America's Mayor Live (909): President Trump Brokers Deal Between Israel and Lebanon
Rudy Giuliani details President Trump's reported deal to eliminate Hezbollah, contrasting Iran's execution of 1,600 people with alleged Biden treason. He highlights a new U.S. naval blockade intercepting the Chinese tanker Rich Starry and critiques Pope Francis's anti-war stance as contradicting Catholic doctrine. The segment also covers General John Brennan's Libya peace efforts, Democratic corruption allegations against Adam Swallwell and Nancy Pelosi, judicial controversies involving Ketanji Brown Jackson and Sonia Sotomayor, and concludes with a prayer for Israel, Iran, and Ukraine. [Automatically generated summary]
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Hezbollah Destroyed Lebanon00:15:01
Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor live from Palm Beach, Florida.
Florida, right.
Ted, what number is this?
909.
I am going to begin with a story they're just not going to tell you.
So we're going to start with it.
But when I say just not, the New York Post will, but you're not going to see it on any of the major networks.
I don't know if Fox and Newsmax will have it.
I hope.
Let's challenge them.
The regime of heightened terror, otherwise known as Iran, has sentenced four people to death and one to a shorter sentence.
And I'll tell you why I think that is.
And this is the first female protester that has recently been executed.
Recently, I emphasize.
In less than a year.
The Iranian regime that we're negotiating with has executed 1,600 people.
The woman they have sentenced to death is named Bita Hamadi.
She is a member of the National Council, the MEK oversight group, the National Council of Resistance to Iran.
I don't know if specifically she's a member of MEK.
But she works very, obviously, if she's a member of the NCRI, she works very closely with them.
And I don't think that MEK, well, I'm not sure they identify their members, but I mean, that's sure death, and it has been for about 40 of the 47 years of the existence of this regime.
Mohamed Dreza Majid Asil, and her name is Beta Hamadi.
Her husband, as well as their close friends, Baruz and Qurash Zamizad, who all lived in the same apartment building, have been sentenced to death.
A fifth defendant, Amir Hamadi, sounds like her brother, I think.
Has been sentenced to six years in prison for assembly and collusion against national security, as well as propaganda against the regime.
That sounds like the kinds of things that the Biden administration was convicting all of us of, you know, exercising your First Amendment right to disagree with the government.
She is supposedly throwing explosives, but no evidence has been offered in anything even approaching a court.
They don't even fake it.
The Nazis and the communists in Russia used to fake it most of the time.
They'd take you out back and kill you.
But if they were going to do one of these things, they'd have like a one day trial.
Like in the Old West, the judge would be getting the rope ready to hang you and he'd have a trial.
Pretty much the way the District of Columbia conducted the J 6 cases.
There is the beautiful young couple who are not going to have a life.
It's going to be taken away in the name of Allah.
That's correct.
It can be taken away in the name of Allah.
That's what the literal word of the prophet was, that you kill people like this.
I mean, just the mere fact that she's dressed that way, I'm surprised they didn't stone her.
She's obviously a lovely young lady.
He looks like a very, very good looking and handsome young man.
And maybe they wanted freedom.
And maybe they were enormously excited that we encouraged them to protest.
I hope we do something to try to save them.
And we will keep reminding people of it.
That's Bida Hamadi, freedom fighter.
Bida Hamadi, her husband, her husband, I know the names are not easy.
I've sort of gotten used to them over the years.
Muhammad Dreza, Muhammad Dreza, Majid Asl, Baruz and Kourtash Zami Zami Zaminijat.
God bless them.
We're offering now a prayer to the one true God to save them because you created us all.
These people have been on a 1600 year mission to eliminate us and eliminate their own people.
I mean, yes, yes, yes, yes, they're dedicated strictly based on the word of the Koran to destroying Jews and Christians, but they destroy their own people.
Certainly in this era, I don't want to go back over the 1600 year history of a conquering war cult, but.
During this period, they probably kill more of their own people, kind of like the red Chinese, which is maybe why they get along.
Uh, well, it looks like um, uh, Israel and Lebanon have uh, at least gotten close enough so that the president is has he worked out already or or is in the process of working out bringing them to the White House for a peace?
Uh, now this is really important.
This is a very positive development.
In certain ways, this is independent of the regime of terror, maybe not independent of the regime of terror.
In and of itself, though, this has been a problem for quite some time.
And Lebanon has been just a little short of destroyed by Hezbollah.
Lebanon was a country Way back, in which Christians, Jews, and Muslims got along tolerably well.
It wasn't like Mayfield, USA, but let's say they didn't, for a long, long period of time, it was one of the calmest and most tolerant places in the Middle East.
And they had a very, obviously, a very strong Muslim community, but a very vibrant Christian community and a very vibrant Jewish community.
And at the very beginning, we're not part of the group of countries that went to war against Israel.
Over the years, however, Lebanon was infiltrated by Hezbollah.
Hezbollah was created by the reign of terror by the Islamic Empire as part of a peace of that empire.
At its height, the Ayatollah, the second Ayatollah, Khomeini, virtually controlled, it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say, he controlled Lebanon and Syria.
He had a lot more control over Iraq after Biden failed to negotiate the status of forces agreement.
May have been the only American that ever failed to do a status of forces agreement.
Uh, you could negotiate it if I sent you.
Um, who knows?
I mean he came away with a big contract for his brother that nobody's ever bothered to investigate oh, like a quarter of a billion dollar contract to build houses that would, I don't think, ever build.
Uh, nobody's nobody's bothered to investigate that, because Biden has gotten away with Well, you know, in the vernacular or poetically, one would say Biden has gotten away with murder.
I'm not accusing Biden of murder.
He's done everything else, but treason, yeah, for sure.
So Hezbollah has basically gotten to the point of just about destroyed Lebanon.
They have, there's no more Jewish community, obviously.
They're either dead or fled.
There's a minuscule remnant of the beautiful Christian community that was there.
And it was a beautiful liturgy, a beautiful group of people, best represented in the United States by Danny Thomas and St. Jude's Hospital from the beautiful heart of the Lebanese people.
And of course, for the last 20 years, the UN kept the peace there, which meant that every day they attacked Israel, and possibly with the UN peacekeeping forces either helping them or cheering for them.
Hezbollah has been reduced dramatically by Israel.
They were the main cog in the Iranian proxy lineup.
Behind them were the Houthis, Hamas, and then groups that would be a challenge to start pronouncing all their names.
And they're small and probably pretty much eliminated.
Hamas is devastated.
You can tell that the Houthis don't have much because they're not doing a damn thing about the blockade.
There's no question that Iran asked them to see if they could block the Red Sea again, and they haven't moved and haven't heard a peep out of them, which means they've either been completely decimated or they're smart enough not to listen to Iran any longer, and they're scared as hell of the United States.
Remember, we made peace with them.
And Israel occasionally has taken a little more pieces out of them.
When they try to attack Israel, their success was in blocking the Red Sea.
Their failure was in attacking Israel.
I don't know.
You'd have to look carefully.
And I'm sure they got a few of their rockets through.
But by and large, the history of their trying to hit Israel has been wasting rockets.
It's a long flight.
For example, Hezbollah was 20 miles, 30 miles away at the shortest point.
Hamas was 12 miles away.
Yemen is all the way down at the bottom of the Saudi Arabia.
You have to go all the way across Saudi Arabia to get there or go around the water.
For that part of the world, it's a long flight, and it makes the incredibly effective Israeli missile defense that much more effective.
So they really didn't do much damage to Israel.
Israel did a lot more damage to them.
So did America.
We bombed the hell out of them for a period of time and then made peace.
And they left the Red Sea alone.
And they would shoot rockets into Israel every so often, I think, to appease the Ayatollah to no effect.
And now it looks like they're not players any longer.
The threatened blockage of the Red Sea is in the minds of the monsters in Iran.
So it is about time for a peace.
And what do you make of some of the details we're hearing kind of come out from either side, Mayor?
On which?
On Lebanon?
Yeah, let's.
Well, Lebanon, do you think that this meeting will happen, first of all?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I don't know how.
I don't know how.
Look, an awful lot of things here in this situation get promised and then they don't happen.
So, the idea of the president, and you know him better than anyone, he probably truly feels he can get these two guys in a room Prime Minister, I don't know who would be more reluctant.
Does Bibi want more time to wipe out, not Lebanon, Hezbollah?
Now, this would not prevent him from doing that.
In fact, if the deal turns out the way it's being discussed, it would be Lebanon would assist Israel in eliminating Hezbollah, which at times they've attempted to do to no avail.
But if they worked directly with Israel, then the possible side effects where part of Lebanon does get destroyed as a result of taking out Hezbollah could be controlled tremendously.
So it would be a very, very smart thing for them to do.
Now, Iran was pushing very hard for this deal.
Now, they have a different purpose in mind, so you've got to watch it real carefully.
Their purpose is, you know, no more attacks in Lebanon.
Iran's Strait of Hormuz Map00:15:08
Right.
As if Lebanon is the same thing as Hezbollah.
And it's not.
Hezbollah, in fact, is the biggest enemy that Lebanon has ever had in its history.
Virtually destroyed probably about 30% of its population.
Right.
And so it's very complicated.
And as is always the case, the devil is in the details here.
It could come out either way.
But are we dealing with something similar to back when you had to deal with Arafat, where internal, this Lebanese leader is constrained from domestic, you know, folks that just refuse to allow him to meet with Bibi, right?
To be seen with him.
Correct.
They haven't had a meeting in forever.
And why isn't the media pressure and the why is it always on Bibi Netanyahu and Israelis when it appears that the Lebanese leader is the one that's saying, I can't meet face to face with Bibi Netanyahu?
Yet, you know, the international media pressure will continue to be on Bibi Netanyahu even though we have Lebanese leadership.
Because the major emphasis in the elite media is anti Semitic, anti Jewish.
Has been unfortunately for several centuries.
I mean, England, France, it broke out in Germany as the horrendous Holocaust.
But anti Semitism in France and England was as virulent as Germany at the turn of the last century.
The Dreyfus case is, you know, historically famous for the deep seated anti Semitism in France.
I remember during the Bush administration going to Vienna.
To go to a conference about all the breakout of massive anti Semitism in France, in the villages of the French villages where they were burning, the Muslims there were burning synagogues and killing Jewish people.
I mean, it was before the Muslims really took over, but now big parts of England and France are taken over by the Muslims.
It's much worse than it was then.
I mean, the anti Semitism is a lot more forward.
I would say the blockade has worked perfectly.
There's no resistance to it, which has to tell you that Iran has nothing.
I really don't know why we're negotiating with them.
It's like negotiating against yourself.
I mean, here they threaten to block the Red Sea.
They threaten to destroy us if we block them from going through the Strait of Hormuz.
Their entire economy depends on their being able to get oil out through the Strait of Hormuz.
They don't have massive pipelines like Saudi Arabia has or the Emirates.
And they haven't even thrown us a rock.
Right.
I told you beforehand, I didn't think they would because we spent 10 days wiping them out all along the coast.
If we want to put up a map, we can show you what we're talking about.
You want to put one up or do you want me to?
I can put up a map of the.
Just the whole area of the Strait.
The Strait of Hormuz.
Yep, I'll get that up in a second.
Well, what's that great picture you got there, Ted?
Well, we had it up earlier.
You have me.
You got to tell people what that is.
We had it up.
Well, you were talking about it.
I put it up.
It was just a map of the Iranian proxies, right?
Oh, well, yeah.
Where they're located.
The ones that used to exist.
Right, right.
The ones that we've destroyed.
Well, there you go.
That is the Persian Gulf or the Arabian Sea, depending on whether you're on the.
You're on the eastern side of it, the western side.
Persia, Iran is the eastern side, and the Saudi Arabian Peninsula is the western side.
It looks like north and south, the way that.
Right, right.
That's okay.
Just leave it there.
It looks like north and south.
It looks like Persia is north and.
Emirates.
Oman.
And Emirates and Saudi Arabia are south, but the reality is that's east and west.
And there you're looking at.
um hey you're looking at a ship being able to get through the straits uh now ships are allowed to go through that are not going to or from an iranian port so if you're going to cutter you're going to get through now that is um very easy for us to track I mean,
this is that entire Persian Gulf, Arabian Gulf, or whatever the hell you want to call it, is live on television 24 hours a day.
And you probably can see it from the Pentagon.
If Pete Hegset wants to go pick out a ship, he just goes and picks out a ship.
Well, here's, do you want to hear from them?
Yeah, let's have them describe it.
I'm going to tell you about the Shadow Field.
Which we've pretty much eliminated, but nobody else has been able to do that.
On Monday, 13 April, this morning I'd like to give you an update on the ongoing blockade in the CENTCOM AOR area of responsibility.
On Monday, 13 April at 10 a.m. Eastern Standard Time, at the direction of the President, America's Joint Force began implementing a blockade against Iran under the leadership of Admiral Cooper and the team at CENTCOM.
Let me be clear.
This blockade applies to all ships, regardless of nationality, heading into or from Iranian ports.
The U.S. action is a blockade of Iran's ports and coastline, not a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
Enforcement will occur inside Iran's territorial seas and in international waters.
In addition to this blockade, the joint force through operations and activities in other areas of responsibility, like the Pacific area of responsibility under the command of Admiral Paparo, will actively pursue any Iranian-flagged vessel or any vessel attempting to provide material support to Iran.
This includes Dark Fleet vessels carrying Iranian oil.
As most of you know, Dark Fleet vessels are those illicit or illegal ships evading international regulations.
sanctions or insurance requirements.
He's he's um, those are great.
General Dan Raisin Cain giving an update on the blockade.
It appears to be, I know he uh, the president loves the Raisin Cain part, right?
I remember when he first mentioned his name during uh, it was a campaign speech, you know, before he was the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the president mentioned how he met him overseas and he loved his middle name.
He loved that Raisin Cain, Raisin Cain, right?
General Raisin, and he started referring to him as General Raisin, which I also thought was kind of funny.
He he is um, he has he and Admiral Cooper have um.
This is as close to perfect a military situation, a military victory as we have ever had or anybody has ever had.
Now, it is true.
It's been, one might say, it's been spun against them or it's been spun to the point where there's doubt about it.
Right.
Which is bizarre.
But I mean, you really got to be stupid to fall for it.
So, I hate to look at the casualty list, but so let's leave that out.
Let's just damage, damage to the military.
Let's look at the blockade.
Yeah.
I mean, we are controlling their lifeline and cutting it off, which we're choking them economically.
And there is no doubt.
That if this were a, if this were a rational regime which it is not uh, we would be, we would be talking about a um, we'd be, we'd be, we'd be talking about a peace of some kind right, but it is not a rational uh, it is not a rational regime right, it's?
Uh, it's the opposite of a rational regime, that's, that's right.
So, otherwise known as an irrational regime.
There's another map here yeah well that's that's, that's it.
That's a that that gives you a sense of How narrow the strait is, and how, if you had anything, if you had anything of any substance to throw up against us, it would be pretty easy to do, right?
Right.
And it appears that some of these ships have been warned by the US, and at this point, they have all listened to, we'll call them strong suggestions by the United States Navy.
Security to port.
Yeah, which I don't know how many it is now.
In that area right there, there are 15, there are a lot of ships, but we have 15 warships.
We also have a lot of minesweepers that are operating day and night to make certain that whatever mines they put in are taken out.
And since ships, you can see the traffic now is quite active.
And the more we can get it to be active legitimately, and we can start moving oil from Qatar and natural gas, and the faster the price of oil and natural gas is going to return to normal.
Although this blockade is going to affect it.
Now, it has to if you want to eliminate Iran.
Otherwise, if you don't take the pain right now, they will periodically over the next.
A couple of decades do it to you whenever the hell they want to.
Right.
That's if we stop now.
Either we solve this or we leave it for our children and our grandchildren.
And Iran gets to show the world, look at the leverage we have.
We don't even need news.
We can shut down the global economy and call the shots.
Correct.
Now, what they had been doing is operating what they call a shadow fleet.
A shadow fleet is a group of about.
I think it may be as many as 1,000, 1,500 ships that are kind of like impossible or very difficult to identify whose flag they are sailing under, who they're sailing for, where they're going, where they're cut.
And they keep changing.
They keep changing ownership, they keep changing names, they keep changing serial numbers.
And this is the way Iran has gotten around sanctions for a very, very long time.
Now, it does put a great strain on their economy anyway.
That's why they're in such terrible shape.
But this keeps them alive.
It looks like so far we've been 100% successful in tracking them down and finding them and being able to cut through the.
This is the Dodgers they set up.
This is apparently one of the so called Dodgers.
Let's see how far they've made it.
Well, the one that they traced is quite appropriately one headed to China.
It ain't going to get to China.
The name of the vessel was the Rich Stary.
It was, in fact, a Chinese oil and chemical tanker.
There it is, yeah.
And it masked its location in the Persian Gulf for 10 days.
It was hiding out.
to try to get through.
And then it emerged in the Gulf of Oman.
And all of a sudden, there were a couple of American destroyers.
It had a choice.
And China made the choice to turn it around.
Ain't gonna get no, as they say in Newark, Earl from there.
Well, this is the map of the Rich Starry, and you can see the blockade working.
The blue, watch the blue.
Yeah, yeah.
That's the Rich Starry.
See it?
And it turns around here.
It makes it all the way near the blockade, and then watch it turn around here.
Oh, yeah.
And that went back.
That's where it was met by.
At least two destroyers.
Now, what they would have done, they would not have blown it out of the water.
They would have taken it, captured it.
They would have gone aboard and they would have taken it and they'd taken the oil.
I think, I mean, I think, don't quote me on this, but I think the president really would like to take a lot of oil.
Yeah, why not?
Imagine taking the Chinese oil.
I mean, why not?
Man, they owe us so much from COVID.
We could take all of those things.
Ships Unable to Leave Gulf00:02:48
But in any event, it's not getting to China.
And I don't know if any of that, anything can get through.
I doubt it.
I doubt it.
Now, this took quite a bit of tracing through something called Lloyd's List and an analysis of it.
I mean, this is like laundering money.
If you think of it as they launder the ownership and the.
Of the vessel.
They keep changing it.
They keep changing their name.
They keep changing the serial number.
These are all absolute violations of the law of the sea.
Absolute violations.
But of course, why would the Chinese and the Iranians care?
They're cold blooded killers who, as I said, what they have in common is they enjoy killing their own people.
And they create like a fake trail.
If you were an amateur and you were looking at this, you'd say, oh, this is not a Chinese.
Gosh, this is Indian or it's Vietnamese.
So we've apparently turned around about a couple of dozen of these.
One's headed to Russia, too.
But the story was one that was traced and put out so that you could see it.
I don't think they want to give away all their secrets so that they haven't put out all of them.
But so far, so far, it is working.
And the conclusion of one of the experts for Lloyd's List, who does this for a living, says that its ships now appear unable to leave the Persian Gulf.
Signs are that after years of dodging restrictions, the Iranian shadow fleet has finally met its match in the U.S.
That blockade.
Its ships now appear unable to leave the Persian Gulf.
This was assembled by Iran, Russia, and Venezuela, and also apparently by China.
Right.
All horrible, horrible, homicidal regimes.
Right.
So we'll stay on top of this, Mayor.
You know, another.
I think it's time to take a short break, and we'll be right back.
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This is Rudy Giuliani, and we're back with America's Mayor Live.
You know, I have to apologize because I put out a tweet that I was going to have my son Andrew on, who is in charge of security for the World Cup because it's getting close.
But you'll excuse the fact that he's at a meeting at the White House, I think.
And if he gets out, he'll call us.
Otherwise, we'll put him on the next day or two.
We're also, we've also, apparently, we're working very, very hard on another accomplishment that would be quite significant, and that is in Libya.
Libya has been, since the time we just overthrew it without any idea of who the heck was going to take over, Libya has been effectively in a civil war between, I guess you would call it the Eastern and Western part.
And it's allowed the Russians to come in.
And set up a pretty large operation there, which gives them access into Africa.
And they're using it and exploiting it quite effectively.
Well, Lieutenant General John Brennan has been working on a, under the president's guidance, he's been working on an attempt, which now has come to fruition, of trying to get both sides to come together.
because both of them are kind of being, oh, I guess, you know, pretty much like the Chinese and the mafia do.
The Russians are kind of extorting them, stealing a lot.
And usually what happens is these countries are attracted to the great offers that China and Russia make to them.
And then China and Russia start to take over everything.
Sort of like, you know, the mafia comes in and they're going to give you a little money for your business.
And then all of a sudden they own half your business or maybe all of it.
Or they break your legs.
That's essentially what's going on.
So, Brennan, Lieutenant General John Brennan, not the notorious criminal from the Biden administration named Brennan, sensed an opportunity to bring them together.
And so he actually had them, he actually organized with the American military.
They're doing joint maneuvers.
So both Abdul Salam Al-Zubi, who is the head of the government in Tripoli, which is on the western side of Libya.
And I guess the more recognized, the government that, if you can call it any of the governments legitimate, the legitimate government.
And then on the western side...
it's, he's been, he's been basically um, He's been basically engaged in this since Haftar has been engaged in this from the time that Qaddafi was overthrown.
That was in 2011.
General Khalifa Haftar has attempted from Benghazi, that's his headquarters, to take over.
So, depending on what part of Libya you're in, one or the other is going to control, and they periodically go to war with each other.
And that's given a great opportunity for Russia to come in.
And General Brennan and the United States military, under this personal guidance of the president, have been working on trying to create a peace between them.
And pretty soon, pretty soon we might actually have a formal peace.
But right now, they've actually done maneuvers together.
So he's got them working together.
I want to show you a picture of the Pope.
The Pope is in Cameroon.
And the Pope is in Cameroon, and he's urging the people of Africa to break the chains of corruption.
Well, that's true.
I mean, Africa is overwhelmed by corruption, South Africa being the worst of all.
But it's also plagued, particularly sub Saharan Africa, by wars.
And the wars are wars that the cause of it is, you know, 1600 years old.
It's that the Muslims don't want any Christians around.
They don't want Christianity to exist.
Jesus was great, but everything written about him in the New Testament is a big fraud.
And the real true God is the former sun god, Allah, not the God of the Israelis or the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit of Christianity.
Now, the Pope was very, very strong on breaking the ties of corruption.
He was, without mentioning President Trump, extremely critical of the monsters who wage war.
He's already told us, even though he wasn't terribly far from the place where St. Augustine was a bishop, he basically told us that all war is sinful and wrong and there's no just war.
Might have stopped off in Hippo and maybe read a little of St. Augustine, Holy Father.
And, or, I still have him here from last night.
Maybe, maybe.
Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theological, right?
Right here, this book here.
This is the main volume right here, the second volume.
I'm sorry, they're not actually in correct order.
The second volume is right here.
There are three characteristics of a war, all of which are more than met by this war.
This war is an easy one as a just war when you consider the atrocities committed by the regime.
You also wonder who is defending Christianity.
I mean, to go to Africa and not mentioning the slaughter of Christians, particularly this Easter and Palm Sunday, and there's plenty of Christian slaughter going on in Africa by the Muslims, that Nigeria gets attention, even though there's just tremendous fake news and lying about it.
And Trump himself has been heavily criticized for bringing it up, even though he's absolutely right.
And I know he's angry at Trump over the wars or whatever, even though the settled doctrine, not settled in the sense of part of the teaching of the church, this is not one of those things on which the Pope exercises infallibility.
This is guidance from the Pope.
Meaning, as a Catholic, you don't have to agree with this if your conscience leads you in a different direction.
So, if you're more influenced by St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas and the settled doctrine of the church on a just war, which takes up pages and pages of the Summa, then you're not committing any kind of sin by disagreeing with the Pope.
Now, I don't know if most people understand that.
And I really wish, I really wish, and I say this most humbly because, look, as a Catholic and as a Christian, even, I'm not comfortable disagreeing with the Pope about anything.
I guess I have it a little easier with this Pope because I disagree with him on the White Sox.
And this is obviously of greater substance than disagreeing with him on the White Sox.
But this is an area in which the balance of authority historically in the tradition of the church is on the president's side and mine.
And being American, you'd think he'd at least understand this is more nuanced than just.
The war against Hitler wasn't a just war.
It wasn't a just war against Hitler to save the six million Jews and the six million other people that he slaughtered.
If he had kept going, there'd be no more Jews at all.
There'd be no more Roma.
There'd be no more who knows what else.
Yeah, would the Vatican exist if the American Revolution never took place?
Would the Vatican exist?
It's an extremely touchy and sensitive subject about which I don't know that we have the full depth of truth.
How much negotiating did Pius XII and whoever his predecessor was do with Hitler in order to save the Catholic Church?
Because you have both.
Facts, I think facts.
And that is that there was a certain amount of negotiating with Hitler to save some of the churches and some of the Catholic communities.
There also was an extraordinarily large effort on the part of Pius XII to save Jewish people in the Vatican.
And I will say, even though I'm quite angry at Italy right now, I was very proud when I went through Yad Vashem.
And it's a terrible thing to say.
But when you see all these terrible numbers of deaths, most of which were in Poland, even more than Germany, the least of which were in Italy.
And I have close friends, and one of whom has passed away, who was saved by Italians during the Holocaust.
Ray Harding, actually, was the gentleman who was saved by Italians, which he always said is the reason why he's supported Mario Cuomo and me as head of the Liberal Party.
So I, but I do think that.
Look, both of them kind of be better if they didn't take each other on, right?
And you know, the media is a big part of it, right?
They're goading it.
Any chance they can get a powerful world leader to go after Trump, they're going to go after Trump.
I mean, they both have a legitimate point.
The Pope has obviously every right to his position as a moral leader on a very, very unilateral view that all war is evil and sinful.
No exception.
Rather naive, leaves you in mortal danger.
And particularly at a time in which his church is being targeted as it has been on and off, if not consistently, by the Muslim people call them the Muslim extremists, but by the text of the Quran and the Hadith.
Right.
Swalwell has got his, huh?
But it's getting worse and worse.
There's a whole article that I recommend to you by Miranda Devine, the great columnist, about how this is just part of the Pelosi machine and part of the corruption and immorality and disgusting nature of the Democrat Party.
And here today, we got a major Democrat committing murder, the former lieutenant governor of Virginia.
I mean, how far are they going to go?
I mean, it's Pelosi herself is a completely amoral individual.
Look at all the money she stole over all those years.
The insider trading that she did is in the multi-millions of dollars.
She and Biden, these are no pikers.
I mean, Biden took 21 million minimum from Red China and then gave up the airbase 400 miles from China.
It wasn't connected like hell, it wasn't.
And that other guy, who's that?
Which one is that now that we're looking at?
This is Swalwell.
Oh, Swalwell.
This is an old ridiculous video of this guy.
Is he out of Congress now?
Yeah, thank God for it.
It's just amazing how Democrats.
We should have been out years ago.
Right.
But anybody going to investigate him now?
I mean.
See, that's the deal.
They get him out, tell him to force him out of Congress.
We'll embarrass you, but.
First of all, that young woman.
Described if it's true, a straight out now case of rape.
Right.
We're not talking about sexual harassment.
Yeah, we're not talking about.
I don't know.
Drugged rape, stoked unconscious are her allegations.
Yeah, well, that's first degree rape in any state, anywhere.
Not prosecuted, it's a fix.
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And apparently, there are a bunch of other women.
I don't know if they're as serious or more serious or less serious, but certainly that would support her allegations.
Because when you're a rapist like that, I've always followed this rule as a prosecutor.
If this guy's a rapist, we're going to have four or five more.
Looks like there are four or five more.
Don't know if they're all rape, but they're all in the area of sexual harassment, harassment of women.
Treating women like he's some kind of a Muslim extremist.
The president and Powell, this is a real stalemate and it's ridiculous.
Powell has to step down as chairman in a month.
The president has named Kevin Walsh as the new chairman.
He's before the Senate committee run by Tom Tillis.
To be confirmed as the chairman.
But here's the hooker Powell gets to stay if he wants to, as just a member until 2028.
Now, most chairmen, if not all, have the dignity to step down after, particularly when the president doesn't want them.
Because although the Supreme Court has carved out, it appears that it's carved out a kind of independence for them.
That makes them a fourth branch of government, the Fed, which sounds to me blatantly unconstitutional.
Thank you, Supreme Court.
But He says he's going to stay on.
Meanwhile, Tillis, who is acting like the judges who decide they can be the kings, says, I'm not going to nominate Wash, although I approve of him.
In fact, I want to nominate him.
And I want to advise and consent affirmatively.
But you've got to stop investigating.
You've got to stop investigating Powell because it's politically motivated.
Cost overrun on the contract.
I know about contracts.
I did it, I investigated that for a living.
New York City is awash in that.
80% is outrageous.
Somebody wasn't watching that contract.
Now, could kickbacks be involved?
It'd be unusual if they weren't in the way government works.
Come on.
Now, does he know about it?
I don't know.
But it's certainly on his watch that it happened.
And somebody's responsible for that 80% overrun.
Did he not pay attention?
Was he involved?
I don't know.
I'm not going to declare him innocent or guilty, but it is a legitimate area of investigation.
And it should be investigated, and the Senate should stop obstructing the investigation.
And Judge, what?
No, the Judge Blasberg.
Yeah, Bose.
Bose Bubble.
Judge Bose Bubble, you know I love to pronounce their names.
Judge Boseberg has said you can't go ahead with the investigation.
But we don't have a country any longer.
If you're in the District of Columbia circuit, well, District of Columbia District Court, you might as well be in Venezuela.
I mean, let's face it, you might as well be in Venezuela.
I don't know how this is going to work itself out.
The Pentagon is expanding and trying to expand the, and this is a great idea for the military industrial complex.
They're trying to expand people who, like automakers and other manufacturers, are being involved in defense contracting.
They're trying to open up the field because it really has become, even a monopoly.
What would you call it?
Like a sort of a.
Incestuous.
Yeah, I mean, it goes back to Eisenhower telling it.
Same people, the same groups that get entrenched with the.
Yeah, and corruption, galore, and overcharging.
We spend way, way too much.
And now that we have to catch or not catch, stay ahead of China and Russia, and we should be miles ahead of them.
This is a very, very good idea.
This has to be looked at and it has to be disciplined.
And that is a matter of national security, not just corruption investigations.
And I tell you, you got a guy who's the deputy secretary of war.
Mr. Feinberg, he is a genius.
And Pete has, as I've told the president, every time I see him, just about, I am really impressed with Pete Hickset.
He's one of the stars of the administration.
Marco, yeah, absolutely.
You know that.
But Pete, right there, too.
And one of the reasons for it is Deputy President.
Secretary Feinberg, who ran, who developed, created, and ran one of the biggest financial institutions in America before he came into the Defense Department.
And that's where you got the great combination.
You know, you sort of have like Kennedy had McNamara, who was a great organizational and business genius.
So you put the two of them together, and you got quite a combination there.
And I credit Pete with that because Pete did the first thing that I tell people to do in my lesson on leadership.
One of my five principles of leadership is the first thing you got to do is ask yourself, what don't I know when you take over a very, very important position?
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What am I not good at?
And go get somebody who's good at that.
And if there's nothing that you think is a weakness, ask your wife.
And if she tells you that you're perfect, then she's afraid of you, she's lying to you, or she's not a good wife.
And you're both living in Mars.
And I don't mean the Mars that we're going to.
I am very, very upset with Italy.
I see, I don't know if you saw this picture.
I don't know if I have a copy of it, this picture of Georgia Maloney.
But she looks very, very unhappy.
She looks extremely unhappy.
And the president has basically said she said that the president's statements about the Pope were unacceptable, and the president said, she's unacceptable.
Look, you can have an opinion as to whether the president had a right to say that, not say it, whether the president was wise in saying it or not.
He had absolutely every right to say it.
And I mean, and what the Pope said was not a fair description of the status of Catholic teaching on war.
It just isn't.
He has to explain that there's another position that is absolutely acceptable for Catholics, and it's the majority one.
That's right.
So there's plenty more to cover.
We never have enough time.
We don't have enough time.
But you come back tomorrow and we'll get you.
We gave you all the ones that you're not going to hear or you're not going to hear emphasized anyplace else.
One last one, and that is Justice Sotomayor, a couple of weeks or so ago, in an argument, said something about Justice Kavanaugh coming from having a silver spoon in his mouth, and he didn't come from.
And in fact, Justice Kavanaugh came from a middle class background and worked his way right through everything.
And she shouldn't have said that, and I mentioned it at the time.
Well, she was giving a speech at the University of Kansas School of Law, and she apologized.
I consider that very, very noteworthy.
And you're a good woman, I disagree with you, Justice, but you're a good woman.
God bless you.
Pray for the people of Israel, pray for the people of Iran, pray for the people of Ukraine, pray for us.
Pray for those poor people that are sentenced to death in Iran, the people from MEK and NCRI, the lady and her husband and their two friends.
And pray that we get rid of this regime of terror, which looks like the new iteration of it is even worse than the one before.
This is not a bunch of, these are the same animals that we've had around for 47 years, except most people think they're more IRGC and even more brutal.
Well, we'll have more on that tomorrow.
Thank you very much for joining us.
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We'll see you tomorrow night.
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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.
There 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.
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A country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country in the world.
ever.
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