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March 26, 2026 - Rudy Giuliani
01:31:20
America's Mayor Live (894): President Trump Says Iran Wanted 7 Day Extension & He Gave Them 10 Days

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Good evening.
This is Rudy Giuliani.
This is America's Mayor Live and we are in Palm Beach, Florida, and you're looking at Washington, D.C., where I guess we'll begin because I see the Capitol there.
And I mean, I know this.
I don't know why I got angry.
I don't know why I got angry about this today, but I did.
There was a congressman on, a Republican congressman, a very nice young man, obviously one that hasn't been corrupted yet by being there.
And he said he's not taking his pay.
Now, I had my son on last night, as you know, and mainly we talked about the World Cup.
But my son works for Homeland Security.
He's not being paid.
But my son is a step of 70 people, almost all very high-level security people, because what's his job?
His job is to provide and make sure there's security for the 73 World Cup games, for which there are already 72 that have a million requests for tickets.
So what does that mean?
That means that they're going to have in something like 12 or 13 American cities events bigger than the Super Bowl.
They're going to be taking place on similar days.
And they're going to involve people from all around the world and from places around the world where there are a lot of people that are not very happy.
And when I did this for a living a while back with my security company, I always began telling the country that was thinking of bidding for a World Cup or an Olympics or an Asian game.
I would say, first thing you've got to consider is that when you do this, you have your own set of problems or you don't, terrorism, whatever.
You have just brought every world problem to your city.
So now you're going to need to develop a security apparatus that has you as knowledgeable as the FBI or the New York City Police Department.
Because if Spain is going to play, do you ever hear the bass terrorists?
Well, probably not.
But not unknown that they use that as a place to pull off some kind of a terrorist incident to get the attention that they want.
And I'm sorry I pick on the boss, but you deserve it because you're terrorists.
But I could give you 50 examples of that.
Some very well known.
Iran may play.
In fact, Iran has a qualifying game coming up.
They may play.
If they win, it's still a question of whether they're coming.
And if they do play, their first game is in Los Angeles, where there is a very, very heavy Iranian dissident, Iranian expat, pro-American, pro-democracy,
anti-Ayatollah population.
What a place for these shadow operations that the Iranians have established to try to make a point.
And we are somewhat blinded by the fact that some unknown number of people, and the unknown starts at about 12 million and could end at a 24, 25 million,
came into this country from mid to late January of 2021 until about four weeks before Trump came into office for four years.
And we know the numbers that are recorded, and they run about eight or nine million.
We don't know the people that we never saw.
And the Biden administration, unlike other administrations, never calculated that.
Other administrations use professionals.
And the professionals came from all these stinky Ivy League schools too.
MIT did a study, Princeton did a study, Columbia did a study.
And they determined that for every known illegal, there's anywhere from 50% to 200% illegals who came in you didn't know about.
Now, why is it so wide, the difference?
Well, first of all, they disagree with each other.
Some studies say 50, some studies say 200.
All studies say, however, the more people that are coming in illegally that we identify, stop for a moment even, and make a record of, the more of them,
the higher the percentage goes up.
So, of course, that's logical, isn't it?
So the more our Border Patrol, our agents are tied up.
If it's 100 people a week, they got plenty of time to search all of the surrounding areas.
Remember, the Texas border is gigantic.
So you got a certain amount of people coming in, small number, like right now.
Right now, I would imagine there are very few that are coming in undetected because we have an extraordinary amount of extra men and women to stop them.
And we have extraordinary relationships with the Mexican police because that's the only way we could stop them coming in at the border points.
So there are probably some still slipping in, but the numbers are probably ridiculously small.
When you were getting 10,000 people coming into El Paso in a week, what do you think the people in El Paso had time to do?
Nothing except putting them on buses and sending them to someplace where they could cause a lot of trouble.
So we don't know who those people are.
And they're all around the United States.
Now, if you were the Ayatollah of Iran or one of his main advisors, I'm hard to think of it that way, but you have to think like a criminal if you're going to catch them, right?
Wouldn't you send those people in in large numbers when it's a free shot?
I mean, it's so bad that in China, Biden was helping them come in, but there's other reasons for that.
I don't think Iran gave Biden the kind of money that China did.
In fact, Biden gave Iran money.
But we definitely have these sleeper cells in the United States.
We've seen some evidence of them, but not enough so that we really have them traced the way the FBI likes to do it.
And having worked with the FBI for 25 years, I can tell you, you know, on September 11, even though it happened, when the second plane hit,
there was no doubt who did it.
There was no doubt it was al-Qaeda, and there was no doubt that it was bin Laden.
There wasn't a lot of thinking that had to go on about where did it come from, who did it come from, because we had very tight intelligence then.
Not tight enough to pick that, but a lot tighter than we have right now.
So on a personal basis, I feel for my son.
This is a very, very hard job.
It's looking for, it's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Now, how do you do that when Congress doesn't fund the people that have to do it for you?
And what kind of horrible Americans are they that they don't fund this?
This has nothing to do with ICE.
And first of all, ICE has done nothing wrong, but this has nothing to do with ICE.
ICE is funded.
They're not funded.
And we're, well, the first game is July 11.
So it better get changed very, very quickly, Ted.
Because otherwise, we're going to have a very, very, very serious, very, very serious problem.
So speaking of ICE, there is probably no group over the last year that has been defamed, attacked,
demonized more by the official Democrat Party from the tiniest little jackass to the biggest jackass, Chuck Schumer.
I mean, and they're not, and ICE is just not incompetent.
They're not, by the way, they're not just incompetent.
They're Nazis, they're killers, they're murderers.
I don't know how to describe how terrible that is to these men and women who are regular Americans like you and I are.
They may even be more dedicated Americans than you and I because, you know, I prepare every day for work.
I do it.
I don't get all suited up with a gun every day, go out and know I can be killed.
I would do it for my country, but I don't.
They do.
So for me, when I see people in uniform, I see very special people.
I have learned over too many years of life that all people, all people have some really bad people.
You know, when a whole group of people dies, it's like all of them are wonderful.
And then we find out that some of them are monstrous.
Monsters die too.
Human beings are extremely different, right?
And every group has great people, good people, average people, and some bad ones.
Law enforcement has a disproportionate number of good ones because it's self-selected.
And these men and women do a good job.
And when I watch the things that I see on television, knowing this as a profession, I haven't seen them do anything wrong.
We could go over those cases, which we did in great detail in Minneapolis, but both of those agents did exactly what they should have done to protect not just themselves, but the other agents.
Ted, explain what is going on now, that these ICE agents have taken over somewhat for TSA at the airports and some of the things that have happened that are the most noteworthy.
Although we have gotten numerous statements of support for them, numerous statements of thanks, even for just simple things like telling people where to go, how to get there.
We have also got numerous statements with all this chaos going on at the airport, right?
You look at you, you've seen it on television, you've seen the opportunity for violence, even among disgruntled passengers, is tremendous.
And you've got these law enforcement agents there.
You see them there, and you got your kid with you.
You say, oh, okay, a lot better.
These are good people, but explain this one because this is extraordinary.
And somebody should take this guy, bring him up to Chuck Schumer, and say, you have immunity, punch him in the mouth.
Right.
So we are following a case.
We try to get somebody from ICE to join the show.
We might be a few minutes away from getting a very special guest.
You describe it and then if we get them, we get them.
Well, just describe the facts so that when he comes on, yeah, yeah.
So what we learned this morning is that ICE, in fact, helped save a baby.
A one-year-old baby was not breathing.
Apologies here.
We're just managing a lot of things here.
But we have video of this ICE agent responding to a medical emergency and assisting.
It's again, this is grainy footage.
There is to look very carefully.
You see the baby.
Again, this is just security video of what happened.
We're trying to, while we do this, I'm going to try to form up the floor.
So this is from the Department of Homeland Security.
While you watch the footage there, on March 20th, on March 25th, 2026, an immigration and customs enforcement agent helping to support TSA operations at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City jumped into action to help save the life of a one-year-old child experiencing a medical emergency.
That's what you see up on the screen.
The heroic actions of this officer began when a one-year-old child became unresponsive in the arms of his father, unable to breathe for almost two minutes.
What you're seeing is CC TV footage of this incident.
So if you can follow along here.
Again, this child became unresponsive in the arms of his father.
He was unable to breathe for almost two minutes.
CCTV footage, which you're looking at, shows a passenger in a pre-check line holding his one-year-old son in his arms when the child's arms go lifeless.
Panic ensues, and the father is seen scrambling around the area and calling for help.
The agent working at his post heard the screams from the father and other passengers and sprinted to the scene.
The father handed the child to the officer who then assessed the unresponsive child and began performing the Heimlich maneuver.
After a few seconds, the child started breathing again.
EMS personnel arrived on scene with medical equipment to further monitor and reassess the child.
The child was reassessed and determined to be healthy enough to fly.
God bless you.
And this might be our first statement from go ahead.
Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen, this is one of his first statements on the job, right?
Wonderful.
The ICE agent sprang into action and saved this one-year-old child's life.
If our agent had not been there and stepped up, this could have been a much more tragic outcome.
Or had he not been trained in the Heimlich maneuver?
And they like to say they're not professional.
Now, I'm going to tell you, I've had several incidents on airplanes and in churches where people had to have the Heimlich maneuver.
My former wife was a nurse.
And as you know, Dr. Maria is a nurse practitioner.
And in both cases, I've seen at least four different cases of this.
Someone, and in this case, we're talking about elderly people were very, very ill and appeared to be dying.
In one case, the nurse, the attendant asked, is there a doctor on board?
There were three doctors at least on board.
They didn't get up and help.
What?
Judas did.
Maria also did it in another situation in the church right here at St. Edwards.
Judas and I did it for a guy who felt nobody would help him.
They were afraid.
They're afraid of liability.
Ah.
They're afraid of liability.
I asked both of them why did the doctor, they said, they're afraid of liability.
I said, why aren't you?
No.
Yeah.
What is the legal?
I mean, because you, this is something that came up years ago, Mayor.
There's no.
You should jump into action and help.
Yes, I mean, you'd have to.
One of these horror stories we hear where somebody helps another person, the person learns what's up, or some other issue, and then sues, turns around.
That's almost the point that I was making.
They're good people and bad people.
And luckily, he was there with his child with a very good person who happens to be an ICE agent.
And that is the norm for an ICE agent.
I would suspect that almost every single one of the ICE agents would do the same, exactly the same thing, and it's just as well trained and just as able to do it.
And what they are doing is enormously important.
The people they are taking out, a disproportionate percentage of them, are perverts, sexual molesters.
This particular group of illegal immigrants was disproportionately involved, people who have sexual perversions.
You want to know why?
Because they came from countries that generally don't come to the United States because it was wide open.
They're not allowed in.
And in these countries, their sexual practices are somewhere in the dark ages.
You know why I know that so well?
Because that's what happens to the UN.
You want to look at a report, at least back in the 90s, of a typical week at the UN.
There were very few weeks of the UN when we didn't have to go to some diplomat's house and pull a wife out who had been beaten like hell by the diplomat from Ubadupa.
Because Upadupa is not a country, it's a criminal enterprise like the one that is behind the 9 billion stolen in Minneapolis.
They just came to Minneapolis to do what they do back in Somalia, except they walked into an already much better established program.
And when Mike said that Minneapolis did us a favor with that, he's right.
If you think this is the only place that they're stealing, I would say amounts of money you will never believe from our benefit programs.
It isn't.
Minneapolis is not.
The people in Minneapolis are not professionals at.
People in Washington are the city of Washington, people in New York.
New York's been doing it for 170 years.
You get good at something you do.
New York Democratic politicians have been stealing from the city for 170 years.
Um, may I have a whiteboard Ted, before we go off, I can the whiteboard, my little whiteboard I've got, I've got to.
Just, you've got to see, you've got to see this.
You just have to see this number, you just have to see.
I need my, I need my very impressive pen.
It's a big one with the wrong cap.
Okay, New York, New York City has eight point three million people.
Florida has 22.4 million people.
The budget of New York City, before it gets inflated by 10 billion dollars by the communists running it, it is about one 135 billion dollars.
Budget of Florida is about 118 billion.
So how how, how can you, how can you have that?
Eight sixteen, twenty four?
Florida is three times bigger, just a little three times bigger than Florida, than New York.
Its budget should be three times bigger than New York.
If Florida was stealing as much money as New York is, its budget would be about 500 billion dollars.
Oh, you want to know the budget of New York State, because New York state New York State has 18 million people and its budget is 245 billion.
So New York State has less people than Florida.
It spends more than double the amount of money that Florida does.
Now I'm going to ask the people in New York who go back and forth between New York and Florida, is it really the quality of the service you're going to say they're, they're inefficient, they're horseshit, they steal, and you know where it happens.
It happens at the benefit programs, particularly when they can make it an emergency program.
The minute it becomes an emergency program that's what covet was, that's what all these health programs are the governor or the mayor can escape competitive bidding.
So now there's no record.
He can go to a company that's willing to put up twice as much money, he can charge twice as much as someplace else, and then all that money is available for him, for his people, for their families and and an appropriate kickback to the company.
It happens all the time.
It is built into the Great Society programs.
It has been that way since the 1970s, and i'll give you one other.
So you just take a 360 degree.
Look at it right from the top.
How can that be explained by anything else other than corruption?
And that's why you poke into Minneapolis and you come out with 9 billion, 10 billion, 20 billion.
You think the Somalians are the only ones stealing.
Somalians learned that from the people that were doing it before they came here.
They may come from a country where there isn't an awful lot in terms of respect for the law, but they didn't invent this system.
This is going on all over the place.
That means schools without kids, medical facilities without kids, hospitals that have 300 patients and a billing for 1,000.
And when they are non-bid contracts, there's very, very little accounting that's done.
Democrats don't believe in something like going back every year and doing an audit.
If you ever went back and did an audit of the Democratic programs, they'd all be in jail, every single one of them.
The reason we have the out-of-control expenses that we have is that we tolerate systemic corruption in the big cities, the old cities, the old Democratic cities.
It's built into the history of the cities, built into the culture of the city.
When you get the job, you're expected to make a lot of money.
If in New York, which I know best, you're put there by the county leader, he expects kickbacks.
If he puts the judge there, he expects the judge to rule for him, which is why the New York courts, as you saw when they tried the cases for Trump, are corrupt.
Those cases were a mockery of justice.
So was mine.
Until we fix that, we're not fixing anything.
And one other way to look at it before we take a break.
If the money that we have expended since Linda Johnson to help poor people were used to help poor people, they would all be rich people.
We'll be right back.
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The governor?
Yes.
So.
Welcome back to America, America's Mayor Live.
We want to switch topics slightly, but we're talking still about the topic of immigration.
There's a case in Chicago that is beginning to become like the Lake and Riley case was several years ago.
And Kate Steiny before that.
Yeah.
Ted and I have a lot of history with these because there was a period of time going back three or four years in the Biden administration where I knew that this group of illegals were disproportionately criminals.
Now, I've dealt with groups of illegals since 1981 and the Mario Bolt Lift and the Haitian boat influx of 100,000 a month,
which seems like nothing at this point.
And I have to tell, and also I dealt with illegal immigrants when I was mayor.
I knew exactly how many in my city, 400,000.
And, you know, you know, when they make the statement, is he on?
Yeah, he's on.
And I'm sorry, Mayor, but we want to get him on.
I know he's got to.
Good.
You tell me what you're doing.
I was just getting ready.
So if you want to make that point with Greg, Greg, how are you, Greg?
It's Rudy Giuliani.
So we are on and connected.
Maybe I'll call.
Yeah, make sure we're connected.
It seems like he hasn't seen it.
He can't hear us.
So it seemed like Mike had the same problem, but see if we can get him connected.
So there is a difference between the immigrants that came in.
I would have to trace it from my experience from Reagan to Trump one.
And this group of immigrants was different.
It was a different group because it was wide open.
Greg, how are you?
Good, Mayor.
How are you doing tonight?
I'm doing very, very well.
I couldn't think of anybody better to ask this question because of your experience overall and then your experience in Minneapolis, although this is in Chicago.
I'm talking about the young lady who was killed, who was killed there, and the fact that they seem to be treating it like the older woman gets on television and says, oh,
this is something that happens.
And now, this isn't this a much bigger problem among this group of illegal immigrants.
I dealt with immigration back in the 80s.
Mario Boltlift, Haitian, I dealt with it, argued a lot of the cases on metering that was argued in the court the other day.
And I have to tell you, when they say illegal immigrants don't commit as many crimes as Americans, it was close back then.
It was close back then, but they were all being checked when they came in.
A lot of them were getting in that shouldn't, but a lot weren't getting in.
This is a different group.
There was no check.
We opened the door and we said, send everybody in.
And we got the worst.
This group that you were dealing with, in your experience, weren't the percentage of dangerous criminals much, much higher than, let's say, five years ago or six years ago?
Mayor, you're on to something there.
You're exactly right.
The percentages of violent criminals that we see now, especially now and over the past few years, is definitely higher than what it was 30 years ago when I came into the Border Patrol.
30 years ago, say we called a group of 100.
Out of that 100, maybe 5% would have significant immigration and or criminal history.
Now, what we're seeing is, say we catch that same group of 100 now, sometimes 55 and 60 percent of all those individuals will have significant criminal and or immigration history.
We saw that in Charlotte, North Carolina, there, I believe on the second day of the operation, I believe it was 66% of everyone we apprehended in general immigration enforcement had significant criminal and or immigration histories.
Chicago, that was off the hook, as you know, Mayor.
And when you catch child molesters or child rapists standing out on the street, walking the streets with impunity, you know you've got a problem.
So what you're saying is exactly right.
The percentage of folks coming into this country now, and also that's not even counting those individuals who committed significant crimes in their home countries, but don't have a criminal record here.
When President Trump said, well, they empty jails and insane asylums out in their home countries.
He's exactly right.
President Trump is spot on when he says that because we're seeing those individuals with Interpol Red Notices and significant criminal histories from those home countries.
Many of those histories we don't have access to.
It does seem like, again, a lot of them, this Medina Medina in Chicago, I think is Venezuela.
It's not all Venezuela, but a lot of it seems to be Venezuela.
Or is that just what showed up in the newspapers?
You would know from the actual experience.
The Venezuelan gangs, definitely a problem.
They're extremely violent.
They came from a very violent place.
That third world place called Venezuela is producing some of the worst criminals that are coming into our nation, New York City, Chicago, all over, and they're committing some very heinous crimes.
And again, when you have a border that is wide open, which is what we had for the past four years under Biden, when you have a border that's wide open, you're going to get some folks that say, you know, it's a free ride into the United States.
The border's wide open.
Why not?
Why not come into the United States?
So the Venezuelans, they did just that.
You know, if they didn't do it, they wouldn't be particularly good cartel leaders, terrorist leaders, or dictators like Maduro.
And Maduro was just following what Castro had done in 1978, 1979.
Castro emptied out all his prisons when Jimmy Carter stupidly said, send me everybody.
And Castro said, hey, you little jerk, I will.
I'll send you everybody.
How about this guy from the Mental Institution?
I'll send him over.
And he sent 25,000 of them over.
And they made Miami into the most dangerous city in America for about a year.
So what you're dealing with is so difficult.
Now, tell me about the ICE agents, because I'm very worried about them.
Not just the fact that they're not paid, which I think the president solved tonight.
He's going to pay them.
I don't know how he's going to do it.
Maybe out of his own pocket, but he's going to pay them.
And not the ICE agents, the other, the other TSA agents.
ICE, I don't understand this.
Their big argument is with ICE, but they've passed the bill to pay them for the next two years.
And now they're punishing everybody else at Homeland Security.
And we have a World Cup coming up.
It's amazing.
You know, a lot of what they do just doesn't make sense to me.
I'm a little freer now, Mayor, to say this now.
As you know, I retired about it.
Yeah, no, it's definitely.
They attack the ICE and the Border Patrol agents because those are easier targets for them to go after because a lot of times these liberals and these Democrat politicians, they rely on emotion and not on facts.
And you know that as well as anybody, Mayor Giuliani, but they rely on emotions and non-factual scenarios and that type of thing.
We rely on facts and the facts are that the ICE and the Border Patrol agents have a legal, ethical, and moral mission.
And they're carrying that mission out and have.
Border Patrol has done it for 101 years.
And just now, apparently, we're all bad.
So how does that happen just in the past year?
We suddenly turned.
Have they focused it on ICE and the Border Patrol?
Or is ICE for some reason their major, their major, their major focus?
Yep, it's both.
It's both.
When they say ICE, they mean pretty much all immigration officers, all officers that are involved in that immigration enforcement effort.
So that does include Border Patrol.
So when they say ICE, that's their catch-all phrase for everyone.
I don't even think they know that Border Patrol and ICE are actually in two separate agencies.
You know, Border Patrol is the uniform division.
ICE is the non-uniform division.
I don't even think they know that.
Of course.
They don't care.
Now, is Border Patrol being paid?
Border Patrol is being paid, yes, sir.
ICE is being paid.
ICE is being paid also, yes, sir.
TSA is not, obviously.
TSA is not being paid.
And the rest of Homeland Security is not being paid.
That's correct.
Unfortunately, that's correct.
Well, how do you see this resolving itself?
I mean, where is it going?
I mean, what you were facing is an armed revolution against the United States funded by people.
We always pick on Soros for good reason, but it's a lot more than just Soros.
He's probably the most well-known, but it's a whole group of people who are putting in money to train these people.
It was obvious to me watching this, you were dealing with trained activists, trained communists.
people trained in overthrowing governments.
And that second case that you had there in Minneapolis, that guy was involved in an absolutely trained de-arrest operation.
You had the woman come in, she distracted the agent, and another person he came in and he started distracting.
Don't they bother to look at the material that's put out training them to do this?
Yeah, Mayor, and that's a great point.
We know they're being trained.
We know they're well funded.
Our U.S. attorneys, Bill Asaley, the U.S. attorney out in Central District, California, is hot on the tail of these folks that are doing this.
So if some of these other U.S. attorneys will pick up with what Bill Asale is doing out there and going after and really taking a hard look at that material support, those conspiracies to train these individuals in these groups,
we're going to make some progress.
And we can beat these groups.
We can beat that training and those funding streams that are going to those groups.
Now, Mayor, look at what happened in, say, Los Angeles and even Chicago.
We had one big riot in Los Angeles.
That was called the Paramount Riot.
That was our very first day in Los Angeles.
We set a tone there amongst those agitators and those rioters.
They never hit Border Patrol or ICE or any of our federal facilities again while we were in Los Angeles.
Same thing in Chicago.
We engaged them in that place called Broadview, and they did not march downtown Chicago and take on the federal courthouse.
And there's a reason for that.
So I think that Minneapolis, we didn't engage them like we did in Los Angeles or Chicago, and it empowered them.
So I think if I had it to do over again there in Minneapolis, it would have been to engage them much earlier, set the tone.
And again, there's nothing like a consequence or arresting someone.
Other people pay attention to that.
You know, your zero tolerance on crime in New York City several years ago, that was the same thing.
Set that tone.
And you set those consequences and people don't want to be part of those consequences.
When I became mayor in 1994, I came into a city that had over 2,000 murders a year and also had just had massive riots, including one in Crown Heights, where the community started to burn down.
And then one in not in Washington Heights.
And then one in Crown Heights with the pole grump.
Black people were going out looking for and killing Jewish people.
First one we've ever had in America that we know of.
And Al Sharpton was at the height of his fame.
And I read a lot about, I had been in law enforcement for 20 years and I read a lot about riots, including a great report that was done.
And when I came in, I gave a speech and I said, we're going to have new rules.
And here are the rules.
I don't believe in a cooling off period.
They used to have a cooling off period.
So they start rioting and they'd say, don't go in.
Let them get it out of their systems.
Break a few windows, knock around a few cars, smash a few people on the head.
We go make arrests.
We're going to start.
My rule was the minute you throw a rock, I arrest you.
The minute you spit at a cop, I arrest you.
If you're disturbing the peace and making too much noise, I arrest you.
And so you want to test me?
Test me.
I mean, we can have a test.
I'm going to win.
You're going to lose.
Then the first one that happened, we arrested them.
Sharp didn't want her to meet with me.
And I said, I will not meet with a person who's just going to lie about everything I say.
So send me somebody.
I will only negotiate with someone that will be fair.
I'm not going to negotiate with him.
Also, I had investigated Sharpton as an assistant U.S. attorney.
I knew him from the time he was involved with Don King.
And I mean, I knew exactly who Sharpton was.
So I just threw him out, got him out.
And I never had a riot.
Bloomberg followed my rules.
We never had a riot.
We got De Blasio, a communist, as a mayor, and hence the riots.
Hence the riots.
Exactly.
And, you know, back to Los Angeles after the riot, nothing happened after that, except the rioters and the agitators would still go after the state and locals, the poor state and locals,
because you had Newsom and Mayor Bass out there that did exactly what you're saying the other communist mayor in New York City did.
And they would not let them engage those rioters the way they needed to.
So they wouldn't touch the feds.
They wouldn't touch the U.S. Border Patrol, the Green team.
So they started going right after the state and locals under Newsom and Mayor Bass because they allowed their officers to be preyed upon by those rioters.
But when you set the tone, just like you did and just like you're talking about, you set that tone, you don't have riots.
It's actually a pretty simple concept.
And I wish we had set that tone and been allowed to set that tone in Minneapolis because honestly, Mayor, the folks in Minneapolis, those agitators and rioters there, and I've said this many times, were actually softer than the ones we encountered in Chicago or Los Angeles.
Did you have less support in Minneapolis?
Much less support.
Zero support from state and locals.
I mean, even in Chicago and Illinois, if you saw there at the Broadview facility, the state police started coming in and giving us a hand.
Towards the end of our tour in Chicago, Chicago Police Department under Chief Larry Schnelling, Snelling was a police chief.
Yeah, that's a real police department.
Real police department.
They are real professionals.
Once they started helping us, the violence went down immediately.
And then take a look at what happened in New Orleans.
We had one, one use of force incident the entire operation.
That operation lasted about a month in New Orleans.
That was because we had full support from the state police, full support from the governor of Louisiana, and full support from the state and locals.
Mayor, we were actually putting border patrol agents with police officers in marked police cruisers and zero problems, not one riot, only one use of force in a month.
Absolutely amazing.
Why didn't we, why can't Minneapolis or some of these other cities and locales take a look at what happened there in New Orleans and what a fantastic method of enforcing the law with zero violence?
Then you don't have the Alex Pretty's and the Renee Goods and all the problems that happened there in Minneapolis that didn't need to happen.
It didn't need to happen.
That was the mayor's fault.
You're in a much worse place.
I mean, you had a mayor who I consider and have disrespected as a mayor from the day that he gave up the police precinct.
I have no idea how he can remain as a mayor and give up a police precinct.
And when it happened, all of my friends who were New York City cops and offices and my close friend Bernie Carrick, who was the police commissioner, I mean, I think we wanted to go out there and arrest him ourselves.
Giving up a police precinct?
I mean, it's absurd.
You might as well let them run the city.
They do.
You also have a governor there who there's an ulterior motive.
I mean, that guy's been paid more money by Red China than he has by America.
So you got a real problem there.
You were in the Lion's Den and the place where communists operate most effectively.
And they wanted to make a point.
I want you to know that many Americans respect your incredible service, even before Minneapolis.
And what you did in Minneapolis, standing up for those great men and women, I respect it very much.
Mayor, thank you.
And it does go back to those men and women, those Board of Control agents and ICE agents.
Thank you.
It has to.
And I would see you and I would see the secretary.
And when I saw you talking about what great agents you had, it reminded me of, you know, reminded me of my experience in law enforcement, both when I was in that position and then when I was in your position.
And God bless you.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Sir, we have one more question, Commander.
This is Ted Goodman.
We've got a, and on his end, he's got Nick Sortor with him.
Shout out to our friend Nick Sortor, who's been helping the commander.
There he is.
Look at his hat.
Look at his hat.
This is the guy that you want to talk to.
You don't need to talk.
He's talking to me anytime, Mayor.
Well, shout out to Nick Hatton Riot somehow.
And I also know Nick was helpful.
God bless you both.
Nick was helpful to the commander in getting the message out up against the fake news while they were out in the streets.
So shout out to Nick for that.
But Commander, people are asking.
They want to know what's next.
Someone like you, you know, you can't retire.
We can't lose guys like you.
What's next?
No, there's too much experience there.
Right, right.
Seriously.
America needs it.
Well, you know, I'm watching says you look young.
Hey, thank you.
Thank you.
I'll take that every day.
I'm open for business.
You know, it's always futures wide open.
Our country does have a problem.
And we need, we need, and time is of the essence.
We need to remove these illegal aliens from this country.
America flourishes without that burden on it.
So I'm ready and open for business.
I missed my mean green team.
That was my tribe.
I'll go back.
But absolutely.
I'll go back in a heartbeat, but I'll serve in any capacity that I can so that I can do with your fellow patriots, Mayor.
We'll keep in touch.
Great respect for you and for Nick.
God bless.
Thank you.
Thank you.
That was a terrific interview for a guy that's been through a lot.
And I'm going to tell you, I watched that.
He knows we watched Minneapolis very, very closely, analyzed the arrests.
I brought in people.
We put on ex-New York City police officers, other police officers to analyze this.
They didn't do anything wrong.
They didn't do a damn thing wrong.
They weren't too harsh.
They weren't too difficult.
When the police officer who shot the woman in the car shot the woman, it wasn't a car.
It was a truck.
It was aimed right at him.
And her girlfriend on the other side was yelling at her, drive, baby, drive, knowing that the agent was right there.
I actually believe, but I'm never going to be able to prove this, that the woman driving the car was not paying attention.
She was talking to the instigator on the right who was harassing the agents.
The instigator on the right saw the agent right in that spot and starts yelling at her: Drive, baby, drive, get out of there, go, go, go.
She first backed up just a little.
She must have been in the wrong gear.
Boom!
She jammed it into drive, and the car kind of the truck jumped out.
There's no chance for him to get away.
If he had attempted, if he had attempted to go to his left, he'd have gone under the truck.
If he had attempted to go to his right, it would have been relatively easy for her to move her wheel and knock him to kingdom come.
So he did the only thing he could do to hope to knock her off her attempt to crush him under that car.
He shot at her to save his life.
And it was as clear as a bell.
When they first put it out, when they put the first video out, and everybody condemned him, they never showed that he was in the front of the car.
They never showed him.
When you get the full video, you see he's right in front of the car and they know it.
Let's go to the second one.
The second one comes there.
He's been arrested a week earlier.
He didn't get arrested a week earlier, but as you know, he got into a fight in trying to break up another arrest.
He's part of a team called the D Arest team.
The DRS team is trained by they belong to an offshoot.
I've forgotten the name of their group, but it's a trained group.
I'll get it for you.
But they have a training video, and the training video shows how to interrupt an ICE arrest.
They call it de-arrest.
It works something like this.
And think about what this looked like.
You see, ICE is surrounding a guy, right?
Usually having trouble because the person creates trouble in order to help himself.
Person creates trouble, doesn't just voluntarily submit to being handcuffed.
So the person creates problems.
That'll bring in usually another, sometimes three or four agents.
So now you have like a scrum going on.
First thing you saw, a woman comes up and taps the agent on the back, gets him out, and she starts arguing with him, and the agent is arguing with her.
This gets it down to three agents.
Then you see another guy yelling and screaming at another agent.
The other agent looks around.
When that happens, he comes in and an agent comes out and starts to move him back.
Starts to move him back.
At this point, only two people were on the defendant, who was a sexual violator, by the way, fighting with him.
And luckily, they were able to get him anyway.
But that was the point at which he was supposed to run away by creating the distraction.
And it works maybe half the time or a third of the time, but it's called the de-arrest operation.
And they are trained in doing it.
They do it in Europe.
They do it in America.
It bore every single, if I were defending that guy, I could get you experts on Antifa that would, you see, Antifa just got convicted as a foreign, as a domestic terrorist organization.
And this is one of the reasons why they're a domestic terrorist organization.
They are trained in terrorist tactics.
This is a terrorist tactic.
And the guy was involved in another one 10 days earlier.
We didn't get that until much later.
And I'm going to bet you, I'm going to bet you that the guy was involved in a lot more of them.
And nobody wants to cover it.
Did you hear anybody describe that to you?
What I just described to you?
Even on conservative television, we get scared or we're not knowledgeable.
That guy got screwed bad.
He really got screwed bad.
I mean, look, if you want to say to me politically, it could have been handled better, okay, okay, okay.
But only because the media is against you.
Right, right.
If it were a fair media, they would have written about both of those arrests.
The people responsible for it is the woman.
Instead of being home with her four-year-old baby, is driving around trying to stop arrests of sexual predators.
And as to the other guy, he's spent it all his time trying to learn how to break up arrests.
Now, what do you think is going to happen to you if you're carrying a gun and you were engaged in the exercise of breaking up arrests?
And if you should get killed with that gun, you think maybe it's your fault?
You're damn right it is.
And what are you going to train your kid?
You're going to say to your kid, you should be like those two people.
You should be like her.
You should forget your kid.
You should be driving cars and blocking ICE agents so that we can have more sexual predators in our community.
She was also going through this whole trans bullshit.
And you look at her two years earlier.
She's a pretty girl who looks like she's the girl next door.
Now she looks like a truck driver.
Right?
She looks like a truck driver.
Right.
I mean, this is another one of the trans things.
We have so many of these, and then they want to say it doesn't have an effect on violence.
There she is.
So she gets there.
She gets there.
Yeah, she's a troublemaker and she starts engaging the guy.
We don't change our plates every morning.
Just so you know, there's only the same fight when you come talk to us later.
That's fine.
You.
You want to come at us?
This is all done to distract them.
The whole purpose of this is to distract them because they probably have hit on a place where there are a large number of illegals who want to get them out of it.
You hear it.
Drive, baby, drive.
And did you hear the impact?
I have to say, I have to say, now looking at it, it does look like she's looking at them.
It looks like she's looking straight ahead.
But she is being encouraged by the troublemaker.
And the troublemaker, right after that, made a statement saying, it's my fault.
Which, of course, we're never going to hear that again.
Oh, we won't hear that one again.
She just wanted to get rid of a borg.
So it hasn't gotten any better.
I mean, you look at what happened in Chicago, geez, only a few days ago, right?
This lovely young lady who comes uh from yorktown uh new york and is in college in in in uh chicago goes out i think it was on sunday night with her friends and uh they she said the first thing they said when they heard about is she was out at one in the morning yeah but she was in a place that the governor had said is the safest place in chicago Well,
why wouldn't she go where Fatso Pritzka said, this is the best place in Chicago?
And in any event, she was going to see the Northern Lights.
She wasn't exactly going to drink beer with a bunch of other kids who wanted to see the Northern Lights.
So as they're going away, they encounter, they encounter a guy who is obviously a professional criminal, Jose Medina Medina, who is in this country illegally.
He's been arrested, been arrested twice.
He's never been turned in to ICE.
When he was arrested, the Chicago authorities covered up for him.
I believe they were harboring a criminal.
He comes out of the courthouse.
There's an ICE detainer on him for violating federal law.
And they don't notify anybody.
They don't notify anyone.
So he gets out.
Had they notified ICE, particularly given how this girl would be alive today.
Now, that's a policy of Fatso Pritzker.
And the guy's in the country because of Joe Biden.
So who killed him?
I mean, the guy killed her, obviously, but it wouldn't have happened if we hadn't had the phony election of 2020 and elected Demented as president.
And if we didn't have a governor who doesn't have any time to govern because he eats so much.
Right.
Come on, I have a sense of humor.
He can't take it.
Rolling pole again, dang it.
Guy was born.
They say, you know, guys like him to say he was born with a silver spoon or isn't it?
He was about with about 50 or 60 spoons.
That spoon probably never came out.
When you look at him, it looks like the spoon never came out.
But it is a shame that poor girl is.
Well, here is Pritzker just a month earlier claiming to be at that same location.
How many cops did he have projected runners coming by on the lakefront path?
As if he's there alone, right?
Yeah, absolutely gorgeous.
He claims he's on the south side, but he's on the South Lakefront Trail with both that known Chicago outfit.
There's no big difference outside.
Oh, yeah.
Just gorgeous.
Look at that overpass.
Over the Lakeshore Drive.
This was the area.
I'd have to get, we'd have to look at a map to know exactly where.
Facilities.
But it's just so phony, right?
He's obviously there with security.
Good morning.
As if he's, yeah, like he's going for a josh.
Yeah, I'm sure that's what he was doing.
Yeah.
Going for a morning run.
Early morning.
Lots of runners coming by.
Lots of runners coming by, not you, my friend.
I'm going to actually recommend.
I'm not in favor.
Even if I don't like you or just, I'm not in favor of like killing people or seeing people die.
I suggest you not run unless you have like a resuscitation machine following you.
I think maybe walking like you're doing for about five years, then you can start running.
Right, right.
Well, he's getting some heat, but maybe they could someday elect a Republican.
Right.
I mean, the greatest Republican in the history of the country comes from that state as a public official, Abraham Lincoln.
Right.
And we got this crap there.
Well, Chicago older woman, Maria Hayden, who said about Sheridan Gordon in the wrong place at the wrong time.
And she might have startled the guy.
Last time you were startled, you pull out a gun and shoot a 19-year-old girl in the back of the head because you were startled.
And you were really scared of her because she was running away from you.
So this is a typical Chicago newbie.
She could be the next mayor.
So the kids were out doing normal things.
It sounds like this might have been a wrong place, wrong time, running into a person who had a gun.
They might have startled this person at the end of the year, unintentionally.
All this really illustrates is how far the Democrat Party has gone to become the party of the criminal.
The party of the communists and the party of the criminal.
How long are we going to take it?
I just don't get it.
Then I do have to tell you in my own former state of New York, there was a case that this is a sexual assault on a 14-year-old boy.
Okay.
The Manhattan District Attorney, that's another communist running it, put in there by Soros's millions.
And I don't know what number conviction this was, but her name or his name or its name, because it's one of these difficult situations.
This is, I always get them wrong.
I switch them.
I think this is a man as defined in the Bible.
Because in the Bible, you know, God made it simple.
In the first book of Genesis, he said, I made them man and woman.
I made them.
He didn't say man and woman and something else.
Although there is a candidate in Texas that wants to be governor that says there are five of these.
So I'm interested.
He hasn't named the other.
I want to know the other three.
So these are sexist he's talking about.
You know, there are 48 genders, but I've never gotten anybody to get beyond any of them.
One of them I was told is cat.
One of the genders is cat.
And there are New York City school teachers that have brought in litter baskets for the kids to encourage them to be cats.
I go back to my time in grammar school and I think of Sister Madeline.
One of the kids came in and said, sister, I'm a cat.
And I'd like you to get me, I'd like you to get me.
Mommy and Daddy say, and they're willing to pay for it, but you have to pick it out so it fits right.
You got to find a little cat place for me here so I can pee.
How long do you think she'd last as a cat?
The next day she'd come in and she'd be saying, good morning, sister.
Oh, I pledge allegiance to the flag, United States of America.
So this is, this is, this is, this is, you tell me what this is.
What is that?
Can you see it?
You tell me what this is.
Is this a man, a woman?
It looks like a woman when you see it there.
Well, she tries to, he tries to be that so we can get into the ladies' room.
Her, its name is Nicole Alexander Contreras Suarez.
It is 31 years old.
And I will call him a he because as far as I know, he has a penis.
And my definition is: if you have a penis, you're a he.
And if you have the woman's part, which I'm not sure I'm allowed to say, I don't know exactly the right one to say there.
If you have the woman part, you're a she, because that's really easy.
And if in the bathroom you have to use a urinal, you're another one.
This is another way simple-minded idiots like Justice Jackson on the Supreme Court that doesn't know the difference between a man and a woman.
You know what the senator should have said?
Here's a good, I'm sorry, you don't know the answer.
I know you got a very poor education.
Let me give you a little hint.
If they have to use the urinal, they're probably male.
If they can use it, if they can't make use of the urinal, then that little savior there a little.
But you see, the one you're talking about in this case, he has something that you use a urinal for.
You get it, jerk.
So this one is a sexual assault on a 14-year-old boy on Wednesday.
He, Contreras Suarez, shows up in front of the judge.
Okay.
This one is an illegal from Colombia.
She's a transgender.
Now, this is very controversial, Ted, and I'm going to need your help on this.
They describe her as a transgender woman.
Now, I, but if she was born a man, she's a man, not a woman.
And the federal government now requires that that's the way you describe it.
Now, here's a question, and we'll look it up.
If she has had the operation and she's had, or he has had his penis removed, then can she be described as a woman?
Without a penis.
No.
The XY.
I'm going to tell you.
I'm going to comprehend that.
No, no, no.
Here.
No, Biology.
Jeez.
It's the chromosomes that decide.
No, you're right, but I just can't get over the idea of moving your own mom.
I think that's.
Which is the man?
XX and the woman's XY?
Look up.
Let's be sure.
We need Dr. Maria for this.
You know, we're so stupid without her.
So this.
XX female.
XY male.
Okay.
So we just got to look at her, figure out what she.
Well, this isn't funny because she raped a five-year-old.
She got a three-month sentence.
She got a three-month sentence.
The maximum, according to these, these are defense lawyers and they're outraged.
The maximum is two to seven, which is also pretty small, but it is New York, which is a criminal favoring state.
But she didn't get the two to seven.
She got three months.
Oh, want to make it worse?
Time served.
She walked out.
So she's got time now to, I don't know, how many more will she do before they catch her again?
Right.
And the advocacy groups and the ones that we give a lot of money to are all very, very, very happy.
So Karl Rove wrote an article today saying that Democrats shouldn't be so sure they're going to win the 2026 elections because even though the president is at a low point in favorability,
some polls have it worse than this, but the average for RCP is 40 something percent, 41.3%.
The Democrat Party is more unpopular than he is.
And the Democratic Party is more unpopular than the Republican Party.
Even though, now you go figure this, even though in the generic ballot for Congress, they lead 46.9 to 42.
So that's a five-point plus.
That does not assure a win.
And they keep hitting topics where at some point, this is going to have to reverberate on them.
It really is.
I think if the president gets the war straightened out, we win it.
And we get the effect on oil that we think we're going to have.
And we have an economy that doesn't really hurt people, which it really doesn't do.
I think we'll be okay.
I think there's plenty of time.
There's also another observation by, and I don't know Sand Doom, but he wrote a column today that the people who, if we beat, if we, in essence,
by beat, these people are talking about destroying the regime of terror.
Regime of terror is gone and Iran has a normal government.
The winners are the Muslims because they get rid of the most extreme Muslims and the much more moderate Muslims will now be in control.
And even if you look at Saudi Arabia that had always been very extreme, Mohammed bin Salman has made a lot of changes there.
Women drop.
I mean, these things sound silly, but women drive now.
Women can have hair and women can work.
And now if you go to Emirates, which is the country that looks like they want to go to war against, women can do everything.
And in Bahrain, they've already had a woman, a UN ambassador who was Jewish.
And they've had a woman, this could have had a man or a woman, but they've had a Jewish minister in the government.
So it's not a, let's say they're moving away from the very, very extreme Muslim positions.
And the thing holding it back is the Islamic Republic of Iran, because they pay for that.
Bahrain, because it's so moderate.
Bahrain, because it doesn't require this stuff and that stuff and actually has churches that can have crosses, Jewish synagogues that can have Stars of David.
They get attacked almost by clockwork once a month.
And they get attacked because they're defenseless.
Do you know you know the difference in attacks on the Emirates and Israel?
Remember, I thought that might have been the case at the beginning of the war.
The what?
The attacks on Emirates and they have very strong defense, air defense, right?
Yeah, but the Emirates have been attacked four times more than Israel.
Wow, which makes sense.
You tell me why it makes sense to attack somebody's not attacking you.
Are these successful hits?
No, they've said they the Emirates, the Emirates has lost, I think, three people.
And I think they're about the Israelis, the Israelis, particularly lately, have dropped a little, and they're down to about 85%.
They take hit, knocked off about 85%.
The Emirates is I'm not saying it's rational.
Just look at the map.
They have turned back 90% of the hits.
The Emirates has.
I'm not saying it's irrational.
I'm not saying it makes sense like they should be doing that.
But if you look at a map, I think for Iran, right, you're talking about UAE, right?
Yes, sure.
Yeah, UAE.
It's right across where Israel.
So you attack a country because they're right across from it.
When another country's at war with you, when you're like bad aim to me.
I think it's a mix of matter convenience when we're taking out their launch capabilities and early on we're taking out their commanders.
I just think in the chaos in that, they, you know, you launch your missiles where you can get them and they happen to be a lot close.
You know, the UAE at a certain point, they're just miles apart, right?
Just the golf.
I do think if they keep doing this, the president, I mean, the president is very, right, rightly so,
sees this as a war in which they're all helping us and their input's going to mean is going to mean a lot.
And I think from what I'm reading of the Emirates, they want this war to continue.
They want to be in a situation so that they don't have to face this again in the future.
So you make some kind of a deal with them.
There's no way to know if they're going to keep it.
I mean, think about, I think the president, the first time the president did this, he didn't say it.
The second time, I think he noted it.
The president has now said that they exchanged this communication.
And he said to them, and you better tell the truth about it.
Now, suppose they don't tell the truth about it.
Why would you negotiate with them?
And do we even have, we know you're not going to tell the truth.
Right.
We know they're going to enrich uranium no matter what they say.
Right.
Right.
So the question is, what else can be done to hold them to any sort of agreement?
Nothing.
They should be destroyed.
They should be driven out of office.
One of the things we should say, no theocratic government, no monarchical government, no dictatorship.
You're going to have to have a democratic government.
You're going to have to be committed to no nuclear.
You're going to have to be committed to making peace with Israel and all the countries around you.
And you're going to be under joint supervision for 10 years, like a parole.
And we could, and I think we're at the point now where that was going to be very, very hard with Hamas because Hamas didn't hurt them.
I think you'll get Saudi Arabia.
I think you'll get Jordan.
I think you'll get Emirates, Bahrain, to agree with you.
And they'll put forces.
They've already agreed on their own to put forces in to patrol the Strait of Hamuz.
So I think, you know, I think that's a doable, that's a very, very doable distinction.
So let me conclude with something a little lighter, okay?
Yep.
The World Cup, as we said, begins on June 11th.
So now they're playing the games for the final teams to qualify.
And they're going to be 48 teams.
First time, always been only 24.
48.
Wow.
It is the most watched sporting event in the world.
One game couldn't get more than the Super Bowl.
The final gets about eight times the Super Bowl.
We have 73 games scheduled for the U.S.
Right now for 72 of the 73.
There are 1 million requests for tickets.
I couldn't get Andrew to tell me the one that doesn't have the million.
Maybe we'll go to that one.
Maybe we can get into that one.
Now, we want to go to the one with the highest demand.
So here's the cute story.
The tiny little nation of Suriname has never ever been in the World Cup.
And it's unfortunate because they have been a big part of some of the great teams.
They have players from Suriname that play for Barcelona, AC Milan, Juventus, and Ajax.
Now, I wouldn't know these names, but these are all all-star soccer players.
Rund Gullet, Frank Rucard, Carice Seidorf, Patrick Couvert, and Edgar David.
And they tried to put a team together, and all these guys would go play, you know, go play for Norway or something like that.
So this guy who had been a ball boy for Ajax and is from Suriname, Brian Tevradan,
decided he wanted his country to be represented.
And he went ahead and he went on his own.
He's obviously a very successful businessman.
And he met with all these players and he can, he went to, I think, I think he was successful in terms of the stars.
There are like six.
He got five of them.
And he convinced me to come back and play for their team.
So this has been going on now for about six years.
And last time they almost qualified.
And this time they are two games away from qualifying.
The play-in, yeah.
The teams that are up.
New Caledonia, Jamaica.
There are four teams that haven't been in that are going to be in for sure.
Cape Verde, Curaçao, Jordan, and Uzbekistan.
For them to get in, they have to play two playoff games against Bolivia.
Bolivia is probably good.
And you've never guessed.
Next one is Iraq.
I saw that.
And we got it up on the screen here.
So these are not Iran.
Iraq.
These are two spots.
There are six teams now competing for two spots.
Those games are actually random.
Now, Iran is in the tournament.
Actually, they're in the tournament and they've asked not to play their games in the United States.
We'll see what the status of that is.
They wanted their games moved all exclusively to Mexico.
But where is the championship being played if they were to play in the championship has been played at Meadowlands?
Are they going to just not meet the semifinals?
I thought they were, it's reversed of the last time.
The last time they had the World Cup here, the semifinals were played at Meadowlands and the finals were played at the Coliseum in LA.
LA.
I think they're reversing that, but they're not using the Coliseum anymore.
They're using the new football field.
SoFi.
Pardon me?
SoFi Stadium.
Yeah, I imagine.
Carcel City.
But you know, we don't have stadiums that really fit the number of people they get.
The only one that will is Dallas.
Well, if we use some of our college stadiums, you know, Michigan State, they get 100,000 people for a game.
And I'm not going to say regularly, but it's not unusual.
Right.
Whereas our football stadiums run more like 60 to 80,000.
Yeah, but our college football stadiums.
But we're using the pros.
Right.
Yeah.
The venues are broken, which makes sense because they're in major.
And you only have a couple of college stadiums at 100.
Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State.
I'd love to know Auburn's number.
When it's full, Alabama.
Notre Dame.
But real close.
Well, Notre Dame is about 80,000, I think.
Notre Dame, I don't think is 100,000.
Right.
And you know, Jerry Jones can get that up to, he did it for the Super Bowl.
He got it like 110 or 120 because you can have standing room.
Yeah.
Michigan Stadium remains number one.
So what size?
How much?
107,000.
Okay.
Beaver Stadium, 106,000.
Ohio Stadium, 102,000.
Beaver Stadium, that's Penn State.
Ohio Stadium, 102,0 Kyle Field, that's Texas AM, 102.
LSU, 102.
Tennessee, 101.
Sabin Field, that's Alabama, of course, 101.
And at number eight, Texas, Darrell K.
Royal, Texas and Royal Stadium, 100,000.
So you're right, just eight.
How could Texas not be the biggest?
I think Michigan likes, you know, in Michigan, we like to keep that number.
So I think there's little tricks in that.
So what just before we sign off, how big is Dallas?
What's the biggest pro?
Dallas?
Good question.
Let's get that.
And I'm going to, you're, I'm going to guess.
I think you're probably right because even the newer stadium is built, they put more luxury boxes and sets because that's the money.
Meadowlands is smaller than a giant stadium, a little small, like 8,000 seats smaller, but more luxury boxes.
Right.
That's the new right there.
That's where the money is made.
So the NFL stadium at capacity, number one, per usual.
Well, Mayor, number one is MetLife.
What size?
82,000.
So I guess they have an asterisk next to Cowboy Stadium because you're right.
What do they say?
They can expand, as the mayor said, per usual.
You are right.
ATNT Stadium is listed as 80,000, but can reach to 100,000 for certain events.
That's right.
Lambeau Field's number two because we had these big additions.
Your New York Giants are number one.
Lambeau Field's number two, but we put up new seats up in the end zones.
I went to a bowl game at Dallas Stadium where they did the 100,000.
They did it at Cotton Bowl.
Yeah.
Around the beginning of when it was first.
I've been to about five or six games there.
It's a great place to watch a football game.
They have a tremendous, they have a tremendous television set that goes from 20-yard line to 20-yard lines.
Very controversial.
Nobody wanted it.
They said it would distract from the team.
They said it was too low.
So he moved it up higher.
Then they said, well, people wouldn't watch it.
It was too high up.
It actually is fabulous because you watch the play.
You don't watch that.
You watch the play.
And then, of course, every play, there's a little, there's 30, 40, 50 seconds.
And then you look up there and you watch it there.
And you realize that you've become so used to this from television, right?
that you feel a little deprived of the game that you don't see the replay.
Now, you could have a little television with you to see the replay, but I don't know, most people don't do that.
And it seems, I don't seem a little weird to be carrying a little television with you.
So I really found it terrific because when you're sitting at the stadium, no matter how good you are on football, and he's better than I am, and I'm pretty good, you can't see everything.
I mean, you're watching the quarterback, you're watching the pass receiver.
Maybe you're interested in a running back because you think you can't take in the whole thing.
So then when you get to see it, it really helps.
I thought it was a great addition to the game.
I thought more of them do it, but they don't have as big a screen that makes it so.
Are there bigger ones now?
I don't know, but I remember visiting and doing the tour.
Yeah.
It was incredible.
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, tomorrow, we're going to probably get a few more details on Iran because we're moving close to the weekend.
But we're moving close to the first deadline.
I don't know, but the first deadline means anything.
Well, we remember the last time he, the 10 days thing, that sticks with me.
The 10 days, and he seems to like weekends too.
Yeah, yeah.
So we've got to be ready for, you know, people are getting ready to relax on the weekends.
We're gearing up.
Right.
Getting ready.
Okay.
So you pray for the people of Israel.
Pray for the people of Ukraine.
People in Iran who are hoping, just hoping they can escape this, that all this from their point of view will result in their being able to escape this tyranny that they've been under forever and ever and ever, it seems.
Right.
Pray for us and mostly for our president because he's the one that has to make these decisions.
And as you can see when we go through them, they don't have easy answers.
They don't.
I mean, even answers you feel pretty confident about.
Who knows?
Who knows?
So pray for him.
He is doing a great job, but he's not doing it without your help.
And none of us are.
We'll see you tomorrow night, seven o'clock on Dell TV.
We probably have Mike back so he can get you all excited.
And then on X at eight.
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