who was rudy s closest confidante, gave him an ultimatum. he chose cristyne. peter left city hall. many view that as the biggest mistake rudy made. - rudy no longer had a moderating voice to keep him on track. - if one s approach to life is loyalty over competence every time, a few decades go by, and it s not the best recipe for mental health. meanwhile, donna started to disappear during his reelection campaign. it became clear that she s really not appearing anywhere with him. - say good morning to the mayor. - for his reelection bid, donna hanover wasn t really in his corner. she wouldn t reveal who she voted for. - in the first term, rudy burns through a lot of friends and allies. - in new york city, mayor rudolph giuliani easily won reelection
now he s king giuliani. - he just doesn t have it in him to ever admit he s wrong. that s the problem here. - rudy was an innate bully, someone who wakes up every morning looking to pick a fight he can win. - the people he begins to go after are really defenseless. and that is really acute in terms of policing. - the police department had been very much turned loose by giuliani. and being turned loose turned into abuse. - these cops, you know, felt that they were given the authority to do anything that they wanted. they terrorized african american communities. rudy giuliani says, look, they re doing a good job. they re bringing crime down. and that s what we want. it s working. but it wasn t. it was working against the very people who you claim to want to help. we saw it as an invading force. they were brutal. - it was a disaster waiting to happen.
from communities across the city about these aggressive policing tactics. - there was something very sad and operatic about it. you know, as the bartender says, you don t have to go home, but you can t stay here. - the story of rudy giuliani is the story of rise and fall. he has this totally broken city in terms of rampant crime. he comes in, and he turns it around. he cleans up the city. fast-forward to a mayor who was nearing the end of his second term, and seemed to, sort of, almost have overstayed his welcome with the people of new york at that point. - he and his cronies went to one of his places. you know, they were all very happy and upbeat, and it felt like he was gonna run. they were talking about something, and rudy just kind of looked down and wistfully said, yeah, you know, politics is just so rough these days.
it s about crime, drugs, schools, jobs, healthcare. - endorsements from the city s four major daily newspapers are split at two and two. and most polls have this race at a dead heat. - who s gonna make things better for families in new york city? all: rudy! - who you gonna vote for on tuesday? all: rudy! [cheering] - that night, by 10:15, 10:30, the numbers are coming in. our final polling had rudy winning by 2%. and in the end he won by 2.9. - new yorkers have voted to unseat their city s first black mayor and replace him with a white republican. [crowd chanting] rudy, rudy, rudy, rudy! - yes, ladies and gentlemen, the mayor elect for the city of new york, rudolph william giuliani! - i m standing before you as the next mayor of new york city.
- nope, i m not gonna discuss the case. - in many ways, tactically, rudy was donald trump before donald trump was donald trump. - you say that she set up her own - yeah, i ve answered enough questions about. you know, you get to the point where it gets ridiculous. - he discovered and perfected the political art of maintaining really hostile relationships with the press and enjoying hostile relationships with the press. - then you can all spin it 5,000 different ways. - giuliani is really trump-like, i think, in his willingness to believe that all publicity is good publicity. - i think both of them, they kind of kind of peaked in a certain era. - trump at one point tells his campaign manager, every story is a good story about you as long as they don t accuse you of being a pedophile. and it seems that rudy giuliani has the same view of publicity. - he would always have this entourage that was, like, a security detail around him. in that inner circle, there were people