- veryry difficultlt night for rudy g giuliani. - we arere going to o make our r country grgreat again. - giuliaiani sees onone thin, opportunity. - trumump is cleararly the bebest choice.e. - - he thoughtht, this wilillt me back inin the spotltlight. - whwhat i did f for new w york, donanald trump will d do for amererica! [cheers s and applauause] - ohoh, my god.. i momoved on herer, actually. you knknow, she wawas downwn in palm b beach. i i moved on h her, and i i fa. i'i'll admit i it. - whoaoa. - i i did try anand [bleep] ]. she wawas married.d. - that's's huge newsws there. - sosome breakining news rigigh. dadavid fahrenenthold of the wasashington popost got his hahands on a t tape. - hehello. hohow are you?u? hi. - hihi, mr. trumump. hohow are you?u? - nicece seeing yoyou. teterrific. - pleasurere to meet y you. - when thehe access hohollywod tape dropped, i was on air. donanald trump a and billy bush hadad somethingng of a rauaunchy conveversatio. - and whwhen you're e a star, they letet you do itit. yoyou can do a anything. - - whatever y you want. - grgrab 'em by y the [bleep. - he's braragging abouout commmmitting sexexual assaul. so i was j just stunnened, absosolutely stutunned. - therere is a pololitical ststorm that h has eruptede. - already y a parade of repubublicans has eitherer condemneded trump'p's commentsts, withdrawawn their support t completelyly, or calleled on him t to step d. - any y truth thatat he's d dropping ouout? - - no. - kellyayanne conwayay, reincece priebus, , others, werere scheduleded to be on the sununday shows.s. all of thehem canceleded their r appearanceces. anand the one e person whoho wn to defenend him in w wake of tt was s rudy giuliliani. - joining g me now isis former nenew york citiy mamayor and dodonald trumpp suppororter, rudy y giuliani. - rudydy giuliani,i, top adadvisor to d donald tru. - thanank you. thanks f for having g me bac. - that wasas a momentt for rurudy giulianani to realllly step upp and shshow that wawas wiwilling to b be donald trums number one defender, nunumber one a attack dog.. - men n at times, , talk like e. - i i don't knowow how muchh he wasas exaggeratating. i i don't knowow how much h is. he's a dififferent manan now ththan he was s then. men say ststupid thingngs in lococker rooms.s. we shoululd move on.n. - rurudy giulianani bet t on trump w when very f few people e were doing. he stutuck with trtrump after the acaccess hollylywood tap. shameful, , but like, , you kn, you do this becacause you'ree exexpecting a a reward. - i guguess there e are a a few perfecect people.. but in my y view, there's ononly been onone. and d that was j jesus chris. ♪ ♪ - cnn can n report thahat hilly clintoton has calllled dodonald trumpmp to cononcede the r race. - i'm m enormouslyly excited d for the cocountry. i i believe dodonald trumpmp l be a trulyly great preresiden. [draramatic musisic] this is s probably one of t the greatesest victories s for the pepeople f america a since andrdrew jacks. - the election of donald trump to the whitete house shocks the country from coast to coast. [a[all cheerining] - - i'm so proroud to call him t the presidedent of the u united statates. - eveven people e who are pulling fofor donald t trump are amazazed that hehe won. - whwhoo! - it felt t like this s increde periodod of uncertrtainty. - - who that i is that? is t that the mamayor thatat showed upup? rudydy? - mornining after ththe 2016 presidentitial electioion, if y you're rudydy giuliani, and donald trump had just been elected president of u united statates, you're feeling that there's tons of opportunity ahead. - what's's your rolele expecteded to be? - i have n no expectatation. all i do i is give my y advic. donanald's been n my frieiend for 28 8 years. all of my y work on bebehalf ofm has s been out o of great loloy anand friendshship to him.. - whatevever rudy wawants, rurudy gets, b because he e s the guguy who stooood by trum. - whateverer he said,, bill c clinton didid much wor. - hihis top pickck is sececretary of f state. - - so is thisis true? yoyou want to o be secrcretary of s state? - [lauaughs] whatetever i wawant to be, , i'll discucs wiwith the preresident-elele. - - rudy has d developed a a nk of contactcts in countntries across thehe world in the wakake of 9/111 anand his geopopolitical rock statar status w where he's treatated almost t like anan ex-presidident as hee trtravels arouound the woror. - i ththink he thohought beining secretarary of state would bebe a good waway to s stay in thehe game. - you're n not presidedent. you're n not vice prpresiden. secretarary of statete is the e most preststigious job in the c cabinet. and i ththink that h he saw that as-- - as an alteternate to the p presidentiaial ambibitions thatat were nevever going toto be fulfili. - john w would be a very good choioice. - is there anybody better? - mamaybe me. i don'n't know. - - he gets a a little toooor ouout ahead ofof himself o on . anand what wasas really happenining behind t the scens was thatat there wasas actualy some c concerns ababout rudy a- and d whether hehe was up for the chchallenge hehere. - trtrump confididante, rudy giuliaiani, formerer new york mayor, mayay not actuaually nw be a locock for the e positin of secreretary of ststate. - there'e's one momement in trp towewer where jajason miller, one ofof the top c communicatn advivisors for t trump, comes out t of the bulullpen ofof his team m and says,, we neeeed someone e to go in te anand just lobob questionsns ay toto see what t he says. everybodody scattersrs. ththe aide whoho does get t pd goes in bebehind closesed doos and is h horrified by what t he hears,, a ququestion abobout when is the lasast time youou've traveled to the middle east. that question comes with enough stammering that they have a follow-up meeting. the aide asks giuliani, you told me yesterdaday that youou hadn't n to t the middle e east for a a. are yoyou sure abobout that? are ththere any otother tripips you can n remember?? giululiani's facace goes blal. turnrns out, his secretetary had sasaid rudy h had just bebeen in the middle e east a montnth ago. - if you t talk to peoeople whwho were talalking to trtrp at the timime, they sasay he s never seseriously coconsiderd fofor it, whicich is probabable revealining in and o of itsef of the dynynamic of the relatitionship between the two of them. - the relationship between trump and rudy is really a fraught one. it's's one wherere trump p really valalues giulianini's defensese of hi. - he was t the best mayor inin the histotory of t the city ofof new york. he's a grereat personn who loloves our cocountry. - but shshows his apappreciati, shows s his love f for rudy with bacackhand and d criticis. - inin donald trtrump eye's, there'ss part of f giuliani's's recor. likeke, he ran f for the prpresidency,, and d it totallyly went u up in flamemes. so to donanald trump,, he's a a loser. - there e was a momement aftr trump had d been electcted, steve mnucuchin his nenew treaeasury secreretary is gettiting marrieded in wasashington, and d giuliani i is very excitedly y talking. and trtrump stops s him. says, , rudy, you're spipitting all l over. gogo stand ovever there. and rudydy does. - rudy t thought trurump was s going to a appoint him secretary of state. and d that didn'n't work. soso he keeps s around thee marginins in any way he can,, trying to get back to the center of the action. - one has to really appreciate to understand the arc of rudy giuliani, how intoxicating fame a and power a are. for r a politicician to lose relevavance is gututting. whwhat happensns to polititil anand media fifigures whenen y fear i irrelevancece and gogo off the d deep end to become e relevant a again. - i i don't thinink he rereally got o over losingg the rarace for preresident. hehe misses ththe action.. he wanants to be a a player. [dramamatic music]c] - we've gogot some major newsws that we'r're still absosorbing as we speaeak right nonow ththat broke o overnight.. a bombshshell reportrt from the new yoyork times,, claimiming that ththe fbi launched a an investigigation into p president t trump to se if h he was workrking for rura and agagainst the e united sta. - mostst of trump'p's first two yearars in officice arare overshadadowed byby allegatioions of collllug with russisia to try t to tilt t the 2016 elelection. and thosose eventualally landn the lalap of the s special coul robert mueller. - i said, you know, this russia thing with trump and russiaia is a madede-up st. - prpresident neneeds a fighg. he needsds somebody y who he t thinks willll push back agaiainst this i investigatit, agagainst the e press obsessioion with the investstigation, wiwith the samame zeal that he wowould. and says, i need you to fight for me here. - it's divivorce numbeber three e for rudy g giuliani, new yoyork city's s former may. anand at a heaearing todaya, it b became cleaear that thihs are e taking a n 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 centnter him, it was p peter. if t there was a anyone who o d calm him d down, it wawas pet. and d when peter died during the trump campaign, rudy lost his lifeline. - and i think that's what happens to him. he's morore 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 is on twitter and on tv. - i have no problem with that. - he is treated differenently and ununfairly. - i haveve no problelem with t. - he's's innocent.t. - he wanants giulianani, the prprosecutor,, to prosecucute the preress, o prosecute e the prosececutor. - you'veve got a hysysteria going on i in the medidia ththat interprprets everytytg agagainst donanald trump.. - there'e's no hysteteria her. - anand that is s what takes giuliaiani all thehe way ththrough the e trump yeara. - waitit. waitit. - hihis father-i-in-law-- - jake---- jake, we e are so- wewe are so didistorting the syststem of juststice just to geget donald t trump. it's goioing to hurtrt us. - he wasas spending g a lot of time inin the west t wing. he was s somebody who was s constantlyly on calall for the e former president t to reach o out t. and i ththink this k kind of b brought bacack together this o on-again, o off-again longstananding bromamance between ththe two of t these th of a c certain erara new york . - he has t this directct accessss, without t any of thehe responsibibility or any of t the accountntabilit. - as a skikilled profefessionl who figurered out how to climb his way up in the lelegal world, anand then up p in the pololil world, thahat he figurured o, now i'm inin the trumpmp worl. whatat do i needed to do too succeeeed in this s world? and in t this world,d, loyaly is 100% % obedience,e, is 100. and he jusust decided,d, well, , this is the woworld i'm gogoing to be , anand i'm justst going to o do. - almostst immediatetely, asas giulianii joins s the team i in a forml way, he'e's doing a a lot of pr. - when youou tell me that yoyou know, he s should teststify because he's's going to o tell the t h and hehe shouldn't't worry,y, well, thahat's so silly becacause it's somebodydy's versionon of thehe truth, nonot the tru. he dididn't have a a converersation abobout-- - the trututh is truthth. i don'n't mean to o go, like, - - - no! it i isn't truthth. truth h isn't trututh. the presesident of t the unitd stateses says, i d didn't. - trututh isn't trtruth. mr. . mayor, do o you rerealize whatat, i mean.. - ththere's a moment ininside the w white housee where trtrump aides s start criticizining what giuiuliani s said on aiair, and trurump barkrks at them m all and sas, at least rudy's out there defending me. - whwhen you do o find out?? - i'i'll tell yoyou what. rurudy knows i it's a witctch . he starteded yesterdayay. he'll get t his facts s straig. he's a g great guy.. - - in 2018, j joe biden is cleararly gearingng up for a a presidentitial run n and is wididely perceived as the front-runner. remember, in 2007, when joe biden was making his sesecond run for the e presidencycy and d rudy giuliliani wawas making h his first,, joe bibiden famoususly in a democratatic debatee jujust dismissssed giuliana. - therere's only t three thins he m mentions inin a sentenc, a noun, , and a verbrb, and 9/. i i mean, therere's nothining . ththere's noththing else.. - giululiani neverer has gotttten over ththat, ever.. - rudy giuiuliani called forormer vice president joe biden a moron and mentally deficient idiot. - i believe that he always needs to define himself through anatomy. right? so, cathololic school he wasas good and d there were o other kids s who were b. and ththen he's aa prosececutor and h he's gonna lockck up the babad guy. and thenen he's mayoyor and d he's gonnana lolock up the e squeegee guys andnd jaywalkerers, and now itit's biden.. - rurudy starts s kind ofof from whatat i can best s say, fancyiying himf as likike the new w roger sto. opposition research is as old as the game of politics, but it's t the lengngths he wenent to. this is s the formerer mayor r of new yorork, this rah-r-rah pro-amamerica kindnd of guy who o was lookining for didirty tricksks to t try to harmrm an americn polilitical oppoponent of his f friend, dononald tru. - giulianini's been dodoing bubusiness allll around ththe . and one ofof the places on the map where he started developing relationships is ukraine. anand who was s the obamaa admininistration p point persn for r dealing wiwith ukraine? it was joe biden. just think about how rich an opportunity that i is for rudydy giulian, who wawants to prorove himself for donald trump. - giuliani had one aim and one aim only. anand that wasas how to [bleep] ] up joe bididen. - you cacan't make t this stuff. joe bideden's son, hunter b biden, wawas making m money off o oa compmpany ownened by a ukrkrainian olili. if giuiuliani coululd somehow d a a connectionon between joe bn takingng official l action to help h his son enrnrich himsef inin ukraine, , he thinks s ts going to b be a goldenen momet for donald trump. - over the beginning of 2019, i start getting texts from rudy about ukukraine, texexts about t how hunterer bideden was corrrrupt and d ukraine, a and pepeople need d to look ininto. - - at this popoint, giululiani has r really left truth and facts to the side.e. he has fulully joined d the consnspiratorialal mentality of president trump and his administration, totally signed on to that. - rudy wants to build a case. so he goes to get evidence. nonow one of t the problemems, is he falllls into thihis mury woworld of rusussia and ukraine e and all sosorts of comompeting agegendas. and d he demonststrates vevery little e discernmenet as to o who is a r reliable source a and who isnsn't. the proboblem is, ththis wasnt some b backroom dedeal in quee. thisis was aboutut democracy in ukrkraine surviviving. - - as rudy isis ramping u p this c campaign inin ukraine to t try and getet these ininvestigatioions, he statarts feelining like hes runnnning into t this roadblb. and d that is ththe us ambasasr to ukrainene, marie yoyovanovi. - - i heard very, very bad things about her fofor a long p period of t t. nonot good. - yoyovanovitch h was recalld by p president t trump becacause rudy g giuliani acacd heher of hampepering efforos toto dig up didirt on joe e b. - rurudy giulianani was sayiyint she was s the corrupupt one, en though s she was there pushshing back on c corrupt figigures in ukuk. the tataking down,n, the smearg anand the attetempt to desesy the e career of f a career f fn service ofofficial foror this obscscure polititical persrsonal erranand, it w was the eararly warnining signal, it was the shocking moment of clarity that should have been, bubut wasn't.. - the e idea that t rudy is ts powewerful interernational w wr dealaler and thahat he was g goo go over r to ukrainene and he s going to pull the strings of power, this whole thing was shambolic, it was crapulous, it was just, it was goioing to be e exacty the [bleepep] show it t turnd into from m the beginnnning. - when y you make yoyour decicisions basesed on your r e or based on your ego, y you can do o very dadamaging thihings to youour. and so rududy took thahat to t the fourth h power. - the new w york timeses reporg that t the presidedent's persol lawyerer, rudy giuiuliani, is pressising a foreign countryr, ukraine, t to take acactions to h help trump geget re-electcted in 20. this is s giuliani t talking. "we're n not meddlining in an n election,, we'r're meddlingng in anan investigagation." - ththere's nothing ilillegal abouout it. - whwhat giulianani and trump wantnt to happenen here isis an investstigation into hununter biden.n. both of f them vieww an invesestigation as pololitically a advantageo. it doesn't't really mamatter whwhat the oututcome is, a asg as thehey can use e that as a as a pololitical cududgel agagainst the e son of joee biden,n, who at ththis point, is clearlyly the biggegest thrt to a sececond term for r president t trump. - hehe's runningng around represenenting himseself as sort ofof an arm ofof the se departrtment, a rerepresentate of the preresident. - giuliaiani and thehe people o are e trying to o help him s sd buildingng relationsnships wih the peopople they ththought would bebe in power.r. - in t the meantimime, ukraie elects a a new presisident. - volodydymyr zelensnskyy, anan actor besest known for r playing ththe presesident of u ukraine, was elecected to lead that t country. - i thinink at thiss time, prpresident zelenskyy y was a relativelyly unknown plplayer on ththe world stst. he hadad won thiss electition in ukraraine, but hehe had this s backgroud as a p popular comomedian. - [nonon-english s speech] - zelenskyky parlayed d this r, in whihich a kind d of naive, bubut well-intntentioned schoolteteacher, bebecomes the e president tf ukraraine, into o becoming the presidident of ukrkraine. thisis throws a a wrench intnte interests s of rudy gigiulian. - ththat electioion createss a wholole new dynanamic thatat giuliani i then tries to navavigate and d game out. - this is s in fragilele new govevernment. obobviously, r recent evevents show w that there isis an externrnal dangnger to ukraraine ththat they cacannot ignoro. the dangngle from rurudy is, , we could o offer you a public show of support to get a meaningful investigation of hunter biden. - rudolph giuliani was not a diplomat. rudolph giuliani was not an ambassador. rudolph giuliani was not the secretary of state. rudolph giuliani was a hired political gun working g to advancece donaldld trump's partisan e electoral i interes. - this scacandal is a a scandl of majoror proportioions. now, w was i-- - are you u done now?? - no, , i'm not dodone now? - bebecause you u haven't said anynything. - - no. - - you can't t just tatalk the whohole time. - mueller,r, that julyly, testis in a a very cleaearly lacklulr perfrformance toto congress. - the findnding indicacates tt the presesident was s not, u. - trumump not onlyly felt this sensese of exonereratio, he alslso had thisis sense e of vengeanance. - - i think rorobert muelllled a horriblele job both h today and wiwith respectct to ththe investigigation. - hehe did nothihing wrong a ae wasn't invnvolved in c collusi, and d he wasn't t involved in obstrucuction. - anand it's in n this mimindset, where that m morning, trump pickss up the p phone for a a call with president zelensky. - the president says, "there's a lot of talk about biden's son, so if you can look into it, it sounds s horrible t to me" - trump p spends thehe call a asking zelelensky veryry specificacally to help him m investigatate hunter b b. - whwhite house e notes of t t cacall show ththat when zezely asked d for a shipipment ofof anti-tanknk missiles,, trumump counterered with these wordrds, "i woululd lie you to do o us a favoror thoug" - whatat zelensky y doesn't rere is, that i inside the e white house, trump has put a hold on several millllion dollarars ofd toto ukraine i in anticicipation of f zelensky agreeingng to thesee investigigations. - manyny of those e who are close toto donald trtrump think thatat none of t this wowould have h happened withouout rudy giuiuliani. ukukraine was s giuliani's's . these wewere his cononnection, these wewere his souources, this was h his rogue foreign popolicy. - i i don't knowow that i ththie average e american a at that te undederstood whyhy it was s so importatant that we gigive the sececurity assistancece to the ukukrainia. i thinink now in 2 2022 when russia i is invadingng ukraie and slaughtering innocent ukrainian civilians, our longstanding ally, we undersrstand why w we had a re and an oblbligation toto do th. - zezelenskyy heheld 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 just an accidental president, he's turned out to be a greater leader in a t time of tererrible, teterrible cririsis ththan either r trump or r r. - [non-engnglish speecech] - the e curtain wawas lifteded today onn an anonynymous whiststleblowes explososive complalaint agagainst president trump, detailing his ask for political help from ukraine's president. - giuliani is mentioned in the whistleblower complaint more than 30 times. - pointing to that july phone call between president trump and ukraine's president. - ththat was a p perfect cal. an absolututely perfecect cal. you knowow it, they y all know. - i'm anannouncing t the house e of represesentatives moving f forward witith an ofofficial impmpeachment i inq. - anand everybodody's attentnn ststarted turnrning to onene , and ththat was rududy giulian. - rudy's influence led to trump's impeachment over these ukraine issues. - again, this moment of everybody working to sort of contain the rudy influence and keepep him awayy from t the presidedent anand yet, thehe presidentt keeps s seeking hihim out. - rudydy giuliani i is not a guy who backs down. rudy is a a guy who dodoubles d. - whwhenever giuiuliani was s e defensive e when he wawas may, hihis responsese was to atatt. - i don't t remember him everer apologizizing, sasaying, i shshouldn't hahe saidid that or i i overreactc. - anand you see e that throuout ththe impeachmhment procese. - whwhat you jusust said is totallyly wrong! itit's not whahat-- - it's comompletely wrwrong! - ththis was a p period where all l his friendnds were kind ofof begging h him to layy low, to o stop goingng on tv and pressing this case, and he couldn't do it. - i've got the documents, i've got the proof, anand i've gotot the witnenes. - one e person i s spoke to wo met t with him a around thatate descscribed driviving around in a c cab with rurudy, and rudy o on two occacasions during thehe same drivive rolled dowown his windndow to high five e constructition wors whwho were wavaving at himi. even at t the heightht of ththe ukraine e investigatatn whwhen you werere having a l thesese administstration offffs teststify about t how horrifid ththey were byby what rudydyd bebeen doing a abroad, he just seseemed to bebe having the time of his life. - about 10 days before the 2020 election, this clip gets released of the borat movie. - you can give me your phone number and youour address.s. - - put down y your phone!! she's 1515, she too old for yo. - it's sorort of anothther bloo rudy a and to his s credibili. - i hahad to take e off the electrononic equipmement. and when the electronic equipment came o off and d i tucked my shirirt in, i asassure you that's allll i was doioin. i realize now ththat this i is a setup.p. and d then all o of a sudden, crazy y sacha baroron cohen runs in n with a capape on ad he's's yelling a and screamig all kikinds of stutupid stuf. - i dodo recall thinkingng at some p point as thihings went along, thatt this wasas not the p person i k. many of the things that he was doing were just baffling. - it's election night in america and a nationon in criss is a at a crossrsroads. - rudy g giuliani was one e of donaldd trump's s most truststed adviss on elelection nighght 2020. to g get there, , you had to be sosomebody thahat told donalald trump whwhat he w wanted to h hear, not tetelling him the truth. - the first exit polls just coming in tonight, president trump p t the e white housuse this eveve. - rudydy giuliani i understod someththing on elelection nigt 2020, , which manyny of donad trump's other advisors did not, which is that donald trump meant it when he sasaid he wasn't goioing to accept the results s of the elelecti. - - trump's second election night goes much differently than h his first one. this one, for starters, is inside the white house. it's a who's who of trump world, and that guest list, of course, includes rudy giuliani. - for the early portion of the evening, some fairly prominent reporters were texting me saying, wow, it looks like he might d do it againin. - - i can't wawait to get the results in. - and if h he doesn't t win? - - that's notot even an o op. - - i think hehe's going to win by y a lot. thatat's my inteterpretation. alall: four momore years!! four morore years! - i was s in the easast wing when the a arizona calall cam. - fox x news calleled arizona,d ththat angereded all the p pee araround the p president.. - and the e mood chchanged fundndamentally. - gigiuliani is s furiouslyy scrambmbling to fifigure out how to help the president. all of the people yelling suggestions, trump not knowing what to do until one moment when rudy giuliani pipes up and says, just say you won. - giuliani once said a pretty remarkable thing. he said, you could throw a fake. and what he means is, in politics, you can embellish, exagaggerate, mamaybe jujust throw s something out ththere that y you don't he anany real basasis to belilie is true.e. anand that's w what he didi. - we w were gettining ready to win t this electition. frfrankly, we e did wiwin this elelection. [all c cheering] we did w win this elelection. - make no mistake about it, , donald trump himself isis delusionan. rudolph gigiuliani helelped o contributete to those e delusis of grarandeur thatat exists within donald trump's head about the election being stolen from him. - i think k that he felt likike the 198989 elelection wasas stolen frfm him,m, that the e voting syststem was rigged. - a few of my advisors and other people that actually came to see us to urge meme to contesest the elecect. and d they presesented us wiwity regardeded as evidenence of vor tamperering, voterer fraud. - wewe see an eaearly prpremonition n of what wewee going g to see years later.. - we're living through i believe, the worst voter fraud scandal in the histotory of our r coun. theyey steal elelections in detroitit. - rerepresentatitive, reprpresentativeve, you'll h have an opppportunit- - - and they s steal elelections inin new york.. - - president t trump hass put his s personal l lawyer, rurudy giulianani, in chararge s campaiaign's electction lawsui. - gigiuliani bececomes a real centraral figure f for trump as t trump is bebeginning to devisise any strarategy to hold on t to power. - giuliani, , who's beenen on the e road in fofour states, leading ththe presidenent's election challenge. - his team has already filed lawsuits in michigan, georgia, and pennsylvania. - we arere going to contininue the lawsuit here. wewe're going g to brining a second one, and ththen we're g going to bring a fefederal lawswsuit. - i dodon't think k he believd thatat trump wonon the electc. i dodon't think he believeves t trump was s a great prpresidet or a louousy one. i i think thisis is imimmaterial t to him. what's mataterial, iss that h he's standiding up therere talking about dodonald trump beforere thousandsds of peopl. - giululiani, he's's on tetelevision c constantly,, he's holding bizarre press conferences, like the never to be forgotten four seasons landscaping press confnference. - trump tweeeets thatat there's g going to b be a press s conferencece s attorneyeys at the f four seas. - twtwo minutes s after that, he d deleted thehe first twet and started over, quote, "big press conference today in philadelphia at four seasons total landscaping." oh, that four seasons, of course. he means four seasons total landscaping, located just down thehe block frorom fantasy island adult books and videdeo store, and across the street from m the delawawe valllley crematition center. - it's so embarrassing, you coululdn't even n write i. - 700,00000 votes that disisappeared.. - - giuliani i is insistiningt they will l continue t to figt when a reporter interruptsts him anand tells him thatat the electction had d been calleled. - - who was itit called byb? - all ofof them. - all of t them! oh, my g goodness! all the e networks!! wow! all the nenetworks! - of c course, it t would endp likeke this, witith rudy giuiui makingng an ass ofof himselelf while dodonald trump officially loses the presidency and is on the golf course.e. - this legal team, a.k.a. the clown car r of incompepete, has now lost close to 50 cases in a month. - momost of themem, i memean, basicacally laughed d out of couourt. - inside c courtrooms,s, nearlyly every siningle attemt fromom trump, ththe trump campaign a and his allllies are rebukeked by judgeges, who t to s see some memeasure of p f thatat simply dodoesn't exis. - dismissasals in michchigan, georgia, n nevada, aririzona, and i'll t tell you, i it's re to see c courts throrow out cas this quickckly. - we're gogoing to ststick with t this, we're gogoing to win this e election. we've actutually won i it. - anand i believeve biden anans crew trieded to steal l the vo. i i believe itit is totalllly . - - i'm just n not belilieving thatat biden won n in any wayay, shape oror. - - everybody y knows they stolele it. - recocount, recouount, recou! - there'e's this drurumbeat cog fromom trump, cocoming from m , coming from a lot of their supporters, of thihis election is fafake, we neeeed to standndp fofor voters a and for thee integrgrity of our electionss and we n need to stop thisis from happppening. - stop thehe steal, stop the s steal. - one of t the clearesest inflection poioints in thahat t electition period d for giulii is t that famousus press coconference at the republican national c committee.. - good afternoon. - - i mean, ththis is i thth, ththe clearestst picture amerericans haveve gotten of rudy gigiuliani totally detached from reality. this to me, isis the button to that rise and fall that we talk about over giuliani's public lifife. - did d you all wawatch my c cousin vinnnny? you know, the movivie? it's one of my favoritete law movieies, becaususe he comeses from brooo. - - i don't lilike to mockk peoplele or anythihing like th. i acactually do o remember thinking i in that momoment, why is his familyy lettining him do t this? - i i prosecuteded some of te most dangerous criminals in t the world. i knknow crimes.s. i can smelell them. - thisis is a man n who is a student t of american history, who could have given you lectures abouout our demomocracy and the neneed for r a peacefulul transfsfer of powewer. - you knowow, we use l largey venezuelanan voting mamachine in essssence to cocount our vo. we let t this happenen, we're going toto become vevenezuel. - - he's too s smart to bebele some of ththe nonsensese thatat he's beenen spouting. you know, , the monkeyey busineness with ththe ballots and venezuela being involved. i mean, this is just nutty stuff. - - fast forwaward to hairr dye rurunning downwn his fac. - so thehe only evididence thatat rudy has uncovered, is that hehe's not a natural brunette. - i coululd tell youou the secd he saw that liline of makekep or hair gegel or whwhatever thehe hell it was oozing off of rudy's head, that donald trump, a man with a more than passing acquaintance with makeup, immediately wrote rudy off. - you know your legal strategy is [bleep] up, whenen even yourur hair ststarts cryining about it. - hehe's lost cacapacity foror . and shshame as a self-regegulating fufunction. in giuliani's case, earlier in his career i thinink this actctually served thehe public ininteret fairlyly well. that moment is now long gone, and he's just a man with lots and lots of pie in his face to go with the dripping hair dye. and you know, the general sense of like, a a corroded a and decacayed human n being. - ththe menace g gets lost in the c clown show.w. he's statanding there perprpetrating a big lilie about our mostst sacrosancnct thing, w which is ouour democr. yet, i it actually is the genesis of what came closer to an american coup than we've ever had. - we are the majority! and trump won! trump wowon! trumump won! - ththe night bebefore janunuary 6, ralally goers had d started asassembli. - and i cacan tell yoyou to this s day, donald trurump won thehe elect. [cheheering] - theyey were so l loud, that tp could hearar them in t the ovl office that evening. [all cheering] trump opened the doooors on this chilllly january y evenig and d started cacalling aides into his officice. can yoyou hear thehem outside, he'd ask. can you hear how excited they are? [cheerering] - i wokeke up that morning g and you knknow, there e was a sensnse of real menacece in washinington, and there had been for a couple days. [all cheering] - - there is a a new repububln party on t the rise. we're comiming for you, and w we're goingng to havave a good t time doing . - ththis is the e greatest g p ofof patriots s ever put t tog. - - what does s giuliani do on janunuary 6? - please w welcome america's s mayor, rududy. giuliaiani. - - he takes t the stage a t the ststop the steteal rally on thehe ellipse.. just southth of the white housuse, you can see e the whitee house e in the disistance, and he firires up thisis crow. - - this has b been a yeararn whicich they havave invadedd our freedodom of speecech, our frfreedom of r religion, our frfreedom to m move, ouour freedom m to live. i'llll be darneded if ththey're goining to takee awaway our freree and fairir ! and we're e going to fight toto the very y end toto make surere that dodoesn't happppen. over the n next 10 dayays, we get to seeee the machihines tt are crookeked, the balallots ththat are fraraudulent, anand if we'rere wrong, we will l be made fofools of. but if w we're rightht, a lot of them wiwill go to j jail. [cheering]g] soso let's havave trial byby c! - rudy g giuliani ararguing tt he wasasn't literarally advocag fofor insurrecection whenn he spokeke at a pro-o-trump rally y in washingngton just b e rioters ststormed the e capit. - when i i heard himim say, t trial by cocombat, that was d decisive fofor me. he absolututely enableled an attatack on our democrcracy and tried to overturn an election. and that's just aa civic sisin that's completely unforgivable. all: rudy, rudy,y, rudy. - when y you see himim being one of thehe speakers s leadig into januauary 6, lookok at te footage e of the pololice rit when dave dinkins was mayor. thatat's who rudy was. he's just not able to finesse it like he used to. but that's rudy. - we're going toto walk down to ththe capitol.l. [all s shouting] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [all shouting] - trump p and giuliaiani show, as thehe whole trurump presidey showed, that a small, smaller than you think minority, cocould wreak k absolute h hc with the american system. [all shohouting] - they're e protectingng her. - not ifif he wants s in! alall: we wantnt trump, we want t trump, wewe want trumump, we w want trump,p, we w want trump.p. - fofor somebodydy who oncee champipioned the r rule of lw and trtried his cacases in cou, fofor him to b be the inststrt of--of essentially undermining g the systemem of w and d having peoeople lose faith inin our demococracy is a h horrible waway to e end your cacareer. becaususe of the d damage that you h have alreadady donene to our sysystem and even grereater danger that mayay lie aheadad. [all s shouting] - hey, giuiuliani, [blbleep] y! yeah, , [bleep] yoyou. - hehe's just fafallen so far, andnd he keeps s fallin. so the only thing that kind of ties it all together is that people are still talkining about hih. whether r he's going up oror he's goining down, he's's in the coconversation. and maybe e that's whahat it's a all about f for him. now w he once totold a rereporter, you know, whatever, whatever they say about me, i'll be dead onene day, i i don't carare. and that may be true. but he's still alive and he still has to think a about it. - my father would say to me,e, when you mamake a decisision, the most impmportant thihing you'e got toto think abobout is, cn you shshave the nenext mornig and lolook at yoururself inin the mirroror anand feel gooood about yoyour. - i do notot think thahat rudy giuliani understands that there has been a tremendous erosion of his reputation that he has caused at all. he looks in the mirror and he sees the hero of 9/11. - and ththose of uss who arare here havave to defefend freedodom by goig about our lives s unafraid.. - i saw hihim walking g down ththe street a about two w ws after they raided his house. i lookoked out thehe side of the carar and i saiaid, hehere's giuliliani. i i didn't eveven roll ththe window d down. itit would havave been beyeyonn me to bebe able to p predict hd end d up the wayay he's ended . here's a man now who got there with divisiveness and polaririzing, and by somome luck, was able to reresurrect hihimsf to being t the nation'n's may. got t a second c chance, and then h he erodes i it al. itit is almostst unthinkabab. at the end of the day, rudy giuliani was s not broughght down byy those e of us thatat opposed h. he was not brought down by his critics. rudy giuliani was brought down by rudy giuliani. [somber pipiano music]c] ♪ ♪ - if rudy had left public life either after 9/11 or after 2008, when he dies in a few years, they would name high schools after him. they would rename laguardia airport after him. he would g go down as s a comp, weweird, funnyny, strange,, hihighly accomomplished gug, who o at two keyey inflection popoints in hihistory, stotood d offerered powerfulul leadersh. that man's gone, unfortunately. it's traragic. [bright music] - - umbria, il cuore v verde d'itatali. itit means it't's ththe green heheart of itata.