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head of the southern district. - the lines are drawn, and the battle has begun. former u.s. attorney rudolph giuliani launched his formal campaign today to capture city hall from mayor koch. - rudy announced his candidacy in 1989 in the same room where fiorello la guardia first announced his candidacy. - in 1933, fiorello la guardia stood in this room and asked the people of new york to embrace the candidacy based not on political name tags but on integrity, leadership, and vision. - la guardia, for most of rudy's lifetime, was the prototypical mayor. - in la guardia's case, he was fighting the corruption of tammany hall against great odds with a larger-than-life kind of tabloid personality. - this is no time for sob stuff and whining. now is the time to fight, to fight for the best interests of our city. - let me repeat it one more time: no deals for jobs, no deals for contributors.
and these organizations don't exist, i mean, i know from my history that there is such a thing. and i know what it does and what it can do. - the fbi, sometime several years before rudy became the u.s. attorney, had decided to focus in a big way on the five new york mafia families. they had devoted separate squads to focus on individual families. but rudy had the idea, well, let's make the biggest of all mafia cases, where our targets are the heads of the five families. - the commission case was something that i developed actually shortly before i became united states attorney when i was reading some of the materials and reading joe bonanno's book. it occurred to me that we could do a racketeering case against the commission of the mafia. - joe bonanno, who was the head of the bonanno family years ago who was in retirement, wrote a book called "man of honor." - he had basically written the book to describe his interaction with the mob. i can remember rudy reading us passages from the book
was left staggering off his throne. - the raiders, the hostile takeovers. - once one of wall street's mightiest, ivan boesky appeared for sentencing, in the judge's words, humiliated, vilified, and cut down to size. - and all of that was entwined with what was a deeply corrupt system. - you find for me in the law where the united states congress has distinguished multibillion-dollar financial firms from other institutions, and you show me where that is. - rudy created the character of himself as a working-class, seam straight, streetwise new yorker who wasn't gonna take all the bullshit from these elites. rudy knew that he was igniting a populist revolt against this class of people. it is like the american narrative of the little guy who stands up and turns things over, a little guy who can finally hand back to the people who have humiliated him or disappointed him. that's the american thing, you know?
and it was very close. but we won. [cheers and applause] - new york city tonight has the first black mayor in its history. the race to succeed flamboyant three-term mayor ed koch was the most contested and contentious in 20 years. - this year, voters rejected the calls to fear and spoke with voices of hope. [cheers and applause] - history was made. he's now the mayor for the city of new york. joy in the streets of harlem, bed-stuy. we were getting calls from doctors and nurses and hospitals saying that, you know, the black patients in the hospital were going bananas. [cheers and applause] - you know, politicians try and win races. those races change them. at a minimum, i think, rudy changed from the public figure he had been into somebody who was a little bit meaner, a little bit more divisive. there comes a moment in a lot of campaigns
what you see is what you get. [cheers and applause] - so that was very much a model for rudy, someone who's gonna take on sort of democratic party corruption and excesses and bureaucracy and breathe new life and a spirit of reform into the city. - say hi to rudy giuliani, our next mayor. come on over and say hi to rudy giuliani. - give me a kiss. - i believe him. and i'm all for him. i like the way he's talking. - rudy was an outer borough guy. not too handsome, not too tall, a little crabby, maybe sometimes a little loopy. and what he said, that was good. - darn right, mistakes have been made, sure. i'm a democrat who has-- i'm a la guardia republican. i get a lot of criticism for my haircut. - why do you want to be mayor? - well, this is a great city. it's a city i love. i was born here. i've grown up here, gone to school here. i think the city is in terrible trouble. more murders last year than ever before. the drug problem out of control.
"the godfather" over and over... [chuckles] and over again. - godfather. - rudy is famously obsessed with "the godfather." - rudy giuliani is a little bit of everybody in that film. one night, he had a showing of "the godfather." and he sits behind me, and during the entire movie, he explains why the life of politics is exactly the life of the godfather. and, of course, in the one story where sonny complains to the godfather that they should be selling drugs, and you see this battle within the family, rudy starts tapping me on the shoulder saying, "do you see? do you see? when you have a disagreement, you keep it in the family." - don't ever takes sides with anyone against the family again. ♪ ♪ - rudy grows up to become a prosecutor of the mob.
- rudy's affect was this working-class, aggrieved, pissed-off white dude. and there's a big demo out there for working-class, aggrieved, pissed-off white dude, qed trump in the last, you know, seven years of our american political hell. (psst psst) ahhhh... with flonase, allergies don't have to be scary. spray flonase sensimist daily for non-drowsy,
about the commission and said, you know, this would be a great case that he would take on personally. - one of the attributes that he had, which i think was very important, was that he tried to see how things could be done rather than finding reasons for not doing them. the really good lawyers are those that spot the issues and then figure out legally how you can accomplish what you want to do. - first, we can expose them. that is a very, very important ingredient in taking some of their power away, not all of their power. because as i said, they operate through secrecy. it is also very important for the public to see what we do. - there was a real sense that rudy was the dominant personality in that office. and he did not brook dissent. he wanted people to agree with him. there was a joke around the office that the people around him were members of the yesrudy tribe because they said, "yes, rudy, yes, rudy."
every warning that i have given to rudy, to jenna ellis, given to sydney powell. i've given them to all of them. on shows a q r's. donald cares for no one or anything other than himself. why he refuses to make the payments when it's not even his money. it is a head-scratcher to me. i don't understand. it he's seen the consequences of allowing people to exit the -- and that's what it is. it's fealty to donald. look at what's happening when you allow these individuals to leave. let's not also forget that rudy, at one point in time, turned around and said, i have evidence. i have an insurance policy. was he bluffing the white donald bluffs? it seems so to me. >> one wonders. i was looking at the georgia accounts. this is just california. one of 41. and names everybody. they're starting with donald trump. trump said yesterday, i don't know who some of these people
the family believing the doll was like little at the airport in japan. valentina's dad, rudy. >> beatrice was a big part of our lives for the last three, four years. i'm feeling sad, because she's very sad. >> david: the family posting about the lost doll online, hoping somebody would help. and through friends, talking to friends, word eventually reached jim dannon, a pilot for american airlines, who lives right there in the dallas area. just days later, this is jim, in tokyo, with beatrice the doll. it turns out jim flies there often on his route. he went to the lost and found and he found her. documenting beatrice's journey back to 9-year-old valentina. the doll looking out the window. and finally back in texas. >> hello. >> beatrice! thank you. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> david: hugs, a thank you, and a question. >> was she well-behaved on the flight? >> very well-behaved, yes. >> david: pilot jim showing valentina 5,880 miles in all. and right here tonight.