President Trump outmaneuvers Xi Jinping at a high-stakes China summit, securing critical mineral commitments and a reciprocal White House visit while refusing to concede on Taiwan. The episode also features Republican candidate David Burke linking Florida redistricting to pandemic conspiracy theories, discusses conflicting accounts of Al Sa'i's detention, and details a U.S. submarine deployment near Iran to exclude China and Russia from Middle East operations. Concluding with remarks on the 250th anniversary of American independence and a pardon for 250 individuals, the host promotes patriotic merchandise and offers prayers for Israel, Iran, Ukraine, and U.S. soldiers. [Automatically generated summary]
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Trade Cameras And Taiwan00:03:30
Position out, except it's been their position for 30 years.
It's not exactly, oh, wow, China wants to take Taiwan.
China believes it's critical they get Taiwan.
China won't be friendly with you unless you let you have it.
Come on.
What they were looking for here was just a little thing like, oh, maybe you can have independence.
Maybe we can trade that.
Maybe we can talk about it.
Guys, cameras, skip.
Call your talk, sir.
It's great.
Great place.
Incredible.
China's beautiful.
So that was a very, very solemn ceremony for them.
You know, you have to understand that their ceremony, when I said, oh, was the ceremony for King Charles Morrill Abdapadam, wasn't much.
Nor was that.
But it's the location here that's important.
I should have done a little historical research on this.
But I mean, this is, you know, we're talking like Old Testament ancient China here.
Yeah.
That's right.
Well, maybe that president's safer in China.
That's not funny.
They're going to have what's described as a lavish dinner.
I don't know why they have to describe it as a lavish dinner.
And they're going to have speeches that project warmth and cooperation.
That's so.
Partners, not rivals.
Right.
Now, I mean, they haven't done them yet.
So.
Well, they're now, we're at Friday at this point.
They're going to do something later tonight, our time.
This will last for as long as it suits them.
Trump's response he thanked Z for the magnificent welcome.
He called the talks extremely positive and productive.
He praised a deep sense of mutual respect.
He formally invited Xi and Madam Peng for a reciprocal White House visit on September 24 of this very, very year.
And he described the overall relationship as heading toward being better than ever.
Giuliani Handles Migration Crisis00:07:02
The White House, in between, noted that nobody's getting out of the Gulf of Hormuz, guys.
Venezuela.
He said he doesn't need Z's help in broke losses of unbelievable dimension, 1,500 ships that was evading U.S. sanctions.
Hmm.
I would say that now we will slowly, over the next four or five days, find out, not totally accurately, but to some extent, what, in more detail, what happened.
But I think we got the 360.
So, we're going to take a short break and we'll be right back.
So, U.S. Army Major Scott Smiley.
Here we are, pretty much at the beginning of the process here at this pristine.
They're going to want to specially order these.
This is what goes into Rudy's Coffee.
Welcome back to the Rudy Giuliani Show.
This is Rudy Giuliani, and we have with us a guy that's got a lot of patriotism, a lot of drive, and could make a very big difference.
David Burke, who's running for Republican candidate for Congress right here in the district where the President of the United States is a resident, and much more humbly, me.
David, it's good to see you.
Great to see you, Mayor.
How are you feeling?
I am feeling pretty much almost totally recovered.
I mean, I'm feeling good.
I mean, maybe still, I still have about a week or two of business and stuff, but I'm doing very well.
And how's your campaign going?
You know what?
With what, you know, Governor DeSantis did with the redistricting, we were extremely, extremely excited.
You know, the district that we were in.
That's going to get done in time?
Well, you know, the governor signed it.
There's going to be legal challenges, naturally, but, you know, just kind of looking at the lines, you know, the governor did it and the state legislator did it well within reason.
You know, and the rationale being there's something along the lines of 2.1 million people who moved to the state since the pandemic in 2020.
And they'll say, Well, mid-decade redistricting, that's not usual.
Well, you know, what's not usual is when you've got a Chinese lab-created virus that was pumped throughout our country that shut the world down.
That's unusual.
As now we saw, there was collusion between Dr. Fauci and the information that was put out.
So, look, at the end of the day, the governor dealing with this massive migration needed to do what needed to be done.
And that provides an opportunity to send more fighters to Congress who are going to work to execute President Trump's America First agenda.
So, I mean, just briefly, so what would the change entail?
What goes out and what comes in?
So, what you saw is a lot of the coastal districts became smaller in sort of the geography, but that's sort of like South Florida, the Tampa Bay area, as well as Orlando.
So, those districts got smaller and allowed the governor to kind of make larger districts.
So, for example, the district that I'm running in spans from Wellington, which is in Western Palm Beach County, all the way down to Collier County.
And the Marco Island area.
And there's some parts of Broward in there.
But where the genius lies is that area that's largely involving the Everglades and agriculture of South Florida was split between a few representatives, right?
So now you sort of have this continuity of policy and just better overall constituent services.
And I assume that those farmlands and those are Republican.
Absolutely.
Red blooded American patriots.
Yeah.
I mean, they work.
They work for a living.
And let me tell you, we're not talking about, you know, sort of the, the, The HR class jobs, and no disrespect to those of whom, but I mean, real heavy lifting that keeps this country going.
The muscle class is a beautiful part of the country, too.
So, what is your election?
Kind of inform me about the congressional elections in general.
Do you think they're going to go off on one issue, or are they going to go off on, like, in your district, one issue is most important, someplace else it'll be something else?
I think it's really going to be dependent.
At the end of the day, it depends on who you're speaking with, right?
You know, some people are going to be a little bit more, you know, maybe they have more concerns about, let's say, you know, price of gas, right?
Which we know is going to, the president's going to execute and it's going to be fantastic.
We know the 12th Imam, I guess, Islam, they wanted to bring about the 12th Imam.
And they had the missiles that could reach Europe as they tried to hit Diego Garcia.
So, you know, the Iranian regime, a fatwa on nuclear weapons, they talk out of both sides of the mouth.
At the end of it, they wanted to be the big dog in the region.
And now the United States and President Trump put them in check.
So now tell everyone your background that qualifies you for this.
Yeah, absolutely.
You actually are qualified to do this, which is kind of getting unusual now.
Democrats who run.
You know, I'm a patriot.
I love this country.
I joined the Marine Corps at 18 years old.
I did five years as a military police officer.
I was a city police officer for West Palm Beach.
I was a gang detective for six years.
I mean, I did it.
I was out there.
I was catching the bad guys.
And then, you know, there's a subtle shift that happened where the left, And leadership made it almost impossible to do your job.
You know, you go out there to get the bad guys.
Mayor, you knew you were a part of a beautiful facility.
We got a lot of young patriots.
I'll take some pictures.
A lot of inspired, inspired people that just want to make this.
Oh, I love that.
I love that.
And your primary is in August?
August 18th.
Okay.
All right.
Well, you're a very impressive candidate, my friend.
We'll be talking about it.
Okay.
I'm glad our prayers pulled through for you.
Oh, and thank you.
Sounds good.
Yeah.
And you're just what we need.
God bless you.
Thank you, sir.
What a fine candidate, Ted.
Oh, you know, we've been putting on some of them, and uh, I don't know, maybe you or Dr. Maria scout them out and you pick the best ones, but we got some pretty impressive people that we put on, right?
I mean, it isn't like uh, you know, 10 years ago or the democrats, you know, yeah, you know, he's not gonna be with a chinese spy like like uh, like the criminal, uh, uh, lying a piece of scum, and to even realize that he'd been had, and he sure isn't smart enough to gotten money for it.
Hamas Torture Claims Denied00:03:23
Some other reporter would have taken money for this.
He wrote a column about this guy who was raped in detention by those bad, bad Israelis raped him when he was in detention after his arrest in 2024.
Al Sa'i, Mr. Al Sa'i.
However, Mr. Al Sa'i also provided the information to an NGO.
Working on behalf of the Palestinian Hamas murderer killers, which is what he was, and told a very different story.
It also comes on top of the fact that this guy, Al Saeed, was also claimed to have been tortured by the Palestinian Authority.
And then this guy will sit on television with all of these other anti-American pieces of crap, and he'll stick, oh, I'm sorry, I left out the dog part.
Also, they send in dogs to rape people.
Now, there's a whole big argument as to whether a dog can rape.
Of course, I guess you can through what do you call it bestiality.
It can be done in certain circumstances, but it requires quite a trick to do it.
Maybe they hold them down and torture them.
I don't know.
Come on, the Israelis are not sending dogs in to mess around with pieces of shit like this.
It's ridiculous.
They're a civilized country.
Will they kill you?
Because you kill them, of course.
I don't even think, except when you get a nut job here or there like we get, you're going to see any kind of torture there.
Hamas, it does it for a living.
He, of course, has also done a story in the past.
I think it's him.
Let me make sure I'm right about this here.
In fact, the Palestinians have a report from him when he claimed that they tortured him.
And I believe this is the Palestinians, not Hamas.
There is a distinction.
When he finally had to put it as a matter of record, he told them the reports of torture were really just a false rumor.
And then again, he retracted it and said that it actually happened.
Now, this other guy, Amro, called the Palestinian Gandhi, who also was very supportive.
So there should be a lot more made of this with Christoph.
This is a very, very dangerous man and a very dangerous newspaper, and it's doing an awful lot to hurt our country.
And just because it's the big, fat, bullshit New York Times, which I've always felt was a disaster to this country, you can't do this.
You can't do this.
You shouldn't be allowed to do this.
Trump Extends Honor To China00:15:13
So Over the next couple of days, and I would say this weekend, we're going to get readouts on the summit.
And they're going to vary from completely accurate to completely inaccurate.
And we'll do the best we can because given the fact that I was ill and I was recovering, I spent a great deal of time doing research on this.
So I feel more prepared in evaluating this.
I tell you unequivocally, he's not, and now is the time.
And this is what he's been waiting for.
This is behind him.
He doesn't have to worry about is it going to screw up a summit that went, you know, about as well as I think he wanted it to go or that it could go.
It didn't solve any of the big problems, but that's going to take a lot.
It may have solved a couple of small problems and important small problems.
And we'll see how effectively and who won that.
I'm pretty sure that Trump did.
Um, just given the fact on the big issue he won and um, but most importantly, you can see the confidence that he has.
You can also see his wariness at China right and keeping him out of of uh the out of the out of the Gulf.
That was very, very uh a discipline and kind of in the world.
That's been going on for about seven or eight years because a lot of their uh giveaway programs that they're now they're now They're now coming in for the extortionate kill to take over half the business.
And there are countries in Africa and Asia complaining like hell, even in Europe.
You can see how Europe's attitude toward China has changed to a very large extent.
So we listed the issues last night as for Trump to succeed.
And what was number one?
Number one in all of the publications I put together, right wing and left wing, had the number one issue.
Trump wins if there's no change on Taiwan.
Avoid number one.
More of a win for them than us because they depend on us three to four times more than we depend on them.
But it is a win for us, particularly with other things affecting.
Affecting our economy.
We don't want this.
So, this is one that I think is going to come out plus for China, plus for America.
And if anybody has an advantage, it won't mean that much.
This is one of those things that should be the perfect negotiation.
Everybody's a little unhappy and everybody's happy with what they got.
One of the things they've been setting as something that might be hard to do but would help, even though it would just be talk, talk, talk, it would be a board of trade.
Now, why would that be important?
That would be important because things wouldn't get too far.
Not everything would have to be resolved by Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, or so you can be tortured the same.
And stronger commitments on critical minerals.
I do believe we got that already.
I believe we got that going in, by the way.
Now, stronger commitments means we got a year or two.
But I know people think it's going to take forever and ever.
Nobody works on Trump time.
I mean, the guy started working on these critical minerals the day he came in, the first day.
I'm sorry.
He was working on it during the transition at the golf course, Ted, with the Taiwanese guy and with the South Korean guy.
He had them bidding.
And then I'm going to have the numbers screwed up.
Ruddy, you'll remember because we were joking about it.
But at some point, the guy committed, which was unbelievable, the amount of money that he committed.
Like, you know, he committed $100, $500 billion.
And, you know, we were over by the table.
And he looked at us, you know, you have to understand what Trump is like.
And he says, he's a great, this guy's great, just committed $500.
You know, he could do a trillion and a half like that.
And he looked at him when he said it.
He said, you know, he could do.
You don't understand how important this guy is because he didn't look very impressive.
So he's telling Ruddy and me, this guy.
This guy could do a trillion and a half.
He ended up doing a trillion.
You know, China got none of that.
China has not had an infusion like that.
And I do think there was a victory that he didn't ask and isn't going to use China with the Strait of Hormuz.
It indicates a couple of things.
He always has been, and he can just by snapping his finger solve it.
And he wanted this over because he didn't want anything to interfere with where he wants things right now.
And unless I see the contrary, I got a good feeling he got where he wanted to get.
Now, I think Z got somewhere where he wanted to get too, but that's not so bad.
You don't want him walking around there bitter.
You want to walk out there a little disappointed.
And he is.
He didn't get what he wanted on Taiwan.
The president has announced, because he's such a decent man and a humanitarian, that on the 24th, is it the 24th?
Let me make sure I got this right.
Well, he's going to pardon 250 people for the 250th U.S. birthday.
Given the wise way he exercises that power, this will be a good thing.
You've got to know I used to run the pardon attorney's office for the great Ronald Reagan.
And you also have to know that he's pardoned more than, Ronald Reagan is pardoned more than most presidents.
We think of him as a very, very tough president.
But most very tough men are very generous men and are kind men.
And they're tough because they have to be.
So I think that it's going to be, let me see if I get the exact date here.
I think it's going to be on the Flag Day, the 14th.
14th of July, of June.
14th of June on Flag Day, but it is going to be in commemoration of the 250th birthday.
250 on 250.
250 on 250.
Maybe he'll just do 240 something then and do the others the days after.
What do we, any updates?
So we talked about Iran a little bit.
Do you think the president.
We're hearing that they talked a little bit about it in China, but this seems to be more of a concern for China than us, the Strait of Hormuz, correct?
Well, I mean, the critical issue is did we want them and do we need them to help us open up the Strait of Hormuz, which might not have meant military.
It could have meant diplomatic, you know, put pressure on your friends.
Right.
And he basically, I'm sure, said in a very, very diplomatic way, we don't need you.
Yeah.
I thought it was interesting.
We watched last night the toast.
We have anything we'd like to show our people?
Let's show some of the toasts.
We have, we'll put up President Trump, we'll put up President Xi toasting President Trump.
Also, you should know that May 20th is Cuba Independence Day.
And it may be that the Cuban community is working this up because they're so enthusiastic and they're so beautiful, they're so wonderful.
But they believe something's going to happen there.
Oh, wow.
And it's being done very subtly and very carefully by the brilliant Marco Rubio.
We love Marco.
So here is.
He's not going to forget his people like Schumer.
Right.
Here's Xi Jinping toasting President Trump.
Also, the 250th anniversary of American independence.
The over 300 million American people are reinvigorating the spirit of patriotism, innovation, and enterprise.
and ushering in a new journey for the development of the United States.
The people of China and the United States are both great peoples.
Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand.
We can help each other succeed and advance the well-being of the whole world.
also the 250th anniversary of American.
Thank you again, President Xi, for this beautiful welcome.
And tonight it is my honor to extend an invitation to you and Madam Peng to visit us at the White House this September 24th.
And we look forward to it.
And I'd now like to raise a glass and propose a toast to the rich and enduring ties between the American and Chinese people.
It's a very special relationship, and I want to thank you again.
This has been an amazing period of time.
Now, please join me in a toast to the development and prosperity of China and the United States and the well-being of our people, to the bright future of China-U.S. relations and the friendship between the two peoples, and to the health of President Trump and all the friends present.
Cheers.
Come be.
Cheers.
Thank you again, President Xi, for this beautiful welcome, and tonight it is my honor to extend an interview.
You know that I'm a Yankee fan, but fond of the Mets, which I know people think is like a political statement.
I'm going to do a political statement.
I've done what every mayor did and say, I root for the Yankees and the Mets and wear one of those hats from both sides and be a bullshit artist.
I was one of the first mayors.
I'm a Yankee fan.
That's it.
That's who I root for.
I like the Mets.
I'd like to see them win in the National League.
I love New York.
If the Yankees aren't around, I want to see New York win, but they play, and I want the Yankees to beat them just as bad as they beat everybody else.
However, I like the Mets and I enjoy watching nationally baseball as well.
So, particularly in that day, it was even, they sort of merged a little bit.
In any event, Noah Syndegar was a great pitcher for a period of time for the Mets, made it into a World Series with them.
I don't know if he's retired or almost retired.
He's only 33 or 34.
And I think he'd like to pitch for the Yankees or the Mets because he loved New York.
Love New York very, very much.
And he was being interviewed by Tommy Laren.
You know who Tommy Laren is, right?
And she asked him about the curse and the Mambino.
You know what that is.
So, the communist Islamic extremist mayor of New York that hates Jewish people and Americans went to a Met game, probably thinking it was some form of practicing to kill Israelites or Americans, like the ball was ahead.
And he embraced Mr. Met.
They then proceeded to lose 11 games in a row and go straight into last place where they now reside.
And by the way, they got the third or fourth highest payroll in baseball.
So we're not talking about, oh, some poor team that can't afford the.
And there's a period of time they had the highest before the Dodgers went crazy on them.
It is true the Mets have.
Even when the Yankees aren't winning, they don't go through this bad luck that the Mets go through.
And the Yankees, even when they're not winning, except for one period of time in the 60s and early 70s, are still representative, meaning they're in second place or third place, or they begin a season and there's always a chance.
Not every season, but 90, 95%.
And they're at the point where the amount of money they spend, and given the way in which they configure contracts, it's hard to say who spends more.
I mean, there's a period of time in which the Mets were definitely spending more.
So, Syndergar says that when asked by Laren, did he think that the curse existed?
He said that Mayor Mundami is a lunatic and advised his former squad to stop hanging out with socialist mayors to end its on field struggles.
Stop hanging out with socialist mayors, I guess, probably, Syndergar said when Laren asked.
Mets Game Plan Against Curse00:07:37
How the Mets can turn their woeful season around.
She then asked if he believed that Menami cast a curse on the Mets when he hugged Mr. and Mrs. Mett near the start of the city field.
Something like that, he said.
I mean, I ain't saying it, but at the end of the day, the Mets are going to have met.
And it's just, I think I'm going to, I'm allowed to kind of say that because I've bled orange and blue for, I don't know, eight years, made it to the World Series with them.
Just kind of disappointed to see A, who they're inviting into the clubhouse, and B, Like just the lack of success they're having, which doesn't make sense.
They have a huge payroll and it's not creating dividends to them.
Following Bandami's hug word around the world, they lost 11 games.
They had been on a one game losing streak when he showed up, and they just extended it.
And the worst part of it was they sent him right to the cellar.
This is a team that was picked to possibly win in the Eastern Division, survive with Philadelphia.
They have a 16 25 record.
Jeez.
But he'd like to play again.
And he'd like to play in New York.
I could block the crazy part out and still focus on I get to play a kid's game in one of the greatest cities in the world, albeit run by a lunatic, or I don't know.
He's 34 years old.
Is that right?
Like I'm 33 and I can't imagine being a mayor.
He never actually, but at least I held a job before I played baseball.
We got to get him on, Ted.
We got you.
Yeah, let's work on that.
See if we can talk the Yankees into taking him.
Yankees have had great success.
I mean, remember, two.
X Mets pitched no hitters when they became Yankees.
Uh, Cohn wouldn't, uh, yeah, I'm not gonna get one of the best met pitchers.
The after-sever, maybe, maybe if he hadn't gotten to the best met pitcher, also a Yankee, not Nolan Ryan.
No, Dallas Strawberries.
Darrell Strawberry's friend.
Oh, his friend, I was gonna say not uh, i'm not gonna get it.
Man, i'm not, i'm not up on my Yankees.
Okay, let me think about it.
When we come back i'll tell, yeah, um.
So I want to bring you up to date on the fact that while this is all going on and we've been very focused on China,
there have been some very, very significant movements in the Middle East, including a week ago, arguably.
the most powerful submarine ever developed by man is within striking distance of Iran with missiles that cannot be detected by China or Russia, much less Iran.
I just don't think we're going to move that kind of equipment there unless we're.
Right.
Remember, you got to understand, Trump wants to do this with no losses.
So when he creates this tremendous, massive force, it isn't the same thing as like the first Gulf War, where we went in with 500,000 troops and we only needed 100,000.
And then we made the mistake of going in with 100,000, 150,000 a second time, which was enough.
But we needed the 500,000 to do the nation building.
But in any event, Trump goes in with that to try and reduce as much as possible the fatalities for us, for our allies, if we have any, and we do with the Israelis, and for innocent people.
And there's never enough.
And you don't see him pulling anybody back.
All you did during this period of time when nobody was looking really hard, except if you really look carefully, is He's done some major increases and movements.
And he's got, there's a game plan.
They're either going to let the weekend play out so that all of this China stuff gets absorbed, or they're going to go right away.
And the fact that he didn't ask for China's help is another indication.
Number one, he knows he can do it.
Number two, he doesn't want to owe them anything.
Number three, he basically kicked them and Russia out of the Middle East.
And he doesn't want them back.
And they won't be coming back because they sided with the wrong side.
So, He wants to preserve that victory that he was able to achieve, which was quite significant.
So we'll be back with you.
We'll be back with you tomorrow night.
And you can make sure that you stay tuned because as the president's leaving and things are going on tomorrow, maybe we'll come on a little.
Also, we'll be very attuned over the weekend.
because I just have a feeling.
I have an alternative feeling.
I have a feeling it's going to be the weekend real quick, or they're going to be three, four days off, and it's going to be toward the beginning of next week.
But it's happening now.
I think everything's in place, and the president is in a position where he can call it anytime he wants.
That may have been true for some time.
He just keeps adding.
He does.
A bit of a prediction.
Early returns on this.
It was a big victory for President Trump.
This was handled brilliantly.
And all we have to talk about is Taiwan.
And all we have to do is take their words and shove it down their lying throats.
I don't mean the Chinese here.
I mean the American haters.
Well, maybe the Chinese, but the American haters do.
I actually, to tell you the truth, I think the Chinese took a long shot.
I'm going to bet you because.
I would never say that I like Xi Jinping.
I never say that I even can stand him because I have a hard time with murderers.
But I do.
I do.
I do.
And you have to understand a brilliant mind.
The guy is a strategic genius.
He took this shot, and I bet everybody around him thought, oh, they can fool that guy.
You can see in the way he deals with Trump that he respects him.
Right.
Right.
Yeah, I was going to say, no matter what you say.
By the way, the reason he deals with him successfully.
And we don't get as many advantages over them as we normally do, is because he knows he knows not to underestimate a lot of Trump's uh victories, including political, have been being underestimated.
That's right.
If you if you overestimate them, you can get a lot of trouble.
Freedom Requires Common Sense00:05:10
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Once again, pray for the people of Israel, pray for the people of Iran, pray, please, please, please, please, pray for the people of Ukraine, pray for our people and our soldiers who are in harm's way, who I think may get tested again.
and pray for our president.
And we pray to you, God, to thank you for sparing him and giving him to us at a time in which we desperately needed a man of that ability and strength and courage and love of you, which only got enhanced by his experience.
I am looking forward at the right time to explaining my experience.
Because I want to share it with people.
It was beautiful.
And there's just so much going on.
I just don't think I will pay it enough respect.
I may do it as a separate podcast or something.
We'll see.
A lot of it's written up by now.
So I don't forget it.
And my son will be here this weekend.
And he has a recording that I made at the time.
So I really should consult that also.
Because as you know, if you've ever, I'm sure you have, ever tried to recall dreams.
If you don't really recall them, you don't even write them down, but if you don't put them in your conscious memory, they fade away.
And then you have a vague understanding of what they were about, but you can't locate the people.
But if you get it right away, you can be pretty damn accurate.
Okay.
Again, God, thank you.
We don't say thank you enough.
We're always asking for things.
You've blessed this country with so much.
And that's why we owe it.
To help the world and to help ourselves and to help everyone and to make a much better country for our children.
So we'll see you tomorrow night.
God bless America.
It's our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day.
America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements anger, hatred.
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.