things turn bad even domestically for that, don t they? absolutely right. i think that it s more not making a misstep than the steps you are taking, getting credit for, but one misstep, people will never forget. but i also think the politics of this is when you look at how he has been able to, in a seamless way, handle so far what has happened with ukraine, and you compare his potential republican opponents, i couldn t imagine desantis or any of the crowd that is so far announced on republican side comparing to how he s handled the international problem with ukraine and how to deal with china and xi and how to deal with russia and putin. and then at the same time, deal with a debt ceiling relief and the same time dealing with other
the senate confirmation process, the first man in history to be married to the vice president of the united states prepared himself for his new, and historic world by quitting his job. he did not have to do that, he could have continued to derive millions of dollars of income from his law firm, the way the chief justice s wife continues to do, but he held himself to a higher standard, a standard that no one has noticed, and no one has given him credit for, and no one in the washington press corps will ever give the vice president credit for. they will never give credit to the vice president, and her husband will never get credit for presenting to washington, and the country, the perfect model of voluntary compliance to the very highest paul double ethical standard.
and no one in the washington press corps will ever give the vice president credit for. they will never give credit to the vice president, and her husband will never get credit for presenting to washington, and the country, the perfect model of voluntary compliance to the very highest possible ethical standard. doug emhoff s work at his law firm largely involve the entertainment business, and had zero potential for possible conflicts of interest with the vice president s duties, for any hint of impropriety, and doug emhoff s client list. but he was concerned that maybe one of the lawyers in one of that firms offices somewhere around the world, working on a case that doug emhoff knew nothing about, might, might present a hint of impropriety. perhaps some lawyer working in the london office on a case emhoff knew nothing about could
under the brooklyn bridge with flashing red lights and police cars. the front-page cover was, finally, we re winning the war on crime. here s why. - rudy was his boss. there was plenty of credit to go around, except that there wasn t. - well, that was the end for him. i mean, he was fired, i think, within a number of months. i don t think he lasted 90 days after that cover came out. - i just met with the mayor, mayor giuliani, this morning and have given to him my letter of resignation as the police commissioner for the city of new york. - it happened yesterday. he resigned. now, we re moving on. and i ve said everything i wanna say about it. - mr. mayor, what about the police department? - this department is in terrific shape. - the person who was the architect of this new approach was now gone, and the people who inherited the machinery thought they understood it. but it wasn t clear that they did. this was gonna be rudy s department. and the good work that the department was doing
this was gonna be rudy s department. and the good work that the department was doing was gonna be something that rudy took credit for, and rudy alone. - just kind of like fredo, he wanted to prove he s smart too. there was a street crime unit. it may be the only police unit called elite that actually was elite. he says, oh, that s a big success. let s make it bigger. the planning officer says, you can t do that because you re gonna start bringing in people who aren t select, and they re gonna start screwing up. and you re gonna get people shot. - what s the lesson for the other great cities of the world in what s happening here in new york? - to manage a police department, to reduce crime, to concentrate on quality-of-life issues, to do all the things that were so controversial a year ago. - and he comes on and says, this is how you do it. you go sit in that corner, you stay there, black boy, you stay there, black lady. - across the river, new york mayor rudy giuliani is expec