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Jan. 31, 2026 - Rudy Giuliani
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America's Mayor Live (855): Don Lemon ARRESTED and Released without Bond, Says He "Will Not Stop"

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Why We Left The Church 00:14:09
Welcome to America's Mayor Live from Palm Beach, Florida, where the President of the United States will be coming shortly.
I have no idea what's behind me.
Ted put it there and he's going to tell us now.
So I always like to know what's behind me from the days in which the mafia wanted to kill me.
So tell me what's behind.
That is the skyline of the Twin Cities.
Oh my God, the most criminal city in America, the one that is in secession and will not enforce the federal laws of immigration.
Yes, the with the two with the two with the two people that should be arrested, Fry and Wals.
Right.
Well, we got Don Lemon today.
Oh, you know, I just completed my Rudy Giuliani show, which is also on X right before this, and also on Lindell TV and other places.
And somehow I, you know, like, I don't really give a shit that Don Lemon was arrested.
I think it's like the least important thing in the world, because I think he's the least important thing in the world.
But he was arrested and he was arrested for making a complete ass out of himself.
And, you know, I want you to think about this for a second.
The law that was passed that he violated was passed.
I just, somehow it bothered me that this was the case with the time that it was passed.
And I have never thought about it since then until now.
It's a law that makes it a crime to interfere in an overly aggressive way, right?
To interfere with a church, a religion, exercise of freedom of religion, interfere with an abortion.
I just wonder how God feels about that.
The same law that says you can't interfere with people worshiping God.
It's the same law that says you can't interfere with people killing a baby, which is what abortion is, even if you don't subscribe to the Catholic notion or principle.
That really is the oldest one, which is that is from the point of conception.
Or you want to go with sort of kind of a suggestion of Thomas Aquinas that maybe it's when the fetus attaches to the wall of the uterus.
Quick with child, they would call it in England.
In fact, the English common law made a distinction between the penalties for aborting a child before the woman was quick with child and after.
One was a misdemeanor, the other was a felony, and then it became capital at the later stages.
So whatever.
Whatever you can't do at an abortion clinic, you can't do it at a church.
So we have people in jail for five, six years, old people, nice people who were just like chanting and praying and getting in the way of people who wanted to get in there quickly to kill their babies.
But everybody's all upset that Don Lemon is, I mean, if somebody from the Catholic network had broken into one of the many Planned Parenthood clinics doing the best they can to eliminate black babies and ask questions about that.
you think they'd be arrested?
What do you think?
I have no doubt about it.
Right.
It's the same thing.
It's the same thing.
It shouldn't be the same thing.
It should not be the same thing.
It's almost blasphemous that it is the same thing, but it is the same thing legally.
And I am a lawyer, and sometimes I got to take my religion, put it over here, and I got to analyze it the way it is.
Well, that's the way it is.
But it isn't the way we interpret it because we're a brainwashed nation by Marxists, communists, and left-wing fools.
And okay, we'll get even more philosophical.
It's the retreat from God.
Maybe the elimination of so many lives.
How about, I don't know if it's true now, a few years ago, more black babies aborted than born in Harlem.
Looks like Planned Parenthood got what it wanted.
They wanted to eliminate blacks.
Here's Don Lemon moments after being released without bond.
I will not stop now.
In fact, there is no more important time than right now, this very moment, for a free and independent media that shines a light on the truth and holds those in power accountable.
Again, I will not stop now.
I will not stop ever.
What a dishonest piece of shit.
What?
You know, nobody wants them to stop for saying what he says.
Nobody pays attention to him anyway.
In fact, I'd almost prefer if he went out there as the face and the voice of whatever, because he's a complete jackass.
But you can't go into a church and disrupt people.
You're not allowed to do that, whether you're Don Lemon or Ruby Giuliani or Ted Goodman or whatever.
You can't do that.
We passed a law.
Maybe you should be able to do it, but we passed a law.
Maybe you should be able to go into an abortion clinic and stop them from committing murder.
Maybe there'd be a lot of people in America that would agree with that.
But you can't.
You go to jail.
And why the difference in treatment?
My God, if that were a 70-year-old lady, they'd F and put her in jail for the rest of her life like they did.
He better not come into my church this weekend.
I tell you, the worst place he could show up, I would think.
Now, please don't get angry at me.
None of my good friends, please don't get angry at me.
I'd like him to show up in one of those churches.
I know a few of them where they do the Latin Mass and the congregation is about 80% old Irish and Italian.
Yeah, show up in that one, Don.
See what happens.
I know, I know, Jesus says, turn the other cheek.
And somehow that didn't work with the Irish and Italians.
They turn the other cheek after they pound you in the face.
I grew up in an Italian, Irish, and Jewish neighborhood.
Irish were tough.
So were the Italians.
I just don't think this guy would get a chance to come into St. Cecilia's church.
I'm making that up.
Whether it's an Irish church, an Italian church, or a mixture of both.
Come on, Don.
Come on in.
Introibo ad elsare de ade fulatifica juventutum meum.
That's the beginning of the Mass in Latin.
You come in and interrupt the mass.
I think the ushers could deal with you, you little wimp.
Well, this is Bishop Patrick Wooden, and he had a message for Don Lemon.
He choose to enter his church.
Y'all see where them people invaded that church the other day.
Now, I just want to say to protesters and all of them, don't do that here.
Amen.
Don Lemon, don't come here.
Where's his church?
I want to go there.
It's going to be the Royal Rumble.
His church is.
I want to go to his church.
We have worked hard.
I like this bishop a lot.
We dedicated it to the Lord.
It's built for worship.
Our blood, sweat, tears, and finances are in this place.
And some people who have never knocked in the door of a church and never contributed one dime to it gonna roll up in here and disturb our service and scare our children and shout down in the church.
That will not stand in this church.
That will not stand.
That's not going to stand.
Amen.
So I thought I'd bring that up just in case there's some who is thinking.
Amen, bishop.
Amen.
That's not going to stand.
And amen, bishop.
Amen.
Now, where's that church?
Can you bad it's so far away.
I thought if it was here in Florida, we give a good shout out, Upper Room Church of God.
You know, I incorrect.
When I was living in New York, I would very occasionally, not a lot, I'd say maybe a dozen times over the years.
I'd go to, I'd go sneak into a black church just to listen to the damn music.
I mean, the music is fabulous.
Oh my gosh, the Holy Spirit.
Some of them in New York are some of the professional.
You could record, you could record, you could, and that's not just in Manhattan.
You can find them in Brooklyn.
You can find them in Staten Island.
And then I'm going to tell you another thing I did at the suggestion of Roger Ailes.
When he thought I was too dry a speaker coming out of being a lawyer and a particularly, I spent, I tried a lot of cases, but I spent even more time in the appellate courts, which is very intellectual and very, you just answer the question and very little emotion involved.
You had to do it for some Asians, but you didn't have to do it.
It's not going to help you very much in front of judges.
And if you do it, you got to do it very, very subtly.
So he said, you got to, you know, you have to really learn how to get out of yourself and be emotional much more emotional.
He said, you know what, you should do?
You should listen to the black preachers and then just look in a mirror and imitate them.
Yeah.
I did.
And it helped.
They are great speakers.
But if you want, if you want a real speakers, and I will tell you, they do what Jesus, whatever it takes to bring Jesus Christ to you is what you got to do.
Amen.
And they, and there are certain people you bring Jesus Christ by listening to Mozart's Requiem Mass.
And some people you bring Jesus Christ by listening to a black spiritual.
They used to call it a Negro spiritual.
And wow, okay.
So I lived in Memphis for a little while.
Oh, wow.
You would have had great.
I would say it is the capital of it.
Oh, my goodness.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
More than Nashville, more than Nashville.
Certainly more than Nashville.
Nashville is a little bit more secular.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But Memphis is, oh, it's the South.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
A lot of Holy Spirit vibing on Sundays.
Oh, man.
I love that.
And when they all do amen.
Yeah.
And then everyone reaches them.
Everyone's so dressed up.
They're really reaching them.
Sometimes I would go to those, then I'd go back to my Catholic church.
And some of the Catholic priests are great preachers, but they're not known for that.
And some are terrible.
I mean, they just get up and mumble, stumble.
And I know, for me, it's the true religion.
And for me, the sermon is for, I think this is right.
Maybe I'm wrong.
For a Catholic, the sermon is not as important as it would be for the evangelicals and some of the others because it's the holy sacrifice of the Mass.
The important part of the Mass is not the you should know when someday I'll do a I'll do a podcast on a Mass.
I once did it for my opera group.
How you explain the Roman Catholic Mass, which was the forerunner of opera.
Now, what do you think of the music written for the Roman Catholic Mass, including Bach, who was a Lutheran, who wrote a Catholic Mass.
But the first part of the Mass is the instructional service, which is based on the Jewish synagogue service of the first century.
The second part of the Mass is a sacrificial service, and that's where the Lord Jesus Christ becomes, the host is consecrated and the wine is consecrated, becomes the body and blood of Christ, and people share in it.
And that's the critical part of the Mass.
And the sermon part for Catholics is just not as important.
See, now they tried to change that, and there are some great Catholic preachers, but there are not a lot.
But before we move on, there should be more.
Before we move on, really quick, what do you think of a Joel Olstein type of message?
It's a different show than the Catholic Mass.
There's a different way of reaching people.
I think that if you can reach people with the message of Jesus Christ, I don't care how you do it unless it's illegal.
Yeah, it's hard to move on from that, but there's a lot to cover tonight.
I mean, if you can get the message of our Lord Jesus Christ, go for it.
Iran's Uprising 00:15:37
Well, Iran, Iran is at a standstill right now.
And I would say we're at the point where something is needed to ignite the people ready to take over the country, which I believe they're there in 140 different cities.
They were protesting like crazy before anywhere between.
These are the doctors now out of Iran.
So I've seen the number.
The lowest number I've seen now that makes any sense is about 12,000.
Highest number I've seen is 30,000.
And that's the slaughter of 1988 of the MEK was, I think, 20 or 30,000 people.
So it seems to me they're getting pretty close to the savagery of that era.
And this is not like they're going to take everybody down with them if they have to.
And the president has gave them good warning before and said to them, he didn't just say if you stop executing, he said, if you continue to kill innocent people, protesters, you're going to have to pay for it.
And they did.
Since then, they've killed, as I said, minimum 12, 15, maximum 30,000.
And on a small scale, they continue to do it.
And I would say, I would say without any fear of contradiction, that half of them were MEK.
Right.
Well, we have a very special guest.
We've had him on before.
Yes, yes, he's a great, great, great guy.
We have Dr. Mohamed Tassuji with us.
He's of California State University, San Marcos.
And boy, have I been looking for a doctor?
Doctor.
How are you?
Mayor, I'm great.
Thank you very much.
Hello to you and good evening to all the audiences that follow.
First, I have to tell you, Doctor, my audience loved you.
Thank you very much.
I got many, many very, very complimentary about your presentation.
I am very honored, Mayor.
Well, we're now at a point where the United States military is arrayed in the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean, the Arabian Sea, with probably one of the biggest armadas ever put there by anyone.
It's about a third of our Navy that's there.
They're not there in order to take out Iran.
They're there to protect the 14 or 15 bases with Americans and NATO and whatever.
Because, I mean, the president's desire is to do this without losing an innocent life.
He may succeed, he may not.
But I believe whether it's a good idea or a bad idea, they're going to do something.
And I think maybe the wisest compromise between those who honestly believe it would be a big mistake and those who believe it's necessary would be to go at the fortifications and at the IRGC if they know where their headquarters are and the people who would do the interference with the groups on the ground if they can do that surgically.
I think they can, I hope.
But I would tell you, I do think, knowing what I know of the administration, that all the signs are that they're getting ready for something.
I don't know what it is, but they're getting ready for something.
So I'd like your view on what would happen and would it backfire or could it be done in a way that would assist the MEK, the NCRI and all of the others who sincerely want a change in government to a democracy.
Sure.
That's absolutely correct.
So Mayor, let me, first of all, again, thank you for giving me the opportunity.
And I admire your love of Iran and Iran and people and your steadfastness for to think that we have democracy in Iran.
So that's very noble.
I honor you for that.
I salute you for that.
Thank you.
Thank you.
I mean, I know you've been a friend of Iranian people.
You've been in many broadcasts to Iran, and I know Iranian people very much appreciate it.
Let me just mention, you started with saying that they have killed in the recent uprising, the Iranian regime has killed about 12,000, maybe 30,000.
The fact of the matter is that more than 50,000 people have been detained, arrested.
How many?
Yes, yes.
And they all are facing potential execution.
They have started actually executing people.
In the last three, four days, around 500 people have been executed.
Secondly, even they go after the doctors that were treating people that were injured or were shot during the uprising.
And they're arresting them.
Actually, one of them have been sentenced to death.
There are horrific videos of revolutionary guards going and exiting people, injured people in the prisons.
These are all out there.
So they are actually now going after the people that were prisoners before, and they are basically rounding them up.
This is a very, very, very dangerous situation in Iran.
As you said, in 1988, around 30,000 MEK members that were in prison were summarily executed in two weeks.
And the fear is that this may happen again.
Now, what the regime didn't maybe miscalculated was that in 1988, there wasn't social media.
Phones didn't have cameras in them.
They thought by shutting down the internet and communication channels, they could do the dirty work in incognito.
They won't be recognized.
People won't see that.
And therefore, they started shooting people, sharpshooters on the rooftops, machine guns in the streets.
It was pretty chaotic.
And thanks, God, these are all have been documented.
So going back to what we discussed about American potential involvement.
Let me, I don't know what's going to happen.
I'm not in Iran.
I don't know what is the feeling of the people right now.
But I can say a few things from my view and what happened in the past.
When Qasem Soleimani was eliminated, people in Iran celebrated because that man was an evil person.
He was responsible for misery of the Syrian people.
We know in the Syrian civil movement or movement against Assad, at least half a million people died in the streets.
Qasem Soleimani, half a million?
At least half a million civilians were executed.
We know that.
I mean, those are...
I'm not disputing you.
I'm just shocked.
Yes, absolutely.
Not only that, Qasem Soleimani was the key person that was masterminding these IED bombs that killed American soldiers in Iraq.
The civil war.
I do know that.
He's got a tremendous amount of American blood on his hands.
Absolutely.
So the civil war in Iraq, maybe 400,000, 500,000 people were killed there.
Again, Qasem Soleimani was behind all of those things.
So I can tell you that not only people abroad were happy in Syria, in Iraq, that America took out Qasem Soleimani.
In Iran, people were very happy.
I can tell you this, this may be anecdotal, but just because of that, in Iran, I had people saying that if 2020 American election was conducted in Iran, 95% of the people would have voted for prison tribes.
That's the thing.
You know, and I got to ask you something else, Doctor.
Iran never really responded with a counterattack.
They did a mild one.
That you would have expected.
Did they sort of assume that eventually he was going to get killed?
Qasem Soleimani?
Yeah.
I don't know, but the thing is, Iranian army is a paper tiger.
We know that.
I mean, the Iranian regime, even now, I mean, if you look, listen to the Friday prayer imams or the heads commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, they are saying, saber-rathering, threatening that if the United States attack Iran, we're going to bomb the hell out of every base, American base in the region, to the point that somebody said President Trump will be the last president of the United States ever.
I mean, they are talking about this, but the fact of the matter is that Iran doesn't have the capability of fighting the United States.
That means for sure.
I mean, the United States has the mightiest Navy, Air Force, military force in the world.
As if, should the United States take an action or not?
I believe the change in Iran will happen by the ground forces in Iran.
And we don't want boots in the ground.
It's extremely dangerous.
We don't want the result.
But I think, given the fact that people are now poised to have a regime change, people have learned.
And I will give you a couple examples.
I think the Iranian people will be able to topple this regime if this appeasement policy that was before is done with, done away with.
You know that the European Union decided to put the Revolutionary Guards Corps in on a foreign terrorist list.
Yeah, I mean, that was that was, I mean, that should have been done.
We did it, what, in 2018, 2019?
Yes, Avin.
That should have done a long time ago.
I agree with you.
But that's a good starting point.
No, I think that's good.
I agree with you.
I'm not, you got to take what you get.
I agree with you.
You start there.
Let me give you another example.
Yesterday, a friend of mine who's a professor in one of the universities in Southern California, I will not divulge the university name because it was a small photo exhibition, was a photo exhibition by the Iranian students showing having the pictures of the recent uprising, the martyrs of the recent uprising.
And they were telling this professor, my friend of mine, that if we could, we would pick up arms and go to Iran and fight the regime.
People have understood that there is no way to get rid of this regime.
This regime will not abide by any rule laws.
They would, as you just said, they rather kill everybody, take everybody down with them.
So the key thing is to take arms.
I think that is understood.
This, if there was any doubt before, there is no such a doubt with among the Iranian people.
I had a friend also who talked to his sister in Iran.
His sister is in like late 50s, 60s.
And he was telling them, just be careful, don't go out one night.
He said, no, no, no, no.
I have been in every demonstration.
I would have loved to be a martyr because all my youth was destroyed by this regime.
I would not mind to give my life to have my could you briefly tell us when you say all your youth was working.
Do you mind telling us what that means?
Well, you know, yeah, being a woman in Iran is extremely challenging.
I mean, women are second considered by these mullahs and these Islamic fundamentalists as second-class citizens.
Of course.
If, Mayor, if a woman wants to travel abroad, she has to get a written permission from the husband to be able to do that.
Women in Iran cannot be selected as or be judges.
This is the brutality of this regime.
They have to have the proper Islamic veil or hijab.
Otherwise, they will be picked up, they will be taken to the stations, and God knows what happens to them.
Mayor, in 1981, when there was the first peaceful demonstration, about half a million MEK supporters came out asking for reform, human rights and all that.
Many were arrested.
Many girls, young girls were arrested.
In 1981.
That was just a few years after the Ayatollah.
Absolutely.
Declared his theocracy, which I don't think many people realize was really a surprise.
Yes.
In a way, everything had been moving toward some kind of a democratic or Republican form of government with human rights and freedom of religion.
And it was hijacked by the Ayatollah.
Absolutely.
And whether people got fooled or not, they did.
I mean, they thought they were and they brought him back thinking he was going to go to QA and be sort of a religious figure.
Absolutely.
I was, I have to be honest, I was one of those people that was fooled.
That's very good of you to say that.
I mean, because I'm sure a lot of people were fooled.
I was a student at St. Times.
Yeah, I was a student at Stanford and I listened to Khomeini's speeches and whatnot.
And it's exactly what you said, that I'm a religious person.
I'm going to go to Qom and just do my teachings.
But he was preparing.
I mean, one by one, all the democratic forces in Iran were eliminated.
But let me go back to 1981.
Yeah, please, please.
So many people were arrested.
A lot of people that night summarily were executed.
Girls, I'm very sorry to say, and I apologize for saying this to the audience, but they were all raped because there was a fatwa from the Ayatollah that if they are virgins and they get executed, they go to heaven.
Fatwas and Feminine Fears 00:15:40
We don't want them to go to heaven.
These people, even these girls, brave girls, even didn't give their names.
Next day, their pictures were on the daily, on the publications, on the newspapers, showing that asking the parents to come and pick up the bodies.
A very good friend of mine from Stanford, he was a PhD student.
He went to Iran, and then I followed, of course, after that, but then I came back to the United States to do my PhD.
he was executed for just trying to help people, literally.
He was trying to...
What you're saying is they raped the women they were going to execute.
The girls.
For fear that if they weren't raped, they would go to paradise.
Yeah, if they were virgins and they died, they go to paradise.
But if they're raped, they're unclean.
Exactly.
And they can't go to paradise.
So they go to show.
What do they call it in the Muslim religion?
Of course, we call it hell.
Yeah, the same thing.
Same thing, hell.
Okay, I think the Old Testament calls it shoal, but okay.
Hell.
They go to damnation.
Yes, they go to damnation.
And by the way, the dailies are available.
Anybody that wants to see it, I mean, these are historical documents that.
So you understand the brutality of this regime.
So living, being a woman, Iranian woman, and living in a environment like that, in an environment like that, obviously it's a very hellish life, not only for the men, but as badly or even worse for the women that live in Iraq, just because of this situation.
I mean, when you're considered a second-class citizen, that's why that mayor, you said you're very intimate and familiar with MEK.
Majority of the leadership of MEK are women, because they are the potential for change in Iran.
I think that's so important.
You know, usually I say, I was interviewing someone, it wasn't you.
They said, you know, we were talking about Maryam Rajavi, and one of the points was that she was a woman.
And they said, well, she shouldn't be selected because she was a woman.
She should be selected because she's so exceptional, which is true.
She is.
If she were a man or a woman, she would be fine.
But in a way, it's really important.
It's really important.
I mean, it'll take 30 or 40 years to really change all that.
And you put a woman in charge, you'll change it right away.
Absolutely.
The whole thing.
And it'll be great for the whole area, for the whole Middle East.
Absolutely.
So you have to understand the thesis of the fundamentalist regime in Iran.
One of the thesis, the key thesis is women are second-class citizens.
What is the antithesis?
Antithesis is a woman that is capable of leading, capable of leadership, has shown for the past 40 years steadfastly fighting against the regime in every arena, from the military arena to political arena to social and whatnot.
That's exactly the antithesis of this theocratic, backward reactionary regime.
And that's why, not only because she's a woman, as you just said, but a very capable woman.
I think a capable man would not have been able to do what Madame Rajevi has done.
And that's why the idolats hate her.
They hate their guts because, you know, she's a woman standing up saying, who the hell are you to tell us what to do, what to do?
You know, I've dealt with her for 15 years and sometimes under very, very horrendous circumstances.
I don't even think, I mean, I don't, I hate to say, I don't think of her as a, she's just a great person.
Woman, not woman, it doesn't matter.
She has the ability to make extraordinarily difficult decisions.
She has a great deal of wisdom.
She could be a woman or a man.
It doesn't matter.
I mean, she's got she's got extraordinary ability.
I just think, even though, like in my country, sometimes we go for the symbolism of women and whatever too much, this is really important here.
This is totally different.
They're dealing with something very, very different.
Can I ask you a very difficult question?
Surely.
How much is it the strict interpretation of the Quran?
How much is what the question is?
Come out of a very, very literal interpretation of what we, I guess we call the Sharia.
The second phase of Muhammad's life.
Yeah.
I mean, for me, it's very difficult to answer that question because I have not, I'm not versed in Quran or Islamic teachings.
But I can tell you this, that the, you know, Quran is subject to interpretation.
Different people have been, you know, that's why very much like in Christianity, you have different interpretations.
Yes, of course.
Yeah, there are things in the Bible, there are things in the Bible that we don't do anymore, stoning women.
In uh, so in the in the Old Testament, we stone women right regularly yeah, but in Iran this ayatollahs do that.
They stone women, they have done that.
Um, that was a form of a punishment for adultery or otherwise.
Um, there are actually um, um facts about that.
I mean documented facts about that.
They really, I mean, I know they do, but you know, it's very, very hard for my logical mind to accept that.
Yes, absolutely so.
So so I I I, I believe the, the interpretation that the fundamentalists have it it's not only in Iran, but but all around in the region.
Um, it's a very, very reactionary fundamentalist, um interpretation of Islam um, and that's why you see what you see.
But um, I mean it's, it's.
I, i'm not scholar of religion and whatnot.
I see okay, I will not be able to really do justice in answering your question, but I can tell you this as, as a matter, as a matter of fact, the interpretation that the UH ayatollahs have is the interpretation that, as you just justifiedly said, belongs to uh Stone ages, not for the modern uh.
So I I, I have I, I died since died, but I had a very good friend who was a I I guess I would call him a reform imam and he had.
He had a remarkable ability to explain to me that.
You got to read at the way we read the Bible, and and and um, you've got things where brothers are are sleeping with sisters and we read that out.
We read that out.
It's like no longer applies either in Judaism or Christianity.
Absolutely uh, that has to that.
That can be done with the, with the Quran, if you, if you deal with it correctly absolutely.
But a lot of these people exploit it and they take out the bad part and and you, and use it as if it should apply in the in the 21st century.
Absolutely so.
But again, going back to what you said, one of the reasons, main reasons, that this type of fundamental took root in Iran was prior to the revolution uh, the Pahlavi dynasty, Muhammad.
They abolished all kind of uh, all um, um pillars of democracy in Iran.
All the parties, political parties, were banned.
Uh, he himself uh, Muhammad was a very religious person.
Apparently he always said that at a certain time in his career he was very, very religious and very, very accommodating to the clerics, the very clerics who eventually overcame him.
Absolutely, absolutely so.
But then, but then he kind of turned.
He turned it kind of went all the way in the other direction and it it was uh jarring and very very uh, uh difficult.
I mean he I, I don't know, I I i've been reading about the Shahs since I was um, since it happened, and he was obviously unlike his father, who was an evil but very strong man.
He was a very weak man.
He was a very weak man who, who got himself into these uh problems of execution and sabak and uh, because he was very, very insecure absolutely, absolutely insecure and, towards the end of his life uh, very frightened.
As I said, abolished all the political parties.
Uh um, there was no.
I used to walk to um high school from uh my home during the Shah.
I was a kid and when I passed the universities there were always these guards with machine guards and whatnot, guarding the university perimeters, because there was a lot of students that you know, there was student movement and whatnot and I would see people disappear.
I mean It was pretty bad during the Shah era when it comes to democracy, freedom in Iran.
And suppression of minorities.
I mean, the national minorities in Iran was a big thing.
Kurds, Turks.
Well, I mean, I've interviewed some of them recently, and of course, also met them through the NCRI a number of times.
And I really believe if for some reason the idiocy of this Shah, the baby Shah, were to take over, you'd have a civil war.
Yeah.
The Azeris and the Kurds would revolt.
And that would create an unbelievable problem that I know the sophisticated people in my country understand, but a lot of people don't understand.
That would create a tremendous problem with Turkey because Turkey would love to have the Azeris revolt so they could take them.
But the last thing in the world they want are the Kurds to revolt because they could take the Kurdish part of Turkey and the Kurdish part of Iraq and create their own country.
And now we'd have a massive war there.
I mean, which happens very often after a revolution, right?
Yeah.
So I don't think Reza Pahlavi has any chance in Iran.
Thank God.
If he had any chance, he doesn't have any.
The reason is this.
If you listen to his interviews, his speeches and whatnot, he says, people that support me, there are 50,000 revolutionary guards that have contacted me, their heads have contacted me, and they will obey my orders.
They're my supporters.
Ambassadors.
After this uprising, he said it's now 100,000.
So two questions.
Number one, where were they when revolution guys were killing people, as you just mentioned, at a minimum 12,000, maybe 30,000?
Where were they?
Secondly, your supporters are terrorists.
United States have designated them as terrorist organizations.
And our European Union, thanks God, has designated them as a terrorist.
Therefore, you, as the person that is supporting them or expect them to support, expect support from a terrorist group.
That's number one.
It's not going to happen.
I think because of this uprising and the fact that it was brutally suppressed for now, temporarily, the peaceful movement to overthrow this regime is out of the window.
People know that.
People will take up arms.
They need to be organized.
And that's the answer.
And I think you know probably better than I do.
MEK is very, very capable of doing that.
Second thing, Iranian nation always, mayor, for the past 3,000 years of history, has all been been a nation of ethnic minorities.
We had Kurds, we have Kurds, we had Baluchis, we have Persians, we have Arabs, we had Saqqars, torturements, etc.
Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Iranian Empire, united them.
We had several times Iran was conquered and ruled for several years by foreign entities.
Alexander the Great, Greeks ruled Iran for 150 years after they overthrew Akumans.
Arabs, when they conquered Iran, they ruled Iran for 200 years.
Mongols, Genghis Khan, when they conquered Iran, they ruled Iran for some 50, 60 years, and so on and so forth.
But never, never Iranian nations, ethnic minorities, ever fought against each other.
The only time it is when they get suppressed by the central government.
And the king, the Pahlavis, both Reza Shah, the grandfather of the Mr. Pahlavi, and Mohammad Reza Shah, his father, both really suppress any kind of democratic aspiration of the Kurdish people, Azerbaijanis, Baluchis, or whatnot.
They have been purposely during the Pahlavi dynasty, purposely, Kurdistan, Azerbaijan, and Balochistan, among with others, have been neglected.
Before I have to go, I need to ask you this.
If over this weekend or soon, the United States were to bomb and take out what they regard as the major support for the Revolutionary Guard and the militaristic part of the regime.
And I think we have a pretty good knowledge.
I think we can do pretty surgical strikes with the help of the Mossad and with the help of MEK.
I mean, nobody wants to say that MEK, I probably shouldn't say it, but of course, when they discovered all of the nuclear facilities, a lot of that was turned over to the Mossad.
So there is a tremendous ability to do a surgical strike in Iran that would reduce the ability of the regime to suppress the insurgents.
Now, if that were to happen, there are some people that I respect very much who feel that would be a very good thing.
And there are some people that feel that that would have the Iranian people sort of rise up in a nationalistic fervor in favor of the regime or whatever, in favor of Iran.
What do you think?
I think both scenarios are possible.
Absolutely.
As you said.
Yeah, I agree.
But we have to understand this.
Attacks itself does not change the regime.
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Boots on the ground change the regime.
And by no means, anybody wants American forces or American boots on the ground.
It's costly.
It's expensive.
The human.
They're not going to do that.
Now, I can see supplying them with arms.
Yeah.
Like we did in Ukraine.
And who knows, you know, when you supply them with arms, I don't know how many boots on the ground you end up with, but you don't admit it.
But that could be another way to do it.
I think there is enough arms in Iran, if you ask me.
You do.
Okay.
This new uprising that people did, many of the Revolutionary Guard posts were overtaken.
Many security buildings were overtaken.
But I can assure you this.
If there was not a policy of appeasement, either from, let's say, previous administration or from you.
Biden and Obama gave them money.
I think, doctor, that my country in the Biden and Obama years was the single biggest financier of the Iranian theocracy.
Yes.
I don't think anybody released or gave them more money, including Obama in cash, than we did.
I don't understand it.
It boggles my mind.
I personally think if you give them money, you should go to jail.
It's like I often say to the American people, we know Obama gave the Ayatollah cash.
Hundreds of thousands, millions, whatever.
Billions given that same money 10 billion.
Minimum, they say, if he had given that same money to bin Laden, he would have gone to jail.
What's the difference between bin Laden and the Ayatollah?
Ayatollah just killed more people.
Yeah, yes, absolutely.
Absolutely.
See, for the past 40-some years, Madame Rajabi, NCRI, MEK, in every meeting that I've seen, has been they have been requesting to put IRGC in the terrorist group, foreign terrorist list, FLT.
Yet, just because of the appeasement, Madame Albright, who was the Secretary of State for President, I know her very well, Dr. She put the MEK in terrorist list.
And in LA Times, there is an article.
She says, I did it so that I can appease Ayatollah Khatami, who became the president and had this concept of speech.
Yeah, great nations talking to each other now.
But can you trust this regime at all?
Now they say we want to talk, we're going to do rapprochement, whatever.
No, no, don't, don't, doctor, I know, I know the administration better than most.
That's a dodge.
Absolutely.
I agree.
That's a thing where they can say, like when they took out Maduro, we gave him every opportunity.
We gave him every opportunity to make peace, to do it peacefully.
That's where they want to be.
Now, the latest delay, which is a little unfortunate, but it was necessary.
The latest delay is to make certain that they can't respond to really make it impossible for Iran to attempt to take out American or NATO or forces in retaliation for whatever the hell we do.
And there's no foolish ideas in the heads of Pete Hegseth or the people.
They know what they're dealing with as much as you do and I do.
But ultimately, regime change will happen with the Iran.
Ultimately, all we can do is help it or hurt it.
So we heard it back in 2009 when they, who knows, they were on their way and Obama turned his back on them, right?
And I think we helped it in 2018, 2017, 2018, 2019, when Trump said, yep, that's what you should do.
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Kind of like what Reagan did with Poland eight years before it fell.
The sanctions, absolutely.
Yeah, and the sanctions have been, you know, the sanctions, it's really weird.
The sanctions, the Biden and Obama people never enforced the sanctions.
That is true.
So before Trump, when Trump came in in 2017, which I was very aware of, all of a sudden, within five months, Iran has no money.
They didn't put new sanctions in yet.
They did it later.
They were just enforcing the sanctions that Obama never enforced.
And to this day, I do not understand what the affection for the regime of terror was with Obama and Biden.
I don't understand it.
That's a very good question.
I don't know either.
I don't know why.
I mean, they're Horrible murderers of Americans, as well as, of course, their own people.
But doctor, I can't tell you.
I'd be on with you all night.
So I can't tell you how much I appreciate your wisdom and your experience.
And we'll be calling on you again.
I just have a feeling something's going to happen pretty soon.
And I really don't know what exactly it is, but something, all of that isn't there just to get sun.
Of course, of course.
Mayor, first of all, thank you again for having me.
And again, you don't have to thank me.
It's my honor.
It's one of the best things I've done in my life.
Thank you very much.
But it reminds me of late John McCain saying that when Nedar Sultan was shot to death in one of the previous demonstrations in the streets, she died cameras on with eyes open.
And late John McCain said that Neda died with open eyes and we close our eyes on that.
That was during the one of the reasons I work with MEK the advice of John McCain.
Yes.
God bless me, when they first asked me to speak and to come, I called John and I said, what are they all about?
They're a terrorist group, whatever.
And John, John, and I had a dinner.
And I remember we took me all through it and he understood it.
I mean, God bless him.
God bless him.
And secondly, I want to really thank you for really bringing the cause of democracy for Iran.
I'll do everything I can.
I mean, God willing, hopefully you and I will have more discussion in a free Iran very soon.
We're going to have a discussion in Tehran.
Absolutely.
God bless you, Doctor.
God bless you.
Thank you.
God bless the people of Iran.
God bless people everyone.
I hope we can get this clip into Iran somehow.
We got to give it to Farzin, others.
We got to get it into Iran because it will give them great hope and great understanding.
And I hope I am conveying to you the passion and not just the passion, but the logic of what I'm trying to say about Iran that is missing to a large extent in our public dialogue.
This could be the most important thing that Donald Trump does.
If he can remove the regime of terror and somehow it gets replaced with some form of a peaceful regime, a regime that wants to live with the world rather than unrealistically try to challenge the whole world.
And there are a lot of possibilities.
The MEK and the NCRI and any number of others that I'm not maybe not even aware of should be part of that.
Not the Shah.
Please.
I really believe he is an instrument of the regime.
And that's been kind of supported by some of the cyber investigations that show that the regime is working on behalf of trying to drum up support for him.
Because they see it.
I mean, Do not underestimate how evil the regime is or how intelligent it is.
Don't underestimate the second one.
And they haven't survived this long without being very shrewd and unbelievably manipulative and completely satanic.
But don't underestimate them.
You're going to be dealing with them and you're going to wake up one morning and say, oh my gosh, I never thought of that.
And they did it.
I mean, you got to be ready for that.
And when you fight your enemy, you got to know them.
I think we're getting close.
I really do, Ted.
I think maybe, I don't know, I could be like the weatherman who predicts the tremendous snow, but I think it may be Saturday, Sunday, Monday.
We're going to do something.
I don't know what it is.
We're going to do a major attack.
We're going to do a surgical strike, try to take out the specific things that are retarding the ability to overthrow.
I don't know.
But we're going to do something.
And what we have there, really, what you see there when if we go through the flotilla that's there is a defense that's like defense in football.
What they brought there, they already had the ability to do whatever they want in Iran there.
What they put in is a, hopefully, a completely impregnable defense.
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And we moved a lot of our resources there.
We're not going to keep them there for a long time because, you know, you're borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Right now, who knows if we aren't a little thin in the South China Sea.
It's not going to last long.
They're ready to go back as soon as they have to.
So this is going to happen pretty quickly.
And if I can interpret what I put on last night with Pete Hakesett and look in his eyes, he's getting ready.
So let's see what happens.
So let's take a short break and we'll be right back.
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So a couple of things we want to do before we send you over to Lindell TV for Dr. Maria, who's got a great show tonight.
I want to commend to you the article by Rich Lowry in the New York Post, which says, don't call it a protest.
This is a very, very, very important observation about where we are.
These people in Minneapolis, the guy who died, Predi, or the woman who died, Good, they're not protesters.
They're activists.
There's a difference.
Run-on-the-mill protesters, as Rich points out, don't seek out federal agents and harass and obstruct them.
They go right at the federal agents and they get in their face.
Now, these are armed agents of the federal government, and they're human beings.
And of course, we want them to be superhuman.
But I mean, you're taking a risk when you do that, that they may not be superhuman, or you may go beyond the line in which they have every right to protect themselves.
They don't follow and block their vehicles, and they don't establish a robust communication network to deploy resources and create maximum disruption of operations, just like sporadically.
They're trained to do it.
Predi and good were both trained activists to interfere with the execution of federal law.
I don't care.
Now, I don't care what these idiots say or how they try to paint it.
The description of domestic terrorists was closer to the mark than where the predominant press is in America.
11 days before his death, Preddy was an unbelievably out-of-control, violent person attacking the United States agents and our government and our system of law.
What is that?
I don't know.
Are you way off base if you call him a domestic terrorist?
You got to get fired for that?
Come on.
It's absurd.
And the way they let's show him.
Let's show the animalistic part of this guy who his friends describe uniformly, but they keep it out of as mental.
You're damn right he was mental, but mental can kill you.
Can we showing a man who appears to be Alex Predi interacting with federal immigration agents 11?
There's the sweet Alex Preddy.
Nice Alex Preddy.
he's such a good facial recognition technology confirmed his identity to a 97% degree of accuracy on the morning of January 13th our team received a tip that federal agents were blocking a street at the corner of East 36 and Park Avenue in Minneapolis We arrived around 10:15 a.m.
We saw observers shouting at the agents as they walked back to their vehicles.
When they started driving away, the man kicked their taillight.
An agent then got out of the vehicle, grabbed him, and pushed him to the ground.
I don't know why they didn't arrest him at this point yet.
He'd be alive today.
You know, isn't that amazing?
During the day, maybe they'd probably let him out to you.
Maybe he would have learned.
But he should have been put in jail for a year or something.
That's no way to act.
That's no way to act.
That is an attack on the United States.
What he just did is an attack on the United States.
Those are agents of the United States of America, and they are carrying out execution of the laws of the United States.
The United States Constitution says that the president and therefore the executive branch of the government is required to faithfully execute the laws of the United States.
Every one of those ICE agents, every one of those border patrol agents is carrying out what our Constitution says they should be doing.
And interference with them is illegal.
And from the very beginning, when these communist-inspired walls and all these other crap shit people started doing the Sanctuary City thing and moved it into obstructing federal law, they should have been arrested.
The first one should have been arrested.
And then the second one.
And by the third one, it would have stopped.
Well, it didn't.
And we are where we are.
That doesn't mean we can't think clear-headedly and honestly about it.
So we're going to stay alert all weekend.
And I got a feeling something's going to happen in Iran.
I don't know what the protest tomorrow will bring.
I don't think this has caught on in any way close to the fraud over George Floyd, who has a statue to him like he's George Washington.
And what he actually is, is a decrepit, horrible career criminal who, I mean, the major problem is that children might think he's some kind of role model.
God almighty, he's a role model to evil.
So let's stay alert.
The president, I think, is he's very aware of the fact that he's got, you know, four years to straighten this out, only which three of which are left.
He's also very aware of the fact that in some respects, in terms of the public message, they can thwart him and hurt him because they control it and they lie.
And you've got to find the right way to deal with that.
Sometimes confronting it directly, sometimes being more subtle.
I'm not the best at that subtle part.
So let's pray for him.
Let's pray for the president to give him the wisdom to make the right decisions.
He's done that.
But it doesn't mean he always will.
And it doesn't mean he doesn't need the help of God to do it.
We all do.
We all do.
And I think God knows we're on the right side here, that we're trying to bring about a world of peace and harmony.
And gosh, if they would just all stop killing each other.
The president looks like he got a delay with Putin.
He's going to stop killing people for a month.
Maybe.
Let's see.
I don't know if he can stand it.
I don't know if Putin can go a month without killing somebody.
Well, we'll see.
But in any event, he's making the best effort and having the most success that any president has ever had in combating this, maybe our most difficult enemy, because the enemy is evil for a lot of reasons.
It comes out of the Koran.
It comes out of a lot of other things.
And we'll have plenty of time to discuss that.
But have a nice weekend.
Go to church.
Let's hope none of these animals interrupt you like Don Lemon or whatever who thinks he can invade a church, even though he can invade a place where they kill babies.
And we can only go to one.
He goes to the wrong one.
He may not, you know, well, never mind.
Let's pray for the people of Israel.
Let's pray for the people of Iran.
Let's pray for the people of Ukraine.
Looks like we may be getting somewhere there.
Let's pray for the people of America and the Jewish people.
My goodness boy, have they been put under ridiculous return of worldwide anti-Jewish hate?
Very much inspired by the Democrat Party, which I hope they abandon in droves, like the way they left Egypt.
And mostly pray for our president.
So he keeps that strength that he has.
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.
We are able to apply our God-given common sense.
So let's do it.
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