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>> now is the time to take our city back from the violent criminals on the streets. >> did you go too far on some of this? no. >> that sense has always been there. >> the first time he was mayor rudy, now he's king giuliani. >> giuliani was just starting to wear on the public of new york. >> giuliani want to take everything. and there is no peace. >> you know, the city was ready to move on, was ready to turn the page from the giuliani years.
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>> manhattan is like no place else in the world. in new york. what you see is, first of all, you see a natural wonder of buildings you know, it's like the pyramids. the buildings dwarf, you. the buildings remind you of how unimportant you are because you're so tiny. >> in this big, incredible city. when you see it, it makes you want to come and see it. and it makes you curious about it. it makes it something bigger than life. >> i
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have strong feelings about new york. everything that makes up new york, where the crossroads of the world. this is the center of the universe. i mean, there's no place that gets more people from more different places you sort of get like, a view of the whole world by just standing there and walking around. it's really my deep passion, the love for the people of the city and the love of this city. when you look back on it, you keep thinking. >> you keep thinking, well, maybe it really didn't happen. i mean, you keep wishing it away.
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>> this just into our newsroom. a plane has crashed into the world trade center. >> we don't know if it was a commercial aircraft. we don't know if it was a private aircraft. we have no idea. >> i first heard about it when i was at the peninsula hotel. >> i was finishing a breakfast with my counsel, denny young, one of my oldest friends. we got up to leave. one of my detectives, patti varon, went over to denny, whispered in his ear, and denny came over to me and said, a twin engine plane has crashed into one of the twin towers. there's a pretty bad fire. they don't know how bad it is yet. and i said, well, denny, we've got to head right down there. and he said, yeah, of course. >> there's a fire in the building right now. huge smoke pouring out of it. >> i was on east river drive and i could actually see it. and it looked to me like it was a lot of smoke for a small plane. >> there was additional debris sort of raining down. >> i rushed down there and we
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began to get the reports. >> it started to sound worse and worse. >> i can't imagine what the inside of that building looked like. >> got there very quickly. went through the windows. had already blown out when i got in there. the chief said to me, boss, it wasn't a small plane. it was a commercial airliner. and we can't put the fire out. we're going to just try to get as many people out of here as we could. and that was within the first five minutes. >> i don't have a lot more detail on this than that. >> when i got to saint vincent's hospital, i could see the doctors out on the street and the nurses, and they already had stretches out, and i realized they must be getting ready for something very big. >> i'm in the north tower. we felt the vibration. we thought it was an explosion on the upper floors, but it wasn't. something else just blew up. >> oh my god. another plane has just hit. it hit another building. >> you saw a plane? >> i just saw a plane
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go into the building. >> we received a phone call from the police and were notified that a second plane had hit. and realized at that point that obviously, it was a terrorist attack. >> mcgowan, if you were a new york city firefighter, drop what you're doing, report to your company. a major disaster is occurring in new york city this morning. >> when i got to chief ganci, who was the commander for the rescue effort, i said, chief, can we get a helicopter up there? and he said to me, no, it would be too dangerous. there's too much fire. and then he looked at me and he said, we can save everybody below the fire. >> all of us were reacting, just trying to make people as safe as possible. no one knew exactly what was going on. no
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one knew if there were more planes. no one knew if there was another target. >> we proceeded up west street. on the way up, i saw a father judge, and i asked him to pray for us, which he assured me that he was doing. and then i walked to 75 barclay street, and i was brought into a like a cubicle inner office and told that we had reached the white house. and then the desk started to shake. oh my gosh. >> the south building just crumbled from the top. are just coming down. it is just coming down. oh my gosh. the building just fell. the debris is flying. i'm going to run. oh my god. >> we understand now. there has been a secondary explosion on tower two. >> a section of the world trade center has collapsed. >> just an unbelievable
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situation here. >> we wondered if we hadn't gone from bad to worse. because when you looked outside, what you saw was a tremendous cloud of debris flying through the streets and people being injured. >> the entire building fell. and i processed that, and we just, you know, kept walking. and that's when we hooked up with the mayor. i'm ready. >> mayor. >> everyone in the city should remain calm. the very best thing to do right now would be to remain home. if you're outside of southern manhattan, you should remain where you are. you shouldn't panic. you shouldn't worry. what i was trying to do was to get us on television, on the radio, to tell people what to do, to give them some advice. this is a terrible tragedy. the best way we're going to get through this is if we remain calm and just listen to everyone, not to
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panic. >> we walked up a few more blocks to a firehouse. >> we got to the firehouse and i was told by tom von essen that father judge had died. i knew father judge for eight years. i was very close to him. it was the first person that i knew about that had died. i had to keep saying to myself, don't think about it. put it out of your mind and keep focused. >> the second tower in the world trade center is teetering, and looks like it may be in the process of collapsing. >> we were about two blocks away when the second tower came down, and we were able to escape that as well. but in the course of it, we lost some of the people that i've worked with, known for many, many years. >> new york's world trade center, in effect, has been destroyed. the loss of life will be high. >> there was a time when, you know, we got emotional, but i never heard him say he's
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scared. you know. >> put your mask on. mask up. >> i'm putting it down. >> some guys get in a position and they step up. and i think that's how he was. >> what's the situation right now? >> the situation is that two airplanes have attacked. apparently. what all right, well, then let's get, let's get let's go north. then. >> they might be afraid, but they overcome it because they're trying to help other people. >> i lost my wife and daughter. we were in the building when it hit. >> i don't know. >> i came down, i'm alive. i just want to know if my wife is alive. >> no idea how many people are dead. we have many people hurt. >> i heard you say earlier that you lost everybody. what were you talking about? >> i can't find anyone. they won't come up on the on the on the radio or the cell phone. i don't know. >> where did you last see them, sir? >> they were in front of one world trade center and it's the worst thing i've ever seen in my life. >> we've got over 300 people
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that are missing that we can't account for. we believe that many of many of them are are gone. >> you know, still today, it's what, 22 years? and for me, it's a lot of it's hard, but it's mostly the the grief, the death, buildings that high. with that much fire and loaded with people. people going to work that morning, mothers and fathers. >> it's not just those most affected in new york and washington that are stunned this morning. across the nation, all americans are in horror and disbelief. >> good afternoon. >> today is obviously one of the most difficult days in the history of the city and the country. the tragedy that we're all undergoing right
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now is something that we've had nightmares about. but probably thought wouldn't happen. i really had wrestled a lot with mortality, immortality, death. so in a way it prepared me. >> do we know the number of casualties at this point, sir? >> i don't i don't think we really want to speculate about that. the number of casualties will be more than any any of us can bear. ultimately, that was him. >> that's not me. the reason it's so powerful is that it's. it is disarmingly direct and heartfelt and simple and clean and clear and came from his heart. and you know that that expresses, you know, what was in his heart and mind at that time. it's all that needed to be said. it's all that could be said. and it was pitch perfect for that moment.
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>> the night before president bush came russell vought, i was having a heart attack at one point because my shoulder was in a lot of pain. my office was like a big meeting room with one decision after another. this was about 1030, 11:00 at night. i went for a walk. i remember saying, god, i can't have a heart attack now. just not time. it's not going to happen now. if you want to give me a heart attack, it's going to happen later. and i saw the river. it gave me a tremendous sense of stability. there are a lot of things i don't know how to do, but i know how to run emergencies because i've done so many of them. and i said to myself, this is what i know how to do. i know how to do this. >> did you have anything in some way that, you know, some sense of religious faith that god put me here for this moment? >> i don't know god's will and i don't know god's plan, but i did feel, um, i did feel that in that sense, i was i was in the place that i guess i had to be. >> this part changed my life.
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picked up at my apartment building in the morning of the 12th, and the city was just absolutely dead, still and quiet. i remember very distinctly going over the brooklyn bridge at like six, ten, six, 15 in the morning. and i think we were the only car on the bridge in the city was just still i was going to meet the mayor at the temporary emergency headquarters from the morning of nine over 11 on, i became the consultant to the city's administration regarding communications about public mental health. in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, his first statement to me was, my number one concern is the citizenry of new york city. i want to do this in a way that really helps the people of the city get through this. i was really quite taken with that, and i said to mayor giuliani, i developed a plan for communications at a public health level of how individuals
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recover from trauma and create successful and effective coping mechanisms and begin the process of recovery. >> good morning. we just completed a long meeting. >> it was very clear to me that he understood, integrated and implemented the blueprint that we had discussed immediately. >> we ask all new yorkers to to cooperate and to try to help each other. there are going to be a lot of people today who need help and need assistance. >> there's a necessity. and the requirement for a trusted voice somehow there's a there's a sense that you're you're telling the truth. and that's priceless. >> the fire is still burning, but from it has emerged a stronger spirit, a more unified country, a more unified city, and a more unified world. >> but don't assure anything that can't really be assured. >> we also want everyone to prepare themselves for the reality that we're not going to be able to
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recover significant numbers of people and reconnecting individuals from their own trauma, experienced their own personal trauma experience to a wider community. those of us who are here have to defend freedom by going about our lives unafraid, like the people of britain did in the 1940s and the people of jerusalem do today. >> and i was like, holy it's like, wow, i yeah, you know, go, rudy. i mean, i was really blown away by that. i mean, he really got it. it's hard to articulate the emotions in new york city at that time. >> here you have this whole this wound in the side of lower manhattan. >> we do not do our show in new york. we are in los angeles. and although we've all seen these horrible, horrible images on tv, i can't imagine how
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horrible they must be in person. >> we were on the upper west side and you could smell it up there. it would come into your windows. everyone was so scared. rudy, in the midst of chaos, he was stability. that was the man meeting the moment. and i think he was really good at that. >> to stand up and be defiant when all those buildings are coming down all around you in america, that's what they love, you know, that's that showed courage. and i mean, he was america's mayor. then he stepped forward to be a leader, not just here in new york city, but for the rest of the country that was grieving, that was in shock. >> the showing of support and the volunteers that have come here has been wonderful for the spirit of the city. it's kind of like we're all embracing each other. america is embracing each other. and that show of support is enormously important for those of us who followed
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or covered rudy giuliani in new york. >> in some newsrooms, we call him, you know, 910 rudy, meaning before nine over 11 and his transmogrification into this new person, america's mayor, that the rest of the world got to know. >> he's the man of the hour. a man whose extraordinary grace under pressure in the days since this devastating attack has led him to be called america's mayor. ladies and gentlemen, rudy giuliani. >> the city was shrouded in a real and psychological dust. and then. giuliani appeared on saturday night live. >> we went there reluctantly. none of us were in the mood for going on saturday night live. that was the mayor again, thinking big, thinking that, okay, we need to we need to start laughing again. >> can we be
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funny? >> why start now? >> there was this kind of like collective release of okay, if he can begin to smile, maybe we can too. i thought that was an important moment. >> it was like a curtain going up on this newest phase of the rudy giuliani story. >> his response to the attacks had elevated him to an unprecedented place for any mayor. he was named time magazine's man of the year. he would walk into rooms and there would be standing ovations. >> if you don't stop applauding, i will start singing. >> you walk into every room and you're the center of attention, and it comes to feel natural and something that you're due. >> bits of the old giuliani do crack through. he's still operating politically and trying to grab some more time in city hall for at least as
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terrific job leading the response to nine over 11, and he earned america's mayor. and time magazine's man of the year. but then he started to talk about extending his term. >> he's term limited. his two term tenure will end on december 31st of 2001. >> unity that exists in the city. this was the first inkling that giuliani's thirst for power wasn't going to disappear. >> even in this moment. >> a lot of new yorkers are convinced now that the whole place is going to fall apart. if he leaves. and apparently giuliani thinks so, too. >> i wish that we can reelect him, but unfortunately we can't. >> one of three men will be the next mayor of new york city, and it's either michael bloomberg, freddy ferrer, or me. >> i get a phone call. the mayor would like to see you. i
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was asked to just meet with the mayor alone. just the two of us. no staff. he said. mark, look, it's a hell of a situation. who knows if there could be another attack? i'd like to add something unusual to stay three months beyond my term, which ends january 1st. >> so you create a stable, sensible transition process, because this has to be the best transition the city has ever done. >> in the civil war, we didn't extend abraham lincoln's term. he had to run for reelection for president in the middle of a civil war. this is madness. but there was some public sentiment for that. times being what they were, i'm sorry that he's leaving. >> he's done a phenomenal job of uniting the our community. god bless you, rudy. >> i can't. >> i. livelsberger. bravo. >> god bless you. on the way away from the meeting, i got a phone call from his top aide at city hall saying. mark, you don't want to fight rudy on
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this. he's not going to be happy. this is mob talk. this is godfather talk. >> giuliani has taken fierce criticism for his controversial plans, but even opponents concede his political stature in america is something most mayors only dream about. >> i got the message that he would invest his churchillian popularity to attack me. rudy, rudy, get over here. >> i would head up a campaign to to reelect him for a third term. he's the man. >> basically, my agenda is the only agenda discussed in the campaign, one way or the other. when you think about it. i mean, that's that's the core of what the discussion is all about, the agenda that we've set for the city. >> after i had said, okay, borough president freddy ferrer had made the very smart decision to say, no, we've done this for centuries in this city, for centuries in this nation, in times of crisis and war. >> this should be no exception. >> the city is bigger than any one individual. we have to move
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forward with the process. it is an outrage that he should demand an extension of his time and effectively engage in political extortion. and so that idea died a quick death. >> he endorsed bloomberg. bloomberg was down 15 points, i think at the time bloomberg won. and then, you know, it was over. >> rudy dealt with it directly. i remember seeing him pack up his office, and there was a sense of some sadness. but, you know, i think there was a sense of exhaustion, certainly. but he was looking forward to what was next. >> his last walk out of city hall as mayor of new york. >> those days, around 9/11, were the apex of his career, and probably his life. you have throngs of people cheering for you and waiting in line to
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shake your hand and get your autograph and get pictures with you. you multiply that times a thousand with respect to nine over 11. i think that never leaves you. anytime a politician gets that kind of adulation, it's got to do something to their brain. it's just got to. >> arlette saenz. >> mayor giuliani swears in his successor, mike bloomberg, in the city of new york. >> the best of my ability, the best of my ability. help me god. so help me god. >> he's at the top of the world. >> he's back on top, and he's going to do extraordinary things and likely get on to the next stage that he wanted, which was always what he wanted, which was to be president of united states. >> you could smell that on him from day one. >> all there is with anderson cooper. listen, wherever you get your podcasts these days, the dollar just doesn't go as far. >> but at red lobster, your big
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nothing like. >> welcome to the white lotus in thailand. >> this is very exciting. >> aren't you a brave girl? there's nothing like it. >> where's the money? >> you can't heal something unless you say it out loud. >> it's not the light. >> not the light. there's nothing like it. >> i was looking forward to leaving office and having some time to finish my book. build a business, straighten out my life. >> rudy giuliani is out with a new book on leadership, a quality that he personified during and after 9/11. and he is getting a rock star. reception. >> rudy is now a private citizen again. things are on the rebound in a variety of ways. he's healthy. he seems to have beaten prostate cancer.
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he has a woman who loves him back in his life. he has this enormous popularity. >> take a lunchtime stroll in midtown manhattan, and you begin to see why he is unofficially regarded as america's mayor. oh, yeah. yeah. go, yanks. >> absolutely. >> he's been called the mayor of the world. >> i miss you, bro. >> all right. >> i actually was a fan of the mayor before it was fashionable to be a fan of the mayor. >> there's never been a mayor like him before in the city. will never see another mayor like him for many, many years. >> he got knighted by the queen. i was with him that day. it's quite an honor to be with people like that. >> she said to me, i hope you're having less stress now. and i told her i was. >> giuliani is catapulted onto the world stage like very few american politicians who are not president, get catapulted onto the world stage.
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>> he's now lionized as an american hero. the honorable rudolph giuliani. giuliani has this enormous national platform. he's a rising star in the republican party. now he has this national profile, international profile. >> we need george bush now more than ever. >> he grew up dreaming of becoming president. and now as george w bush's term is coming to an end, he sees the opening. >> i think he just thought it was the natural step. you know, i run new york. i ran nine over 11. i should be running the country. >> i think i can make a difference. i believe that the country needs leadership. i think it takes a lot of chutzpah, though, doesn't it, to say, yeah, i'm the best. >> that's what you're saying. >> it does. and very humbling. >> i'm not the youngest candidate, but i am the most experienced. >> i am an american running for
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president. what i'm going to do is talk about who i am and what i believe, and let them sort it out from there. >> giuliani's overall message is that he's the guy who knows how to run a government, that the liberals have screwed up. >> i'm running against three democrats who have never run a city, never run a state, never run a business. >> but also that he's the guy who knows how to take on the terrorists, an enemy without borders, hate without boundaries, a people perverted, a religion betrayed, democracy attacked, and osama bin laden still making threats in a world where the next crisis is a moment away, america needs a leader who's ready. >> i think people look for results. thank you. they like that guy. he's looking for results. >> thank you. thank you for undertaking this race. thank you very much. >> thank you. giuliani is charismatic. he's candid. he's comfortable in his own
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skin. he's an exciting candidate, and he's going to bring a lot of sizzle to this election. >> there was a perception that he had a reasonably good chance in 2008, based on his performance on 9/11, and there was a belief that the party had been reconfigured as a national security party. >> there's no one running that has had the safety and responsibility of millions and millions of people on their shoulders under very difficult circumstances. and i'm not just talking about september 11th, but by 2008, the war had started to go quite badly, and a lot of americans, even a lot of republicans, viewed it very negatively. >> but also, you had to be right on taxes, abortion and guns. he was wrong on three of those things. for the republican base voter, he was a new yorker with some progressive ideals. >> now, sometimes he would try to hide them. >> is it a liability being pro-choice and being pro-gun control in the south? >> it is an extreme asset to be the candidate with the most
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experience in this race for generations, members of both parties had tried to win the presidential nomination by building momentum, winning the earliest contests in states like iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. >> giuliani's campaign had a different idea. >> i advise for the debate prep. i remember i was in the meeting where they rolled out the florida strategy. >> the idea was to skip the initial primary states and betting it all on the republican primary in florida. >> there are a lot of former new yorkers there, and no doubt the republican party faithful will support giuliani, and that will change the whole contest. giuliani was lulled into thinking that because he was so well known nationally, he was banking on this. well, look, i'm still leading in the polls. >> he's waiting until january 29th in florida to take on all comers. he'll be in effect out of the news cycle. will he be able to raise money? will he
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have any momentum? it's a high risk strategy. >> camping out in florida on a night like tonight. >> like this is a. crazy. it misread the state. it misread the demographics. it misread the voter behavior. >> this is the strategy that we selected pretty close to day one. so maybe other people would get nervous in a situation like this. >> he presented it as like a brilliant, you know, counterintuitive strategy. but i think what it really was was a kind of tacit admission that he was not very appealing to voters in iowa. he was not very appealing to voters in new hampshire. >> the crucial first votes of the campaign, zero eight, made for solid wins for senator barack obama and former governor mike huckabee. >> you got to give mccain a lot of credit. managed to get a win in new hampshire. >> let us start in south carolina. it was very close and it wasn't easy. but john mccain has edged out mike huckabee.
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>> this, of course, a very difficult night for rudy giuliani. he had been hoping that he would be the victor here in florida, spent more than $30 million here. >> it wasn't just a hard fought but lost campaign. >> it was an embarrassment. >> he thought he was going to be president. a lot of people thought he was going to be president, and he screwed it up. >> i think that was a huge disappointment to him, having been so much a figure of attention, of fascination, of media coverage. i don't think he could bear the thought of losing that, that that somehow was part of his identity. for a politician, you want to be relevant. you want people to care what you think. you want to be able to change people's lives. you want to be able to lead and have millions of americans follow you. so to not be relevant anymore, that is heartbreaking. >> i'm proud that we chose to stay positive and to run a
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campaign of ideas in an era of personal attacks, negative ads and cynical spin. we ran a campaign that was uplifting. >> giuliani was the frontrunner for the republican nomination, and then people started voting. >> he invested his heart and soul in this primary. and who conducted himself with all the qualities of the exceptional american leader he truly is. >> did rudy giuliani die? >> barack obama will become the 44th president of the united states. >> he'd come to the end of a political career, and you're not going to be elected to anything anymore. what do you do? >> he was in yet another wilderness where he wasn't quite sure whether he was a politician anymore, or whether he was a full time businessman. >> i think giuliani, in washington terms, was nowhere. >> he misses the action, and he wants to be a player. >> the vice president wasn't very nice. yesterday, the vice president, he became more
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unfettered and unencumbered. >> giuliani touched off a firestorm when he said earlier this week, i know this is a horrible thing to say, but i do not believe that the president loves america. >> he doesn't love you and he doesn't love me. he wasn't brought up the way you were brought up. and i was brought up through love of this country. that is deplorable. >> that is wrong. >> you can almost say it's unpatriotic. >> far from backing down, he's actually tripling down with new remarks. >> giuliani defended the remark, saying it has nothing to do with race. >> and what rudy giuliani is doing is citing the president as other. it is a dog whistle to certain people in the party and to certain types of people. whether he wants to claim that racism or not, people create in-groups and outgroups instinctively. >> it takes nothing to create that. rudy realized that it's a dialectic, this kind of politics. it's not a cohesive strategy. it's a cohesive attitude. >> i think his combative nature became more so. i think in some ways he just became an even
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more intense version of who he was before obama came along. >> we didn't have any successful radical islamic terrorist attack in the united states. >> i didn't have 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 diminished rather dramatically by that point. you ended up with this republican constituency. that should have been much more rudy centric. but american voters evolved on a couple of big things. that guy who works in brown county, wisconsin, and has been there for 25 years in a factory making auto parts. his son has had three tours in iraq and gotten shot. once that guy's job has been offshored and he's been able to find a job working in a call center for nine bucks an hour with no health insurance, and he's. >> i mean, i'm mad. i've been mad. i'm one of the angry, you
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know, voters that they've been discussing for the last year. >> i am officially running for president of the united states. >> and we are going to make our country great again. >> well, donald trump is moving like a storm front through the republican primaries and caucuses heading toward super tuesday next week. trump has more delegates than his rivals combined. >> donald trump's march to the nomination would be hard to bet against now. >> as trump started to rack up wins. i think giuliani saw value in his being a voice of support for trump. >> trump is clearly the best choice. he's the best choice for new york. he's the best choice for the country. and he's the one who can beat hillary clinton. >> super man the christopher
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thank you, new york. >> for a new yorker for once on the ticket, donald trump remember, this is one of the great ironies of rudy. >> he knew trump was a third tier, fourth tier real estate bull artist. he knew it. he was in new york. rudy used to deal with the actual power in new york. money and real estate. he knew what trump was. >> i think you see his speeches. he was more ratcheted up than anyone else could be. i am telling you this because i am sick and tired of the defamation of donald trump by the media and by the clinton campaign. >> i am sick and tired of it. >> this is a good man. >> he was the most angry speaker of all of them, and america should be sick and tired of their vicious,
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nasty campaign. >> what they don't tell you about fame is it doesn't happen, usually that you become famous and successful and then you die. usually what happens is you become famous and successful and then you become less famous and successful, and then you die. >> it's time to make america safe again. it's time to make america one again. one america. >> what happened to. there's no black america. there's no white america. there is just america. what happened to it? where did it go? how was it flown away? >> giuliani sees one thing. opportunity. opportunity for his personal development,
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growth achievement rise yet again to political power. giuliani knew he had an opportunity to be back in the influence business. >> at the height of the 16 election. i said, look, the election is going to be over, and i wish you would consider your legacy because you have an important story to tell and calmly and safely evacuate lower manhattan. >> if you are south of canal street, walk north and get out of southern manhattan. >> everyone in the city. one of the things that rudy and 911 helped us realize as a society is that you don't have to be perfect to be a hero. but if you stand up and you do the right thing when it's difficult, that's all that matters. at the end of the day. i mean, so much of what we do should be motivated by caring about our legacy. and he just said to me, he said, i don't care about my legacy.
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>> rudy has that fatalism about him. he thinks that it doesn't matter, and that whether it's one year from now where he's remembered, but 10,000 years from now, he won't be. what difference does it make in the scheme of the universe? i had my day in the sun and i had my place in the arena. what i did for new york, donald trump will do for america. >> ladies and gentlemen, america's mayor rudy giuliani. >> today, i'm officially announcing my withdrawal as a candidate for president of the united states. >> very difficult night for rudy giuliani. we are going to make our country great again. >> giuliani sees one thing opportunity. >> trump is clearly st

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