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Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor Alive.
And we still have Brown behind us because we still think it probably is the predominant story and a perplexing one at that, right?
Perplexing because I don't know that any of us, in fact, I don't know that any of us at all in any way thought that this was going to come down to some what appears to be disgruntled student from Portugal who went to Brown 26 years ago or so,
spent time in Portugal, not at Brown, but spent time in Portugal studying with Professor Loreo.
I should get the right pronunciation of that.
It's almost Italian.
But then came here and shot and killed these two wonderful young people with an unbelievable futures and shot a number of other people at Brown, the motive for which at best we can speculate about, at best, we can speculate about.
And then got himself off to Brookline, Massachusetts, and went up to the house of the professor and shot and killed him.
Some guy from Portugal who became an illegal resident in 2017, but studied for, studied for probably a year at Brown at that, and was registered there for about two or three years.
All the reasons are now being sorted out.
But it does show you that crimes are usually solved by logic, except for the times they're not.
Which means logic, as most good lawyers and investigators will tell you, dictates the answer about 80% of the time.
And it's all you can rely on when you don't have anything else.
But the minute you have something else, you better start looking at it and taking care of it.
What do you have, Ted?
Just some video of the police announcing the arrest and description.
An individual was identified as Claudio Neves Valenti, date of birth, and he was a 48-year-old man.
He was a Brown student.
He was a Portuguese national.
And his last known address was in Miami, Florida.
An individual was identified as Claudio.
If you want to take a look, this is sort of the geography of it.
The Brown murders, the two young students with great futures who were killed and the others that were wounded, that was the first act.
And it took place there in the southern part of New England.
That's about as south as you can be in New England, by the way.
Well, not really.
You can go down further in Providence.
And it took place in a building that he had been a student at.
And then two days later, after we saw all those pictures of him walking around, walking around, walking around, walking around.
Then two days later, it emerges that a professor in Brookline, which is there to the MIT murder, December 15th, 9 Gibb Street, Brookline, Massachusetts.
He opens his door and he's shot and killed by a person who was a classmate of his something like 27 or 28 years ago.
And then he goes off to a storage facility right over the border in New Hampshire, in Salem, New Hampshire, and puts his car there himself, whatever else, and does away with himself.
And now we'll have to figure out why the hell did he do all this?
Whoa.
I mean, let's face it, this is complicated and difficult.
And who the heck knows?
We're going to see.
We're going to find out.
And we're going to find out if it's connected to the other horrible, horrible murders that took place.
these are the young people that that died and the professor look look at look at look at look at those wonderful smiles on mukhammed aziz umar zolkov and ella cook Look at that.
Look at those beautiful smiles.
And look at the professor.
He looks like an extraordinarily nice man, Nuno Lorea, Lurero.
Lu Rero.
Obviously a brilliant man.
And again, we're probably searching for putting this all, the why together.
And it will be, I believe, but you can't be sure of that, right?
Can't be sure of it.
Well, I should also tell you that we have a new designate for a great cardinal who has resigned in New York, often described as America's cardinal, Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
I consider myself a friend of his.
I considered myself very, very fortunate to be a friend of his.
He was a holy and great man with a personality bigger than life.
I remember meeting his brothers when he was early on as a cardinal, and maybe he was still a bishop.
And he said, he'd very much like to go to a Yankee game with you.
I said, yeah.
He said, yeah, but I mean, does he drink beer?
He said, drink beer.
You could drink us under the table.
The brothers said.
He said he's a regular guy, except he's a lot holier than you and me.
You know, you hear similar stories about the Pope.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know about the Pope.
I'm not sure.
The Pope says some things I like and some things I don't like.
And he goes back and forth.
And he's an American, but is he an American?
I don't know.
We got to see about the Pope.
The Pope is my spiritual leader.
Faith and morals, I got to listen to him.
On politics, I don't have to listen to him at all.
And this guy, he's going to have to prove himself to me.
We're going to have to see.
And I do think that Cardinal Dolan was wrong on immigrants.
And the Catholic Church is not doing them a favor by taking all that money and bringing them all in and letting them get hurt.
They're not.
They're not it's it's.
It's distorted and it's wrong.
There was a point at which it was right and there was a point at which it was justified, but there's a point now in which it's become abusive and it's it's also a point at which we can rightfully ask and don't get mad at me how much does the money influence?
I mean, they get hundreds of millions for doing that, and not only them all, the rest of the all, the rest of the immigrant uh uh, supporters who have who, who now are, who now, over the last four years, in encouraging Biden to do what he did, have flooded our country with terrorists, child abusers.
We've gone from being a country that didn't have a tremendous amount of human trafficking to the leading country in the world, all because of that, and with the help of the Christian denominations.
I mean, at some point some some, something had to go off in your head to say, are we being used here?
And did the vast amount of money uh uh, blur that instinct?
Sorry, but you know, love the Catholic church, but it's a human institution.
It's not Jesus Christ, it's his church on earth, run by humans, which means it's going to commit sins and do bad things as well as great things.
And being a Catholic doesn't mean you become an ignorant fool.
It means you use what you were taught uh to very very, in a very disciplined way, examine things from a logical and sensible and moral point of view, knowing that you're going to be wrong too.
But none of that can take away from the fact that there was something very special about cardinal Dolen and uh, and I say to uh to, to the, to the, to the archbishop who is now uh taking, taking over, you've got, you've got big shoes to fill, babe.
I mean you do.
It was really hard uh to replace uh, cardinal O'connor.
And cardinal O'connor was also like cardinal Dolen, much bigger than life, is a great man, a strong man, a powerful man, a man of great intellect and a man of great love and a man of tremendous discipline, who didn't agree with me on everything and gave me some pretty damn good lectures as my cardinal.
Nor did I agree with him on everything I did, on everything that I had to.
He was hard to replace and do one's hard to replace, really really hard to replace.
So I I I, I wish, I wish, um the new archbishop great uh credit uh great great great great uh, luck and and support.
And I know God guide him.
And pretty soon he'll learn that New York is a lot better place than Chicago.
And yeah, you can be a CUBS fan.
But what good is that going to do you?
You get one world championship in 100 years.
I mean, at least the other guy, at least the other guys knew he wasn't going to win.
But the white Socks he's a white socket.
That's not too much better either.
I mean, there is a team here called the Yankees, and Cardinal Dolin he wouldn't admit it because He came from St. Louis, I think.
Yeah, he wouldn't admit it.
He became, he used to go to Yankee Stadium all the time.
Oh, he probably loved it.
Oh, he really loved it.
He did.
So Ukraine, Ukraine, I mean, wow.
Where do you start?
If you can figure out where we are on Ukraine, you're better than I am.
So the European Union was going to use the Russian money to fund Ukraine because Ukraine can't afford another year and a half of war or two years of war.
Right.
Now, I don't know if they can't afford it because they can't afford it or they can't afford it because some of their people are stealing it.
Yeah.
We got a lot of thieves in Ukraine.
And we know around Zelensky is a group of thieves.
And please, I don't want to make Zelensky's life any more difficult because I'm on his side.
But Zelensky's, I don't know if he's a thief or he likes thieves, but he hangs around with them.
Well, corruption is like their national pastime over there.
So like in Russia, let's be fair.
The two most corrupt countries in the Western orbit.
I mean, you can't compare it to Africa.
I don't know.
I feel like they're more sophisticated and more capable.
There's more money to take, but in Somalia, there's nothing honest at all.
I mean, you can find some honesty in Ukraine and Russia.
You go to Somalia, I mean, there's a damn thing that's on.
The whole country is completely F and corrupt.
Like they don't even make a PowerPoint presentation before they steal the money.
No reason to pretend.
Okay.
And they come here, and that's what the UN was filled with.
UN is filled with these countries that are prostitute countries.
A hundred of them.
They come here and they steal and they rape their women and they beat their kids and they beat up cops.
And when the cops come to try to help their women, they hurt the cops.
And I mean, I had a terrible time with the United Nations.
And I came to the conclusion, I began as a supporter in terms of the economy of New York, thinking that the UN is great for New York's international status as what I began calling the capital of the world.
And by the time I was finished, I had come to the conclusion that we'd save a lot of money if we threw them out.
I mean, they, in so many different ways.
And save the world a lot of pain.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, they, in many, many ways, they cost us a tremendous.
First of all, we spend twice as much on their security as we're given by the federal government, which is really unfair.
And we do it for a very simple reason.
We know if God forbid something happens, it's going to hurt us.
Yeah.
So, plus, we're human beings and we take pride in New York.
And we don't, every person that was hurt in New York hurt me and hurt my people.
So, I mean, sometimes we were guarding some of the worst people in the world.
And I would say my cops are human.
I would sometimes sit with them and say, look, you got to keep them alive.
If they want to kill them, let them do someplace else.
Not New York.
We're not going to let anybody get assassinated here.
I don't care how much you hate them or whatever.
And we did.
And there's no place that protects you more than New York.
That doesn't mean we can't fail.
I mean, we have, but I don't know if we have in terms of protecting foreign dignitaries.
Yeah, I can't think of it.
I don't remember.
At least that was not one of my failures.
But in any event, we try real hard to keep them alive.
But the amount of money that costs us is tremendous.
Now, here's the worst part.
The amount of money it costs us in terms of law enforcement, the cheating they do in restaurants, the cheating they do at real estate, the theft that they just do generally, the physical damage they do, the violent crimes they commit.
And I tell you, they have a propensity for perversion that's scary.
It's a den of thieves.
It changes your whole, I mean, I had more crime coming out of there than I did some of the some of the big crime areas in New York, whether they were mafia or minority or whatever.
I have no idea why we still They haven't solved the war ever.
I mean, Korea ended up in a tie, which began the problems.
And after that, I mean, Clinton at one point was asked why he wasn't using them in Eastern Europe.
And he said, well, yeah, they never solve a war.
That was Clinton, and that was 30 years ago, four years ago.
I mean, they haven't, you look at all the wars that Trump has stopped.
The UN hasn't helped one bit.
They haven't helped in the Middle East.
They haven't helped in Ukraine.
They certainly gave us no help in Iraq either time.
They had nothing to do with ending the Vietnam War.
I mean, it had nothing to do with ending the war in Afghanistan that the Russians conducted.
They got about eight wars going on in Africa, and most of those countries are represented in the UN and they spend their time here stealing.
You tell me exactly why we have them so that China and Russia can get some kind of credibility for their propaganda.
I don't see that just dropping out would not affect a damn thing.
Maybe it would push us to try to start something different.
We got to take a very good look at the fact that China and Russia are strongly deepening their cooperation.
And I know it troubles many, many people who agree with me on this, that the president seems to value his friendship with Khrushchev and Xi Jinming quite a bit.
There's a strategy to that.
You've got to be able to talk to them and you've got to be able to deal with them and you've got to be able to get the best out of them possible.
At the same time, you got to step back and say, these are two of the most evil people in the history of the world.
I mean, I never met Xi Jinming, but I met Putin, and there wasn't a moment in which I wasn't aware of the fact that I was with a pathological murderer.
Not a single moment of the two times that I met with him.
And these two guys are trying to patch up their differences.
And there was an article today about how they're working together.
And it says, well, they have one big difference on South Korea or North Korea.
The Russians support North Korea and the Chinese are worried about North Korea.
They're worried that North Korea could make a mistake that would set their agenda.
They don't want anybody setting their agenda.
And they know Russia is, they know something we don't know about Russia.
Russia's a little piss at.
Yes, they have nuclear weapons and yes, they could blow up the world.
That's about all they can do.
They got an economy that is way below the European Union.
And I don't want to say they're drunks, but you know.
Oh, they're drunks?
Yeah.
Well, I don't know about that, but they sure drink a lot.
I think I don't know if Putin's a drunk.
Well, they, yeah.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I never thought of Putin as being a drunk, but Gorbachev was.
He's not a Yeltsin.
Yeltsin.
Yeltsin.
All over.
And I remember, I remember the guy in Ukraine the first time I went there.
He had to have to put him in the hospital twice a year to detox.
When I got there, he was detoxed.
I didn't want to meet him because McCain told me, you want a picture with him?
He chopped the head of a reporter off.
I mean, these are serious killers.
And I don't know, maybe.
Well, let's see what happens.
Let's see what comes from being nice to them.
So far, nothing has come from Ukraine.
I have to say that.
I mean, I take a totally different approach to Ukraine and think the guy should have been kicked in the balls on day one and then kicked again and kicked again and kicked again until he had no balls left.
And that's the way you deal with Putin's.
Immediately, the most serious sanctions should have been applied.
Immediately, we should have been threatening rather than him threatening.
And when Ukraine wanted to use missiles to bomb the hell out of them when they were bombing the hell out of Ukraine, we should let him do it and say, what the hell are you complaining about?
You're bombing them.
Stop bombing them, and Ukraine will stop bombing you.
Now we're at the point where we're trying to get Ukraine to give up Donesk to them.
There's no way to cut this, and I'm not going to do any spinning because it's too important.
But I mean, you give up Donesk, and you're risking another war real fast.
Maybe as soon as Trump is gone, maybe while Trump is there, got to stand up to bullies.
Read that in the book once.
Isolationist or not.
Isolation doesn't make you a coward.
So the U.S. apparently seems to have understood the criticism of being a little bit too cagey on Taiwan, particularly with all this discussion about what a good friend Xi Jinming is.
And of course, Xi Jinming has only one objective in life, and it's to take Taiwan, which has worried a lot of people that we're not going to back Taiwan should China take it.
So we did something very, very important.
And I'm getting a feeling that there are two groups in the administration, the isolationists, pacifists, isolationists who want to kiss up to Qi Jin Ming and Putin, and somewhat more hardliners who realize they only understand power.
And I would say Rubio represents that group.
So we did the largest arms sales we've ever done with Taiwan, which sends a signal much bigger than anybody's words.
How big is that?
Oh my God, 11.1 billion.
Hey, hey, oh, man.
Yeah, yeah.
This, I mean, the arms that we sent them could do could eat.
Well, I would not recommend Xi Jinming take lightly the idea that he's going to invade Taiwan and Taiwan is going to do tremendous damage to him.
If he thought taking Ukraine was tough.
Now, this comes after the president kind of lecturing the new prime minister of Japan in her taking on China.
I think we should encourage her rather than lecture her.
And some criticism that we were being a little bit too friendly with China, particularly given their intentions with Taiwan.
Now, you got to understand Japan has a much better claim on Taiwan than China does.
It's really part of their archipelago.
And it has never been Chinese.
It only became Chinese in the late 1940s when the Chinese communists defeated the Chinese nationalists on the Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Kai-shek escaped to Taiwan.
That's when Chinese took over Taiwan, which was an indigenous population.
They considered themselves more related to Japan.
Yeah, culturally doesn't, and now that you say it, culturally, they hate China.
They're going to line up so much more with the Japanese or even Korean history.
So does, by the way, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Malaysia.
They all hate China, which the president beautifully demonstrated when he went there to meet Xi Jinming and got minerals from all of them.
Like right in China's face, boom, boom.
Well, when you're an industrious person, you know, who values like individual liberty, you tend to dislike governments like China.
Yeah.
Well, this is what I said.
This is what I said to the head of the Communist Party in Beijing, and he threw me out.
I said, he said, you know, we really are entitled to get Taiwan.
And I said, well, maybe if you were a democracy, you'd have a chance because they fought a long time to become a democracy.
When the Chinese first came into Taiwan, they became a dictator.
Chiang Kai-shek was a dictator, just like not as bad as Mao, but like that.
And the indigenous Taiwanese, with the new Chinese that came in over a 15-year period, had great conflicts and then they worked out a democracy.
And now they have a democracy and they have one of the 10 or 15 greatest economies in the world.
Well, that little island.
I can't speak to their education system.
They're buying $11.1 billion in arms from us.
But it seems like they can design and engineer some pretty complex stuff.
Well, they have the best troops in the world.
Exactly.
The best in the world.
They're doing weapons.
They're giving him a bus.
Yeah.
I really think a combination of the United States, Israel, Taiwan, Japan, and the Philippines.
You don't need anybody else.
I don't know.
Germany could help.
You're putting a lot of stock in the Philippines.
No, I'm putting a lot of stock in Japan, straighten them out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
The Philippines, that's an entire different language.
A lot of work.
Maybe I should have kept Philippines out, but I see them as a reclamation project.
Sure.
Which could be helped greatly by a very, very strong Japan.
But I put a lot of confidence in Japan.
And I really do think the new leader of Japan loves us.
And I think she could be entitled to a little more loyalty.
Well, and talk about industrious.
That's why I think that the Taiwanese line much more, you know, are much more in line with Japan in that regard.
Oh, my gosh, yes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No doubt about it.
While Morris, a senior fellow at Asia Society Policy Institute, has been a critic of Trump for being too close to Xi Jinming.
Morris said no arms sale would likely have sent a worse message, meaning to China.
Chinese foreign minister spokesman Guo Jiokun predicted arming the island would backfire on the U.S. and warned against squandering its people's hard-earned money to buy weapons and turning Taiwan into a powder cake.
Oh, he knows what to say, though.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, well, yeah, powder cake for you, pal, when you try to invade, right?
So one of the things we're not squandering if they're buying it, and they are already a good thing.
They are already a very, very sophisticated military power.
Yeah, they probably have the chips already there.
This is not even Ukraine.
And it doesn't have the corruption Ukraine has.
It's a much better government.
It's a much more efficient, good government.
And surrounded by one of the most tried and tested fortifications, which is a big sea.
So it does make any assault on their territory much more difficult than that of Ukraine or any other land adversary.
The real question is: would China try an amphibious landing or a bombing?
I think they would do a bombing, which is why the defense that we had for Israel is what we need for them.
Well, certainly that's a portion of it, but they will have to eventually do like almost a deep amphibious landing.
I think they wouldn't make it off the beach.
But I've seen they have what they've been building are these.
Yeah, they're building these long, they're building these long piers where they can almost walk in.
And they, well, and it connects to the highway system.
Yeah.
So it's like, man, the most convenient invasion.
Except if you put a rocket in the middle of it.
Exactly.
And that's like things are only effective until they're not blown up.
So, you know.
So it's going to be interesting, but it's, it's now, China is doing something that they're getting great credit for.
And the article in the Wall Street Journal, who every once in a while, I wonder what side they're on, says that China has outfoxed us.
And what they're doing is because we cut them off so much from valuable items because of the tariffs, they're going back to being, you remember when Made in China was a joke?
Yes.
Yeah.
You know, Made in China.
Boom!
Made in China.
Lighter.
Made in China.
They still make some stuff like that.
Well, this is what they relied on last this year.
So they've been selling shit to Europe, a trillion dollars worth.
And it's their biggest year for exports.
And it's all crap.
A tsunami of cheap stuff into Europe.
And they're saying that China out-foxed the United States' efforts to isolate Beijing with shipments to Europe and Southeast Asia, more than offsetting the nearly 20% contraction of the U.S.
So they're making up in money what they're losing for their high-level exports with cheap shit.
But it kind of begs the question that when you start going back to cheap shit, they're not retooling the factories for the next thing.
So where's the good stuff coming from?
The people who hate Vietnam.
Why do you think we did the trade treaty with Vietnam, with Vietnam?
Wow, Cambodia.
Yeah, right.
What's going to happen is they became the China moved up, right?
Made in China was a joke, then made in China.
And these other countries became the maiden Chinas.
You know, you get it from Vietnam, you get it from Cambodia, you get it from Laos.
Now, they have, they're starting to become more successful.
And, okay, I understand that the Wall Street Journal is much smarter than me, and I'm just a stupid ex-mayor.
But I have a feeling that those other countries can jump over China if China continues to sell shit.
Well, do you remember?
Do you remember in Back to the Future?
There's a famous scene where the professor pulls out a part and he says, oh, that's why.
Made in Japan.
And in the short time span since he had traveled back.
It was the 80s.
Yeah, Michael J. Fox goes, Doc, all the stuff made in Japan.
I remember that.
It's like, great Scott.
I remember that.
Made in Japan, made in China.
And we would be, I don't know, that's the direction China wants to go in.
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And here we are, and we have Brown still behind us.
But for a while, we had Palm Beach.
Well, next week is Christmas.
And Christmas is, I believe, and there will be a theological dispute about this, that Christmas is the most important day of the year in the history of the world.
And of course, there are people who would say, well, Easter is when Jesus rose from the dead, or possibly Good Friday when Jesus died for our sins.
But here's why I say that Christmas is the most important.
That wouldn't have happened had he not been born.
And had not an extraordinary event take place that has something to do with why Western civilization is the most important and the most beautiful and the most wonderful thing that ever happened to humanity.
Humanity.
Jesus became man.
God became man.
Now, I want you to contemplate that for a moment.
What that means about the importance of humanity.
Why a governor Hochul, who has now signed an assisted killing bill, doesn't seem to understand Western civilization because she doesn't understand the sacred nature of human life and how unless there are extraordinary, absolutely extraordinary circumstances, you can't touch it because it's beyond you.
It belongs to God.
You didn't make you.
God made you.
So you don't have the right to take a life and you don't have a right to take your own life.
You were put here to live, not to kill yourself.
And sure, you have the concept of defensive murder, which has to exist.
Otherwise, innocent and decent people could just be wiped out.
But beyond that, where there's absolute reasonable fear that you or someone else's life is going to be taken, you just have no right to touch human life.
And that's what the birth of Jesus.
The birth of Jesus took humanity and lifted it.
So the way I look at it, Western civilization has lifted humanity way above any of the religions of what we used to call the Orient.
They're all wonderful and beautiful with one exception, but they don't value human life the way we do.
Because the whole process of the development of Western civilization, whether you want to start it with the Greeks or with the Jews, is about the importance of the human being.
The Greeks, it was the importance of the human intellect, right?
That's why they spent so much time with philosophy, with why are we here?
What are we doing here?
How should we live?
How should we govern?
How should we deal with each other ethically?
How should we, because there's something special about us, our mind.
They don't have minds, those beautiful animals that we love so much, that we have.
They don't have consciousness.
They don't write.
They don't read.
And then you have the spiritual nature of it with this very special relationship the Jewish people had with God.
Man was so important that God would talk to him like he did to Abraham or like he did to Moses.
And then man became so important that God became man.
Wow.
And then all the teachings that emerge from that.
That's where when we say we teach the humanities, that's where the whole concept of teaching the humanities came from.
It didn't come from Asia, it didn't come from Africa, didn't come from Arctic or the other one.
Didn't come from Australia, it came from Western civilization.
So that's what we're going to celebrate on when is it Thursday of next week?
What day is Christmas?
Next week.
Well, it's definitely the 25th this year.
I know it's the 25th.
I'm just going to day of the week we're working on Thursday.
Thursday, yeah.
So on Thursday of next week, that's what we're going to celebrate.
And that's what we're going to get ready for.
So this weekend, I want you to do a little reading.
I want you to do a little reading.
I want you to do a little reading about the prophecies of Jesus in the Bible.
Maybe listen to Handel's Messiah, the first part.
The Messiah really was written for Easter, but it begins with the birth of Jesus.
So it's a wonderful 40 minutes or 30 minutes devoted to the scriptures about Jesus, or the best thing ever written in music about the birth of Jesus, Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
And then I know we haven't seen it personally, but you know, for a family-friendly, high-production-value story of David, Angel Studios has a new animated David.
I haven't seen it, I haven't seen it, but I've heard it's amazing.
Who does the House of David?
Could you look that up?
Because we are in the middle.
I'm up to with a few misses here and there, the part after David slays Goliath, but before he becomes king.
And it is not as good as the chosen.
Nothing is as good as the chosen, but it's really good and highly recommended.
But this is human beings, not animation.
House of David.
House of David is actually, from what I understand, it's Amazon Prime, their studios that did it.
Well, it's fabulous.
I don't know if Amazon Prime or not, they get kudos for it.
But the other one, the other one you're telling us about, David, is an animation, correct?
Yes.
And it's the story of David from the time he was a child until he killed Goliath and then became king of the Jews.
Yeah, this looks and then does it go into his degradation at the end.
This gets so cool.
Oh, and it's oh, yeah, go to their website, Angel Studios.
Oh, I love Angel Studios.
Come on.
How can you not love Angel Studios?
You got to be an animal not to love Angel Studios.
And what's better than the chosen?
They're kind of up against a behemoth.
A lot of the bigger production studios are trying to pressure.
Let's get involved in this.
They're trying to pressure theaters into not showing this.
Why?
Is it not good?
Well, I think they're scared.
Their production values are fabulous.
I think they're scared that it's going to be the best animated feature and it's going to beat if there's been an actor in the last 10 years that's done a better job of playing Jesus than, oh, tell me his name.
Oh, gosh, I know who you're talking about.
What a wonderful man.
I love him.
I mean, I actually think he's Jesus.
Oh, that's such a powerful experience.
You know, I've been talking to Jesus for years.
Let me make clear, he doesn't talk back to me.
John Zanromi?
Yeah.
Man, what a guy.
I wish we could get him on.
What pressure, though?
How can I imagine some people?
I'm not sure I would be intimidated talking to him.
Can you imagine the pressure of playing Jesus?
That's got to be like crazy.
He's going to stop after this year because it it's too much.
I and he's very religious have you ever heard him give it?
Give a um, a sermon?
Oh my gosh, i'd love to.
I have he did.
I did on tape, I mean on video.
He's fabulous yeah, he's fabulous.
He's fabulous giving sermons.
I'd probably cry.
What this guy has done for converting people is almost as much as Charlie Kirk, who I think should be man of the year.
You know, I was in church last week, and you know how you and I, Ted, when we're in church, sometimes we take these little sneaky pictures to show the number of people in church.
I had my camera with me.
I was embarrassed.
Everybody's looking at me.
But I went to the 12, went to the 12 o'clock Mass.
Usually the most crowded one is 10.30.
That's the high mass.
It was sung beautiful, nicer.
But the 12.30 Mass is quite beautiful also.
It doesn't matter if it's a high mass or a low mass.
It's still the same thing.
It was crowded.
It was really, Ted, it was hard to find a seat.
Now, I've been going to St. Edwards on and off during the season you go to Palm Beach for 20 years.
And that's the church that John F. Kennedy, this Kennedy family, would go to.
Although that's not the last church, there's a great monument here in Palm Beach at St. Anne's Church in West Palm, which was the last place.
John Kennedy went to Mass before he was assassinated.
And I swear to God, if you live through that, which I did, and you look at that and there aren't tears in your eyes, which might happen right now, there's something wrong with you.
But in any event, the church was full.
Right.
We were there.
The church was full.
It was.
And that was the late Mass, too.
That was the late Mass.
Usually, I can remember 10 years ago, half full.
And I can remember a year ago about three quarters full, maybe less.
And now it's completely full.
And I've been noticing that in the, I go to different churches, like I go to Latin Masses too.
And I went to a Latin Mass right weekend after Charlie's assassination, I went to a Latin Mass.
So I can't judge it.
I hadn't been to that Latin Mass before.
But the place was packed.
Now, it could be because it was a Latin Mass, but I talked to a lot of people and a lot of them were there because of Charlie.
And there's no doubt it's happening all over the United States.
And it isn't just Catholic churches.
It's happening.
And it's interesting because Charlie wasn't a Catholic.
He was an evangelical.
But I think it's happening in evangelical churches too.
And I applaud that.
I mean, I think there's a way evangelicals have of relating to Jesus that us Catholics could learn.
Oh, you got to come to in Southeast Michigan.
Howell, Michigan, you come to a revival tent we got going on and they'll have a come on.
I love that.
I used to tell people who wanted to be like really, there are people who I used to teach, sort of help teach public speaking and giving summation.
It's the best thing to do is to go give a go give a sermon like in a black church or an evangelical church.
You know what happens?
You let yourself out.
Yeah.
That's Elvis.
Elvis God.
Let yourself out and become a much greater speaker.
I had a great friend who since died that once wanted me to become a better speaker by taking my clothes off and giving a speech and I told him to go to hell.
But he was right.
There's a certain thing about that.
We're afraid of our bodies.
There's a whole thing about fear of speaking that you have to learn.
And I know all about it.
because I turned myself into a much better speaker.
I used to be like very rigid and very lawyer-like.
And Roger Ailes helped me make that change from being, he said, this is great for the United States District Court in the Southern District.
It's fabulous for the Supreme Court.
I bet you did a good job when you argued with the Supreme Court.
I said, Roger, I did.
Yeah, well, this is shit for politics, pal.
His question was this.
He put me in front of a camera like this.
I was running for mayor.
And he said to me, What would you do about education if you were the mayor?
Well, I have a five-point program on education.
First, I would make sure that there was an ability to evaluate the educators so that we could improve their performance.
Secondly, I'd be in favor of choice because I believe that parents would be better evaluators of education than anyone.
And I finished my five points, which I got in two minutes.
And he went like, and Roger, who is now deceased and, oh, what a wonderful guy.
He went like this.
That is an A plus in Education 101.
I thought, thank you, Roger.
And an F minus in politics.
Why, Roger?
He said, you're used to being in court, right?
And you're used to logic.
You were a prosecutor.
So you're used to logical arguments to juries.
Even emotion a little bit, but logical, they convict on logical arguments.
They acquit on emotion, right?
Court of Appeals, you win with logical argument.
Oh, you're like a real winner.
Supreme Court.
Politics, here's the way you start that.
None of this, my three-point plan, my four point.
Who gives a shit about your three-point plan, your four-point?
Here's how you begin.
Every time, from now on until the end of the campaign, every time you hear education, here are the words that start.
I'm a father and I have two children.
The most important thing to me is their education.
And when I become mayor, the most important thing to me is going to be the education of your children.
He said, you do that.
I don't give a shit what you say.
Exactly.
Exactly.
Now, that's a little bit, it's a little bit exaggerated.
He does give a shit because Roger was very intellectual also about what I say.
But he said, that's when you bring in choice.
And that's when you bring in evaluation.
And that's when you bring in holding them accountable because they realize it comes from deep concern or about crime.
Now, here you are, the biggest crime fighter in history of New York since Dewey or maybe ever.
You're running for mayor and you got a 90% approval rating on that.
But as a politician, they're wondering.
So they ask you about crime and now you start doing, well, we should have the career criminal program and we should deal with domestic violence and we should have.
He said, no, you'd be getting this way.
Our very existence turns on our safety.
We might as well be Red China or Russia if we're going to live with criminals determining our future and our neighborhoods.
So what I want to do is return to you a freedom of safety and a feeling that you can use this city and you can be safe.
That's my goal.
And that's what I want to attempt to do.
He said, you begin with what your objective is.
And this is kind of fooling people.
That is your objective.
That is your objective.
Or tell them, look, I've lived in this city all my life, and I know the fear that people have of walking the streets.
My close friend was beaten almost to death.
Make a connection with them.
It's a second-two seconds, 10 seconds, 12 seconds.
You can go get as philosophical and as theoretical as long as it's honest as you want, because they want that too.
They don't just want some emotional, the babbler, but they want the first.
Now, here's what's happened to us.
All we have now are emotional babblers.
I'm for affordability.
Okay, now, how are we going to do affordability?
We're going to have government-owned grocery stores.
We're going to have rent control, all of which have proven to make people impoverished.
So what I'm trying to say is the communication has to be two things.
There's got to be the feeling that you care about people and you love them.
And your solutions come from your loving them.
But they're really solutions that make sense and can withstand critical analysis.
That's the kind of thing.
You have to be mindful of their attention span and what's going to sit with them after it.
And if you want one thing to sit with them, it's exactly those two things you just led with, right?
It's those leading statements or propositions or overarching themes because the three-point plan, that's already too many points for people.
Yeah.
So five.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
Exactly.
That's why in TikTok's.
I think that's crazy.
A plus in education and F in apologies.
So a couple of things we got to get in really quickly.
Maduro.
Ted and Stephen, what the hell are we doing with Maduro?
Are we going to get rid of this guy or not?
Yeah, and when?
I mean, he's been hanging around for too long.
He's starting to annoy me.
He sent three boats through to Europe that are not on the list.
And he had like a protection for them, and we didn't do anything to them.
So I don't understand this.
We didn't do anything to them, but there have been some boats we've taken out that are not on the list.
So it looks like we're afraid of their protection.
I don't know.
I think it's a matter of when, not if, obviously.
And it's up to us and more particularly President Trump.
And that's a very good position to be in, right?
So we can choose when that happens.
Three escorted boats carrying, how about this?
Urea.
Hey, there he is clapping that.
You know what that means, Jerkoff?
It means urine.
You big jerk, jackass.
You know, you're a stupid bus driver.
Nothing wrong with bus drivers, but you're a stupid freaking idiot.
Killer.
Petroleum, Coke, and other oil-based products to Asia.
None of the vessels that left with the Venezuelan Navy surrounding them were on the U.S. sanctions list.
On the other hand, we're doing a blockade.
And a blockade means you can't get anything in and you can't take anything out.
We should have blown them all out of the water.
I almost can't fit anything in between.
We should have blown them all out of the water if we wanted this guy to know how serious we are.
And we wanted him to leave.
We said there's a blockade, Jerkoff.
We should have given him a warning, turn back.
We're going to blow you out of the water.
And then we should have blown him out of the water.
He made a point here about how serious we are.
We should not have let him make that point.
The illegitimate Maduro regime is using oil from the stolen oil fields to finance themselves.
Drug terrorism, human trafficking, murder, and kidnapping.
This is what we said.
This is what our position is.
Well, that's what this is doing.
This is helping.
This is going to bring revenue to the government that's killing us.
Blow them out of the water if you're serious.
Don't let them, because they got their shitty little navy hanging around, stop you.
I mean, you got a fleet there that probably would have defeated Japan before Pearl Harbor.
I don't know what the hell we're doing, but we're going this way, we're going that way.
We want to get rid of this guy or not.
If we don't get rid of this guy, we take a big loss because we made such a big deal getting rid of him.
And there's every reason to get rid of him.
He's a miserable, atheistic, communist murderer.
He's the biggest reason why China could have a base here in America if they don't have one already at one of the other little shitty South American countries.
We're turning South America right wing.
We got to do that with Colombia and we're moving ahead with that Petro idiot.
So come on, let's show them.
Peace through strength means using the strength.
We did blow up another drug boat yesterday.
And we got 26 now.
We've killed 99.
The Democrats are all in favor of the drug boats.
How many Republicans rejected a pair of Democratic back resolutions to stop Trump from pulling up the drug boats?
Maybe you think they're getting a cut?
You can't make this up.
You think they're getting a cut?
I wonder if the sharks are like getting high, too.
You think they're getting a cut?
I mean, why the hell would you care if we blow up drug boats?
Right.
So FBI.
There you go.
Well, because it's making drugs expensive.
They want the drugs.
It's almost the only explanation.
You think some of their staffers are coming in and say, hey, boss, we've got to spend a lot more money than we used to.
Or it's like, I got a late night coming up.
It is a Democrat.
They are Democrats.
I mean, the president must have made them very, very happy when he lowered the classification for marijuana.
Did he, or is he thinking about it?
He did it.
He did it.
Oh, that's my understanding.
Mr. President, a very big mistake.
You're operating on information that's 10 years old.
Every report in the last five to six years has been uniformly damning with regard to cannabis and marijuana, including a very recent one from an Ivy League institution that says that the, which I've, which I have known for 25 years, the medical use of marijuana is ridiculous.
There are many medicines much safer than marijuana, particularly with regard to impact on deterioration of the brain that can control pain than marijuana.
I know there are people that say, I need my marijuana, it's only marijuana.
Believe me, there are 45 other painkillers that'll be much better, much more effective.
I don't know about less addictive, although marijuana is extraordinarily addictive.
That's another big myth that's been blown up that marijuana isn't addictive.
But the main thing about marijuana that we didn't realize that we're beginning to realize, even in comparison, heroin and cocaine that are much more addictive, it has a peculiar impact on the brain and on a portion of the brain that has to do with violence.
And the younger you take it, the more damaging it is.
The greater the strength, the more damaging it is, and the more closely associated it is to violence.
So, Mr. President, you made a terrible mistake in reducing the classification.
If anything, we should be getting tougher on marijuana.
And just go take a look at what's happening to Colorado and Washington.
And those people are walking around like this.
Yeah, they have a lot of issues.
Raiding Mar-a-Lago, the report, which you should pay attention to, makes it very, very clear what we knew from the very beginning.
The Department of Justice had absolutely no legal basis to raid Mar-a-Lago.
There was no suggestion he was violating the law, no attempt to violate the law, only cooperation by his attorneys.
And maybe next week, we'll have Christina Bob on to explain this.
But the significance of this is monumental.
This comes from an article by Kimberly A. Strassel, who's a fabulous reporter.
And the FBI objected to raiding Mar-a-Lago right up to the end.
And a Department of Justice attorney named Donald Toskas said on a call the day before that he frankly doesn't give a damn about the optics.
And a DOJ contact to see if we can get it some other way will not go well.
Because the FBI, to the very end, was saying all we have to do is ask our lawyers for it and they'll give it to us.
They haven't been non-cooperative.
But of course, here's the problem with the FBI.
They didn't bring any of that out.
This had to be dug out, which means they were a bought and paid-for organization.
But it's quite clear that this is completely illegal and completely un-American.
But what's new about the Biden people?
What do you think of the Trump Kennedy Center, boys?
Love it.
It's got a great ring to it.
It does.
You think it'll be better now?
It's already better.
It is.
I will say, I have never, I don't think I've ever stepped forward.
You know what they need?
They need me to, Placido Domingo did their opera there for quite some time, and it was very good.
But since he's left, they could use a little improvement in their opera.
Well, I'll say this.
I didn't tell you this, but last weekend or the weekend before, I don't remember now, I went to see La Boem with my daughter.
It's a tradition that my daughter and I have of going to the opera every Christmas.
And we went to see La Bohem, although we've seen La Boem before.
Now, why do we go to see La Boem?
Because it was the production of Franco Zepharelli that was about 35 years old.
And the Metropolitan Opera about 20 years, maybe 15 years ago, did away with the Zephyri production, with some other jerk-off production, which I had taken her to see once, and I've seen it two other times.
It's like a, I don't know, it's like going from a color movie to a black and white movie.
And it's okay.
And of course, the singers make the opera, but you're saying to yourself, oh man, where's that great Cafe Mamus scene?
And where's the beautiful snowfall?
That's why we get awards for production design.
Zepharelli's cost.
Zepharelli's been brought back.
He's been brought back.
They did seven productions with it.
I went to see the second but last one.
It was fabulous.
But then everybody sitting there with me is saying, and here I'm very upset because I think they may have finished already.
You should see they brought back his Turin Dot.
Now, his Turin Dot is out of this world.
And by the way, the president's favorite aria is from Turinot, Ness and Dormer.
And so we have this coming up at the Kennedy Center?
We got to bring some of this down to the Kennedy Center.
It works for me.
Some of those Zephyrelli productions.
Now, they'd have to be, the Met is like a third bigger than the Kennedy Center.
The Met stage is a third big.
Maybe, maybe more.
Does the Met have an outdoor area that you go to during the OK?
Because I was going to say that is one of the magical things.
But also the Met has Met goes down about three stories.
Where are the acoustics?
How would you compare it?
This is a fabulous story.
Oh, which are better?
Yeah.
Yeah, I would imagine so.
And I'll tell you why.
The Met is a miracle.
Money, money, money.
No, no, no, no.
They did money, money, money on the Avery Fisher Hall, which is right across, right, Caddy Corner to the Kennedy Center.
And the acoustics are terrible.
They never worked.
Somehow it's a little bit of luck.
But the Metropolitan Opera acoustics are unreal when you consider it.
It's 4,000 people, and there is no amplification.
Yeah.
I went there the other day and a week ago, just to, and I was sitting in the, in the, you know, like really good seats.
But I was back.
Wow.
It's so much better when they amplify.
But then you have to have a voice that you can throw up to the top.
Yes.
And that, and that's why people like Posito Domingo and Luciano, the greatest of all.
Luciano not only had this beautiful lyric tenor voice, he had something that lyric tenors never have.
The ability to project.
He could project the way a dramatic tenor could project, which means he could get you in the back row two miles away.
Like you got a motor in that diary.
Oh my God.
Maybe because he was so heavy, I don't know.
They could take that chest and he could get that C note up to the well, and some people, the muscle, the muscles just.
Posito was just as strong and he could get back there too.
And his voice was beautiful, but it was still a dramatic tenor.
He couldn't hit the C quite as perfectly as Luciano.
So we'll play a few of them for Christmas because some of Luciano's Christmas music is unreal.
And if you want to find out how great Luciano was, we should interview our friend Bocelli.
Yeah.
Who will tell you, yeah, he was the greatest tenor of all.
So let's get you a couple more things you really need to know.
Gaza, what the hell is going on in Gaza?
We got a peace in Israel, right?
Right?
Yep.
But we got them killing each other.
Yes.
Well, it's sort of like we want to say we have peace, so we don't have to have war, but there's still a lot of straightening out to do.
The Hamas will not give up their arms.
Surprise.
And until Hamas gives up their arms, we don't have an end to this.
And meanwhile, we're not saying much, but Israel is killing them.
And I would say, Bibi, go at it big time, huh?
Yeah.
Hamas doesn't belong on the earth because their whole goal is to kill people.
I'm sorry, they're not even worthy of being included in anything decent.
Gaza's strip peace process falters as Hamas digs in.
Do not allow them to dig in, particularly if that means they're going to put up more of these tunnels.
Right.
Mamdani had to get rid of one of his Jew haters today, who actually worked for DiBasio, and no one knew what a big Jew hater she was.
Her name is Catherine Almonte da Costa.
These are her former posts that DiBasio ignored to hire her, and so did so did Jew-hating Mamdani.
Wow.
Money-hungry Jews.
That was in January 2011.
Far Rockaway Train is filled with goddamn Jews, June 2012.
Tweeting about money, that's all Jews care about.
Now she says these statements are not indicative of who I am.
I'm the mother of Jewish children.
She worked.
Well, I don't know.
Well, then go be their mother and get out of public life because we don't trust you.
Sounds like you got some issues to deal with.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There are a lot of good psychiatrists wherever the hell you live in New York.
I mean, they make a fortune because of all the screwed up people there.
Best place to be a psychiatrist is in New York.
Washington, D.C. That's true, but they don't even go to, they're too arrogant to go to psychiatrists.
Oh, also, she also hits my buttons because she hates the police.
Effing police.
I was referring to the NYPD piggies defund the NYPD by a billion, which they did, by the way.
Do you know?
I mean, this is all really ridiculous.
And Adams never restored it.
DiBasio took a billion dollars out of the police department, never been put back.
We're still operating on about 4,000 cops less than we should.
And this communist is going to go into it without it.
And Adam's getting all this credit for, but he never put the cops back.
Rest in peace, Norman Pedoritz.
I love Norman.
He was a great, great, he's a great, great voice at a time in which we had to make a massive switch during the Reagan era from the ridiculous left-wing government that we were and the enabler of communism to understanding what it meant to have a government of values.
And Norman died.
He died at a very, very, he was in his 90s.
And his son is a great writer and columnist also and a great man.
But it wouldn't be right to let this go by without thanking Norman for his contribution.
He showed us what it means to confront the truth and make changes when we have to.
And so what about football this weekend before we tell them all to go see Dr. Maria right now?
Right.
A big Packer Bears game tomorrow night in Chicago.
Packers and Bears?
Yes.
And the Culture Wall Play will start next week, I believe.
So is Kansas City out?
Yes, they are out.
You got to see what happens when you don't support Trump.
Yes.
But I think the poor quarterback who got injured does support Trump and his wife.
It's that stupid swifty, swifty, pifty Kelsey who does it.
That's right.
Yeah, I'm over her.
I don't know.
How about him?
I don't really know.
Can he still catch her?
Does he get all is he thinking about all the money from Swifty Swifty?
Well, the content that's going to come from their divorce is just going to make yet.
Oh, well, I mean, I'm assuming that that's just part of the.
So, what you want to do is, see, I do, I can, well, I can't do divorces anymore because I'm disbarred because of Biden.
I was thinking, I mean, I could do their wedding because I can do weddings, but that wouldn't be worth it.
I'd rather do their divorce and make a fortune on their divorce.
You decide, right?
Yeah, you probably have a pre-not, honestly.
Well, you think she's setting him up for one of her songs?
Oh, yeah, this whole thing, man.
How terrible, how terrible, how terrible it is that he left her or she left him.
Oh, yeah.
What are her songs about usually?
I don't know what it is.
Are they usually about her getting chilted or her leaving somebody?
You know, I'm not an expert.
Her song, supposedly, her fame comes from her songs about breaking up.
Bad breakup.
But who, who, who does the breaking up?
The guy or her?
That would be very indicative.
Ted's the expert.
Ted, what do you say?
I wouldn't know.
I would not be the expert on that.
Well, you're not.
I'm going to be an expert by next week.
We're going to find out why Taylor Swift breaks up so much.
Is it Taylor or is it Swift?
I mean, is it Taylor or is it the guy?
I think it's her probably.
And what do we think the odds are that she and Kelsey now marry since she's a has-been now?
Well, we'll send them who's going to be available.
I mean, they're not going to get married until the spring because they assumed he's going to be in the playoffs.
But he got plenty.
Taylor, he's got plenty of time to get married now.
He ain't going to be doing nothing in a week or so, right?
Right.
Isn't that amazing?
No playoffs.
Yeah, Kelsey, you're not going to be catching no passes.
No, Taylor Swift.
Man, you all can go make fun of President Trump as much as you want.
Yeah.
And you know what?
He's in the presidency and you're not in the playoffs.
And nobody's going to be looking for his Taylor in the audience or whatever.
Last time they did that, you got booed, Taylor.
Remember, yeah, they said they had to stop.
Maybe you made your mistake by getting all involved in politics.
Why don't you just write songs about guys leaving you or you leaving guys?
Yeah.
And on that note.
And on that note, from an opera lover, let me tell you what.
You don't have much of a voice.
Okay.
So.
And they call it 12 plus did start.
For the people of Israel and for the people of Ukraine and for the people of Iran.
These are the people that are that are really under fire.
Oh my goodness, the Jewish people are all over the world.
Pray for them.
Pray for them.
They're our brothers and sisters.
And pray for us, Americans, greatest country on earth.
Pray for us that we understand that we're the greatest country on earth, that we embrace that and we understand the responsibilities.
And pray for our president so that he makes wise and sensible decisions.
He's an extraordinary man, but he needs your help.
So we'll be back next week.
Be a great week because we lead up to Christmas.
And we'll be here in case anything happens over the weekend.
So go to right now, Lindell TV.
Go to Lindell TV, watch Dr. Maria.
She got a great show.
Then you come back to us at 7 on Lindell TV on Monday and at 8 on X.
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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.