- the city was ready to move on, was ready to turn the page from the giuliani years. [soft acoustic music] [dreamy piano music] - 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. it makes you curious about it. it makes it something bigger than life. i have strong feelings about new york, everything that makes up new york. we re the crossroads of the world. this is the center of the universe. i mean, there is 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 this city, and the love of this city. when
- no, that sense has always been there. - oh. - the first time, he was mayor rudy. now he s king giuliani. - giuliani was just starting to wear on the public of new york. - the city was ready to move on, was ready to turn the page from the giuliani years. [soft acoustic music] [dreamy piano music] - 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. it makes you curious about it. it makes it something bigger than life. i have strong feelings about new york, everything that makes up new york. we re the crossroads of the world. this is the center of the universe. i mean, there is no place that gets more people from more different places. you sort of get, like,
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 out groups 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 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.
- that is deplorable. that is wrong. you can almost say it is 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 out groups 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 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,
- that is deplorable. that is wrong. you can almost say it is 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 out groups 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 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.