America's Mayor Live (875)—President Trump on Negotiations with Iran: "Not Getting To Right Answer"
President Trump’s team, including Rudy Giuliani and Walid Farris, warns of a potential U.S.-led strike on Iran to cripple the IRGC, risking civil war with 50,000–100,000 protesters killed in recent crackdowns. They link Iran’s Khomeinism to global terrorism—Hezbollah, Houthis, Hamas—and cite its "Death to America" rhetoric while praising ambassadors Charles Kushner and Bill White for confronting European anti-Semitism and far-left threats. Trump’s administration faces legal backlash from 1,800 companies over tariff disputes, with conservative justices blocking refunds tied to his emergency powers. Meanwhile, AI tensions escalate as Anthropic clashes with the Pentagon over military tech restrictions, and coal-dependent AI centers raise energy concerns. The episode frames Paine’s Common Sense as a timeless guide amid today’s geopolitical chaos, where America’s democracy remains unmatched in reducing poverty despite global adversaries. [Automatically generated summary]
This is America's mayor live on Friday, February 27, 2026.
And are we on the verge of an attack?
I would not say war because we don't know what's going to happen.
We don't know.
First of all, we don't know if it is going to happen.
I'm pretty certain it will.
I'll give you my reasons shortly.
But what we don't know is what kind of an attack will it be?
Will it be a very targeted attack intended to take out some of the assets of the IRGC so that it makes it easier to accomplish regime change?
Will it be an attack on the nuclear facilities that either have done some enrichment since the time that they were attacked, or possibly, as the UN says, one of the nuclear facilities apparently they believe is just as active and as full as it's always been.
It was never really hit.
So will that be the target?
Or will it be both?
So I would say that it's going to be both.
There's no point in going through all this if you don't accomplish regime change.
And although the president has, up until the last week or two, been very, very, very careful not to say the word regime change.
He has several times now in the last two weeks that it would be a good thing if there was regime change.
And his language, we'll see what happens.
I think he's we're talking later today.
We'll have some additional talks today.
He's expressed frustration at Iran's refusal to comply with American demands to curb its nuclear program.
They, of course, insist that they have to have nuclear capacity and that they never had any intention to have nuclear weapons.
Now, that's just, you know, that invites an attack, because that's just a straight out, straight out not lie.
You don't need 60, 61, 62% enriched uranium for the peaceful use of nuclear power.
It's like 2%, 3%.
Second, the really telling blow was, first of all, from the very beginning, going back to 2002 when MEK caught them enriching uranium, they were lying to the world about it.
And they continue to lie about it.
And they lied to the UN about it.
And they just recently lied about it.
And finally, they got caught really with what would be the smoking gun when they were caught in parchment with all these below ground facilities to extend substantially their rockets and missiles.
Well, what do you need missiles for that can cross the Atlantic and carry nuclear weapons if you're not going to have nuclear weapons?
What are you going to do?
Take pleasure trips?
I mean, that's the giveaway.
Of course they want to try to develop nuclear weapons.
And the fact that they're lying about it makes it even that much more dangerous.
It shows how irresponsible they are.
Also, their regime has been an insane regime from the day that it start.
It's a version of the Muslim religion, which is defensible based on the Quran, is insane, which tells you that part of the Quran is insane.
Particularly the part about not being friends with Christians and Jews, killing them, killing the infidels.
That's all in the Quran.
And then it's explicated, explained further in what are called the Hadiths, which are the authoritative additional analysis of the Quran, which is somewhat cryptic, not all that cryptic about killing us.
So we're going to have Walid Faraz on later, and I really am interested in his opinion of where things are.
As I said, I'm virtually certain there's going to be an attack.
What I'm not certain about is what kind of an attack.
So I'm anxious to hear someone like Walid and what he has to say about it.
Ted and I have been in very close contact with the MBK people.
And as you know, the MBK pulled off the first actual attack.
And as I said in one of the things we put out yesterday, it really moved with that attack all of a sudden from a protest to a revolution.
The minute you're attacking the dictator's compound and shooting and killing his guards, and they're shooting and killing you, you've got a revolution going on, baby.
This is not a protest anymore.
Those people are engaged in a revolution.
They want to overthrow a regime that has, in the case of the MBK, killed 120,000 of them.
You can't find a person in the MEK or the NCRI, which is related to it, that hasn't been martyred, you know, in the sense of father, mother, daughter, son, cousin, relative, best friend, multiple times.
And then when you go over to the ethnic minorities that the baby Shah is engaged in some kind of very, very self-defeating war with.
I mean, he's basically suggesting that if he were to be put in charge, which would be insane to put him in charge, there'd be a civil war with the Kurds.
Now, he's picking on the wrong people.
I mean, the Kurds are our favorite people.
The Kurds are the people that fought right by our side in Iraq, saved many American lives, unlike the Iranians who killed many Americans.
So let's see what happens.
Before we get to Wali, let's cover a few other things.
There's this big debate going on with the company Antropic.
I don't know if you know the company.
Ted knows it quite well.
Too bad we don't have Stephen on with us because Stephen does have a bit of a contrary view on this, right, Steve?
Stephen is in Tampa and we were talking to him earlier.
So this is the Defense Production Act.
And the military wants to be able to use anatropic for all the lawful purposes that the military can use of AI and whatever other capacities they have.
And a company that refuses to allow that can be penalized under the Defense Production Act.
And they could either be limited in the number of contracts they have.
They can be thrown out completely, and they can also be kind of boycotted in that others can't do business with them.
And the president has taken action against them tonight.
Pete gave him until 5.01 today to basically live up to the contract that they have, which is the military can use their equipment as it sees fit for lawful purposes.
What they are complaining about, whether this is true or not, is mass domestic surveillance.
And they're complaining about autonomous weapons.
Now, I guess autonomous weapons are weapons that are ultimately fired by some remote method, but they're programmed by the military and they expand the capacity of the military by enormous multitudes.
So I don't see why the military would cave into them on this and would want to throw them out and substitute somebody else that's going to allow them to do that.
And who's that guy you put Mayor Rudy Giuliani?
Who's that guy right there?
That is the CEO of Anthropic.
Are you kidding?
And this is the president's comments.
Nope.
I might have to make that a little bit smaller.
We'll bring that up later.
It kind of cuts off the comments, but the president kind of lays out why we're currently dealing while he's cutting off.
Yeah, it was interesting that the president got involved because this was with Pete for the longest time.
I mean, he's been having a hell of a time with them.
Pete Hegset has been having a hell of a time with them.
And I don't know much about it.
I don't use it, right?
Nope, we don't use it.
Is there a reason we don't use it, Ted?
I mean, I.
It's not for what we do.
It's not a chat.
It's different than what we do.
What is it for?
Government.
So what we're doing.
Well, can you get it?
I mean, can you get Antropic?
Oh, look.
I actually don't.
I don't know.
I wonder.
I mean, does it have any civilian capacity?
And it has something called the Cord models.
And they don't want their Cord models used for domestic surveillance or what they call mass domestic surveillance.
It's an AI safety and research company that's building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Well, that sounds like a bunch of hocus-pogus.
Of course, not reliable.
What are they going to say?
We're building not reliable.
We're not building reliable systems.
Right.
So anything more on them?
Oh, so the president came out.
So just to kind of give folks an idea on what's going on here, the president has ordered United States agencies to stop using Anthropic after a standoff with the Pentagon.
The company had clashed with the military over how officials wanted to use the AI model.
And it's being reported that this could complicate ongoing intelligence analysis and defense work.
This, again, President Trump wrote on True Social that Anthropic is a radical left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real world is all about.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegset designated the company a supply chain risk to national security.
The label means no contractor or supplier that works with the military can do business with Anthropic.
Well, it's a pretty good shot at them.
Yep, so they're coming down hard against it.
No, for days, Anthropic and the Pentagon had been locked in an escalating battle over how the cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology could be used and how it could aid military operations.
The Pentagon wanted Anthropic to provide unfettered access to its AI systems without specific what's being described as safeguards that the company wanted.
Negotiations continue through Friday, but there appeared to be little urgency from the Silicon Valley Company to reach a deal.
So the president's comments coming out against Anthropic did take Anthropic officials by surprise.
They didn't think he was going to back a Secretary of War.
They don't know him.
Well, they're clearly making a mistake trying to strong arm the Pentagon.
I don't know.
I think some of these tech guys they have such big heads, right?
Oh, are they left-wing yo-yos?
Now, that look, I mean, I would just, I'm willing to, if they're connected to Claude, then there is evidence that the AI model is among the left-wing models.
Claude is something we could use.
That's kind of like the consumer-facing app, kind of like GPT, right?
That's what they don't want them to use.
Right.
They don't want them to use Claude.
Yes.
Well, they, and it seems like the standoff is Anthropic wants to keep up certain safeguards with the AI systems that they want to have control over.
When the Pentagon, you know, the Department of War is saying, no, you're a private company.
You will have no say on what we end up doing with this technology.
That's, you know, once that, so this we'll see where this goes.
But as of tonight at 5 p.m., government agencies are not to use this AI model.
So, so a whole group of companies, 1,800 companies, have already filed lawsuits seeking refunds for their tariffs that John Roberts is making available to them.
Thank you, John Roberts, and costing the taxpayers billions of $130 billion that has to be given back based on petty fogging over the meaning of the word tariff.
The president can, for emergency purposes, regulate importation of items into the United States.
And that's not that regulation does not include the power of leveling taxes or tariffs.
Well, how else is he going to do it?
Like take it, do I guess, you know what he could do, Ted?
He could do like a Boston cheap party.
Right.
When they send stuff in, he can throw it in the ocean.
Right.
That would be okay.
Right.
And I don't understand, Roberts, because Roberts, like me, is a strong believer, intellectually honest believer, that over the course of time, the power of the executive has been whittled down by Congress.
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And that the Constitutional Convention was quite clear, even though they had an argument that we wanted a strong executive.
Right.
And that there were quite a number of debates about it.
And they voted on it and they wanted a strong executive.
Now, when you say that, that has to be read into how you interpret.
So if you're saying President gets to declare an emergency.
He did.
And if you don't think our balance of payments isn't an emergency, well, I mean, that's heading us for bankruptcy.
So if we were a private company, we'd be in bankruptcy.
So now he gets to regulate commerce.
Well, call it a tariff, call it a tax, call it a sanction, call it a financial imposition.
The only other way to do it is physically keep it out.
How do you regulate it?
So when they gave him the power to regulate, it carries along with it what normally is regarded as how you regulate commerce.
And one of the ways you regulate it is to put financial burdens on it.
Right.
So that's what three justices said.
And then six, three, three liberal justices who just voted against because it was Trump.
So I'm not even paying attention to that.
I don't get the three conservatives because it's inconsistent with their otherwise interpretation of executive power.
You know, Ted, this is a very, very good thing they're doing.
AI centers, the new ones that are going to be built, the president and 13 governors have gotten together and say, you've got to bring your own power.
If you want to build an AI center, you can't be taken from the grid because if you do, there ain't going to be no grid left.
It takes so much power, right?
So you're going to have to bring your own generator, which means this, and there are, and I'm very familiar with one in great detail, but there are some very, very good solutions to this where you can generate a tremendous amount of power privately because you got to pay for it.
So instead of paying the fees to the public utility, you bring in your own, you build a generator.
You build a generator that can be as effective, maybe even more effective than the public generator.
That makes sense.
There's got to be some appetite.
And the only way we're going to get there, a lot of people feel that the real battle between us and China is who can produce more energy.
We know who can be more creative.
We know who can steal better.
What we need to know is who's going to be able to create more energy.
Now, they'll use coal.
And they are.
They are using coal.
They have all this stuff about how they've like quadrupled their production of coal over the last year so that they can do these AI centers and major computers and quantum computers.
I mean, they'll do anything.
They'll burn people if they have to, right?
I mean, they take their organs out.
Why not burn them?
I mean, these are savages, the communists.
Absolute savages.
Is Walid with us now or shall we take a break before?
We are still waiting for him.
We can take a break.
Why don't we take a break so then we would have some free time?
Yeah, we'll have a free run.
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Oh, my goodness.
Look at these.
My goodness, you're going to want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's coffee.
This is Rudy Giuliani back with you aboard the USS Ford.
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I wish I was.
My uncle, same name, Rudy Giuliani, was a gunner on an aircraft carrier.
He used to hang out over the sides.
And one time in the Pacific, he was knocked into the Pacific Ocean and missing food.
Two days, three days.
Thought he was gone.
Possibly it happened twice.
I know for sure once.
So we have with us, everyone knows Walid Farris, who's one of the really superior experts on the Middle East and the world in general.
Are we on the brink of an attack, Walid?
It seems like we are.
And the only question is now.
How big is it going to be?
What's going to be the strategy?
I think, I think.
He got his briefing today from Admiral Cooper.
You know, he's given every signal that he's going to do it.
But what I wanted to know, do you think that, and what do you think the purpose of it will be?
I mean, how will they execute it?
One day, two days, three days?
What are their targets?
Really, these are the questions of the night, not even the day.
And we are on the brink of something, which is the end of the Islamic regime maneuvering with our president.
They have been lying and lying and lying.
They lied to him, to the envoys, to the people they, you know, what we call the brokers between them and us.
So I think we are at the end of that world, that phase.
And I think, and you know better, that our president understood again, especially when they started to do something, which is to threaten him.
So they are negotiating and then they issue threats and then their social media is issuing threats.
And then there is another thing that probably prompted him to change the direction, which is they will say, quote unquote, oh, he won't have much time.
So we're asking, what is it?
What do you mean by that?
And what not the top leaders, but they are saying, well, there are going to be a lot of problems inside the United States.
This is going to be the midterm.
They're going to be a globalized antifire.
They're going to be all those legal things.
They hope somehow their fantasy is that in two months from now, three months from now, there are going to be a lot of problems here.
And maybe what's happening in Mexico in their vision would happen here in terms of all these cartels.
So, based on this, the real weapon is to lie and to wait to wait us going into problems.
But that's not the plan of Donald Trump.
He has assembled with perfection these huge task forces, one coming from the Indian Ocean, into it.
Have you ever seen any?
I guess maybe, I guess, maybe the first Gulf war.
I don't, I don't think the first Gulf six months, Mayor.
The Gulf, you and I remember it was the you know, the days I came to this country 34 years ago, something not with that size naval-wise.
Yes, yes, it was what, four or five hundred thousand troops, but it was a massive countries, yeah, yeah.
And something very important also is that the means that we have today, including the visual mean that we have, are by far very superior to what happened.
This is really the biggest post-Cold War ensemblement of military power.
Yeah, it is present-age military power.
I don't think when it unveils and it happens, we would never have really seen anything like this before.
Much like the bunker busters were really shocking that they were able to go down that far and it was so surgical.
You know what I also found unbelievable was when they took out, and it was the Israelis who did this, when they took out the apartment, the apartment, a complex, the apartment unit.
So, you'll see a big apartment building, and then you'll see two windows knocked out, and that's where the scientist was, and everybody else is okay.
That indicates unbelievable drone penetration, unbelievable intelligence, and unbelievable execution.
No, totally surgical.
Yeah, I mean, let your audience just imagine what the Israelis were able to do, this precision, what they've done to Hezbollah, what they've done to Hamas, what they've done to even the militias of Yemen, the Houthis, and then the Hashid.
Imagine that coupled with our mega power.
So, the United States and Israel together, of course, they can change the regime from the air.
If we have on the ground a population, which now, the difference between now and the 12-day war, 50,000 people killed, you can't have German infantry as gonna, I don't want to say bad words, but they're gonna go and then remove these institutions.
So, yes, any action taken by the president, even if in the beginning it's a small one, that's the beginning.
That's the tip of the iceberg.
I would imagine that they're going to take it, would seem to me you'd want to degrade the IRGC, you'd want you'd want to take out, you'd want to take out as many of their facilities as you could find, as many of their people as you can find.
Yeah, the less IRGC, the easier it is for the protesters, revolutionaries, the people in the street, absolutely.
And it seems that they're even if they're not armed in the same capacity as the IRG, it seems like they're armed.
They are fighting, they are fighting, but they are beginning to fight back now.
So, they are.
If you allow me one thing, you and I discussed it actually last time and last year when we had our first podcast.
Basically, when they target the IRGC, that's the only army that is really under the orders of Khamine because the old army known as Artesh is an army that did not uprise against him, but it's an army that would go into the streets if the IRGC goes down.
So we have infantry on the ground.
We have those old units, so on and so forth.
The second militia are the besieged.
I call them the lower SS, lower SS.
They are the ones who go to the homes.
They are the ones who shoot people and girls.
They love shooting girls.
I don't know, in their eyes.
Yeah, they are sick at one point in time.
But that militia, once the big SS is going down, that's what the Israelis tried to do at the end of the 12-day war.
And we have all the maps, we have all the information.
We don't need anything.
We have it.
But once the big militia is going down, I'm expecting, I'm projecting, Mayor, that a large number of the besieged will be afraid, will be scared, will start to leave, will start to drop their weapons.
And this is where the population is going to go and grab those weapons and go into the police stations.
I'm expecting that a majority of the police stations, usually that's what happened worldwide, will turn with the, you know, with the population against the regime.
I think, do you get that?
I mean, I get the sense that it's pretty pervasive, the dissatisfaction or way beyond dissatisfaction, the disgust with the regime.
They have to have had enough all throughout.
And the thing that's amazing is how they had protests in just about every city.
And Iran's a big country.
Oh, yeah.
It's not even a diverse country.
Oh, my goodness, very diverse.
Looks like us here.
But I mean, just imagine, Mayor, that they lost.
The Iranians say the population say maybe up to 100,000.
Some of the NGOs say maybe 40,000.
I think the president thinks that they lost about at least 50 and 100,000 in jails and another 100,000 injured.
Wow.
If you look at it from an American perspective, if they lost 50, it means that we would have lost 50,000 in two days.
That's a nuclear explosion.
So, you know, if we want to remove that regime, because they have used an equivalent to a nuclear explosion killing 50,000, in America, it's 150,000.
And that has to have a really unbelievable effect within the society.
It means almost everybody's affected.
When you hit that many people, and it was done all over the country, you're going to have a major reaction to it.
That's really cracking down on them and pushing them very, very far.
Yeah.
And I think that.
Yeah, I'm trying to say that even at the end of the Cold War, when these famous European democratic revolutions started, the most bloodiest one in Hungary, no, in Romania, was Ceaușescu.
There were 4,000 people killed, 4,000.
And then in Poland, nothing.
In Czechoslovakia, maybe two, an accident.
We're talking about 50,000.
That's almost 40%.
Yeah, I mean, they killed 4,000 in the first half hour.
Yeah, in the first half hour.
Yeah, this is unbelievable.
So a lot of the killings take place on the street as opposed to formal executions.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Most of them, Mayor, most of the killings were machine guns.
It's like in these horrible movies, right?
And the demonstrations coming to them and they will mow them down.
That's probably 80% of the killings.
And then targeted killings going into houses, into schools, into et cetera.
But what is stunning is the fact how many young people were targeted, how many females.
I'm waiting for the final numbers.
It means that the criminality of that regime has gone through the roof.
Yeah.
For me, it is very hard to understand how we tolerated it for so long.
Going back to the Marine barracks and Solomon.
I heard the explosion of the Marine Barracks.
I used to live in Beirut, 1983.
Wow.
Yes.
It was six o'clock in the morning.
There were two explosions.
One was the Marine Barracks.
And maybe about 20 seconds after one minute, the French Rangers as well were targeted.
I ran to the roof.
It was too short.
And I ran to another, up to another roof, and I looked south of us.
I was in East Beirut, and this was happening in West Beirut, where the control of the Palestinians before in Hezbollah.
And I saw smoke going up.
That was my first encounter with Iranian terrorism.
Gosh, you're an unbelievable resource, Wali.
How much responsibility does the regime, I call them the regime of terror, how much responsibility does the regime of terror have to the horrible things that happen in Lebanon?
Oh, 100%, at least in the 80s.
They were born in 79.
That's the first time I had published a small book.
79.
I was still at law school.
And my prediction was the way I read their ideology.
I have an older brother who also, you know, we do analysis together.
We were at the dining room and then we heard machine guns.
This was like the precursors of Hezbollah, the PLO.
They were all very happy because now a major country turned jihadist.
So my brother told me they're going to be here for decades, Wali, decades.
So they were responsible for the major networks of terrorism in the Middle East, in addition to our beloved Muslim Brotherhood, who have the other wing, like Hamas, al-Qaeda, Ansar, but the Islamic Rehuman in Iran has the biggest.
And the Sunni-Shia division didn't really stop it, right?
They spread out beyond Shia.
I'm talking about beyond.
I'm talking about the Iranians.
Oh, yeah, the Iran regime.
I mean, the regime installed the Khomeinis.
That's their name, the Khomeinis.
They were the ones to invent, you know, both isles of the jihadists coming together.
They had many Sunnis with them in Beirut, in Syria, and elsewhere.
And the Ikhwan, my goodness, they also learned from them so they could also mobilize Shia and Ismaili and others.
So these are the two, you know, we call them the two monsters of jihadism or dragons.
Dragons is better of jihadism.
That's what we are facing in the Middle East right now.
I mean, it was part of the empire they wanted to create, right?
Across the Middle East, and then to Syria.
Yeah.
I mean, they had names.
They have names, Mayor.
After we pulled out of Iraq and couldn't get a status of forces agreement, they literally for a long time were running Iraq.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I mean, they have divided, you know, remember the Yalta agreement at the end of World War II between the Soviets and the Americans on how to divide everything after the Nazis are down.
So they had their own Yalta agreement in Khartoum in 1992.
I was beginning to write my PhD dissertation and was reading these minutes.
I said, what?
Where were you?
Where were you?
University of Miami.
I was in Miami.
That was my couple first years as an American.
You had come from Lebanon.
Yes, I landed here on October 4th, 1990.
And by 1991, I was doing my PhD dissipation in political science.
And I was devouring and reading everything coming from the region.
And I started my journey here to educate and inform the American public because we know that the final battle is going to be with America.
Imagine if there is no America.
There is nothing out there.
There's no free world.
Yes, yes.
Of course, it's the final battle.
And he makes it so clear with that death to Israel, death to America.
I mean, they never failed to put America into it.
Never failed.
Before America was even interested in them, I used to hear, of course, the Arabic version.
Death to America.
Death to America.
I said, you never had a war with America before.
Why are you threatening America?
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Ah, the infidels.
These are the kufar.
These are the infidels.
And the Khomeinist model in Iran had a different name.
The Salafi Sunni model is basically the caliphate.
We're familiar.
But the other side, they call it the Imamate.
You know why?
Because they are waiting for an absent Imam who, according to their ideology, is going to re-emerge from beyond the horizon and come to rule the Khomeinist.
That's a Shia belief.
That is an offshoot of the Shia that now is controlling the largest Shia country, which is Iran.
But there are many Shia who are against them.
Of course, many Sunnis who are against them.
Of course, we know the UAE and Saudi Arabia and Egypt under CC, they were all resistance against the brotherhood.
Although sometimes they fight against each other, but that's not the issue.
The same for the Shia.
You have a lot of liberal Shias, liberal in the sense of anti-shihadists.
But Khomeinism emanated from the Islamists of the Shia side.
And that's a government in Iran, in Iraq, in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is, and in Yemen with the Houthis.
They're very, very helpful.
Thank you very much, Waleed.
You know, am I being too optimistic if I say if we eliminate the Ayatollah, we eliminate this regime, the chances for peace in the Middle East become much more realistic and really possible.
First of all, half of the battle with the jihadists will be over.
And that half, which is controlled by Iran, will become our ally.
Imagine a nation of 90 million with all these resources becoming the allies of Donald Trump.
Just imagine that.
That'd be crazy.
I'm going to say a prayer for that, my friend.
I love this aircraft carrier behind you.
Isn't that nice?
I have it right there.
It's like you're going with them.
We're all going with them.
It's the greatest warship ever created on this earth.
And, you know, I don't like war.
I don't like killing.
But this will, I keep thinking when I go back to the hostages and the Marines.
Had this been done earlier, a lot of people would be alive today that are.
But it's got to be a lot of people.
You know, when I'll see you in a few days and have a cappuccino, maybe the world would have already started.
Oh, my goodness, isn't that unbelievable?
Maybe we'll go to Tehran together.
Maybe.
Special plane with somebody very important.
Yeah.
Well, thank you very much, Wali.
Thank you, Mayor.
God bless you.
God bless you.
You're such a resource and you're so valuable.
God bless you.
Thank you.
That kind of knowledge, you can't.
History is so important to these decisions and making them right and shaping them in the right way.
And history is important to the battle.
It's also important to the peace after.
And When we have both right, we get an excellent result, like we did after the Second World War.
And when we have it all screwed up, we win the war and we lose the peace, which is essentially kind of what happened in Iraq, kind of what happened in Afghanistan.
Don't know that we lost, but maybe we did.
I'm very, very proud of two American ambassadors, and they both happen to be friends of mine.
Really proud of them.
And they made the Wall Street Journal today, Ted.
I saw that.
And they are kicking this shit out of the woke Europeans.
That's what they're doing.
Okay, excuse the language.
One of them is Charles Kushner, the father of Jared, who was a friend of mine before I knew Jarrett.
And yes, a Democrat, but a Democrat who supported me when I was mayor.
And a good friend and a man who was treated horribly.
He is the ambassador to Paris, France.
And he posted on, I think X, a message that the killing of a far-right activist this month in Lyon showed how the far left was a threat to public order.
Now, you want to see how far left the government of France is, like hanging off the cliff and headed to Red China?
The French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barault, summoned Kushner to a meeting in protest.
In breach of diplomatic protocol, Kushner didn't show up.
Like, screw you, you left-wing communist swine.
He didn't say that, but I bet he was thinking it.
Oh, the Frenchies went crazy!
He also happens to be Jewish.
And you know the French are they?
Semitic as hell.
Well, what do you think?
The Dreyfus affair.
You want to read a little history, boys?
Yeah, yeah.
They didn't cave into the Nazis pretty damn quick.
Oh, yes, come and take.
Now, did they have a great resistance?
You're damn right they did.
And you want to go into the countryside of France and you'll find the nicest, bravest people possible.
You go to Paris and, oh, yeah.
Go to Paris.
See if you see a Frenchman there anymore.
See if you see a French woman.
Maybe you do, but they all have like rags over their face.
People used to, young men used to go to Paris to look at the beautiful women in Paris.
They may still be beautiful women embarrassed, but they all have rags over their face now.
You can't tell.
When they first were giving out masks, you know, during COVID, I thought it was just going to be given to the ugly girls.
That's what I thought it was for.
And then when they kept wearing it afterwards, I would say, what are you ugly or something?
Why don't you take the damn mask off?
It doesn't do any good anyway.
You're probably getting more germs by having the damn mask on and sniffling in it than you do from COVID, which turned out to be right.
As Trump says, I was right about everything.
That's right.
Right?
You certainly were.
So the other one, the other one is also a good friend.
Bill White, who used to be in charge of the Intrepid right here in New York, and ran a restaurant in New York and owned a restaurant in New York.
He's our real pal of mine, a very, very loyal Republican and a very bright guy.
He's the ambassador to Belgium.
Well, he got them all upset.
And What did old Bill do?
He accused the government of anti-Semitism.
You know why?
They're trying to stop moles.
Moils, moils.
You know what Moyles are?
Moils are the religious people who do circumcisions.
they only been doing it for 3000 years or when circumcision, I'm actually, I just read the passage that the, the, the first mention of circumcision in the, in the Bible the other night I'm going.
I'm going through a program of reading the entire Bible over the next year.
And I am just finished the book of Exodus and the instructional material with it.
And I think I'm on schedule.
It seems to me I must be a little bit back.
I'm going to have to catch up a little because I missed a week.
Are you following the church calendar?
No, no, no.
I'm following the, I'm following the calendar of the.
Yeah.
Why don't you go get it for me?
Sure.
It's sitting next to my.
I have two of them, the St. Ignatius one, and the big fat one is the St. Ignatius one.
And the little skinny one is a little easier, but the big fat one, sometimes you have to go to to get like really, really good explanations.
I really wanted a very, very good, detailed explanation of the Ark of the Covenant.
Exactly what is that?
And I had to go to the St. Ignatius Bible for that.
I recommend it.
Whether you're religious or not, it's a great.
No, no, no, no.
That's a missile.
Missile.
That's for Sunday.
Second week of Lent this Sunday.
So Bill, Bill is, Bill is accusing them must drop the ridiculous and anti-Semitic persecution now of three Jewish religious figures, moils, in Antwerp.
We got Moils in New York.
I've been to any number of circumcisions of my Jewish friends' children.
Not that I look.
If you can, first time you see it, you're going to faint.
This is the one that I use most often.
This is not the big one.
This is the Great Adventure Bible.
And it has a course here on one year of reading the Bible.
And it gives you what to read every day.
And it takes you through them in order.
And then it gives you like Psalms and Proverbs to read along with the historical books.
And why I do this is when I was in college, the first year of college, I took a course on ancient history.
And the professor, whose name I remember to this day, Professor Hazeldine, Harry Hazeldine, gave out a mime.
They used to have mimeograph machines then.
I remember it was blue.
And it had all of the books and sections of the Bible that he regarded as history.
And I would say that made up about a third of the Old Testament.
Like we didn't read the Psalms and we didn't read the Proverbs and we read the history.
And he would say, as a classical historian, that although this isn't history per se, neither is most history history per se.
But it's a pretty darn good uh, uh indication of the way people lived and what happened uh, and how it happened.
So i'm up to now, let's see.
I'm up to day 51.
So let's see.
I guess i'm a little behind, right?
So we've had 30, 31 days, five.
So I should be at, I should actually be at 58, Ted.
So I'm a little behind, so I'm going to have to catch up.
Okay.
Well, I can catch up.
It's only Federal Project.
But then again, no, no, you don't want to rush through this.
It really is.
It really, having read the Bible before, and also as a history, but having read it in theology, I'm not unfamiliar with it.
But a lot of it you don't remember really in the detail that you should.
And I do think the translations are considerably better.
And also the debates about the translations are presented to you.
So if there's a word that has three meanings and the Catholics apply one and the Protestants apply another and the Jews apply a third one, they'll give you all three.
And you can almost see why the interpretation comes out that way.
And of course, I use a Catholic version, but the other one, which is the bigger one, which Ted would get a hernia if he brought that one out here.
It's like this big.
That one really gives you everybody's interpretation of it.
I recommend reading the Bible either that way or whatever appeals to you.
I've always found, even when I didn't go through a disciplined reading of the Bible, I've always found it enormously comforting and helpful to read the Psalms.
I think they're the most beautiful poems ever written, supposedly written by King David.
And the poetry of them, particularly in a good translation, is, oh my gosh, this is amazing.
It's amazing.
Fabulous.
And of course, a lot of them have been put to music by some of the greatest composers ever.
And I'm a tremendous lover of music.
So I got to know the Psalms that way, even more than I did reading them.
So Bill is basically saying, you keep your hands off the Moyles, huh?
Hey, by the way, if the Moyles decided to rebel, they decided to do non-consensual circumcisions, you'd be in a lot of trouble.
The attack of the Moyles.
Pivre Pivre Incident00:08:38
After the dust-up between Kushner and the French foreign ministry, Barreau said he would no longer be allowed to meet with government officials.
Gee, that must be a break, Charlie.
You don't have to meet with those French.
You're pronouncing it incorrectly.
You don't say, you don't say.
They're accent- You don't say povra, povra, you don't say povra, povra.
You know what I started to do to them?
Like when they pronounce English, they screw it up, you know.
I take you to the, I take you to the hotel, hotel.
No, no, not hotel, Man, did they get upset?
They do that to you.
You know, they do that crap where if you get the word a little off, Not puvre, puvre, puvre, puvre.
So they have terrible accents.
Hotel, hotel, I'll take you to hotel.
Uh-uh.
You got to take me to the hotel.
Got to train these Parisians to be human.
Well, I mean, they're not even Parisians anymore.
They're going to be Muslims pretty soon.
I met another group of people today that are predicting that London is going to be Muslim in 10 years.
It's scary.
We love Donald J. Trump, correct?
Absolutely.
He's a great president, correct?
One of the best.
What the hell is he doing with Mamdani?
What are you doing with that guy?
I don't get it, my friend.
This guy should be put in the trash can.
He is a Islamic, loving, he's a lover of Islamic terrorists.
Let's put it that way.
He supports them.
His old man supported them.
He hates Jews.
He's a vicious, vicious anti-Semitic pig.
And he's a communist, anti-American hater of the police.
I get politics, but this guy is not, you know, this isn't Jack Kennedy and Speaker O'Neill, you know, two Irish Catholics having a drink and loving America.
That guy hates America.
I don't get it.
Meanwhile, meanwhile, he's lying his backside off about the people who threw the snowballs at the police.
Now, is this a small incident in comparison to the other things that he tolerates?
First of all, you should know that 19 people died because that son of a bitch wouldn't take them off the street.
Now, for that, he doesn't get forgiven by me ever, having been a mayor who probably did the best job with homelessness of any mayor in the history of New York by being by applying tough love.
Because I love them.
I treated them like I would treat my brother.
If my brother were lying on the street, jackass communist pig, I wouldn't let him lay there.
Because I realize if you want to lay on the street, there's something wrong with you.
You're crying out for help.
I wrote an op-ed piece a while back.
When I drive down the streets of cities and I see lots of homeless people, I know they have a hateful mayor.
They have a mayor who hates people.
They have a mayor without a conscience, without a soul, and without any emotion.
I couldn't do that.
If it were my city and I saw all these people on the street, it could be one o'clock in the morning.
I'm coming home from something.
We have a meeting at Gracie Mansion and we say, what are we doing about this?
And not only that, I had a staff that was even more.
One of my closest friends and my chiefest, my chief counsel, Dennison Young, who's since departed, used to come in every morning and three homeless people where let's get them off.
I'd say, Denny, have you called?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
He said, I'm going to go back and check later.
It's a shame they shouldn't be.
Now, we didn't just do it when it got to be freezing cold.
Now, what we're talking about here is a, and Donald Trump is very aware of this, having lived in New York.
This is time honored.
I think it goes back to Koch.
It may go back before Koch, the May.
And this is, when it gets freezing, you take them off the streets, despite the liberal bullshit that they have a right to live on the streets.
They have no right to live on the streets.
There is no right in the United States Constitution that allows you to live on the streets, that allows you to defecate and urinate on the streets.
There is no such thing as that.
It doesn't exist.
I mean, it went away with the plague in the Dark Ages.
Among other things, it's anti-hygienic and would create horrible, horrible problems if it were carried out to the letter.
So when it got to be near freezing, even in this ridiculously stupid liberal city that I lived in, even some of the most ridiculously stupid mayors that I lived under would go out and collect the poor, homeless people.
And if they didn't want to come and it was approaching 32 degrees or 30 degrees or 28 or 10 or 5, you take them in.
You take them in.
And really, yeah, it was never any problem.
We never had, I don't remember one ever having to be harmed.
They almost, they say no, and many of them want you to do it.
So we would take them in and keep them alive.
And we would, and I would try very, very hard.
This idea of sending out social workers to do this.
I did that, except I sent them out with cops.
I don't want the social worker to get killed.
This guy's going to send in social workers to a domestic violence dispute because among other things, he's a stupid little child who's had no experience.
I just talked, cops wouldn't talk to him.
I'd be afraid to talk to him, that he'd get them fired or something if they said the wrong thing.
I mean, so a street cop is going to tell you, I think, because my uncles all did and watch the cops.
The most dangerous thing they have to do is go in on a domestic call because it's very violent and the woman turns on you because it's a sickness.
And you got to study it and you got to learn it.
And I did.
I read right the year before or the year I was running for mayor, or maybe the year before, a treatise came out on domestic violence and how to deal with it.
And I dedicated myself to it and my administration to it.
And we had tremendous success in reducing domestic violence and in building shelters because a lot of it has to be an option for the woman of a place to go if she cooperates in getting this bum arrested who's beating the hell out of her.
Because what happens is it's both the psychological effect of being submissive and being beaten down.
And it's also fear that the guy's going to get out of jail and he's just going to come and beat the crap out of her again.
Joe's Peaceful Coexistence Offer00:03:15
So what we did was we found shelters for them.
And do you know who helped me build five of them?
Joe Torrey of the New York Yankees.
You know what he called the program?
He has it at LA too, safe at home.
Right?
I love that.
No, no, he did.
This wasn't just Joe and his wife didn't do this just as, you know, we're going to do a few.
They really did it.
Joe had a background.
It was in his heart.
His wife knew it.
It was a beautiful thing.
Allie, his wife, knew it.
It was a beautiful thing to see her bring that out of him and what it did for Joe.
Wow.
Love to hear that.
You know, I just hate this.
Republicans don't care about people.
Damn, I'll put my love of people up against any freaking Democrat.
Of course.
I want to find some Democrat that saved more black lives than I have.
Good, go find one.
Because I love him.
Not because I'm a politician.
I don't know.
I guess I was a politician.
My father never wanted me to be.
You were a leader.
He said they were all crooked.
There's a difference.
They turn out he's right.
I guess Minnesota, Minneapolis wouldn't surprise him, huh?
Kim Jong-un has made a speech and he has made an offer.
His offer is that if we recognize him as a nuclear power, he'll engage in peaceful coexistence.
How about we don't recognize him as a nuclear power and we engage in peaceful coexistence and we take his nuclear weapons and shove him down his fat ass mouth.
Do you think he's upset and jealous that President Trump seems to have found a new rocket man?
I always thought he's with Elon Musk.
He actually did say, it does stay in here.
They did say.
He's no longer a rocket man.
He did say he harbors good memories of Trump.
I'll never forget when Trump was in Japan and I was representing him then and I get a call.
He told me on the way that he might, he told me when he left that he might stop off and see Kim Young-un because Kim Young, I think this was Kim Young-un who said this.
Somebody said something like, what was translated like, if you're in my neighborhood, stop.
And I'm getting a good picture, everybody, so we look nice and handsome.
I'm going to take a, I'm going to take a short break and we'll be right back and then we'll conclude.
Okay?
Okay.
We'll be right back after these messages.
Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine, I call it a laboratory.
It's not like a factory.
It's like a hospital.
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We deal with small farmers because they'd like to know who we're dealing with.
They give us the highest quality, all organic, non-GMO.
You should know all Arabica beans.
No Robusto.
All Arabica.
They're going to go into the roaster, and it'll get roasted for about 20 minutes or so.
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After September, even though it totally is my fault at all.
Of course not.
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Well, this is Rudy Giuliani.
We're back talking about Ted's driving, which is absolutely excellent.
There's nothing wrong with Ted's driving, but the people tease him about it.
I don't know why.
So let's wrap up so we can get you over to Dr. Maria, who's got a great show tonight.
Really good guests.
And Ted says really good guests.
I know that.
So Kim, we talked about Kim Young-un.
Here's great news.
So Paramount has purchased Warner Brothers.
Now, you're going to say, well, why does that matter?
Because Paramount also purchased CBS.
And they threw out all the liberals.
And Barry Weiss is kicking ass.
And CNN people are going nuts.
They're going nuts.
You just listen to them.
They're going nuts.
They may actually get fired and people will come on who will tell the truth.
What would happen in America if CNN started telling the truth?
Wow.
Unbelievable.
And they're saying, this is terrible.
Paramount should not be able to own CNN and CBS.
Well, how can NBC own NBC, CNBC, and MSNBC and NBC Sports and NBC this and NBC brainwashing operation and university?
How can they own all that?
Of course, because they are allowed to own it because they subscribe to the Marxist agenda.
And these guys won't.
We got to change the prevailing message in the media.
All we want is fairness.
All we want is fairness.
Tell both sides.
You know, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't pretend that illegal aliens aren't killing people like you were doing for a long time until you got called out with Lake and Riley.
Don't, don't make it necessary for me to have to cover things you don't cover, which I do all the time.
I mean, a third of my show are things you don't cover because you're lying communists.
Pray For Freedom00:05:05
Also, let's see.
I think we've covered just about everything.
We've got the ambassadors, we got Kim Young.
Oh, please, please get Charlie Kirk's book.
You're going to love it.
It's just a beautiful little book.
It's short.
It's 90-something pages.
It tells you the value of putting aside the Sabbath for the Lord, for God.
And it goes deeper.
Look, first of all, let's stop it.
You can't go deeper than that.
What I just said to you is it.
It does go into also how it relaxes you more.
It makes your family life much better.
It gives you much better perspective.
But really, the most important thing is it puts you in touch with God.
And once I can put you in touch with God, your life is taken care of.
Not only this one, but the next one.
Read it.
It's a lot better than I can describe.
It's a great book from a great man.
And it's a way to keep him alive.
I'd get the book.
I have it.
I read it in two hours.
I think two and a half hours.
Now, I'm a pretty fast reader, but I didn't read it fast.
I read it pretty carefully.
I said it's 90 pages.
Well, let's see what happens this weekend.
We're going to a wedding.
We will be the daughter of a very close friend of mine.
And get some pictures.
We'll get pictures.
We're going to get some pictures.
We'll get pictures from the wedding.
We'll get pictures from the wedding.
And when I finish, my little granddaughter's here tonight.
You'll have a lot of fun.
I'll have great fun.
I took her to the beach today and she built some castles and she brought home sand and she got all kinds of.
So I'm very, very contented.
Except I am very nervous because although I very much want to see the overthrow of one of the most wicked, evil men and regimes in the world, I know it's going to cost lives.
And that's never good.
And it's always very, very sad.
But I do believe that if we take decisive action, we can get it over with.
And we'll save a lot more lives.
So pray for the people of Iran in particular.
But pray for the people of Israel and of Ukraine and of the United States.
And pray for the president of the United States, who is in the process of making probably the most difficult decisions that he's going to make in his lifetime.
And guide him correctly.
God bless America.
It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
It was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought to us the discovery of our freedoms, of our God-given freedoms.
It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Thomas Paine explained, by rational principles, the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people, not just the elite.
Because the desire for freedom is universal.
The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
Look at what we've done in the past and see if we can't use it to help us now.
We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
The greatest democracy, the freest country, a country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason.