who s walked with him in city parades and helped nurse his treatment for prostate cancer. - somebody spotted the two of them at a bar across the street from elaine s. it started getting around town pretty fast. and then while judith nathan was still kind of a rumor, he took her out walking up and down, i think it was second avenue. - it seems to me, and it seemed to everyone in new york, that what rudy giuliani was doing in the early days of his courtship was flaunting judith nathan. - you know, if he was cheating on his wife, i guess i don t feel too sorry for him. - it s not good, ethically. when he is a married man, he should not do that. - no one enjoyed that in new york. no, it was considered offensive. - the city was ready to move on, was ready to turn the page from the giuliani years. - giuliani was just starting to wear on the public of new york. and i think part of the decline was this blowback
that go way back in his life to high school. and so that would include peter powers. - peter was one of the few people who could take rudy aside and say, no, that s a bad idea. you ought to do this. he got rudy focused. and he got him away from the distractions that often occurred. - so part of that godfather mindset was loyalty. rudy enormously valued loyalty to him. and so getting rid of people was pretty natural. - we were getting extraordinarily positive press. but this is a mayor who, for reelection purposes, as well as whatever his post new york mayoral goals might have been, it was incredibly important to him that he get the credit for it. and that s where we began to butt heads. - after a while, bratton was getting too much credit. [dramatic music]
- it s been a very painful road. and i m hopeful that we ll be able to formalize that in an agreement that protects our children. - there was a big understanding that his story really wasn t the story that he was living. and it really besmirched his reputation. - out of respect for the mayor and his family, i have nothing to say about that. - he was sleeping on his friend s couch. it was like new york on steroids. it was fantastic. it was like a big soap opera. - the tabloids here are going wild. it s now even splashed on the cover of people magazine. - the mayor and a divorced woman he describes as a very good friend, judith nathan. - yeah, the clinton people probably had visions over this thing. they were so ready for that. this was gonna turn into, you know, a huge political shit show, and we knew it. - he starts to show up with this woman in the stands at yankee stadium, eating at their favorite eateries and, you know, cigar rooms. - it s all about businesswoman judith nathan,
the first black mayor of new york. - democrat david dinkins has defeated republican rudolph giuliani. [tense music] - in city hall, there was a space in the bowels of that ancient building that came to be known as the lair. that s where the cigars would be smoked. and that s where giuliani s inner circle would watch the godfather over and over. [chuckles] and over again. - godfather. - rudy is famously obsessed with the godfather. - rudy giuliani is a little bit of everybody in that film. one night, he had a showing of the godfather. and he sits behind me, and during the entire movie, he explains why the life of politics is exactly the life of the godfather. and, of course, in the one story where sonny complains to the godfather
- our budget kept getting strangled. we couldn t buy cars. in early 1996, time magazine wanted to do a feature story. they approached me about doing the photograph for it. - when the cover comes out and it s bratton all by himself, giuliani loses his mind. - and at one of the press conferences in police headquarters, one of the reporters held up the cover of the magazine to the mayor. mr. mayor, what do you think of this? and the mayor looked at it and says, nice trench coat. - commissioner bratton has an announcement to make. - the mayor s worst fears were coming true in the sense that attention was being shifted from him to us at the police department, and to me in particular as the head of that police department. i ve just met with the mayor, mayor giuliani, this morning and have given to him my letter of resignation