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Dec. 30, 2025 - Rudy Giuliani
02:02:18
America's Mayor Live (831): Mike Lindell Discusses His Campaign for Governor and Minnesota Fraud

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Juliani, and this is America's Mayor Live.
I apologize if I misled you with my, what do you call a tweet now?
I still will call it a tweet forever.
A post, my post on X. X posts.
Because I very excitedly said that Ted was going to be on at eight and at seven on Lindell and eight here.
Wendell has taken a very religious, very holy week of Christmas vacation.
Mike being the generous man that he is.
And you can thank him for it because he's going to be on shortly.
He may give everybody time off, but he doesn't take time off, right, Ted?
Right.
Because he's running for governor of the fraud state, which will become the great state when he becomes governor.
And I don't know if Ched's Bullen would admit this, but Ted got his Christmas present today.
It was a little late, and he was a good boy.
Santa was just late.
He got him presents, but they weren't like, you know, they were presents.
Not one of those presents where you go, wow, Santa, what the hell did you give me?
Wow, I don't deserve that.
Today, he made a little call and asked if he would be welcome at the place you see behind me.
Do you know what that place is?
No, no, no.
It's not Puerto Rico and it's not some desert island.
It looks like it could be.
It's an unusual shot.
You're going to see a few unusual shots of Mar-Lago.
Really kind of this if Mar-Lago has a center.
It really doesn't.
That would be maybe geographically the center.
The center would be more where he has his weekend dinners.
Right.
That's the center.
And we'll bring up some.
And of course they rolled out the red carpet for our Ted because he's so well liked there.
I said, I know that.
I knew the mayor.
And he was there and he knows them too.
Don't let him.
He knows them.
And he got to be there at the press conferences, asked a couple of questions, obviously got a bunch of the other questions, got a lot of information.
When the president, you'll notice, I want you to listen very, very carefully.
During the first, I think it's the first, the second, I can't, I get the press conferences confused.
You will excuse me.
I'm getting, getting over a really bad cold.
And I almost didn't think I might be able to do the show tonight.
But I got so excited about having Ted do all this.
I wanted, I wanted to be part of it.
And I have to tell you, I can't remember if it's the, when was the press conference when he asked everybody when he when they want, well, he loves to do that now.
He did it yesterday.
Would you all like to have lunch?
Of course, I'm going to pay for it.
That might ethically be, you know, he tries to create a little, we say in Italian, it's agita for him for them.
And yesterday, they had a little.
Yesterday they had a couple of it that were debated.
But today somebody led the way and I heard a yes.
And I just, I said to myself, if Ted isn't the one saying yes, he wanted to be.
Oh, yeah.
I was a yes.
You know, I was vocal.
I got to tell you the truth, Mr. President.
If Biden had offered him lunch, he would have taken it.
He eats anything.
You know I was.
You know who would have been for the lunch there faster than Steven's dog and Raleigh?
Ted.
But you know what?
In a way, I was able to help the press corps, you know, someone who's been to Mar-Lago quite a few times.
These guys, you know, these pressers.
They don't know anything about it.
Exactly.
He never lets them in.
He doesn't, but he was so kind.
He even came out after the press had been brought to the patio area and they served us burgers and fries and big chocolate chip cookies.
And the press, you know, the president himself came out for like 30 seconds.
He poked his head out onto the patio.
Yeah, you guys good?
Is Margo treating you guys well?
Are you getting everything you need?
And you know, I'm standing right there by the door.
Yes, Mr. President.
Were they treated well?
Yes.
And did they act well?
Like, or they act like they used to, first of all, first question that's more important than even the political questions.
Does the Washington Press Corps, of which some of them are, do they have table manners?
I will say the folks I was with, and they were very, they were very good.
They were very gracious towards me, being a new member of the press pool.
They found it interesting when I told them my background with you and America's Mayor Live.
Some of these reporters had been around forever.
So they had covered.
You were in person, right?
No, no.
They don't read the stuff about, you know, cleared in Georgia, you know, cleared in Michigan, cleared in.
They did, not even indicted in Wisconsin.
You know, cleared by the report in Wisconsin.
Right.
We got to get all, I mean, I'm sure they're all racing to turned out to be right about the 3,000 phony ballots in Georgia.
Turned out to be right about not being able to even now count the ballots in Pennsylvania.
That's right, Mayor.
So we'll, we'll, later on, we'll play, we'll play some of the cuts from the press conference today.
And I got a few questions in.
I think we made a little bit of news, Mayor.
I think we made a little international news.
You did make a little bit of news.
First of all, yes, it was fun.
And, you know, he could have been there like for the, let's say they had an Easter party at Mar-a-Lago, the Easter party.
Right.
Or he could have been there for the Christmas party.
Or he could have been there for, oh, those are fun.
You get a lot of, you get a lot of little funny little things.
But you rarely make some kind of news unless somebody brings up a flying bulldyke or, you know, jumping on children.
But you got, I mean, this is, he's like a, what would you, what would you say?
He's like a news machine.
He is.
And he's good at.
So since we do the news every day now, right?
We do that every day since he's been president.
And we compare it to Biden, who in another way made a lot of news.
Yes.
A different way.
Different way.
He did not.
Without me.
Without me.
Without being there.
Things would happen.
You can't find him.
That's news.
Things would happen.
Can't find him.
That's news.
He tripped.
He couldn't.
War starts here.
War starts there.
War starts here.
Inflation goes to record highs.
But there's no inflation.
15,000 people come in in one day.
Never happened before, but it never happened.
And the guys, reporters standing there, the people coming across the border, oh, the border really is under control.
It gets knocked down.
The border is really under control.
It really is under control.
But now we get real news every day that has implications, that takes you back to world history.
I mean, I find myself reading more history now than I have since his first term.
Because you know why?
You know, when you're reading history, when things are getting confronted, if things are just going wrong and wrong and wrong and nothing's being done about it, I don't know, you're not motivated.
Look at history.
It's not going to solve anything.
But when things are going right, you go back and you read about, like I have right in my Kindle right over there, really one of the best and seminal histories of how that whole area of Slavic rush came together.
How did it all come together?
And then where do the ancient rivalries, where do they go, where are they in the blood?
Right.
And because it's always that the propaganda theories are wrong, but it's never that the propaganda theories are not based on history.
Not with an unintelligent population.
And Russia and Ukraine are an intelligent population.
They are by world standards, they're in the upper half of educated, easily.
They've had at times very good and at times very poor education systems, but they're well educated.
Despite the inroads of atheistic communism on Ukraine, it hasn't dented Christianity at all, maybe that much.
And despite the attacks of atheistic communism, both Lenin and Stalin and Khrushchev and whatever the hell Putin does to them, it hasn't, it's dented, but it hasn't removed the basic core of Christianity.
It's created more of a, at the top, a pretense of Christianity than in Ukraine.
And it hasn't stopped a suicidal, insane pathological regime that kills for the joy of killing.
And this is my major problem with Trump putting so much confidence in Putin.
Right.
And so, well, speaking of friends, we have with us, well, we'll wait for him to get seated here.
We have a very close friend of the show, of course, the owner of Lindell TV, which we are on every night, 7 p.m. Eastern, the Rudy Giuliani show.
And of course, now the candidate and I will say the frontrunner for governor of the, it's called the land of 10,000 lakes, Mayor.
The great state.
You don't hear it called it that often anymore.
Right.
There he is.
We had him.
We had him.
There he is.
Mike.
Mike Lindell.
Mike Lindell trying to get this hooked up here.
I don't have a big camera crew, you know, like you do.
I got a big one.
I got a kid.
We are looking good, Mayor.
He got a lunch on the boss today.
I hear that.
I hear that.
He bought everyone lunching.
We got to ask Allison and we got to ask Allison and Kara if the boss ever buys them lunch over in Washington.
We should set him down here.
I think he'd buy them lunch.
He'd buy them lunch a year.
Hey, he gave me ice cream last night, you guys.
Oh, wow.
Tell the mayor.
Yeah, tell me, Mike.
Have some ice cream.
At the members-only, I don't know if we can talk about it, Mike, but if you want to.
We can't.
We saw him earlier.
We saw him earlier in the day.
Mike's a member, so Mike had a members-only guest.
I don't know if it was, I don't know if there was members only.
It was a big, maybe it was.
It was a big band and maybe it was members in their guests.
I don't know.
Well, it was, yeah, we're here.
It was a great band.
It was 1970s all music band.
I mean, it was, it was a great time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A lot of people coming up to me and they're going, Mike, bring that Minnesota flag back.
And they all wanted to help out.
So it was a great night.
A lot of support here.
They're all going to, they're all going to support my campaign at mikelindellg.com, everybody.
And what perfect timing?
I said, Mayor, on the campaign like this, I said, I don't even have to do anything right now, right?
I just let them do all their own things.
I remember this advice from two of the best campaign advisors, Roger Ails and Dick Dick.
I'll remember who it was, but the advice was David Garth.
David Garth, if your opponent is imploding, shut up.
Stay out of the way.
If you're sympathetic, if you're sympathetic, you might look crooked.
If you're mean or you're tough, you might look nasty.
Things could change a little.
They could get a little better for him.
They could get a little worse for him.
So just hang in there.
Wait.
See?
Right, right.
I am going to bring up one thing, though, because you guys, this is all the primary.
There's 12 other people in the field.
And the one gal, this demurth, she is, she's right now the head of the Republican Party in Minnesota.
And she just came out today with this press conference.
And she's talking about, you know, all the stuff that Nick, that reporter, Nick, what's his last name?
Shirley.
Shirley, that he did.
She's almost like taking credit for it for the Republican Party in Minnesota, which she's, you know, she's running for governor too.
And she goes, and then she brings up, it was all the stuff, you know, we found this last February and we found this last year.
And they're trying to say Waltz and Waltz didn't do anything about, well, what did you guys do about it?
Yes.
I said you're going, you know, I'm going to use that because we have governor debates this next month.
We have three or four debates.
I'm going to go, you mean you knew about this since last February or maybe even in 2024?
And you sat back and you just went, boy, we're going to watch those Democrats and governor do absolutely nothing.
And you're not telling the people?
Mike, when did she say, do you remember?
We're going to put her on.
We're going to get her and put a picture of her on.
But when did she say that she first found out?
They first found out.
Her tape that was just sent to me, I believe it was for this particular thing in 2024, but for sure last February.
And they even brought up the one where the guy didn't put the N in it, where it says Luring Center instead of Learning Center.
But and let me get her.
Let me get this here.
Yeah, it was just sent to me.
Yeah, Mike, you sent it to 10.
It's probably it's probably 20 minutes long, but I'll tell you.
That's okay.
We'll get it down to whatever we want.
But you know, what I'm thinking of, what I'm thinking of is this.
Nick was on today and he was on.
He was on with a quick interview.
They caught him at a place and he said he thought he thought that this place, he said he thinks they were pulling out somewhere between that, like he must have been 10 million a month.
I thought maybe he said 10 million a week.
He said they were pulling out 10 million a month or week.
So if you think of, if you think about it, since February, by not turning it in, figure out how much money was wasted from the period of time she didn't turn it in, right?
Well, this is, or at least didn't sound the alarm that we all knew about in Minnesota.
That's what Republicans, that's what shitty Republicans do all over the country.
This is what's been going on.
This is a good reason I'm running for governor.
I'm tired of it.
You go, this goes back.
I helped Jason Lewis in his campaign back in 2018 and he uncovered this was schooling, I believe, classrooms, because the Somalis have done it in many different ways.
But I believe that was classrooms, maybe food.
I can't remember.
It had something to do with the food.
Then along came the China virus.
Course, all the fraud that went into that.
And now they even brought up something else.
It's called non-emergency like Ubers for the elderly and the disabled.
Well, they've got all these cars running around with no passengers.
Kind of like there's no kids in these schools.
I mean, it's unable to get it.
Well, you've seen more of it than I have, but today he appears at a place that looks like it hasn't been used in about 10 months.
And they're getting 10, they got they have like hundreds of children.
And they get about 10, they got a budget for their program of about 10 million a month.
And all you see is all you see is empty chairs.
Yeah.
Not have been used in a wall.
It looks like abandoned property.
Right.
Right.
Here's the other thing, everybody.
This one that we looked into.
This one had violations.
Well, they actually had children.
Wait a minute.
They had children there, right?
That's maybe even worse.
Yeah, no, it was worse.
This is like four years ago now, and they put them in violation for all these violations.
I don't know what it was, but every place you would not want your child at, I'll tell you that.
And then you wonder if these parents brought their childs there.
You know, it's all these untrained Somalians, whatever.
I don't know, but they were in all these violations.
So the state put them on double secret probation like Animal House or something.
You know, you're in double secret probation.
Well, I don't know what that meant because all of a sudden they got paid the same amount.
It was $8.2 million after they had done all those violations.
Now, they probably had no more violations because they probably took the kids away.
You can't get violated if there's no parents there to report the violation.
That's what we think happened.
They just pulled the kids out and just kept, you're not going to get any more violations.
And then if they do a checkup, well, the kids are up today, but you know, everything's plugged in.
Yes, we really do have food, you know, and there's the water fountain.
You know, I mean, this is disgusting.
And, you know, and they say it might now.
I'm hearing from, I'm personally hearing from states like Maine, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Washington State, where the Somalians too have, you know, once they learn something, Minnesota is where they go to learn how to do it all.
It's like a training ground of fraud.
You know, this is the problem.
Yeah, they were working.
Weren't they working in close cooperation with Colorado on one of the programs?
Yeah.
It was the Colorado, Minnesota.
It was a Colorado, Minnesota program.
See, this goes pretty deep.
This goes back to where I had problems with them.
And sorry about the lighting here, guys.
I haven't quite got that right.
But the Colorado, you guys, on January 3rd, I'll get the date right.
You can look it up on the internet, 2016.
Okay, January 3rd, 2016.
Cargo is a very big company based in the Twin Cities.
Okay.
And but they have plants in Colorado.
And this is when all the Somalians, of course, they want their Islam prayer times, their prayer times, you know, five times a day.
They want to come over here.
They don't want to simulate and they want Sharia law and shut down our assembly lines or our working lines where you can't do that.
And Cargill said, oh, no, no, no, you're not going to do this here.
And they said, and now they had a thing that they had all signed.
If they don't come back to work for three days, they can fire them all.
So Cargill waited the three days, fired 200 of them.
But guess what happened?
Even though they had those signatures, so they get sued because it's boy, it's not politically correct to do that.
So they get sued and they settle for, I don't know, a couple million dollars.
Of course, then every other company was afraid to do it to say no to them.
And in Minnesota, they said, oh, you know, you at my pillow and Amazon's next door, you guys got to find them prayer times.
It wasn't the law, but it was you.
It was very subjective that you had to do this.
Well, and of course, Amazon, Jeff Bezos next to me, he wouldn't do it.
He skipped him out.
He said, I'm not doing it.
They're there to make parts to run down the assembly line.
They all picketed him, but he held his ground.
That's one good thing that he did.
And since he did that, they kind of just gave, I think they gave up and just working out at plants like MyPillow or Amazon or whatever and said, hey, we're just going to do our own fraud thing in the cities.
I think that's what they did.
Seriously.
There was a big shift back then.
So how's it going, Mike?
Are you we can donate money to you now?
Yeah, you can donate.
You guys, it's Mike.
Mike now before the end of the year.
So we can hit up at the beginning of next year.
Come on.
Yeah, it's mikelindellgov.com.
And this is very important.
All these funds that we can get raised there this week, we're using for it was a campaign thing I was actually going to do with the president.
And you, Mayor, we were working on that, making these half-hour infomercials.
So people get, I'm going to explain to them how the problem solutions in Minnesota.
I've got the solutions, but you can't really say it in a one-minute commercial.
And so we're going to, and we're going to do all, I'm going to get all those Democrats downtown, the Blacks and Hispanics, and say, hey, what do you want to change?
Well, they're all going to say, we want this fraud gone.
We want these illegals out now.
And we want these guys put in prison so we can go back.
And we need these resources.
We're working hard and we've lost our jobs.
We lost our, the people don't go downtown.
They don't feel safe anymore.
So it's mikelindellgov.com.
And I'll tell you, every dime, I'm going to win this.
Right now, I think they got the polling on 54%.
And I just started campaigning two weeks ago, but I'm going to these governor debates over the next month.
And I can't wait.
Now, after this lady came out today and said, well, we knew about it for a year, but those darn Democrats, they didn't, the governor didn't do anything about it.
What did you do?
I'd be screaming from the top of my lungs like I have been for five years about the election.
I think people know, Mike, what you would do about it.
Here's a recommendation from Trump and ask him about it while you're here.
Last year at about this time, Ted and I were here and we shot a few little things with him, but he was shooting two days of commercials.
Right.
And he used them for the rest of the campaign.
He had about 10, maybe 15 that will work out perfectly on certain themes.
Right.
And then whenever he needed one, remember we look at it in August and we said, my God, we saw that at Christmas time.
Few of them he had to get rid of because he had the Christmas tree in them.
Right.
When you get a chance, you should just shoot a whole bunch of commercials.
You know, that's one thing.
That's one thing I'm pretty good at.
Well, making commercials, I'll tell you.
And I actually, I was very, very happy to hear.
Chris Roddy last night said, Mike, you can come on anytime and talk about your run.
So I got to give him, you know, that's that meant a lot to me that he said I can come on over there.
Because, you know, they used to be scared of me coming on because they figured I would say some machine swear word or something like that, rhymed with something.
Yeah, that's good.
That's good.
That's good.
So that was a big step.
I thanked him so much.
I said, yeah, I'd love to come on.
And because we got to get the word out, we got to say, man, this is this.
It's almost like a national election.
You get Waltz in there.
Everybody.
This will, if he stays, if he stays, if they don't arrest him, I can't tell you they're not going to arrest him.
There's an awful lot.
You know, this story about smoke and fire.
This isn't smoke.
This is seven buildings have burned down already.
Yeah.
I mean, it really is.
It really is.
And they are 50 people convicted already.
Yeah.
And I've lived it.
It's been, it's been, you got, you know, it's funny because they say, well, Mike, what about how are you going to win this, you know, Minnesota, all the corruption, blah, blah, blah.
Well, well, let me tell you.
And then you remember he remember Waltz also, even if you, even if you took the machine crime, let's say there's no computers used and let's say it was a fair election.
Remember, he took all the Somalians and all the illegals and gave them all driver's licenses.
Now he, that's what he did.
He passed them out.
We got cities in Minnesota that they're driving on the wrong side of the road up in St. Cloud.
And people call me up and they go, Mike, I got to ask you this before we got to get off, but I've got to ask you this.
How do you get a driver's license without taking a driver's test?
Yep.
He just passed them out, he gave them all the illegals, all the illegals.
I don't know if they, I'm sure that you'd think they would have to at least change the driving test, but I guarantee you.
Colorado.
Yeah.
They probably didn't in Minnesota either, but I can't say that for sure.
But I will say this.
They weren't qualified to drive and they certainly weren't qualified to vote.
They were not qualified.
They were Haitians.
Last year, they caught Haitians who never had a driver's test, did not know how to drive.
And they were driving on the damn sidewalks.
Yeah.
Do you know, I feel, I feel, you know, I feel kind of slighted on that.
You know, in the 1980s, I got a whole next week, I don't know, half a dozen, no, maybe three DWIs.
But I didn't have a driver's license for like 20 years.
These guys come in, they pass them out like there's nothing to it.
You know, I had to earn mine back with a lot of stuff.
But the big thing is.
When are we going to see you?
You're right here near me and you got to come over and see me.
Not today, but tomorrow I'll be fine.
Okay.
Maybe I'm done tomorrow night or the next night.
And we'll go to the New Year's together.
All right.
New Year's.
Yep.
Absolutely.
You're gone, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yep.
Yep.
That's for you.
Ted's performing on New Year's.
I want you to know that.
That's good.
I hear he's a pretty good singer.
The governor told me he's going to ask him to make a demand performance.
You're going to have to reenact one of your commercials.
I know the one I like best.
He's going to have to do the one he likes best.
Okay.
Yeah.
You like the one where I open the mirror?
Put that back on my show, please.
Okay.
Go dig down in the archives.
All right.
God bless you to be here.
Thank you.
Happy, Merry Christmas to everyone.
And we'll see you next time in a day or so.
Bye-bye.
There's a governor, huh?
You know, here's the interesting thing about this, Ted.
Yeah.
If the problem is they wouldn't have gotten top of this, if he were governor, they'd gotten top of it so fast, it would have ended before it started.
Well, that's right.
That's the beauty of having a guy with the hands-on enthusiasm over-the-top enthusiasm that he has running the government.
They like Trump.
Right.
Or frankly, like me.
If you're on top of everything, my God, it's so big, you're still going to miss something.
Right.
But you're not, I can guarantee it.
You're not going to miss something as big as that.
Right.
Yeah.
You'll miss 50 people stealing in this bureau, 30 people stealing in that bureau.
You can always miss that.
They're human.
You are not going to miss, what is it now?
A $9 billion fraud.
But well, apparently they did.
and that's my question mayor including and uh mike touched upon that even republicans now coming out from the state right that are talking about it six months ago yeah Yeah.
I think about it.
A reason I got the date, Ted.
This is when we get this thing from him.
I think he said $100,000 a month.
If he did, that's what I'm forgotten what it was, but it's going to turn out to be just that alone would have been like $100 million.
And if you look at the place, nobody ever made a site visit.
He's giving $10 million to a place and you never make a site visit.
And if you made a site visit, there's nobody there.
Where are my 30,000 kids and my 10,000 kids and my 3,000 kids?
I'm buying meals for 2,000 kids.
Don't you want to check the meals?
You want to see if they have rats in them or shit in them?
Because they do.
Even in good programs, even in the usual stinky Democratic crooked programs.
Please understand me.
When it says not-for-profit, 50%, it's Fugesi.
That means it's bad.
And I never thought it was bad like it didn't exist.
I thought it was bad like they put rat shit in the food.
And they hire sexual predators for guards for the kids because they're criminals running it.
They're brothers, they're uncles, they're this one, they're that one.
And they double and triple the amount of the bid.
So there's a lot of money in for the crooked politicians who give it to them.
Now, why do I know this?
Because they've been doing this in New York before we were a republic.
This is more important in New York than knowing how to jaywalk because it's a damn crooked democratic state and it has been for 170 years.
And the people on this, what is it, Friday, are going to find out what it's like to be in the thralls of an Islamic, extremist-loving communist.
Let's see what happens with that.
And when they say, oh my God, oh my God, we need help.
We'll give them help, but we'll say never again because you deserve it.
You voted for this.
You weren't not warned.
You weren't not warned.
You knew you were getting a Jew-hating, communist-loving, Islamic, extremist-supporting baby.
We'll be right back.
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Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they'd like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto.
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Let's get background.
Are we back?
Yep.
Look at that background.
Yeah, much greener.
It's much greener than it looks.
Yeah.
Well, welcome back to America's Mayor Live.
And as you see, in the background is, well, that's Mar-a-Lago right on the water.
You'll see down, you'll see the tower.
The tower there is the Mar-a-Lago Tower.
To the left, well, to the right of where all the events took place today in those buildings that almost look a little like a Vatican in a way, right?
Right.
In those buildings in there, Ted was at the door, and we were going to use the background, the door.
In fact, we almost did.
I wonder if we should.
This is more interesting.
You'll get to see the whole thing.
And then I'll play more of it for you later.
So you get to feel like you were there.
And you should know that I could take you on a tour of Ma Lago.
I began staying there as a guest.
Gosh, both of my children were already born.
I'm going to, this could be off probably around 2004 is when I started staying there as a guest.
And I would stay there as a guest almost every Easter, sometimes for just three days or four days if I could.
But if I could get a week off, we would stay for a week.
And Caroline and Whitney, who was Judith's daughter and my daughter, stepdaughter, played with the Trump children and other children.
They used to play on, there was a swing near our place.
I'll go back there and show you later where it was.
But Ted, tell us.
So let's go.
Let's get into some politics again as we were with The man with the drive, the enthusiasm, the business sense, the business sense.
This man created a business empire.
And he didn't lose it for operating it incorrectly.
He lost it because they stole it from him.
He lost it the way I didn't lose my law practice and my security business because I wasn't running it properly.
I was making a fortune running it.
I mean, a fortune for me.
For me, a fortune is anything over a million dollars a year.
And I was making 10, 15 times that.
I lost it because they unfairly framed me.
They took away my bar association license.
And had I not done what I did do, I should have had my bar association license taken away.
And that is overcome the fear of representing Donald Trump, which most freaking frightened little scummy lawyers couldn't do.
Right.
Little scumbags couldn't do it.
I have a family to support.
Oh, oh, yeah.
Let's let them ruin the republic so your family can live like little like little Islamic extremists, or maybe they can be Chinese.
You ever go to law school, you shit?
Do you go to college?
Do you read history?
Ever go to church?
Or any of those things?
I'm not going to ask because I'm not that kind of a guy, but you got a pair of balls.
You can't imagine how often I felt like asking.
And instead, I was, oh, I'll help you.
I'll help you.
You probably understand.
I understand why you're so worried.
Here I am getting my head kicked in.
Left, right, left, right.
And I'm working with these guys because they might take, I'm head of the unit.
They may demote me.
Oh, yeah, they may demote you.
It was worse than anyone has described.
And I don't mean for me.
I would say I was, if you want to do a rating, and sometimes I'll sit down with all the people involved in this, from the worst one, the ones who got it the worst, we get some of the J6 people, to some of the people who maybe had it the least.
You know, they got kicked out of their job or something or whether, to those who spent time in prison, to those who lost a lot of money defending and went bankrupt like me and stuff like that.
And we'll try to describe it to you.
Not for you.
I don't want your sympathy.
I want you to change this damn place.
I don't want to read in the newspaper that Trump's false allegations of election fraud.
Trump is still raising his false allegations of election fraud in 2020.
Hey, unproven?
Yeah, because we never got the proven.
Unproven now in the court of public opinion, like hell they are.
The only barrier there is you have to read.
Now, today, who do you want to do first?
I mean, they went in the order of Zelensky.
Zelensky won.
Zelensky was yesterday.
And then Yahoo too.
Yeah.
He was yesterday.
Oh, Zelinsky was today, too.
Was he?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
He did it.
He wasn't on something in the morning because I was with the press world.
No, no, he was there.
He was there first.
Well, let's do this.
This was in a separate press.
Yeah, let's get those.
This is Zelinsky.
This is from yesterday, I have.
But Let's do BB today.
Okay.
Okay.
And then let's go back.
I think there was one.
Wasn't there a press conference before you got there?
I'd have to go.
I'd have to look.
Wasn't yours for us.
Yours is the one they invited you to launch, correct?
Yes.
Okay.
But they did that yesterday, too.
Yeah.
But today he had a press conference when BB first arrived.
You were not at that press conference.
Oh, I must not have been.
You were.
That's when I called you.
Oh, he did it without either the name of Israeli press or no press.
Right.
Right.
So this is the first question.
So we were brought up.
I'll show you the area outside of Mar-Lago that we waited here.
This is the area outside.
A lot of you haven't been here, but what you're looking at is the gate leading.
This is to the front here.
And so this is where the president and the prime minister of Israel come up.
So we were able to.
Am I looking at the gate now?
Yes.
Yeah, I'm looking at the gate and that, and what you're under, you're under really the overpass of the entrance.
Right.
And you're looking out at the entrance gate, which is on South County Road.
Right.
South County Road runs, really, really runs north to south, south to north.
You could take South County Road with a couple of interruptions all the way down to Miami and all the other St. Augustine.
Exactly.
So that's where they met.
With interruptions because it's an island.
Then the island stops.
You got to come off.
You got to go back on the island.
Very few bridges connect different parts of the island.
You generally have to go off the island onto the mainland.
Like if you wanted to go up to Jupiter, which is directly north of what we're looking at, which is also sort of part of Palm Beach.
I mean, many members belong in Jupiter, live in Jupiter.
And many people who say they live in Palm Beach live in Jupiter.
And Jupiter is as expensive and as ritzy or whatever you want to call it as Palm Beach.
That's what Tiger, Tiger, and all the golf and Jack Nicholas and all the, that's what the golfers live up there.
Yeah.
Great and known for great restaurants, great golf courses, the Bears Club, the Trump, the Trump International.
Right.
There's the president.
This is earlier today with Bibi.
So this is him waiting.
So now the president is at the door of Marlado, which.
A little bit of a black look.
Ted and I know that door like we own it.
We've gone that door all the time.
I've just been in that door last night in and out.
Right.
Right.
That's the main, that's the door you know.
We, you know, if you've been to Mar-Lago.
Lucky, you don't have to.
Lucky somebody opens it for you.
Not too many people.
So they had a nice little.
So we'll fast forward here to we were able to ask a nice question.
So Dr. Maria pointed out, of course, she is a doctor and she watches these things.
Does Bibi look a little gaunt?
A little like he's lost a little too much weight.
So that's something, yeah, you'd have been in a better position to having seen him before.
This is my first time in person.
I always look at both of them for their health.
And Bibi is always the healthiest looking guy.
But today, today I wasn't happy.
Please don't be angry at me, Bibi.
I shouldn't have said that.
Right.
Just as your friend, I should have told you personally.
President looked good.
President looks, as they say, in Italian, Spanish, a couple of other Latin languages.
Right.
Strong as, or even in.
So this is me asking.
Strong as board.
Who's that talking?
Well, do it from my angle.
This will be a little bit easier to.
This is, this is from.
I'm holding the camera up asking the question.
One question, mr. President, can you expound on the important, the importance of a strong relationship with the state of Israel?
And, Mr. Prime Minister, you've met, you've called President Trump the strongest friend for the state of Israel.
You've worked with numerous administration, numerous presidents.
Can you expound on that and what makes President Trump such a strong friend for the state of Israel?
I'll say it again and again, and again this is for the audio not merely by the frequency of our meetings in the White House.
It's not even close and never had a friend like I'll say it again and again, and again never had a friend like President Trump in the White House.
It's not even close.
And I think you can judge that by the not merely by the frequency of our meetings, but by the content and the intensity.
I think Israel is very blessed to have President Trump leading the United States and, I'll say it, leading the free world at this time.
I think it's not merely Israel's great fortune, I think it's the world's great fortune.
Well, I just want to say that it's very important who the prime minister and president of Israel is.
We have a great relationship.
It was an honor to speak before your leaders.
That was a great honor for me.
I think it had not happened before or something they told me, but uh, the relationship's been extraordinary and uh, Bib's a strong man.
He can be very difficult on occasion.
We got a nice answer, if you had a weak man, you wouldn't have Israel right now.
Israel would have been what a great observation with most other leaders would not exist today.
They would not exist and now they're stronger than ever.
Yeah, please.
So that was our first question of the day.
We got uh, as they were.
Um, so this was right outside, right out front right he, he had.
He had us wait.
You asked a question.
You asked a two-part question.
Uh, I asked the question to both of them.
I wanted the president to speak about the importance of America, health and Bibi went first relationship, and then I asked the and, mr prime minister and, using your own words, but the way you played that back, it was as if Bibi went first.
I thought I remembered the president going first.
No, Bibi did go first.
Oh, he did.
Okay, maybe on this one, Bb went first and if you know, this is how I asked, I will play together, i'm sure, i'm sure you remember I somehow, I I thought he went first right, the president?
Yeah he oh, so he did.
He mentions, if I remember correctly, go to their version of it of your question, go to their, where we hear them.
We only vaguely hear you okay, but we have we, we knew it was you right away.
Maria said, yeah, that's tedious yeah, she got that.
Uh, so this is next ted.
Here we go.
I got the question right after lunch on Putting Residents couldn't start on the piece.
Yeah, I don't, I don't like it, it's not good.
Uh, this morning, you know who told me about it early in the morning he said he would strike on.
I guess there was a strike on that, don't forget.
You know the tomahawks.
I stopped the tomahawks.
They said that we're talking about strike on.
It's one thing to be offensive, because they were offensive.
It's another thing to attack his house.
It's not the right time and can't do it, and I learned about it from president Putin that I was very angry about.
What?
Okay, then they tried to get up.
This morning it did.
One question, Mr. President.
Can you expand on the importance of a strong relationship with the state of Israel?
And Mr. Prime Minister, you've met President Trump's strongest friend for the state of Israel.
You've worked with numerous administration, numerous presidents.
Can you expand on that?
What makes President Trump such a strong friend of the state really want to even go first?
Oh, I see.
And then the president says like President Trump in the White House, it's not even close.
And I think you can judge that by the, not merely by the frequency of our meetings, but by the content and the intensity.
I think Israel is very blessed to have President Trump leading the United States, and I'll say leading the free world at this time.
I think it's not merely Israel's great fortune.
I think it's the world's great fortune.
Well, I just want to say that it's very important who the prime minister and president of Israel is.
We have a great relationship.
It was an honor to speak before your leaders.
That was a great honor for me.
I think it has not happened before, or something they told me.
But the relationship's been extraordinary.
And Bibi's a strong man.
He can be very difficult on occasion.
But you need to.
If you had a weak man, you wouldn't have Israel right now.
You know, Israel with most people would not exist today.
They would not exist.
And now they're stronger than ever.
Yeah, please.
Are you going to ask Danielle for someone?
And that was, and then they moved on to a different question.
And then later, the two gentlemen, they were a little press conference after their meeting, and we were able to ask the president a question there as well.
And this one made a little bit of news.
Yeah, that one I, yep.
And you know, I'll be honest with this one, I was a little nervous.
I'll be honest.
We were jumping up and down.
Well, I was a little nervous.
I'm thinking, is this a dumb question?
I like this question.
And I was thinking, I wish I could call the mayor before I asked.
If you did, I would have said, go right ahead with it.
Yeah, because I was a little nervous.
No, this was a good question.
So this one was during the meeting.
It's currently open to engaging in bilateral discussions.
There's no reason for them to do it.
Mr. President, is the United States currently open to engaging in bilateral discussions with Tehran?
We're hearing reports from numerous countries that there may be some discussions.
Is that something you would support or something that is happening?
You would support that happening.
Right now.
Thank you, sir.
Before the war, I would support that.
I said to him, baby, I said, I got him going on that one.
And they didn't believe what was going to happen would happen.
Mr. President.
Yes, sir.
That was good.
No, he wanted to make that point.
Yeah.
He made that point the first time about a lot of people criticized him for it, but he knew.
I mean, he knows he's not going to do it.
It's a great way of putting the guy in the corner.
It's like making the case against him when you know he can't fight back.
You're putting your points up on the board.
He won't have bilateral talks.
He won't have multilateral talks.
He won't have talks.
Why?
Because he's a pathological, homicidal, maniac, religious, Mohammed-inspired killer.
And that's why he won't do it.
And he came pretty close to getting us all ready in a nice way at a sort of festive time when this isn't almost the right time to have this talk.
But if, God forbid, he has to attack them in the next day or two, nobody can say they're surprised.
And you could look at Bibi on the double shot and you could see that he and Bibi had talked about that.
Like he basically almost triggered now they may change it because these guys are tricky as hell, the two of them.
I mean, they really are like the Bobsy twins.
They did a good guy, bad guy for about three months on Hamas.
That was hilarious.
You know, Bibi had get attacked for some terrible attack on Hamas, destroying a third of Hamas.
And Trump would say, oh, that probably went too far.
I'll have to talk to him.
We never heard about the talk.
It wasn't Trump-like when he gets angry.
We know Trump like when he got angry at Zelensky, right?
We knew he was angry at Zelensky, right?
Right.
But we never had that.
We never had that happen because this was good cop, bad cop on an international level.
This is almost like this one, he didn't even seem that it was necessary.
He didn't even seem to think it was necessary to go that far.
He basically said, hey, you know, we want them to talk and we want them to stop and we want them to listen.
But if they don't, he kind of looks at Bibi and he says, Israel's ready and so are we.
Meaning, we're all set to do what we had to do before.
And I bet it won't have to be as bad.
So why not take a couple more shots?
By the time we're finished with you, you won't be there.
He's letting them become the architect of their own demise to create less re-emergence problems for Israel and the United States, if and when they got to take them out.
He's going to have asked for so much that nobody will be able to.
Nobody, you don't hear anybody yelling anymore about what he did to Iran, do you?
I don't hear many people yelling about what he did to Iran at all.
Not even China or Russia.
He set that up so well.
He set that up so well that it just went down like well, he had to do it.
He had no choice.
It's a little bit like what's going on.
I hate to go to the other end of the world, but it's a little like what's going on in Venezuela.
He's given Maduro so many chances to exit that if they have to do an extraction of him or a bombing of the city or yeah, they'll be the peacenicks and the people who like drugs and the communists and the that'll do it.
But he will have laid the groundwork for it brilliantly, brilliantly.
Right.
So we're trying to go through some lives.
Yeah, show us some more.
Well, we got the two million points.
Dr. Maria is here now.
RT was super.
Yay!
So proud of you.
Tell her about that second question.
You were afraid to ask him.
Yeah, well, so I'm sitting there reading.
I'm reading about, you know, it's a good question.
It's from Iraq.
Apparently, Iraq is trying to broker some sort of meeting in Baghdad between Iran and the Americans.
And I'm thinking on its face, that just seems like that's a lot for them to be doing right now, right?
With everything happening there.
So I take out my, I'm not going to ask about Iraq.
I'm going to take that out of the question.
I'm not going to ask about Baghdad, right?
So, I asked, but I was still nervous to ask.
I'm like, this could be perceived as a dumb question.
Like, of course, we're willing to talk with anyone.
But I was reading that different people are surmising that the U.S. and Tehran might be restarting bilateral negotiations.
So I asked, but I was very nervous.
And you can hear it in my voice, right?
Like, I was never asked, last thing you want, this is international TV.
The president of the United States telling you that's a dumb question, right?
Like, what do you think?
Right.
He picked up the question and it looked like he wanted to answer it.
He answered it very, very quickly.
Right.
And you notice him, you know, he's scanning the room when he's like, he wants to call on you.
It's funny.
Even the prime minister, I felt like, was staring at me.
And so you want to give him like this friendly face, like, you come to me, right?
I'm not going to, I'm not trying to kill you here.
I'm going to give you something.
But you also don't want to be a total kiss ass, right?
Right, right.
So it's a fine line, but we're going to do more of that.
And we just want, we want them to be comfortable asking, calling on us, knowing we're not going to, it's not going to be a hit job.
We're going to ask real questions.
We want real answers, but we're not there to attack the.
So let's talk a little about the aftermath of these two meetings.
Do we have some stuff on Zielinski from yesterday?
That we can go back to?
Yeah, so we'll go back to yesterday.
And Zelinsky, he was here on Sunday, of course, and they had a small, they had a meeting and they did some, let's see if we can get, and they did them, they did a he made, he had an individual interview, which may have been last night or this morning, in which he said rather correctly, but still hard to have it out there this way, that Ukraine could not, can't win without the United States.
Basically saying that if the United States hadn't been there, even with what I think he's trying to very carefully not say is modest support, because it is half support that we've given them.
You know, we've given them, and this goes right back to Biden and it continued through Trump.
We've given them enough support to maintain themselves.
We haven't given them enough support.
We haven't given them enough support to win.
So should we take a short break and then we'll come back and we'll do a little Zelensky.
Yeah.
Okay.
We'll take a short break here.
So we'll be right back.
Gonna pay the bills here.
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It's like a hospital.
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Most people don't use this quality.
We deal with small farmers because they like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto.
All Arabica.
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Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney of the Italian Republic.
Prime Minister Kier Starmer of the United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland.
Chancellor Frederick Mertz, the Federal Republic of Germany.
Secretary General Mark Ruta, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO.
President Ursula Vanderlen of the European Commission.
We spoke to all of those great leaders.
They're all great leaders.
And we had a great talk with them after we were completed.
We thought it was appropriate to speak with them.
And our meeting was excellent.
We covered, somebody would say 95%.
I don't know what percent, but we have made a lot of progress on ending that war, which is really certainly the most deadly war since World War II, probably the biggest war since World War II.
And I want to thank Steve Witkoff, who's here, and I'd like to thank Jared, who's here someplace.
Thank you, Jared.
Thank you, Steve.
What a great job you've done.
Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, and Marco Ruby is here.
Thank you, Marco.
And Pete Hegseth is here.
Those two people are doing an unbelievable job.
And the four people on this one are doing, I don't think anybody could do it.
And we'll see if it gets done, but it's very close.
Certainly, nobody would even have a chance of getting it to where it is right now.
Nobody would have thought that was possible.
So I just want to say we've done very well.
We've had discussions on just about every subject.
And that includes with President Putin before.
And we went into great detail, and we likewise went into great detail today.
And it was an honor to have you at Mar-a-Lago and have lunch.
I hope you enjoyed the food.
Your people enjoyed the food, I can tell you that.
You're big, strong people.
Your general over there looks like central casting.
I want to also, by the way, speaking of generals, we have a great general, General Razin Kane, who is here someplace.
Thank you.
General, thank you very much.
He's great.
So, Mr. President, maybe you want to say a few words, and then we'll speak over the next couple of weeks.
We'll speak probably.
We can go back.
Well, that was the opening to the press conference yesterday between you.
And then he described a good conversation with Putin and used a percentage figure that varied between 90 and 95 percent.
And to some extent, I guess at first, Zelensky didn't buy into a percentage, but then Zelensky sort of agreed with the 90 to 95 percent.
So let's see if we can sketch out what that 90 and 95 percent is.
I mean, we all know enough about this so that we don't have to go back to square one and the beginning of the war.
As you know, Russia controls the south east to west part of Ukraine, the part that hugs the sea, and gets it all the way over to slightly short of Odessa, but now gives it a bridge, a land bridge to Crimea.
So it's Crimea right across the southern part of Ukraine up to Russia.
And there are, those are, originally they really wanted to take, well, let's be frank, they really want to take all of it, including Kiev, because they attacked Kiev, failed.
But their bare minimum land bridge would have started at Kharkiv, which is another 40, 50 miles north of where they are.
They have apparently given that up, which I'm very happy about because I know that city probably better than any other.
And I just read, I'll get this article out for you tomorrow.
I found it.
I put it somewhere.
I read it.
And now I've got to find it again.
It's a beautiful article about something I know and very few people really, really know.
And that's how the city of Kharkiv turned from a pro-Russian to a pro-Ukrainian city in a matter of less than a decade.
And when I say Pro-Russian, I mean over the top wanted Ukraine to be part of Russia.
To now, over the top will.
We will all die before we let our city become part of Russia.
And we'll explain the story.
We'll explain that.
We'll explain the story uh, to you.
Uh, maybe we'll get John Huvain on also, who lived, lived a bit through that uh, with me uh, but in any event, it's that lower, that lower area.
Um I, I had thought that the major um purpose was to cut um Ukraine off from the sea, because if they took Odessa, which is a small port but a very vital one and a good one uh, they would have almost done that uh, but they seem to they attack Odessa.
They just did a terrible attack on Odessa.
Um, I have to go back to look if they've ever made a serious attempt, like they have with some of the others, to take Odessa.
But the place they've made uh uh, they've made a lot of serious attempts and ex and succeeded.
Obviously, that's why they have 20 to 22 percent, but the area of Donbas in the Donask uh oblast, which is the Donask state, or I I think we call these states rather than counties, but if you, if you wish a county, but within it, within Donosc, is the region of Donbas and they control 86,
somewhere between 80 and 86 percent of all of Donosk.
But the part they're missing is the critical part of Donbas.
And the critical part of Donbas they're missing is the single best fortification that Ukraine has that has been impregnable.
It's been attacked for almost four straight years, cannot be uh uh, impregnated by them, and in fact they have stupidly, because they are.
I, I may say uh, Vladimir Putin, right to your face, you got a stupid army.
That's the reason why, a little country, you've got like three times the gross losses and maybe 10 times the per capita losses.
I mean you, you fight an army by using your uh soldiers as bullets.
They fight an army by having their soldiers shoot guns.
Uh, a little different.
I don't know where the hell you learned this method of warfare and I don't know how the hell you beat the Germans that way.
But if you did wow, we overestimated Hitler and you were overestimated.
Is there any nation in the world now that really?
Um, aside from the fact that you're a bully with atomic weapons, I mean, if we, if you didn't have those atomic weapons, I don't even think people would consider you.
So um, they're now having to to to, to bully their way uh to take territory they couldn't take militarily.
The third, theoretically the second or third most powerful military in the world can't take a defined piece of territory from, at best a middle power, at best under terrible uh financial circumstances,
with uh 25 of their country occupied and at war.
So they want that region.
Is that the single most important point to Ukraine, though?
It's close, but I don't think it is.
If the most important point to Russia is getting the Donbass fortifications, so let's have Russia on one side.
Number one is Donbass.
Now, on the Russia, on the Ukrainian side, and this is Rudy's analysis, not proven, it's American security for Ukraine.
I didn't say NATO even, did I?
If the U.S., if the U.S. left NATO, Ukraine would not particularly care to be a member.
Ukraine would rather do, if the U.S. left NATO, Ukraine would be better off doing an alliance with Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republics, if they could get the Serbians away from their stupid dalliance with Putin.
Because I love the Serbians and I think they're terrific.
And we should find a way to get them to help away from Putin.
Try to get everybody away from Putin.
So, see why I did that?
I did that because I think if Putin were required to make a choice, not completely, not like his back up against the wall, he's going to be finished, but serious pressure on him.
I think he'd give up the American security issue if he got Donbass.
So I think that that's why you're hearing this thing about a, for the first time that came out over the weekend, you didn't get much notice, but I wrote it down, a 10-year security guarantee by the United States.
Now, that's the first time I heard Trump put an American security guarantee on the table other than a backup to European.
Now, that American security guarantee would probably want to have a lot of, it would want to have a lot of NATO backup and European backup.
But bottom line is you get attacked, America comes this time, America comes to your support.
Now, the Ukrainians say it's got to be longer than 10 years.
Trump says, with a little wisdom to that, it ain't worth more than 10 years.
Because I'm gone.
I'm long gone by that point.
Possibly even my second administration is gone.
Yeah, that's a good point.
You're going to have a new guy here.
And even if it's, you've got to put a C in here, Ted, or we're going to lose that.
And even if you get a new guy in here, who knows?
Now, there is some value to having it.
There would be some real value to having it, even if we got a terrible president, as long as we didn't get a traitor president like Biden, right?
If it were confirmed by the Senate.
And I think he could get a Senate-confirmed treaty.
Now, that would be a big deal.
We have not had a Senate-confirmed treaty in a long time of that magnitude.
And it'd scare the shit out of Russia if the Senate confirmed it.
If both parties supported America will defend Ukraine as if it were part of NATO, even though it isn't part of NATO, forever and ever and ever until the end of the world.
He's going to have to give up his ambitions, or he's going to have to start becoming a lot stronger than even China.
And Ukraine would have its support beyond the eccentricities of up and down Europe.
One day they're here.
Three months ago, Macron was putting together an army.
Today, Macron's looking for a different size set of diapers for himself.
So, you know, it's like a little different, it's different.
So that's where I am, Ted.
That's where I think for some reason, I would have thought in my mind that Russia would have made that 10-year American guarantee or any American guarantee, Not Donbass, number one.
That, if we assume that, and if you listen to the setups by Putin, right?
The setups by Putin were, how do I set it up so I can invade next time?
It'll be easier.
When he put out that first big plan, right?
And when somebody in the Trump administration put out the 28-plan American plan, which to me, boys and girls, was the joint Russian-American plan because it gave, it was silly.
It gave Russia everything.
And it gave Ukraine nothing, nothing.
But short of that, I would have thought that at the top of the Russian list would be no American involvement in Ukrainian security.
Let me deal only with let me have to deal only with fecal Europe.
So that's interesting that he wants to do it that way.
The 10 years I can see that being worked out back door with the Putin, the people who are Bobby Sox is for Putin, who Putin could say 10 years and that'd be fine because he doesn't intend to attack while Trump is there.
That's for sure.
I think he figures Trump probably has enough oomph for him to get somebody reelected, to get somebody elected.
So that gets him eight years.
Then there'll be a Democrat, get two years to prepare and then he can invade.
So 10 years is, in my estimation, a gamble and not worth a lot, and not enough to give up something that he can't militarily solve, which is a hell of an embarrassment to him.
But I think a permanent one and a Senate, a Senate confirmed one would be worth giving him the rest of Donbass, although we do lose a lot of minerals and we do lose a lot of minerals and rare earths.
What I don't understand, Ted, and maybe this is going to require, it's going to require a little research by Rudy tomorrow morning that he didn't do and he should have done a long time ago.
Maybe calling a few people, maybe just looking myself at what I have.
Why the heck is Donbass so critical as a SR?
I mean, it's a big border.
There are a lot of other places you can get into Ukraine.
It is, I do, here's what I do know.
So before we get off on things we don't have to look at because you can help me.
Donbas has the best road to Kiev.
By that, it's the best protected road.
There aren't a lot of cities.
There aren't a lot of cities that are going to have to deal with internal resistance.
It's sort of a straight open road, easily traversed.
At that time, they thought by tanks, like a tank, like almost a patent tank road to Kiev, although they don't have patent, believe me.
A lot of their guys going the wrong direction.
And when you look at it, you can see it on the map.
So what that means is you get there in 30 days instead of three months.
There are 10 other ways to Kyiv, including the easiest one, which is through Belarus.
But the guy in Belarus isn't letting them do it.
Now, you look at the map and the easiest way up, you want to put a map of Ukraine up?
Just any old map, one that just shows all the parts in English?
Yep, let me just take a second.
But this is what they tried originally.
Remember, when they were bullying Biden, they were putting troops all along the border, various points on the border.
And I was really nervous because they had a lot on their western border next to Kharkiv, because that's where they wanted to enter, next to Kharkiv.
But they also put a lot up in by LaRusse and by LaRusse that could make a bigger.
It's a little hard for me to see at that level.
Make it bigger.
Okay, Ukraine, there's Kiev, all right?
Now, I want you to look.
Now, Kyiv, there's Kyiv.
Now, let's show them where Belarus is.
It's right up there, right on top of them.
There's Belarus, and there's Kiev.
And you see that little nipple that comes down in there?
You see a little nipple in there?
That's where they put that little nipple right there.
You go over that border and you go from Belarus to Kyiv.
You're there.
I look like Kiev.
You're in Ukraine.
It looks like Kiev.
See?
Right at the bottom of the river.
There.
Now, let's go straight south.
Let's go straight south.
Keep going south.
Keep going south.
Ah, you're not even there yet.
You're not even there.
Keep going.
Go over the other way.
Go east, young man.
Go east.
That way.
The other way.
The other way.
Keep going.
You see?
Nope.
Gosh, I wish I had my old map here.
Keep going.
Keep going.
You see, do you see Donesk yet?
Put a little arrow on it.
Put a little arrow on it.
There's Don Esk.
And right to the north of it is Donbass.
Now look at that distance.
All right.
Quite a difference, huh?
So you tell me why that is so resources, right?
There's a lot of.
Yeah, but it's five times the trip.
It must be also that that northern area of Ukraine that we're looking at there is heavily defended.
Yeah, we have the state because they attempted yeah.
Well, that's a little that's a little bit easier.
Um, that one was good.
Put that up.
That's easy.
That's easy to see.
So there's uh Kirsin, Mariupol.
Uh, that's uh Kirson and Mario.
Yeah, so right in the middle there, right in Kiev, right in the middle, Mariupol, take Mariupol out right out to where the white is and Kiev.
That's about right.
That's about the distance, Donetsk.
And then look at right above Kiev.
You see the little nibble?
Okay, look at the look at the difference in distance.
See it?
Okay, there.
Well, that's good.
No, that's fine.
Just you don't have to do much.
You see where the M is in Mariupol?
Okay, Mariupol to the K in Kiev.
That's the distance they'd have to travel if they breached the Donetsk fortifications.
You saw the little nipple on top in Kiev?
That's the amount they have to go to get there.
Got to be a big difference, huh?
Got to be a big difference in what exists in between those two.
So also the lack of cooperation of Belarus.
The president of Belarus was on an interview a couple of days ago in a very, very touchy interview, an interesting interview.
And you could tell he's still pro-Russian, still pro-Putin, but he's not happy about this war with Ukraine.
So I got a guess that after he let them use it originally and it didn't work since then he's been very down on the war.
So he's basically said no to him.
And somehow Putin has not had the has not had the push to just go put the troops there.
Maybe he's afraid they'll get wiped out even before they go across the border.
We'll have to see.
We'll have to see that.
I really would have been listening to hear more about it.
About the phone calls.
Apparently he talked to President Putin this morning.
He did.
He talked to President Putin this morning because he thought it was too late last night.
And Putin was Putin was, according to the president, pretty positive.
But then according to the readout, they're going to have two subcommittees to look at it.
Committees.
One's going to look at Economics and one's going to look at defense or something like that.
And I like the 10-year thing, which I would extend at least to 20 and make Senate confirmed, because I think that also increases the already pretty substantial guarantees for American Ukrainian economic development and economic ties,
which all of a sudden changes the geopolitical picture and the interest one country has in saving the others.
I know this isn't popular among people who like to measure themselves by either how right-wing or left-wing or ding-dong or boom-bang or ideological they are.
I've never, there's only one ideology that I ever want to make sure I stay within the margins of the defined part, and that's Catholicism.
The rest of it, I kind of, and even there, I like to push the envelope a little because I think God wants me to think.
But in any event, where it comes to politics, I don't get these people who are guided by ideology.
I never did.
If an ideology solved world peace, we'd be real peaceful.
We've got all kinds of ideologies.
None of them work.
What ideologies do is they're like philosophies.
They are philosophies, but not as complete, not as intelligent, not as developed by as disciplined people.
And unfortunately, very often turn into little clubs and cults and silly little things with hats and banners and meanness and who's in charge and I'm the king.
You can see that right now in this ridiculously sad battle going on with Tucker Carlson and Tucker Carlson and his lap dog Fuentes, Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
But I don't know which one's Edgar Bergen and who's Charlie McCarthy.
It looks like Fuentes is Charlie McCarthy and Hunter.
I always call him Hunter.
Isn't that strange?
I wonder why.
Right.
How often have I confused him with Hunter?
He looks like him, I guess.
Right.
Boy, that's a strange one, particularly now that it's gotten so weird.
He's really gotten weird.
I listened to Victor Davis Hansen, who has to have been a serious friend of his more than I was.
I considered myself a friend of Tucker.
Never sure he was a friend of mine.
You can't tell.
I always thought without good reason he thought he was smarter than I was.
I always knew he wasn't.
I never even thought we were actually at the same level.
Sorry, Tucker.
I used to listen to you when you were a kid.
I never thought you were really as well educated or read.
I sort of, you know, so what?
I don't get all pricky about that.
Unless you start to turn.
Then I get vicious about it.
It's got to be pointed out.
But Tucker, I don't know what he's going through.
Good question.
There was a, there are, there are the people, you know, there's a whole click school, right?
Yeah.
So the click school says all of this is about clicks.
None of them give a damn about anything.
And all they care about is if Candace Owen can accuse a widow of some suggestion that she killed her husband.
Wow, that's a great story, even if it didn't happen.
And even if she destroys the woman in the process.
So if that's true, and I don't, I'm not, I'm not accepting this, by the way.
If that's true, you're a devil.
You're a devil.
I mean, I don't, for clicks?
Click, Some bucks?
I mean, I don't know, Candace, there are other ways you can make bucks selling yourself at a night.
You don't hurt as many people.
I won't mention what they are, but if you're willing to do that, the other should be easy.
It's not as terrible.
Right.
Oh, we thought you were better than that, huh?
I mean, how do you stop making suggestions like that when you don't have any proof?
You don't have any investigators.
I mean, I investigated crimes.
I had grand juries.
I had evidence.
Even when I went after Biden, I had documents that I could show people.
They could laugh at me.
They could yell at me.
And I could say, look, look at the transaction on the 3rd of February, 2016 that goes from Ukraine to Latvia, from Latvia to Croatia.
They change the description of the transaction.
They change a number of the distributors and distributees, but it ends up being the same total amount of money.
And when it comes out to final end, which is in Cyprus and goes to about eight different countries or islands, it comes out the same way it went in after going through about six banks, none of which having left really the upper floor of the Prevot Bank in Kiev, Ukraine.
Oh, run, by the way, by the person who was the mentor, boss, teacher, creator of Zelensky, the head of the biggest money laundering bank in Eastern Europe.
That's your guy, Zelensky.
For whatever that means.
But in any event, that's the proof that I had.
When I said that the prosecutor was fired because Joe Biden wanted him fired, so the case against Joe Biden's son and the wealthiest guy in Ukraine who had bribed him could be dropped.
The guy had testified to that for me on tape and I played the tape.
I played the tape for the people in the government, including the Senate who were afraid to use it.
And I played the tape for John for Hannity on his show.
And I gave the tape and also played it with, let's see, I played it three times, didn't I?
Who else did I give that to?
Oh, the great reporter.
A great reporter.
Yeah.
Our great reporter friend.
Nick?
What?
Wait, I'd have to think.
But we'll get.
But I put out the tapes.
By the time I got to accuse him, I had one, two, three, four witnesses, three on tape, one in writing.
Not Miranda Devine, no.
Miranda Devine, a year later, I gave it to her.
But I gave it to her.
Not me, my word, not my speculating that Erica Kirk.
How could you do this?
How could you do this?
This should be reacted to much more strongly than it is.
And the only one who's really done it the way it should be is Victor Davis Hansen, who, by the way, is in the hospital.
I don't know if you know that.
I don't know how serious it is.
It always sounds serious, what it's described, you know, quickly in something.
But I want Ted to look it up and we're going to say a prayer for Victor.
I think Victor Davis Hansen, and I don't know Victor Davis Hansen.
Oh, he's great.
I just put a prayer up on our Twitter.
We're going to try to get through to him and call him tomorrow because I believe over the last two years or so, three years of commentary and podcast, he's been one of the wisest men in America.
In a very encompassing way, I mean, first of all, for the masterful intellectual that he is, no heirs, no.
And when I was reading Prussia, and Tacitus used to say, yeah, like you know him, right?
References to everybody I just mentioned, easily.
Understanding of history, philosophy, yeah.
A good, good, strong understanding of contemporary America, yeah.
Articulate as hell, but with the gift of being able to talk very intelligent, ordinary English.
Plain language.
I remember a long time ago, I wanted to be a better writer.
I read these three books, The Art of Plain Talk, The Art of Plain Writing, maybe the Art of Plain Thinking.
I don't remember.
They're little short books.
I think you got them from Book of the Month Club.
They're great.
Basically, they tell you every time you want to use a big word, use an easier word to understand.
You don't have to impress people.
And if you want to write a long sentence, try to make it a short one.
And then do the rest of it in the next sentence and the next one and the next one.
And figure out a nice way to connect them.
He's never, and this is a great credit to his ability to explain.
He's never explained anything I didn't understand.
And look, I'm not a genius, but I'm real smart.
And if I'm not understanding what you're saying, I really do think you're probably not saying it right unless you're in an area that really is obtuse to me.
Like if we're talking about hydrophysics or something.
Because if you're talking about government and you're talking about politics and you're talking about human emotions and you're talking about psychology, even somewhat about medicine and biology, and I don't get it, then unless you're giving this to the doctors who are getting the second doctor's degree, then it's not good television or good communication.
And he is terrific at that.
He doesn't dumb it down, but he doesn't pretentiously level it up.
So many of them do that because they're inadequate.
Tucker does that.
Well, he is extremely disappointed.
He had been on with Tucker, I guess, for eight or nine years.
And he's done several on his own and interviews in which he is questioning why.
First of all, it is clear to him, and I would take him over my observations because it'd be unfair with my observations.
I don't know Tucker that well.
I'm reluctant to come to observations like this about a guy who also has great talent and great capacity for good.
He says there's something wrong with him.
So he's known him for seven or eight years and there's something wrong with him.
He's gone through all the different things that are wrong with him.
And the clicks, the talk, sometimes the talking yourself into it.
You say something so often and you get so back to a normal corner with people attacking you.
And then you defend yourself and you develop only one way of looking at it, self-protection kind of thing, which is something that you have to be very careful of.
You have to be very careful if you're in government, because you can get attacked and attacked and attacked, and you can be partially right and partially wrong.
And you can't pick up the partially wrong because the partially attacked gets you so defensive that you won't listen to those people, even if they have something right about what they're saying.
And then he very, very carefully touches on the Qatar part.
And he sort of, I would say, although I really wish we could interview him, it sounded to me because I'm listening to other people's interviews that he rejected it on the grounds that Tucker doesn't need money, comes from a privileged background, always has had a decent amount of money and made a fortune with Fox.
And it doesn't seem like a lavish, what's that great expression?
If you see a politician wearing $200 suits, he's a shoes, he's a crook, he doesn't look like a guy with lavish tastes.
He looks like he's trying to figure life out.
So he pushes the Qatar part away.
But in pushing the Qatar part away, there's a great deal about how much Qatar is putting into this into trying to destroy Israel.
And I would not, I wouldn't, and he doesn't push away the Candace Owen part with regard to that, or the fact that Qatar isn't putting money into a concerted effort to hating Jews.
And that it isn't just anti-Semitism coming back.
It's anti-Semitism being funded by the two great conspiracies to destroy America, which is communism and Islam.
I know, I'm supposed to say Islamic extremism.
Should I say Muhammad?
Islam based on the teachings of Muhammad.
Islam without the teachings of Muhammad is the one you want.
Unless you just want to take the first half of his teachings and throw away the second half.
But it isn't just extremist, crazy Muslims who want to destroy Christians and Jews.
It's what Muhammad told them to do.
And now you have to find a way to reject it if you are a decent human being and you want to be part of the human fraternity, human sorority.
How about the human race?
As though, how about the one race, human race?
How about that?
The rest is.
That's a good point.
So we got to find out about how about how Victor is doing.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm very, very, very upset about that.
They are canceling New Year's in various parts of the world because of Muslim threats.
I don't know.
We'll get a full breakdown because it was a little unclear today.
They were saying they were canceling it.
I've seen this happen before.
I saw it in 2000.
I saw a bunch of places cancel.
And then about four days, maybe three days, I can't remember exactly, so don't hold me to it.
But certainly before the day before New Year's, but not two weeks before.
Yeah.
But about, let's say, a week to five days before, could have been a little before Christmas, a little after Christmas, Howard Safer and I made the decision with Louis Free's agreement, FBI.
We're going to go with it.
And I think it was actually before Christmas, because we did a 10-day sweep.
We did a 10-day, and I left one possibility open that maybe if we found something or whatever, and I let him know that three or four days before.
And we did a lot of stuff, and I'll explain it to you over the next couple of days.
It's interesting in preparing for New Year's, the kind of stuff that we did.
Some of this, we may have overdone it.
I don't know.
It also happened to be the millennial celebration.
So we had the possibility that all the computers were going to go down and all the craziness they did about that.
And a lot of places had canceled Christmas.
When we said we were going to go with it, a lot of them put it back on, New Year's, put it back on, but a lot didn't.
So I'm interested in seeing as we get a little closer.
And New York has decided to go forward with it, which I told you I thought was absolutely the right decision.
Because if New York doesn't, you're going to see a lot closed down.
If the New York City Police Department says, we don't think we can do this, then you tell me the police department in America, they can do it.
The FBI can't do it.
It's too big.
There are 15,000 FBI agents and there are now, although dreadfully depleted, 34,000 police officers.
So 5,000 FBI agents or 14,000, that's half the police department, basically.
And they got to be somewhere else, too.
And I don't think they're bringing the National Guard in for New Year's.
You can't describe New Year's as an emergency.
It's an emergency you're creating.
So I'm glad they made the decision.
I'm glad that Zolboy is not the mayor.
I'm glad it's under Adams and Tish, and they're solid as hell.
And It's a good thing they did that because I think they calmed things down in the U.S.
But let's see how Europe goes.
It'd also be a great indication of how far the Muslims have projected into Europe.
Anything else for us, Ted, that we want so we can let people start getting ready for their New Year's Eve celebrations?
Get a few people on maybe tomorrow night and tell us how they're going to celebrate New Year's.
Right.
I mean, a busy day, obviously, busy meetings at Mar-a-Lago.
The president is not slowing down.
The president is not slowing down.
So we had a busy day covering the international ongoing negotiations live from Mar-a-Lago featuring the Trump burger, which was face.
I have people I buy that for and they save the bun.
Yeah.
We know a lot of people that would do that.
Sometimes people, here you're going there and say, would you bring, I've done that for people in the building.
They'll say you're going to, yeah, I'll bring it back.
He should have put his, he didn't have the top on the on the burgers for the, for the press.
He didn't?
He didn't put, oh, I wish he did.
Oh, I wish he did.
I wonder if he would.
I wonder if he knows this.
I don't think he does.
I don't want anyone to get in trouble for that.
Do you think they're being sensitive?
I don't know, but I don't want anyone to get in trouble.
The staff was really good.
I have a picture of it.
I don't think I find it for you.
Yeah, I don't have.
Let's see if I have one.
I'll have to upload it, but tune in tomorrow because we'll have a lot more from our coverage.
I've had people tell me they just will not eat the top.
They won't eat his face.
They don't want to eat the.
I mean, yeah, that checks out.
It's a pretty good.
I mean, it's a good rendition.
Yeah.
And he has it.
It really is, isn't it?
You know, he has it in Washington, in Virginia, too.
Yeah, I got these pictures I took today.
Well, I don't think he was serving them hamburgers.
No, no, they had fish.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
They had a diet.
But you can tell BB's on a diet.
His neck is getting skinny.
There's BB.
These are pictures we took today.
There they are.
You know exactly the room.
We've eaten in this room.
You know, exactly the room they are in here.
Oh, you know that room.
Yeah, we were there when it rained.
Remember when it rained?
Yeah, we went to the room.
We got there with Trump and he played the music for us and all.
Yeah, that was awesome.
That was a good, that was a good dinner.
Right.
So there's some pictures from today.
We'll get some more for tomorrow.
That picture is right, is right in the main entrance.
Right.
There's like a, I don't know, there's an entrance hall.
Then you go into, I would call it a big parlor, right?
But in the old days, they'd call a parlor, but it's like three pars, the size of three parlors with an upper area for viewing or eating where Melania likes to eat.
It has a great view of the outside of.
And then there's a second part that leads out to the balcony, which is where he has his, where the usual dinners are held, including the Saturday, famous Saturday night dinners, Friday and Saturday night dinners.
And then off to the side of this room we're talking about.
It's like a big giant hallway off to the side, the size of a room.
Yeah.
And you can use it.
You can use it for circular tables, or you could, or it does fit very nicely with one big long table like they use.
To do that kind of a thing, the only other place they could do that, and it would be too big, they'd have to section off a part of the big ballroom downstairs, which holds a thousand people, which is what they use on New Year's Eve.
Yes.
So they have a lot of parties going on right now.
Last night, they had two parties.
They had a party at the golf course and they had a party at the golf club.
And I was a little sensitive about describing that because of the overflow of the New Year's party.
The people invited to the people that weren't invited to the New Year's party, except I think our friend crashed.
Our friend crashed.
Okay, there.
He wasn't supposed to go.
I didn't want to tell him.
Yeah, but that's okay.
You were either one or the other.
Yeah.
There are people, even at Mar-a-Laga, and just take too many parties.
A lot of these people don't work.
I was like, you see some, they're at every party.
And so that's their job is to show you.
First of all, if I did all those parties, I'd be more tired than I am working.
Yeah, right, right.
What would we do?
The parties get me more tired than working.
Right.
Yeah, it is amazing.
I've seen you in three years.
Whoever comes up and says, you look shitty.
You really look shitty.
Boy, did you get fat?
Or boy, did you get skinny?
What are you?
What are you taking one of those pumpers?
And that gives you one of those.
And what do you say?
You see these folks at every party and it's like the same thing.
You never have the guts to do this.
Take one woman and say, ma'am, would you come with me for a moment?
Is this your twin sister?
Oh, no, we both went to Dr. Mariensky.
Yeah.
Great people, though.
So I'm going to end tonight.
We're going to say some prayers.
We're going to say some prayers for the peace negotiations.
There are two of them going on simultaneously.
They may get settled simultaneously.
They're on a sort of track where they both could go or not, right?
So let's pray for the people of Ukraine and that they get secure.
They get security so they can bring their lives back, bring their country back with the guidance of the U.S. to a really productive, the productive country that it should be.
And really, if they can deal with this Russian thing, if they can get Russia out of their hair and pay the awful price they're going to have to pay for it, they've got everything going for them.
They're very smart people.
They're very well-educated people.
They got people with a great history, great history.
It is sufficiently independent from Russia so that they would want to be their own people.
And if they didn't want to be their own people, Russia has proved it to them.
As the story I'll tell you, I think I'll do it tomorrow night about Kharkiv.
We'll convince you that even if they were Russian in some way more than is really true, because there's some truth and some falsity to that.
What Russia has done to them now and over the last hundred years would say to you, I don't want to be part of those people ever.
I'd rather take my children and take them to Mexico or America or whatever.
So let's pray for the people of Ukraine that they get peace.
And let's pray for the people of Russia that they stop being put into this murder mill by the murderer in chief, Putin.
And God, any way you can enter his black soul and stop him from liking to kill people.
I knew people who liked to kill people.
A man who does killings on Christmas and New Year's and doesn't care that he's killing babies for no reason now.
He's not going to get any more, but a couple more attacks on him.
That's a man with a black soul.
Could you do something with it?
Only you can.
So let's also say, did you want to add a prayer, Tim?
Please?
Well, feel free.
That's what I have.
As you said, Mary, we want to pray for everyone who's hurting during this holiday season or maybe some people that are feeling alone or missing someone.
There always are.
We want to think of all those folks.
There always are, Ted.
Of course, we want to pray for the president and the ongoing negotiations.
Everyone over there at Mar-a-Lago dealing with very big issues from Kiev to Jerusalem and in so many other places.
Yeah, and let them make sure they're all guided by the good of the United States and the good of humanity.
That just stays perfectly in their head, nothing else.
And give them a little luck because sometimes it takes a little luck that somebody who's been very stubborn is just going to back off on an issue.
Like, if we could just get Putin to back off on the security issue, maybe we can get this thing solved, huh?
I don't know what we do about Hamas.
I'm going to pray that you change the mind of Hamas and that they disarm.
But I'm not sure.
You know this better than I do, God.
But do the people in that terrorist group have souls left?
Can you reach people like that?
They promise to disarm.
They're not disarming.
As they don't disarm, more people die.
What do we do?
Do we keep asking them to disarm as they are killing more and more people?
Or do we end the killing of more and more people and end them?
That's a tough, tough one.
So we pray to you for guidance on that.
And we pray for all those people that Ted was talking about.
Because Christmas time is the happiest time of the year and the saddest, isn't it?
It's the saddest when something is wrong and you're lonely and you're alone and everything's gone wrong and it all becomes magnified by all the appropriate and maybe excessive celebrations or not as religious celebrations.
Let's put it that way.
I don't know if they're excessive, but then it could be true with New Year's too.
Remember, whenever you're completely low, really, really low, there's nothing you can do about it.
There's nothing that's never going to get better.
That's always when it does.
Because it's not true.
It's a mental construct.
It's an emotional construct.
I'm going to make it religious.
It could be psychological.
That's the devil.
It's the devil tempting you to take your own life.
He's trying to paint a picture of hopelessness for you.
And if you can just close your eyes and just say, I'm not going to act right now on this.
I'm going to wait.
I'm going to wait three days.
And if I feel this way three days, who knows what I'll do?
I'm just going to wait three days.
And I'm going to try to think of other things I haven't thought of that will get me out of this and move me out of this.
Or go to some place where I think people may help me.
Go to a church.
It's when you hit the bottom that you should say, stop now.
And let me try something different.
There are so many places that want to help you.
You know that.
You know that.
Just ask.
Ask the police officer, where can I go for help?
Just ask him.
He'll tell you.
And ask God.
He'll tell you for sure.
So we'll be back tomorrow.
We'll be back tomorrow at 8 here.
We'll see what we can get from Mar-Lago.
We'll see what's going on there.
We're going to try to sneak our major White House reporter in now.
Who knows?
They seem to like him there.
And we'll get back and take a look at that beautiful, get you some more pictures of that beautiful place that's becoming the place of peace, huh?
Right.
Yeah.
We'll see what we're seeing.
Well, there can't be anything that we could be working harder on during this holy season than peace.
How do you get doesn't get much?
And remember, we're still in the Christmas season.
We have a number of days to go to the Epiphany, which is the Greek and Russian Christmas and Armenian Christmas.
And of course, and to Roman Catholics and Christians and Protestants, it's the feast of the kings, right?
Right.
The three kings.
Right.
So we've got lots of religious celebrations ahead and lots of hope and lots of hope for the new year.
And maybe we can ring it in with some good news.
We still have a couple of big days to go.
So come back tomorrow and you'll get it right here.
Right from Mar-Lago.
We're going to sneak them in.
We don't have to even sneak them in.
They take them in.
Well, God bless America.
It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
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.
We're able to analyze.
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