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 the best choice. he thought, this will put me back in the spotlight. what i did for new york, donald trump will do for america! i moved in on her, actually. and i failed. i ll admit it. whoa. i did [ bleep ]. she was married. breaking news, right now david farenholt of the washington post got his hands on a tape. when the access hollywood tape dropped, i was on air. donald trump and billy bush had something of a raunchy conversation. when you re a star, they let you do it.
scandal in the history of our country. they steal elections in detroit. representative, you ll have an opportunity to ask a question. and they steal elections in new york. president trump has put his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, in charge of his campaign s election lawsuits. giuliani becomes a real central figure for trump as trump is beginning to devise any strategy to hold on to power. giuliani, who s been on the road in four states, leading the president s election challenge. his team has already filed lawsuits in michigan, georgia, and pennsylvania. we are going to continue the lawsuit here, we re gonna bring a second one, and then we re gonna bring a federal lawsuit. i don t think he believed that trump won the election. i don t think he believes that trump was a great president or a lousy one. i think this is immaterial to him. what s material is that he s standing up there talking about donald trump before thousands of people. giuliani he s on television c
good, and there were other kids who were bad. and then he s a prosecutor and he s gonna lock up the bad guys. and then he s mayor and he s gonna lock up the squeegee guys and jaywalkers. and now it s biden. rudy starts kind of, from what i can best say, fancying himself as like, you know, the new roger stone. opposition research is as old as the game of politics, but it s the lengths he went to. this is the former mayor new york, this rah-rah, pro-america kind of guy, who was looking for dirty tricks to try to harm an american political opponent of his friend donald trump. giuliani s been doing business all around the world, and one of the places on the map where he started developing relationships is ukraine. and who was the obama administration point person for dealing with ukraine? it was joe biden. just think about how rich an opportunity that is for rudy
russia s invading ukraine and slaughtering innocent ukrainian civilians, our longstanding ally, we understand why we had a role and an obligation to do that. zelenskyy held firm, and it was a weird preview that this young guy, who they thought was a trifle they thought, oh, he s a punk. he s nobody. he s a comedian. you know, he s an accidental president. he s turned out to be a greater leader, in a time of terrible, terrible crisis, than either trump or rudy. [ speaking in a non-english language ] the curtain was lifted today on an anonymous whistleblower s explosive complaint against president trump, detailing his ask for political help from ukraine s president. giuliani is mentioned in the whistleblower complaint more than 30 times. pointing that july phone call between president trump and ukraine s president. that was a perfect call. an absolutely perfect call. you know it. they all know it.
for rudy giuliani, new york city s former mayor. and at a hearing today, it became clear that things are taking a nasty turn. since 2016, you see him without any of the tethers that guided him in more productive directions. peter powers was rudy s closest confidant since their boyhood days. if anyone could center him, it was peter. was anyone who could calm him down, it was peter. and when peter died during the trump campaign, rudy lost his lifeline. and i think that s what happens to him. he s more alone than early rudy was. rudy giuliani is finally an official member of the trump team. the former new york mayor now joining the president s legal team. he wants to do battle the way he knows how to do battle, which