Rudy Giuliani - America's Mayor Live (915): U.S Delegation to Fly to Pakistan as Iran Delegation Arrives
Aired: 2026-04-24
Duration: 35:42


=== Rudy Giuliani in Times Square (15:30) ===

[00:00:00]  Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani.
[00:00:02]  This is America's Mayor Alive, and we're coming to you from Times Square.
[00:00:09]  Hello, this is Rudy Giuliani.
[00:00:10]  This is America's Mayor Alive, and we're that one went out for sexual harassment and fraud.
[00:00:22]  I don't know what's going to happen to the one that was here.
[00:00:25]  It's a pretty darn good fraud case if the allegations are correct.
[00:00:29]  The allegations say that they funneled millions of dollars in many, many murders.
[00:00:35]  Because he got paid for doing it, his hitman.
[00:00:39]  The FBI agent covered up all those murders for him so he could keep his informant clean.
[00:00:48]  Well, one of the people, as it continued and got worse under Obama and then under Biden and people supporting the Southern Poverty Law Center.
[00:01:00]  Now, in addition to the fact that they committed those crimes, in which, in essence, you would say, They helped to finance in much the same way as Obama financed the killing of Americans by giving the Ayatollah hundreds of millions, if not billions of dollars, in cash.
[00:01:20]  Right.
[00:01:20]  Knowing full well that half the budget of the reign of terror is used to pay Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis.
[00:01:31]  That's right.
[00:01:35]  The IR.
[00:01:36]  I don't know.
[00:01:40]  By the FBI.
[00:01:42]  By Antifa, by Black Lives Matter, and by the Southern Poverty Law Center to create the fiction that it was Trump people that really created some kind of a terrible riot at the Capitol.
[00:01:56]  That in fact, the Trump people went there for a demonstration.
[00:02:00]  And when you listen to the invocations of their people and the failure to find invocations from the Trump people, it becomes obvious.
[00:02:13]  What I knew that night, because I had real informants that I don't pay, who came to me and told me that night that this was an Antifa Soros group, would include SPLC, run riot.
[00:02:32]  This is not our people.
[00:02:33]  They're being manipulated.
[00:02:34]  There were very odd people there.
[00:02:36]  And then they produced for me within a short period of time videos, and it's not informing.
[00:02:43]  on what the people did, he's encouraging them to do it.
[00:02:48]  He's leading an FBI rep. They get suspended sentences.
[00:02:54]  And then they have never allowed.
[00:02:58]  Here's another one that really is shocking and why this gambling has got to stop.
[00:03:04]  A special forces soldier was arrested yesterday for using classified information about the military operation against Maduro.
[00:03:14]  She made nine bets on Poly Market, or he made nine bets on Poly Market, and took in 400 grand.
[00:03:29]  Now, don't you consider that a breach of net?
[00:03:34]  So think about it this way.
[00:03:37]  Now that this is known, Moon Intelligence Services watch those markets for activity in Washington and places like that.
[00:03:44]  That had to be a tip off, at least to the more services, that something was going to happen.
[00:03:51]  And it sure was a tip off.
[00:03:53]  Right.
[00:03:55]  There's been a lot of talk recently.
[00:03:58]  About Pete Hegsett and about Pete being in trouble.
[00:04:01]  You like Pete.
[00:04:02]  So, why don't we put on Pete saying a few things?
[00:04:05]  Then we'll take a break and then we'll be back.
[00:04:07]  We'll put on Pete and General Kane.
[00:04:09]  They've been trying to get him from the area.
[00:04:10]  All right.
[00:04:11]  Right.
[00:04:11]  So, this is Pete Hegsett this morning giving an update on the operations in Iran.
[00:04:22]  Just give us a minute to queue this up.
[00:04:25]  Here we go.
[00:04:27]  In fast boats that attempt to put mines in the water.
[00:04:31]  or disrupt passage through the Strait of Hormuz to shoot and kill.
[00:04:35]  Our commanders have clear rules of engagement.
[00:04:38]  If Iran is putting mines in the water or otherwise threatening American commercial shipping or American forces, we will shoot to destroy.
[00:04:46]  No hesitation, just like the drug boats in the Caribbean.
[00:04:51]  President Trump has authorized the United States Navy to destroy any Iranian fast boats that attempt to put mines in the water.
[00:05:01]  On that bridge, our sailors maintain a constant watch, maneuvering the ship tactically and safely through always congested water space.
[00:05:11]  And there is a lot out there.
[00:05:13]  It is like driving a sports car through a supermarket parking lot on a payday weekend with thousands of kids in that parking lot as you attempt to maneuver through there to get to that ship that would attempt to run.
[00:05:29]  On that bridge, our sailors maintain a constant watch, maneuvering the ship tactically and safely.
[00:05:36]  through always congested water space.
[00:05:39]  And there is a lot out there.
[00:05:41]  It is like driving a sports car through a supermarket parking lot on a payday weekend with thousands of kids in that parking lot as you attempt to maneuver through there to get to that ship.
[00:05:54]  Fight alone.
[00:05:56]  We barely use the Strait of Hormuz as a country.
[00:05:59]  Our energy doesn't flow through there.
[00:06:02]  And we have plenty of energy.
[00:06:05]  Just look at the new global Congo line.
[00:06:08]  Headed to Texas, a beautiful picture.
[00:06:12]  Europe and Asia have benefited from our protection for decades, but the time for free riding is over.
[00:06:20]  America and the free world deserve allies who are capable, who are loyal, and who understand that being an ally is not a one way street, it's a two way street.
[00:06:32]  We are not counting on Europe, but they need the Strait of Hormuz much more than we do.
[00:06:39]  And might want to start doing less talking and having less fancy conferences in Europe and get in a boat.
[00:06:46]  This is much more their fight than ours.
[00:07:04]  Welcome back.
[00:07:06]  So I think that it is, from everything I can tell, the president has complete confidence in Pete Hakesett.
[00:07:16]  Welcome back.
[00:07:17]  So I think that it is, from everything I can tell, the president has complete confidence in Pete Hakesett.
[00:07:27]  And, you know, I don't know all of the ins and outs of that, but he should.
[00:07:34]  Pete is doing an exceptional job.
[00:07:37]  Secretary of Defense.
[00:07:41]  It's an enormously complex job.
[00:07:43]  There are any number of ways in which you can do it.
[00:07:46]  One of them is to be the guy with the big picture and the guy that creates the morale and the guy that creates the focus and the goal, which is so important in any organization.
[00:08:02]  And he is that guy.
[00:08:05]  And he has superb support.
[00:08:08]  Which is to his credit, that is exactly what a leader does.
[00:08:12]  Say, oh, they're really running the debunker.
[00:08:16]  Like hell, they are.
[00:08:17]  He's in charge.
[00:08:18]  He's got to make the final decision.
[00:08:21]  You do not demean an executive for having very strong people around him.
[00:08:26]  That makes a great executive.
[00:08:28]  I should have had before.
[00:08:34]  And these difficulties with some of these secretaries do not just involve.
[00:08:44]  Pete, they involve Steve Feinberg, and I, Steve has been remained with a very low profile, but I am an expert on Steve Feinberg.
[00:08:54]  He was my client when I was in private law practice, and Steve Feinberg is on matters of defense and so many others a genius and a great executive, a truly great executive.
[00:09:12]  So, you know, it's very, very interesting, but there was a good analysis done.
[00:09:17]  That this is a very different kind of war.
[00:09:23]  The wars that we have gotten used to, when they talk about the wars that they are comparing it to, they're comparing it to, for example, the Vietnam War or the wars in Afghanistan and in Iran and decapitation right at the beginning.
[00:09:49]  I mean, decapitation in a literal sense, we took out the head.
[00:09:53]  It would be like starting the war against Hitler and taking Hitler out.
[00:09:59]  And not only that, we went through days and days of massive bombing, having dismantled their military structure, having dismantled their manufacturing structure to support and to replace the military equipment that was taken away.
[00:10:23]  And if you look at the war from that point of view, and you look at their inability now to contest us, you realize the wisdom of that war plan.
[00:10:37]  We're now able to push them all around the Strait of Hormuz.
[00:10:41]  And I don't know that we can, I don't know that.
[00:10:47]  Every war has to have a different strategy and it has to fit that strategy.
[00:10:51]  And this strategy seems to be, this strategy seems to be pretty done, pretty done effective.
[00:11:04]  So let's see what we've.
[00:11:07]  Here are some of our big accomplishments, right?
[00:11:11]  We stopped.
[00:11:13]  Let me see if I can.
[00:11:14]  We stopped the first one that we really got good was the MV Tusca.
[00:11:24]  The MV Tusca, that was when we announced the blockade.
[00:11:27]  The MV Tusca was built in 2008, it was seized right off Iran.
[00:11:38]  It carries massive amounts of oil.
[00:11:47]  It's been listed under 18 different countries.
[00:11:51]  This is what we call the shadow fleet.
[00:11:54]  And it requires us to do this, it requires the help of the Justice Department and the FBI in China.
[00:12:03]  Then the MV Dorena.
[00:12:05]  That was being escorted in the uh, that was being not already was in the Indian Ocean, not ready to deliver oil to India or to China.
[00:12:14]  No, it's not, it's now being now being floated all around the Indian Ocean.
[00:12:21]  It's going to be put at a port, and it ain't going to get to India or China.
[00:12:25]  And uh, our friends in Iran aren't getting any money from that, so they can use it to kill us.
[00:12:31]  Uh, the MT Tiffany was taken yesterday, it has a false flag.
[00:12:39]  It was bordered in the Indian Ocean, and it was definitely transporting oil from Iran.
[00:12:50]  And they are, again, most likely China.
[00:12:56]  And then another one anchored off Achab Bihar, which was intended again for Asia.
[00:13:03]  And that's being held, the MV Hedy and the Majestic X, also taken in the Indian Ocean.
[00:13:10]  Remember, our boycott is not worldwide.
[00:13:14]  Our boycott is worldwide, and we will stop any Iranian being held, the MV Hedy and the Majestic X, also taken in the Indian Ocean.
[00:13:24]  Remember, our boycott is not worldwide.
[00:13:28]  Our boycott is worldwide, and we will stop any Iranian ship that has sanctioned oil, Iranian oil.
[00:13:41]  What does that mean?
[00:13:43]  It means that Iran's each day getting more and more bankrupt.
[00:13:52]  Not a loss of money, they don't have any money.
[00:13:58]  Which means very soon they can't eat food, which is intended to create what it always creates.
[00:14:07]  The end of a dictatorship is when the people can't eat.
[00:14:11]  Ashamed.
[00:14:13]  But they use methods that are brutal, absolutely brutal.
[00:14:21]  The Senate passed the bill that allows for the funding of ICE and I think the Department of Homeland Security, 50 to 48.
[00:14:32]  With two Republicans who get it and then tell me.
[00:14:36]  I'm going to move on to another story.
[00:14:39]  Yesterday, I pointed out to you that I'm sitting here right in the middle of where a one year old child, the first night that I was here at about one o'clock in the morning, was found abandoned on the streets right below me.
[00:14:53]  Yesterday, on the streets right below me, shortly before our show started, a man was stabbed fatally.
[00:15:05]  a homeless, at a homeless shelter, you know, the safe, wonderful homeless shelters they want to put all over the city, which are going to become enormously overcrowded with the incompetence of the boy mayor who's never had a job, never done anything, has ideas that are completely unrealistic.

=== Faith and the Value of Life (07:04) ===

[00:15:31]  Democrats, and particularly left-wing progressive Democrats, can't govern.
[00:15:35]  Because they can't administer it.
[00:15:38]  Their ideas are so unrealistic that they would never work in any business or any practical enterprise.
[00:15:45]  So, you know, if you think you're going to provide free food for people, whatever, it has no bearing on reality, which is why communism and socialism fail because they live in a world of their own that has no relationship to human nature.
[00:16:02]  And then they always end up in violence because people.
[00:16:08]  People revolt because they're screwed, because they can't eat.
[00:16:13]  So this was a, this was, this took place on 52nd and 9th, this stabbing, which is, Seven blocks from me.
[00:16:33]  Urban Pathways, Ninth Avenue drop incident.
[00:16:36]  34 year old man was stabbed multiple times in the abdomen.
[00:16:45]  Maybe for no reason at all.
[00:16:48]  There is a very, very disturbing headline, for me at least, I don't know about you, in the post.
[00:16:57]  The headline is Healthy Suicide.
[00:17:03]  It's a very, very It's a very, very sad case.
[00:17:08]  So she has found that in Switzerland, for the payment of $13,000, they will euthanize, they'll kill it.
[00:17:20]  They call it assisted suicide.
[00:17:22]  Of course, it's merc.
[00:17:24]  And her application has now been accepted by the clinic, who will get a $13,000 profit on killing it.
[00:17:34]  I mean, that is less than usually the mafia.
[00:17:37]  Charges for taking somebody out.
[00:17:39]  $13,500, excuse me.
[00:17:45]  So she basically says that it's her choice.
[00:17:53]  I could step off a motorway bridge or a tower block, but that would leave anyone finding me dealing with that for the rest of their lives.
[00:18:07]  She said she's been forced to travel to Switzerland.
[00:18:10]  As a hotly debated right to die bill has stalled in parliament over the last year, her son Marcus died at the age of 23.
[00:18:23]  To say goodbye to him, she's going to call them right from Switzerland right before she dies.
[00:18:34]  So, how do you feel about this?
[00:18:38]  This is, this is, um, it'll become the next fad, doesn't it?
[00:18:43]  Well, well, how do you should somebody?
[00:18:47]  She doesn't want to live anymore because her son is gone.
[00:18:50]  I feel like her whole life was built around her son.
[00:18:53]  Doesn't sound like she has a husband, doesn't whatever.
[00:18:55]  Uh, this is her picture.
[00:18:58]  I assume that's the picture of a son, it could be her.
[00:19:00]  I don't.
[00:19:03]  I'm totally against it.
[00:19:04]  100% against it.
[00:19:06]  Yeah, it sets a precedent of disastrous proportions.
[00:19:10]  100% against it.
[00:19:11]  I think it could lead to a, you know, like Rob kind of said, right?
[00:19:17]  A slippery slope type thing.
[00:19:21]  I just think it's unnatural and we should push back against suicide, self destructive.
[00:19:29]  I just can't.
[00:19:31]  I can't go with it, Mayor.
[00:19:33]  Right.
[00:19:35]  This is what the Dalianists were so.
[00:19:40]  This is what happens when you really demean human life.
[00:19:44]  There's no.
[00:19:45]  When you talk about, when you say war demeans human life, not if it's for a justifiable cause.
[00:19:50]  Right.
[00:19:50]  If you're saving those women who are going to be slaughtered by the Ayatollah from being slaughtered and raped and beaten, you're doing something very, very justifiable.
[00:20:03]  But if you're just stopping.
[00:20:06]  Life from happening if you are effectively participating in the reduction of the black race, which is what Planned Parenthood wanted to do in the first place, and it's now doing big time in America.
[00:20:20]  There's nothing justifiable about that.
[00:20:23]  And it really does come down to the consequence of our no longer believing in God.
[00:20:28]  Yes, because when we believed in God, which I do, I believe very strongly, I don't have this right.
[00:20:37]  It's not your life to take.
[00:20:38]  I don't have the right to help her, and I don't have the right to take my life.
[00:20:45]  I had nothing to do with putting me here.
[00:20:49]  My mother and father did, God did, the sin of Adam and Eve.
[00:20:58]  They were tempted with the fruit from the tree of knowledge, and they would know as much as God because.
[00:21:08]  Aren't we just as important as God?
[00:21:11]  Or should we be more important than God?
[00:21:14]  And the reason that people have a hard time accepting God is because they can't accept anything more intelligent, more knowing, more knowledgeable than themselves.
[00:21:27]  And when you say to yourself, when I sit down in a quiet room at night, try it tonight, and say to myself, I'm going to write down how the world began.
[00:21:45]  Why don't you tomorrow come back and send it to me?
[00:21:50]  How did the world begin?
[00:21:51]  You tell me, Jeeves.
[00:21:55]  You took the Big Bang?
[00:21:57]  Now, how did the Big Bang begin?
[00:22:01]  Well, some things happened that just created it.
[00:22:08]  Well, who put the things there?
[00:22:12]  And that's where faith comes in.
[00:22:14]  That's what faith is about.
[00:22:15]  Faith is not proof that god exists.
[00:22:17]  The reason that faith is so dynamic, the reason that faith can change worlds, is because it's a belief.
[00:22:27]  Reason can lead you to the point of understanding god, but it can't take you there.
[00:22:33]  It's faith that does that.

=== Asian Students Sued by NYC Schools (04:54) ===

[00:22:36]  Well, here we are in New York City, so I paid a little more attention to the New York City stories, like I did when I was on ABC, And it looks like they're going right back with the communist mayor to screwing around with Asian people who, you know, won a big case in the Supreme Court in the Harvard case.
[00:23:02]  So, I mean, the best high school in New York arguably is Stuyvesant.
[00:23:09]  It has been for years, the Bronx High School of Science and Brooklyn Tech, and they're all the.
[00:23:17]  Not only are they the best high schools in New York, they have at various times, I don't know if they've kept it up, been the best high schools in America.
[00:23:25]  Some enormous.
[00:23:26]  The city's discovery program would go discover other people that should get the seats at Stuyvesant High School or the others.
[00:23:39]  So there'd be a 20% carve out for people who didn't make the grade.
[00:23:46]  And Yi Feng Chen Sun, who's suing right now, was one of those who would have been accepted by the high school on the merits of her high school grades and her competitive exams.
[00:24:13]  But she was in the 20%, and exactly how they locate that 20%, I don't know.
[00:24:20]  Do they take out the bottom 20% or the middle?
[00:24:23]  Well, whatever 20% they took out, Yi Fang Chen's son was one of those.
[00:24:36]  And on Thursday, the Pacific Legal Foundation, which I assume is considerably different.
[00:24:42]  So the discovery carve out of qualified people to put in unqualified people deprived her son of a seat and she is suing.
[00:25:01]  The case is Krista McAuliffe Parent Teacher Organization, Kakagni versus DeBosiak.
[00:25:15]  There are other people in it.
[00:25:19]  It's sitting in the U.S. District of the Southern District of New York.
[00:25:24]  You want to know how political the courts are in New York and apparently even the federal courts.
[00:25:29]  Ted, it's been sitting there for six years.
[00:25:34]  Wow.
[00:25:35]  Since it's sitting there, the case against Harvard has been filed, gone all the way up on appeal, and it's decided by the Supreme Court.
[00:25:48]  Wow.
[00:25:48]  And Harvard was found to discriminate against Asians by creating special categories for blacks at the expense of Asians.
[00:25:57]  Wow.
[00:25:57]  Which sounds like the president yesterday reduced the category for marijuana in terms of what is necessary to approve a prescription for.
[00:26:07]  The president made a mistake.
[00:26:10]  All of the studies show that the increase in marijuana, both Recreational and medicinal has had untold consequences, particularly damage to the human brain, more so than even cocaine.
[00:26:36]  Although it may not be as addictive as cocaine, it apparently has more permanent damage to the brain than cocaine.
[00:26:43]  Yes, and it has certainly, and in fact, on the violent areas of the brain.
[00:26:54]  The major concerns for adults are addiction and mental health problems, particularly anxiety.
[00:27:03]  That's a big jump.
[00:27:04]  Dr. Jonathan Avery, who is an addiction psychiatrist at Weill Cornell Medical Center, says he's seeing more people, hand over fist, in the emergency room from accidentally overdosing on THC, particularly edibles, which people think are safe.

=== Cannabis Risks in Big Box Stores (06:07) ===

[00:27:30]  The cannabis industry is increasingly marketing its products for a range of health issues, including anxiety and depression, even for general wellness.
[00:27:43]  The estimate is that 20 to 30% of people who take even normal levels of cannabis will develop a disorder from cannabis, that it is a particularly high-risk product.
[00:28:02]  And why we're spreading it now that we know it never should have been done if we knew about it before.
[00:28:12]  But now we know about it, you would think.
[00:28:17]  And for that, they said, was because they want to take advantage of blacks.
[00:28:23]  The reason, as documented by a report that predated my being mayor, but I acted on it, was that there aren't any big box stores in.
[00:28:35]  In the ghettos, because they're afraid to go there.
[00:28:39]  And because there are no big box stores, and all you have are small grocery stores, very small grocery stores, they can only buy small amounts of anything and therefore can't get any discounts.
[00:28:54]  So you're paying top dollar for everything.
[00:28:58]  And in addition to the fact that you have even a lower number of those stores than you should, because people are scared like hell they're going to get killed.
[00:29:08]  And finally, you have dotting that place, like in Harlem on 125th Street, and you see it's coming back.
[00:29:17]  You have illegal peddlers.
[00:29:20]  So now you put together the fact you've got a small store and you can't buy bargain amounts for low prices.
[00:29:28]  You've got a lot of crime and people are afraid to work this.
[00:29:31]  You've got to pay them more.
[00:29:33]  Mandami, with the Mandami free store.
[00:29:37]  And he says it's going to undercut.
[00:29:40]  It's going to undercut.
[00:29:42]  This very, very good process that's going on now in these poor areas of getting the price of food in.
[00:29:51]  And he's quite right.
[00:29:52]  But he is missing the fact.
[00:29:55]  He is missing the fact that the big box stores don't go in, even now, after I left, they've slowed down.
[00:30:04]  They've taken some down, they've taken some away.
[00:30:07]  In order to keep those big box stores there, you've got to get rid of illegal peddlers, you've got to get rid of crime.
[00:30:15]  And you've got to make it attractive for them to be there.
[00:30:19]  Then you'll have a gigantic store and they will buy 5,000 deodorants, not five, and they'll charge 70% less.
[00:30:32]  That's the answer.
[00:30:33]  And get rid of pot.
[00:30:35]  And if you got the pot out of Harwell, that would help too because nobody wants to go up there and get it in their hair.
[00:30:43]  Tomorrow, over the weekend, we're going to study.
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[00:31:26]  Pray for the people of Israel, the people of Ukraine, the people of Iran.
[00:31:32]  Pray, please, for the president.
[00:31:36]  Big weekend.
[00:31:37]  Meeting's going to take place.
[00:31:39]  Ted and I are going to keep our eye on the ball.
[00:31:41]  If we have to come on, we will.
[00:31:43]  Hopefully, maybe, hopefully, we should.
[00:31:46]  I don't know.
[00:31:47]  Depends.
[00:31:47]  It's good or bad.
[00:31:49]  And other than that, remember, This is God's, we get.
[00:31:57]  Right now, starting tonight, the Jewish Sabbath, then on Sunday, the Christian Sabbath.
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[00:32:05]  You should know all Arabica beans, no robusto, all Arabica.
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[00:32:23]  Oh my goodness, look at these.
[00:32:29]  My goodness.
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[00:32:57]  Including your free portal.
[00:32:59]  That's cheaper than everyone else.
[00:33:00]  Your favorite sports, movies, news, even daytime dramas.
[00:33:05]  We're talking about ESPN, OAN, Newsmax, channels you can't get anymore in certain areas.
[00:33:11]  Compared to the competition, this is a way better deal.
[00:33:15]  Endless selection.
[00:33:16]  Not to mention all the free music channels.
[00:33:19]  There's over 700 premium and classic.
[00:33:21]  Scott was leading his platoon in Iraq when a blast sent shrapnel through his eyes, leaving him blind and temporarily paralyzed.
[00:33:29]  Scott would become the first blind active duty military officer before medically retiring years later.

=== Thomas Paine's Universal Desire for Freedom (02:04) ===

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[00:33:54]  It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
[00:34:02]  America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.
[00:34:07]  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.
[00:34:20]  It was Thomas Paine's Common Sense, written in 1776.
[00:34:24]  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 Great, from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.
[00:34:42]  He explained their inherent desire for liberty, for freedom, freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them.
[00:34:54]  And he explained it in ways that were understandable to all the people.
[00:34:59]  not just the elite.
[00:35:01]  Because the desire for freedom is universal.
[00:35:04]  The desire for freedom adheres in the human mind and it is part of the human soul.
[00:35:12]  This is exactly the time we should consult our history.
[00:35:15]  Look at what we've done in the past and see if we can't use it to help us now.
[00:35:21]  We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world.
[00:35:25]  The greatest democracy, the freest country.
[00:35:28]  A country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
[00:35:34]  All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
[00:35:38]  But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve