America's Mayor Live (871): Team USA Defeats Canada for Olympic Hockey Gold Medal
Rudy Giuliani ties the U.S. Olympic hockey team’s 2024 gold medal wins—men’s (3-2 vs Canada) and women’s (both with 25 NHL players)—to American superiority, comparing it to the 1980 "Miracle on Ice." He then pivots to Iran, where Dr. Mohammed Tasuji details economic collapse (inflation over 50%, currency devaluation from 50,000:1 to 160,000:1) and nuclear enrichment at 60-67% despite sanctions. Giuliani and Tasuji advocate recognizing Madame Rajavi’s MEK resistance, urging her to present their 10-point plan—mirroring U.S. values but with women’s rights and minority governance—to Congress, while warning against trusting Iran’s regime amid protests and violent crackdowns. The episode blends sports triumph with geopolitical strategy, framing regime change as a non-military solution rooted in internal resistance. [Automatically generated summary]
Live from, well, live from Palm Beach, just a short ways where I don't know exactly how to describe them.
We're not sure yet.
I guess it's more likely than not that this was some kind of an attempt to kill the president, although a lot of question marks around it.
The president wasn't there.
It was well known that he wasn't there.
The guy didn't have a typical gun, a dangerous gun, but not a typical gun for an assassination.
He somehow got in.
He got past security and then was shot immediately by the Secret Service where somebody could say it looked like suicide by Secret Service.
But we'll get to that in a moment.
Let's start with the happier news, which is that the United States has swept hockey from the country where it started, Canada.
So the women had that remarkable win the other day that we featured for you.
And then yesterday, the men was even more of a surprise win in the sense that the women were more heavily favored than the men.
I don't think the men were favored at all, actually.
But the women beat the Canadians and were predicted to beat the Canadians.
And in fact, were predicted to beat the Canadians by more.
Not that all this matters.
I mean, this is all about gambling garbage, but it does mean that you'd have to take your hat off to the Canadian team and say, gosh, they put up a heck of a game.
They almost won.
But they didn't.
And America won.
So the way I look at it, if Canada would like to have gold in the game they invented, it has to become a state to got to become part of our team.
They've got to become part of our team because we whipped them on both.
And most of us and most sensible Canadians understand and know there were just two genders.
So we didn't have to have a third gender game to show that we're better than they are.
We beat them as men.
We beat them as women.
And we didn't have any men playing for the women, nor did they, as far as I know.
Right.
In fact, I think both teams had 25 NHL players on them.
Oh, equal amount, yeah.
Equal amount of NHL players.
So this is a question of whether America has caught up in hockey in terms of, I mean, at one time the NHL was dominated by Canada.
Then we started to get Americans in.
Now you've got Eastern Europeans, plenty of Eastern Europeans.
Not just Russians, but we met some very, very hockey players from Serbia, right?
Srpska.
Russia, particularly near the Asian border, Russian Asian border, produces enormous numbers of great hockey players.
And of course, you know, the last great American win was in 1980.
Last American male win in hockey was in 1980, Ted.
And if I am correct, and this is kind of weird, I think we've only won three times.
I think we won as a big surprise, almost as big a surprise as the Miracle on Ice in 1960 and the 1960 team that Herb Brooks.
Last 80, yeah.
No, we won a 1960.
Oh, we won both, you're saying.
And Herb Brooks was cut from the team right at the very end.
Oh, that's right.
Okay.
Okay.
That was in America too, right?
I was in America.
Was in America in America, and it was the last American win in hockey before 1980.
The Russians didn't win one four in a row and were prohibitive favorites.
There was no one but Herb Brooks and possibly a few members of the team that thought they would win.
And he got cut.
No, no, I'm talking about now.
We're going back to 80.
Okay.
Now we're going back to 80.
And America won.
And of course, it was the miracle on ice.
And it has to be the greatest win in hockey.
And it has to be one of the greatest wins in sports.
And it certainly has to be one of the greatest wins in what we call patriotic sports.
This was a great win, and it'll go down as one of the great wins.
That one will still probably be greater for a couple of reasons.
First of all, it was amateurs that won.
And as Herb Brooks said, when it happened, something will be missing when it becomes a professional, when the Olympics become a professional sport.
And I don't want to say anything away from them.
It's just wonderful what they did.
But something was missing in the fact that they're all professionals.
Number two, this was an upset, but it wasn't a monumental for the ages upset.
There are people that predicted America could win.
The other one, literally, no one predicted they could win.
John McKay, who was a great sportscaster of his day and covered it, said, if they had gotten to two goals, I would have thought they had performed miraculously, way above their ability.
But they remember the American team in 1980 was defeated a mere four weeks before, 10 to 3 at Madison Square Garden.
It was, I mean, it looked like they shouldn't be on the same, it looked like a group of kids against a group of professionals who beat the NHL all-star team.
Yeah.
So let's take a look at this because we got a lot of good.
We only have three goals, which means that the goaltender, both goaltenders in a two-to-one game, have to have had unbelievable games.
So let's play the first goal, Teddy.
You want to describe it?
We'll play.
Yeah, let me pull that up.
You want to play the winning goal first?
We'll do what was that?
We'll play the first goal.
No, no, no.
We'll play it in order.
This is the first goal.
Remember, the game was two to one.
So we had two goals.
Just give us a second here.
A lot of moving parts here.
So we're going to play this as the first goal.
Okay, can you see it?
Let's play it again.
Look at that play.
That is absolutely incredible, my Matt Moldy.
That's the first goal.
So that's Boldy.
That was his first goal.
That was the first goal.
And that put America ahead at the beginning, one nothing, right?
Right.
Now, do we have the Canadian goal?
Right.
We have the Canadian goal.
We do not have it.
We do not have it.
Okay.
So let's play the time.
Let's play the winning goal.
This is the winning goal in overtime.
It was about a minute and a half into overtime.
And I apologize, guys.
Yeah.
It's a lot of moving parts here.
Jack Hughes wins it.
The golden goal for the United States.
For the first time since the 1980 miracle, the United States takes the goal.
I'll come back to you.
Well, now that you saw Jack Hughes' goal, and that, of course, was the winning goal in overtime.
So that, I mean, that creates just an enormous, an enormous feeling.
Now, let's go back.
And this goal is a little different in the 1980 game because the goal was scored with 10 minutes to go, which largely creates another hero in this game that got the credit at the time, probably not historically as much.
And that's the goalie, Jim Craig, because they had to hold on to this win, this lead, for 10 minutes against the greatest hockey team in the world.
So when Rosione got this goal with 10 minutes to go, having watched this, I will tell you there's no one that believed the game was going to end with that goal.
Yeah, 10 minutes to go was the greatest offensive hockey team in the world that had beaten the NHL.
And a bunch of men against a bunch of boys.
What we didn't know, but we found out is those boys that you were going to watch for the next 10 minutes were much better conditioned than the older men because Brooks in analyzing this said, hey, they got everything over me, everything.
Experience, strength, wildliness.
The other guy is a much more winning coach.
They got a better coach.
But we got one thing over them.
We're a lot younger.
So what does that mean?
That means we're better conditioned than they are.
And we'll beat them in the fourth quarter, in the third quarter.
In fact, they won most of their games, including a very surprising game against a Czech team that was much better than them by coming from behind.
They won.
They tied their first game against Sweden, which if they had lost, would have been over with 10 seconds left.
10 seconds left.
So this was a miracle team.
So let's watch it.
The puppies still lose.
11 seconds.
You've got 10 seconds.
The countdown going on right now.
Morrow, up to slope.
Five seconds left in the game.
You believe in miracles?
Yes.
Unbelievable.
The planahan is there.
The puppies still lose.
11 seconds.
You've got 10 seconds.
The countdown going on right now.
Morrow.
Up to slope.
Five seconds left in the game.
You believe in miracles?
Well, we didn't see that.
We saw instead the end of the game, not the Aruzzione goal.
So we'll just stop this coverage and move on to something else.
No, I found it.
Oh, now we found it.
Well, why don't we wait?
Okay.
I just moved on to something else.
And what I moved on to is the State of the Union speech.
Tomorrow night, we're going to have the State of the Union speech in the Capitol.
It's going to be somewhat, I guess, everything's controversial.
It's going to be controversial because the Democrats, well, some are going to show up and some aren't going to show up.
Now, I don't know what the hell the purpose of this is other than they're, I guess one of the better things I can say about them is they're a bunch of babies.
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They're also anti-American to a very large extent.
Some of them are direct out and out supporters of Islamic terrorism.
Others are out and out supporters of Marxism.
And the ones who aren't are too afraid to stand up, with the exception of one guy, Fedim.
I'm really just one.
They will vote for the goddamnest, the damnedest things.
Excuse me.
I apologize.
And I'll go to confession for that one.
I shouldn't have said that.
Damn one.
They will vote for the damnedest things.
I mean, just think of this whole debate on identifying yourself in order to vote.
They come up with every facetious excuse you could come up with, every lying possibility.
The mere fact is that almost all of America is ID, like 97, 98%.
The illegals have ID.
American poor people will not fail to have IDs because you can't get welfare without it.
And they're all on welfare.
Like, what is it?
40% of the country is on welfare.
45% of the country is on welfare.
If you pick one of the programs, I don't know, it's probably pushing 50%.
Well, you don't get that program unless you've been photographed and ID.
So of course you have ID.
Now, women have to change their ID.
Women are too damn stupid and lazy to do it.
Yeah?
Then they don't get their social security.
Then they don't get their insurance coverage.
Then they don't get their welfare.
And is it really too hard to ask that a person take a little time in order to make certain that the right to vote is secure in total?
Because some people are too lazy to spend 10 minutes getting an ID of whom we don't know who they are, who these people are.
Then America has to constantly undergo questionable elections because we have no idea if the person who voted is the person they say they are.
We have no idea if the person is a citizen.
That's the thing they're worse angry about most of all.
You got to.
How can you seriously run for public office and say you're not in favor of people proving their citizenship and say you're running in America?
Why don't you go run for the UN?
The only way we're going to stay together as a country is if we're all Americans.
And if we're not willing to spend a little time identifying ourselves as Americans, then we're falling apart, which is why they're Marxists.
They're trying to make this country fall apart.
And they have at times during COVID, particularly when Biden was president with the mandates, giving away air bases that could defend us against our enemies, getting people killed in the hundreds of thousands in Afghanistan, getting people killed on our streets with fentanyl.
I mean, it's beyond per adventure of a doubt that there is something going on with these people.
I don't even know if you have to figure it out.
It's just so damn dangerous.
They shouldn't be in government.
And their party should dissolve.
They should start a whole new party.
And they should require, if you want to join the party, you have to love America.
And then you can be in favor of all kinds of liberal things if you want.
Because I had a lot of liberal friends who were very patriotic.
These people aren't liberals.
These people are fascists, communists, Nazis, all the things they call.
By and large, if you want to know what they are, listen to what they charge their enemies with, because they follow the Marxist rule of basically clouding the truth by calling you what they are.
And it's so damn obvious you have to be stupid not to realize this.
So are we getting any closer in Iran?
The answer is it sure sounds that way.
And I will tell you, there's one answer that gave it away even more than the others.
This may not be true.
This is a theory.
This is not a theory I know directly.
This is a theory I've heard from people who speculate on it.
Let's put it that way.
They would say that the two peace negotiators, right, Jared and Woodcoff, have been holding back attacks because they want to negotiate a peace with Iran.
The people on the other side, let's say we assume Rubio, we even assume Vance at this point, Hegset, people on that side, and then the outsiders who support them will say, normally we should go the last mile to avoid war and to avoid any kind of use of deadly force,
but that's counterproductive with regard to the Iranians because they lie.
So why are we negotiating an agreement?
If they do eventually agree, it's going to be like last time.
It's just not going to be worth it.
We're just putting off massive deaths until some later time when it'll be greater.
And risking there being nuclear behind our backs.
That'd be the side that's arguing for you've got them in the weakest position they've ever been in.
this is the time to really destroy them, get rid of the Ayatollah, have a regime change, and see if you can help move people toward a peaceful, some form of a democratic government, which they seem to be inclined toward anyway, and which seems to be never easy, but an easier project than it was in Afghanistan or Iraq,
since in neither place did you have a self-developed revolution.
Here you have had major protests calling for the overthrow of this regime, starting in my own experience in 2014.
So we've had now 12 years of protests on and off, at times major protests.
A couple of times in 18, 19, 22, in Iran, we had protests in 200 or more cities.
The number of people killed during those protests in the multiple, I mean, the last group of protests that hit 200 or more cities.
The numbers begin at 15,000 and go up to as much as 40,000 in just a four-day period.
This is a killing machine, the Ayatollah.
Those prior protests had similar incidents where they were put down with major savage attacks, but the numbers were not quite as great.
And one of them took place during, well, two of them took place during American regimes that favored the Ayatollah.
That would be Obama, who gave them substantial money and turned his back on the people seeking freedom.
And Biden, who didn't turn his back on them, didn't support them, but gave the Ayatollah even more money, despite the fact that he knew that half that money was being used to go to terrorist groups that were killing Israelis, Americans, and others.
Now, how two American presidents could give hundreds of millions and billions of dollars to a group that was the biggest supporter of terrorism with terrorists like under Soleimani, who directed a lot of their attention on killing our fellow citizens, is, of course, why the Democratic Party has become something almost impossible to describe anymore.
It's the reason it has to be dissolved, and they got to start all over again.
But in any event, the argument over attacking Israel is a very legitimate one.
You always want to do everything you can to avoid attack, war, death.
The difference here is, and I think this is a legitimate reading of Inside Iraq.
I think we've probably put on as many, as Iran rather, we've probably put on as many Iranians as anyone has.
It seems to me they want us to.
Now, they want us to because it's hard probably for us to completely embrace how bad it is there.
It probably is hard for us to Internalize what these people are going through.
They don't know if they're going to live or die.
They don't know if they have a future.
And they know the only way they're going to have a future is if they take a gamble on getting killed right now and overthrowing them, but getting killed for at least for a purpose.
Witkoff's statement today sounded like the negotiations are over.
It's my interpretation.
We'll take a break and see if we can find it.
But this comes from looking at them.
And you know, I do that a lot.
I try to look at people and try to figure out what they really mean.
Comes from being a trial lawyer and looking at juries.
I got to write with the president a few times.
I don't know Steve as well, but I know him pretty well.
So we're going to take a look at it when we get back.
See if we can find it.
So now let's take a short break and we'll be right back.
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We're back.
And we're back.
That is Ruby Giuliani.
I'm back with you on America's mayor live.
And since we are discussing Iran and the possibilities of something happening shortly, given the fact that the major aircraft carrier, the Ford, is showing up.
Within a day or two, I wanted to get back to Dr. Tesuji, Mohammed Tasuji, California State University.
And we had talked to him last week, and I want to see what his views are now about what will happen, what should happen, and whether he thinks an attack would help hurt and what would happen after that.
So welcome back, Dr. Good evening, Mayor.
Such an honor to be with you again, and thank you very much.
But before I start, the hockey games that you were showing brings back a lot of memories.
I was in the 1980s, and that game was phenomenal because back then, USSR, the players were all professional.
Yes, amateur team.
It was like men against boys, right?
Yeah, yeah.
And then, secondly, congratulations to the American hockey team for winning it for the third time.
And what a phenomenal goal.
The first one.
It was just such a finesse.
Superb.
I've never seen anything like that.
You know, picking up the park, you know, running between two.
I mean, I'm a soccer player.
I was later for four years when I was in college and all that.
And very seldom you see.
This is like a Ronaldo scissor kick to score a goal.
It was phenomenal.
Anyways, kudos to the team as well as Mayor Giuliani.
I am really pleasantly surprised with your depth of knowledge about Iranian politics and situation.
I mean, it's quite refreshing to see that you are so versed in Iranian politics.
I appreciate it.
I've been involved in it for a long time and very hoping and praying for this time over my hopefully you'll see in the further on.
Now, speaking of, I don't know if you want me to express my views or if you want to ask questions.
Absolutely.
Tell me where you think we are.
And also, I'm pretty sure there's going to be, I mean, by pretty sure, I mean, there's a much better chance than not that there's going to be some form of a military attack.
Just too many resources there not to use.
Question: How big, how long?
But really, what I'd like to ask you, and then anything else you want, is it a good idea or isn't it?
Surely.
Let me set it up first so then we can get to the directed question.
I think we have to realize that the Iranian regime for the past 47 years have been the key source of terrorism in the region and in instability, not only for countries in the Middle East, but also the tentacles of this octopus, if you may call, have been in Venezuela, has been in Mexico, has been in Malaysia, all across the Asia and Latin America.
We have had assassinations in the U.S. actually.
Mr. Tabat Abai, I guess during the Uradian era, was assassinated here.
We've had assassinations of dignitaries and whatnot overseas.
And as you recall, they were trying to kill you and a lot of other dignitaries in the event in Paris.
So we know that this is a terrorist regime.
We know that this regime has been the key supporter of Hamas, Hezbollah, the insurgents in Syria.
They backed the Assad regime, who killed half a million of its own people and 8 million Syrians had to migrate, had to leave the country because of the atrocities of Assad regime.
So we know that.
Everybody that denies that is, I think, is a fool.
They're fooling themselves.
The question is what to do and how to approach this.
As you correctly said, the current situation in Iran, Iranian regime has never been this weak in its entire history, past 46, 47 year history.
Many reasons.
One of the main reasons is that I think the current administration has been pretty strong when it comes to the blockade of and imposing the United Nations sanction on selling oil.
Of course, United Nations allows Iran to sell oil for medicine and food, but not for other activities.
So there was a report on Congress about a year or a year and a half ago that they had 383 cases documented of the Iranian shadow oil tankers that in the middle of ocean, they switched, they pumped the oil to another vessel and they sell it illegally.
And unfortunately, the last administration has been kind of closing their eyes on it.
And as you just correctly said, during the administration of President Obama, when Iran was completely bankrupt with C-37s, we, you know, U.S. government shipped tens of billions of dollars.
I don't know the exact amount.
I've heard up to 10 billion to close to 100 billion, but let's say $10 billion.
But the question is how properly to deal with it.
One idea, as you just said, is, well, U.S. has the highest military muscle, the strongest military force in the world.
They are, you know, we have two fleets there.
The fleets are very capable, maybe close to 120 airplanes, hundreds of helicopters, choppers, destroyers, missiles, and whatnot.
So that's one way of approaching it.
The other approach is to see what is the current situation and trust if the Iranian people on their own can topple this region.
So you eloquently talked about the uprisings in Iran.
Recently, 200 cities had the uprising.
The government brutally cracked on on the opposition in two days.
They shut down the internet and the telephone systems and gone down at least 5,000, 10,000.
I heard President Trump saying 33,000.
And you correctly said maybe around 40,000.
We don't know.
No, I mean, it could be 8,000 or 40,000.
That's a big gap.
And a lot of it we probably will never get to see.
Well, yes, but I think the people, the reports are coming out, the videos are coming out, the names are coming out.
So eventually we would know.
But even if it's 5,000, that's a huge number of people killing their own citizens.
Why are they killing their own citizens?
Because Iranian people are fed up with this regime.
They want to change and they want to do that.
Now, my own personal belief, and I'm in no position probably to give advice to Washington or anything like that.
But my own feeling is that if we recognize that the Iranian people have a legitimate right to defend themselves and to punish those that do harm on them, then there's a big opportunity for Iranian people to get the job done.
Let me just mention one thing.
Yesterday, and I guess the day before yesterday, as it's an Islamic tradition, the 40th day after a person passed away, there's always a memorial.
And there was huge memorials in the universities in Iran, all across Iran, in Tehran, in Mashhad, in Tabriz, and other cities.
And they were all anti-government movement, despite the fact that they know that their comrades, their friends, their classmates were gone down 40 days ago, but all of them were chanting death to Ayatollah.
So this is very significant, meaning that despite the fact that Ayatollah's tribe, Ayatollah tried to crack down and machine gun, literally with heavy weaponry, kill thousands of people, the activity, the revolution is still ongoing.
This is very important.
Number two, if we do a direct attack, I think the regime could use this to further usurp the movement.
And, you know, we have more than 50,000 prisoners or people that we detain, were arrested and detained.
And actually last month, last 30 days, the number of people that were executed in the prisons is 343, if I'm not mistaken.
And then there's at least five women among them.
And the last two days, there were more than like 15 people that were executed.
So the killing machine of the regime is ongoing.
But at the same time, resistance is ongoing.
Another very important thing that happened a few days ago, and I know you are a scholar of the Iranian minorities, ethnic minorities in Iran.
There was a big development.
Five major Kurdish groups joined forces.
They declared that they're going to form a coalition and start their movement against the Iranian regime.
This is extremely significant.
Sure it is.
Because one of the weapons that the Iranian regime has used, and I include the activities of Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, if you look at what role he has played in all these uprising, it has been very divisive.
And reports are that many of his supports that are supposed to be coming from Iran comes from these fake accounts that are from revolutionary guards.
Mind you, he mentioned that he has 50,000 supporters that have paid, have announced allegiance to Mr. Pahlavi, Reza Pahlavi, and that they would never open fire at the people.
That may be one of the reasons why a lot of people came out in the last two days that there was a big crackdown on the government.
Interestingly enough, a couple days after that, he claimed that the number of people, revolutionary guards that supported him, now is 100,000, even some places it's at 150,000, which is a complete fallacy.
I mean, it's absurd.
First of all, if they supported him, that many, it'd be over.
Absolutely.
If you had 100,000 revolutionary guards, they could take over the Ayatollah, they could take over Tehran, and nobody have to worry about anything.
It would just be over, and the Revolutionary Guard would be in charge.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
So, I mean, what he was claiming is that the people that have fought Iraqis when defended the country will not open fire on their brothers and sisters, on their compatriots, which is a total fallacy.
So the role that he has been playing has been very divisive.
However, there is a legitimate, genuine movement inside Iran.
It's organized.
You know, I've been studying and also supporting MEK.
You are very familiar with them, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, their units inside Iran, armed units inside Iran, they haven't been sitting inactive.
They have been actually extremely active.
They were very active during the uprising.
Yeah, so my personal belief is that attacking Iran does not solve the problem.
As you just said, justifiably, we need a regime change.
For regime change, you need boots on the ground.
Boots on the ground is extremely costly for the United States or otherwise, while we have a organized, legitimate movement that is capable of toppling.
All it requires is recognizing that that movement is legitimate, recognizing them.
They can take care of it.
They can take care of the rest of it.
Mayor, let me also add another thing.
Today I was in another program.
I do study the Iranian economics and the proposed budget and whatnot.
For the past four years, you know, in Iran, economic situation is pretty disastrous.
Inflation consistently over the past eight, nine years have been 50% at a minimum.
Where the wages have not kept up.
The wages max, especially government employee wages, has gone up by some 20%.
So if you take this over five, six, ten years, you see that the buying power of Iran and average Iranian people has gone to almost nothing.
At the same time, the Iranian currency, I think we talked about it last time, when the exchange rate was, let's say, during when Pazeshkian took over, was 50,000 to one.
Now it's 160,000 to 1.
So we literally, you cannot import anything because it's so expensive.
Now, all these three, four years, the Iranian budget, the only sector of the budget, Iranian budget, that has been gone up, has been increased by 200% or so, has been the armed forces, especially Basijis, especially revolutionary guards, Qutzforce.
And what is Goatsforce?
Gotforce is the Iranian Revolutionary Guards arm for external, outside the border activities.
So if you look at from economic perspective, it's a disastrous situation in Iran.
Why Insisting on Enriching Uranium?00:10:54
Yet, at the same time, I think Mr. Jafarzadeh, who I think you know has been in your programs, in Fox News, was interviewed last week, was talking about despite all this, all these economic issues, Iran still is pursuing enriching uranium in their facilities.
Why do you need enriching uranium?
When you were discussing, when you were talking to negotiating with your counterparts, United States and others, to get rid of a thomic program, why are you enriching uranium?
For what reason?
If it's for, let's say, Boucher, you don't need more than 2%, 3%.
There's a nuclear.
They already have that.
They already have it.
And you only need like 3% enriched.
They were at 60% before the attack.
Exactly.
We don't know where they are now, but they still are probably capable of 3% and 4%.
But what I'm saying is even now they're trying to get to the 60%.
If you want to do scientific research, first of all, you don't need hundreds of kilograms, but max, you need 20% enrichment.
Why insisting again on enriching the 60-67%?
So the point is that this regime cannot be trusted.
That we know.
We need to solve the problem once and for all.
I think the world unanimously has reached to that conclusion.
So the question is that- Let me see if I can, are you?
Do you believe that if we, meaning the United States and a significant number of our Western allies, recognized the resistance as legitimate, call for the need for regime change, and said the Iranian resistance is capable of bringing about that regime change and they want to do it on their own.
We support them.
That could happen without attack or military intervention.
I 100% agree with that assessment.
That's my assessment.
That's interesting.
That's absolutely.
But that doesn't mean that we should not keep the pressure on Iran.
I think making sure that they behave, that they don't smuggle.
You know, it's a little, I think, frustrating or difficult.
There's no one within Iran that you can say support that person or support that organization, because the MEK, you could say that, but MEK right now, as far as we can see, and I know they're very present inside Iran, but that's not acknowledged, really.
You can't say, here's Mr. or Mrs. or General so-and-so, and he's inside, and this is the guy running things, which is usually what you need for that final push over there, over the top.
Mayor, that's absolutely a good point.
I can assure you that there are very organized groups that are active.
Hopefully you hear a lot of good news very soon, if you haven't heard already.
There was actually, there were clips showing MEK women on motorcycles having their flags and arm in emblems and whatnot, parading in Iran, in Tehran.
That's number one.
Number two, I think the best probably would be, I think MEK has a very capable leader, Madame Rajavi.
I think why shouldn't we have Madame Rajavi come in the US, talk to the Congress?
Why don't we have her express the views of Iran and resistance in person?
I think that would be a great, great thing.
I know Madame Rajavi has spoken via Zoom to a lot of congressmen, congress people, senators, and so on and so forth.
The 10-point plan is exactly, I was talking to a very dear friend of mine who's a phenomenal scientist.
And I was saying, so what do you think?
He's an Iranian, by the way.
170 patents to his name.
He's all over.
I mean, one many rises from NASA and so on and so forth.
It's phenomenal.
So what do you think about the 10 plan?
He says, Matthew, it's so, when I read this and I read the United States Constitution.
Yeah, it's so similar.
So I've read it and Ted and I have summarized it.
We have it down.
In fact, we'll text you a copy of it.
We tried to get it on one page.
And we worked with Ali Reza and some of the, so we did justice to it because we had to leave a lot, but we wanted to capture the meaning of it because we wanted people to be able to just see it.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, nothing more than 10 words per.
But really, you could almost say to them, it's our U.S. Bill of Rights, plus a few things that would be of particular necessity for Iran, more emphasis on the right of women, because there's been more destruction of the rights of women.
Correct.
So when the constituency was, you know, it's 250 years ago or so.
So it was a different era.
But now, definitely, equality of men and women is a key thing.
Separation of church and state is another thing.
Recognition of ethnic minorities for self-governance.
That's a very important part of giving them equal status, giving ethnic minorities equal status among the citizens and in the government.
Absolutely.
You were just saying it, non-nuclear Iran.
Non-nuclear, non-capital punishment.
Non-capital punishment.
Largely because of the history of Iran, even going back to the Shah, where it abused capital punishment.
So this is why I say, Mayor, you know more than I do about Iran.
And then I'm very pleasant to surprise.
And I salute you for depth of knowledge that you have about Iran.
So this is, I think it's extremely, extremely important that we recognize that.
So that might be, I think, one option.
But I can assure you that the resistance units are very, very organized in Iran.
They have their leadership in Iran, but they cannot, I mean, if you say, okay, Mr. such and such is the leader of the movement inside Iran, while Madame Rajavi is basically the key face of the Iranian resistance.
Well, that's very dangerous.
Of course it's data.
They will be after that pretty soon.
But I'm sure you're going to hear very good news from inside Iran.
That's good.
And we will keep in touch, Doctor.
You've been very, very helpful as usual.
And God bless you.
And I hope very soon we have something to celebrate together, huh?
Absolutely.
I thank you, Mayor.
And again, I salute you for being the support of Iran and Iran and your lifelong work.
God bless you.
As you can see, once again, as the doctor has pointed out, these people are remarkably talented, remarkably intelligent, have thought their way through all of this.
Obviously, I guess it should be this way.
The most difficult thing is just getting to the overthrow.
But the point that I'm trying to make is that'll be as difficult as it always is.
What we're going to find is that after that, things are going to go easier than is usually the case.
Because these people, under Madam Rajavi's leadership, but a wide, wide group, a wide group.
It isn't like any form of dictatorial leadership.
It's participatory, meaning these people participate, they have their own functions, they have their own ideas.
There'll be a wealth of talent to call on that's ready to step forward.
I mean, nobody came forward in Iraq to try to help.
Plus, we threw everybody out.
So you had a combination of both.
We've discussed last week in the length that we should be following the model of the Second World War in terms of the way in which we put things back together or helped put things back together in Japan and in Italy and in Germany.
Not what we did in Iraq, by virtually throwing out everyone that had the vaguest connection to Saddam Hussein.
Because the recognition has to be in a dictatorship, many people follow out of fear.
And a society is not made up of 100% heroes, is it?
And these people, I mean, there have to be many, many people in Iran that at this point are, and it has to be way beyond a majority, that are very much wanting to get rid of this regime of terror, but just are afraid.
They're afraid, and they're afraid to step out, and they're afraid to, they may be working for, they may be driving buses or, I mean, these people have protested, people driving buses.
I picked that as a group, but they've had a protest.
The doctors, the nurses, there are a lot of professionals afraid.
The students that you see there obviously weren't afraid to recognize the 40th day, even though they know that it is not impossible that the IRGC will come in and just mow them down.
You know, we count the dead we can find.
It began very early that we realized a lot more people were being killed because we were getting reports out of Iran that the funeral homes were like a month behind and the doctors were fainting from exhaustion.
So let's see, let's let's we're going to send you over to Dr. Maria very, very shortly in five minutes.
Defense's Standout Performance00:13:16
So let's cover the things we want to make sure that you know about.
You should, the State of the Union will be tomorrow night.
We will cover it.
Over here.
We'll be here.
It starts right at the end of our show.
So we'll be here and we'll do the best we can to give you an idea of what it's going to contain and how to follow it.
And we'll see who shows up and who doesn't.
I mean, I guess it's a little silly and childish to say if they don't want to come to hell with him.
Right.
It sounds, I mean, I really wouldn't miss AOC.
She wants to make a little extra money being a bartender.
That's more power to her.
And she probably won't hurt anybody as much.
Shall we play those goals?
I really do think that that's just about the most uplifting thing we can do.
And hopefully by tomorrow, there isn't any more information on the attacker and just exactly what the heck he was up to.
I mean, it's just assumed he was after Trump and the president, President Trump.
And of course, that probably is absolutely true.
But I don't know.
It was very screwy the way it was done.
Right.
So tell me what we're watching, Ted.
So we're going to start by watching the, well, we'll go through all three goals.
God bless America, by the way.
I'm not closing with that, but I'm just saying it at the beginning this time because, man, if you've got any level of patriotism, even if you don't like hockey, you've got to go crazy watching, seeing those USA jerseys coming down the ice.
And given the fact that that creep in Canada has given us such a hard time, but the Canadian hockey players, they don't, they're not to blame for this.
Right.
So we'll start with the Americans anyway.
Most of them play for American teams.
Right.
A lot more American teams now than Canadian teams.
Moldy.
Crosby, golden goal.
Get over top.
Now K. The Corp over me.
He scores.
Carol McCarr comes to game for Catherine.
Marks up behind the net.
And it's Woretsky.
Now, Jack Hughes, push for Rob McCarr.
United States with numbers.
Watch across it comes.
Jack Hughes wins it.
The golden goal for the United States.
For the first time since the 1980 miracle.
The United States.
Snyder buzz.
Long slap shot.
Saved by Mushkin.
The U.S. team is depending a little bit too much now on Jim Craig.
He's making too many good saves.
A-Rosio!
Oh, I love Brooks' reaction.
Here it is again.
Here's Aruzzioni using the defense, but it's a screen.
A good long shot.
That's just the kind of ball that Eruzioni scored about two weeks ago against the Soviets' Madison Square Garden.
11 seconds.
You've got 10 seconds.
The countdown going on right now.
Morrow.
Five seconds.
And it never gets old.
Well, you know, the two come together now, right?
They fuse together.
I have to say that although obviously the focus would be Aruzzioni with the goal of 10 minutes to go, or Jack used the goal in overtime, you have to give great credit to the defense in both cases.
In the case of the first one, 1980, that was 10 minutes to go.
I mean, how often does a score stay the same with 10 minutes to go with two great hockey teams?
And one of them, the greatest shooting hockey team in the world.
Well, the goalie was Jim Craig, who went on to a great NFL career.
And Jim Craig was not the number one choice to be the goalie on that team.
The number one choice was Brooks' own goalie for the University of Minnesota that won the national championship twice.
And he picked Craig because he thought Craig had Craig had gone through some really personal tragedies.
He had been a great goalie young.
And then he had been a disappointment, I believe at Boston University.
He had been a disappointment.
Hadn't been as great as he should be.
He may have lost a national championship, Greg.
But Brooks felt that he could get more out of him.
That there was behind his recent performances was a lot of depression, a lot of problems.
I think his mother died.
His father had lost his job.
They were in terrible condition.
He was very split about joining the Olympic team because he had the 30 grand offer from the NHL.
Craig did, and he had to give it up.
And his family was virtually starving.
And he said, a guy with all that, look, he said, I'm going to put both of them on the team, but I'm going to start with Craig.
And if he makes it.
And then one point, Craig has a terrible performance against the Russians, the 10.
And he gives him a choice, a staying on the team or leaving.
And he says, but I don't want you staying on the way you are.
I got to see the Jim Craig.
And he mentions the time that I saw coaching against you five years ago.
That's the Jim Craig I got to see.
The guy who turned me down, the guy who spoke back to me, that's the guy I want.
Not what I saw tonight.
And from then on, there's one point at which the Russians had 29 shot on goal.
We had three.
We had three.
And our guy didn't give up an effing goal.
Then, from 10 minutes on, 10 minutes to go, he was basically a sitting duck.
Russians would come down and just shoot at him.
Right.
And of course he had great, he had great, Morrow went on to be a terrific NHL defenseman.
I mean, he had great defenders.
And Aruzzioni was picked because he was the best defensive forward that Herb thought existed in college hockey.
Wow.
Not for a shooting.
I mean, he got the winning goal.
But think about it.
He got the winning goal.
Was 10 minutes to go and if you had him on the ice, you weren't sacrificing anything on defense.
You had the best defensive, the best the best defensive player in now Mcclanahan and were better shooters, although he did get the goal right here.
The, the goalie here who, who was skating around the ice with Um with with uh Jack, and I think Jack probably did this because he realized Jack Hughes looks like he's a heck of a guy, by the way.
Right.
Connor, he'll, I think it's pronounced Healbuck was the goalie.
They gave up only one goal yesterday.
Right.
Both with strong Michigan ties, Mayor.
Yeah, and both are going to be great.
Both are great professionals already and very young.
Hughes looks like he's 22.
He looks like he's about 12.
Right.
Particularly with no T's.
Do we have anything from him that we can close out with about the United States and how great it is to play for the United States in comparison to all those creeps last week who were skiing, who are men?
We're not so sure we want to play.
We don't know.
So many things are going on we disagree with.
Oh, this is so hard on us.
It's so difficult for us to, gee, everybody wants to come to America, but we don't like it all that much.
We're kind of mixed.
Right.
Here's Jack Hughes.
I believe this is actually before the game.
Before the game or after with no T's.
Play anything.
The guy's just an upbeat.
You not only have that as a reminder, you get that as a reminder too.
Did I just show about this game?
I'm lucky I'm from the best country in the world and we got great dentists there too.
So I'm lucky I'm American and they're going to fix me right up.
Standing there listening to the anthem.
What's going through your head?
Just so proud.
I'm so proud to be American.
I'm so proud of this group.
I'm so happy that we could win.
You know, we have so many people here supporting us.
We have so many people back home supporting us.
And, you know, we're just, we're so thrilled with how this whole tournament played out.
And, you know, just an unbelievable moment for you and where the gold medal.
Well, we still have him, huh?
Yeah.
We still have great young Americans and a lot of them because it wasn't just Jack.
Jack is representative of a whole group of American men, American women.
And they make up the majority.
And they're the reasons why we're going to remain the greatest country on earth.
And they showed it and they proved it and they lifted the spirits of an entire country, of those of us who love it, except the left-wingers who were upset that Kash Patel went into the locker room.
Well, do you know that Obama's head of Obama's equivalent, it wasn't the FBI, I guess it was Homeland Security, the head of homeland, went into the locker room for one of the hockey victories.
And I was the chairman of a group of government and private people who went to the representing the United States at the Italian, the first Olympics last time in Italy.
It's quite common for public officials, public figures to be there.
And there's absolutely nothing wrong with the head of the FBI being there and being proud of his country and giving them the sense of how important they are that the head of the FBI will be there.
Now, that's just ridiculous.
It's just totally absurd.
But they, I mean, I got to believe that the Democrats were rooting for Canada.
Not you, Democrats, who are Americans.
And stop being brainwashed and stop voting for them.
They're awful.
They're an embarrassment to you.
They're what they were during the Civil War and before and worse because they're communists now.
I mean, then they were hanging on to immorality and horrible treatment of black people and just terrible things that were going to come to an end just way too long.
Here, they're trying, yeah, they're part of a movement that wants to overthrow us, got rid of God, got rid of parents, and also treats black people like they're slaves the way they put them in basically the servitude of these of these of these very poor cities where they're never allowed to get out.
So thank you, God.
And please pray for the people of Israel.
Pray for the people of Iran.
Pray for the people of Ukraine.
Pray for the people of Venezuela, all the people that are held in bondage.
And pray for us.
Pray for the wisdom of the people of the United States of America, those who seem to make choices that defy decency and give the president the strength that you've given him, which has been remarkable.
Prayers and Hope00:03:27
But he needs your guidance.
So, see you tomorrow night.
Maybe we'll have more details on some of these things.
I'm hoping we do on what happened at Mar-a-Lago.
A little more clarity on Iran.
God bless America and the state of the Union tomorrow night.
We'll be watching.
Just wanna be there.
I can be anything.
I'll be your everything.
Just take me, baby, hurt.
Liftoff!
The final liftoff of Atlantis!
I'm gonna drink my tears tonight.
Cause I know you love me, baby.
I know you love me, baby.
I could be girls who want to be mad.
I could be fair.
I could be anything.
I could be everything.
I could be myself.
I could be anything.
Principle of Common Sense00:02:00
Our purpose is to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
It was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past and see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country, a country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason, we're able to talk, we're able to analyze.