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Oct. 23, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
01:57:34
America's Mayor Live (784): The NBA Gambling Scandal & Involvement of New York's Mafia Families
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This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor Live live from Palm Beach, Florida.
Although behind us is the skyline or some of the skyline of the city of New York, because we are going to discuss with several of our guests and with me and Ted the critical election coming up in New York in which we're counting on you to save us from being delivered over to communism or to Islamic extremism or to both.
Before we get to that, there was quite an indictment released in Brooklyn today, reminiscent of the basketball scandals of the 1950s that involved colleges, not professional basketball.
It involves a point shaving scandal because a lot of the betting on basketball is based on point spread.
You know, you bet that your team is going to win by five points, 10 points, six points, two points, three points, or lose.
And the joke about that is that in the garden, nobody is cheering if the Knicks are ahead.
They're cheering if the Knicks are ahead by enough to beat the spread.
So they could be losing.
And if they're considered to be losing by 10 points, and then you see them losing by eight, you could hear a big cheer in the garden because all the gamblers are all excited.
Never like that, because I think it throws off the whole ethos of baseball.
I mean, when you think about it, it's about winning and losing, basketball, rather, baseball too, not winning by eight points, not winning by six points, not winning by three, but winning by one.
But that's okay.
That's me.
And that's why I never was much of a better on sports because I can't stand the spread thing.
I just think it's ridiculous.
And it turns the game into a gambling game and not a sports game.
The emphasis of the people watching it is gambling, not sports.
If you're rooting for your team to win by six points, not win, win by six points, or not lose by, you know, 10.
And if they lose by eight, you walk out happy because you just won your bet.
You're a jerk.
Okay.
Well, the jerks all got indicted today.
A whole bunch of them did for being involved.
Seven got indicted for being involved in passing around inside information about baseball games.
Now, the betting has become much more sophisticated.
They bet on things like the over-under of a player.
So let's say it's a great, you know, it's a great, I mean, the greater the player, the more difficult it's going to be because they can go up and down.
They can have ridiculous overs.
You know, one time Will Chamberlain scored 100 points.
I wonder if anybody got that right.
So you're going to have to bet that a particular player, you're going to say, I'm going to say, the bookies say that the player is going to score 14 points.
You can bet that the player will score below that, or you can bet that the player will score over that.
Now, if the player is involved in a gambling conspiracy, illegal conspiracy, he can control how many points he scores, right, by just taking himself out of the game.
So if he has to score 14 and he takes himself out at 12, he just screwed everybody who took the over.
And he sure as hell helped everybody on the under.
And if they knew it, well, they bet like crazy.
Well, that's exactly one of the situations here with a, I think they've indicted, they indicted today an active coach, an active player, and several retired.
Now, the active coach that they indicted is in the other scandal that's also being revealed at the same time because there are two overlapping defendants, although they don't show tremendous overlap of organization.
The first one, the one I just described to you, these are pretty unknown people to me.
And it doesn't appear that there's any allegation of organized crime involvement in the point fixing scandal.
However, in the poker scandal, it seems to be dominated by organized crime with three of the five New York families heavily involved.
And what they're doing is they're setting up trap poker games.
They try to lure in very wealthy people.
Part of the overlap is they use basketball players.
They call them face cards.
They use basketball players to draw you there.
So this famous basketball player is playing at this card game.
But the card game is a fix.
The room is electronically set up so that they can read every card quickly.
They can make calculations very quickly once the hands hand out who has the winning hand.
That's transmitted to a guy off-site electronically.
He's called the quarterback, or I'm not sure.
He then transmits it to a guy on site.
The guy on site signals who has the winning hand.
They use all kinds of different ways of doing it.
They use chips, they use movement, they use hand signals, they use whistles, they use numbers, and they keep changing on every single thing.
And then you know how to wipe the guy out, right?
And that group in that indictment, which I think was 31 people, included members of the Gambino family, the Genovese family, and the Bonano family.
Those are three of the five organized crime families.
Are they really the organized crime families in direct line of succession with all the godfathers who went to prison?
Probably not.
Probably not completely.
Some are, some aren't.
But these young Italian kids like to take the name and make themselves important.
The interesting thing is the Godfathers of the past are either going to say, I told you, or they're going to be very upset because they seem to be out of drugs like they were supposed to be in the first place.
You might remember if you watch The Godfather, and I have the script of it right here.
If you watch The Godfather, there's a big battle in the mafia about whether to get involved in drugs or not.
And the old timers said no, and the new timers said yes, because it was a lot of money.
Now, I'm going to tell you that's real.
The Godfather is, of course, fictional, but it's fictional real.
Meaning, it's based almost everything in The Godfather, I can probably trace to a historical event.
Now, when I went to the mob museum, I got myself this.
I have the script of The Godfather, but I got this annotated script because it's kind of like a Bible.
And I went to the one, there were a couple of references to drug dealing and gambling and all of that.
The first one is in Godfather 1.
And it occurs when the Turk, Salazzo, comes to the Godfather and asks for his support for this new business he's going to introduce, which is called drugs.
He thinks they can make a lot of money buying and selling drugs.
This would probably be around 1946, 1947.
This is about when the war started between the mafia families about drugs.
And Salazzo, otherwise known as the Turk.
Now, he's called the Turk because the Italian organized crime got most of their heroin from Turkey through Marseille, France.
Remember the French connection?
Well, that was real.
Some exceptions, they'd go through Palermo, they'd go through other places, but that was the main one.
And it started off in, a lot of it started off in Turkey as it came out of Asia.
So the Turk obviously had great connections there and could get great stuff.
And the families wanted to go into the business because they didn't think they were making enough anymore from prostitution and from gambling.
So Salazzo asked for a meeting with Don Corleone, who was one of the five heads of the five families with fictitious name, let's say the Genovese family.
And Why was he important to Zalazo?
Because he had all of the politicians in his pocket, is the way they describe it.
And he could get them to do anything he wanted, as is demonstrated several times during the trilogy.
So Salazzo realized that this drug business would encounter the law enforcement much more.
So he needed protection against law enforcement.
So he says this is this is when he so Hagen is the first to come in.
Hagen is the attorney.
Oh, do you want to show or do you want me to play?
I'm much better.
Hagen comes in and this set the scene.
I'll pull it up.
Hagen had just gone to California for the great scene with a horse where the horse is in the bed.
Yeah.
Now, I got to tell you, you got to read the book.
The horse is not in the bed.
The horse is placed on the bedpost.
That's the real mafia, not the Hollywood mafia.
When the guy wakes up, he sees the horse looking right at him with the blood coming down from his neck because when they cut the head of the horse off, they put it on the bedpost like that.
So why they have to do things like that?
I don't know.
Well, Mayor, we were about to play that clip, but we have a very special guest joining us.
She's coming to us live from Tel Aviv.
So should we do that first?
Yeah, let's let's.
The clip can wait.
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv can't wait.
I mean, who knows what could happen in Tel Aviv?
Right.
And I, and Emily, what Emily, what time is it in Tel Aviv right now?
I could tell you, I should be fast asleep.
It is 3:13.
And Mayor, I even gave her an out.
I told her, Look, I know it's going to be the middle of the night.
If we have to do another night, that's fine, but she wanted to be here with you.
Thank you.
And we're really, really pleased that you came on with us, Emily.
And we pray that you're safe.
Thank you.
Thank God everything seems, I don't want to jinx it, but everything seems great right now.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, it's, it always has been.
I mean, even during the worst of times, Israel, Jerusalem is safer than California, New York.
It's amazing.
We have that movie on a regular basis here as an American where they ask me, why don't you move to Israel?
And I'm like, well, I don't want to be neighbors with Gaza and Syria and Lebanon and Jordan and Egypt.
And their argument is, you live in New York.
And I'm like, so tell us.
No, Mayor, I want to set the scene here.
Of course, we've seen Emily.
She has a background actually before her great work here.
Recently, she was big into the sports world.
And for another night, she could talk to us about the latest with gambling and boxing.
And she's really done it all.
And, you know, for her young age, she's been very involved.
Are you shocked with the indictment or wow?
You know, it's funny.
I was just talking to Michael Porter Jr. about his brother being arrested over it.
And it seemed like it was kind of like based on his story at least.
It was kind of this one-off.
He was just caught in a bad place in a bad time.
And now I'm finding out this is like a whole ring of crime.
And the fact that like Cash Patel is now involved and there's investigations and a coach.
And I'm mind-boggled because a Hall of Fame player and a championship coach.
I mean, we're talking about the royalty of NBA, not the scum.
And I look at the indictment, which I can read pretty, you know, I've written about 5,000 of these.
This is going to get much bigger.
Yeah.
This is, I mean, there are awful lot of little conspirator one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
A lot of little things to be filled in here.
They use about five games as an example of how, and they're mostly, they're mostly picking on, I guess, Rosier for this.
Terry Rozier.
Rosier.
Rosier, right?
They're mostly picking on him because he took himself out of two games and he made a deal in advance on the over-under.
So he took himself out in the first quarter of the game.
So whatever, let's say it was 14.
He came out when he had about seven points and everybody cashed in and made a fortune, a fortune.
Then he did it again.
Wow.
And then he started giving out information about other players and he was getting paid directly, you know, by the people who were doing it.
And then it goes from his guy and then it spreads out all over the country.
But they don't fill in all those people yet.
Let this just serve as a lesson to whoever's viewing this.
This is a result of two things.
First and foremost, it's greed.
Because if you know how much money these players make on a contract, they don't need to be doing all that.
But the second problem is financial irresponsibility.
These people spend so recklessly despite what their advisors tell them.
They have this arrogance.
Oh, well, I'll land a better contract next year.
Boom, you injure your knee.
You're out for the season.
You're not getting that bigger contract.
Terry Rozier, six babies with six different mothers.
Do you know how much child support probably costs?
How many?
I think he, when I last spoked him, he had six.
Usually it's seven.
That's like the medium.
I remember a couple of years ago, somebody came up with that in a column.
They said, every, for some reason, the basketball players all have seven children.
The first two are with one woman.
Yeah.
And then the remainder are with separate women.
And then a friend of mine who might be on the show later had a great line.
The most complicated day for the NBA is Father's Day.
Oh my God.
That's great.
So tell us about, we actually had you on because you're in the daily news today, another post with your support for Andrew Cuomo.
And of course, you support President Trump.
So we wanted to know how did you get around to Andrew Cuomo?
I should let you know we're going to have Curtis Schleiwer on later too, also, so he can make his case.
I mean, my objective is to defeat the communists, but go ahead.
Correct.
For starters, I told my mother, if you told me my bingo card was having Donald Trump as my lock screen and my first podcast episode featuring Andrew Cuomo, I think that this was a dream.
Like it just can't really make sense in reality.
Like you said, I'm team defeat the communists and that kind of comes at whatever cost.
What I dislike how this all transpired is that to me, political attacks, and I'm sure you disagree and it's easy to say from the outside, I don't take personal.
When people disagree on politics, okay, I might not like your opinion, but it comes down to political disputes.
When it's Sleewa in this instance, what started as a plea to save New York City is now turning into more personal slander, which is getting really, really ugly.
And as we see online this week, Sleewa is getting angry, kind of showing short temperament online.
And I don't blame him because the attacks are getting nasty about him, about his wife.
But the truth is, he's doing the wrong thing.
And I'm so happy we got to connect because I was going to text Andy.
I love your son, by the way.
He's incredible.
Why the bleep did you endorse Sleewa?
And not once, but a few times because my son, when you say Andy, you mean my son, Andy, not Andrew.
Yes.
Okay.
No, no, yes, your son, Andrew.
My son Andrew knows Curtis for the day he was born.
I understand.
And you know what?
I don't think he's a bad guy.
I think his politics make sense.
I think he's a good Samaritan.
Do I think he'd be the best candidate for the city?
Absolutely.
But the reality is New York's not ready for another version of you.
I wish it could be true, but it's not.
And sometimes we need to be a realist rather than our wishful thinking that, no, there's a hidden percentage that they're just going to miraculously show up for Sleewa.
I can't rely on that to allow a socialist to take over the city.
And I don't think anyone should.
So as someone like yourself, who's such a respected Republican, just a respected mayor in general, I feel that your endorsement took away the momentum that I do believe Cuomo had and let Republicans think that it's okay to vote for Sleewa.
And ultimately, I'll end with this because I want to hear your thoughts.
Republican, being a Republican is important because it's the values you carry.
But sometimes you need to look at people over your party.
I'm not going to sit here and make the case that Andrew Cuomo is the greatest guy in the world.
Because if anything, Sleewa might be the greatest guy in the world.
But we need to look at how we're going to prevent Mamdani from winning this election.
And that's it.
Well, the reason I put you on is your position is a very legitimate position.
And my decision was a very, very difficult one.
Right.
I think it came down to this.
We have to have a consistent philosophy.
And if we're going to lose this election, we've got to go down based on our principles so we can rise again based on our principles.
If we all ended up supporting Andrew Cuomo, what's the party worth?
He stands against most of the things that we stand for.
And maybe we'd be better off standing with principle and then coming back to fight for the next election.
The other side of it is, this is why it's so close and gosh, I could change mine again.
Zandami is different.
Zandami is the end of the city.
I truly believe that the city may not be able to recover from not.
He's not just that we talked about him as a communist.
He's also a he's also and he's also a Muslim extremist.
So you got to you got two versions of the Muslim religion.
Right.
We got the good version of the bad version because we have the good Mohammed and the bad Mohammed.
If you follow the bad Mohammed, you knock down the World Trade Center.
If you follow the bad Mohammed, Ramadan is a is a murder spree.
Right.
Every Ramadan, we got to worry about Muslims killing us.
We don't have to worry about Jews killing us on the high holy days or Christians killing us on Easter.
But we got to worry about them because Mohammed taught them to do that.
They're not doing it just for the hell of it.
Mohammed taught them to do it.
It's in their Koran.
Then there are a whole group of Muslims who reject that.
I don't know how effective that is because maybe they don't speak out against the other guys enough.
But which which one is he?
Well, he's told us he's he's on the evil side.
He's the one who says that 9-11 was really caused by Israel and America.
He's the one that was has expressed no no condemnation of of September, September 7th.
He's the one who won't condemn Hamas.
He's the one who goes and sees the imam who is a national security risk to the United States of America.
I know his record from back when I was U.S. attorney.
The guy is an American hating son of a bitch.
Sorry.
Oh, you're you're spot on.
But I can challenge you when it comes to the polls.
Shouldn't be at the head of a of anything.
But it's very, very.
So today I recommended the phone.
I haven't talked to either one about it.
They're both going to be angry at me.
They should sit in a room.
And they should come out with a team.
And they both should run.
You figure out who's first and second.
The second guy should be the chief deputy mayor.
It's really that simple.
I believe it's really that simple.
And it's obvious that right now Cuomo has the numbers.
We'd all get what we want.
I want to push back on one thing, Mayor.
You said that going down with our principles gives us a better opportunity to rebuild.
Yes and no.
I also believe that understanding that there's a lesser of two evils here and putting your vote in a candidate you might not love or even strongly dislike won't compromise your values.
Living under Joe Biden did not take away my conservatism.
If anything, it ignited it more.
I think Republicans will not compromise their values under a Cuomo administration.
I think if anything, it'll reignite them.
You know what?
In the next election, we need to run a better campaign.
But I don't believe that any Republican today, no matter how principled you are, will vote for Sliwa because your principles won't matter much.
mayor when a socialist is running the city your principles will drive you out of the city and you're going to have to go ahead and rebuild somewhere else so i don't really know if i love that argument it's the way we got to where we were so goldwater lost in a big election to johnson and then those principles we maintained through four or five elections before and built them and taught people the value Of them until we got to Ronald Reagan.
And great, great political movements always go through this period of being tortured.
And if they can stick together, they're great political movements.
Now, my argument works perfectly if we're talking about a normal candidate on the other side who just has different principles than we do.
The reason I have doubt even about my own decision and therefore have compromised it somewhat is Zandami is a son.
If I were back being a lawyer, if they ever let me back practicing law, I would say Zantami is sui generis, one of a kind, and Latin for one of a kind.
This is a one-of-a-kind challenge to us, and we have to do some exceptions.
So I'm not finished with this analysis yet.
And let's see if I can convince him.
Because I think even with Sleewa supporting him, Montami could still win.
I agree, by the way.
And that's scary.
It can be very close.
It'd be a point or two, but it really depends on how bad the sickness, how bad the sickness is in the city.
So we'll have to see.
Here, I came up with a little chart for our viewers to evaluate.
A chart.
Do you like Andrew Cuomo?
Yes or no?
Do I like him?
Yes.
I like Curtis better, but I like Andrew, sure.
Okay.
I know him since he's a baby.
Yes, if no, have the same answer.
Is it better than Mamdani?
Is Cuomo better than Manami?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
Some of the people in the moment.
So if one Republican watching this, what was the last mathematical equation right now that we're looking at?
She has at the top, it says, do you like Andrew Cuomo?
Yes or no?
Whether you like him or not, it leads to the next sentence or question.
Is he better than Mom Dani?
Yeah, I just think the answer to that question doesn't get you anywhere because you could have asked me about Gacy.
No, I think you're making a very powerful point.
That's why I have you on.
Right.
And we're going to continue.
We're going to continue to continue to examine this for no more than two or three more days because if it gets done, it's got to get done now so it can sink in.
But I liked last night's debate when Sliwa and Cuomo were both going after a couple of times.
They hit him really bad.
I didn't like it when they divert it to themselves.
All the focus has got to be on Mondami.
And I think a team, you know, if Cuomo is a sole candidate, he's got to bring to make it work.
He can't just take Democrats.
They're not enough.
A lot of them are with Mondami.
He's got to take some of Curtis's Republicans.
Absolutely.
Maybe half, not all, about half.
So an idea of doing some kind of a joint thing, I think it'd be very powerful.
I feel like that's just what politics needs.
If you have someone also who I believe Cuomo is not just Democrat, I think he's ultra Democrat, but you can balance that out with Curtis Sliwa.
Then I think, first of all, it shows a great sense of bipartisan unity.
Second of all, it saves the city.
And third of all, you can balance each other out with your policies.
You know, even if it's just healthy debate and like discourse, we need that.
We don't really have that in politics in general.
Imagine New York would be the first.
I would be shocked, but great.
When are you coming back?
To New York on Monday.
We'll put you together with him.
I think you would do a better job of convincing them than I do.
You know, my style is a little different than yours.
I use a hammer.
I use these.
Hey, Church.
Hey.
She's got some fun.
You too.
You too?
And Mayor, she started.
I thought she was going to use the pretty face.
She started out as an independent NBA reporter.
I'm not even going to make a joke about Cuomo about that one.
I won't make a joke.
I promise.
Because I respect his family too much.
But Emily is, again, she's well versed in a lot of different for our audience.
What do you think I am?
An uneducated room.
For our audience, though, right?
I mean, with all these stories, we could talk with her about Israel.
No, no, we're getting an NBA scam.
She wants to.
We have her on all the time, but particularly the NBA thing.
I'd really love to get your Feel on that one because it did come as a surprise to me.
Honestly, I think this took everyone by surprise because how do I say that?
Well, hold on a second, guys.
I'm sorry.
I have to interject.
Tim Donaghy, how many years ago was that?
You really are surprised with all the gambling.
A one-off, a one-off never, never surprises me.
Exactly.
It's going on.
There's a one-off going on in baseball.
There's a one-off going on in soccer.
There's a one-off going on.
What surprised me, you read this.
This is like the tip of the iceberg.
I know U.S. attorneys and I know how they write things.
This guy's got, this guy's got about eight more cases guaranteed.
So this is just the beginning.
And this isn't even my district.
And I have to say, it's a, I don't want to face these lawyers.
This is a terrifically written indictment.
Which district is it taking place?
Eastern, Eastern District in Brooklyn.
Not the one in Manhattan, which was mine.
And we were always, we were always in a sort of a competition.
But this is one of the great.
I mean, there are districts in the United States where you get a good defense lawyer and he's going to outmatch them.
There are districts in the United States where you're just not going to outmatch him.
This is one of them.
Yeah.
Probably every single one of these people graduated in the top 5% of their class.
Well, thank you very, very much.
Also, I was surprised at the quality of the players and the coach in particular involved.
I mean, these are not the kind of people that have to be doing this stuff.
That's what I'm saying.
It comes down to greed.
And when you see that, you asked it, it surprised me.
The truth is, and I don't mean this in a disrespectful way to the players at all.
They know how much I empathize with athletes.
But if it were only just the players, I'd say, you know what?
A lot of them are young, rich, stupid.
It doesn't matter.
They're just learning.
But when a prestigious coach gets involved, then you're like, this is scandalous.
This was malicious.
And like you said, it's not a one-off.
This was coordinated, and that is frightening.
Well, thank you very much.
And take care of yourself.
Get some sleep.
And you're in my second or third favorite country.
Oh, thanks.
Back and forth between Israel and Italy.
Beautiful.
I'll see you soon.
Thank you for having me.
Thanks, Emily.
And you're in the country with the greatest prime minister since Winston Churchill.
Wow.
All right.
I'll let him know you said that.
Would you tell Bibi, who I know since we were babies, that he, I mean, we were about 35.
To me, now that's a baby.
Would you tell him I admire him even more than I ever did before?
I will.
We'll take this clip.
I'll forward it to the whole team.
Thank you, Emily.
Wow.
Isn't she what a rock star she is?
We are not in the position we're in without Bibi Netanyahu.
There's no doubt about it.
You know, Winston Churchill used to say, the people who write history will determine history.
We got to write the book about Bibi because we got to get people straight on this.
That guy gets terrible publicity, but I'm telling you, just like Churchill, who wrote the history and now they're trying to deconstruct it.
You think about what he accomplished from the time of the mistake, which I think he paid for dearly and probably stays up every night trying to make up for the mistake of letting them come in.
He hasn't done anything wrong.
He's done everything to save the Israeli people.
He's done everything to save America against an American president who was working for the other side.
I mean, truly working.
I don't think you really can appreciate how traitorous Biden was.
You have no idea what a traitor Biden and that segment of the Democratic Party is to the United States.
Just please concentrate on the fact that he gave hundreds of millions, possibly billions, hundreds of millions for sure, in cash to the Ayatollah.
Now, I want you to consider the fact that it is completely accepted, even by the Biden communists and bums, that Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism.
Now, who is Iran?
The Ayatollah.
If you give him money and he was the biggest sponsor of terrorism, where is the money going to go?
Finally, if you need any persuasion, if your powers of logic are really weak because you've been brainwashed by the Marxists, Why was it in cash?
Because terrorists take money in cash.
Imagine if he had given that money to bin Laden.
I don't know.
I think we would have put him in jail.
I think we would have hung him.
What's the difference between Bin Laden and the Ayatollah?
I don't know.
Did Bin Laden kill more Americans or the Ayatollah?
Why did we take out his henchmen?
Huh?
Who told him to kill the Americans?
The Ayatollah.
Right?
That's right, Mayor.
And it's been happening for decades.
One thing we don't talk about enough is the number of American servicemen and women killed by Iranians during the Iraq War.
Right.
And we'll never know.
We'll never know.
But I mean, it's well over a thousand.
And that's why the president rightfully okayed the strike on General Soleimani.
I mean, he was complicit in the death of hundreds, if not thousands, of American and other civilians.
Soleimani used whatever flexibility he had to kill Americans.
Right.
So if he was in the field and there were two possibilities, you know, kill, well, the French didn't even fight.
They were making food back in the what I'm telling you is true.
Only NATO forces that fought with us.
I mean, none of them came to Afghanistan with us.
I mean, that'd be too tough.
My God, they'd have to actually really fight.
But they came to Iraq with us.
And in those days, the French, sorry, I forget the French.
Oh, my God.
What am I saying?
French, actually, the French surrendered twice.
They had to tear it up.
The English, the Canadians, and the Australians fought with us back then.
And the Polish.
Oh, and the Polish, yeah.
The Polish led it.
Yeah.
The UK, Australia, and Poland.
Yeah.
Some of the others fought with us too.
And I can't say anything bad about them because I'm not sure.
But I can tell you the French only gave us support soldiers, not fighting soldiers.
Right.
And that's when we had the big movement for Freedom Frizz.
I remember that.
Yeah, they only gave us support soldiers.
Now, I'm going to say, because Frenchmen are no different than other men, this had to be like a tremendous embarrassment to them.
They were humiliated.
They were humiliated.
The damn government of France humiliated them like they weren't even men.
Right.
But that's what happened all throughout Iraq.
And you can ask my MEK people.
You can ask anybody that.
I mean, it was pathetic.
And most of the French soldiers were complaining about it.
They wanted now.
And some of them went and fought and put on other uniforms.
That's right.
I'll give you an idea how sick the French government is.
At the time, the French government considered the war illegal, unnecessary, and based on flawed intelligence.
But they had to support NATO.
So they supported them minimum.
Right.
Has Trump straightened that out?
You know, there was this big argument.
Will Trump get out of NATO?
Let me use practical English now.
If NATO is worth shit, why not get out?
So let's either make NATO worth something or get the hell out.
And he made it worth something.
It's worth a lot now.
Well, thanks to President Trump.
It could be, if not now, pretty quickly.
It'll be the NATO and the EU will be the second largest economic force and military force in the world.
Second to the U.S. China will be third.
Now, China has a larger navy, but that's it.
China doesn't have the strategic and the tactical abilities of our military, which are beyond compare, which all we share all of that with NATO.
Our joint resources, United States and NATO, would be three to four times China monetary.
So from the very beginning, Trump was not trying in any way to crush NATO.
He might have wanted to give it a different name, but he wanted to put together a real alliance.
And he started doing it immediately.
He started doing it immediately.
Absolutely.
I mean, he did it piece by piece, right?
First of all, he had most of Eastern Europe to start with.
Right.
Poland, Poland, Hungary, they were dying to get rid of the French sissy bullshit from the beginning.
So he had that there.
Then he got very lucky with Georgia Maloney getting elected in Italy.
So that gave him not the first level European state, but a second level European state.
Excuse me, grandma and grandpa.
Okay.
But we're not, we're not, Italy, in that sense, is not England or France.
But then again, you know, it's actually not Hungary.
It's a very substantial country.
Has a tremendous military industrial complex.
One of our main military contractors of a deep, deep security is an Italian manufacturer.
So it's not England.
It's not France.
It's not Germany.
Maybe it's right there.
What?
Italy.
Italy.
More resources than Poland.
Yes.
Not quite the military spirit yet of Poland.
No, no.
But getting there.
For historical.
And if she remains prime minister, she's now the third longest prime minister in the history of Italy.
The more she stays, the more her traditions and her esprit and her ideas pervade Italy.
I find Italians, and I know a lot of them, talking very differently now.
I think if Trump went to Italy, most parts of Italy, I think it'd be a tremendous reception.
I think it'd be a tremendous recession in most of Europe.
I used to think back then when they used to say, oh, he's so unpopular in Europe, when I would go to Europe, and of course, everybody knew me as his lawyer.
All they would do is tell me how wonderful he is.
Right.
And how even the ones who didn't like him would say, I'd rather have him as my prime minister than Mapun, Macron, Macron, whatever the hell his name is, whose wife runs the whole damn show.
There's you with Prime Minister Maloney.
You visited with her last time.
I remember when they were accusing her of being a Nazi.
I mean, I think some of her family were killed by the Nazis.
You know that?
And she's a Nazi, right?
Yeah.
But they do that all the time.
It's like they, in Europe, they use Nazi the way we use the way the left wing uses racist in the United States.
Right.
If you oppose him on taxes, you're a race.
Or a Nazi.
By the way, they're using the Nazi thing here now again.
And that's what leads to violence against individuals like our friend Charlie.
I wonder how many of their relatives fought against the Nazis.
A lot of mine did.
Right.
Well, you prosecuted against the Italians.
You came from Italy.
You prosecuted Nazis as recently as you had them executed.
My only executions.
I didn't have any capital cases.
They wouldn't let me kill the mafia guys.
I would have.
Wait, why?
No capital punishment then.
Oh, New York.
Or federal.
Federal.
Federal.
No federal capital.
It wasn't reinstated until later.
Interesting.
RICO does not have capital punishment as the life imprisonment and not capital punishment.
Even though you can prove 10 murders, how about 50?
I mean, you had some guys.
I mean, how about the butcher?
Oh, the butcher.
Who was he?
The butcher didn't murder them.
He just chopped them up.
Ah, okay.
He was my witness.
I had a some things to say about it that made it a little better.
He never killed anybody.
I mean, he did.
He did do a good job of chopping up about 48 bodies.
That was his nickname.
Was he actually a butcher?
In real life, he was a butcher.
He had a butcher shop.
People would go by there, pick up.
People have no idea.
They come in, they buy beautiful meat.
He actually was a fairly well-renowned butcher, Vito Arena.
Wow.
And he was part of the, he was part of the Paul Castellano.
He worked directly for Paul Castellano.
And they found him and his partner because they figured if they could get the bodies chopped up and distributed in various different places, it'd be much harder for the FBI to reconstruct the scene.
And there is this crazy notion that you can't prosecute murder without the body.
That's not true.
You can't, but it is harder.
So they figured if you can chop up the body and we have time for a funny story about Vito.
We do.
I got him up on the screen.
All right.
So Vito, Vito, Vito.
First of all, now that the trials are over and they can't appeal him anymore, Vito was crazy, completely crazy.
Vito was gay.
They would never make him a member because he was gay.
My first encounter with Vito in 1993, I think, 93 or 94, April, May, June, June.
I was sitting in my office.
I'm not sure I had been sworn in yet or I was about to be sworn in as U.S. attorney, but I was six in up my office.
Now, I had been in the U.S. Attorney's Office for five years before.
So it wasn't like, but now I had the big giant office where I used to go in scared because my boss would yell at me.
So now I was the boss.
I'm there on a Saturday because I always worked on a Saturday in those days.
I get a call on my phone.
I answer it myself.
This Rudy Giuliani.
I said, yeah.
Vito Arena.
I said, Vito, you can get the witness in the Constable case.
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, you know about me.
I said, yeah, Vito, I know about you.
Like, oh, that's good.
He liked to be famous.
He said, you know, Walter Mack, Walter was the assistant U.S. attorney who made that case, brilliant case.
But Walter was a little easy on Vito, which did come back to haunt us for a while.
He said, Walter told me anytime I needed anything, I could call you.
You were an assistant U.S. attorney and a hell of a good one.
And I got to tell you, I got an effing problem here.
I said, well, what's your problem, Vito?
I said, you're in the witness protection section.
And he said, that's, yeah, yeah, they make that a lot better than it really is.
I said, okay, what's the problem?
He said, well, first of all, I don't get treated with the proper respect.
And I said, well, what is that?
He said, look, you know my story.
They wouldn't make me because I'm gay.
But they treated me with respect.
The wise guys treated me with respect.
Your marshals treat me like shit.
They said, the mafia is not homophobic and your effing marshals are homophobic.
I said, I can't believe this.
I did not think I took this job.
I stepped down from the third ranking official in the Justice Department working in the White House to do this job.
Now I got this crazy nut telling me he's not being treated right by the marshals and the mafia treat him better.
He looked better than that.
That's a terrible picture of him.
I said, well, Vito, let me talk to them.
He said, I only did this because Walter told me if I ever had a problem, I should call him or you and I couldn't get him.
So I said, Vito, you know, Walter was right to do that.
I do that with all my, and I didn't say informants.
I said, all my witnesses, but sometimes I meant informants.
And any of us in law enforcement have a big group of informants.
And it is a certain amount of care and feeding of them that breaks open these big cases.
So I realized Walter was away for two days and I had to do something with this guy.
So I called up the marshal who turned out to be a new marshal and a great guy, also appointed by the great Ronald Reagan and a big fan of mine.
And I said, Romolo, I got a problem with Vito and this is the problem.
Romolo agreed and said, hey, we're just getting rid of the Democrat shits that were here.
So let me get my own people in from the PD.
We know how to treat gays.
We don't treat them like shit.
That's ridiculous.
This guy is a very important witness.
He can stop complaining in three days, I promise.
I said, you're not going to do anything to him, are you?
No, bullshit.
I'm not going to do that.
And Romolo turned out to be a great marshal.
Right.
I don't think I could have done it without him because I must have run 30 massive major league rats.
Sorry, boys.
Did I call you that?
Through him.
Right.
And man, he handled them brilliantly.
And he handled them like a certain like a psychiatrist and made it easier to turn them.
Even when we get to Milken and people like that, he helped me turn them.
That Milken, of course, that's the Wall Street.
Yeah, Romolo J.I. Mundi was a New York City police detective, but he had like a tremendous charm.
He had one of those like Dean Martin Italian personalities.
He was very well, those sorts of things, Mayor.
And that's part of the reason I feel you were so successful.
You understand people, right?
It's beyond just understanding the law, being a good lawyer.
It's understanding people and where to place them, where they can be most effective in the larger picture as you cleaned up New York, or in this case, took down the business.
When I did my first mafia indictment, I'll give you an example.
When I did my first mafia indictment that led to taking down the entire commission, and it was a lot more than the commission.
We took down the commission.
We took down their drug organization with the Sicilians.
We took down their involvement in the Teamsters union, took them out, nine-year receivership.
We took out their position in Las Vegas, 10-year receivership.
We took out their position in the sanitation business, in the food business, in the fashion business.
You know, Fashion Week in New York, all those beautiful girls they put on.
I mean, the news and the post kind of compete with each other as to which one gets closer to the line, to the line.
New York Fashion Week.
New York Fashion Week.
That thing used to be run by the mafia.
Really?
Yeah.
Would you like to know what happened?
Never mind.
What happened to those girls?
No.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, you don't want to know.
You don't want to know.
You have to know that one of the people that helped to save Fashion Week was Donald Trump.
That's right.
That's right.
He really brought a lot of positive attention.
Whatever you think of the allegations about Donald Trump, whatever you think of them, I'm going to tell you something and you just absorb it.
And this is true.
Man has great respect for women.
Right.
So go stuff it.
Okay.
And I know that.
So do I. You know that, and you're a longtime friend of his.
I can back that up.
I've seen that.
I don't think I have a friend that doesn't.
I wouldn't have a friend that doesn't.
Respect women.
That's right.
We've talked a lot about that.
You've made it very clear.
It's critical to being a man.
And your father taught you that.
Yeah.
And that doesn't mean being some kind of sissy man.
Right.
Of course not.
Of which we're worried that there aren't enough.
Not enough men these days, Mayor.
We are just.
Speaking of men, we are just minutes away.
We are awaiting Curtis Liwa to join the program.
He's at a rally.
Are people wondering whether Curtis is?
No, no, no, no.
We talked about real men, and that's when we brought Brock Curtis's name into the conversation.
He's wrapping up an event in South Brooklyn.
And he's on his way to the South.
South Brooklyn is big.
Used to be very Italian and Irish, very Catholic.
It's now part of it is the Muslims Center.
And part of the heavy Chinese population as well.
I believe he's leaving a Chinese-American event.
And then he's off to Staten Island.
And so he's going to.
You know what that is, Staten Island?
Staten Island.
That's Giuliani country.
What percent of the vote did you get in Staten Island in 1996 or 1997?
I don't know.
Could have been 80, 80%, 75.
Votes.
1997, I think, is when that election was.
Yeah.
80%.
Not bad.
You said that 80%.
I actually didn't believe it was 80%.
I don't think anybody ever gets 80%.
Well, that's what the numbers say.
And look, they never cheat for our side, Mayor.
So if those are the numbers, those are the numbers.
Problem I had was getting them out to vote.
Oh, the second time around.
Yeah, they knew I was going to win.
You know what I did?
I campaigned for 54 hours straight.
Straight?
I finished campaigning and went to vote.
Straight.
Meaning, what were you doing on the overnight hour?
I was on a bus.
Making stops, I guess.
Yeah, they do stop.
I stopped off at a motel and showered.
I went to church.
Good.
Part of it was Sunday.
Was this your first race when you'd ride the back of a truck?
No, my first race was in the back of the truck.
Back of a pickup, right?
Yeah.
I would have loved to be with you on some of those trips.
And you just made speeches roving around the city on the back of a truck.
This was my third race.
This was the race where my big problem was getting my vote out because they, because I was going to win by, you know, 10%, 15%.
And I never ran in a race like that before.
I lost by one.
I won by two.
I didn't know such a thing as a landslide.
I didn't trust it.
You didn't trust it.
I was afraid people wouldn't turn out.
And I was being told that.
I was being told, people know you're going to win.
They're not going to vote.
I said, Jesus.
I mean, there are so many Democrats here who the unions make sure.
See, the Democrats, it's almost as if they can just register their vote.
Because they bring them out like not even including the ones they pay.
I'm talking about the ones that are in the unions and they come out and they went, boop, boop, boop, going to keep their job.
Board of Education, all useless people hurt children.
All the people in the Department of Welfare that make sure that New York City becomes more and more and more dependent.
Then the one that I am extraordinarily embarrassed about, there could be a big problem with us very soon.
I'm an absolute failure at getting dead people's votes.
Got to talk to JFK.
In one election after another, I have gotten wiped out by dead people votes.
The Democrats get all the dead people.
I don't understand it.
We're the more religious party.
We believe in heaven.
Maybe only the people in hell come out to vote.
I don't know.
But we do not know how to appeal.
And you know how they say the Republicans didn't know how to appeal for the black vote?
Yep.
Well, we do a better job with the black vote than the dead vote.
We don't appeal at all for the dead vote.
That's right.
I've suggested things and they look at me like I'm crazy.
I've suggested rallies at the large cemetery.
Nope.
They won't do it.
They won't put any money into rallies at large.
Here's a little blast from the past.
This is Mayor Giuliani.
This is 1997.
Scott, we are open.
That's right.
Thank you.
The fact is that who in 1993 hated me?
I expect 1997 loved me.
Do you know that I got 50% of this vote when I ran for re-election?
I worked at it very hard.
And I expect that people have to perform.
And if they're performing, if they are using money in a wise way, if they're using it intelligently, if they're dealing with the problems of children, for example, and not just the rhetoric of change, but the reality of change, the way Rudy Crew is, they're not going to have a stronger supporter than me as the mayor of the city of New York.
If they're not performing, just talking about it, and things are going in the wrong direction, then I've got to do something about it.
I have to step up to it and I have to try to make changes.
You only have four years as mayor of New York City to make changes.
And if you're going to be unwilling to take on some conflict, you're never going to make change.
So that's the style that I have.
I think it works most of the time, like anything else a human being does.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
But by and large, I think it's turned the city in the right direction.
That was halfway through my mayoralty.
Yep.
So, you know, the first year or two, I wasn't going to win reelection.
Really?
Oh, I mean, they were getting on you.
I remember.
Oh, I was at they had about 30.
I think my lowest approval was about 38%.
So I mean, I didn't come in with a 50% approval.
I was a Republican.
I came in with like a 48% approval rating.
Okay.
My first couple of months in office, I probably went up to 51, 52.
Right.
Then I started doing cuts.
And then I had to do more cuts because there was a much bigger deficit.
The Democrats had lied about the deficit.
Surprise.
But by the end of the year, I probably was at about 30, at the end of the year, 1994.
I was below, I think I was below 40% approval and unlikely to be re-elected.
95 was like a transition year, and my approval rating went up and down.
Everything went up and down.
96.
By the end of 96, I was above 50% because all of the economic programs had started to work.
Taxes had come down.
Unemployment had gone from about 11% to about seven, eventually went to five.
We had cut maybe 25% of welfare crime.
By 1996, people finally accepted that crime had gone down.
When crime first went down, like by 20%, they didn't believe it because there still would be a murder.
So they'd say, crime went down 20%, but that person just got murdered on the subway.
Well, of course somebody's going to, we're never going to eliminate it.
And a lot of my people got very, very, very, very nervous about how are we going to do this?
How are we going to do this?
How are we going to do this?
And I said, just be patient because the broken windows theory is the thing that will win them over.
The thing that will win them over is as they walk out of their house, for 25 years, they've seen all homeless people around them.
Now they're going to walk out of their house and they're not.
The minute they see that, the statistics don't matter.
They internalize it.
They're safe.
When they don't have to go to work every day, when they don't have to go to school every day, when they don't have to go to recreation or the movies and have to worry about their safety, we won.
Right.
Not with all these statistics.
The statistics will get them to start thinking about it.
But we win when they start.
That's what I mean by quality.
That's what I mean by quality of life, broken windows theory.
That's why it's so important.
And that's what these absolutely inane, anti-American communist Democrats don't understand.
Right.
Well, Mayor, we have Curtis Liwa just a minute away coming to us live from, well, you might like this crowd.
It looks like an Italian-American crowd in Staten Island.
Why would you think I'd like an Italian-American crack?
But let's...
Let's take a, we got food on the way.
We have Curtis Liwa on the line.
Life is good.
Let's take a quick break, pay some of the bills, and we'll be right back.
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And we're back.
This is Rudy Giuliani.
We're back with America's Mayor Live, and we're staying on into what we call soccer time, which will become extremely important for you to understand when the World Cup comes to the United States next year, security of which is being supplied by someone named Andrew Giuliani, appointed by President Trump.
I wonder who that is.
So we're big soccer fans now.
Oh, man, we're over.
You've got to be over the top for the next couple of years.
You know, the only way we can really, the only way we can really convince them we're soccer fans, if we call it football, I can't do that yet.
You can't do it.
They can't do it.
It is not.
There is one game of football.
Actually, honestly, I've been in big debates with them.
They're much more entitled to the word football than we are.
In soccer, you use you use your foot a hell of a lot more than you do in football.
In football, you just kick those stupid extra points and three points, and then when they miss them, they get well.
Never mind.
Okay, let's go.
Let's go to Curtis.
Well, we're waiting on Curtis.
He's wrapping up a speech.
We have the windows.
They've given me the signal.
Are you telling me he's wrapping up a speech?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Could we come back on tomorrow morning?
Yeah.
Well, this is go time, right?
I mean, the last few, the last, this is the home stretch, would you say, the final two weeks?
Mayor, to our audience, what would you recommend to these candidates?
What should last two weeks?
There is an excitement level in the crowds that you go to.
And the first time you run, you're shocked by it.
I don't even care if you're way behind.
Everybody gets more serious when there's about 14, 15 days to go.
And there's an electricity in every speech that you give, whether you're going to win or lose that doesn't exist earlier.
The only person that ever existed for earlier was Donald Trump.
And it's the way I knew he was going to win.
I went with him to a rally in about May of 2016.
Help me get over the warning.
And it had the enthusiasm of election even.
I said, Pal, you're going to win.
This is unheard of.
People aren't that excited at this point.
Right now, see how I can just look at that audience and I can tell they're much more engaged than they would have been five weeks ago or eight weeks ago or three months ago.
Everyone's paying attention.
It's very quiet.
These people know they have to make an important decision.
Right.
The people on Staten Island know it for sure.
Right.
And what I say to the people on Staten Island, get out and vote.
It's just for me here.
You can make a difference.
Right.
Right.
So they literally elected me in 1896.
1996.
I can't.
They're saying hi to you man.
We're doing a program, Rudy.
If all of you here in Staten Island, let's give a standing ovation.
And the Rochelle restaurant on Hanapolva, Rudy.
You see that the best.
With a broken back, you know.
So there.
Oh, no.
Curtis, Curtis.
Curtis.
We got to change it to Curtis right now.
You got to save us.
You got to save us, Curtis.
A lot of weight on your shoulders, my friend.
But you got big shoulders.
There's a lot of weight on your shoulders and the people of Staten Island.
Oh, Mayor, do you have anything to say to the?
I think they got a microphone up there.
I do.
If they have a microphone there, I have a lot to say.
You got a photographer there.
I'll make it very, I'll make it very, very Staten Island Advance is taking a picture.
You saved the city once before.
You saved the city in 93 when you voted for me in ridiculous numbers.
I don't even remember the percentage, maybe 80% or whatever.
It'll make a difference.
The biggest problem in New York City, whether we're talking about this election or de Basio or whatever, people don't turn out to vote.
And people are telling you, oh, Curtis can't win.
It doesn't matter.
Mondami, the communist, is going to win.
Nobody wins until the votes are cast.
Just come out and vote as if your life depended on it.
Tell everybody to do it, even the people in the other boroughs who are your friends.
Because the truth is, your life does depend on it.
This guy is a monster who's running on the Democrat ticket.
Never been worse.
Never seen anything like it.
In my worst nightmares, I never would have thought we would have had a candidate like this.
I don't have to announce his positions.
Every single one of them is detestable to decent people.
Not just the Republicans, not just the Democrats, not just the people in Staten Island.
Any decent person would vomit listening to his positions.
So you're the backbone of the city, my friends.
You get out and vote for him.
So you've got to thank you for having the courage you have.
That's right.
And Mayor, they're listening to you.
They're watching the show live on location.
What is your message to the good people of Staten Island who have gathered tonight in support of Curtis Liwa for mayor?
Well, Ted, I hope you were listening to me because I just gave you any clearer.
Well, we're ready for Curtis.
Curtis wants to come on screen.
Do not vote for the communist Islamic supporter of Islamic terrorism.
That's right.
Curtis, are you there?
We're ready for you.
My God, when this is a city that was attacked by Islamic terrorists, and now we got a guy wanting to be mayor.
Are we crazy?
Please, we're not.
Please.
That's right.
So, Curtis is on screen now.
He's saying hi to a few potential voters.
So, of course, that's important.
But we'll hope to get him here.
We'll go back to him when he's ready.
I'm the one to wait.
Okay, great.
So, he's always wait for a great man like Curtis.
Right, right.
And he's being there.
He is here.
He is.
It's very hard.
What you're watching him do is very hard to do.
You get up this morning.
If you're Curtis Lewy, you get up this morning and every damn newspaper in New York says you can't win.
Right.
And you're saying to yourself, I believe I can.
And I believe I'm the only one that can really turn this city around.
Zandami is unquestionably ridiculous.
Cuomo had his chance and didn't.
And therefore, the weight is on my shoulders.
Right.
That's very, very hard.
Whether you like him or not, whether you agree with him, whether you think he should be supporting Cuomo or not.
You got to understand the weight on this man's shoulders is tremendous.
Right.
And he feels it because he's for real.
And there he is.
Curtis feels it.
I mean, he can.
I've been through this, so I know exactly what he's feeling.
And maybe not even because it wasn't as critical when I ran.
This is really critical, Curtis.
So tell me how things are going because we watched the debate last night.
You really scored points last night.
You really did.
Gosh, you really beat the hell out of him on any legitimate, but it's not legitimate, right?
So tell me where you are right now, in your words.
Can you get that up?
I had the line tonight when I turned to Zorhan and I said, you know, your whole resume, we can fit on a cocktail napkin.
We nearly dropped his jaw, but I didn't let Andy off either.
And then I looked over to Andrew Cuomo and I said, all your failures could fill up a New York City public library.
And that brought down the house.
Yeah, I remember I said when you said it, okay, he's got tonight.
You know, a lot of them, I'll tell you what, though, you get an idea of how biased they are or not.
A lot of them played the Zondami part.
They didn't all play the Cuomo part because that's where they're leaning, right?
The establishment press.
So how do we overcome that?
I will tell you, Rudy, we have a lot of momentum.
We had turned up the most supporters for that debate.
We lined the streets of Long Island City.
Even the Zoranistas, who have come out a lot, were impressed.
Cuomo, he didn't have a lot of supporters there.
And then he ran off to the basketball game with Eric Adams.
You don't leave your supporters behind, Rudy.
You never did.
You went basketball and talked with them.
The Knicks game.
It's not a big game.
Yeah.
He went to the Knicks.
It's a regular season game.
They pay 100 and something of them.
I don't know.
Who knows?
Maybe somebody's maybe somebody's given the indictment today.
Maybe somebody's betting on that.
I mean, I can't believe that if they're screwing around with basketball, they're not doing it in the Garment Center.
The biggest, most degenerate basketball bettors are in the Garment Center.
Going back to the college basketball face.
That was right outside the garden.
If this scandal doesn't lead back to the Garment Center, I'll eat my hat.
But we got to get you a hat like Curtis.
So, Curtis, so what's on for tomorrow?
I love candidates.
20-hour day out of 24-hours campaigning.
And Rudy, the most important thing is every day that they talk about me dropping out is a great day for Zorhan Mandami because he doesn't have to talk about the issues, which he's not knowledgeable on, he's weak on, and would have disastrous ramifications.
So that actually helps Zoran Mandami.
But I'm in all of his neighborhoods, pink votes, Astoria, Long Island City, Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Heights, the Slope, Park Slope, Sunset Park, Ridgewood.
These are all areas where the Zoranistas are out there.
We're out there going door to door, good old-fashioned retail politics, you know, with the mail hangers, phone calls, texts, emails.
And that's how you win elections.
And Cuomo's people are not out there.
His whole hope is that I drop out against people who vote for me.
They're not going to vote for him.
And I'm not dropping out with 12 days left.
I'm voting on Saturday when early voting starts, when the doors open to the Museum of Natural History, which is my voting location.
I will be voting first because that's where democracy is preserved in the history of America.
They took the Teddy Roosevelt statue from there, Rudy.
I'm going to get it back.
I'm going to get it back in front of the museum.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Please get Jefferson back in City Hall.
I used to go pray to him.
They took the Jefferson statue out of the, out of the, out of the chambers of the city council.
It's a beautiful statue of Thomas Jefferson.
And the stupid dobes have no idea that probably the guy most responsible for our being able to free the slaves is Thomas Jefferson, because he wrote in the Constitution, or rather in the Declaration of Independence, a poison pill.
And he knew he did it.
And he was told not to do it by the Virginians.
All men are created equal.
You're right, all men are created equal.
Well, slavery is a contradiction of that.
So he put a poison pill.
And if you listen to all the debates on emancipation and that took, it all started with that.
How can we be a country when all men are created equal and we have slaves?
Who put that there?
Thomas Jefferson on purpose.
And these ignorant morons don't, and they take his statue down.
And there was an attempt, although fleeting, it did not succeed.
They were talking about taking down, you saw it every day when you were in and out of City Hall, the outside, right by the park, the Nathan Hale statue.
I have but one life to give for my country.
No, they stopped.
It was stopped.
But why?
What would Nathan Hale have to do with slavery or why would they take down Nathan Hale?
Rudy, because he was white.
Let's be honest about it.
My God, people like Nathan Hale, nobody would have a country.
White, black, pink, yellow, green, in between.
Right?
But I can tell you, having been in City Hall a week ago, the statue is there.
The word as important as they always were, but they don't teach about Nathan Hale in schools.
I have three sons.
They did very well in public school.
None of them learned about Nathan Hale.
Our American Revolution, our history, civics.
We used to have mandatory civics, Rudy, so we understood what.
No, no, no, no, no.
Yes, of course.
We were taught what a great country we are.
And we were told, not untrue, by the way.
We were told, Rudy, the reason you vote is that men have died for your right to vote and also for your right of free speech.
That was drilled into us.
They don't do that to the children.
That's why turnout in elections, non-presidential years, is so dismal.
People don't feel that they have a responsibility.
This way that Mondamis can control it.
Exactly.
And you know, and as I tell everybody, Rudy, on the campaign trail, there's two people who are responsible for the rise of Zoran Mondami.
A year ago, not even his neighbors knew who he was.
The failed mayoralty of Eric Adams, because normally, even a halfway decent Democrat, the incumbent, it would have been a very tough ball for me.
I would have run against him round two, but he would have run.
His failure opened the pathway for Zoran.
And then Cuomo getting into the campaign with his name, but not willing to campaign.
And Zoron had the volunteers, had the energy, and he wiped him out.
And then Cuomo should have just recognized my day is over.
I don't have enough gas in the tank.
I'm not hungry enough.
I don't really want to be mayor.
I just want to use this as a stepping stone to get back into the national political scene.
You know, Rudy, being mayor is day-to-day detail.
It's not like being governor or a congressman or a U.S. senator.
And that's all wanted to get back into the game.
But by being mayor, something he didn't want to do.
You could tell.
You just look at his face.
You just look at his inability to talk to people, to shake their hands, unless he knows it's a friendly crowd.
Rudy, I used to see you do those town hall meetings.
People would boo you, scream, holler, curse you, and you stood there and you talked crazy.
That was crazy like you are.
Yeah.
But that's how you get respect from your friends.
We got to keep plugging away.
We got to win this.
We got to stop this guy.
So I'm going to keep checking in with you, Curtis.
God bless you.
Thank you again.
Are you finished now?
Are you finished for tonight?
No, no, I still got to go one in the morning.
I'm on Rudy Giuliani time.
I know, I know, but we got to make sure we got the energy, you know.
Okay.
Yeah.
Well, there is something.
Listen to you.
What's your wife telling you?
Rudy, it's called a lot of medallodoro coffee.
I'm going to send him some Rudy coffee.
I'm going to get next couple of days.
You're going to get Rudy coffee.
It's better.
Yes.
All right.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Be safe.
Curtis Leoy, he is putting the time in.
Be safe, my friend.
Be safe.
We really pray for that.
He's putting the time in 20 hours a day.
You know, there's such damn crazy people out there.
Every time I see one of these people, even whether it's him or Mondani or Cuomo.
Right.
There's some crazy effing.
Right.
And Curtis has been fearless.
Much more of them on their side than ours.
I do agree with that.
But we still have a couple on our side.
Right.
But this is a guy, Curtis Leoy.
You talk about a man of the people.
Out of these three candidates, this is the only one to be riding the subway day in and day out.
For he's 70 years old for his entire life.
Mamdami claims to be this, the people's candidate.
The guy doesn't ride the subway.
I'm making this choice in front of you.
I mean, if he does, you know, you're not with 10 security guards.
I'm for Curtis.
And every day I think about, is it right?
Am I right?
Am I correct?
Should there be a joint ticket?
I just don't want to wake up the day after the election with a communist in charge and an Islamic terrorist supporter and good part of it.
I cannot accuse him of being a terrorist himself.
I can absolutely and without any doubt defend saying that he's a supporter of Islamic terrorism, that he hates the Jewish people, that he hates America.
And you want Sandami, you're a piece of shit.
You want to debate me?
That was no.
I don't think so.
No, that's right, Mary.
And again, just going back to, I mean, Curtis is on the subway every day, right?
And you've going back years, and he's a New Yorker's New Yorker.
I hope that people honestly, people, the people of the city were very much affected by Mondami's affordability campaign.
Right.
And several great political advisors taught me that the answer to an election is to create the overwhelming question that people have when they go into the ballot box.
And then you be the answer to it.
So if they go into the ballot box and the answer is the question is, who can make my cost of living better?
And they'll be all over the place.
And they'll probably end up in pretty much where the polls say 40% for Zandami, 35% or whatever.
He's got to change the question they ask.
The question they ask, who can make me safer?
That's got to, that's got to get above.
He's got to, he got it.
Who can make me safer?
Now, I think that would put him over both of them if he did that.
Right.
But he hasn't done it yet.
And he's got to do it.
Right.
And I'm hopeful that he could get that message out.
If 42% of the people in New York walk into the ballot box and say, I'm really scared living in New York.
Who can make me safer?
Curtis will do a miracle.
Right.
Right.
I mean, but they're not right now.
Two to one, it's affordability.
Right.
That's right, Mayor.
And it's, it's, it's, again, where, you know, and I feel for you.
I mean, this has to be just for to, you know, this is a city you love.
I don't live there anymore.
Feel for the people of the city.
I got out of there because it's so shitty.
I mean, I have a family.
I don't want them subjected to this.
Right.
Oh, there he is when he was a kid when I helped get him out of jail.
That's right.
Curtis has been, you know, the guardian angels.
Look it up for those not from New York.
Look up the Guardian Angels program.
This man would ride the subways not armed, right?
With no special protection.
So we're going to have to cover a couple other things before we get off.
And we have to get off in five minutes because if we don't, I'm going to faint because I'm starving.
Okay.
So the United States has split the baby in half.
And the wisdom of Solomon was you didn't have to split the baby in half, right?
Right.
Everybody said, oh, split the baby in half.
The wisdom was that Solomon, you didn't have to split the baby in half because he picked the one who loved the child the most.
So we've not given the Ukrainians the tomahawks because that'll go too far into Russia and may provoke a monster Putin.
But we are going to impose massive sanctions on them.
Now, I will tell you, I would like both, but if you had to do one or the other, I prefer the sanctions because the sanctions are really where you're going to hit.
Putin doesn't care about life.
He cares about money.
And if you hit his, if you take that price of oil and get it below $50, how about down to about 40?
he will crack.
Yeah.
Much more important than if you bomb his...
Now, if you're going to use tomahawks, here's where the tomahawks could help And why if I were in the administration, I'd urge the president to give it to him.
Go hit the oil depositories.
Don't kill the Russian people.
Get rid of all their oil.
Help.
The sanctions are making the price of oil and the difficulty of getting oil out of Russia prohibitive.
But they're not 100%.
You can always get around a little bit around the sanctions.
It's at the same time as imposing the sanctions.
You took out their oil reserves, which they're doing with drones.
They're doing it like, you know, David with the peace shooter.
And they're doing a good job.
But if they had tomahawk missiles, the whole oil business in Russia would be over in a week.
They don't have to hit Moscow.
And they're not.
And the Ukrainians, for whatever else they are, and it is a country that has a great deal of corruption.
The Ukrainians are not animals.
They don't fight like animals.
The Russians fight like animals.
And Putin has no regard for the lives of his soldiers.
None, zero.
He just sends one group up after another, after another.
That's why he goes and gets as many as he can, North Koreans, to die for him.
Now he's offering all kinds of ridiculous programs to families, like send your shitty son to die for me, and I'll make you rich.
Right.
I mean, it's completely inconsistent with Western civilization because they're not part of it.
Peter the Great tried to make them part of it.
They never were.
And that's part of the problem.
And Ukraine wants to be part of Western civilization.
Right.
Putin.
So Putin, Putin was flexing his muscles.
He did a demonstration with one of his nuclear missiles.
See what I think of this, Vladimir.
He knows me, right?
See this here.
Okay.
And don't you think that would have...
You know what happens if you use that nuclear missile...
You'll be the first one dead.
And that means no more Italian girls.
I know about you.
No more Italian girls, Putin.
That's it.
And then ever read Dante's Inferno?
The Inferno part of the trilogy?
Because that's where you're going.
You can't kill that many people starting when the time when you were a young KGB agent and really enjoyed it, you sadistic fuck.
You don't go to Paradiso.
You go to the Inferno.
They don't got many pretty girls down there.
Oh, you want to try the, you want to try the, you want to try the Muhammad bullshit?
The 72 virgins, they were all used up.
The Israelis killed too many.
Just look at the number of men and women that any population produces.
And by now, the Israelis have killed so many high-ranking jihadists.
I mean, if there are a couple left, you think there are a couple of virgins left up there after all, after all this?
Come on.
Right.
So, so Russia, Russia continues the other day.
And every time he hits Kharkiv, I want to go volunteer and fight.
Right.
Because I built an emergency management center in Kharkiv.
You did, and it remains standing up.
The two things I can tell you is: Kharkiv ain't giving up, pal.
They're not giving up.
They actually rescued 50 children.
Wow.
He bombed a children's center.
Three to five.
How do you know he was doing it?
Moscow has targeted the children of Kharkiv, just 15 miles from the Russian border, killing 100 in the region and injuring more than 600 children.
Children, children, children.
He's not going to get Kharkiv.
He's not going to get Kharkiv, even though nine years ago, Kharkiv loved him.
Then he mistakenly attacked them and started killing them for no reason.
And they figured out who Putin is.
Mr. President, he is not a good guy.
He's not your kind of guy.
He's a maniacal trained from the time he was young, KGB killer.
And like some of the mafia people that I faced, some of whom hated killing, some of whom loved it.
He's in the he loves killing category because he does unnecessary killing.
Everything he's doing right now is completely unnecessary.
What the hell is he going to gain?
Two inches of territory.
He can't get beyond the Don-Esque drone wall.
He's tried a hundred times.
I don't know how many soldiers he's lost.
Probably he wiped out every stupid North Korean they sent there.
I mean, they were just like target practice.
That's right.
And plus, they ended up killing his own soldiers because I couldn't tell the difference between the Ukrainians and the Russians.
If you're in North Korea and you have a one-channel Samsung, you think you can tell the difference between two different Eastern Europeans?
Right.
And just because they have a different, their uniforms aren't even that different.
Hey, hey, I don't even know what kind of names they have, but hey, Jung Young, you're shooting the Russians.
Who are the Russians?
Right.
How do you tell the difference?
They have red, they have pink.
Oh, okay.
You're shooting your own people now, Young Young.
That's right, Mayor.
And of course, Putin's in a very, very tenuous position as battlefield losses continue to mount.
He's probably.
How about he killed an 84-year-old Gerdherder who was blown to pieces by a Russian drone?
Larissa Maranoyevna Zakulyuk, known locally as Baba Laura or Grandma Laura, was walking with two of her goats early Monday along the Antonivka neighborhood in Kirsan when they were struck by Russian UAV.
Tsarina Zabrisky, an American journalist based in Kirzin, confirmed the deadly strike.
Her legs were blown off.
She was blown to pieces, Zabrisky told the Post of images of the 84-year-old woman's body.
That's not necessary.
It's not necessary.
Putin, what the hell is wrong with you?
Are you possessed?
Do you need an exorcism?
What the hell good is it doing to you to kill an 84-year-old woman and blow her to pieces?
Isn't that on your conscience?
The problem, the problem is Americans are into this America first thing, and I'm into the America first thing too.
However, America first does not mean isolationism.
In fact, America first can sometimes be just the opposite of isolationism.
If you put America first, you want to get rid of the Chinese threat, which means having to be involved in the world.
It means not being isolationist.
You got to contest them.
You got to fight them.
You got to have a military that's so strong.
Every time they think about it, they do a Chinese shake.
That's the only way it'll work.
Only way it will work.
Well, what do we have left, Ted?
What do we have left to tell them that they need to know between now and tomorrow for sure?
Because otherwise, they will be propagandized by the miserable left wing.
Well, of course, we are monitoring the other two big elections coming up in New Jersey and Virginia.
Oh, we got to spend time on those because it would be a disaster if they elect the Naval Academy cheat in New Jersey.
Yes, or the Democrat, the Spangberger asshole who likes to support the guy who dreams about killing us.
Yes, it's absurd.
And she's going to make him her AG.
AGs are really important.
They're the ones that want to put me in jail all of that.
That's right.
Democrats.
And then, of course, the AG in Arizona won't give up the case.
I read that.
She won't give up the case because she's a Democrat.
But that eventually something, I mean, eventually something, whatever.
But you elect one of those in Virginia who wants to, he dreams about killing us.
It's this guy shouldn't be on a ticket.
He should be in it.
I got a great place for him.
They reopen the Goldberg Pavilion where they have 2,000 beds for the mentally ill.
And we'll have a big ceremony.
He can be our first inductee.
Now, if he has to be in shackles, I mean, I can't help that.
They put Peter Navarro in shackles.
And Peter Navarro never wanted to kill anybody.
Right.
This guy wants to kill people.
Right.
It's absurd.
And then, of course, we're following the NBA gambling scandal.
We expect to see a lot more from that.
So you know what the NBA is really lucky about?
NBA is lucky that we are long, long past Father's Day.
And Father's Day doesn't come up for a very long time because as my friend Tony Carbonetti told me, the most complex day in the NBA is Father's Day.
How many kids this guy has?
Six?
Yes.
Well, that's what we were told by Adam.
That's not bad.
Most of them have seven.
Right.
Usually there's a pattern.
Two with the first wife and then the five with different women.
And that is not just black.
That's white.
Larry Bird denied that this girl used to sit in the stands who looked just like him.
She looked like a bird like him.
Wasn't his daughter until they did DNA and it turned out to be his daughter.
Right.
Why would you deny a child?
What kind of a man are you if you deny a child?
You're not a man at that point.
So that's why the NBA is very partial to China and does everything that Xi Jinming wants.
Even their great stars, right?
Right.
LeBron James told us not to not to criticize China, not to talk about issues that we are not experts in.
LeBron James, I don't know if he doesn't know if he graduated high school.
He might have got an honorary degree.
Is LeBron James an expert in foreign affairs in China?
I have some deep suspicions that he's not.
You think he speaks Chinese?
That, you know, he might be learning.
I mean, that might be part of the NBA's new requirements, the Chinese Basketball Association.
And we'll talk more about that because people may understand, but there's a lot of Chinese influence in today's NBA.
And I note that.
I think the NBA is a reason why I don't watch professional bets.
I think the NBA is dominated by China more so than any of the leagues because they really think they can have a future there with their 1.3 billion people.
Right.
But I guess for sports fans out there, Mayor, should they be concerned?
Seeing this level of, I guess, corruption in the NBA, those of us that may not be the biggest NBA fans, but enjoy football, baseball, hockey, some of these other sports.
Should we be concerned?
Sports have it.
It takes a while for a sport to work.
So baseball really worked in Japan.
It's like a magic in Japan.
It looks like football is doing pretty well in England.
Yeah, I mean, they really are.
Baseball, I went to the first baseball game in England with the Yankees and the Red Sox.
And you could tell they couldn't pick it up.
I mean, first of all, they're not smart enough, but that's why we beat them in the war.
Right.
Baseball requires football is a more intuitive game.
Football may have more strategy and everything else, but baseball is a more intellectual game.
Baseball requires an ability to abstract that you don't need in football.
You're not going to understand baseball unless you really sit down and study it or you've played it.
And I know that because I tried very, very hard.
People come to me to learn baseball because I love it so much.
I remember my friend Peter Powers had this Eastern European girlfriend, great girl.
She loved, wanted to marry him and stuff.
He married somebody else eventually.
She wanted to know about baseball.
So I taught her everything about baseball.
He went to a med game.
And all of a sudden, I told her, you know, if they hit it out of the ballpark, it's a home run.
I don't know why.
I didn't describe it more concretely than that.
So we're sitting there and somebody like, I think the Pirates was the Pirates in the Meds.
And somebody from the Pirates hits one way out of the ballpark, but foul.
Okay.
She gets up and she starts cheering and jumping up and down.
Everybody's looking at her.
Yeah.
And she looks at me and she said, you said if they hit it out of the ballpark, it's a home run.
And I'm thinking I really created this problem for her.
I didn't define it correctly enough.
It's out of the ballpark fair.
Between the following.
How many home runs Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams would have?
Anyone out of the ballpark?
45,000.
Got a hit between the foul poles.
The foul poles came.
Yeah, but the ball went right over like this.
And she's getting up.
Maybe that had something.
Tasha, sit down.
Maybe that had something to do with Peter Nott ending up marrying her.
Her lack of baseball.
He actually did.
He took her to another baseball game.
I don't know why he kept doing this.
If you want to court a girl who doesn't understand, you take it to other things than you teach it.
And he wanted to bring her right into the lion's depth.
He wanted to see how she would react to American sports.
And she was just a fool.
Right.
No, I could see that.
Look, if you're a big baseball guy and you go to games on a regular basis, I think it's fair to take your potential.
You're a big sports guy.
Yeah.
You get one of these things.
You know, is she going to allow me to enjoy sports?
And he decided no.
Right.
But the poor girl didn't even understand it.
I mean, she's cheering for a foul ball.
It's a home run.
Right.
Well, well.
The secretary for the secretary of, no, the head of CBS News.
Barry Weiss.
Now has six people guarding her.
I saw her.
So she's making changes and trying to get them to tell the truth.
Why start now?
Remember that line?
Saturday Night Live.
They weren't telling the truth.
You want to get really shocked?
They weren't telling the truth when Walter Cronkite was there.
Exactly.
He was biased.
Right.
Take that.
There's her security.
The New York Post wanted to point out how good-looking and chiseled these guys look.
Who?
Her security force.
This is Barry Weiss's security guards right here on screen.
They're chiseled.
Which one is chiseled?
They got strong jaws.
I can't disagree.
The one guy on her right looks like her son.
Maybe it was.
It looks like a five-year-old.
Oh, yeah.
Yes, that does.
Let me see that group again.
I know security people better than anybody.
Put them on.
The big guy on the right, that's about the only one that I'd say is impressive.
The kid on the left, I don't know.
He might start running the other way.
The other short one next to the big guy, I have no idea.
I can't tell from, I'm just looking at appearance now.
I don't know anything about him.
Yeah.
Barry, Barry, you got to come.
You got to get some advice from me.
I'll get you some really good ones.
I don't want to see.
I mean, you're doing the right thing, sweetheart.
So hang in there.
Don't worry about it.
You're not going to bring back CBS to its greater glory because it never had any glory.
Right.
It was always a piece of shit.
Right.
Let's just make it into a First Amendment station.
Right.
We now have in Japan the very first ever, ever, ever, ever female prime minister.
And I don't know, we haven't used it all night, but if we can use this, I want to show you a picture that I find enormously impressive.
And I don't know exactly.
I got it from yesterday.
Is it the same one from yesterday?
I don't know.
With the ceremony?
The ceremony?
Oh, I got to get John Bros later.
Yep.
He's a very good guy.
There, there you go.
I got it right there.
Yep, I got it right here.
Put it up.
That's the new prime minister of...
Where?
Oh, over there.
Not there?
Not there.
Okay.
There's the new prime minister of Japan, who is very pro-American, offering her credentials to the emperor of Japan.
I'm not even sure you probably knew they have an emperor.
You know why they still have an emperor?
Because of a genius.
An American genius who is maligned because he was too militaristic, too, I don't know what, too good, Douglas R. MacArthur.
If you can't relate to his battle strategies, some of which would rank in the five greatest battles in the history of the world, like his Incheon landing, which only a genius could have figured out, like George Washington with his Hudson River crossing.
Then you got to relate to the fact that there is nobody in the history of this world who took a conquered country and made it a friend of the country that conquered it as fast as Douglas MacArthur did Japan.
Not even Caesar.
Because the man was an intuitive genius.
You see that emperor sitting there?
He could have thrown him right out.
Boom.
You know what MacArthur did after we won the war?
After we used the atom bomb on them twice, he went and did that.
He said, Emperor, I don't blame it on you.
If Japan still wants an emperor, they can have an emperor.
If they don't want an emperor, they don't have to have an emperor.
But I'm here to protect you until they get a chance to calm down and make that decision wisely.
The minute he did that, Douglas R. MacArthur could be one of the, Douglas R. MacArthur could rate with the heroes of Japan in their pantheon of the greatest Japanese.
And he won over for us, I believe, a country that will be one of the most critical allies of the United States, because there is no country that China fears more than that country.
When the Chinese think about the Japanese, they can't even sleep at night.
And the idea of demilitarizing them, maybe it made sense in 1948, 49.
It doesn't make sense anymore.
They're not going to attack us.
I know who they're going to attack.
And if you militarize them, Xi Jinming wouldn't even think about taking Taiwan.
That's right.
But really militarized them.
Now, Abe, who is very, very close to Donald Trump, was moving in that direction.
Then the Sissies took over.
She is tough as nails.
Takachi is as tough as nails.
I was very friendly with the former prime minister, Yakasumi, who used to play the guitar.
And he wasn't quite as tough as these guys.
I was trying to get him to be, but I taught him how to, I taught him how to throw out the first ball.
Ah, that's important.
Any Japanese leader has to know how to throw out the brainstorming.
Jacob has to throw out the first ball at the first major league, real major league game played in Japan.
It was the Yankees against the devil race.
And at the same time, Major League Baseball said, we think it would be disrespectful if we didn't invite the emperor, not the emperor, the prime minister to do the same thing.
So the prime minister's office called me and asked, and he was a good friend of Bush's, that guy.
He used to come here and play the guitar, and he used to imitate Elvis Presley.
So I got on the phone with him, and he said, I'm not going to tell anybody else this, but I'm going to tell you, he spoke great English.
I've never thrown out the first ball, but we don't do that here.
They never allow politicians to intrude into baseball.
That's probably a pretty good idea.
But we're going to get to throw out the first ball.
So you're going to throw it out with me.
How do we do it together?
I said, did you play baseball?
He said, absolutely.
I played shortstop.
I said, well, that means you're a pretty good baseball player.
Can you throw?
Yeah, of course I can throw.
Can you hit?
Yeah, I can hit.
Not everybody in Japan is a baseball player and a golfer.
So I said, I can change.
This is nothing.
It can be nothing for you.
I'll come over there two days early and we'll practice together.
We'll have fun.
Right.
So I went over and I taught him.
I didn't teach him how to throw.
I got him over the nervousness of throwing out the first ball.
He was just as capable of doing it as I was.
And then we became great friends.
We must have gone to four Yankee games together when he came to America.
Every time he'd come to America to see Bush, he'd come up to New York to see me and I would take him to a Yankee game.
And he even pitched at a Yankee game.
He did.
He's run the first ball to the Yankee game too.
Because I told he was capable of doing it.
Right.
So we got it on here.
Let's see how he does.
There he is.
Were you there?
Were you here at this game?
Of course I was.
Yeah.
You see me.
Looking for the mayor here.
You probably help him.
This is 2004.
But you think you would have been there to help him, right?
I was.
Oh, and that must be Hideki Matsui.
Oh, he loved Matsumi.
He loved Matsui.
And that's him.
You should go back and get the picture from the game in Japan.
That's what I was looking for, and I'll look for that.
This is the game here in the United States.
This is 2004.
Yeah, George was still alive.
Let's see how you did, Mayor.
So you helped him with this first pitch.
Let's see how he does it here.
This is 2004 in New York City.
That's Yankee Stadium.
And he wore that hair like that.
Do the windup?
Not bad.
Not bad.
You only get that music if it's a strike, right?
No, that was a good throw.
Yeah.
You as good as Bush.
Yeah, that's right.
George Bush, so we're going to say goodnight because people have to go to sleep.
Did we show Takachi?
We did.
Okay.
I'm counting a lot on this Takachi lady.
I had three businesses in Japan for eight years.
I really know Japan, so we're not like just this is a great country.
You got to get beyond, you got to get beyond the superficials with them.
Right.
And you got to get to know the Japanese.
When you get to know the Japanese, you get to know some of the strongest, most honorable people you've ever met.
Right.
That is definitely on my bucket list.
It's like, if I could make Israel and Japan our two biggest allies, man, I wouldn't worry about anything for my grandchildren.
Wouldn't worry about anything.
Right.
These guys are as determined warriors as the Israelis are.
I believe when you consider over the centuries, they have dominated that big China and this tiny little island.
You realize what because they're a tiny little island, you know, not really tiny, but they have developed this ability to defend themselves that's in the blood.
Right.
Put them to war.
You got to have the great United States of America to defeat them.
And you have to hit them with an atomic bomb to do it, which is what Truman realized.
Truman had an estimate, which a lot of people question, that if he didn't do the atomic bomb twice, we would have lost a million troops.
A lot of people think that's exaggerated.
If you know the Japanese and you're going to try to take Japan up and down, it would have been like trying to take England back when Winston Churchill said, you want England?
You got to kill every Englishman.
Nowadays, if you want England, they just give it to you.
You just got to ask for it.
That's right, Mayor.
So we got to get over there.
We got to meet with this new prime minister.
If I don't get off now, I'll faint.
Well, then we better get off.
You're like any great starting pitcher, though.
You got to, well, not tonight, maybe, but usually I got to really, really push you to get off.
Yeah, but I was going to help so much.
And I want some Japanese food.
Oh, wouldn't that be nice?
Wouldn't that be nice?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, please pray for the people of Israel and pray for the people of Ukraine and pray for the people of Iran.
These are the people that are most in distress.
You know what?
We're going to spend more time on it as soon as this election gets over, but we're going to start concentrating on Africa because they are wiping Christians out in Africa left and right.
And it has nothing to do with civil wars in Africa.
It has to do with the fact that these Muslims elect the bad part of Muhammad instead of the good part of Muhammad, like Zandami does.
And what that means is they are determined to destroy every Christian in Africa.
That's what it's about in Nigeria.
That's what it's about in Ghana.
It's not a civil war.
It's a religious war.
And it's a war to exterminate Christians.
Their same desire to exterminate Jews extends to Christians.
But nobody covers it because we're euphemistic with regard to Muslims.
Even the Catholic Church is euphemistic with regard to Muslims, and it could be our undoing.
So we're going to try to interrupt that.
Right, and we are here day in and day out.
So now you pray for the president.
You pray for him to remain strong, to remain healthy, to remain alive.
How about to remain alive?
Okay?
And of course, God guides America.
We went on long tonight, Ted.
I don't know that they will.
I think that they'll certainly have an impact.
They're massive sanctions and sanctions on oil.
The two biggest oil companies, among the biggest in the world, but they're Russian.
They do a lot of oil.
And hopefully it'll push.
Hopefully he'll become reasonable and hopefully Zelensky will be reasonable too.
You know, it takes two to tango, as they say, and we're going to find out.
They've had, they hate each other.
These two people hate each other.
You know that better than anybody.
And it makes it more difficult than it should be.
This should be easier to do.
But the level of hatred between Zelensky and Putin is very substantial.
Could I add one thing?
What the president is doing today with these sanctions is putting more pressure, of course, on both parts, in this case, on Russia.
It's all about changing the calculus, making sure that Putin understands that the president's vision this weekend of having a ceasefire, stop where they are, as you literally said, and that this has to be step one now.
And for him to really accept that vision and to come to the table.
And then you have to put pressure.
And this is exactly what he did today.
Along with Europe.
I mean, Europe, look, these are become, they've actually become friends of mine.
I think all of them.
We have a very close relationship and they want to see it end too.
They really want to see it end.
But I can say they're totally committed.
If this went on for 10 more years, Europe is behind them.
They just can't let that happen.
You can't let what's been going on.
Now, it should have never happened.
It would have never happened if I were president.
But it did happen.
I inherited it.
This was Biden, a man who was without question.
You take a look at the new walkway, the presidential walk of fame, we call it.
Biden is the worst president we've ever had, if he was even a president.
The people that surrounded that desk made those decisions.
But this should have never happened.
It wouldn't have happened.
But it did happen.
I inherited it.
We're going to get it ended hopefully soon.
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.
There was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past and see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country, a country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason.
We're able to talk.
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