- giululiani has t taken fiererce criticicism for r his controroversial plp, but evenen opponentsts concee his s political l stature in amemerica is somomething mosost mayos only d dream aboutut. - i i got the memessage that he wowould investst his chchurchillianan populariy to a attack me.. - - rudy! rudydy! get t over here,e, rudy! - i would d head up a campmpaign to--- to reelelect him for a ththird term.. he's the m man. - basisically, my y agenda is the o only agendada discussesed in the c campai, one waway or the o other. whenen you thinknk about it, i mean,, ththat's the c core of whaht the e discussionon is all aba, the agagenda thatt we've e set to thehe city. - afteter i had sasaid okay, borough prpresident frfreddy fer madede the very y smart decin to say no.o. - we'v've done thihis for centns in this cicity, fofor centurieies in this s na, in timeses of crisisis and wa. thisis should bebe no exceptp. - ththis city isis bigger than anyny one indivividua. we havave to move e forward with thehe process.. - - it is an o outrage that he shshould demanand
in a w world wherere the net crisisis is a momement awa, amamerica neededs a leader who'o's ready. - i i think peopople lookok for resulults. - i loveve you, rudydy! - ththe--thank y you. see, like e that guy.. he's l looking foror results. - yoyou are the e candidate. - thanank you. - thank k you for undertakaking this r race. - ththank you vevery much. - - giuliani i is charismam. he's candidid. he's c comfortablele in hisis own skin.n. hehe's an exciciting candidid, and he's g gonna bringng a t of sizzlzle to this s electi. - there e was a percrceptin that he e had a reasasonably gooood chane in 2008,8, basesed on his p performance on 9/11.1. and d there was s a belief t t the e party had d been recononfd as a a national l security p p. - ththere's no o one running that hasas had the s safety and respononsibility o of mills and mimillions of f people on theirir shouldersrs under very diffificult circucumstanc, and i'm nonot just talalking ababout septemember 11th.. - but t by 2008, t the war had starteted to go ququite ba, and a lolot of ameriricans, even a l lot of repupublica, viewed i it very negegative. bubut also, yoyou had to b be t on taxeses, abortionon, and gu.
victories s for the pepeople f america a since andrdrew jacks. - the election of donald trump to the white house shocks the country from coaoast to coast. [a[all cheerining] - - i'm so proroud to call him t the presidedent of the u united statates. - eveven people e who are pulling fofor donald t trump are amazazed that hehe won. - whwhoo! - it felt t like this s increde periodod of uncertrtainty. - - who that i is that? is t that the mamayor thatat showed upup? rudydy? - mornining after ththe 2016 presidentitial electioion, if y you're rudydy giuliani, and donald trump had just been electcted presidedent of u united statates, you'u're feelingng that theres totons of oppoportunity ahah. - what's's your rolele expecteded to be? - i have n no expectatation. all i do i is give my y advic. donanald's been n my frieiend for 28 8 years. all of my y work on bebehalf ofm has s been out o of great loloy anand friendshship to him.. - whatevever rudy wawants, rurudy gets, b because he e s
- - i was stilill sort off arouound for thehe ride in the lasast couple o of day. it wasas so frustrtrating to watch t them burnrn through s so much mono. rudydy's people,e, they were burnrning money y like mad m . so mucuch good wilill. so many pepeople who wanteded him to susucce. - - here is the big g story toninight. johnhn mccain, t the big winir in t the state o of florida. he captutures the rerepublin presidenential nomininatio. - thisis, of coursrse, a a very diffificult night fofor rudy giuiuliani. he had b been hopingng that he w would be the victctor here inin florid. spent momore than $30 mimillion herere. - itit wasn't jujust a hard d t but lost c campaign. it wasas an embarrrrassmen. - he t thought he e was gonnae president. a lot of p people thought he was gonna be president. and he screwed it up. - i think that was a huge disappointment to him. having been so much a figure of attention, a fascination of media coverage, i don't t think he c could ber the ththought of l losing tha. ththat that sosomehow wass part o of his idenentity.
at the time, they say he was never seseriously coconsiderd fofor it, whicich is probabable revealining in and o of itsef of the dynynamic of the relatitionship between the two of them. - the relationship between trump and rudy is really a fraught one. it's's one wherere trump p really valalues giulianini's defensese of hi. - he was t the best mayor inin the histotory of t the city ofof new york. he's a grereat personn who loloves our cocountry. - but shshows his apappreciati, shows s his love f for rudy with bacackhand and d criticis. - inin donald trtrump eye's, there'ss part of f giuliani's's recor. likeke, he ran f for the prpresidency,, and d it totallyly went u up in flamemes. so to donanald trump,, he's a a loser. - there e was a momement aftr trump had d been electcted, steve mnucuchin his nenew treaeasury secreretary is gettiting marrieded in wasashington, and d giuliani i is very excitedly y talking. and trtrump stops s him. says, , rudy, you're spipitting all l over. gogo stand ovever there. and rudydy does.
i meanan, this iss just n nutty stuffff. - - fast forwaward to hairr dye rurunning downwn his fac. - so thehe only evididence thatat rudy has s uncovered, is that hehe's not a natural l brunette.. - i coululd tell youou the secd he s saw that liline of makep it wasas oozing ofoff wof rududy's head,,ll that d donald trumump, a man with a morore than pasassing acacquaintancece with makeke, imimmediately y wrote rudydy . - you know your legal strategy is [bleep] up, whenen even yourur hair ststarts cryining about iti. - hehe's lost cacapacity foror . and shshame as a self-regegulating fufunction. in giuiuliani's cacase, eaearlier in h his careerr i thinink this actctually served thehe public ininteret fairlyly well. that momoment is nowow long gone, and d he's justt a a man with l lots and lols of pieie in his faface to go with the dripping hair dye. and you know, the general sense of like, a a corroded a and decacayed human n being.
- trump became this black hole in which all political attention in the country was reposed. and the celebrity lizard brain of rudy kicked off, and he needed it. he thought, "this will put me back in the spotlight." [cheers and applause] - thanank you. thanank you, newew york... crowd: y yeah! for a a new yorkerer, for onc, on t the ticket:t: donald trt. - - remember, , this is onoe of t the great i ironies of f . he knew w trump was s a third-t, fofourth-tier, real eststate bull[b[bleep] art. he knew w it. he was i in new yorkrk. rudydy used to d deal with the actualal power in n new york momoney and d real estatate. he knew w what trumpmp was. [cheerers and applplause] - i ththink, you s see hihis speecheses, he w was more raratcheted up than a anyone elsese could b. - i amam telling y you this