The Rudy Giuliani Show: Thursday, February 5, 2026
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Today was a special day, always a special day in Washington.
I remember when I was there, it was always a special day for the two presidents I was closest to, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.
Ronald Reagan treated the National Prayer Day as a very, very important day, restored it really to a position of prominence.
You might note that Democrats, over Democrat administrations, prayer day largely goes away.
It doesn't go away.
It's held.
They attend it once or twice.
Sometimes they make completely perfunctory remarks, never even mentioning God in any way at all.
And of course, it was the Democrat convention in 12 or 16 that didn't say a prayer at the beginning of the convention.
I hope it was 16 because they lost in 16.
And that would be a good vindication from God that you better mention our name.
But today's prayer breakfast was really, really, they usually get 3,000.
But during Democratic administrations, of course, what do they do about the 3,000?
What do Democrats do all the time?
Increase the number.
No lie.
14 people get magnified 85 times.
They get one of Pelosi's Hollywood daughters' Hollywood tricksters to repeat them the way they did during anger management, which was quite fair.
It was only a ballpark.
And we did have a thousand people.
But now you can't get a ticket to the prayer breakfast every time Trump is there.
I once had a very hard time getting it, and I was his lawyer.
And you know how I got it?
I told there were the ministers who were in charge.
I said, I'm representing him.
You need to bless me and my staff.
They said, okay.
One of them was whispering in the background, probably still a guy from the Reformation area.
Let him go to a priest.
Well, it used to be that way when I was a kid: Catholics, Protestants, you know, wow.
So, because I am a Catholic, and because I am not assured that at the prayer breakfast, Catholics are represented as fulsomely as they should, since they are the single biggest singular religion in the world.
I thought I would read to you for the prayer breakfast and for our own little prayer service.
I thought I would read to you the gospel for the Thursday in the third week in ordinary time, which is where we are.
Oh, wait, wait, wait.
I'm sorry.
What's today's date?
Today is the fifth.
So today is the fifth.
Yes.
Oh, my.
So we're already, yep.
We already went to that mass last week, Ted.
I was going to read them.
I was going to read it from the Mass we went to last week with that very, very good priest.
We went to Mass two weeks in a row.
One was a church.
We were late, so we were scurrying all around Palm Beach to find a church.
And we went to one.
Not going to mention it.
It was a beautiful Mass that lasted 45 hours.
And it wasn't an old-fashioned Latin Mass.
The priest was wonderful.
After the Mass was over, he said a decade of the Rosary, several other prayers of his own that were very important.
Then he did an entire benediction, which is a separate Catholic service of the Holy Eucharist, and sang songs that I remember from my childhood, like Holy God, we praise thy name.
It's one of my favorite songs.
I'll play it for you later.
Just as a song, it's one of my favorite songs.
So this Sunday will be the 8th.
So that'll be the fifth Sunday in ordinary time.
So this Wednesday, which is the fifth, right?
Now we're all set, right?
So this will be the fourth Thursday, the fourth Thursday in ordinary time.
Yes.
Meaning, there's no special feast.
We're just honoring God.
We're not leading up yet.
Very soon, in two weeks, it'll be Lent, and everything will be taken over by Lent.
The church will go purple.
Church is now green in ordinary time.
And excuse me if I'm a little off.
I am reading from the current Missal.
Not the old one.
The one that could have labeled me a communist if they knew I had it.
Here is a reading.
This is for today.
If you went to a mass today, if you went to a mass today in Palm Beach, in Washington, in Ukraine, in Australia, in England, where there are more Catholics now than Anglicans, you would hear the same thing.
Every place, every Mass.
That's why it's the universal church.
Here's the gospel.
It's from St. Mark, and it's his fourth chapter, his 21st to his 25th verses.
Jesus said to his disciples, Is a lamb brought in to be placed under a bushel basket or under a bed or not to be placed on a lampstand?
For there is nothing hidden except to be made visible, nothing is secret except to come to light.
Anyone who has ears to hear or to hear, he also told them, take care of what you hear.
The measure with which you measure will be measured out for you, and still more will be given to you.
To the one who has, more will be given.
From the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
Now, quickly, what does that mean?
That means that you're not to lead your life isolated and remote.
You're a light.
But what kind of light are you?
You're a light of God, a light of Jesus.
They may be the chosen disciples to spread the word of God, but you're a child of God and you are selected to spread the word of God.
One of the best things that can be said about you when you arrive at that judgment day is by the example of his life, he led people to Jesus Christ.
Or the same thing, led people to God by the example of his life.
By his words, also helpful.
But you want the penultimate, the ultimate rather than the penultimate?
Don't hide your light.
Find it and find a way to express it.
And we all have it and we all can express it.
And boy, can we express it in different ways.
Some of us, like Billy Graham and his son, and Cardinal O'Connor and Full and Sheen as a Catholic, and Rabbi Schneerson, by the power of their oratory and their personality, could spread it.
And some by simple little things they do.
You know, the neighbor is sick.
They don't know the neighbor and they go over and take care of the neighbor.
Little things like that.
Do you know how that brings God to people?
That's what Mark is telling you from the words of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
So let's listen to the prayer breakfast today.
I hope that was included.
A heck of a good lesson for the people in Congress.
They do have prayer breakfasts and Bible readings.
And I wish I could order their Bible readings.
The Bible, every part of the Bible is worth reading.
But I took a course once on the Bible, one of the most interesting courses I ever took.
If I ever had the time, I'd teach it myself.
I'd have to do a lot of rereading to do it.
That's the Bible as history.
And the Bible as history doesn't teach you much about religion.
Now you want to go to parts of the Bible as meditation and to develop your spiritual life.
There are certain parts of the Bible that would do that, like this particular gospel, things that become lessons for you to follow.
So let's see what happened today.
There were a number of different things that happened today, so let's see if we can...
Let's play some of the clips from the prayer breakfast.
This is a beautiful American tradition, and it's a true honor to be back with so many incredible leaders and people of faith at the National Prayer Breakfast.
I think I've been here just about every time.
It's hard to turn it down.
I don't have the courage to turn it down.
Sometimes I want to.
Come back from a horrendous trip fighting people that can't stand us, keeping us out of wars and seeing things that nobody would believe that anybody would see.
And last time I came, I got in at four in the morning.
They said, sir, you're going to be speaking at seven.
They said, really?
Oh, that's wonderful.
He said, an automatic no.
No matter what, if we did welfare reform, if we did the greatest thing in history for religion, no matter what we did, no matter how good it is, greatest tax cuts, and we just did the greatest tax cuts in history, he voted against.
He voted.
Now, no matter what we do, this moron, no matter what it is, we can put them all together.
I think, Mike, what would you say the top five things?
Name them.
We'll put them in one bill and we'll put them before we'll get a 100% vote, except for this guy named Thomas Massey.
There's something wrong with him.
We call him Rand Paul Jr.
You know, it's like they just vote no.
They love voting no.
They think it's good politically.
The guy's polling at about 9%.
And he was a powerful president.
He knew how to do things.
And he got something passed called the Johnson Amendment, which basically takes away your right of speech.
And people like me and people like a lot of people, they want to hear from ministers.
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They want to hear from priests.
They want to hear from them.
And you were restricted from talking about very important things like who to elect.
If you said that, you were gone.
You couldn't do it, even if you said it in a very nice way because they were going to be better for the church.
And we worked hard, and we're going to make that permanent pretty soon, I think, Mike.
But we worked hard at getting rid of the Johnson Amendment.
It's gone as far as you can say anything you want.
We passed the largest ever expansion of school choice so that every parent has a chance to send their child to a school that shares their values.
And today I'm also pleased to announce that the Department of Education is officially issuing its new guidance to protect the right to prayer in our public schools.
That's a big deal.
Well, I think the thing that he laid out that was that I was, of course, because of my interest in crime and crime reduction was the reference to the career criminal, the reference to the career criminal program.
which he laid out the, even though the statistics, oh, they're all over the lot.
His can be acceptable.
I'm sure they won't be accepted, but his could be acceptable.
The reality is that a very, the real point to get out of this is a very small group of people commit a very lot of crime.
Gosh, he had like 10% for 90%.
And it could be true in certain types of crimes or they'll sometimes use 1% for 40%.
But the point is it is very useful in law enforcement to put a great deal of your resources into the career criminal who is the repeat criminal if you want to start reducing the volume of crime.
And you say, well, what good is it if you just reduce the volume of crime?
It's no good to the person who actually gets killed.
That's true, of course.
Here's why it's important to reduce the volume of crime.
Just like the Comstat system makes it possible for you to usefully use limited resources, since you can't have everyone being a policeman, by reducing the volume of crime, you clear away the debris that hides the other criminals.
In other words, once you can get rid of the perennial criminals, now you can work on the more episodic criminals.
And you can do it with a great deal more success because you're not being pulled away by the serial murderer or by the guy who does 15 burglaries.
So those who say that the career criminal program is a mistake are extraordinarily, beyond anything else, extraordinarily ignorant people.
Yeah, liberals embrace it because they love criminals.
And you know, when a liberal is against a crime program, it's enormously effective because it's hurting their constituency, the criminals.
But you've got to know why it's enormously successful if you want to be in law enforcement or you want to analyze it because you've got to know the operational details of it.
So the career criminal program is so important because, well, some people say, oh, you just use it for statistics.
And it's true.
I had cops that did.
You know, once you start a Comstat program, you get guys in it just for the numbers, right?
I want to get crime down by 20% to impress the mayor.
Some of them will cheat, out, fired.
We fired, Bratton and I fired any number right at the beginning.
It strained it out right away.
Then you get the group who'll say, well, let me spend some time figuring out.
If I arrest Stephen over there, I'm going to shut it down by two burglaries a week.
But if I get Ted, who's like three times better, I'm going to knock now nine burglaries a week.
And I'm going to show up a month from now at City Hall and Giuliani is going to say, wow, leave Stephen on the street.
Let me go get him.
There are cops who do that.
That's not so bad, by the way.
Might be not the highest human motivation for a very, very good result.
But that's the point of it.
The career criminal program is the same thing.
If you are looking for a pearl of great price and it is missing and there is a great deal of debris in your house, what are you going to do first if you can't remember what it is?
You're going to get rid of the debris and go through it carefully.
And then you're going to find the pearl of great price.
The same thing here.
Get rid of all the big criminals, the multiple criminals, and then you can find that one that you're looking for.
Great point, Mr. President, above and beyond the point that here's one thing.
Anything done repetitively can often be a mistake, except one thing.
What's that?
What's that?
Come on.
I don't hear you.
Even my boys here are quiet.
Prayer!
You won't pray to God too much, I promise.
Okay, if you do, if you find yourself praying to God and you're not getting your work done, et cetera, call me.
I got excellent monasteries for you.
Certainly great Catholic, great Orthodox, great Buddhist.
And even some Protestant, like Anglicans have monasteries.
Okay.
And the Anglicans need help.
They need some people to go to their churches.
Here are the numbers that Stephen got me on crime.
And in Sweden, they found that 2.3 individuals, only 2.3 million individuals, which is 1% of the population, commit over 63% of the crime.
Wow.
1%.
And there are, well, so.
We should go there and arrest them.
There's been a lot of scholarship on this phenomenon.
Well, it started with James Q. Wilson about 1978.
Yep.
And, you know, obviously different regions are distinct, right?
And so one thing might not be true, but the whole concept of like a Pareto efficient or like a Pareto spread of the it's logical as hell and the liberals make fun of it.
I think the Times has been against it.
I'd be very unhappy if the Times wasn't against it.
U.S., basically, the most recent one is 5% commit 50% of the violent crimes in cities.
And then there's one that has, which is very different.
And this is getting closer to the one that Trump had, 1% commit 60.
That's a big difference.
But the point to make is a small percentage yields.
One arrest can solve, not only solve, but prevent 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100.
Depends on the number of years you have him in jail.
Trump did spend some time on his accomplishments.
But particularly, I mean, you might say in a prayer breakfast, you shouldn't be talking about your accomplishments.
But these accomplishments have to do with morality and public safety.
I sure think focusing on reduction in violent crime, reduction in sexual crimes, reduction in human trafficking is about as religious as you can get.
And I do think it is a nice way for the president to raise an issue that he can't raise directly, but I can because I'm very heavily involved in this issue.
And I am a 100% believing Catholic at this point in my life, 100%.
And I have been for quite some time.
You may not like me for that because I do believe it's the one true religion, but I do not feel that you have to believe that way.
And I am firmly committed that you can find your way to heaven your way.
Now, there are certain, not Catholics, there are certain very devout people that believe you can't, which I find strange.
And so did my friend Roy Bailey, who I'm going to have on the church one day, when he found out Roy Bailey is a very, is an equally devout Baptist, maybe even more.
And he found it extremely difficult to understand how certain strict Baptists do not believe that you can get to heaven unless you believe in Jesus Christ.
A subject for another time.
So Minnesota, please understand what happened in Minnesota.
I think did Tom have another press conference late yesterday or today that we had missed for yesterday's show?
Because I picked this up this morning and it seemed a little different than what I had remembered from the day before.
I picked up, well, when I say this morning, I mean around noon, that we really didn't, I guess it's the exact meaning of it.
We drew down in Minnesota.
We didn't pull out by any means.
In fact, the numbers make it a relatively modest drawdown.
There he is.
Let him explain it himself.
does better.
Attorney General Mayor Fry and law enforcement officials about increasing coordination in a lawful way between the county jails and ICE to avoid public safety threats being released back in the community.
While we had our differences, one thing was clear.
We all committed to public safety for all who live in the Twin Cities.
We have made significant progress under the direction of President Trump, working with state and local officials here in Minnesota, and I expect that to increase in the coming weeks.
We continue to have discussions.
I'll have discussions this afternoon.
We currently have an unprecedented number of counties communicating with us now and allowing ICE to take custody of illegal aliens before they hit the streets.
Unprecedented cooperation.
Now I'll say it again.
This is efficient.
It requires only one or two officers to assume custody of a criminal alien target rather than eight or ten officers going into the community and arresting that public safety threat.
This frees up more officers to arrest or remove criminal aliens.
More officers taking custody of criminal aliens directly from the jails means less officers on the street doing criminal operations.
This is smart law enforcement, not less law enforcement.
It's safer for the community, safer for the officers, and safer for the alien.
This coordination also makes it far more safe for the Twins.
Well, Tom, we got it, and it's very, very smart.
So we took it down from what?
From 3,000 to 2,000 in terms of ICE.
I believe so.
He really is a little, maybe he hasn't decided yet, or he's being a little cagey, justifiably, about how many, what he's doing with Border Patrol.
Because, you know, he commands Border Patrol and has, that's his expertise more than ICE.
So what he did very, very slyly is bring in his guys.
Right.
Which, you know, I'm not saying one is better than the other, but if I would, I would, wouldn't you do that?
I mean, you got to, particularly if your guys are good, right?
Yeah.
First of all, if your guys are good in an organization like that, I know law enforcement, I know the military, you're not going to think the other guys are as good.
I don't care.
You go get me a special forces guy with the ranges who's going to tell you that the Marines are better.
You go get me a Marine.
And some Ranger says, you got pussy training compared to us.
And we're going to sit down and we'll have a 10-round fight.
Right?
Right.
All they have to do as far as I'm concerned is they don't get in trouble is have a referee and fight fair.
Right.
And it's good for them.
It teaches them to be in combat.
Oh, but they're fighting.
Yeah, that's what they're trained to do.
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Not in bars.
I know, I know.
But whoever said they were angels?
I'm not even sure angels get to like pure angels on earth.
I don't know if they get to heaven.
Imagine if everybody in heaven was perfect.
In case they are, dear God, don't keep me out, all right?
That should not be held against me.
So Trump's accomplishments, I did think, I did think were appropriate.
The drawdown, I think, is pretty damn intelligent.
And it's 700 feds, actually, that were leaving, and 2,000 approximately are left behind.
And don't bother getting it out because there's no reason to listen to Little Fry.
No reason.
No, no reason to listen to the small fry.
Because he is really, he's everything.
He's a fraud.
He's dishonest.
He's a communist.
He's a baby.
He's a sissy.
He's a coward.
And he's a liar.
So he says, why?
Why would a city with only 800 police officers need 2,000 National Guardsmen?
Do you think it answers itself?
You think a city that just burned itself down four years ago?
A city that very often peaks out near the top of the crime rate.
A city that was on the verge of burning itself down again if somebody hadn't stuffed some shit in your mouth.
You actually think 600.
And by the way, Mayor, you don't know how many policemen you have.
You actually have closer to 600.
When's the last time you had any contact with them?
If I were going to revise, if I were going to straighten out crime, you know, I did it with Bernie Carrick and I did it with John Huvain.
They were my two partners.
They're a large group, but they were my thinking partners.
We'd step all night, we go to a city, we get the certificate, stand by, and we come up with theories.
My first theory, my first theory on that city would be, how much time does the mayor spend with the police?
If he spent a lot of time with the police, I wouldn't take the contract unless I could keep him away.
He's going to destroy their morale, and I can't do anything with him.
I can teach him the best programs.
I can teach him the career criminal program.
I can teach him the protection of women program.
I can teach him the Comstat program.
I can teach him the stolen car program.
Go on.
We've got 22, of which maybe six or seven are relevant to a particular city.
Probably about 15 of them developed when we were in the city, and the rest developed for the needs of Tokyo, for the needs of Mexico City, for the needs of Medellin, for the needs of Yugum, and for the needs of some that didn't work.
And we can tell you why it didn't work.
So this one I can figure out from here.
I mean, I know exactly what Minneapolis needs.
But the first things it needs is to get that mayor out of policing.
Get him out.
If they offered me a contract to reduce crime in Minneapolis, the way I was offered by Carlos Slim wanted to do so in Mexico City, even if they were paying me the same amount of money, which would be rather more important to me right now than it was then, I wouldn't do it.
I could not be successful with those two guys there.
My first thing would be get rid of them and have me back.
And we did that in places where we detected communists that were running things, dishonest, crooked, that we couldn't, if the police were dishonest and crooked, and the people at the top wanted to fix it, no problem.
If the police were dishonest and crooked and it was a result or was involved, the people, forget it.
So we'll have to see how it works now.
Victor Davis Hansen had pretty much gotten him to the point in his last article in the Post of Insurrection.
And I think we should keep that article because I mean, I don't know how long this lasts.
We will see.
We will see where it goes.
Okay?
We'll see where it goes.
JD Vance got criticized for not apologizing to the it's pretty.
We call them pretty, but I see everybody else pronounces it pretty, the pretty family.
I have no desire to dishonor the Predi family.
I have no desire to hurt them.
And I think I understand my vice president's words.
Like my vice president, I have no desire or reason to apologize to them.
I do have reason to pray for them, and I do have reason to feel sorry for them.
But he, this would not happen if your son was not an out of control, extremely angry man irrationally.
This would not have happened.
The second or first video, the second to be disclosed, the first that was made, showed what a violent man he was and the deep, deep hatred that he had for ICE, which is totally unjustified and way beyond reality.
And whether it's a product of brainwashing or what several of his friends said about him, that he was mental, I don't know.
I do know there's no room for apology because he's the reason for his death.
And for you to appropriately deal with this tremendous tragedy for you, I mean, no matter what your child dies of, you're going to be broken.
And if it's something, if it's something where the child did something wrong, it's probably even worse.
But your child did something wrong.
And if I apologize to you, I would be just lying like everyone else is.
Nobody wants their kid to carry a very, very sophisticated, armed, heavily armed weapon to a police arrest.
No one wants them to do that.
And it doesn't seem like he did it by accident.
It seems he did it because he developed under your not-so-watchful eye an extremely deep hatred that was irrational, unjustified, and in other instances has led to murder.
So it is much too complicated to apologize to you without creating the circumstances for another one like this.
And I have great respect for JD Vance for having the courage to get us at a level at which we communicate with each other like mature human beings and honest people.
So I hope it's not misunderstood.
If I apologize to you, I wouldn't pray for you any more than I'll pray for you now.
In fact, I may pray for you more.
I feel sorry for you more.
But I'm not apologizing to you.
We'll take a short break, and we'll be right back.
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I just thought I could fool you with the abbreviated version of the White House there.
Abbreviated because it doesn't have the great big giant ballroom that's going to make it magnificent and get all the Democrats really upset.
I do not know what I'm going to celebrate more.
It's making it really magnificent or the Democrats all having ajata.
The fact that we don't have a ballroom is just absurd.
And when they get, and when they get sick, they don't do things.
Did you know that?
Did you know that?
Well, Mayor Mamdani, in the second part of my show, later, I think I'll do it later, is going to get a new award that I've developed.
I found out after many, many years of never looking at Wikipedia because it's awful about me.
Don't look at it.
They do have a thing that snuck in somewhere and they haven't figured it out.
It's going to come out really soon.
They have a piece there that says, in what was the third heaviest snowfall in the history of New York City in 1996.
And I remember my snowfalls almost as well as I remember the murders.
They were tremendous occasions for me.
And this was the most, not the biggest, but the most memorable.
But I had three that challenged the record.
And this one snuck up on me.
And that was the one that'll get you, the one that'll sneak up on you.
Anyone will get Mamdani because in addition to the fact that he is a communist and an Islamic extremist lover, he is a complete, absolute incompetent.
He has never had a job.
He has never done anything practical.
And his preparation for the snowfall was to get some kind of custom-made jacket in which he looks shitty anyway.
But in any event, my preparation for the snowfall was could be the day after I was elected mayor.
And I was still partially asleep, having come back to my hotel, going to return with my family to my home.
My children had the day off because they were up all night.
And my son, Andrew, was running all around the hotel room playing and getting ready for his dog because his gift.
And Caroline was beginning, she's much younger.
And Caroline was beginning to catch on that we were getting a dog.
And she was beginning, as Caroline has throughout her life, express her opinion about the dog.
So this was a really worked out dog.
This is why they might have made more progress if they sent me to Iran, but that's okay.
Because of Caroline and Andrew.
And I was thinking about other things.
It was about the budget.
And probably you begin thinking immediately, police commissioner, that was my number one priority, right?
I think I had it down to three already while I was running.
Peter says, you know, long-term forecast, you're going to get snow in your first week and it's supposed to be really bad.
I said, oh, Peter, come on, it's a long way away.
And he sat me down like he was my father.
And he was like two months older than me or something.
Maybe three.
Maybe I was two months older than him.
I don't remember.
I knew Peter since the second year of high school.
And we were closer than brothers because we didn't have any sibling rivalries.
And he said to me, Mayor, you're a Republican, right?
Yeah.
I said, you know, we tried to get people to forget that, didn't we?
And he said, yeah, we did a great job.
He said, they're going to test you on Snow Pal.
And, you know, that union, a union, that's a Democrat union.
And they haven't gotten paid anything big in a long time.
So they're going to go out on you in the first snowfall.
We got to have a plan.
I said, Peter, you're working on a million things, right?
We tasked Denny Young, who was my chief assistant when I was U.S. attorney and my law partner as I came into the mayoralty as my chief of staff.
And Peter was my number two officially, and really, really, he was my alter ego.
And I said, Peter, let's give Denny this task.
You know, Denny is really good at picking talent.
Really good.
He helped me with the U.S. Attorney's Office.
I wouldn't have achieved what I did if I didn't pick the talent I picked.
And he's perfectly capable.
And I think, actually, I'm a little screwed up here on history.
I think in September or so, when I thought I was going to win, I sent him off to meet with the people who had done presidential transitions.
I didn't like any of the mayoral transitions, Republican and Democrat.
And he met with four of them and came up with four alternative plans.
And I told them not to tell me anything about it until after the election.
And occasionally he slipped because he also worked on the campaign.
But I took him off the campaign to do that.
So he was ready on day two, but Peter is now already.
So the long and short of it is we prepared a plan for picking up the snow, which included the mayor being given a lesson for the months of the transition and how you pick up snow in New York.
I mean, a lesson.
Like I went to school.
My first one was a big surprise and a big success.
But the one that reached and got some national headlines in 1996, I had one that got me on Saturday Night Live.
And also this remarkable review that Wikipedia picked up from somewhere.
And I'm sure it's going to be gone by tomorrow.
Do you have it, Jen?
We had the article.
Let's put the picture.
Did we put that up of the mayor?
There's the mayor back with shoveling.
Put the headline up first.
And then put the headline.
There we go.
A little different than Mamdani's quotes, which is it put in vernacular English, Mamdani F's up the storm.
People six days later, still not dug out.
Right.
And that article, it's hard to read that.
But Mr. Giuliani visited a well, that's the article that will tell you.
Also, I made pizza at the original Ray's pizza on Chamber Street for the ladies who were working overnight.
Not only did I make pizza, I'm looking to see if pizza is coming in.
Not only did I make pizza, my friend Peter showed me how to do that with it.
But the real one is the Wikipedia thing that I sent you.
Do you have that?
Yeah, yeah.
We'll have that up in just a second.
This is like a sum up of it.
And this was on a Sunday afternoon, January 7th.
My family was in California for really the conclusion of a long period of time that they spent in California for New Year's until the 8th.
And I came, I went back and forth.
And they were due back either that afternoon or the next day, delayed several days by the then snow.
And it was not really predicted as a major snowfall until mid-Sunday.
And by Sunday evening, we were incapacitated.
And by Saturday of the next week, Boston was still digging out.
Philadelphia was still digging out.
And New York was unhindered by snow by Wednesday.
And so was New York State, because Pataki and I did it in conjunction.
They had a lot of problems upstate, and we had equipment that could help them there.
And I had a lot of problems downstate, and he had a lot of equipment that helped.
11.4.
Can we put 11.4 up, please?
And the reality is that it was, I always thought many years later that it was kind of like a prophecy of what was going to happen on 9-11 when he and I were going to work together like teammates.
I get a certain amount of praise for 9-11.
He does too.
He doesn't get enough.
So, this is what you said.
He shares it all in mine.
I can't read that, Ted, but if you can make it a little larger, maybe I can.
It says, get the effort part there.
The January.
Can you read it?
Yes, the January 3rd.
Read the first part.
The 1996 Blizzard, often referred to as the Blizzard of 96, was a defining record-setting storm during Mayor Rudy Giuliani's first term in New York City, dumping over 20 inches of snow.
The administration's response, characterized by high visibility, leadership, and a total city shutdown and massive cleanup costs, became a benchmark for assessing mayoral performance in New York City winter storms.
Now, if you go down, let's see, the shutdown strategy, read that.
That's something he didn't do.
The shutdown strategy.
Following the rapid, heavy snowfall, Mayor Giuliani ordered a temporary shutdown of the city to allow sanitation crews to work, halting non-emergency traffic to clear sanitation.
Now, would I tell you what that would have accomplished?
That would have accomplished what you don't see, what you see now, which is all the garbage lined up now five days later on the side of the street where cars still can't get out and people can't pass by.
And as the people of the city are complaining for the last four days, rats are running around and spreading disease.
Mayor, Mayor, Mayor, Mayor.
I probably found that somewhere in the archives of the city.
I didn't know, I knew as much about cleaning up snow as you did when I started, except I took the job as a job to help the people, not to help us become communist or Islamic terrorists or to get nice clothes.
The job had only one purpose for me.
The left doesn't believe it, but it was to do a good job for the people of my city.
I wanted to be known.
I guess you always want to be known as a great mayor.
Here's what I wanted to be known as: a mayor who left the city better than he found it.
Because my hero, who could be yours, because he's more or less like you are.
My hero was Fiorello LaGuardia.
Not that I would have done what LaGuardia did.
I'd probably like to go back and reverse what he did.
I think he's part of the reason for the dependency in the city, but don't get me started.
But he had the right attitude.
He did it for the right reason.
Mayor, you're not.
You got to straighten your soul out first before you.
A mayor's a tough job.
It's closer to the people.
They pick you up right away.
You can bullshit them as president a lot longer.
Now, let's look at the rest of it.
I'll tell you what else is critical for now.
I don't know if I have it here.
I may.
We have it back up.
Let's go back.
Now we have the strategy, the high visibility.
Read that.
High visibility and command.
Unlike later criticism of other mayors, Mayor Giuliani was heavily praised for his visibility during the storm, conducting multiple updates during the day, touring the sanitation garages and checking off affected areas in all five boroughs.
Yeah, the first time I slept was Wednesday.
Started on Sunday.
The first real sleep I got was on Wednesday because they caught me falling asleep in the car coming back one night.
And my boys, which included Peter, and I work with friends.
And when I say friends, I mean friends that love each other and we cared for each other.
And you can only do, I mean, you can only fight a war with friends.
This guy, his work on the city snow is the first indication communists cannot pick up snow or anything practical.
Worse than that.
Worse than that, he picked up as his advisor on judges, a guy who the day before the administration started, and therefore it was well known that he was going to pick up judges, a lawyer.
You have a picture of the fat guy?
The fat guy?
The fat guy he picked up as a.
Oh, the criminal?
No, no.
I don't know if he's a criminal.
Don't say that.
He's a lawyer.
He might suis.
The fat guy.
I don't see him here.
Okay.
His name is Ali Najmi.
We'll find a picture for him.
He didn't pick a Jewish lawyer.
My second corporation counsel was a Jewish lawyer.
My first corporation counsel was an Irish lawyer who do not get the praise they deserve for being good lawyers.
I mean, I had a lot of really good Irish lawyers, including my friend Peter.
Whoa.
Bob Casano.
Bob Costello, who they think is Italian.
In fact, one time I think I got accused of, you always pick Italians.
You always pick Italians.
I find Irish lawyers really good.
Irish people are great at arguing.
And Jewish people are great at interpreting.
It's either in their genes or it comes from all that Torah time, all that Torah study time, where they take one little word in the Old Testament, they come up with 50 meanings for it, and they all argue it.
It's like a Jewish form of the Socratic, Jewish form of the Socratic method.
But Mamdani picks a guy named Ali Najmi.
Okay, all right, all right, all right, okay, let's say that's okay.
I have no idea what Ali Rajmi's background as a lawyer is.
To be the corporation of counsel of New York City, you got to be close to a scholar.
And you also have to be a practicing lawyer.
Not easy to find.
Not easy to find.
It's easy to find the academic and it's easy to find the great courtroom lawyer.
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Hard to put them both together.
I had a particular sort of special view of that having been United States Attorney.
And I think it is now, but certainly then by far and for 100 years, the best U.S. attorney's office in the world, United States Attorney's Office of the Southern District of New York.
Our applications were among the very, very best law students that came out of the very, very best law schools, if they were the very best law schools.
And my staff was beyond brilliant.
So I certainly had, I had been one of them for five years and I have been in charge of them for five years.
So those are my friends.
Those are the people I went to ball games with.
Those are the people I went to operas with.
Those are the people that were at my wedding and I was at their wedding.
So I had plenty of choices.
And I picked two great corporation councils.
The first one, who had a long career as a federal judge appointed by Bill Clinton.
Yeah, you got it, a Democrat.
And the second one, a very old-fashioned, for an old-fashioned Republican family, but Jewish, which is rare, right?
But who was the better lawyer?
I won't say they both were great at what they did and how they did it.
I don't know if this guy has that kind of credentials.
I don't see anything about his credentials.
Not a thing.
And I can evaluate credentials better than anyone.
I've hired probably more lawyers than most people.
Here's what I don't like.
The day before the administration started, so this is in a long-term relationship.
He joined a personal injury law firm.
I'm sorry, prejudice would dictate a certain amount of skepticism here.
This isn't where we find our constitutional scholars and personal injury law firms.
It is true that New York City needs a lawyer who understands personal injury law because we're sued all the time.
But a very, very good constitutional law scholar and great litigator can find one who is an expert on that.
I don't need, as mayor, a personal injury expert as the top guy coming into my office every day and helping me construe the Constitution of the United States because most personal injury lawyers don't have time to study the Constitution.
But here's what makes it worse: he joined a law firm.
He joined a law firm which is under investigation.
Now, federal Brooklyn federal suit filed against the Lyakis law firm, claims that the firm recruited plaintiffs to fake accidents and injuries, and then used a falsified medical documentation to inflate those claims.
And that is the second of two lawsuits like that.
So I'm going to have to take a break now.
Did I take a break of any kind?
Yeah.
So then I'm going to have to take a break and go over to X, and you'll find out more about the unbelievably incompetent people that are coming into these Democrat administrations, which says to me, this is part of the Islamic communist plan to crush us and then see who gets my new award on X at eight.