He raised the visibility of the job of u.s. . attorney nationwide. there e was a lot of speculation about whatat rudy was s gonna do next whwhen he leftft. we a all knew that he e was not gogoing toto go into s some sleepyy law fifirm practicice. - have y you made a a decisin on runnining for mayayor yet? - could wewe take thatat up la? - rudy giuiuliani was s lookig for the e next thingng. what s s the next thing? mayor ofof the city y of new y.
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And wiwith respectct to ththe investigigation. - hehe did nothihing wrong a ae wasn t invnvolved in c collusi, and d he wasn t t involved in obstrucuction. - anand it s in n this mimindset, whehere that m morning, trtrump picks up the p phone for a a call with president zelensky. - the president says, there s a lot of talk about biden s son, so if you can look into it, it sounds s horrible t to me - trump p spends thehe call a asking zelelensky veryry specificacally to help him m investigatate hunter b b. - whwhite house e notes of t t cacall show ththat when zezely asked d for a shipipment ofof anti-tanknk missiles,, trumump counterered with these wordrds, i woululd lie you to do o us a favoror thoug - whatat zelensky y doesn t rere is, that i inside the e white house, trump has put a hold on several millllion dollarars ofd toto ukraine i in anticicipation of f zelensky agreeingng to thesee investigigations. - manyny of those e who are close toto donald trtrump think thatat none of t this wowould have h happened withouout rudy giuiuliani. ukukraine was s giuliani s s .
Becacause i am s sick and titd ofof the defamamation ofof donald trtrump by t the media and by t the clintonon campai! i i am sick anand tired ofof! ththis is a gogood man! - he wasas the most t angry sper of a all of themem. - anand america a should bee sick a and tired ofof their vicicious, nanasty campaiaign! [cheheers and apapplause] - what thehey don t tetell yu about fame is, it doesn t happen, usually, that you b become famomous and susuccessful,, and thenen you die.. usuaually, what t happens is, you becomeme famous and succesessful, and d then you b become less famouous and succccessfu, and ththen you dieie. - it s timime to make e ameria safe agagain. it s timime to make e america one agaiain. one amererica. what h happened toto therere is no blalack americ, there is n no white amameric, ththere is jusust america a?
- in the 1980s, i knew, if he wanted to be mayor, he would get it, because he was that driven. he was that ambitious. he wanted to be a power player. he wanted to have influence. and i think he more or less thought he was running new york when he was head of the southern district. - the linenes are drawn, and d the battlele has begun. foformer u.s. . attorney rudolph gigiuliani launched his formal campaign today to capture city hall from mayoror koch. - rudy annnnounced his candididacy in 198989 in the samame room whehere fiororello la guguardia first t announced d his candid. - - in 1933, fiorellolo la guardia stooood in this s room and d asked the e people of new yorork toto embrace t the candidadacyd not on p political n name tas but t on integririty, leadadership, anand vision.. - - la guardiaia, for mostt of rududy s lifetitime,
- the crucucial first t votes ofof campaign n 08 madede for solidid wins fofor senator r barack obaba and d former govovernor mike huckakabee. - you u got to givive mccan a lot ofof credit. mamanaged to g get a win in newew hampshirere. - let usus start in southth carolina.a. it was v very close,e, and d it wasn t t easy, but t john mccaiain has edged out t mike huckakabe. - the rerepublicans s are now tuturning their attetention to f florid. - - rudy giuliliani has s invested e everythingg in the statate of flororida. - he s h hoping a bibig win there nextxt tuesday can n put him riright back in thehe middle ofof this rac. - you are,e, looking a around the rest o of the partrty, an a aberration.n. can n we agree o on that poio? - - [laughs] i was an a aberrationn whenen i was mayayor of new . i m used t to that. - is youour messagee going toto continue e to be, can n you affordrd it toto continue e to be, t take me as s i am ? - that s s the only y message i have. . [chuckles]s]
These wewere his cononnection, these wewere his souources, this was h his rogue foreign popolicy. - i i don t knowow that i ththie average e american a at that te undederstood whyhy it was s so importatant that we gigive the sececurity assistancece to the ukukrainia. i thinink now in 2 2022 when russia i is invadingng ukraie and slaughtering innocent ukrainian civilians, our longstanding ally, we understand why w we had a rore and an oblbligation toto do th. - zezelenskyy heheld firm. and itit was a weieird previw that t this young g guy who ty thought wawas a triflele, thy thought, o oh, he s a a punk, he s nobody, he s a comedian, you know, he just an accidental president, he s turned out to be a greater leader in a t time of tererrible, teterrible cririsis ththan either r trump or r r. - [non-engnglish speecech] - the e curtain wawas lifteded today onn an anonymous whistleblower s explosive complaint
Whether hehe wants to o claim that racisism or not.. - peoplele create inin groups and out t groups insnstinctive. itit takes notothing toto create ththat. rudy realized that. it s a dialectic, this kind of politics. it s not a cohesive strategy. it s a cohesive attitude. - - i think hihis combativive e became morore so. i think, i in some wayays, hehe just becacame anan even morere intense v vn of who h he was. - befofore obama c came alon, wewe didn t hahave any sucuccesl radical isislamic terrrrorist attack in n the uniteded stat. - i i didn t havave a lot of contact with him during those years, but i suspect he was pretty unfulfilled. the value of the national security card for rudy had d diminisheded rather dramaticically by ththat poin. you u ended up w with this republicican constitituency that shohould have b been much more e rudy-centrtric. but american voters evolved on a couple of big things. that g guy who wororks inin brown couounty, wiscocon,
Was ththe prototypypical mayo. - in la guguardia s cacase, hehe was fighthting the cocorrn of tammany h hall agagainst greaeat odds with a l larger-thanan-life kind of tatabloid persrsonali. - this is s no time for sob b stuff and d whinin. now is t the time toto fight, to fightht for the b best inters ofof our city.y. - let t me repeat t it one moe timeme: no deals f for jobs, no dealsls for contrtributor. whatat you see i is what youou. [cheers anand applausese] - - so that wawas very mucuch al for rudydy, someone e who s gonnnna take on n sort of democratatic party c corruptin and exexcesses anand bureaucrcracy anand breathe e new life and a spspirit of rereform into thehe city. - sasay hi to rurudy giulian, our nenext mayor.. come on ovover and sayay hi toto rudy giululiani. - give me e a kiss. - i bebelieve him.m. and i i m all for r him. i lilike the wayay he s talkl. - rurudy was an outer b borough guyuy. not t too handsosome, not totoo tall, a littlele crabby, maybe sosometimes a a little lo.
That giuiuliani was s able toto pursue anand capitalilizn and geget a lot ofof publicityt. it really went to the heart of this, you know, momoneymaking g machine on wall ststreet. - wall strtreet has bebeen ht by yet another insider trtrading scanandal. - the mergrger and d acquisitioion boom. - it s tenen years behehind bs fofor one of a america s richest t men. - the e rise of t the junk bobond world.. - - the once o omnipotent wall street king was leftft staggerining off hihis throne.. - the e raiders, the hoststile takeovovers. - once onene of wall s streets mightiesest, ivan boboesky apappeared foror sentencini, in t the judge s s words, humiliatated, vilifified, anand cut downwn to size.. - and d all of thahat was entwined w with what was s a deeply c corrupt sysy. - you findnd for me inin the w where e the uniteded states congress hahas distinguguished multibillilion-dollarr financiaial firms from otherer institutitions, and you u show me whwhere that. - rurudy createded the chararacter of h himself asas a workingng-class, seam strtraight, streetwise n new yorkerr