America's Mayor Live (872): President Donald Trump's 2026 State of the Union Address
Rudy Giuliani dissects Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union, highlighting Iran’s PMOI/MEK clashes with the IRGC—100+ fighters killed/arrested, 150+ Muhajin escaping—while accusing Western governments, especially Biden and Obama, of funding Tehran’s regime with $600M+ in cash. He ties Trump’s past threat interpretations to De Niro’s "get rid of" remarks amid a Mar-a-Lago gun incident, then pivots to Trump’s speech invoking Common Sense (1776) as a blueprint for modern freedoms, framing his policies as historically grounded. The episode underscores how Iran’s unrest and U.S. political rhetoric collide over legacy, security, and ideological battles. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight, of course, is the President's State of the Union speech, which will be given in approximately one hour.
The president has teased that it will be very, very long.
We don't know if that's a tease, because then again, he said it will be only a little over a half hour.
And if that's the case, it won't be very, very long.
But we do have some breaking news that's of, I think, great moment.
In some ways, very, very, very, very significant.
We've talked to you, as you know, about the people Mojaddin al-Khalk.
That is the MEK.
It's a group that's been around since before the overthrow of the Shah, played a role in the overthrow of the Shah.
It is largely, largely, largely, largely a political group, but it has a very, very, very, very significant military arm as well that has had great success at various times in and around Iran.
So I will tell you what the breaking news is.
The People Mojaddin Organization of Iran, which is an organized resistance within that country, has clashed with the Islamic IRGC.
And it's done it in a very, very significant and bold place.
It's done it right in front of Ayatollah Khomeini's headquarters in Tehran, resulting so far.
And I have two different reports, one a public report and the other an internal report.
And I'm trying to be careful because although I did speak to them last night, I haven't had a chance to have a conversation right before the show to see what's public and what isn't.
I see John Solomon, my good friend, has done a report on this.
And it also appears in several dispatches.
So I'm going to use that rather than the documents I got from them.
And then I'll go back and compare the two when we take a break and see if there's anything else I can tell you beyond that, okay?
Because there are things that are beyond what has been reported.
But here's where it stands right now.
The People Mojadin Organization of Iran, let's call it the MEK, okay?
That's its name, or PMOI, which is the same thing.
One is English and the other is Farsi.
It's an organized resistance in the country announced today that members clash with the Islamic or Revolutionary Guard Corps.
And they did it at Ayatollah Khomeini's headquarters in Tehran.
It resulted in the arrest of more than 100 of the resistance fighters, meaning the arrest of 100 MEK members or people associated and working with them.
More than 150 of the Muhajin fighters who had participated in the storming of the headquarters were safely returned to their bases.
This is the first indication that I have seen that there are bases inside of Iran by resistance groups, isn't it?
Now, let me correct that.
This is the first reporting I've seen of that.
This is something I've known of for eight to ten years.
The names of the more than 100 fighters who were killed, wounded, or arrested will be released to international human rights organization.
Enemy casualties inside Khomeini's headquarters are reported to be heavy, but of course, there are no precise figures, and of course, they will lie about it, right?
Ambulance traffic in the compound was very, very heavy all throughout Monday.
There appears to be no, absolutely no mainstream reporting on this issue, as is the case in Iran.
They'll be thrown out or they'll be killed, or they are sympathetic with this mass murderer who is a pretty complete rendition of Muhammad.
During protests in Iran last month, as many as 30,000 people were killed, two unnamed senior officials from the Iranian Ministry of Health told Time.
So now we're talking about Time magazine.
The death toll far exceeded 3,170 announced by the regime.
Well, that's a 10-time difference, right?
And in January, the human rights activist news agency said it had confirmed 5,459 deaths and investigating 17,031 more.
And that was just, that was in January.
The media outlet was unable to independently verify any of those figures.
And now here's a report attributed to another news organization.
A few minutes ago, several users reported hearing the sound of explosions in Tehran.
The regime-affiliated Montaz news website said, when it first reported the explosions at 6 a.m. Monday local time,
according to PMOI MEK, simultaneous attacks on Khomeini's residence and the Supreme National Security Council in the Pasteur district of Tehran were later reported by the Arya News Agency.
The IRGC-run Bulletin News wrote at 11:50 p.m. Monday, PMOI MEK, the repeated sounds of explosions last night in the Pasteur Street area, the most secure district of the capital, have raised a serious question among all officials and those concerned about the system.
What has happened to us?
That the enemy now covets the heart of Tehran and dares to reach out toward it.
This is coming from the regime's organ.
Like in America, you know, they don't have a free press.
Under such circumstances, none of us has the right to pass even a single night in comfort, let alone allow the enemy to dare in the most sensitive point of the capital, Pasteur Street, to carry out explosions and gunfire and challenge our devoted forces, the regime's outlet later added.
And that's the story.
That's the story that's been so far reported.
Tedo, look for more reports.
I know there are some later ones.
I'm not sure that we have our hands on them yet, but we will.
We'll get them.
And let me see if what I can come up with here that I can dig out that I'm able to tell you.
First, let me tell you in general, this is an attack of some significance.
It's an attack on the compound in which the Ayatollah is held.
When you go through this, and I will not go through any of the details of it, it's quite a labyrinth.
The interesting part of it is the detail, which reminds you of an MEK-Mossad joint enterprise, which they deny.
They deny doing joint enterprises.
Although going back to the discovery of the first nuclear enhancement in 02 of this century, the MEK was the first to discover Natanz, Fordo.
It wasn't really for three or four years, they were taken seriously.
Now they have been maligned.
They've been called a cult.
They've been called terrorists.
They've been called Clinton listed them as a terrorist, admittedly only to placate Iran, hoping that you could negotiate with them.
Of course, that failed completely.
The MEK has a very, very substantial, easily observable, verifiable, accountable organization outside of Iran.
I've seen most of it.
My colleagues who I am totally confident in, like Torres Elliot Seda Torres Elliot that you saw the other night, or so many others have seen all the rest of it together.
We've can describe the length and breadth of MEK, PMOI, or the NCRI, which is a larger group that brings in other organizations like MEK and is growing very,
very rapidly with the addition of two Kurd major groups in the last several days who are fighting in their part of Iran now as we speak.
Now, you're not hearing any of this.
What I read to you, what I read to you, although it's online, it is published.
You can find it.
You better get it quickly.
Or it could be taken down.
The regime has unbelievably sinister connections with the media.
It's not China.
It's not as controlled as China, but it's a lot more controlled than Russia.
So I don't know where you want to come in on that.
A lot more control than North Korea, a lot more control than maybe the second most in the world.
Maybe, maybe, maybe, maybe.
The command headquarters of POMI announced this on Monday.
And the clashes went on all during the day of Monday with the forces guarding Khomeini's headquarters on Pasteur Street in Tehran.
More than 100 MEK fighters were martyred or arrested.
More than 150 have returned to the base.
Enemy casualties known as the Khomeini compound is known as the Motahari complex.
The casualties are reported to be heavy.
No precise figures are available, but an observation of the ambulance traffic would appear that the casualties are at least as heavy.
The casualties on them are at least as heavy as the casualties they subjected the revolutionaries to.
The streets have been closed throughout the day.
This is a report of about five hours ago.
So, and of course, right now, see if you can give me the exact time in Tehran.
The workplace and residence of 443 in the morning.
Okay.
So, the workplace and residence of Moj Taba Khomeini, who is in charge of security, is son, I believe.
The Guardian Council, the Assembly of Experts, the Assembly of Experts picks the next Shah.
The central office of the Judiciary Chief, who is a complete and absolute judicial tyrannical officer.
The headquarters of the Intelligence Ministry, as well as the Supreme National Security Council and the Expediency Council, are all adjacent to Khomeini's headquarters.
And they're all located in the same Motahari complex.
So, they're all assembled together.
And Khomeini's residence is called Beit al-Azara.
The regime immediately deployed riot control vehicles that were, of course, equipped with machine guns.
They believe that the number of people that are responsible for guarding this whole complex is about 8,000 people.
And the overall commander, the overall commander, is a member of the IRGC.
I think it's a San Mas Rui Far, known as Imami.
Giving Cash Matters00:13:42
So that's, I mean, that's...
And now there goes, there has been provided quite a detailed list of things that until I know that these are safe to publicly disclose.
You've just heard what I believe I can safely disclose.
But the rest of it just gives you the rest of it gives you a certain amount of assurance you're dealing with very, very professional people.
This is not in the hands of, oh, they've never done this before.
This thing has been mapped out, it's been planned out, and it's starting to move.
And they are now attacking directly, not just the IRGC, but the main focus of the IRGC, the Ayatollah.
And with, again, casualties taken and casualties given.
That's a revolution, my friends.
It's a revolution of the people, for the people, and by the people.
We take one second right now and we stop and we deplore violence.
We think violence is terrible and we think the taking of lives is terrible.
But we do believe that this will save lives.
And you're watching something that maybe in your lifetime you'll never get to see again, and that is people laying down their lives for pure freedom, like our forefathers did, and like we may be asked to do someday.
So let's pray for them.
Let's pray for the repose of their soul and let's pray for their success so that they have what God gave us a long time ago, freedom.
Just in your own way, one second, just ask God for help right now.
Thank you.
So where this and how this affects the United States and the decisions that will be made by our president, although it comes as a bit of a shock to the public because we hadn't heard of their military capabilities internally.
First of all, without going into any detail, let me assure you they exist and they exist in some of the most remote places of Iran.
And if this gets started, this will get completed.
You know, I had a very interesting conversation, it would seem to me quite timely now with the professor last night about whether an attack by the United States is necessary.
He did not believe it was.
He believed that all that was necessary is, by the way, I am not discounting this.
He may be absolutely right.
And that is a statement of strong unified support by the West because they haven't had that.
Particularly, the European governments have gone behind their back and done all kinds of business with Iran.
And by the way, please, ladies and gentlemen, understand this.
I'm not speaking ill of the United States outside the United States.
I'm sitting right in the United States.
I'm not like these scumbags, like big hair Newscomb and AOC and go pee on the United States outside the United States.
I'm right here.
I'm right here.
You come and get me, okay?
So the United States, in criticizing Europe for helping Iran and the Ayatollah and the regime of terror, which resulted in the death of very many American young men and women, is probably the biggest offender under the Biden and Obama regimes.
I seriously doubt that England, France, Germany, and those who behind their backs or maybe openly trade with Iran and make it possible for them to keep their people in tyranny and kill Jews and Americans mostly, but Europeans too, is made possible by the connivance of those countries.
But there's one country that's given them the most.
The United States of America under Biden and Obama.
Remember when the Prince was caught with his pants down?
No, I don't mean these reports that are coming out now.
I'm talking about something else.
His pants down, meaning he was giving cash.
Come on, don't be pigs.
Ted's laughing like I'm making some kind of a, you know, on top.
What is it?
An entendre, you call it?
A double entendre.
Well, maybe a single entendre.
We can't get in trouble.
President Trump got in trouble.
You could say this about President Trump.
You cannot say this about President Obama.
Because President Obama, we all know President Obama has special protection because he's a communist.
Is that right?
Is that the reason?
Yes, something about being a Democrat and a communist and a communist and hating America.
If you hate America enough, you can get immune to everything.
So explain to me how he is not in federal prison for the rest of his life, having given cash to the biggest supporter of terrorism in the world.
Not just cash, hundreds of millions of dollars in cash, if not more, to be supplemented by the regular money he gave them.
If you look back on those years, there is no country that gave Iran more money.
Not China, not Russia, not the dopey, horrible, appeasing European countries.
Is it possible?
Is it possible?
In the fullness of history that we will find out that we gave them more money than those countries combined.
Maybe.
Maybe.
It'd be an interesting study.
I'd be sure happy to undertake it if they would give me the resources to do it.
And I wouldn't make a prediction either way.
I'd wait for the result after every penny was counted.
I'd like to know who else was giving him cash.
I mean, was Macron giving him cash?
Was the terrible failure, that kind of overbearing, horrible woman in Germany giving him cash?
I don't know.
Or was it just our little prince giving him cash?
Little princey Obama.
Prince Obama.
And is there a what exactly is the crime of giving cash to a terrorist group?
And now we got to be careful here because I don't know.
I don't know.
I know.
Trump may, believe it or not, Trump may have been the first to designate them a terrorist group.
I mean, I'm not so, I'm not so sure.
I'm not so sure that I'm not so sure that they were a terrorist group at that time.
Well, I tell you, Ted, I think we'll take a short break because we have a bit of an emergency here with a charging port that has water in it.
So we're going to have to, we're going to have to stop and we're going to take this perfect time to do it anyway.
So we'll be right back.
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Tariffs and Their Powers00:09:27
And we're sort of in a bit of a countdown toward the State of the Union speech.
We brought you the news from Tehran.
Right now, as far as we can tell, things in Tehran are quiet.
It is the middle of the night.
Several of our critical people that you've seen on the air have gone off to, we're not sure, outside of the United States headed toward Europe.
So I don't know what I shouldn't say I don't know what's going on.
What I should say is there's a certain amount I can report of what I know what's going on, a certain amount that I can't, and a certain amount I don't know.
So even if I were to tell you everything I know, I still would be left with a question.
So it doesn't really help.
Although I will say it does appear as if for the first time it has been acknowledged that there have been major attacks by the people on the IRGC and that the attacks resulted in 3,000 of those people either dead or captured,
3,500 surviving to fight another day, and significant casualties for the IRGC, which is reported both by the people, the fighters, and by some independent journalists as very significant, although they can't say whether it was almost the same, the same or less, but significant casualties for the IRGC as well.
And the place they were hitting is not some outpost, not some faraway IRGC.
It was the complex that is part of the massive complex within complex within complex within complex that guards one of the most evil men in the world and a guy who models himself after the mass murder and pedophile Muhammad.
Yep.
And I please, I'm reporting that to shock you into awareness of the enemy that we face.
The president has, for the moment, dealt with the tariffs by imposing 15% tariffs.
In most of the places, he has a 10% tariff using a different law, 19 much earlier law.
The court did suggest, go a little too far to say they approved completely, but they certainly suggested he had other alternatives.
This could be a game of, you know, ha ha ha ha, if he did he get the right one.
But he used several different tariff powers so that the flow of the flow of revenue to the United States will not be in any way significantly affected.
If anything, the flow of revenues might be higher.
And as a number of even the left-wing reporters, after they finished reading the complex decision, came to the conclusion, here is one from one of the legal publications, which says, this may not have been the defeat.
In some ways, the defeat, for all its symbolic weight in the dynamic between the two branches of government, was by any means total.
The decision left open the door for Trump to try to reenact his tariffs through other legal authorities.
So will it cause renegotiations?
Yeah, I think it will where people are unhappy.
In other words, if you made a deal and you can get a little benefit or not, one way or the other, the little benefit may result in Trump finding another benefit for himself.
And if you're essentially happy with the deal you made, you're going to stay with it.
If you've been looking for a way out of it, maybe this is a chance to renegotiate.
But I think this is not going to have a massive impact on the tariff revenues, nor do I think the court would be foolish enough to require these revenues to be returned.
The fact is that the president was acting in good faith when he did this.
His interpretation of the Constitution, which allowed him to do this, affirmed by three very responsible judges, is a reasonable interpretation.
It wasn't the one the court decided was the right one, but this is not absolute science here.
Another court at another time could come to 6-3 the other way on this.
So in a situation like that, I don't think you're going to have, you can't say the president acted wrongfully in doing this.
This was a justifiable interpretation of the laws that were in front of him.
Were there more careful ways to do it?
Yes.
But were there ways that would broaden executive power as much?
No.
Was this an attempt not only to get the revenues, but to broaden executive powers for the future?
Yes.
And was it done?
It appears as if by now imposing the 15% tariff without loss of any revenue, answer to that is without the loss of any revenue.
So if there is a loss, there's a theoretical loss in some powers that the president believed he had, he doesn't have.
He has other ways of getting at the same thing, maybe a little more circumvocuous.
Maybe he was happier to do it more directly that way, but he can get to the same or better result.
So the new national security tariffs on a half dozen industries in the wake of the Supreme Court decision will now, I guess, get tested.
But from the language of the language of enough justices, I'm thinking, yes, Because Robertson, Yeah, I think you could put together five on several of these tariffs.
And some are not called tariffs.
Some people call sanctions.
Some of you call fines.
It doesn't matter very much.
They're regulations of regulations of importation.
Which is why the president said under that description, the president has, if he has an emergency, he declares an emergency.
He has full power to regulate commerce in the interest of the United States.
Tariff is one of the devices by which you regulate commerce.
There are 10 others.
Six members of the Supreme Court said, because the tax power is confined only to the only to the Congress and can only be given away with express delegation, meaning they have to say it clearly.
We are giving away the tax power within these parameters.
You can exercise it for two years.
You can exercise it for four years.
You can exercise it between 4 and 20%.
You can exercise it so long as there's a war going on.
They have to put some parameters on it because the power doesn't belong to the executive, but it can be delegated to them.
Because they didn't use the word tariff and just said regulation, regulate international commerce.
It wasn't enough to delegate this very special power of Congress, although it did delegate other powers.
In other statutes, the power to set tariffs is specifically delegated.
And those are some of the ones that he's relying on, plus using other methods.
Live Feed: The Empty Side00:07:13
So do we have and will we have a picture of the floor and see what it looks like right now?
Because I would say by now those who are coming are coming.
And we could get a live feed here.
Maybe we could get a little picture of how empty it is going to be on the bad side of on the evil side.
Did they sit on the same side when they were supporting slavery, ownership of human beings?
Right.
Did the Democrat Party sit on the same side when they were I don't know.
Here's a live feed.
Is that like Democrat side?
If that's the Democrat side and that's the place from which they defended slavery to the death, which they did to the death of six, seven hundred.
You wouldn't want to sit there, would you?
It's a live feed.
Well, the generals don't look busy tonight, so that might be a good sign or a bad sign, depending on what side you're on.
Right.
Well, it looks like the vice president arrived early.
I assume he's not going to tear up the speech.
Right.
Right?
Ian Johnson are having fun.
That's not necessarily a complimentary thing.
Yeah.
Seem to be too worried.
What's interesting when it's a opposing party?
Obviously there's going to be a whole bunch of empties, but it looks rather full, doesn't it?
Yep, we're about 20 minutes away.
They're starting.
Well, they're coming in, they're coming is.
Is that?
Is that where the um?
Is that where our heroes are?
Is that them looks like young people up there, doesn't it?
Uh, a lot of journalist.
That's the journalists area.
Oh, their laptops out.
Are you kidding me?
They're cleaned up.
Did they hit the journalists?
Some of those men have ties on.
These guys haven't worn ties in 35 years.
Yeah, here's another.
Are they?
Are they required?
Uh, ted you you you, you've spent more time with them than I have.
Are they at least required on an occasion like this, these press people to take a shower?
Right, they're required once in a while.
Okay, here's uh I know this is like a iconic thing the president comes in, they all surround him, etc etc.
Don't, don't you think, for the interest of safety, they could make it a cleaner entrance without these people hanging around them?
Yeah, I mean, is it possible?
One of them will be like, uh Brutus, you know a two brute?
Yeah, that's how they did in Caesar.
That's why senators to Kill Caesar right, we got a couple of Republicans.
I don't know, I guess Robney's not there.
They probably have to go through metal detectors too and secure you.
This would be his first right, his first state of the year.
He was at the.
He was at the make-believe State Of The Union last year right, so we're uh, just about less than 20 minutes away.
You can watch this on pretty much every cable news network broadcast online, and you're looking at a live shot of the?
Uh inside the United States Capitol Building the House OF Representatives side uh, because it's much larger and can fit.
But you know uh, there isn't.
I mean, you know the gallery right, the gallery has about.
The gallery obviously, in the House is bigger than the Senate uh, but i'm thinking it has about 10 rows of seats all around.
That's not a lot if you're gonna put in 30 hockey players and they're, I imagine, their uh uh, assistants come in with them, and that must be a a contingent of 50 or so, right?
When you count the coaches and the trainers and the board and the Olympic big shots that run, it may even be 60.
Yeah, they might, and you think a couple of the other Olympic bigwigs would call them a chance to come in.
Right, would want to be in there now.
They also invited the women, but the women didn't come, and the question is, did they take Offense at something the president said about, oh, I better invite the women, otherwise, I'll be impeached.
Which I it's a joke.
It's a joke, yeah.
He has nothing against women.
Gosh, almighty.
He's very excited when they won.
Very, very excited when they won.
So we're just maybe the women's groups are surrounded by those feminist feminists and right.
Well, President Trump, of course.
You know, the Olympics is not totally happy with him because he's put down some very strict rules on males competing in female sports in Los Angeles.
If they're intending to do it, he's not even letting them in the country.
Right.
So we're trying to find some pictures of them at the White House today.
You know, that was soccer must be a toughest sport to the Olympics.
Soccer people, there's no pushing.
Oh, were they there already?
Oh, isn't that nice?
Dr. Maria, would you like to see something really good?
There are terrific pictures of the president.
They're all giving him their medals to wear.
That's cool.
Here we go.
I never thought I'd ever have this up.
These guys were having great fun with him, and he was having great fun with them.
The President's Swing00:03:10
After all, he is an athlete.
The president's golf is at a high enough level so you would easily describe him as an athlete.
The president plays golf so that he could have competed.
You never know until somebody competes where and how he would have ended up.
But you could make the argument that he would have been a professional golfer.
And I've watched him play golf for 30 or 40 years.
And he's even a better senior golfer, I mean, relative than he was a middle-aged or junior golfer.
He's just gotten better and better and better as he plays.
But he sure could have competed for inclusion in the tour.
And I don't think we know the answer because a lot of it depends on how you're playing at that particular time.
But he's somebody in that group of golfers who end up being in the top 1% of 1% that can shoot below par.
So you would have to say he's an athlete.
And do you know that hockey players, by and large, make the best golfers?
Makes sense.
Yep.
Generally, golf teachers will tell you the easiest professional athletes to convert to golf are hockey players because their swing, their slapshot particularly, is much more similar to the golf swing and the baseball swing, which is much more of a jerk swing, meaning you apply strength and power at different parts of the swing.
A lot of batters do.
Most batters do not make a completely uniform swing of the bat.
Whereas in hockey, when you do a slapshot, it's a uniform swing of the club.
Maybe you apply a little more pressure as you As you hit the puck, but not extraordinary.
Whereas in baseball, you are trying to extend an enormous amount of power just at the point of impact.
Now, if slice of mistake in that, and the ball goes off to the left, the ball goes high, the ball goes low.
And that's why in golf, that's what often leads to the slices and the balls that go in the woods and the balls that hit people.
Got to be a powerful swing at a very, very high rate of speed, but the rate of speed has to be within the movement of the body.
You can't be swinging out of your shoes in golf.
Got to be shooting inside your shoes.
You've got to be shooting inside your shoes.
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Robert De Niro got really nasty today.
Do we have any?
Surprise, surprise.
Do we have any?
Do we have any?
Yeah, I mean, I don't understand why.
Does he really think he was the godfather?
Yeah.
That's right.
That's what this guy talks.
He talks tough.
Well, let me look for this one.
What was he going on about today, Mayor?
Well, here's what I'm thinking.
On Saturday at the Democratic Convention in California, some half-wit Democrat politician in California, I think she's the head of the party, Katie Porter, was yelling and screaming to get Trump, to get Trump, to get Trump.
And then Don De Niro, right, is yelling to get rid of Trump, get rid of Trump, get rid of Trump.
Don't they know that on that day, either shortly before, while or during they're making their comments, there's a guy entering Mar-a-Lago with a loaded gun, at least appearing as if he's going to threaten Trump.
We don't know.
He could have been there for somebody else.
But it does show the violence surrounding Trump and that maybe you should keep your stupid mouth shut about getting rid of Trump.
If you want to say you should impeach Trump, okay, you can say that.
You want to impeach Trump.
We understand that.
You're crazy.
You're out of your mind.
We understand the word impeach.
But get rid of is sufficiently ambiguous so that in my day, interpretation of the presidential act making it a crime to threaten a president, you'd be arrested, as would have a lot of these people who ended up making attempts on the president.
I'll tell you who would have been arrested.
That guy Sullivan, who helped to orchestrate January 6th and make it look like it was Republicans who did it.
The day before he did that, he was in front of the Capitol saying, let's take Trump out.
Let's take Trump out.
Let's take Trump out.
Prior to that, he had sent tweets to his Antifa and Black Lives Matter followers saying, let's join on January, at that point, 6th.
They were going to have their original meeting.
Because we got to take Trump out, we can't wait.
Now, you can't wait until the vote, right?
You got to take him out on the 5th of the 6th.
That's a duly elected president still in office.
How are you going to take him out?
And if you did take him out, that's a crime.
And he's advocating for it.
And the Secret Service, when it really cared very much about the lives of the presidents, would arrest everyone like that.
And very often, very often, very often, very often, it turned out to be a stupid person, a dummy just making a comment.
But it had a good effect, right?
First of all, if the person had it somewhere in the back of his head, it kind of knocked it out, right?
It started giving you a base.
So if I said, as I did sometimes, President Reagan is going to Salt Lake City.
The Secret Service, the FBI, and other federal authorities there had a nice list.
It's even pre-computer.
Imagine the computer age, a nice list of people who have threatened the president.
And you check up on them before he comes.
You make sure they're home, they're out of town.
If they're really, you put them in different categories, not so serious, very serious, very, very serious.
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And you keep a watch on them.
Maybe the guy in Butler County would have been on that list.
Maybe, I don't know.
There's a chance if you don't have it, you don't know.
But nobody seems to care anymore.
Maybe they will when they have a Democrat president.
I don't know.
It's terrible, though, that I can say that.
I should not be able to say that about my country.
We're getting real close.
I do want to show just a couple of things because they're so important to America, Ted.
Can we show two people that have been ignored?
And there's no way I want to take anything away from Jack Hughes, except to say that Quinn Hughes scored the winning goal in the game against Norway.
Yes, we're going to play that.
That brought us in.
That's his brother.
So brother must be feeling a little ignored.
But had he not put that goal in, this all mounts up, right?
Or if the other guys hadn't put the goal in, or if the man who made me the MVP, I think.
Three and a half minutes in overtime.
Quinn Hughes Zoos, he scars!
He scores!
Quinn Hughes in overtime wins it!
That's his older brother.
We'll move on!
And he did it without losing his team.
Watch that one more time You're the semis.
Bye-bye.
That's the brother.
Oh, God, the guy's crying.
The goalie's crying.
He made the goalie cry.
That wasn't nice.
Made the goalie cry.
And then, of course.
You see the Kurchuk brothers?
Now that's another team.
The two Kurtzuk brothers.
We love them because they love Trump.
Right.
Missing Secretary, McGuire's Spot00:11:33
Right?
The two Kurtzuk brothers get into fights over Trump.
Now, this is Alyssa Liu, who quit the last Olympics, had a whole big thing trying to get you.
And now look at that.
She was like too nervous.
And gosh almighty.
Show the end again, Ted.
I just want to, can you look at the end, Dr. Mir, can you come and look at the end?
I want you to look at the end and I want you to see if you see any of it at the very end.
You know, this girl was, I guess she had some kind of breakdown at the last one, right?
No.
Yeah, she didn't compete.
Yes, yes.
Yeah, watch.
Fabulous, right?
Well, watch this now.
Is something going wrong there?
No, no, no.
That's part of the deal.
Okay, I just wondered if something about Margaret.
Oh, she's very happy.
That one little part looked a little bit...
It's supposed to be our cheese stuff.
Oh, really?
It looked a little bit off balance.
I don't know.
So she must have known right away she won.
They have certain things they're going to meet.
They put your program in before, so the judges know they'll do a triple after.
I think she was like nine.
So you kind of know.
Yeah, I would say at that point she was relatively certain that she had won.
Right.
I would say I put it that way.
She was relatively certain that she had won.
Is those other boys up there?
Looks like them.
Nope.
That's actually the president's family.
If you notice the first two rows.
I see Eric.
I see Donald.
Yeah.
And that's the entrance where the president will come from.
We are just moments away now.
There's Nicole Mellier.
Oh, Nicole Melbourne from the only Republican in the city of New York, and they're going after her.
They're trying to crooked Democrats are trying to redistrict her out of office because they can't beat her.
Right.
We are just moments away from the president being introduced.
We're checking in with our.
Oh, get my big thing.
I'll knock it down.
You'll gavel us in?
Yeah, I'll give you.
It's in the other room, Dad.
Well, we can do it.
It's bigger than Johnson's.
Johnson wouldn't be able to.
I don't know if Johnson could handle this one.
JD could.
Oh, JD's a big guy.
But wait till you see this.
Wait till you see this one.
This should have.
This will fall apart.
Here he comes.
Here he comes!
Oh, the first lady just walked in.
You want to take a longer picture of this, Dad?
The first lady just walked in.
You want to take a longer picture of this?
Okay.
Hold it up That's not going to make it.
What?
So that you can see that's the president's or children.
We're missing one.
Yeah, I didn't see the president's cabinet.
Okay.
Here comes.
We're going to sign off.
No, I like to sign off and then come back.
We might come back.
We'll see.
Okay, we are going to put it on.
So right now, they've just announced the members of the cabinet.
Just let them come in.
Oh, there's Secretary Rubio.
Secretary Besson.
Secretary Pete Hegseth.
Speaker, you need this.
Here.
Remember.
Attorney General Pam Bondi.
I see Secretary Brooke Rollins, Secretary Bergham.
Secretary Lutnick is there.
This was my keynote speech with the Republican Convention.
That's a huge one.
I got to find that.
I'm surprised it didn't swing off the handle.
That thing, so that that the hammer part is so heavy.
Well, this is big.
Like, imagine swinging that down.
I don't know if we should hammer it down.
You wake up the whole building.
There's Secretary.
So there's Secretary Rubio, Secretary Scott Bessant behind him.
People getting their obligatory selfies.
There's our friend, Rep John McGuire.
Oh, he's ready with his camera.
Look at that.
John McGuire is going to get them all.
He's got a great position to get all the selfies.
There's Secretary Hegseth.
Let's face it.
John is a very, very aggressive guy.
Good.
Aggressive.
Attorney General Pam Bondi.
There's the Attorney General.
Secretary Doug Bergham behind her.
I have a few snacks called pecans.
They're good for you.
See?
Attorney General Bondi going over.
Shaking hands.
Secretary Hag Seth saying hi to all the Supreme Court justices and their.
Is there somebody under a chair when Bondi comes by?
Yeah.
They probably were in the Epstein report.
They like duck away or something.
So maybe they got confused with him and they delivered medicine to their house instead of his.
Secretary Rollins.
Brooke Rollins there.
Saying hi to Representative Chip Roy.
Our friend Rep Maguire.
Check.
You covered this like a baseball game.
This is good.
Yeah.
And there's Secretary Luttnick shaking hands with our friend.
What friend?
John McGuire.
Representative Maguire is right there front and center.
Rep McGuire knows what he's doing.
He's got the right spot.
It's the first lady, Melania Trump, with a very special guest.
We'll have to get his name.
Must be obviously a veteran.
Yeah, but look at our son.
Look how tall he is.
Oh, my.
There's Baron.
Yeah, those are tight.
And you can tell, I mean, those are crammed seating.
I mean, those are tight.
The general's yucking it up with Secretary Hegset.
Attorney General Pam Bondi.
The failure to show the failure to show that the Olympic athletes means they may be brought in specially.
Yeah, I don't think they're there yet.
Ah, they probably drove over with the, you know, you know how the president is.
Well, they were at the White House.
Oh, I know who he is.
He once got me to bring all sorts of people from Pennsylvania all the way to the White House.
Now, I'm not, I don't want to met COVID.
This isn't about me, but if you remember correctly, I predicted that the HUD Secretary, Scott Turner, would be the designated survivor.
I'm yet to see the HUD Secretary.
And why did you pick that?
Thinking about Trump.
I mean, I know.
He's a strong, he's like a strong, healthy man.
I was not going to pick Rubio.
I just thought you should pick the guy that, God forbid, if he had it.
And then there's Duffy.
We thought Duffy might be the guy.
I thought Duffy.
I didn't think I saw him at the White House on the video.
So it's a little bit cheating, I guess.
Oh, and there is Secretary Turner.
I see Scott Turner, so I am wrong.
Secretary Turner is there.
Who are you missing so far?
A lot of them, right?
I've seen Pete.
Secretary Duffy is there.
I've seen Pete.
We've seen Pete.
You've seen Marco.
We saw the attorney's general.
Oh, I didn't see Marco.
I saw the agent.
I saw the agent.
Did you see Marco?
Yes.
So I was.
Heg Seth, Rubio, they're all there.
Lee Zeldon.
I was going to go for Lee Zeldon, but he's there.
There's Susie Wiles, Chief of Staff.
But she wouldn't be.
Here's Christy Noam in front of her.
She wouldn't be on the list.
Christy Noam would be.
There's Kennedy.
Somebody had Kennedy.
It's not him.
RFK Jr. is there.
All of them are there.
He's hugging somebody.
Maybe we got a hug for somebody.
You got to hug for somebody.
The Department of Labor.
We haven't seen the Department of Labor.
Oh that would have been that would have been surprising though.
That would be surprising because her husband is in a scandal, right?
She's kind of the odd one out.
I guess we have larger issues than just that.
So let's see if we see.
So yeah, I haven't seen Secretary Turner shaking hands with Senator.
I mean, there's no significance.
There's no significance at meeting in missing it.
You can see it on television.
And there's a lot of significance if, God forbid, tragedy strikes.
I see Besant.
There's Besant.
Is him?
Yeah.
He's tall.
He stands out.
Well, this is.
Labor is missing.
You're right.
I think Labor's missing.
I haven't seen her.
As they make their way in, there's Chief of Staff Susie Wiles.
She's hugged our friend.
He's housing McGuire.
I saw housing.
Yes, that's Scott Turner.
Okay.
They're all yucking it up with the crowd.
Here we go.
Representative Maguire's got a good spot.
I mean, he's front center.
McGuire's an operator.
He's a good operator.
Good to have a guy like that representing you.
Right.
That's good for the people.
He's going to push me.
They're not going to sit back there and fall asleep.
So now who's walking in?
These don't appear to be staff.
Senior staff.
There's the president's family and invited guests.
Right behind you, you have Don John.
Jared, is you Jared?
Is he Jared?
In the second row, you have Bettina Anderson, Laura Trump, and I saw the person you had mentioned.
Who, Jared?
Jared.
So the spouses were right behind the children.
Oh, no, they're not children.
Did you see Ivanka?
I think I saw Ivanka next to Jared.
Ivanka's right in front of Jared.
In front or next to him?
In front.
Let me rewind it.
With her brothers?
Yes.
Yeah, that would make sense, right?
Right there.
So you have?
Yeah, there's about it.
There she is.
And they're all together.
And then Baron.
And then in between.
And then the first lady.
The first lady with her special guests, a couple of them.
We'll find out who they are.
Elderly gentlemen, I assume, a veteran.
And I suppose that third row must also be the oldest living veteran.
And away up top, if you notice, there's Maria Bartaromo.
No.
Is that her up in the corner?
Oh, you can't see her on your screen.
Sorry.
She's off camera.
I don't see Maria Bartaron.
Oh, there he is.
He's walking in now.
He missed it.
God-Given Common Sense00:06:24
Here he comes.
Here it is.
Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States.
Well, now we're all set to windsor.
We may come on back at the end to make a few concluding comments.
We'll see how long it is.
Let's listen to the President of the United States of America, one of the great ones, Donald J. Trump.
It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
It was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past and see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country, a country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason, we're able to talk, we're able to analyze.