Bernie Giuliani hosts America's Mayor Live, analyzing President Trump's rejection of Iran's latest peace plan as a catalyst for imminent military action targeting Tehran's leadership and energy infrastructure. He predicts a regime change strategy involving Israel and the UAE to secure non-nuclear policies before summer, framing Democratic critiques as enemy propaganda while citing Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's warning of unprecedented national danger since 1939. Ultimately, Giuliani argues that resolving these conflicts is essential for protecting Trump's 2026 election prospects amidst global threats to Jewish and Christian communities. [Automatically generated summary]
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Iran Proposal Rejected00:08:47
Good evening.
This is Bernie Giuliani, and this is America's Mayor Live, live from Palm Beach, Florida.
I won't be able to speak as loudly as I use, but I'll get closer to the microphone.
Let's begin with Iran and with the fact that the Ayatollah submitted, rejected a proposal late yesterday, submitted a new proposal today.
The president hasn't formally rejected it, but has said he doesn't like it.
And looks like he's at the end of his rope.
That's what I would say.
But why don't we listen to him at the villages, first on that, and then on a couple of other things.
A widget's winning.
If it were a fight, they'd stop it.
If this were a fight, they'd stop it.
You know that expression?
It's true.
But they're not coming through with the kind of deal that we have to have, and we're going to get this thing done properly.
We're not going to leave early and then have the problem arise in three more years.
Forever, or do we want to try and make it?
You had the CENTCOM commander come in here yesterday.
Was he briefing you on a different approach?
Options?
What kind of options?
How would it look like?
Different options.
I mean, do we want to.
I think that gives it away, ladies and gentlemen.
Well, do we want to blast the hell out of them on a human basis?
No.
However, we're going to have to do something.
Well, that says to me he's going to do something.
It's going to be less than blasting them to Kingdom Come, but it's going to be quite strategic in attempting to accomplish.
This is me, just me reading the tea leaves.
You can try to accomplish two things with Israel.
And possibly with the help now of the UAE, he is going to attempt to decimate whatever new leadership there is so he can create a reform movement, a change of regime that will be meaningful, meaning they will support non nuclear, they'll support not supporting the proxies, they won't be terrorists.
And God willing, they'll create some kind of decent government for the poor people of Iran.
And second, he's going to hit the energy sources and decimate those even faster and quicker rather than wait for the two or three weeks that would be accomplished by what he's doing with the blockade and see if that doesn't bring them to their knees.
That's what I think is going to happen.
And I think it's going to happen over this weekend or early next week because I don't see him wanting to carry this much further.
I think May is the month he wants to conclude this.
I think he's going to get it concluded in May.
Well, that's my opinion, at least, Ted.
Right.
Now, the president also had some other words for the people there.
Maybe we could have a lighter moment.
Right.
So the president today was in.
I mean, I don't know if people know what the village is.
I remember this.
It was yesterday.
When they make mistakes like this, it gets.
Yeah.
Or, but you know what they're doing when they do that.
They want to make it.
They don't.
You'd rather go a little bit too small than a little bit too big.
I'm sure it's security.
Notice how much room they're giving them?
Yeah.
The Secret Service.
Obviously, it has to be a little.
Even though it's a village, why wouldn't somebody speak in there and stuff in with the Washington Hilton?
Right.
I have nothing, but I believe she married her brother, which is totally illegal.
Although it's a lovely couple, actually, but it's a little bit on the illegal side.
Darling, I love you very much.
Good night, brother.
Let's go to bed.
Isn't she despicable?
I can't stand it.
Yeah, she's a crap.
And the answer to that is yes, she's a horrible, despicable human being.
And she's one of the reasons that the Somalians have been so misled.
But of course, what do we expect?
Two and a half million Florida seniors over 13 years more money to visit your grandkids.
This is a moral emergency.
For me, there is no doubt whatsoever the less frothing demonization of Israel has existed.
Last year in October on Yom Kippur, two Jews were murdered in an Islamic assault on a synagogue in May.
I don't know if that's the main problem, Ramon.
A certain portion of Islam has been dedicated to the extermination of the Jewish people from the day Muhammad announced that Allah wanted that.
And also, they're doing the same thing with Christians.
I mean, a foul mouthed band of protesters harassed diners at a Jewish restaurant in Manhattan.
They're calling their privacy invaded and worse because they would go to Latin masses and that made them traditional Catholics and nationalists.
Now we go to Africa, where remember when Trump pointed out that Nigeria was awash in the killing of Christians?
Well, it's true.
He's the only one to say it.
Nobody is joining him in it.
And now, and now, Al Qaeda has led militants bent on building an African caliphate, and they're closing in on Mali's capital and forcing a retreat of Russian mercenaries who were meant to staunch the spread of Islamic groups across the country.
These are jihadist attacks on April 25.
They want to know how good the statistics are, but there's enough of a gap here.
So the ones that were committed to the extermination of the Jewish people.
And what Mirrors is worried about.
He's also pro Hamas, anti Israel, anti Jew, pro Lebanon.
Now he wants a stormtrooper in the Senate as one of his colleagues.
You don't care.
Right.
Right.
So that'll be interesting.
You're going to vote for this crap?
I mean, you're going to vote for a party like that?
What are you, crazy?
Susan Collins is the last Republican in New England.
We got 50,000 troops in Germany.
Why don't we take them down to about 30 and move them someplace else?
I got a couple of good suggestions Poland, Czech Republic, one of the Balkans.
Spread them around.
Stick them a little closer to Putin.
See how he feels about that.
He needs to get pushed a little.
The United States is withdrawing 5,000 troops from Germany.
He's decided that?
Yep.
So, this stuff, of course, this is in response to.
In response to him saying that we lost to Iran and they made a fool out of us.
Boy, is he going to have to eat his wife?
And you know what?
Yeah.
He's already apologized for it.
Damn right he should have apologized.
But, Mayor, isn't that just indicative of so many so called leaders of our country where Germany felt just that they could say something like that with no repercussions, right?
Why does he worry about all the Jews they're attacking?
Germany's got a hell of a history to be attacking Jews.
Right.
And it's the one country in the world that shouldn't.
And when I went to Europe, oh God, in 04, 05 for George Bush for the anti Semitic conference, I have to tell you, I was impressed with the steps that Germany took to keep anti Semitism under control.
Much more than France, much more than England, much more than Italy.
Boy, they have changed.
Boy, that.
Merkel destroyed them.
Yeah.
Did she destroy the whole country?
She also made them non-products.
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So let's go through a couple of things quickly.
The House approved a measure finally out in favor of the Absolute disgrace, Nazi.
Now, you want another disgrace, and that's President Scheinbaum of Mexico, who is protecting the drug dealer governor of Sinaloa, who was indicted the other day.
And she now finds issues with the indictment.
Oh, she doesn't know if the indictment has enough evidence to extradite him to the United States.
Wow, Is that going to create a problem with the boss?
What do you think, Ted?
All right.
Well, you're right.
Shrine Bounty.
Yeah.
You better go find a place to hide.
Right, right.
And probably the cartels will give it to you.
Right.
I'm saying so.
How much are they paying you off?
Like they were paying him off.
And it's amazing, right?
Everybody knows they run your country.
Why are you pretending?
Right.
Why are you pretending?
Right.
I don't get it.
I don't get it.
Well, I think we do get it.
No reason to pretend.
It just shows how much influence and power they have and how weak, I guess, the Scheinbomb is at the end of the day.
Yeah, and has been forever.
The national debt is outrageously now more than the GDP, a little over.
It's 102% of the GDP, 2% higher than our GDP.
In other words, we have more debt than we have value.
Oh, Rand and Ron Paul, you know, they don't love hearing that.
Well, that's a big problem.
And it should be addressed.
But politicians don't like to address it because you've got to take some things from people.
There is a way to do it.
I did it.
I did it and I got reelected by 18%.
I don't know how I did it, but I did.
And I explained it and it worked.
In other countries, for lithium.
Right now, Australia is the number one producer.
But we very shortly will be able to, very shortly, we're going to be able to challenge them as the preeminent country.
Well, you know, I love baseball.
And this is a fascinating discussion, Ted.
There is a player that the White Sox got from Japan.
And White Sox, I don't think, have ever taken a player from Japan.
And they weren't sure whether to get him.
It's Munitaka Murakami.
Oh, gosh.
And Munitaka Murakami is a home run hitter.
So, White Sox?
The White Sox.
He's a home run hitter.
And this year, for example, which is only, what, about a third into the year, maybe less, he's got 12 home runs.
Oh, we know where this is going.
He's on a track to have 240 strikeouts and possibly 50 home runs.
That the Dodgers are a balanced enough team.
So maybe they could afford him.
But they already have enough home run hitters that also are hitters.
Right?
Right.
And so.
So he's staying with the White Sox.
But he's a.
So what's the deal with this guy?
So.
About 61 of his plate appearances end with either a strikeout, a walk, or a homer.
And that's a rat.
Is that a nobody's been above 58.8.
What is he at?
61% of his appearances end up in a strikeout, a walk, or a homer.
No, nobody has ever been above 58%.
Strikeout?
Why do they count that?
What?
Well, they're pointing out how often he strikes out.
But why are they including that with making it on pace?
Well, they're showing he doesn't get hits.
Oh, okay, okay.
Now, what they're saying, he doesn't.
Oh, so you're saying, but it does mean he has a 375 on base percentage, which is which at the end of the day is very productive, can be productive.
Is what MVP, right?
Right.
And and what's his name is not like that either.
Uh, Soto, no, the great one for oh, our friend for the Dodgers.
Soto's not like that either.
You're right.
Otani, Otani, yeah, he's not a strikeout guy.
I mean, he's a strikeout guy, but he's not, he's not beyond, uh, right.
Beyond something that's shocking.
That's right.
So, Florida is going to do a new redistricting map because of the Supreme Court decision.
And I don't know if they can get it in on time for this year.
You can bet that DeSantis will try like hell.
He's already drawn it up, it'll eliminate four Democratic held districts.
Isn't that amazing?
Oh, they claim that it would make this district where we're at right now more red.
That'd be good.
That would be awesome.
I mean, my goodness, ever since I've been down here, I've been waiting for.
Florida is the.
Will it be enough either to convince them to make a deal on our terms or to flee?
I'm not sure I know the answer to that.
I imagine they do.
Right.
But maybe not.
Yeah, okay.
But they got to take the risk.
Right.
They got to take the risk.
Yep.
The worst thing would be to leave this with the regime of a terror still in power.
Yes.
And just hand it over to a next president, good or bad.
Right.
And we got them now where we want them.
And we have to accomplish three things.
Non-nuclear, no support for the people of the world.
I mean, this is a brutal, brutal regime.
And there's nothing about it that is in any way something you can work with.
It's clearly something that is one horrible thing after another.
So, I don't know.
Right.
I think it has to go there if we're going to be able to say that this was a victory.
Right.
And, Mayor, what can we accomplish by even, let's say, another few waves of bombing?
Let's say we have another few waves of bombing.
We know our military is the best in the world.
No doubt it will be successful in terms of.
From an operational standpoint, but can that effectively bring an end to this regime?
Or is the goal here just to get them back to the negotiating table?
Oh, some other regime would do bargaining at this point.
They're going to stick it out and say, oh my goodness, we're going to die.
Right.
Right.
And then, but you have to wonder how many of them believe it.
There's got to be a, we know there's at least one division between the hardliners and the moderates, whatever that is.
And the moderates want to make a deal.
They want to live to fight another day.
The others want to go all the way.
Right.
And what we're missing now, because the internal fighting has always kind of gone on, like in almost any government, but the ultimate arbiter was Ayatollah Khomeini, right?
And he's dead now.
And so without that final decision maker in place, I'm not sure what your people are telling you, Mayor, but I'm reading that the IRGC wins out now as far as final decision making.
And how does that change the game?
And does it actually make it less predictable in that we kind of had people that understood the Ayatollah or could kind of predict his moves, where now there's a power vacuum, but it seems to have been filled by these IRGC commanders?
I don't think it's any more unpredictable than it's always been.
They're not predictable because they're insane.
They're not predictable because you only can predict based on rationality, and they're not rational.
They're no more unpredictable than they have ever been.
And they'll lie.
and their posture, and we have no idea what kind of bad shape they're really in.
They could be in better shape than we think.
They could be in worse shape than we think.
Another hit could topple them.
Another hit might not topple them, but it's worth doing.
It's worth doing because you will do the world a great favor by toppling them.
And you'll do our children and grandchildren a great favor by toppling them.
And I think he's got that now.
I think he realizes it because they've jerked him around too much.
And they're too dangerous to keep there.
So there's no talk like there was two weeks ago or three weeks ago of people going there and negotiating.
I think he's had it with the negotiating part.
It's over.
If it's over, then what's left?
Right.
And the question being, of course, we also have to take into account Israel and what their plans would be, right?
Just because, let's say, we were to kind of see some of these, some of the military operations, who's to say Israel?
You know, Israel is pretty dead set on accomplishing their goals when it comes to Iran.
But, Mayor, what do you make of this Ayatollah that we haven't even seen yet?
Is he alive and Does it even matter?
I mean, effectively, he's not.
Right.
Effectively, he's either dead or he's a no face, like they said in that article that I think was sarcastic.
I don't think they say they go to him for decisions, but that's like the Mueller people used to tell me they went to Mueller for decisions.
Right.
He couldn't make a decision for the last two or three years that he was there.
I mean, he's not making decisions.
I do agree that ultimately, because they have the most power, the IRGC probably makes the final decision.
Tough decision.
And maybe what this hit has to be is to take them out.
And do you think, Mayor, how much longer can the president kind of keep this kind of position where we're talking to them, not talking to them?
We have a blockade in place.
So can you give us maybe kind of run down the multiple scenarios on how this could play out over the course of the month of May?
Yeah, let's talk about it.
It's going to be over within the month of May.
I believe it'll be over within the month of May.
And I believe that he's going to take the opportunity to try to get it over with quickly.
Why, he and Israel are going to hit them over the next three or four days.
That's what I think.
And they're going to hit them with not, as he pointed out, he sort of gave us a hint, right?
He said, I'm not going to destroy them completely.
But there are other alternatives.
Other alternatives means very, very strong, massive tactical strikes at key.
What are the two key things to eliminate?
One, the leadership that's blocking this.
Two, their energy so that they fall to the people.
Because if energy goes down any further, the people will be starving.
And then they just do a French Revolution.
That happens.
I mean, that's how these revolutions actually end up usually.
So let's see.
Keep posted all weekend because I think this is going to be.
I think this is going to be a critical weekend.
Now, politically, I think the president also wants this over with before we get into the summer.
Because for good reason, he has his eye on the 2026 election.
Because if that goes wrong, not only will he be able to do nothing else with Iran, but his whole agenda will be broken up.
Right.
Maybe not completely, but certainly to a very large extent.
So when people say he's paying attention, To the 2026 election, he doesn't have any choice but to do that.
Right.
Right.
And as you mentioned, I mean, the rest of his presidency hinges, you know, a big part of his ability to get things done hinges on obviously the Senate, but also the House.
And, Mayor, what's your message to Americans who probably agree with us that this regime must be taken out and Iran cannot obtain nuclear weapons?
Strategy Short of Annihilation00:12:08
But they're upset with the gas prices.
What's your message to Americans who are getting a little flustered?
The faster he can get rid of them, the faster the gas prices go down.
There's no way to get the gas prices down when you have the Gulf of Hormuz blocked and you have a war going on.
The only way to do it is to end the war.
You either then compromise and concede or you defeat them.
And the far better course is to defeat them.
And that's why some of the delaying for negotiations, I'm not sure I agreed with completely.
I thought maybe three, four weeks ago we should have done this.
Right.
I mean, it was pretty obvious three or four weeks ago that they're not going to agree to anything reasonable.
Yeah, they're buying time.
So we have to try.
We have to try.
And I don't call it a Hail Mary pass.
I think it's a 50 50 at least shot at taking them out completely.
Wow.
Okay.
I mean, I think we've got them in a very, very bad spot.
And we just got to get lucky and hit the right places.
And we have to count on Israel, who has.
Incredible, incredible intelligence, right?
The best.
I mean, they say outside of us, I would say the best.
And so could Israel do this alone?
No.
Oh, I don't know.
This is not taking out the nuclear facilities.
They could not have done that alone.
They needed our bunker buster bombs to do that.
This is strategic bombing.
But it's a lot of it.
And I think just by the mere fact that it's a lot of it, you need a lot of planes and a lot of rockets and a lot of drones and a lot of, and they're going to need help.
I even think we're going to probably ask the UAE to help us.
Right.
So I'll rephrase that question, Mayor.
If we start to see a lot more of an uprising from within the country, could Israel do this alone?
That would make that much easier for us as well, right?
Oh, yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And Israel could encourage that.
It would be different for Israel to encourage them for us to do it.
And then we could support Israel behind the scenes.
And I do think that's part of what they're hoping.
But there are imponderables, as we've seen.
War is not an exact science.
It's not a science at all, actually.
It's a strategy.
And it's one strategy against another without a determined result.
The result comes out of unknown factors, right?
The art of war.
Yeah, yeah.
It's an art.
Out of science, it's extremely difficult, and things can change.
Shall we listen to Pete for a minute?
Yeah, and of course, you know, like that's we might as well listen to our Secretary of Defense, who is doing a great job of orchestrating this, getting the right people in the right places with these great generals, and keeping our military in a high state of morale.
Which, believe it or not, aside from the fact that obviously they have to be really capable and well armed.
That's probably one of the most important factors in winning a war.
Morale is so important.
And sometimes it can make up for other weaknesses.
So, do we have?
Yep, we have P. Hagseth.
Here we go.
Since 1939.
And we know that it's a critical effort that we, Mr. Chairman, I'd like to thank our witnesses for joining us today.
General Kane, Secretary Hagseth, Mr. Hurst, thank you so much.
I want to go to A statement I've been making here for the last several years, and that is we are in the most dangerous national security position that this world has been in since 1939.
And we know that it's a critical effort that we undertake to make sure we can deter through the concept of peace through strength.
Mr. Secretary, I'd like to start with you.
We know that peace through strength has a number of tenets.
I think the most important of those is presence.
And we know that the United States has the Marine Corps Amphibious Ready Group, Marine Corps Expeditionary Unit, that provides us that presence.
We know there are over 2,000 Marines and an aircraft combat unit that are on board those.
Those vessels, and they let us do a number of different things.
That's the crisis response team that gets to go around the world.
Today, as we speak, we have three ARG MUS that are deployed around the world.
Unfortunately, that's an anomaly.
It should be standard.
Secretary Hicks said the President and the combatant commanders need maximum flexibility to respond in multiple places at multiple times to combat and deter these threats.
I just want to get your perspective on your goal to make sure we have a persistent 3.0 ARG MU presence and to look at how we are going to make sure through our shipbuilding plans that we assure that we have the adequate number of amphibs that are being built.
I think that number is probably right around 40.
And then, what are we going to do to make sure, too, that the A sub O, the operational availability, is going to be at the level where we can maintain an ARG MU 3.0 with the effort we have to put in to maintain these ships?
So, thank you for the question, the substantive question.
Ultimately, we support 3.0 ARG MU.
That presence right now gives us a lot of flexibility.
And this budget supports moving in that direction to ensure that this administration and future administrations have that kind of strategic flexibility with the incredible capabilities the ARG MU provides.
We saw it in Southern Spear, we saw it on the Maduro raid, we see it right now.
It's a persistent capability.
So I think you'll find our shipbuilding investments to meet that as well.
But if I may, I didn't get a chance, I didn't see a question in the statement from the congressman.
I hope you appreciate how reckless it is.
When I said reckless, feckless, and defeatist of congressional Democrats at the beginning, that came after watching you say the same thing on CNN this morning a quagmire.
My generation served in a quagmire in Iraq and Afghanistan, years and years of nebulous missions and utopian nation building that led us to nothing.
What we have right now, the way you stain the troops when you tell them two months in, two months in, Congressman, you should know better, shame on you, calling this a quagmire two months in.
The effort, what they've undertaken, what they've succeeded, the success on the battlefield that could create strategic opportunities, the courage of a president to confront a nuclear Iran, and you call it a quagmire, handing propaganda.
To our enemies, shame on you for that statement.
And statements like that are reckless to our troops.
Don't say, I support the troops on one hand, and then a two month mission is a quagmire.
That's a false equivalent.
Who are you cheering for here?
Who are you pulling for?
Our troops are doing incredible work.
They've done incredible things for the entirety of this mission and achieved incredible battlefield successes.
And you sit there and go on TV for your clickbait about quagmires.
It undermines the mission.
Your hatred for President Trump blinds you.
To the truth of the success of this mission and the historic stakes that the president is addressing, which the American people support.
Iran's been at war with us for 47 years.
You want to talk about a forever war?
For two months, this president has stared them down.
He's going to get a better deal than anyone ever has and ensure that Iran never has a nuclear weapon.
I know the American people support that mission, despite your loose talk and words like quagmire.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Secretary.
General Kane, I want to quickly go to you.
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The guy doesn't show his face.
I don't know which traitor Democrat that was.
I'm going to find out.
But I mean, it is absurd to say we're in a quagmire and we've been in this war for two months.
I mean, it's absurd.
It's enemy propaganda of the worst kind.
And why would a Democrat do enemy propaganda?
Criticize them for it should have been fat, you should get it done faster.
Quagmire?
That's ridiculous.
Two months, 13 losses.
But you're trying to, it doesn't matter.
The truth doesn't matter.
Like for Democrats, like with the Southern Poverty Law Center, or it doesn't matter.
You create your own reality by saying it.
And then the sycophantic.
Dishonest, unpatriotic press, right?
That builds on it, and then people like uh the chancellor of Germany build on it.
Whatever we are, we are not in a quagmire.
Can you figure out who it is?
It was that representative, I guess.
No, it couldn't have been, never the democrat.
He he said he he pointed to somebody else.
Okay, he said, Uh, let me go to.
And he pointed to somebody else.
I'll try to find it, but I don't.
Okay.
We'll try.
I'm going to ask you this weekend to devote a little time to prayer.
It is the Sabbath coming up for Jews and for Christians.
And we are under attack.
Jews in England and the United States and Germany and who knows where, Christians all over Africa, all over Asia.
We have got to become aware of the fact.
That they're trying to take our religion away and they're trying to take our civilization away.
That is the goal of the communists who demonstrated all over America today in Democrat cities, which are probably communist cities in terms of the government.
And in terms of the Muslim extremists.
These people are our deadly enemies.
They want to destroy us, like that congressman who says it's a quagmire.
He knows what he's doing, he's giving you enemy propaganda.
It's like him repeating what Tokyo Rose used to say.
Go look up Tokyo Rose.
So thank God we have President Trump.
I don't know what would have happened if we didn't.
And I don't know where we'd be if we didn't.
And let's support him.
And let's pray for him.
And let's pray for the people of Israel.
And let's pray for the people of Iran.
And let's pray for the people of Ukraine.
And let's pray for the people of the United States and for our president.
Keep him healthy.
Keep him strong.
Keep him safe.
Maybe he is younger than all those people at the villages.
At least he is in terms of energy, I have to say.
It's quite remarkable.
I'm sorry I was a little under the weather.
I couldn't be as that I usually am, but I hope we got across the most important points about the war against Christians, the war against Jews, and what's going to happen now, I believe, as we bring this to a conclusion, this war.
I think that's what we're going to attempt.
That we're going to attempt a strategy that's short of a massive annihilation of the country, but a very substantial strategic strike that brings them to their knees is.
Is there a middle ground like that?
You know how you find out in a war.
You do it.
That's the only way you find out.
So now go over to Wendell TV and go see the great dr Maria and Ted.
Uh, thank you and dr Maria for filling in for me last night.
You got great numbers, by the way.
You guys did a great job.
I'm very proud of you.
I hope I didn't bring them down too much given my condition.
Not at all.
Hopefully by Monday I'll be 100%.
That's right.
Well, you're a trooper.
I know you always want to be here for your audience, Bear.
You never.
I love you.
I love you.
I have so much to tell them.
That's why I had to come on.
And this flew by.
We thought this was going to be a.
We love you.
We love America.
We love the president.
We love our troops.
God bless America.
Universal Desire for Freedom00:01:55
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.
The greatest democracy, the freest country, a country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.
All of us are so fortunate to be Americans.
But a great deal of the reason for America's constant ability to self-improve is because we're able to reason, we're able to talk, we're able to analyze.