NEWS HEADLINES: Rudy Giuliani Gives Huge, Heartwarming Update On His Recovery * 100PercentFedUp.com * by Noah

Rudy Giuliani: This is Rudy Giuliani, and this is America’s Mayor Live from Mars. I like this outfit. This may become permanent, Ted. It’s similar to football equipment—if you play hockey or football—it reminds me of shoulder pads or something.

I’d been thinking more like a gladiator, you know? What song did you have there? I had Ride of the Valkyries, but I think I’m gonna try Gladiator music. Wanna make sure we’re on Instagram, Steven? I think it’s just a quick button. There we go. All right, thank you, Steven. Gladiator music. So we are live, by the way. This is live.

It’s 8:01 on Tuesday night, and we’re here live with you in person. The mayor wanted a nice intro song. We gotta spend some time on that, maybe for tomorrow night. We’ll have you walk out—we should’ve had you walk out to some Gladiator music or something. Yeah, that’s what we need.

Boy, it’s good to be with all of you tonight. I can say that much. Now, right now we’re—seconds—we gotta go through some… the mayor’s gotta… here we go. There are all kinds of things. Hold on one second, we’ll find this later. Hold on—oh, this is like a song from Gladiator.

We should’ve had you walking out. I don’t even know if they can hear it. No, they can’t. Sorry. Well, it would be very soft if they could. But again, it’s good to be with all of you tonight. It doesn’t go on. We’ll play it directly from the show later. We just wanted a little appropriate music.

As you know—I think you know—maybe you don’t; we shouldn’t assume everybody knows. On Saturday night, Ted and I were in an accident and other things. Just kidding—other things meaning an interruption of a domestic violence situation, and a terrible accident where I was injured pretty badly. He got shook up somewhat, but mine was not permanent—one that has to be resolved over a period of time.

I was in the hospital for a couple of days, but we’re out and we’re doing our show. God was very, very good to us. He looked after us, didn’t He? He made sure that everything worked out okay. And we did the right thing, so we can feel good about ourselves and be an example for other people of what they should do, which is what Jesus wants you to do.

Ted: And what did He say? “When you see one of my little ones, the least of my brethren…” Maybe, for those who don’t know the full story, we went over it during our 7:00 show. We started this show—I started it last time. Next time, we’ll try to do it a little shorter. But we have a new audience here at 8:00—a very dedicated, loyal audience. I’ve heard from a number of you.

And we love you, by the way. We absolutely do. We’ve had you since baseball—since the Yankees and the Indians, otherwise known as the Guardians. Since October of 2022, we’ve been with you every single night. I’m believing that all those names are gonna get changed back.

So, speaking of baseball, we had a whole weekend of baseball lined up. We did attend the Manchester Fisher Cats game—Double-A minor league baseball. That was Saturday evening, with plans on Sunday to go to Fenway Park, which would’ve been my first time to Fenway.

Even though I’m a Yankees fan, I considered Fenway a surreal experience—a beautiful baseball experience. While I was excited, it wasn’t lost on me that I’m going to Fenway with the mayor before I go to Yankee Stadium. The only reason that’s appropriate is it’s older. Fenway Park, the oldest; Yankee Stadium the second oldest.

Rudy Giuliani: I don’t think so. I think Wrigley Field goes back. But that’s about it. Ball grounds might have been earlier than all of them—gone a long time now.

In any event, we attend the Fisher Cats game. The mayor and I leave a little early. Did we stay for the 7th-inning stretch? We did. We sang Take Me Out to the Ball Game or something else, and we left shortly after that.

So we leave. It’s after dark. We’re about 5 to 10 minutes away from the stadium, making our way back—navigating beautifully. We know the way now. We’ve been here two months, back and forth to Manchester five or six times. We’ve been to that ballpark a few times. We used to stay next to that ballpark. So we know the area. It’s not as if we were lost.

Ted was just driving normally, and we see a woman at the side of the road. He has a slightly different recollection than I do. I think he saw her first, actually, ’cause he said, “Look over there.” Tell them what you saw, then I’ll tell them what I saw.

Ted: I see a woman and someone else waving traffic down for help. At that point, it could be a blown tire; the car just broke down. I specifically remember another car slowing down, her speaking into the car, and then the car continuing forward.

We come up. This is now clearly a distressed woman who appears to need immediate assistance. Yes, it’s after dark. It’s a busy interstate. Come on—I’m with Mayor Rudy Giuliani. You think we’re gonna pass by and not stop to help?

It was about 8:40 or 8:45. We’ve talked about this. I recall this portion being about 20 to 30 seconds. The mayor recalls five to ten minutes. We pull up to the individuals. We know it’s a woman who appears to be in clear distress and another individual a few feet behind with a light—what I believe was the light on the back of a cell phone.

At first, we’re not sure who this person is—man or woman. The woman comes immediately to the mayor’s side—the passenger side—saying she needs help. “I need to get out of here.”

Rudy Giuliani: We were on the passenger side; Ted was driving. She came up. I’m evaluating her. Obviously I looked at her very carefully. Your professional instincts kick in. You watch every single thing about her.

She did not seem panicked. She did not seem overwhelmed in her mannerisms—her words were. She said two or three different versions of the same thing: “I’m being attacked. I’m under threat. I’m being hit. I don’t want to go back there. I gotta get out of here. Can you take me in the car?” She must have said “take me in the car” two or three times.

Ted: I do recall that. To which we said, “No, we can’t do that, but we can help you. Why don’t you—”

Rudy Giuliani: I gotta tell you the truth: I said, “Come in the car.” She didn’t want to.

Ted: You’re talking about later on. She says, “Can I come in the car?”

Rudy Giuliani: I said, “Come on. Come in the car.” I went to open the back door.

Ted: Red flags. Immediately I’m focused on what’s going on. Not even that she could be a threat—I was more focused on the other individual. We didn’t know this woman. I didn’t trust her, but I was okay with taking the risk of her coming in the car. What I didn’t want to risk was the other person. In the distance, when she said she was being beaten up, all I saw was a round light.

I saw a figure around it, but I couldn’t make out if it was a man or a woman. I couldn’t see their hands. I thought it was a moderately sized person—maybe the light was at the face level—but I’m not sure. The person was making no noise.

Rudy Giuliani: Another thing about her that gave me pause—she wasn’t panicked. She seemed overwrought and upset, but she didn’t seem panicked, and she had no injuries on her.

Ted: Almost immediately I’m thinking, “Okay, this isn’t just a broken-down car or a blown tire.” There’s something else happening here. We don’t know what. The mayor invited her in the car. I didn’t like that, but I understood where he was coming from. We’re not going to leave if there’s a woman in danger.

I figured: we’ll take the risk of her coming in the car. Get her out of immediate danger and figure it out. She refuses, and I believe this was 20 to 30 seconds. I say that because the entire time I’m extremely focused on this light and not being able to see the person’s hands.

Rudy Giuliani: Every time she said to me, “I’m afraid he’s gonna attack,” I said, “Get in the car.” I thought he could come up to her right away and start attacking her. If we got her in the car, we could protect her better.

Ted: I’m thinking of his safety as well and mine. At the same time, the light wasn’t moving. The guy wasn’t indicating he was coming at her, trying to stop her. But I couldn’t remain comfortable. There’s too much risk to the mayor, to myself, and our vehicle.

It all resolved itself—either in 20 or 30 seconds or in four or five minutes. It resolved itself in, “You stay right here. We’re gonna pull up. We’re gonna call the police.” That’s what we did. We pulled up about 100 to 200 feet along the median. We stopped and called 911.

We reported it, and after the usual back and forth, I did what I could to light a fire under them. I said she’s in great danger and they should get a police vehicle here right away. They said they would and to remain there—if we felt safe.

At this point, we still don’t know what’s going on behind us. I’m extremely concerned this is a setup—some sort of robbery. They want to steal the car, or something worse.

Rudy Giuliani: It could have been. When he would say that, I’d weigh it. I didn’t have an instinct the guy was a danger to us, but the guy could’ve had a gun. I didn’t know. I did think there was something wrong about her. She didn’t look like a woman who was getting beaten up. I’ve seen domestic violence cases any number of times. She didn’t seem like a woman, even one trying to cover it up.

Ted: Now my concern is we’re staying there. We don’t know what’s happening behind us. We’re in our car 100 to 200 feet in front of their car, but their headlights are straight into us, so we can see very little. I’m trying to see where those two individuals are—are they coming up on us?

But at the same time, if there’s any chance a woman is in need on the side of the highway, we are going to stop. The mayor wouldn’t be able to live with himself otherwise. There’s a picture Steven put up—that’s the side of the highway near the end of this part of the incident.

We had slowly backed up over the course of the 19-and-a-half-minute 911 call. We have a short clip at the end of the call. You’ll hear the mayor and me with the dispatcher. I was filming with my phone to zoom and see more than my eyes could.

We play the clip again—dispatcher says officers are on scene and will handle it.

Rudy Giuliani: Before the police arrived, after we pulled up and made the call, we incrementally backed up to get closer to the scene so we could hear what was going on in case she was getting attacked—or in case we had to get out. We didn’t know. We crept backwards.

By the time you see the picture, we’re a little closer than we originally were. Out of the blue, without any warning, she shows up again—this time on Ted’s side, the driver’s side, but exposed to traffic.

The first time she was on the safer side. Now she’s in an extraordinarily dangerous position. The first thing we try to do is tell her to come around to the safe side. She seemed to be missing that.

Ted: She asks for a cell phone. During the 19-minute 911 call, we’re still backing up slowly, asking dispatch to get there. I’m weighing risk. She comes up to the car: “Can I have your cell phone?”

We both say, “No. What do you need it for?” She says, “I want to call my sister. She’s only a few miles from here, and she can come take me.”

Rudy Giuliani: I said, “Give me the phone number, and we’ll call,” or, “We’ll take you there. If it’s only two miles away, we’ll drive you there and you’re outta here. The rest can be dealt with later.”

Ted: I’m thinking maybe she doesn’t want to say it because he’s listening. I whisper, “Is there anything you want to tell us?” She says no. Now I’m thinking, “This is your last chance. Get in the car. We drive away and then we can talk.”

At this point we’re pretty sure it’s a man behind with the light. She still won’t get in the car, and I don’t know what’s going on.

Rudy Giuliani: She changed her mind. Her original request was, “I want to get in the car.” We said, “Okay,” and then she never got in. We requested again for her own good—she didn’t come in.

Ted: She did give me a phone number to call. We called it. It was a working number—maybe a machine or service answered. I’m not sure if we left a message. We again told her, “Come on, get in the car and we’ll drive you.” She pointed, said it was his sister, just a little way from there.

We also told her to get on the other side of the road, the safe side. I’m thinking if she can’t, is that because she’s afraid of him? We want to do the right thing, but we have to think of our safety. Nowadays it’s not advisable—especially on your own—to stop. Even the police officer later had to remind us of that.

Rudy Giuliani: But you know me. If you see somebody in need, you stop. I was prepared—if she had a knife or a gun, we’d knock it right down. The two of us could disable it. I was willing to take that risk with her. My concern was the guy with the light and not knowing what he had.

So now she’s acting strange. A minute or two later, the 911 operator tells us police are arriving and will come up to us. She abruptly leaves, walking back. We see police lights coming.

The dispatcher says, “Police are there; they’ll be up to you in a minute. Please wait.” They hang up. Police handle whatever they have to handle over there, then come up to us.

They ask if we called 911, take some information, maybe our licenses, and ask us to hang tight. They ask if we saw what happened. We didn’t. All we could give was what she told us. They ask if we’re busy. We wanted to sleep—we get up very early—but we stayed.

Ted: The trooper goes back, handles the situation, then returns and informs us it’s resolved. An ambulance had arrived—we figured maybe for her. He comes up. We ask, “Is she badly injured?” He says, “No. Not her. Him.”

We’re shocked. Him? He uses an expletive and basically says, “She beat the—out of him.” Not just a quick comment—multiple comments: this guy was beat up. Ambulance necessary. He mentions blood and skin under her nails.

I kind of remember she had very long nails. The mayor had noticed them too—dangerous if she started scratching.

Rudy Giuliani: To end that portion—she inflicted a lot of damage on him. We never went any further than that with details. I don’t believe nails alone would do that, so she must’ve done more. The trooper confirmed he was in pretty bad shape.

We talked a bit more. He goes off in the ambulance. I’m not sure if she went in a police car or not. I believe they said she was detained, but I don’t know if she was arrested or let go. They stayed for a while.

Then, very shyly, they said, “Mayor, is it okay if we take a picture?” They asked their supervisor. He came over—friendly as hell. We took a picture with him.

Ted: Hey, I wanted to let you know that your son Andrew is taking a break from his roles with the—oh, he actually has to come on now, doesn’t he? He’s here waiting if you want to bring him in.

Rudy Giuliani: Bring him on. Andrew, there you are.

Andrew Giuliani: You look like a gladiator—ready to go to battle. I like the music and everything. So, my perspective: I got a text message at 9:55 on Saturday night that a crash had been detected. The text came from your phone. Imagine your father texting you—“Crash detected”—with a map off I-93 in New Hampshire.

I tried to call you—no answer. Tried again—no answer. Tried to call Ted—no answer. I keep tracking it and see you moved from that spot to the hospital. Now I’m concerned: crash detected, in the hospital, no response. It felt like 90 minutes, but looking back it was only about 20 minutes before I connected with Maria and then Ted and finally you.

Hearing your voice that night—it was good, because you sounded like your normal self, just like now. With September 11th only about ten days away, it brought me back to my feelings about you on 9/11—couldn’t get in touch, but I felt a calm that you were going to be okay. Maybe it’s God, maybe it’s knowing you. We need you here a lot longer.

Rudy Giuliani: As I’m going in the ambulance, first thing I hear is, “Maria is here; she wants to get in the ambulance, but she’s too far away. Your son and daughter want to talk to you.” I’m saying to myself, “How would they know?” Minutes after it happened. I had no idea about the communication alerts. It was very comforting to know people were worried.

Andrew Giuliani: Pretty miraculous technology. Recommend everyone puts a loved one as an emergency contact so they get alerted. Wear your seatbelt. Nerve-wracking moments, but we still need you.

And then I was with the President when he called you. I was scheduled to play golf with him Monday. Sunday I’m debating: go to New Hampshire or play golf? What does any good son do? He plays golf with the President.

I’m happy I did, because the first thing he did when he saw me was say, “I don’t care about you—get your father on the phone.” He called you and you talked for about 20 minutes—checking how you’re feeling and what happened.

Later that day, at the end of the round, he said again, “Get your father on the phone.” I kind of had an idea what might be coming. He said he wanted you to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom. For non-military, it’s the equivalent of the Congressional Medal of Honor—the highest honor only the greatest Americans have received.

When I think about true resilience and standing up in the face of adversity—not just the last 72 hours, but the last five years—and what you’ve taught me about never giving up, believing in yourself and your cause, and sacrificing for the greater good and our future—you embody those ideals. I can’t wait to stand with you when the President puts that medal on your neck. There’s been no American in my lifetime more deserving.

Rudy Giuliani: Do you promise not to walk all around the White House?

Andrew Giuliani: No promises. I learned the art of the deal. I’ll let you get a few words in this time. I love you. I love Grace, and I love Jesus.

Rudy Giuliani: I love you, too.

Andrew Giuliani: Never, never, never give up. You embody that, Dad. I’m proud of you. Ted, I’m glad you’re doing well. I’m sorry you had to go to a Boston Red Sox game.

Rudy Giuliani: Fenway Park is kind of like Heaven. It’s actually beautiful. We went the first time—it was great.

Andrew and Caroline were the first two calls to Dr. Maria. I couldn’t believe how quickly everyone knew. It means a lot at a time like that. Give my love to Z and to Grace.

Andrew Giuliani: Ted, I’m glad you’re okay. Dad, I love you. You’re doing a great job.

Rudy Giuliani: Thank you, Andrew. You’re perfect for that job.

Ted: We’re gonna take a short break and be right back, and maybe we’ll get Dr. Maria. We also need to finish—the audience still hasn’t heard the rest of the story. We’ll come back with that after the break.

[Break removed.]

Ted: There we are. Hello, we are back on America’s Mayor Live. To the far right is the very glamorous Dr. Maria Ryan, who must’ve been at a ball tonight or something—she looks very glamorous. Doesn’t she, Ted?

Rudy Giuliani: She does. She looks great. Our shot’s okay, but we’re doing this now—it’s just you and me here. God bless Steven for being here, too. He’s currently away. We gotta get Steven to readjust the shot. If things get a little strange, Rolly doesn’t exactly know how to adjust.

How do you like my gladiator costume?

Dr. Maria: I hope you’re not sitting too much.

Ted: He’s a taskmaster. No BLTs—no bending, lifting, twisting.

Rudy Giuliani: He won’t even let me bend like this. “Don’t bend,” he says. I can’t stand up like a stiff board.

Ted: If that’s what we have to do to get you healthy.

Rudy Giuliani: Doctor, we were just on with Andrew. He told us how he found out. I was getting into the ambulance, the first thing I hear is, “Maria is here, and your two children want to talk to you.” I’m saying to myself—here I am writhing in pain, worried about what’s going to happen—and I’m thinking, “How could this be? Maybe it was on the radio. How did Maria get here so fast?” Tell us what happened.

Dr. Maria: It’s the smartphone wonder. The smartphone knew you were in a moving vehicle, knew it was abruptly hit, so anybody you designated as an emergency contact got a text that said it was from Rudolph’s phone, there was a major collision, and it gave directions to the location.

At first I thought, “It can’t be right.” I never saw that kind of alert before. Also, I thought, “They can’t still be in Manchester.” I didn’t know you were being good Samaritans. Once Andrew called me, I had a feeling it was real. I went up there and I think they had just taken you two away, and the state troopers were able to debrief me on what happened.

We left you at the ballpark with your brother Chuck and your sister-in-law and others. We were going to get together the next day—we were all going to Fenway Park so Ted could see it for the first time. I think you and I were more excited about him seeing Fenway than he was.

Rudy Giuliani: You want to talk about my injury?

Dr. Maria: Yes. You have a vertebral column—33 bones. We divide them: cervical spine (neck) has 7 vertebrae; thoracic (mid-back) has 12; lumbar (low back) has 5; sacrum is typically fused (5 segments); coccyx (tailbone) has 4 fused segments.

You broke your thoracic vertebra at T9—mid-back. The good thing is the fracture was not displaced and not impinging on your spinal cord. No numbness, no tingling. It has to heal on its own. It takes a little time, but by doing no BLTs—no bending, lifting, or twisting—and relying on your thoracic brace for support, healing will be much better.

Rudy Giuliani: It’s kind of cool. I’m enjoying it. It reminds me of what I used to wear on Halloween or when I did plays as mayor—Lion King, Gladiator. I could do Gladiator with this.

Dr. Maria: I know your family, Andrew and Caroline and all your cousins, got thousands of calls, as well as Ted and myself. You are so loved, Mayor Giuliani, and people were very, very worried about you. Not surprising you stopped to help somebody—that is part of your character.

Rudy Giuliani: Dr. Maria, you’re an angel.

Ted: For our audience, we have to go over the rest—the big shocker when the police officer came back. It ended up being a domestic-violence situation, but the big shocker was what the trooper told us as he was getting us ready to go.

Dr. Maria: He wanted to chat—I knew he wanted to take a picture. I asked, “Why do we have an ambulance?” She didn’t look injured. He said, “There were very bad injuries.” I thought, “Oh my goodness—either we didn’t see them, or they happened after.” I felt bad—maybe we caused a delay. He said, “She’s fine. He’s in very bad shape. We had to put him in the ambulance.”

It turned out—even though she flagged you down and wanted your cell phone—she was the aggressor. As the state trooper says, “It’s a different world.” The days of just giving people a ride are over. You did the best thing: you called the police.

Ted: We recall the timing differently—maybe 20–30 seconds or a little longer—but once I realized it wasn’t a flat tire and there was another individual with a light so you can’t see them, red flags.

But we know the mayor. If there’s even a chance someone is in urgent need, he’s not going to just drive by. People asked, “What are you doing stopping in the middle of the night on the side of the highway?” With Mayor Rudy Giuliani, the real question is: what would you have done not stopping? We should be stopping too. If we helped each other, criminals wouldn’t be able to do what they’re doing.

Rudy Giuliani: Then I had the great benefit in my treatment of having a brilliant diagnostician—Dr. Maria. The wonderful doctors and nurses at Elliot Hospital—they are very nice. You ran a hospital, Doctor.

Dr. Maria: I was very impressed—from the paramedics and ER physician, to the nurses and techs, to the admitting doctor and neurosurgeon. Everyone was excellent. A nurse named Paige sticks out—when you were having a difficult time with pain control, she thought of everything to get you more comfortable.

They do a Daisy Award where patients can nominate a nurse for recognition. It’s lovely. We’ll figure out how to do that here.

Rudy Giuliani: Everyone was professional—from the moment the state troopers arrived. It was invaluable having Dr. Maria there.

Remember—when you’re twisting, move the whole chair.

Ted: Good job. The idea is those quick reflex moments—dropping something and bending—can hurt you. If I annoy him every five minutes saying it, maybe it’ll stick.

Rudy Giuliani: Suppose I have a nervous breakdown. Don’t they mean bending all the way down?

Dr. Maria: No—any bending right now you shouldn’t do. Use hips and knees to squat. Keep your back straight. No bending, no lifting, no twisting.

Rudy Giuliani: No twerking either. I don’t even really know what twerking is.

Ted: Dancing.

Rudy Giuliani: Is it sexy dancing? I don’t think it looks very sexy.

Ted: She’s going to hop for another interview—Newsmax with Greg Kelly at 9:30. Our cameras are better—we’ll tell Rudy.

Rudy Giuliani: She’s from New Hampshire—knows the hospital system. Having her there was invaluable. For those who resent giving me special care—she got us over, but that staff would’ve been professional no matter who it was.

Dr. Maria: One hundred percent. I agree. I felt the best about those folks. I was very happy with the care.

Rudy Giuliani: Publicly—I really appreciate what you did, both of you. It was above and beyond. The President cured me. Is it President Dr. Trump or Doctor President Trump? Either way—he’s going to give me a Presidential Medal of Freedom; he can be Doctor President Trump, Dr. Trump, President Trump, Nobel Peace Prize winner Trump—two-time president.

Ted: Two-time doctor with a medal.

Rudy Giuliani: Scourge of the scumbag Democrats—three-time winner.

Dr. Maria: Mayor Giuliani, keep listening to Steven and Ted and rest, and I will talk to you tomorrow. God bless you.

Rudy Giuliani: All right, Doctor. Have a good night. We’ll try to watch Greg. She’s always very good.

We had to get those interviews in due to scheduling, but I feel bad because we haven’t finished the full story. Let’s finish it, and then I want to allow you to get back to the stories and to the show.

Ted: We can do a little “soccer time,” yes. I don’t want to push her too much, but we can. Our audience deserves to hear from us what happened. We’re not telling this to anybody else—you’re the first people we’ve sat down and talked to, outside of the public statements. We want you to know exactly how it happened. We have no idea what distortions there’ll be—even innocent ones—when a story gets retold.

So we’re going to give you the story now. This way we’ll have it on tape, because a year from now, if we tell it, it might be different. A year from now, we saved a hundred people, right?

In all seriousness: according to law enforcement, it was the female who was the aggressor. The male was in rough shape. The trooper stressed it a few times—he’s in bad shape. To this moment, I have no idea—we need to move on—but maybe we can find the police report tomorrow and see what actually happened to him.

Rudy Giuliani: He was standing up with a light when we saw him. It’s possible that 20 minutes later anything could’ve happened. Is it possible that wasn’t him back there? Maybe a third person? The troopers never mentioned a third, but who knows—maybe she had someone else help her.

Ted: To catch everyone up: we leave the Fisher Cats game; we’re leaving town to go home for the night and go to the Red Sox game the next day. On I-93 South, we’re waved down by a couple. We enjoyed the game.

We’re waved down; I quickly have questions when they come up to our window in the dead of night. We drive up, call 911, we’re on the phone for 19 and a half minutes. In that time, I back our car safely while we’re off to the side, to get closer to the vehicle with the two individuals. If someone is in need, every second counts. We’re not just going to sit and wait, which may or may not be advisable—but that’s not who the mayor is.

I’d like to think I’d have done it without the mayor, but with Mayor Rudy Giuliani there’s a little more courage—it rubs off on you. Also, he knows what he’s doing in those situations. He’s been through them in life and law enforcement. He always has a plan in mind: if she pulled a gun—too close; he’d grab the muzzle and smash it against the window; a knife—the same.

Rudy Giuliani: My real concern wasn’t her—it was the guy in the back with the light. Which, obviously, it turns out should’ve been—but he was the one who got beaten up. I didn’t know what he had, or whether he was a crazed lover who would get jealous and start shooting. That’s why we drove ahead.

When she didn’t get in the car and acted ambiguous, I realized it was an emergency, but not at the level she was presenting. It didn’t need immediate intervention in the way we first thought. There was something more complicated.

Ted: We’ve now told the story through to the state troopers taking pictures and freeing us to go. So we leave, get back on 93.

We turned around, and now we’re heading northbound on 93. The domestic violence situation is now on the other side of the road behind us. We came down the road, exactly. We turned around. It took a while. We turned around and saw another police incident. We passed another car pulled over, which the commanding officer knew about.

I even mentioned it to you, like, “Look, wow, so much activity tonight.” We get on the interstate, we’re driving northbound now. The situation’s on the other side of the road, southbound. A lot of lights. We’re driving, getting ready for the Red Sox tomorrow or the next day, and it happens like I’ve been told it happens—these car accidents.

Boom. We get hit from behind. I’m going to emphasize: hit from behind. I haven’t been in an accident in a long time, so I don’t have a great deal of experience with it, but I can remember being hit from behind. This could have been a Mack truck as far as we were concerned.

The sound was unreal. The movement—the whiplash of my body—was brutal. It wasn’t a whiplash of my neck because the harness here held the neck back. It held the lower body back. It prevented the head from hitting, but what it did do—and I can’t really reproduce it; I’ll reproduce it in slow motion—it did this.

By the time I was back here, immediately the pain was excruciating so that you couldn’t move. I didn’t know what happened. Did I break my back? And what I recall is a lot of debris kicking up—two metal vehicles crashing into each other—whether it’s concrete, dirt, paint, everything—just dust and, holy smokes. I’m thinking, “Wow, this is exactly like they said it would be.” Boom.

I look over to the Mayor. He’s talking. I don’t want to characterize him as “good,” but he’s talking and breathing and alive and communicating with me, so that’s good. I look over and see the car in the median. I really believe—I don’t think I ever lost consciousness. I don’t think so, either. I never felt any impact on the head.

It was all in here. Thank God. It was all in here. Now, this could have created unconsciousness if it affected the breathing, but it didn’t. So throughout, I was aware of what was going on. Probably when it happened, fast and quickly, you get a little confused, but I seem to remember point by point.

First, I’m making sure we can get the car out. You gave me some directions: “Make sure this car’s off the road,” something along those lines. As I got knocked forward, the first thing I did was look over to you. My head was turned like this. I was trying to see what was happening to you because I was going to grab over and try to hold you.

It seemed like I was fine. I don’t even know how far I went. You can’t do it—go ahead, just move—because I’m holding the wheel… about like that. But no hit, nothing major. One of the other things he had was a steering wheel. I didn’t. And the airbags did not deploy.

I don’t think they did. Maybe bad. My seat was farther back than yours. I always want back. Thank God. What I had was a much longer distance to get ripped, but the seatbelt kept me from going too far. Because you’re leaning back and the seatbelt’s slack, if you go like this, there’s some slack on the seatbelt; all you get is this.

You normally would have gotten a whiplash. I want to get to this part. We both want to make sure… I’ve got some soreness, but they said you’d get some soreness, right? I don’t want to give you a problem if you don’t have one. Right, right.

Now, this part is important to both of us. I see him visually. I know he’s right there. I look to my left. There’s the other car, in bad shape, in the median. Is that the lady? The lady’s car? The woman’s coming out. We feel very sorry for her. We really want to help. I don’t think she’s a bad actor here at all.

If anybody does, I don’t think so. I’m going to tell you what I think happened. She was driving. If you say she was driving fast, everybody in New Hampshire drives fast. She wasn’t driving any faster than anybody else. Was she driving too fast? Probably, but I’m not going to hold that against her. How would she know?

Maybe she rubbernecked. That’s what the cop thought. The cop says to us, “This happens a lot.” They saw it happen. Remember when he said this happens a lot? I’ve heard that. When there’s an accident, they rubberneck. So now let’s say she’s driving along—boom—and it just happens. It seems to me, at the very last minute, she tried to swerve.

There’s something, because we were moving. If you look at it, she’s going like this, looking over there. Now—oh, oh, ah, ah—she must have gone into the median. She must have gone that way. I see the car. First question: “Is there anyone else in that car?” I see the woman coming out; she says no. That’s important.

She’s obviously upset and distraught. All I care is that she’s okay. I get up close to her and make sure she’s okay. I believe there’s a little bit of blood, but other than that, she seemed fine. I don’t want to say fine, but nothing that needed immediate attention. They say they’re investigating it. I would be very upset if they charged her, and I would do everything I could to stop it.

We have no plans to do anything against her. I wouldn’t even testify against her. I just think the woman made a mistake and she should move on with her life. God bless—a 19-year-old. Look, everybody makes mistakes. If she made a mistake—maybe she didn’t, maybe it was understandable. The poor woman didn’t mean any harm to anybody, and thank God it all worked out okay.

I’m fine, he’s fine. A little rehabilitation. That’s it. The Democrats are happy because I got a certain amount of pain. It hurt. If you guys want a little blood lust, this was really painful. You never did any pain to me like this. I could always handle your pain because you’re a bunch of phony bastards. Boy, are you terrible.

I don’t know what has happened to you. I’m getting to move you into the category of evil now—unless you’re really stupid. Unbelievable, the things that you do—favoring criminals, favoring people that will kill other people. Rosie O’Donnell immediately accuses the killer at Ascension School of being MAGA, sort of encouraged by Trump to kill these kids.

He turns out to have a thing on his gun saying, “I want to kill Trump.” He’s hardly MAGA, sweetheart. He’s what you’ve been breeding—transgender—and treating like, “Oh, it’s perfectly okay. It’s perfectly okay. Get your—” But to put a bow on this for now, I want to let you get back to some sense of normalcy tonight.

This isn’t normal where I’m sitting here. Not normal. We want you to get some of the news out. There’s a lot of news to discuss, but I have to say, following the words of Andrew and Dr. Maria, that the man sitting next to me—this is another example in a countless line of you, Mayor, showing incredible courage and bravery and doing the right thing.

I learned some valuable lessons just by being with you through this whole process. Rudy to base. Base here. 2020. Within the next 15 minutes—although we are in undetermined soccer time—it’ll be time for a landing of this craft. No bending. Don’t bend too much. I’m not allowed to bend.

Do I have to take advantage of my copilot here to do some of the landing so I don’t bend? You’re clear to land. Clear to land? Okay. On that note—thank you to everyone who’s reached out. Can I land— I see one right down there, it says “Biden Beach Home.” Can I land on that one and see what we can find?

Not going to find much there. Only has a bed desk set. You think there are other hard drives there? We’re going to take a quick break, but I want to apologize to some folks we haven’t gotten back to. Those of you who reached out—literally hundreds, if not thousands. The Mayor appreciates all the well-wishes.

We’ll give out an address. I want to check on a few things before giving out an address where you can send well-wishes. We’ll make sure that happens. It amazed me. Sometimes you only find out about the people who abandon you, not the people who stick with you. Now you do. When the people abandon you, the people who stick with you do right by you.

There’s no special occasion. But this gave me a sense of how many people stuck with me, and I’m very happy about that, because it says something beyond me. It means you’re stuck with your country. All I was doing was what your country needs—trying to defend it against deprivation of free speech, deprivation of due process, unfair allegations of criminal conduct.

Pure, out-and-out nasty, vicious attacks of lies against people. They still do it. But I have a feeling—and I don’t think I’m wrong— in a few months you’re going to see the polls on this. Their ability to do this now has been greatly diminished. I don’t think they’re taken seriously when they do these wild accusations.

Like Rosie O’Donnell—immediately they fact-checked her. They didn’t fact-check her in the past. Here she is, accusing this murderer of being a MAGA murderer. What a stupid thing to do. The whole trans agenda industry that’s making billions—breeding these children—wants to kill them. They don’t want good publicity; they don’t want bad publicity.

She jumps in and immediately accuses the guy of being a MAGA person, and she brings highlight to the fact that he’s a transgender person—which may not be fair. None of this stuff is completely fair. Any over-generalization is unfair. But if she’s going to bring MAGA into it, and bring transgender into it, and we look at the last six mass killings, five of them are transgender and none of them are MAGA.

So which is the more current problem—the one you’re lying about or the one you’re trying to suppress? Right. None of our audience is shocked to see the Mayor right back at it tonight with live programming. Maybe we take a short break? Do you want to? We’ll stand up a little, then come back and discuss the news of the day. We can’t go a night without hearing some of the news of the day.

You know what I think—I’m looking at this place here. I could do what I did at the Sheraton. Maybe before we leave here, we could use one of those. I could fly—come in on a lift. That’d be a great entrance. Maybe we’ll find that picture and show it to them. For those who don’t know what he was pointing at, there is a full lift that looks like it could lift about 10 tons.

That could lift me. I’m not that heavy. In this barn. We’re going to have some fun with it anyhow. We’re going to take a short break and be right back. I know this is an unusual show, but I hope it’s interesting to you.

Pens make it interesting. I love these pens—fabulous for underlining. See that article? All underlined beautifully. The Post has some really good columnists. I’m not happy with the ownership of that whole Fox thing with Rupert. I just don’t think they’re all on board. But boy, do they have good reporters.

Rikki Schlott is fabulous. She’s fabulous. This is a great article about The New School in Manhattan. The New School has always been like an old, tired-out, hippie school. Everybody who goes there looks like they’re worn out from having taken drugs, so it’s hard to see how they could do really good academic work.

Over the last number of years, I haven’t known as much about them. I was there for a big seminar a while back and I was impressed—maybe they’ve changed. But listen to this, and tell me how a normal, non-criminal person does this. They have a sociology seminar about petty crime. It’s called “The Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Petty Crime.”

I have no idea what aesthetics petty crime has, but I guess it does. Then it goes on to say, “In a world where accumulation is sacred…” So immediately, you can see this is a prejudice against anybody owning anything. Like it’s justified that you can steal what I have because I have too much.

“Dispossession is routine.” No, it’s not. You dispossess me, I fight like hell—like I did in the bankruptcy court. “And the line between private property and public good is drawn in blood.” I do not know what they mean by that. If what they mean is my blood to get my property, these are effing communists.

This course includes “field trips where capital is hoarded and value is contested, like museums, banks, and even grocery stores.” In other words: these people have so much, you can take it from them. This is a college course. I guess it’s fitting in New York where shoplifting loot worth less than $1,000 is a mere misdemeanor.

That’s why everything is in a cage in New York. In fact, a lot of the people should be in cages. What were your instructions to police officers when dealing with shoplifters? Arrest them. Try to get the maximum sentence. If they do it more than once, put them in jail. If they do it more than twice, put them in jail for a long time.

It’s the only way to stop them. I’m not going to just recirculate them to the street. Dear God, we’ve got people with 50 shoplifting convictions or arrests, and they’re back on the street in 12 hours. Who wants to interrupt their shoplifting? They get annoyed if you make it take too long. “You took 12 hours out of my schedule.”

It depends on whether we’re a pathological society or an honest society. A society without God becomes a pathological society. I know we’re mixing in a lot of important things, but they are all important. The course catalog says the class is a look at radical ethics and asks, “Is it possible to steal back what was already stolen?”

The “steal” is extremely specific; the “stolen” is generalized to 170 years ago. It’s a full-credit course? I could become a doctor of shoplifting. That’s absurd. Columbia University—the Jew-hating university. Speaking of absurd—was Columbia the number one Jew-hating university of 2024? Harvard is the number one today.

When does the season start? How can a school overcome another school? They have to go that much more berserk? They have to beat up and keep more Jewish kids out of school. They have to make Jewish kids feel completely uncomfortable. They probably have to beat up a few. The professors have to be ridiculously anti-Jewish, Holocaust deniers.

We have a competitive field. Muslim lovers without any acknowledgment that the Grand Mufti allied with Hitler, or that many are carrying out Hitler’s pledge to eliminate the Jewish people. Nothing would have made Mohammed happier than that.

Columbia has an entire course dedicated to the fictitious HBO series Game of Thrones as a way to study empires. Why not use England? It’s real. Game of Thrones was a popular TV series on HBO from around 2011 until 2018. I watched it. I read the books in years past. I think it’s five books.

Believe it or not, I’ve read three. When did you get into it? About eight episodes into the first season. I watched it and liked it. I put it on because my wife and I used to like watching them together. First night, it was too brutal for her. The head—something happens. We watched two weeks. Then something about it got to her, and she said, “Can we watch it again? I want to watch it with you because it gets me scared.”

We watched it and went through two episodes. The next night we went through five. We really got hooked on it. Then she read books on it, and her nephew was reading it, and I went out and got the books and started reading. We started seeing the variations from the book to the movie. The variations were minor but interesting because you could see what they were trying to do.

Did they add dragons? Did the books have more dragons? Yes. That’s a big complaint of the show. I guess it’s expensive to make dragons. Not enough dragons. They didn’t know how realistic to make it and how fanciful to make it. They compromised—minimal fancifulness—and tried to make it real. But it couldn’t be, because it was absurd.

Absurd can be great. For example, the major problem was the possible attack of the dead people north of the Wall—the White Walkers. They were all dead. That’s ridiculous. I hope it’s ridiculous. If you’re going to do fanciful, it’s not ridiculous, but still. I think Game of Thrones is one of the great TV things there is. It’s a terrific book, and I would recommend it, except it doesn’t become comfortable with itself.

What is it? Fictional history or fictional fantasy? It’s fairly obvious history made into fanciful situations. Heavy on dialogue—some seasons anyway. I remember thinking, “These episodes are turning out to just be dialogue.” Good dialogue, sometimes very interesting conversations. I just pointed out one flaw. Maybe it had two more; very few others. It’s a fabulous drama.

If you want to use a drama to teach not the facts of history but the sweep of it, it really does describe how the English empire rose. You’re warming up to the class now? You’re starting to warm up to the idea of Columbia having this Game of Thrones class? Oh, no. I don’t think you should teach empire based on a fantasy. If there’s an empire to teach, it’s the real empire.

This is somebody’s prejudices. It has no relation to reality. I have no objection to works of fiction, but not as the basis for a serious college course on empire. For fourth grade—kindergarten—maybe. Through the lens of Gibbon—which I saw you have upstairs. Gibbon thought he was a historian. He wasn’t writing fiction.

The people who wrote Game of Thrones didn’t think they were writing history. They were writing fiction, a very loose description of the beginning of the British Empire. Very loose, so they didn’t feel any connection to any particular reality. Can you have both? Yes. But you can’t confuse them.

You can’t say, “I’m going to teach the geography of England by teaching the geography of the Seven Kingdoms.” I’m sorry. The geography of the Seven Kingdoms is in your mind. The geography of England is real. Would you like me to compare the similarities between the geography of England and the Nordic countries, and the geography of the Seven Kingdoms, how they mirror and where they vary?

Mayor, you sound like someone who could teach this class. You’re getting me into it. These woke instructors don’t teach it that way. They teach like it’s real. “And then Cersei Lannister, in the year 18—” Cersei was a fascinating character. The Lannisters were fascinating. The best character of all—the short guy. The actor is Peter Dinklage. He was the funniest and most interesting character.

But the real hero—the only real hero—is the first one. Ned. Does he die in the first year or the second? It’s either the end of the first season or the second. You get to know him and like him, and then boom, he’s gone. Then his children become key—his bastard child, Jon Snow. I love Snow. You’re bringing it all back.

We need a required break for stretching and standing but no bending, lifting, or twisting. Or we can keep talking and stand up. I have no desire to twist. We could do it, but we’ll take a break because I think everyone would like a little break and could go to the bathroom or something. Then we’ll come back and finish up on our soccer time. This is a good time to do it, because we’re not interfering with the more superior show, Dr. Maria.

Here we are again. Rudy Giuliani and Ted Goodman—the creators of America’s Mayor Live. America’s Mayor Live number what? 747. A 747 is an old-fashioned plane. By the way, we’ve had a couple of taped shows. Did they get numbered? Yes—747. This is the 747th straight weeknight that the Mayor and I have done this show, starting back in October of 2022.

We’re a month away from the three-year anniversary. You don’t know how hard I tried to come on last night. I don’t think I would’ve been able to sit, though. We made the right call. The doctor… I had a chance today to lay out my back, stretch it out, exercise a little—figure out that I could stand up and sit down.

While you were off, I was standing up, walking around. I have to tell you—I don’t know if it’s your influence or whatever—I feel great right now. I’m ready to go out and catch one of those passes that nobody caught for Arch Manning. Now we’re talking football. As much as I like to talk football, the Mayor has some important news today.

See these numbers here—54, 8, and 32. I talked to the President today, yesterday, several times. He’s really upset about those numbers. Those are the numbers in Chicago. Fifty-four represents the number of people shot over a holiday weekend. Eight is the number so far killed. Before I started the show, it was seven. Who knows how many more will descend into that. Thirty-two separate shooting incidents.

I raise that one to say it’s all over the city. Boom, boom, boom. What’s a holiday weekend in Chicago? This is so sad, but as a youth sports official, I very much feel for this guy. This is Chicago. “Everybody gotta get down. Everybody gotta get down because they shooting.” The kids are running. “We can’t have no fun in Chicago, man.”

Awful. Here’s what drives me crazy. The absolutely useless Mayor of Chicago gets nasty and vicious and turns down help. And “Fatso Fogarty” goes crazy. He’s a product of a very rich family where he was too stupid to run the business. This happens a lot in rich families. They figured, “He’s not too stupid to ruin Chicago. It’s already ruined.”

He’s making every stupid decision that people tell him to make. I don’t know if he’s completely stupid or overwhelmed. He could be overwhelmed. He’s always been considered a ne’er-do-well. He doesn’t have any pride in himself. He wouldn’t be a fat pig like that if he did. He comes up with these—how can you say no to help when every weekend there are shootings?

Last weekend it was seven and twenty-seven—seven deaths, twenty-seven shootings. This weekend it was eight and fifty-four. Think of the fifty-four. People get shot—who knows if they’re going to die. Don’t take any solace in “shooting numbers.” “Shooting numbers” are killings that went wrong.

When you’ve got high shooting numbers, you’re eventually going to have high kill numbers. Somebody will get lucky and aim correctly, or they won’t get to the hospital on time. The reduced number of killings is a result of not just bad shooting but very good medical work that didn’t exist—like our military in the Civil War. We probably would have had half those casualties if we had better medicine. We also would have had more paraplegics and people with one leg—but they’d be alive.

Somebody made the point that you can have a thousand witnesses in the Epstein case— for James Comer, it won’t help. I’m sorry, but I’m very annoyed at him. He got the point on Biden, but he blew the case completely. There were things he never even mentioned. Hunter is on tape explaining how he got money to his father, and Comer failed in showing how they got money to his father.

He failed to point out something critical: Hunter knew his father was demented in 2019. It’s on an email. Comer couldn’t figure it out. We see him on TV a lot. He likes TV too much. He deprives his staff. A good chairman shares it because he wants loyalty—“I’ll be on twice as much, but you take this one, you take that one.” He’s got high-powered members. What’s wrong with him? Incompetent?

You can take almost any member of Congress. We have some friends who are good, but that’s the exception. They get impressed by the lobbyists, the nice dinners, the marble halls. They’re focused on press conferences, strongly worded posts, getting their moment on camera at a committee hearing where they make a witness look dumb.

At the end of the day, what are we getting done? They report on Biden but miss key evidence. He wrote a book—he had time to write a book about how his investigation yielded little results.

There’s a new opioid—nitazene. They say it’s 40 times more deadly than fentanyl, which is hard to believe. Fentanyl kills you like that. The Nitazene Control Act—by Eugene Vindman and Michael Baumgartner—classifies the drug as having no medical use and high overdose risk. They say it has to be focused on early before it takes the place of fentanyl, if they ever control fentanyl.

Scary. Fentanyl was enough. It’s just what we need—another one. Here’s a small thing, but it bothers me and it’s a fight back to the right culture. Trump—maybe because it’s back in New York—has been taking on New York State’s legislation to remove all Indigenous people designations for teams.

Not to remove insulting ones. Not to remove ones that Indigenous people are upset about. Remove all. There are two at issue right now. One is Connetquot—Mid-Island high school. The name of their team is the Connetquot Thunderbirds. Apparently “Thunderbirds,” like the car, is an Indigenous reference. So you have to get rid of it.

They’ve negotiated to call it the Connetquot T-Birds, and they’re not sure if that will fly. All I can tell you is ever since they got rid of the Washington Redskins, nobody learns about Indigenous tribes. Teams used to incorporate local Native Americans into their games. I’m a huge Green Bay Packers fan.

I learned more about Native American history through the Packers. They have the Oneida Nation Gate—one of the big entrances to the stadium. They highlight tribes during the game. I learned something. I was exposed. I can imagine the Redskins used to honor tribes. The family of the chief is suing because since they took him off, they’ve lost all their revenue.

He was a big hero—on a thing with Franklin Roosevelt. Now they’re the Washington Commanders with a corporate font and a W. Why were “Redskins” unacceptable? We call people Black and White. Why is “Redskins” wrong for a team name? We’re not calling anyone that—it’s the name of a team. It’s not to make money off insulting; it’s literally the team name.

We’ve got the Fighting Irish. There was the Fighting Sioux. They had to change their name, yet nobody talks about the Fighting Irish. These same liberals aren’t consistent. They go after the ones they can turn into hate. It’s all canceling. It is the Fighting Hawks now. They changed it—from the Sioux to the Hawks. North Dakota.

Why did they have to change from the Sioux to the Hawks? The Sioux is a tribe. The Hawks is a bird. So we can defame the bird but not the tribe? Why are you defaming the tribe if you say they fight? It was honorable—named out of respect. How many kids aren’t going to be curious and ask about the Sioux culture and learn, especially because the local community highly values Sioux culture?

Name the arena or a museum to the Sioux. People want to know. The Fighting Sioux, the Fighting Irish, the Fighting Americans. So bizarre. There’s a method to their madness—they want to divide. They create issues where there isn’t one, then get to come in and be the “first” to fix it.

In fact, the history of America—people come in from all different places. The ultimate culture assimilates. We lose some of what we had. We bring in some of what we had, and it combines with others. BLT—no bending, lifting, twisting. I’m getting hungry; I wouldn’t mind a bacon, lettuce, and tomato. How many BLTs by the end of the show?

We had a phone call—trying to shut it off. One never knows who it could be. We’ve had someone call us on the program. We’re dying to put him on again. Not everyone is a sports fan. She wants us to get off—Dr. Maria, you’re back on. He’s taking a call live on the show. Steven, show—quick shout-out to Steven here.

She wanted to know if we saw the Greg Kelly Show—which is a pretext to try to get us off because she thinks I’m tired. There are so many people the Mayor would thank individually. The second this happened—when it became public—I heard from so many people. I’m only going to name one because there are so many of you.

Steven Schumacher immediately got in his car in Michigan with Raleigh, his dog, and drove 17–20 straight hours. He’s been one of my best friends for years. He’s here. Raleigh—come here. Treats. Raleigh is a very, very good dog. Who gives you treats? Actually, everyone here does; I give him the most.

He’s happy you guys are okay, just like I am. You were very kind to me, Raleigh. Good boy. Dogs are good medicine. He’s an angel. He belongs to Steven. They have a very close relationship. This dog would be broken if he was taken from Steven. He gets along really well with me, with Ted, with Vanessa, with everyone here.

Tonight we had guests—Darren and his better half. He was extremely friendly to Darren. Darren makes the best coffee in the world. He brought the coffee. He’s our partner in Rudy Coffee. He makes the best coffee in America—or the world. He knows that. He doesn’t even like coffee; he knows we like coffee.

Thank you to everyone we heard from the last few days. There are so many—literally thousands, not just hundreds. I want you to know I’m okay. The Mayor’s here. From the bottom of my heart, I appreciate the love. Over the last five or six years—this will sound stupid and pathetic, but I’ll say it—there were times I thought I was unloved, an orphan who was unloved, given the way they were treating me.

It’s nice to see there are a lot more people who love you and remember what you did. Some of the things I did in the past took a lot of sacrifice and took a lot out of me. I had a 9/11 illness. I don’t want extra. I just don’t want to be treated disrespectfully. They’ve treated me horribly. Imagine arresting me for no reason, taking my mugshot.

Today the New York Times had to write that I was disbarred. I was disbarred on a totally dishonest, illegal basis. The people who disbarred me should be disbarred. If there’s one thing I can get done professionally for the rest of my life—and I’m only 34—but if there’s one more thing, Mayor, you’ll be getting your bar license back.

Good. But I don’t want to be part of the New York bar. The D.C. one, then. What a bunch of crooks they’ve had there for 170 years. Can you imagine—the guy who comforted not just the city, not just the nation, but the entire world following September 11th—disbarred in that state by a bunch of crooks.

Shame on them and shame on the lawyers who didn’t speak up. Were they scared? To not speak up? Let’s not go further. We should end on a positive note. Everyone is relieved and happy to see you. We’re going to stay positive. I really am very happy.

Donald Trump has exceeded all of our expectations by so much it’s ridiculous to even count it. Our country is moving in the right directions. Are there a couple of headwinds? Of course—always human. But this is about as good as it’s been. The momentum we have is going to keep us going in the right direction.

Again, I’m going to conclude now. Pray hard too, Mayor. Pray for the people of Israel and the people of Ukraine and the people of Iran because they’re in particular difficulties. Pray for the people of Russia. They’ve needed it since the czar. They certainly need it with this dictator monster who is running them.

China. It’s never the people. When dictators take over, the people are reduced to nothing. These are all good people at core, and you can reach them, but you have to be tough enough to stand up to the dictators. You can’t pussyfoot with them. You can’t appease—which is the famous word.

Diplomacy is wonderful when people are on roughly equivalent moral grounds. Diplomacy is terrible with a good guy and a bad guy because the bad guy lies all the time, and the good guy wants to be honest, and the bad guy basically takes the good guy’s pants off. We’ll be back tomorrow night. Hopefully by then I’ll be able to fly in this. We’ve got to have an entrance.

Like I did at the Inner Circle. The power of prayer works. Didn’t they make fun of prayer? We felt your prayers. Some mocked—“I don’t want to hear anything about prayers and thoughts.” What is wrong with these people? Get God out of here? We felt your prayers this weekend. Leave out the Karl Marxs. All your prayers were helpful.

Thank you, “Red Ly—Lion Hood,” for letting us know you are a vicious atheist who won’t allow us to pray. Your insensitivity is legendary since you were telling us not to pray for children who were killed, shot, frightened, and terrorized while praying. Evil. The word “evil” is used too much in politics. This is an example where it’s called for.

What lack of sensitivity do you have to say, “I don’t want to hear any more about prayers and thoughts”? It doesn’t get worse than this. Kids are praying at a mass. That’s another reason we need the Mayor for years to come—his wisdom and his voice and this platform—because where have we come to as a country when leading Democrat figures are mocking children for praying and mocking the power of prayer at a time when others are hurting?

They have no other answer. Their other answer is gun control. They haven’t discovered anything else. Nobody told them they already have gun control in Minnesota. The only thing stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. Put crazy people back where they belong. Left-wing kooks let them out because they’re all crazy.

We need people like the Mayor who will stop when they see somebody else in danger. “Why did you stop?” “Why wouldn’t you stop? Why are you surprised by that? That’s your problem, not mine. If we all stopped, it would end.” Wow.

We’re past 10 o’clock now. We should take it easy—stretch this out. Taking it easy for us is over an hour of soccer time. Don’t bend. Don’t twist. There’s no problem with my neck. It’s down here. He’s overdoing it. You don’t want to be stiff as a board. By the time I’m finished, I won’t be able to move.

When I finish rehabilitation, I’ll be walking like… I’ll look like John Kerry. Biden. That’s a good Biden impression. Wait a second. Biden won’t even stay up. I’ll fall down. We’re supposed to take it easy. It’s 10—we’re an hour and four minutes into soccer time.

Thank you. We enjoyed it tonight. It was a release for me. This was part of my therapy. The key part being Trump giving me the Presidential Medal of Freedom—it made me all better. It beat any medicine you could get. Please remember who we tell you to pray for.

Mostly, you know who’s got the toughest job leading us through this? It’s the man who called me and talked to me and had the time to do that. He’s such a good man, and he’s beaten up ridiculously. At the same time, he’s got the right approach to what’s going on. The more time he gets to explain it, the more clearly we understand it, and it always works out right for us.

Pray for the President—that he continues to stick to his vision and not get swayed by the horrible people who are trying to knock him off his trajectory. Ted. I tell you, you can’t bend and twist. I’ll give you a hug back. And that’s a kiss from Andrew, Maria, Caroline. Steven, for coming all the way here. And many others who went out of their way.

You find out, in good times and bad, who really loves you. God bless you. It’s our purpose to bring to bear the principle of common sense and rational discussion to the issues of our day. America was created at a time of great turmoil, tremendous disagreements, anger, hatred.

There was a book written in 1776 that guided much of the discipline of thinking that brought us the discovery of our God-given freedoms. It was Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense,” written in 1776, one of the first American bestsellers, in which Paine explained by rational principles the reason why these small colonies felt the necessity to separate from the Kingdom of Great Britain and the King of England.

He explained their inherent desire for liberty—for freedom—freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the ability to select the people who govern them. He explained it in ways understandable to all the people, not just the elite, because the desire for freedom is universal. The desire for freedom inheres in the human mind, and it is part of the human soul.

This is exactly the time we should consult our history. Look at what we’ve done in the past and see if we can use it to help us now. We understand that our founders created the greatest country in the history of the world, the greatest democracy, the freest country, a country that has taken more people out of poverty than any country ever.

All of us are so fortunate to be Americans. A great deal of the reason for America’s constant ability to self-improve is because we’re able to reason. We’re able to talk.