunker buster bombs that we have that almost go double the distance down into the earth that the others do.
And in the case of Fordow, they're necessary because Fordow was built to withstand the Bunker Buster bombs that existed at the time.
And then we came up with this one, which is also, I think, double the weight.
It's 4,400 pounds.
Now, I want you to think about this, visualize this in your head.
It's 4,400 pounds and it's 19 inch weight.
You could almost get your hand around it.
But it's 4,400 pounds.
Can you imagine when it hits the ground from thousands of feet in the air, having gained all that weight, you know, every, every, A rock would probably kill you if it hits you coming down that far.
And by the time it hits the ground, its kinetic force, which is what you would describe it as, is enough to produce the effects of what would feel like an earthquake in a very, very big surrounding area.
This is before the explosive goes off.
The explosives are then timed based on the operator and when they want the explosions to start below the Earth so that it has a reverberating effect and opens up a cascading group of holes in the Earth, which then, when it reaches the uranium that's being enriched, will put it into who knows.
4,000, 5,000 degree Fahrenheit fires, probably more than that.
September 11 was 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit, maybe more, and it melted steel.
This would be quite a bit more than that.
There are some dangers from it.
It seems almost silly to say something like that.
And of course, there are dangers.
It will create Since the area is mostly desert and picked for that reason, I doubt that's going to cause any casualties.
If there are headquarters or anything in there, the way the...
They're all going to die, obviously.
And then exactly what happens above the ground and whether there's any fallout is going to depend somewhat on the explosion that takes place between the bomb itself and the fusion material that's in there.
Will it take out the entire facility?
I don't think they're counting on it doing that, which is why this will be maybe a series of bombs that are dropped two or three or four in order to take it out.
Now, let's listen to Carolyn Levitt because she laid out the two-week issue.
With what has been described by one reporter quite, I think, intelligently, as four magic words that are contained in it.
So if we could play that, I think that would be really interesting.
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amongst all of you, the ongoing situation in Iran.
I know there has been a lot of speculation amongst all of you in the media regarding the president's decision-making and whether or not the United States will be directly involved.
In light of that news, I have a message directly from the president, and I quote, based on the fact that there's a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks.
That's it.
So?
He is, as we know, not satisfied that they've reached an agreement that makes any sense right now, as we speak.
For that reason, he is saying, That he may have to resort to taking military action.
He is giving them two weeks to come to a resolution that has a reasonably good chance of working, and he's defined one absolutely necessary part of that, and that Iran be free.
Of any form of nuclear material.
He is not going to accept the excuse that they need the ability to enrich uranium at an even very small degree because they want the so-called peaceful use of nuclear weapons.
He wants them to completely give up nuclear material.
Let us satisfy ourselves that they've done it, either by destroying it themselves, which we can observe, or letting us destroy it, and then being open to a very, very intensive inspection by us, and not by the IAEA, which has had grave difficulty in getting them to cooperate.
They just put out a report saying they were turned down, material was burned.
On their enhancement is 10 years old, which means their enhancement has to be far, far, far beyond that.
I do not believe they ever discovered the enormous number of facilities in the Sundan Desert in which there are any number of very, very active and very effective facilities and a number of them.
To extend significantly the length of their delivery systems.
So they're working on two things at once.
They're working on getting uranium at weapons grade in terms of enrichment.
Everyone agrees that it is at a minimum right now of 60%.
There is no nation in the world that enriches uranium to 60% for the peaceful use.
That's in the single-digit percentages.
So the percentage belies the explanation that they're not doing this for the purpose of developing a nuclear weapon.
They would not spend a huge amount of money and effort and risk the human life because they keep getting their nuclear scientists killed if they were doing this just for the peaceful use.
Second, they already have a nuclear reactor.
Which is the one that's pretty close to us, by the way.
And they don't use it very much.
And they have a second one that they don't use at all.
So they seem to have no present need for even any more than 1% of nuclear power.
Yet they want to develop vast nuclear power with an enrichment capability that is not at all necessary, except if you have an atomic weapon.
And finally, they keep threatening to enrich it even more.
The debate is how long would it take them to go from that 60 to the enrichment level that would be able to be used for a bomb.
And there are estimates that will take you anywhere from two to three weeks to four to five months.
We're divided on it.
We have opinions as to both.
We also have a rather, I think, credible opinion that they're lying, that none of these numbers can be taken truthfully.
They don't tell the truth about a damn thing, so why would they be telling the truth about this?
And we know that they don't want the peaceful use of electricity or they have more They don't need it for that purpose.
And we know they need it because they believe Israel has nuclear weapons.
They know Saudi Arabia doesn't.
So it'll put them on a par with Israel and put them ahead of Saudi Arabia.
So why we fight, like Tulsi Gabbard and the other people fight over, whether it's nuclear grade or not, The whole reason why they're at 60% is to be as close to nuclear grade as they can without tripping over the limits that have been put on them.
So that disclosure, as well as the discovery by the MEK and Mossad of a significant number of facilities that were not known about in the desert, the Semdon Desert.
I think it's Semdon Desert.
Of one, two, three, four, five, six, about six facilities that were furiously working on massive extension of the range of the delivery system missiles that would be used for carrying bombs.
An excuse given for that was this was because they want to be a power in outer space, ballistic missiles.
We don't send ballistic missiles into space unless, I guess, we're going to launch a nuclear attack on Mars.
They're very different kind of missiles, and there's no indication they're building such missiles.
So, I mean, it wouldn't be a joke if they weren't homicidal maniacs.
So, they are refusing, even though they stick with the fiction that they only wanted for peaceful and similar uses.
They stick with the fiction they have no desire to be a nuclear power, then why 60%?
Why the hell are you building ballistic missiles that carry nuclear warheads for lengthy periods of time?
And then why do you keep threatening to do it every time you're in trouble like you're doing right now?
So they are very good liars.
We tend to have an extraordinary number of gullible people rather than their being very good liars.
So the president has given them two more weeks to see if there can be a negotiated solution to the problem.
Whether there is or is not something announced as a negotiated solution to the problem, I will guarantee you there will not be a negotiated real solution to the problem because they will not tell the truth.
And as soon as we close one eye, They will go back to doing exactly what they have been doing and move to, if they are two weeks away from a nuclear weapon, they'll get themselves to two days away.
And if they are six months away, they'll get themselves to two days away without our knowing.
And they'll just go pick another Samton Desert in what is a very, very big, big country with a lot of empty land.
And a lot of land hard to access.
And they have been notoriously non-communicative, straight out dishonest, with the friendly inspectors that come from the UN that are on their side.
So I guess I can put this in very simple way.
I have no idea why we're pursuing this fiction any longer.
And why we just don't take out the damn four-door facility and get it over with and let people kind of relax a little in that this one threat to world peace and the possibility that the world might be put into some kind of conflagration is solved.
That's where we are, and that's what we're looking at right now.
Israel and Iran are still trading missiles, and there's a dispute in exactly where Iran is in this situation.
The majority of views from both pro-Israeli, if there are any, And even anti-Israeli journalists and reporters is that Iran has been substantially degraded in the number and quality of missiles that it now has available,
both because of the number that they have without any effect, I'm not saying without any effect, without the effect that you would expect for the number.
That was delivered.
Those missiles are now gone.
And also a lot of the Israeli attacks until very, very recently were much more strategic than the Iranian attacks.
They were on nuclear enrichment facilities, delivery system facilities, military leadership, terrorist leadership, and also on The airplanes and the missiles, to the extent they could find them that were intended for use against Israel.
So we've had a loss of missiles by Iran in at least two ways: shooting them off and being frustrated by the Iron Tome or one of its more sophisticated relatives, or being exploded on the ground in Iran.
How many?
The only estimate I saw, have no idea how accurate, is 50%.
They've lost 50% of their missiles through both of those factors.
Was it their best ones?
Was it their worst ones?
What do they have left?
The fact that they were able to hit a hospital in Israel, direct on.
Is the one thing that has gotten the pro-Iranian terrorists and terrorist lovers excited as to the fact that they may be getting better.
Now, they say that they were aiming at a military facility that is nearby.
The Israelis dispute that, try to offer evidence about The trajectory of this missile to demonstrate that and also point out that their sole objective up until a day or so ago has been civilian targets.
They're not hitting the airfields from which the Israeli jets take off or the locations where the Where the missiles are sent, nor have they yet, thank goodness, hit any Iron Dome facilities.
You would think those are the things that would be their priority, and that would be 80, 70, 80 percent of their damage, and 20 or 30 percent would be collateral damage to civilian targets.
It's just the other way around by even a bigger percentage.
It's maybe 90 percent.
On civilian targets and less than 10% on anything that is militarily, tactically significant.
So the weight of the evidence is on the side of the Israelis that they took out of hospital.
But I do not have the information, and I've been trying to get it, on exactly how far away and how reasonable is it that they could have missed if they were out.
Bibi Netanyahu is treating it as an attack on a hospital and vows much worse.
Retaliation.
I don't know how Israel can get much works in the way they are hitting them.
They are doing catastrophic damage to their capital city of Tehran.
It has stepped up from the very beginning.
The first attack on Iran was extremely targeted to military installations, number one.
And number two, it was targeted to, remember, the heads of the IRGC, the military leadership, the people conducting this war, the people running their army, the Air Force Chief of Staff, as well as at least six, now I hear eight, of their top nuclear scientists, which may be pretty close to all.
of their high-level military scientists.
But when it was several days, two or three What did the Iranians do with more tactical purpose?
They kept it in Tehran.
As far as I can tell, there isn't a flooding of attacks on the population in many, I mean, Iran has many, many cities.
I mean, 250, 300 very big ones.
Big ones, not very big ones.
Ones that had protests.
Most of them have not been attacked.
Is any of it purely civilian?
I don't know.
In each case where civilians were tragically lost, it did seem to me there was a military or intelligence basis for the attack.
As I said, estimate from Al Jazeera is that now they are succeeding, that is the Iranians, are succeeding with 65 percent of the missiles getting through.
On the other hand, more neutral reporting says that Israel has tightened considerably its defense, that the missiles that are now being used are Much lower-grade missiles,
easier to intercept, and easier to intercept by virtue of the fact that many fewer are being fired all at once, which indicates one of two things: they're holding bombs back so that they're not without bombs, or they're running out of bombs.
There also is the feel-good excuse that they're saving their best bombs for last.
I'm sorry, this is not a reverse wedding feast at Qaeda.
That would be about the most moronic strategy because by the time they get to use the bombs that are the better bombs, there may be no Iran to defend and no capacity to defend it and no capacity to deliver those bombs because Israel is doing a pretty damn good job of taking out their delivery systems.
The reason that delivering many bombs at once is so important is by every additional bomb that you send at the same time, simultaneously, you make the job for whichever system the Israelis are using that much more complicated.
It is much easier for a defense system to concentrate on one missile than it is on two and three, four, five, 100.
Two or three are going to get through and do a great deal of damage.
So I doubt the 65% number, which is contradicted by every other report that I read in newspapers.
which are anti-American and anti-Trump, but not pro-terrorists like Al Jazeera.
They are reporting that the Iranian attack is becoming more tepid and easier to deal with, with the exception of this hospital, and that the Israeli attack appears to be enormously So do we have a video of that, Ted, that we can show them?
And see if they can get an idea, particularly the video in which the woman was narrating and showing how, in her particular observation, Defense system had become even more accurate in recent days than in the past.
She watched a barrage in which they didn't miss anything and has some video of it.
Do we have that, Ted?
And if we do, let's play it.
Otherwise, I'll keep rolling along.
We'll keep...
okay there we are wow wow wow mom wow mom mom mom Well, that wasn't the exact one that I meant because one did hit.
You saw that.
One hit.
The other explosions we saw were above ground and were therefore successful.
Now, I will say the one that hit, I saw it only quickly.
That could very well have been shrapnel.
The way you know it's a real hit is when you see not a nuclear.
Reaction, but a really substantial reaction that looks like it must be covered in two or three blocks.
When you see a spark like that, yes, it could have hit and not just been a very powerful missile, or it could have been shrapnel that came down and just created an explosion and a fire because of what it hit.
When you know that it's hit, Well, you know it's a hit when it takes place.
It looks like a mini atomic...
Yeah, I think...
There's another one taken out.
There's another one taken out.
There's another one hit.
Another one.
There's one hit in the air.
A big one hit in the air.
Another one.
Another one hit on the wave.
Well, that hit another one.
Another one.
One big one went out.
When you see the explosions take place in the air, they're exploding the rocket.
Possibly a drone.
When you see it hit the ground, now one of two things has happened.
The bomb has hit the ground.
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Let me just see if I can straighten this up just a little.
There we are.
That seems better.
All right.
We're working a little on our own tonight here in the actually fantasy city of Dubai and making sure that we get all this to you, particularly our perplexity at The two-week delay in doing what should have been done maybe 40 years ago.
An awful lot of Americans would be alive if we had a Winston Churchill around, huh?
He was just threatening to kill us 41 years ago or 42 or 48. He had us hostages.
Then they started killing lots of American people.
But even before that, it seemed to me they were.
But certainly in Iraq, they were killing a lot of American soldiers without real consequence and then doing everything they could to support the terrorist group.
who as proxies for them were killing us, but we were giving them the benefit of the doubt by responding to the punching bags they put up instead of responding to them.
And here we are with an opportunity to take them out and it's I understand the objections of my friends, Steve Abannon and Tucker Carlson and some of the others.
And I also understand that we don't want to get involved in wars that we don't need to be involved in.
That'd be one thing if these people hadn't been and don't represent a threat to the United States of America.
But we're kind of doing a Hitler here, aren't we?
I mean, Hitler talked about what he wanted to do and taking all of Europe, and Europe ignored it.
And I don't know how often he has to say death to America to convince us that he'd like to destroy us.
And I don't know how many Americans he has to kill or threaten to kill before we take him seriously.
Gee, I took him seriously when he twice tried to kill me.
So I do not understand why.
We don't see this as a golden opportunity to eliminate a deadly enemy who will take advantage of every opportunity to kill Americans.
Now, the very strange thing is the lefties who practice censorship, denial of free speech, Very, very upset because of the attack on the Iranian broadcast network.
What a joke!
The Iranian broadcast network is a creature of the Iranian dictatorship.
It is not a broadcast network at all.
It's a part of their institutions of terror.
Which put out government propaganda used to capture people and help capture people who were executed and tortured.
And this woman was on and the Israelis bombed the station.
Well, the station, have you read Orwell?
The station is part of the regime.
It's part of the dictatorship.
It's part of the denial of free speech.
It's part of the denial of free thought.
It's part of the fact that you damn well better be a Muslim or we'll kill you, or she damn well better have that thing on her head and not show any hair or they're going to kill her.
Let's show the Israeli hit on Iran.
You see no such hits on Israel, by the way, which is why all this nonsense about there being 65% effective.
The Ayatollah is hiding right now under a blanket.
So let's show the hit on the Iranian so-called network.
Thank you.
No, I guess we don't have it.
So, um...
...the truth is, you know, the truth is, the truth is, the world is the...
...the world is the...
...the truth is...
God топ us!
Allahu Akbar!
Allahu Akbar gokeyler!
Allahu Akbar...
Thank you.
I don't know what they're yelling about, but you're finally getting what you deserve.
Tough, huh?
You've killed a lot of people in 40-plus years.
A lot of innocent people, a lot of Jewish people, a lot of American people.
And you, the network, have been a creature of the regime.
So I must say, I must say, watching that hardly gives me any feelings of regret.
In fact, I wish we could take out all of your networks.
It would be fabulous.
Let's see if we can take a look at some of the damage done to Tel Aviv, where, yes, since the main city the focus has been on has been Tel Aviv, there has been some destruction done in Tel Aviv.
I want to show you something that describes the That describes that to you.
Let's see what we can see of that.
Let's see what we can see of that.
Let's see what we can see of that.
Thank you.
So you can see when it does get through, unfortunately, the numbers may be less, but it is human life.
And any human life, of course, is too much.
And the numbers are a lot more than one.
They were at 20 for quite some time.
They have to be at least up around 40 or 50 now.
And the numbers on the Iranian side have to be pushing.
Well, there was about a thousand, I would think.
There is a debate, as you know, and I made reference to it earlier, among certain very dedicated Republicans, some of his strongest and most loyal supporters and people I have enormous amount of respect for.
And that is as to whether or not this isn't a breach of his Promised not to get involved in foreign wars or foreign entanglements or the way we had been doing, I presume.
They're talking about Afghanistan and Iraq and maybe even going back to some of the earlier ones like Vietnam.
I don't know.
But in any event, I am not sure.
I agree with them that we were getting too much involved with regime change and nation building and doing a bad job of it at that.
I mean, I found it amazing that we did such a poor job in nation building in Iraq and several generations earlier with a model of how to do nation building in Italy and Japan and Germany.
But in any event, that's what it is.
But this I don't see in that category at all.
The president made it quite clear that he was going to take every action necessary to make certain that Iran was not a nuclear power.
And it had to be from the very beginning.
That one of the real possibilities there was you have to take military action.
I mean, nothing else has worked in 46 years to stop them from being the biggest funder of terrorism in the world, including slaughtering Americans.
So you had to contemplate the possibility that he was going to take military action to do it.
I think in some ways I would ask him to reconsider that.
They were at least as extraordinarily intelligent men and women on notice that he was going to have to have a military option if he was going to achieve with Iran what nobody else achieved.
Because the thing that nobody else was willing to do was to put a military option on the table.
So I think there's something missing here in this application of this rule in such a rigid way that you're saying, oh, Trump...
He didn't say he wouldn't take us to war.
He said he would at all costs avoid war.
He did say that at all costs, he was going to stop them from being nuclear.
And he at times has made, as a presidential candidate, made threats of quite And it wasn't a rigid, ideologically obsessive.
It's like if you're an isolationist, you're isolated from everything.
You know, the guy's come into your house and is outside your house every day.
Saying he's going to kill you.
He's killing all your friends.
He even kills some of your people, but not you.
And you say, well, no, I'm not going to use force again because I'm not going to get involved.
But you're not going to get involved when you don't have to get involved.
But you are going to get involved when you have to.
When you kill that many Americans, I'm sorry, boys and girls.
You've got to get involved unless you want to be the patsy of the world.
65% of Republicans agree with that and 19% disagree with it.
I don't know.
With a president that has a 90% or 95% popularity with Republicans, you could consider 20% a problem.
I don't.
This is an issue that is going to divide people more than most.
It is an issue of life and death.
It isn't presented completely accurately.
65% support for a president who surely doesn't have to feel any guilt that he didn't explain what he was going to do.
He's following exactly He's following exactly the format and the script that he said he was going to follow.
So I would say they have the worst part of this argument with regard to the president not keeping up with what he said and acting consistently with what he said.
And secondly, I think in terms of delivering Western civilization from an obvious threat, They have a very, very weak argument.
This is not just a military threat.
This is a threat to take over the whole world by a group that you could say doesn't realistically have the capacity to do it, but they're sure going to try, and in doing it, they're going to kill an awful lot of people, including our sons and daughters.
We don't take them out.
We're not finished with them.
They're going to be around putting your grandchildren in jeopardy and trying to take them over.
The area where the president is having unbelievable, phenomenal success is in the area of immigration.
He virtually closed the border, a border that was, it's really, it's like going from the insane to the extraordinarily sane.
People were coming in at will, invited here, brought here.
People were brought here from countries that have every reason to spy on us and conduct surveillance against us.
And now nobody gets in just about.
I mean, the numbers are so small.
And even the numbers that get in, 75% to 80% are turned away.
And those who are put into a hearing situation, it's an expedited hearing situation that we pay attention to.
So that's one part of it.
The estimate is that illegal immigration has dropped by 600,000 and that immigration in general has dropped by about a million.
So we're making a step about becoming a country that has shared values and not a country that has a large number of people.
Who like to sell fentanyl and traffic in women and children or abused children.
Do you notice when these people are arrested, how often in their records, whether they be robbers or murderers or drug dealers or fraudsters or whatever, there's abusive children.
This is a very bad, bad group of people.
Much, much worse than even our prior illegals, and certainly much worse than our illegals.
But as we compare this immigration to prior groups of immigrants, these were mostly honest people.
You say, well, they weren't honest when they came in illegally.
True, that's true.
But beyond that, the question is, do they commit any other crimes other than the desperation of wanting to be here?
And the answer is, pre-Biden, Largely in most years, not every, but most years, our native population committed more crimes than our immigrant population, legal and illegal, because the illegals were under some degree of constraint.
They had to sneak in here.
So every sexual pervert, every drug dealer, every terrorist, every spy, every child molester, Couldn't just come in.
For four years, they had free reign.
Some of them were invited here, like the Chinese, and were given special privileges to get in.
That's going to draw your worst people.
And that's the time to get your terrorists in.
That's the time to get your drug dealers in.
That's the time to get your people in who are going to make us the worst.
Human trafficking country in the world, which we became under Biden.
But the work that's been done so quickly to reduce that is astounding.
Certainly the closing is.
The reduction now in the first period of time of 600,000 illegals and a net reduction of about a million in foreign-born is a necessary corrective.
And only a small step in the direction of a necessary corrective to reestablishing a country that's made up of people who come here because they love America and not because they want to sell drugs or like the guy who raped and killed Lake and Riley looking for women to rape because the minute he got to Athens, Georgia, that's what he was doing.
So this is a thing that I think we can Gosh, I think we can be proud of this, that we are able to accomplish this.
There's also now finally some discussion.
If there's going to be regime change in Who is it going to be and what it's going to be?
One of the editorials, consistent with the isolationist theme and the fears of not another Iraq trying to build society, a nation building, and all the complexities that that created for us, wants us out of that completely.
I think we should be out of it completely.
We shouldn't obstruct it, though.
And I was a bit surprised at the Epoch Times short shrift that was given to the MEK, which is a group that has a far wider range of support than just one or two people.
It has a very, very broad support, bipartisan support, Republican and Democrat.
It has extraordinary resources.
It is the group that originally discovered the atomic program, the program to become a military power and one with the nuclear weapons at that.
And it's a group that has a government in waiting that is extraordinarily ready to go.
But they are preferred to the Shah's son by the Epoch Times, which of course is sensible.
No sensible person would want the son of a murdering dictator who stole all their money to come back to replace a worse murdering dictator who stole all their money.
It isn't going from bad to worse.
It's going from worse back to bad.
Which makes no sense for the poor people of Iran.
We don't need to play a guiding hand in this.
We just need to get out of the way effectively and let the Iranian people do their thing.
Because the MEK has quite a following in Iran.
And even though the State Department has been extremely prejudicial with regard to them, because they are extremely pro-Islamic extremist terrorists, since at least Biden, who was so pro he used to give him cash.
I mean, it was like making a donation in church every week, except he was sending it in cash and it was still in the night on an airplane.
So, Ted, I see your face there.
And, you know, it's weird for me because it's, let's see, it's four or something in the morning here.
Oh, yeah.
No, 341.
It's 341.
And there I see sun and look at that.
Detroit, Michigan.
Well, I'll be back tomorrow.
So tell me what's going on.
What am I missing in America?
I've been in, I'm going to make a little stop in Milan, but I don't have time to...
I was hoping to spend a day there and maybe go see The Last Supper, but I don't think I'll be able to.
Well, Mayor, we're tracking a number.
Right.
Well, of course, we're tracking a number of other stories outside of what's happening over there in the Middle East.
Hurricane Eric has hit landfall as a Category 4 storm in Mexico.
Hurricane Eric.
So actually, I take that back.
A Category 3 storm has hit Mexico.
So we'll be tracking that into tomorrow to see what sort of impact that will have beyond that.
What's the...
How is it supposed to come up?
That's a good question, Mayor.
It is expected to come up through Florida, or sorry, I take that back, through Mexico.
And so it should, it likely will not hit the United States.
But you never know, really.
Right.
I mean, the truth is, you never do know what happens with these things.
I can remember ones that weren't supposed to hit Florida.
They were one of the worst.
And ones that were supposed to hit Florida.
And remember, last year, after we had a bad one, you and I were ready for another one that didn't hit at all.
Remember?
I knew.
We had the cameras all ready.
It was almost as if we were disappointed that there wasn't a devastating hurricane.
Well, you know, being a New Yorker, you spent a lot of time in Florida.
For me, I'm still getting used to these hurricanes, Mayor, but I know you've been – I was on Hurricane Watch a lot.
I mean, I once had a very funny situation like that with Jerry Hauer, who was the head of emergency services.
We had a hurricane that was very strongly predicted, and he was, oh, boy, he had gotten all put together, and we had our new Office of Emergency Management that I created.
He wanted to show me how good it was.
And he told everyone they had to come in at 7 o 'clock on Saturday morning to be all ready because it was going to hit really bad later in the day.
And we come in.
It's the nicest day of the year.
And I said, Jerry, you can't change this, Matt.
He said, the predictions have changed.
I said, don't look so disappointed.
It's like you wanted the hurricane.
Reporters have a strange thing with hurricane, right?
Because it's an exciting thing to cover.
But even for your emergency offices and that, those folks, you want people that are preparing, right?
I don't think you're taking any trips to Ghana with incoming storm.
No, no.
Actually, she had called and advised that I leave at that point, but I didn't take her advice, whoever that jerk was.
Right, right, right.
Time to go to Ghana.
There's going to be a hurricane or a big fire.
Unbelievable, Mayor.
There's a lot of news, and we'll be staying in touch, I know, with our different times.
Also, when I had a hurricane or a fire or a bad situation or 9-11, I didn't call up and have to wait for the governor to come out of the hairdresser before he would do anything.
Like they do in California.
And then it actually was better.
In California, it's better if he stays in the hairdresser because his solutions are so stupid.
Oh, my goodness.
They sure could use a Mayor Giuliani out there.
Governor Giuliani, California.
They could use a Governor Pataki, too.
Well, that's right.
That's what I was suggesting.
Well, that's right.
So we'll be coming back tomorrow.
I'll see you.
And let's see if that two weeks really means, there's a lot of people going to get killed in that two-week period.
They're also giving, I mean, in another way, they're giving Israel… Innocent Israeli civilians.
Israeli civilians, for sure.
And Israel will take that time to really wipe out Iran.
I mean, if you can't get the Fordow facility… It can just about get everything else.
They took out a nuclear facility today, a small one, that they're capable of taking out.
And at first, there was already taken out Natanz.
And there, there have been reports from the UN that it's been virtually completely destroyed.
And Natanz, although Fordo is their most powerful, Natanz was the center of their operations.
Which means they've lost a lot of coordinating capacity for all of their facilities.
We'll be watching closely, Mayor, and we'll want everyone to tune back in tomorrow night at 8. And, of course, we'll have all the latest.
All right.
Well, God willing, this storm will not hurt anyone there or here.
Also, God willing, we'll get to a resolution of this situation in Israel and Iran and Gaza.
And we pray for the people of Israel.
We pray for all of the people, really.
People of Iran are good people.
They don't deserve this.
We pray for the people of Ukraine that are still under attack.
While all this was going on, Putin unleashed a very, very big attack in Ukraine, several.
So we asked God to give us...
You gave us a great world and we're the ones who've done this to it.
We should learn by following you that this is not what you want.
Again, to all my friends and thank you for listening in from Dubai.
God bless America!
It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
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