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Jan. 5, 2026 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (836): Maduro Pleads Not-Guilty, Delcy Rodriguez Sworn-In as Interim President

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Serious injury.
When I say number of casualties, I mean for us.
I'm not considering the number of casualties for the people that were protecting one of the most fully revealed or fully vetted yet.
It was successful in that the feared and maniacal dictator of Venezuela is removed.
Now, here's the thing that is positively discouraging for those of us who have honesty as part of one of the principles that is so important to us.
You know, it's really quite amazing.
It's really quite amazing that it was done so perfectly, so perfectly, but I know why, and I'm going to explain it to you briefly.
It comes from a massive, I could not exaggerate for you the amount of practice that goes into going into doing this and the amount of things that they try to mock up so that they can reconstruct the realistic situations on the ground that they're going to confront and have figured out in advance what the strategy will be.
And as you can imagine, the more time you have, the better you, when you're professional like this, the better you're able to do this.
And the delays, the delays that we were talking about, you know, all throughout have helped that enormously, enormously.
The president made it clear on Saturday and on Sunday that Venezuela must be restored to law and order and economic discipline before any elections.
Or it's a little ambiguous, turn back to them.
What the president has done, it seems, is accept the former the former vice president who is going to act as the Del Codriguez, who is going to act as the interim president.
Now, she is no more legitimate than he was.
They were both illegally elected.
I wouldn't stand on that technicality, however.
I would, I believe I should kick her out right now.
I think this is a terrible mistake.
I think when you go over the mistakes of past American victories and extrications, and how many times have they said we go from bad to worse or from bad to just about as bad?
Well, we're going from bad to worse.
She's as vicious a communist operative and dictator as he is.
She's smarter, so she will put more roadblocks in our way than he did.
And she is completely and thoroughly corrupted.
There isn't an honest thing about her.
The fact that we used her, and I'm sure she ratted out her old friend.
I mean, I didn't think that was even a consideration.
The fact that we used her is fine.
That's what we're supposed to do, but now we kick her out.
I mean, if we made some promises to her, we'll keep those, but those promises should not have been.
She's going to get to run the government.
She is a Marxist communist murderer, corrupt, she and her husband, as bad as bad as him, as Maduro, but shrewder and smarter and potentially much more dangerous.
So I don't see how we get through too much more with her there.
She was very hostile when she first became freed away after she stopped talking to whoever the hell she was talking to.
And then this morning, she apparently said conciliatory things to the president, but that isn't the standard here.
The standard here is we got to be absolutely certain that the person is realized the horrible conditions within the country is not going to have them return.
She's just the opposite.
And the worst part is, as far as I know, the rest of the operation remains intact.
So they didn't offer an unconditional surrender.
And she was talking about how America should leave him alone earlier today.
Trump called her and straightened her out.
But we know what's in her heart.
And there's no room for her, Mr. President.
So I urge you in the most respectful terms possible, stick her ass in jail.
And some of the other people that we know are part of the upper echelon of those who control the flow of information from that place because that is used and weaponized.
So Rubio now, after the president recognized that Rubio on ABC's This Week did walk it back a bit.
He said, we don't believe that this regime in place is legitimate via an election.
That's not just us.
It's 60 minutes.
60-some countries around the world, okay, have done the same.
64 countries around the world have done the same thing as they have done.
So I would say that taking the vice president of an illegitimate country is not the wisest thing we could have done.
And it does give you an eerie feeling of the mistake we often make about, you know, we go from bad to worse.
She's a longtime socialist and ally of Maduro, along with her brother Jorge.
And he presides over the Congress of Venezuela.
She has ruthless ambitions.
She uses Machiavellian tactics.
She doesn't think he said about her.
She's a powerful figure and would be able to increase oil production.
I think there was an idea that she may be somebody who was not only effective, but somebody they could work with.
But Rodriguez quickly reaffirmed her support for Maduro during a speech Saturday.
And Trump warned her, if she doesn't do what's right, she's going to pay a very big price, probably bigger than Maduro.
I'd rather not have a pay her price.
I'd rather not have compromised this.
And again, I cannot conceive of the reasons why we wouldn't do that.
So while he's in jail for whatever period of time, don't fool yourself.
The country's being run by Chavistas, followers of Hugo Chavez.
The regime officials include Interior Minister Diosado Cabello and Defense Minister Vladimir Pedrino Lopez, who physically insisted Maduro is still in charge of Venezuela.
That would seem to me to be in direct defiance of the president's statement and should result in their immediate release and imprisonment.
Look, there is, I don't know why they're doing this.
So I don't know why they're keeping her on.
There are two assumptions.
One is they needed her.
They worked with her.
She helped them capture her boss because she's a piece of scum.
It'll turn anybody in.
All right, good.
We work with them all the time.
I did.
My career was made on a lot of them.
If they weren't going to testify, I wasn't going to convict.
However, you learn not to own them.
In fact, I used to teach my assistants that.
Sometimes people get a little silly about informants and people who helped.
I mean, Roosevelt did with Stalin on a grand scale.
You got to know when to hold them and know when to fold them.
Oh, you can be real nice to her.
You don't promise her anything quite outright, but you can be really nice to her.
You give her all kinds of expectations.
Let her give up his ass.
Get rid of him and then get rid of her because she's no better.
Well, let's see what happens.
It just would be kind of a setback if it happened over a period of time.
You know, if she says something and does something and then she has to be removed, and then they say the thing isn't going well and it's got to be reestablished.
It's my advice, which they didn't seek, although I do have an awful lot of experience with this.
Whatever it is you want to do, you get it all done at once.
Get criticized once.
Respond to it 100 times.
Don't keep escalating the, oh, you took this now.
Oh, we got it all.
We got, oh, no, we got to take more.
And then the confusion that exists between the president said yesterday, what's going on today is somewhat of concern, which is yesterday we said we can run the place.
Guys behind me are going to run.
Now this communist is going to be running the place, which may be not any material difference between that and so we'll have to see.
Well, we have on the line.
We have on the line Carmen Maria Monteel, who is a former Venezuela, and she's a Venezuelan American.
Yes, before you know her and running for congress in the great state of Texas, and I am extremely excited about your candidate candidacy.
Uh uh Carmen, I think you're going to be a great candidate.
Can you first tell us, before we get to what we want to talk to you about, about your great country of Venezuela?
Uh, where are you running in Texas?
And, right away, in case we forget, how can people help you?
Okay, I'm running in District 38, which is a Republican district.
It's the district of Wesley Hunt, who is running now for Senate.
So it's very important to win the primaries that are March 3rd.
There is going to be probably a runoff and they can help me in Carmen4Congress.com.
And that's Carmen number four with the number four, CarmenNumber4Congress.com.
And it is very important that I am the perfect candidate for such a time like this.
With what we see in what's happening in Venezuela, I'm the one who has the knowledge, the connections, the knowledge of what happened, how it happened, because I'm old enough to remember the good times in Venezuela.
So most of the young people, they never knew that part, but I knew the good times.
I saw the process of destruction and the bad times.
So we're now now, you know, the positive thing is United States now is going to go into partnership with Venezuela for oil.
You know, remember, Venezuela is the number one in oil reserve.
We have many minerals.
We have gold and, you know, we have rare minerals.
So we're going to enter into a great partnership with the United States.
I mean, Venezuela will enter and that will benefit both countries.
Venezuela needs the help to rebuild itself and it will be the great boost of American economy because our refineries here in Texas and Louisiana, they were prepped to refine heavy crude, which comes from Venezuela.
And right now they are working on light crude.
That is what it comes with fracking.
So we're spending too much money.
Yeah, we're spending money.
We're not getting as much out of it.
Exactly.
Makes us less competitive with Middle East and Asia.
I mean, Venezuela, so you, you, when you say that, you remember it all happening.
You also remember, because it was shortly before what I was talking about earlier, there was a period of time before Chavez took over when Venezuela was right at the top.
And I remember reading, you know, foreign policy and whatever, that Venezuela was the country that was going to be by far the most successful in Latin America.
It was a country in the road to development.
It was not a third world country.
Yeah, you have, you have, in comparison to your neighbors, they're all wonderful countries also.
You have a lot of advantages.
They have a tremendous amount of resources.
We were way ahead.
We have a smaller population.
But first of all, yeah, you look at Brazil.
Brazil's got a lot of stuff too.
Brazil has 250 million people divided among.
But it's a much larger country, much larger.
Yeah, much larger.
But in some ways, that's harder.
Yes.
You got a much easier situation with per capita, per capita, you got to be wealthy.
And in Venezuela, the people of Venezuela used to be very wealthy.
Well, the people, it didn't matter if you were a secretary or whatever.
People used to have a very good standard of living at the time.
And people used to travel, you know, the Venezuela people used to go to Miami all the time and spend a lot of money because, you know, the price per capita was unbelievable.
And like I told you, the country was on a road to development, never a third world country.
So, and it was very Americanized because all of the headquarters were in Venezuela.
And so, when I remember coming to United States to visit, and I have friends from Colombia, and for them, like the machine to gave you the ballet, the parking ticket was a shock.
And not coming from Venezuela for us because we already have that.
It was a country that was very Americanized, very advanced.
And the people that went to Venezuela to work in the oil industry, and especially the men, married Venezuelan women and stay in Venezuela because it was the standard of living was fantastic.
But let me tell you that the problem was that before Hugo Chavez, there was 40 years of a so-called bipartisan democracy, but the two parties were socialists.
So, it was a social democracy.
It was really what it drove to what happened, electing Hugo Chavez to be elected.
It's a process.
I always tell people it didn't happen overnight because Hugo Chavez won.
It was those 40 years of that so-called democracy that opened the borders first in the 70s, that started the corruption, that implemented the social programs.
And the children of those illegal immigrants that entered Venezuela in the 70s were the one who voted for Hugo Chavez.
So, people needs to be aware.
And this is the reason why I'm running for office because years ago, I realized that many things very similar to the process that took Venezuela to what it is right now started to happen here in the United States.
And we're there.
You know, we have had the border open for like 40 years, and then Biden reopened it during his administration, which is like when Hugo Chavez took power, he reopened the border and started flying in people from China and the Middle East.
So, that was completely negative and destroyed the country.
And what happened is they don't know how to manage oil.
They fire because the oil people went on a protest against Ugo Chavez.
They fired everybody and the oil production went down and they thought they were going to survive.
And I always tell people, you know, communism, the problem with communism is they always run out of money because they produce nothing and they steal a lot.
And that's what happened.
When did you leave Venezuela?
I came to the United States in 1988 to come to college to Ford America.
In 1988, what were things like in Venezuela?
Things were, you know, economically very well, but crime was starting to be a major problem.
Right, right.
Economically, you were still in that situation where you were ascending and you were considered that you were going to go to the top.
Yeah, we still were, you know, when it was.
People must have been very good about Venezuela and very good about themselves, correct?
Well, and, you know, everybody thought in Venezuela that we were on, you know, on top of everybody in Latin America.
And probably the Venezuelan people got a little bit cocky because of the situation.
It was a very good economic.
Tell me about being Miss Venezuela.
Well, and I was Miss Venezuela in the best time, in the golden years, in the best, absolutely time.
And the productions for the show were even better than Miss Universe production.
And it was a time that it was really a family affair.
All the parents and the siblings of every girl that was running in the pageant, you know, it was a family affair and the honors were, it still are.
I network in Venezuela.
It's called Venevision.
So automatically, when you won, I got a contract to work in Venezuela and that's how my television career started.
I'm a journalist.
I know that.
A very good one.
Yes.
And so I started art first, and then I started communications.
And that's what I came to the United States to finish.
And that one, it looks like you're performing.
Well, no, that's when I introducing myself.
You were singing.
Looks like you were singing.
No, that's what I'm saying.
My name is So, and that's the Miss South American pageant that I won.
I went to South America.
I won it.
And then I went to Miss Universe and I got second run it up.
And it was a great time.
And still, when I came to the United States, it was a great time.
And the plan was to return.
But while I was here, it was when Hugo Chavez.
You came here for education.
Is that it for your education?
For education.
And the plan was to go back.
But during the time I was here, it was when Ugo Chavez tried to overturn the government twice.
And the crime got even worse.
So I decided to stay waiting for things to get better.
And as we all know, it didn't.
And so I stay always legally.
And I've been in this country for 37 years, going into 38 years.
Where have you lived?
I live in North Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas, Houston, Texas.
Houston is home to me.
Yeah, Houston.
I used to spend a lot of time in Houston.
My law firm was there, Braceville Giuliani.
I like Houston very much, but it's deteriorated quite a bit since I first.
I used to see you at the Houstonian Club.
I used to see you at the Houstonian Club.
You did?
Small world.
But so how, so how are we doing?
How are we doing politically?
I have to ask.
I mean, I love politics and I know.
Which one, are you talking, Venezuela or my race?
Isn't that good?
Isn't that good?
Okay, let me ask you the question I have to ask you, which is this idea that he stayed with Del Count.
I'm not happy about that.
I have a certain theory about these things.
And I've done this myself.
And you should know I've been working in Colombia and Venezuela since 1978.
I have two contracts put out by the FARC to slit my throat.
They tried to kill me once.
Oh, I bet.
You were.
I have a lot of experience.
I have a lot of experience.
I'm not like talking just off the top of my head.
She's a stone cold killer.
Well, I'm going to tell you what's the truth.
I don't trust her.
Use her.
Great.
Use her.
Use her.
Use her all you want.
And then kick her out.
No.
She's going to be kicked out.
I understand.
Let me explain you the why.
Yeah.
She is probably a worse criminal than Nicolas Maduro.
Her father was a criminal and was a guerrilla.
And her father kidnapped the president of Owens, Illinois, William Nihaus.
I don't know if you know, back in the 70s.
Yes, I remember.
Her father was a guerrilla man.
Gosh, I remember that now.
Thank you.
Their father is the father of Delsi Rodriguez and Jorge Rodriguez.
And he got killed when they were interrogating him to find William Nihouse.
But Owens Lino paid the bounty and nobody ever found the bounty.
So, and they're very well educated.
So now we know where their money is.
But the mother later married Carlos El Chacal.
That was their stepfather.
Do you know who Carlos El Chacal is?
So this woman was her biological party father was a major criminal.
And the stepfather was another criminal.
So this is where they're coming from.
So you can expect anything good coming out of them.
But the reason that I understand President Trump, why he's doing this, he cannot do this and create a Power vacuum because it would be worse.
And the reality is, the army, the armed forces, has been bought by the regime.
They have given the armed forces businesses.
So, if they were to just completely take them down, whoever they put, they will be overturned within 24 hours.
So, I understand the United States needs to complete the work, see what they're going to do with their armed forces.
And I know they're eventually going to not only they're going to take, they're going to charge her with her crimes.
It is believed that she has way more crimes than Nicolas Maduro.
But she is the what I said, the useful idiot for the moment if she thinks that she's going to get away lying to the United States.
But they can't, huh?
So, you think it'll be done piecemeal?
Yes, eventually, you gotta, I mean, you gotta, you have to strike a happy medium.
You can't, you can't do what you did in Iraq, which is to throw out everybody, throw out everybody, throw out the bus drivers.
They don't know what the hell's going on, but you also have to get rid of the regime.
Yes, because if you don't get rid of the regime, these are very crafty people, communists.
They'll just come right back, and in five years, they'll be exactly where they are now.
So, it's a very, it's a very delicate situation.
Remember that Diodado Cabello, there have uh, United States imposed charges on him with a bounty.
The bounty on Diosdado is $25 million.
And Vladimir Padrino, who is the Secretary of Defense, there is he also have criminal charges with another bounty of 25 million and some other people.
So, they need to go, but the problem is the army.
And that's why the army have never defended, as the Constitution says, defended the people of Venezuela because they've been bought up.
They're doing business.
Where is the army right now?
Where are their loyalties right now?
Oh, to them, because they're making a lot of money thanks to the regime.
So, their loyalty is to the regime.
And that's why one of the things they attack the day they attack, which was an incredible operation.
Let's give it to our armed forces and President Trump.
That was a beautiful, brilliant, brilliant.
It was impeccable, not one life lost.
The lives that were lost, the Cubans that they needed, you know, which is the ring that gave protection to Nicolas Maduro, they are gone and they attacked Fuerte Tijuna, that is the headquarters of the army, and that's where Nicolas Maduro was staying.
And they also destroy the Mao Soleo where Hugo Chavez built this huge thing for Hugo Chavez, but that's gone.
It's gone.
And the people of Venezuela are still.
He doesn't miss a thing.
Yes, I saw that.
When I heard that, and then I saw the picture on the map, I said, Oh, yeah, right.
Like, he's going to cause us a lot of trouble, but let's make sure we take him out, right?
Yeah, so I think they were worried that he'd be like a Democrat, an American, still continue to vote.
So, they wanted to make sure he couldn't vote anymore.
So, they took him out.
Well, for sure, because in Venezuela, all the dead people votes.
That's the Venezuela is credited with sort of inventing the crooked machine.
Well, it was invented by Hugo Chavez in order for him to stay in power forever.
And then they have exported it.
See, nobody believed me when I first said that.
They have rigged elections in over 80 countries with that machine.
They have business, including the U.S.
And yes, the 2020 election in the United States was rigged by the Sense machines.
And you know that Hugo Carbajal, El Pollo Carbajar, recently, who is in prison here, is part of the regime, wrote a letter to President Trump outlining all the crimes among them.
The election of 2020.
And don't you think that Nicolas Maduro is now going to talk?
Being you think he's a candidate for flipping?
That used to be my specialty, getting these people to flip.
Oh, he's going to talk.
Yeah.
I have no doubt.
He's not as tough as he looks.
Oh, come on.
You know, when you are facing two life sentence or probably death penalty, you know, all bullies are cowards, Rudy.
Oh, yeah.
And the more they act the way he's acting with the dancing and everything, the weaker they are.
Exactly.
Now, I am told, now tell me, I mean, I've had some experience with them, not a lot.
And so I rely more on other people who say to me, unlike Chavez, who was horrible and evil, but very smart, that he's kind of dopey.
Well, listen, and that his wife, his wife is the brains.
Oh, yes, Celita.
Is that true, Carmen?
Yeah, she's way smarter.
And that's why they caught her because she also have a long list of crimes.
But he's not, don't buy him.
He's such an idiot because that's what the communists sell.
They sell all of their leaders like they are idiots.
And that was a propaganda.
So people feel, oh, poor thing, he's an idiot.
And he appeals to the less educated people.
But no, I have heard that people say he doesn't have education, but he went to Cuba and got educated.
And I have heard that he learned English in Chicago, that actually he speak English like the African-American people in Chicago.
I have heard.
I cannot confirm that.
But you know, he arrived when he arrived, he was wishing people Happy New Year and all of that.
Yes, he was wishing them happy new year and trying to be very friendly.
You know, you know, compared to jails and prisons in America, I used to be in charge of prisons a long time ago under President Reagan.
They were much better then.
This one gets very bad.
He's in a one in Manhattan.
The one in Manhattan where Epstein killed himself is in fact, I guess it's a bad luck prison, but it's a much better prison.
This one is very big.
It's more like a state prison than a federal prison.
Everybody there complains.
And he's got some pretty famous people there.
He has Diddy.
Diddy is there.
And Mangioni, you know, the guy who became a big hero.
He's the hero killer.
So he.
One of the things of the people of Venezuela is their humor.
And you have no idea the means with Diddy and Maduro.
Oh, I have seen them and they are perverse.
They are terrible.
They're terrible.
Imagine if Epstein was still there.
Yeah, there are, you know, and that's one, that's possibly the reason why the Venezuelan people have been able to endure these 27 years of this, this regime that is very difficult.
You have very good, I have a lot of, I have a lot of Venezuelan friends, even people going back to, I mean, they started coming over like in the 80s.
You have people coming over since the 80s.
Yeah, usually those people were like me were coming here to study.
They might come into America.
Yeah, for work or study.
And then the situation like happened to me.
So, and what happened is this regime is very complicated to explain because it's not a simple communism.
It's not just like dictatorship.
is a communist regime that is involved in so many different crimes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's almost like an organized crime group, a terrorist group, terrorist, and a political organization.
And they have gone like worldwide, like the FARC was.
Exactly.
But they have gone worldwide.
And this is why this is so dangerous.
And this is why I understand that Delsi needs, because if these people, they're going to start turning against each other because they're saying turn.
Oh, come on, the mafia.
If they know that Delsi Rodriguez turned in Nicolas Maduro, do you think anybody there trusts anybody right now?
They're all watching their bats.
You may get a couple of killings as this goes on.
Because when this happens inside of one of these groups, they even start to get paranoid.
And even if somebody's not cooperating, they're afraid they might take them out.
Before I join you, there were shotguns in Vira Flores, which is the house of the president.
And this just happened right before I connected with you.
So it's going to be like that.
The country is militarized.
People is afraid.
The collectivos, which is like Antifo, are on the streets.
And most of the Venezuelan, the good Venezuelan people are staying inside, staying in home.
Yeah.
So tell us now about your race.
Well, my race.
I want you now.
You're so good.
You can explain this so well.
I'm going to need some people like you there.
You got to be in conversation.
And especially in such a time like this, I think.
So tell me, how's your race going?
And again, how do people help you, right, Ted?
Yeah.
Ted here is an extra.
And now more than ever, great, because I've been getting a lot of exposure with interviews because of this situation in Venezuela.
It's going to be very good, too.
Name ID, and that's going to help me more.
I need to raise more money.
So please go to Carmen4Congress.com and donate to our campaign.
And that's CarmenNumber4Congress.com because that's the name of the game.
This is a Republican district.
This is going basically to be decided in the primaries.
Primaries are March 3rd.
Probably we're going to have a runoff in May.
But I am the perfect candidate for the perfect.
How many candidates are running?
10 in this because it's a Republican district.
Yeah.
10 Republicans.
Yes.
And but I'm the only one with name ID in this race because as you know, I have run before.
I know you've run before and also on the media.
And then I have the media part also.
Yeah.
And so that helps me.
And with this situation with Venezuela, that's giving me even more media exposure.
And that also helps.
Yeah.
And it's important to have some people who actually understand it.
And, you know, like the questions I asked you tonight, if I asked just an expert who's, oh, I can read it myself.
Talk to you.
You're somebody who has experience from coming from there, paying attention to it, going back there.
Well, geopolitically around the whole region, because, you know, when you come from there, it's like all the countries will communicate.
Latin America is kind of very similar.
We are aware of the situation because it affects all the countries in Latin America.
So I am the only candidate right now that understand the geopolitical situation in the region that understand the importance of United States to take care of our back jar.
We need to take care of our back jar.
We are in the same country, Venezuela.
This has been, Carmen, this has been a thing of mine in college.
Way, way back, the Republican Party kept promising they were going to do more and more about Nixon.
Nixon promised Rockefeller that he would do it.
And we've made some efforts, but we've never, and we've never done what we've done now.
And I credit it to the president, of course, but also to Marco.
I think you have a man as vice president who has it in his heart.
You know, it's the second person to endorse him.
Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
Marco Rubio.
I was the second person to endorse him when he was behind by 28%.
I just had dinner with him the other night.
I love him.
And this comes out of love.
It comes also comes out of a hatred of communism.
Well, because he's in my situation.
This is where we come from.
We has lost a lot and our families have lost a lot.
And I know that he understands that Venezuela needs to go first because Venezuela, because of the resources, is the one that feeds Cuba and Nicaragua.
So he knows that after Venezuela, and this is Marcos doing, I believe, Cuba after Venezuela and then Nicaragua.
And with that, we America is going to be able to save the region.
The celebration on Saturday and Sunday was as big in Versailles in Cuba, you know, in Little Havana as it was in the Venezuela area.
So it was here.
And then on Sunday, they came together.
On Sunday, they came together into one big celebration.
It was very nice to see.
Yeah, and that will tell you the few people that are protesting and actually saying that Maduro needs to be, you know, the healthy president.
Oh, the Venezuelan people have.
Even in New York, Carmen, even in New York.
Because they were saying, and they're not.
Some of these Mandami communist bums were carrying signs.
All of a sudden, these Venezuelans came from everywhere.
They just surrounded them.
You couldn't see them anymore.
Well, what happened is the Venezuelan people have gone through so much that such an important time like this, they're not going to allow for anybody to mess it up.
And there are three.
We need her there to make sure, right, Ted.
That's right, Mayor.
And it's all, you know, it's just as important to have folks that have experienced and have experienced other parts of the world with communism and how it totally destroys an economy, people's way of life.
And so, you know, that's an important argument on why someone like Carmen needs to be in Washington.
Yeah.
You know, we got to get her back.
I'm going to do a special on communism and socialism to educate my former citizens in New York because they made such a terrible mistake electing this guy.
Is a straight out and out communist and he's he's a he's a he's a supporter of Islamic terrorism.
And he took and he took his oath of office on a book that talks about killing Christians and Jews, which tells him to do it.
Okay, Rudy, you are a lawyer.
Is that even legal?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
The book says, I have a copy.
I don't have it right here, but I have a copy of the book.
I did a whole special on it.
You know, I studied to be a priest.
So I was always interested in the Quran.
I've known the Quran.
You and I have something in common.
I wanted to be a non.
It's a true story.
Boy, what a loss if you had become.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I went to Catholic school with guns.
I wanted to be a nun.
Oh, my goodness.
When we would see a girl when I was in Catholic school who was very pretty, right?
And she would say, I'd want to be a nun.
We would say, oh, what a loss.
Then if we saw one that wasn't so pretty, I won't tell you what we say.
Well, I there's got to grow out of it.
I think you'd have been good at anything you do.
So we're going to have you back.
Right.
And we want you to have a lot of people.
Anything we can do to help you.
Teddy here has been through many congressional races and he always wins.
So I need Teddy.
Yeah.
No, no, no.
He really knows what he's doing.
So let's talk.
All right.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
All right.
Thank you.
Happy New Year.
Thank you for having me.
And congratulations for your countrymen.
Thank you.
We're thrilled.
I'm very happy.
Very, very happy.
I'm happy that I will be able to see the family that I still have in Venezuela at some point.
God bless you.
Thank you.
I appreciate it.
Thanks for having me.
All right, Carmen.
We'll talk to you soon.
She is.
I'm glad Carmen was on because I don't know how if you have or you haven't had much experience with the Venezuelan people, but that's what they're like.
I mean, Carmen is a very typical example of all the Venezuelans I know, my friends and the people who are associates and the ones that I've met.
I've always had a wonderful experience with them and the Colombians.
I have a very, very warm feeling about the Colombians.
And even though they rival, they're sort of rivals they're on right next to each other.
It also brings about a great deal of cooperation with them.
Right.
So I should really tell people before we go anywhere about the Colombian election.
Now, I guess we should describe the charges.
I know we did it before, and I haven't had a chance.
I've had a chance to read the indictment in great detail right now.
But I have to tell you, I didn't learn much more after reading it on Friday than I did over the weekend because it's not a very deeply informative indictment.
It's more categories and generalities, which it's somewhere between.
Sometimes you'll have an indictment and all it does just is just state the crime, no details.
And then you'll get one that's 150 pages long.
And it's like Charles Dickens.
This is somewhere in between it.
This gives you enough facts.
You got an idea of what they would do.
It doesn't go into any kind of really great detail.
It definitely sufficiently charges a crime.
It sufficiently shows you the strength of the case.
It doesn't overdo it.
And tactically, it's the kind of indictment I usually wrote.
Now, it is my district, so maybe we use the same idea.
But do enough.
We used to show a little leg, but nothing more.
So they're charged with narco-terrorism, which allows for forfeiture as opposed to just narcotics, forfeiture, taking their money away, drug trafficking, money laundering, and possession of machine guns and destructive devices.
Now, if you just limited yourself to convicting this guy and his wife, as far as what Carmen is concerned about, I'm not sure you're going to achieve her objective.
The organizational in two years be stronger.
The reason that the rationale behind how I was able to get the funding and the support and the 40 agents and the cops to put them behind the RICO prosecutions is that I was the one who recognized RICO was not being used properly.
So for years, the mafia grew in America and it grew and it grew and it grew and it grew.
And it was like Venezuela.
They were going to have their own country.
And for a while, there weren't prosecutions.
But the biggest problem was not that there weren't prosecutions.
The biggest problem is the prosecutions didn't accomplish very much, even when they won.
So they convicted one of the biggest convictions in New York before I came along was by a U.S. attorney who ran for president also in laws, Tom Dewey, and he convicted Lucky Luciano.
So you would think it would take down his family.
Uh-uh.
Lucky gets convicted.
Lucky goes to prison.
Frank Costello takes over.
They lost some money on Frank.
But meanwhile, they lost some money on Lucky.
Meanwhile, Frank was as good a businessman, maybe a better businessman, not quite as tough as Lucky, maybe shrewder and smarter.
And Frank is the one who is responsible.
They all have some of this, but there's always like one that was the key to it.
And the Godfather, when you hear the statement, oh, but the Godfather has all those judges and politicians in his pocket, and he doesn't share, and that's not the sign of a friend.
That's Frank Costello.
Frank Costello had all the judges and politicians in his pocket, including one Democratic judge.
I told you the Democratic Supreme Court in New York for most of the 170 years has been like this.
Hold your nose when you're near him and keep your hand in your pocketbook and your wallet.
So Frank was the guy with all the judges and the politicians in his pocket.
So what good did it do?
You know what good it did to do?
Get Lucky.
They were able to commute him or suspend him or pardon him or whatever and send him over to Italy to help America fight the war.
And he was a hero.
He pretty much avoided our having to go through Sicily and Calabria.
Be careful.
We were able to invade, skipping a whole portion of Italy, a tough portion of Italy.
We were able to invade in Salerno.
It made the invasion much easier and it made the casualties much less.
And that was all due to letting Lucky out on a, I guess, I mean, I'm not sure, but I guess it was a commutation by Roosevelt, approved by his opponent who had been his prosecutor, Tom Dewey.
And it was a little, it was a little controversial, but he actually came through.
But the reality is, as far as the mafia is concerned, they lost their strongest guy, one of the guys who invented them, and they went from good to bad or the best.
Because as you got rid of people, you would just help.
They're going to be replaced anyway.
So if you just get rid of Maduro and his wife, this will be all taken care of in a few months.
There's got to be a lot more penetration.
The upper echelon, the guys calling the shots, they got to all go out.
They're not going to change their ways, Mr. President.
They're not.
Even for you.
They'll just tell you that.
That's why you got out of her two statements.
You get a lot more of the two statements.
And meanwhile, who knows who she's going to have killed in the next couple months so that she can protect herself.
She's that kind of power.
This is a cold, told you, this is a stone cold killer.
So here's the indictment.
If you want to read it, you can.
I just organized it for you.
And I do believe it's going to be superseded again with one that is more akin to what they want to prove.
Might take a while.
I think they're going to try to get more evidence.
They don't need it.
I got a good case, but they'd be stupid not to.
A process like this, if they arrest a lot more people, should produce a lot of whistleblowers.
It should.
Nobody wants to.
Nobody wants to protect this guy.
The onlybody's going to protect him if they think he still has life in some way, which this recognizing of his number two.
Please, I know I've said it.
I'm going to say it only one more time.
It was a mistake.
Faster it's undone, the better we are to avoid our usual mistake.
Our usual mistake is because our intelligence services, you spent, my respect for our intelligence services is as good as the 51 spies who lied.
You must realize that, right?
I remember telling the president once right at the beginning when we were joking around, the FBI tells you to do something.
There's a really way to be successful like the other presidents were.
Look at it and do everything opposite and it'll work out fine.
That's an exaggeration.
They do get some things right.
They get other things remarkably wrong.
And they pick the wrong horses very often.
I mean, it's playing itself out right now in Iran.
The Shah was thrown out in the 50s.
They had elected Mossadegh, who was, yeah, a bit left, not a communist, but a bit left.
But gave him a chance at a democracy.
And Mosadec wanted the Shah to be a figurehead monarch, you know, like let's do it the English way.
And there's even talk that the Shah might have accepted it.
But the British wanted to keep their control on the oil.
The Americans went along with them because I think it was a weak Truman at that point.
And they put the Shah back.
And it went from bad to worse.
The people started to hate him with the SAVAC, the secret police.
He started killing them and put them in prisons.
So let's see.
I told you that the Florida crowd shouted down to Florida.
Even the Venezuela crowds here in New York shouted down the boy mayors protesters, the ones supporting the boy mayors.
It is now, it's impossible for me to say this.
I'm just going to say it.
Well, I spend a lot of time on it.
You either are smart enough and have learned enough, and you can separate yourself from your emotions enough to understand how true this is, or you're just not able to do it.
The fact is, the Democratic Party now is the party of criminals.
Every criminal who comes along, they're in favor of the criminal.
Now, this guy, it's just absurd.
I got to play it for you just to prove it to you.
I hope I don't have to prove it to you.
This is the same thing as with the wall.
Nancy D'Alessandro, because that's her real name, whose father was mayor and uncle was something else.
She, I mean, she She was all in favor of a wall.
And then Trump comes along, wants a wall.
If you put up a wall, you're a racist and a xenophob.
Not if I put one up, but if you put one up.
Schumer, same thing.
Schumer was in favor of a wall.
Trump was in favor of a wall.
Now you're a xenophob racist pig monster.
Only if I put it up.
Same thing true here.
Let's listen to, let's, let's listen to the traitor to the Jewish people, Chuck Schumer, and his very, very strong position on catching this guy and getting him the hell out of there.
And see if you don't agree with me that the number of times might catch him in a lie is endless.
It's just a function of how often he speaks.
Begs about all these things he wants to do or is doing.
I'm trying to post all of that.
Maybe the best metaphor was his claim to bring democracy to Venezuela.
There was a big policy there.
It flopped.
If the policy was working, Juan Guido wouldn't be in the balcony here.
He'd be in Venezuela.
He'd be sitting in the president's palace or at least waging a fight to win.
He's here.
And the president brags about his Venezuela policy.
Give us a break.
He hasn't brought an end to the Maduro regime.
The Maduro regime is more powerful today and more entrenched today than it was when the president began.
He brags about.
Well, then you would expect if that man were anything approaching it on a little call yesterday, congratulations, Mr. Brit.
It took you a while, but you got him.
Instead, what we get, I don't even know what we get.
It was illegal.
You shouldn't have done it.
It's terrible.
It's unfair.
Oh, God, almighty.
Right.
What do you expect from a guy who can't even stand up for his own people?
Right.
Now, let's show.
This is all of them.
Do we have Chris Wright, too?
Chris Murphy.
Murphy, Murphy, Murphy.
Oh, yeah, the guy from Connecticut.
There's another bozo.
Well, we have a pick.
Yeah, well, he said this on Twitter.
Oh, he did.
He didn't say it.
He didn't say it out loud.
This is 2019.
We'll put this up.
This is Murphy.
If Trump cared about consistency, he would make the realist case for intervention in Venezuela.
I thought it was illegal.
Getting rid of Maduro is good for the United States rather than trying to pretend his administration all of a sudden cares about toppling anti-democratic regimes.
Let's see Chris Murphy today.
He literally says word for word: getting rid of Maduro would be good for the United States.
Let's see what he said.
What happened?
Today.
What did he be convert?
Let's see.
Come on.
Oh, he got confronted by Cena and Cena.
Actually, confronted the guy.
This is him on CNN today.
I bet they're trying to burn out.
Right.
Maduro to be gone.
You said, let's get one thing straight.
There should no longer be any debate about Maduro's lack of democratic legitimacy.
The Trump administration is right to put restoring Venezuelan democracy at the center of our approach to this crisis.
A return to a stable democracy is in the interest of the Venezuelan people and the United States and the hemisphere.
We don't know what's going to happen with regard to the civilian leadership there.
Tom Cotton, which is here, saying that he hopes that there are democratic elections.
Isn't that what you want?
Well, the rest of that article over it was a criticism of President Trump's early moves to saber rattle around regime change.
He doesn't really answer it.
Sorry, that was a bad example, but the guy doesn't.
They didn't really, that wasn't a talk.
No, they didn't hold his feet to the fire there.
Right, right.
Okay, so that was a misconception.
But there are a lot of other Democrats that we could go dig them up that were very much in favor of getting rid of getting rid of him, criticizing Trump for not doing enough, and now he does it.
And Trump is guilty of a crime.
Let's make it clear also.
They are just completely lying about its being a crime.
So there are a lot of statutes.
Let's pick the one that everybody talks about all the time, the Posse Cop and Tom Tattis Act, which goes back to the 18th century.
So the Posi Comitatic Act says you cannot use police in domestic law enforcement.
Now think.
What did I just say?
You can't use the police in domestic, you can't use the military to substitute for the police in domestic law enforcement.
It didn't say you can't use the military outside the United States in law enforcement, did it?
So the protection that was created by the Posse Comitatus Act is for the people of the United States so that we don't confuse the role of police and military.
It is not a, it is not a, there was never any limitation placed on what they can do overseas, which they easily, there are some limitations.
They're very minor, but nothing like that.
So the president pretty much can use them overseas in a responsible way the way he has to.
So if the if agents have to do a very, very complex arrest and the military has the resources to make it easier and save for them to do it, the military can definitely participate.
We've been doing it forever.
We've been doing it forever.
And they're making it into it's impeach them and do this.
I mean, oh, what terrible, what terrible, terrible, what terrible, terrible liars they are.
Do we have a picture?
We have a picture of Dodo Bird dancing, Maduro dancing.
I don't know.
Because because they say that they say that the general description of him going to court, going, going to court and going back and going back and forth to and going back and forth to the MC, the courthouse in the MCC is that he was very.
very confident that he's going to get away with it and that she was a wreck.
But he's living, he's he's living definitely in some process.
He's living in some process of denial, Ted.
This guy's never, I don't think he's ever going to see that outside of a prison.
Ever, I really don't.
I'm just trying to see if I don't.
Yeah, let's see.
Oh, there he is.
He's like Feliz Navidad.
God Almighty, he looks like he's doing some kind of a rehab from a terrible injury.
Some bad dancing, but there's some reports to do.
President Trump, that was it.
When President Trump saw the dancing, that was one of the final straws.
What?
To go in there and arrest him.
Oh, he thought he was a jerk?
Yeah, yeah.
The prison that he's in is one tough prison, the MDC.
So he's not getting it easy.
Where is he?
I thought he was in Brooklyn.
He is.
It's a much bigger prison than the MCC where Epstein committed suicide.
I guess they don't.
He's a little, I mean, even if you, even if you want to buy Epstein committing suicide, he's a little too, this guy'd be a little too tall to commit suicide in the MCC.
Right.
He's a lot taller than Epstein.
Right.
So let me quickly go through these items that people need to know, and then we're going to send you over to Dr. Maria.
Back on Lindell TV after a short vacation.
Sure.
We're not going to call it.
Yeah.
Christmas vacation.
A religious vacation.
In observance of the religious holiday calendar of the birth of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
How about that?
So Chevron's trying to work it out to return to Venezuela.
And there is a real benefit.
We will get this much higher quality, which means you get more value out of the Venezuelan coal back on the market.
Should mean a reduction in your gasoline prices and your oil prices.
And the protest that they were trying to do in Times Square turned into a protest in favor of the overthrow of the damn communists because they just overwhelmed the Mandani communists.
I'm going to do a rundown of the Colombia election for you.
We've got plenty of time for that because Colombia is right next to Venezuela.
And the president has said he believes it's going to be right wing by the middle of the year, which is when the election takes place.
I'm going to give you the odds and you get an idea so we can start following that.
Denmark, I thought it was funny that Denmark warned us that we shouldn't attack Greenland.
They're afraid he's going to do the same thing in Greenland that he did there?
They must be.
I wonder how we can't interview Xi Jinping and Putin.
I mean, we'd actually ask Putin questions, unlike Tucker Carlson.
I wouldn't feel comfortable having Putin sit on my laugh.
I really wouldn't.
Or Fuente.
Tim Walz, go back to China, Yakami.
Bye-bye.
Yeah, he's still going to get away with being a communist, damn it.
I mean, there's no doubt 30 years going to China, bringing kids there to get educated, brainwashing them, getting money from China, and telling us how great China is, that he isn't a plant.
But I guess if you can't get them one way, you get them another.
The U.S. is going to reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines, which is a very good idea because the kids get so many vaccines that they're going to die of holes in their body.
And Russia, of course, is just going at it and at it and at it.
And they did a big drone strike at which they tried to reduce dramatically the food supply for Ukraine for the winter.
I don't see them ready for peace.
And I think something has to be done to get them ready for peace.
They really do.
You want a very depressing fact, and then we'll end on an optimistic one.
56% of voters feel comfortable voting socialist in New York.
Some 56% of city voters support Mayor Mamdani's brand of Democratic Socialism, while 39% are opposed to his freebie-filled agenda.
45% said the polls are mainstream, while 47% said they were far outside the mainstream.
That's a little strange, right?
So who knows what this poll is about, but the post has it there.
Mamdani appointed a schools chancellor who was against the gifted schools, who wants to do away with them the best.
Let me guess.
They're the R-word.
They're racist, right?
Oh, yeah.
Camera Samuels, who I think does not have a record of any kind of success, who regularly holds anti-racist and equity town halls and believes in dismantling the gifted and talented programs.
So we will no longer have any chance of being a meritocracy and will get beaten by China or by one of the Islamic extremist countries that Mamdani obviously is loyal to.
He took the oath on their book, right?
Not ours.
Right.
And this Samuels thing really is, really hits you right on the head.
Then he put in a, he put someone in charge of housing who is in favor of, what is she in favor of?
She's in favor of rent control, which destroys housing.
She wants to freeze rent on 1 million rent-regulated apartments.
Now, they're allowed to make small increases in the rent, which is the only way in which they ever have any money to fix them.
So what happens is they let them run down.
These places live in hellholes that are very dangerous and crime-infested.
And then eventually the landlords give up completely hoping people will leave.
And then the buildings get burned and they get trashed and they get, it's, rent control has been rejected by even communists, except the really dumb ones.
And we have Mamdani is dumb.
He's immature.
He's a child.
He's spoiled.
And then worst of all, he's a supporter of violent Islamic terrorism.
He hates the Jewish people and he hates Americans.
So we're going to fight back against all of that.
We're going to keep you on target, as we said, about the dangers of Islam.
And we're going to keep watching this Venezuela thing because I think pretty quickly, you got to chop the head off.
Otherwise, that head is going to grow back again like a snake.
You got to chop it off and throw it away so we can't, you know, and chop it off several places.
So let's pray now for the people of, well, let's, you know, let's, let's, let's offer, let's offer our prayers for the people of Venezuela.
We haven't had a chance to do that except once.
And of course, for Israel and Ukraine and also for Iran, what we haven't talked about, but we will tomorrow night.
We'll catch up on that tomorrow night.
More developments.
And don't be surprised if something doesn't happen there too.
And we'll give you an idea of the president's perspective on that too, because we had a chance to talk to her about it.
So you have a great evening.
Go over to Dr. Maria now on Dell TV and come back to us tomorrow.
We'll be ready for you.
This is Rudy Giuliani.
You know, we're going to all together say, 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.
It 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.
We are able to apply our God-given common sense.
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