This holiday season. Thank you for joining me this season. Im jim acosta. I will see you tomorrow starting at 2 00 p. M. Eastern. Merry christmas almomost. Santnta is watchching. Haveve a good ninight. [draramatic musisic] over the n next ten dada, wewe get to sesee the machinines that arare croo, the Ballllots Ththat are fraraudulent. Anand if werere wrong, we will l be made fofools of. But ifif were rigight, a a lot of thehem will go o to. [cheerers and applplause] so letets have trtrial by com. [c[crowd clamomoring] Whwhen Giulianani appeared alongsgside donaldld trump on jananuary 6th, what c came to my y mind was ththe riot at t city hal. [c[crowd yelliling] [whistlingng] they Marchched ArououndCity Hahall Park in a peaeaceful and d orderly fashion, but ththen, minutetes later, thousandnds of copss stormed Ththrough The E Barrics and raran on top o of cars as they chcharged the e stais of city hahall. [crowd c cheering anand yelli] peopople called d it at the e ththe riot of f the oppresess. [crorowd yellingng] a a riot of popolicemen. [crowd y yelling] you hahave a bunchch of offffduty copsps. [crowd y yelling] took ovever The Roadadway Of T the brooklylyn bridge. Jumped on n cars. Stormed cicity hall. Sayingng that theieir jobs hahad become t too difficuct and that t they didntt have the supporort that thehey need and they wanted a much tougher hanand. Crowd Dininkins Must T Go dinknkins must g go these e were somee angrylolooking whitite men. Now,w, youve gogot to s see the setetting. Ththis is at c city hall. City h hall is undnder siege. And, y you know, right inin the middldle of al of t that Crazininess Onon Septemberer 16, 1992, is candididate rudy y giulian. The mayoyor doesnt t know whwhy the morarale of the n new york cicity Polilice Departmtment is so o. He blames s it on me. He blamemes it on yoyou. The reasason the mororale of t the police e department of the citity of new y york isis so low is onene reason and one e reason alolone. David dinknkins they were e cheering h hi. They w were sayingng, david dinkins,s, we dont t want hi sosome of themem were calllg ouout, [bleepep], for ininst. This i is the nypdpd at City L Ususing the nnword. That r really hurtrt the mayo. And then h he said, would t they have d done ths ifif i was a w white man . There was s just a a sense of d disgust. This man w wants to bebe mayo, and lookok how hes s behavin. Bull[b[bleep]. The e fact that t he signedn and d participatated in Somemeg Thatat clearly h had just overt Raracism Attacached To T Wawas an Indicicator Ofof where he e was going. The E Suggestionon that i i incited t them oror i had anynything to d o withth that is totalally wrong, is fals. Whwhen januaryry 6th happep, anybybody Who Wawas Covering Or W watching Popolitics Inin 1992, im m sure the s same light tb wewent off foror them as it t did for meme, which h is, like, tthats the e guy ththat we rememember. My grandfather, he was somomebody who lived around new york and Nenew Jersey H his entire l, watched d what happepened hehere closelyly. And as g giuliani came ontnto the Scenene Anand then bececame mayor, he saiaid very aptptly Thatat Giulianii was a Bebeloved Son N of a bit. Lots of people who couldnt stand him came around to a real sense of endearment with him because he got some things donee that were impoportant and that s substantialally chad ththe city foror the bettet. Hehes an extrtraordinarily compmplex indivividual, smarart, smart, smart, hard, harard, hardwoworkin. He had a a little bibit of not a littttle bit. He had a a lot of kind of f a supermanan comple, that, you know, he couould do anytything. Mymy real ambibition was s sy to be unitited States S Attory in the Sououthern Diststrict Ofof new york,k, whwhich i finanally attainin. The u. S. S. Attorneyys offe of the Sououthern Diststrict is t the most prprestigiouss in the c country. And Rudy Giuliani made a major mark in new york city shortly after he arrived in the role. I i was very f fortunate to find d somethingg ththat i can d do that i h He Someme Natural T Talent Forr And D that engagages my intetes and that i i enjoy. I enjojoy working g as a lawy. Ththeres Probobably Nothig more C Challengingng to a upanandcoming l litigar than tryrying cases. S. You are coconstantly o on disp. You u are Constatantly Memeeting the e Argumentss Ofof very goodod defense l law. Its a nononstop dadaytoday i interaction in which you are constantly under assault. And rudydy was good d at tha. I think thats what rudy wanted. Hes not afraid of the firire. Hess not afraiaid of t the fire totoday. We havave to do Securitieses Fraud because wewe have twoo Stock Mamarkets Herere in new y. We havave to do drdrug work bebe we have a a big drug p proble. And we h have to do O Organizd Crime E work because We Havee Fiveve Organizeded Crime Famams that have e decided, sisince the tuturn of the e ce, to Locatate Themselvlves here in newew york and d have acquid a a tremendousus amount of polititical powerer, economomic power, and all l sorts ofof other kininds of powew. For the e tenth timeme in less s than two w weeks, a bodydy has been n found, kild gagangland stytyle in new w y. Carmine gagalante, onone of the u underworldds most powowerful figugures, was s gunned dowown. I think, living nowow in new yoyork, its h hard to Imamagine Whatat Role The E mob played in a l lot of Aspepects Ofof the city. Y. Joe e colombo srsr. Was lylying on thehe ground badly woununded, Shot T In The D and blbleeding prorofusely. Peoplele feared ththe mafi. Ththey feared d organized d ce back then. N. The mamafia, or wewe used to call itit la cosa n nostr, or lcn f for short, infiltltrated Every Aspepect of lifefe in n new york cicity. These e People Prorobably dont evenen know it pricice they paiaid for r their clotothes more t than likelyly included a tax. X. An orgrganized Cririme Hidddden tax ththat is placaced on Itemes Thatat evolved f from Businens OrorIndustrieies Whwhere Organinized Crimee has sisignificant t influenc. The modedern mob wawas formed a around 19303. They m moved into o a variety of Indndustries Byby the 50. Well, you u pay dues to the a associationon. And itit was, likeke, a seselect few i in there ththat were momore or lesss organinized. Soso i said, what if i it toto Call Anotother Garbagage and d this guy s said, try y this wasas just Widedely Acced as t The Way Thihings were and d not someththing to t tamper withth. The e hierarchyy of Thehe Cosa Noststra the bossss, the underboss were well insulated from most criminal activities. So it was the lowlevel street guys that were doing the work. They were the ones that took the rap. And you had plenty behind them to take their spot. So Law Enforcement was handcuffed, in many respects. New york has five organized crime families. And they have been permitted to grow and grow a and grow anand gro. Whenen rudy tookok over the officece and d got involvlved in t this case, he wasas very enththusiastic about it, very engagaging, anxiouous to get t the case go. My greatggrandfatherer, we was Anan Immigrantnt in brookn and the blblack hand at that titime wanted d him to Pay P Protection N money toto them, when Peoplple Say There Is N No Mafia and thesese organizazations dont exisist, i memean, i knowow from my h hy that therere is such a a thin. And i i know what t it does and whatat it can dodo. The fbi,i, sometime e severl years befofore rudy bebecame the u. S. S. Attorney,y, had decicided to fococus in a b big way on n the five nenew york mafafia familiei. Theyey had devototed separarate squads s to focus onon individuaual familiese. But rudy h had the idedea, well, lets makeke the biggggest ofof all mafiaia cases, where e our targetets are the es of the fivive familieses. The Commmmission Casase was s Somethingg ThatatI Developoped actually shortltly before i i became unitited States S Attorney when i w was Readingng Sosome of the e materialss and readading joe bobonannos b. It occurrered to me that we cocould do a Rackcketeering C Case Againt The E Commissionon of the mam. Joe bonannnno, who wasas thd of Thehe Bonanno F family years agago who wass in retetirement, wrote e a Book Calalled manan of honor. R. He had basically written the book to describe his interaction with the mob. I can reremember rududy Readins Passssages from m the book ababout the cocommission and saidid, you knowow, This Wouould Be A Grgreat Case T Hehe would takake on persoson. Onone of the a attributess that h he had, Whwhich I Thinink was s very imporortant, was that h he tried to see h how thingss could d be done rather t than Findining Reasonons for not t doing the. The reallyly good Lawywyers Arare Those Ththat Spot Ththe S and then figure out legally how you can accomplish what you want to do. Fifirst, we cacan expose t. Ththat is a vevery, very Importanant Ingredieient Inin Taking Sosome of theieir r away, nonot all of t their pow. Because asas i said, they opeperate throuough secre. It is s also very y important r Ththe Public T to see whatat w. There wawas a real s sense ththat rudy was Ththe Dominantnt Personaly in thahat office. Anand he did n not brook dissent. He wanted people to agree with him. M. Ththere was a a joke araround the o Office Thatat the Peoplple Around H Hie members s of the yesesrudy Tre Bebecause Theyey said, yyes, rudy, yes, rudy. Y when h he said, jjump, they said,d, how high . So giuiuliani wawas taking o on the mafif. And he w wasnt onlyly being fefearless. He wasas being smamart about w he w was going t to prosecute Anan Organizatation and d people whoho had beenn able to evade successful and effective prosecutions for many, many years. We had a ample evidedence f what we cacall the jagaguar ta, in which a anthony cararollo, whwho was the e head of t the lucchesese family, he was Dririven Aroundnd in hisis jaguar and usused it kindnd of asas an officece. Theyey Recordedd Everytything that t happened. And d it was likike a goldmie of i informationon because hehe just spilled hihis guts. Giulianini was Enthuhused Abouout the Carorollo Tapess cause t they Didirectly Cororroboratedd that Thehe Commissioion Existd and ththat the orgrganized Cre Families W were, in fafact, Cocommitting W Whatever Illegal L acts ththey were cocommitting. It i is called t the commiss, Ththe Inner Cocouncil that Rununs Organizezed crime in this cocountry. Led by Thehe Reputed B bs of a all bosses,s, paul castste, head of ththe gambino o famil, four of f new yorkss five Gododfathers Appeareded in Federaral Court to facace a wide r range of r racketeerining charges. Thisis is a greaeat day for law enenforcement,t, but this i is a bad daday, proby the e worst, foror the mafia. Guililty verdictcts today in the f Federal Tririal of a groupup of mobsteters. Guguilty on alall 22 counts of racacketeering, conspiracy, and extortion. Judge owen gave the kind of sentence that you have to give to habitual criminals who, a at bottom, are murder. He putut them in p Prison Hopepy for the rerest of theieir liv. Rudy w was very susuccessfl in taking g out the mamafia asas we knew i it. He was t the motivatating fact. He m mastermindeded the case to Thehe Indictmenent and conviciction stagege. Whwhen giulianani won a cae againsnst the commission, he clearly set himself apart in the city as someone who could get the job done. Whenen i came ininto offic, my firirst big mobob case, one of thehe People Involveded in It Put T Out A Contntract To K kill me foror 400,000. Ththen in the e last yearr that i i was in ofoffice, one of t the same Grgroups Puput Out A Cocontract On N Mye for r only 200,0,000. [l[laughter] yoyou had dimiminished. Gee, thanknks a lot, g g. One of t the things s thati fifind, you knknow, somewhwhat c about the e arc ofof his careeeer is that t a lot of what hehe said at t the tie actualally made sosome sense. Crimime is a comomplex probl. That doeoesnt meann that i its a proboblem that c cannot be d dealt wit. Itit means thahat its a p prm ththat is goining to requiue a a lot more t than a feww quick k fixes or a a few slogs to realllly turn aroround. Clearly, h he was Adadvancing Hihis own causu, burnishihing his ownwn fame. But ththere was alalways Ththis Tensionon Betweeeen Genuine E public sere anand the Purerely Egomaniacal Pursuit of the greater glory of giuliani. For so long, they were aligned, it did result in enhanced reputation for giuliani personally and D Achievemenents that Pepe Apprpreciated Anand admired. Weve had alarming increases in the levels of homicide, inin the Levelels Of M Muggings Anand rapes and d robberies s and burglala. I i believe Ththat Sameme increase e has taken placace in the w whitecor areaeas as well. L. Wawall street t today poststs sesecondbiggegest gain inin hi. The Dodow Jones Avaverage broke the e 2,400 markrk fofor the firsrst time evev. The e amex, up 5 5. 22, ththats a rececord too. Itits incredidible out tht. Itit really isis. Therere was Justst Suddenly Tremendodous Money Anand PowerAnand Influencne on walall street. Hey y hey y pepeople Were E Making Mony hand o over fist. And it wasas A Group O Of E that wererent all t that Shy Ababout Showining off. Theyey call thememselves yupu. Brokokers and wawall street traders. S. Mostst of them a are in theiei. A lot t of them mamake 80,00, 10000,000, 20000,000 a yea. Were e going for the sisixfigure. Thats allll we want. You Werere Beginningng