on nearly $400,000 missing from his campaign filings. he says he doesn t know anything about it, and despite lying about everything from his family to where he went to college, he says he s, quote, operated honestly. and the extraordinary pressures of public life taking a toll on government officials around the world like never before. what s behind it and what can be done about it? but we start in east palestine, ohio, where even as the governor holds another briefing, residents remain skeptical and scared, having trouble believing their town is safe even after federal and state officials have come there to tell them otherwise. they say the evidence that something is wrong has been in front of them since the day that train packed with toxic chemicals derailed two weeks ago, from the noxious smell to the growing number of people getting sick. don t say you re safe, you re fine, raise your babies here even though they re getting sick and having nosebleeds, god nose what we
and i have a programming note that it is just for you. it s one of your favorites of kurt anderson is going to be joining us this hour. and just for you, i saved him for last. so, you can get home and turn on the tv, and and still make it! there he will be and i m going to offer him a theory to take as you will. and that is, that if you think that rudy giuliani has changed from some previous good version of rudy giuliani, you have not been paying attention you have not! i read some old spy martin magazine in kurt andersen s honor about rudy giuliani in 1990. and he s the same dude at his he was then. i can t wait for your conversation with him. we are going to be showing pictures of giuliani 1986, which i remember vividly, unfortunately. [laughter] when he was use u.s. attorney, he was the most political u.s. attorney in the country. yep. and he went on a crazy, public he was undercover, he said, wearing his hells angels jacket. yes, yes! but he
joining us this hour. and just for you, i saved him for last. so, you can get home and turn on the tv, and and still make it! there he will be and i m going to offer him a theory to take as you will. and that is, that if you think that rudy giuliani has changed from some previous good version of rudy giuliani, you have not been paying attention you have not! i read some old spy martin magazine in kurt andersen s honor about rudy giuliani in 1990. and he s the same dude at his he was then. i can t wait for your conversation with him. we are going to be showing pictures of giuliani 1986, which i remember vividly, unfortunately. [laughter] when he was use u.s. attorney, he was the most political u.s. attorney in the country. yep. and he went on a crazy, public he was undercover, he said, wearing his hells angels jacket. yes, yes! but he had every news photographer in the city with him at the time. he loves a camera. anyway, that s all. it will be
he was a perfect match for a tabloid culture. and he was brash and he was, you know, he was a self-promoter. - rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you. - and in new york city s race for mayor, democrat david dinkins is leading in the polls over republican rudolph giuliani. - all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along, riding the wave of, you know, he was gonna be the first black mayor. and that was at a time when that had a real kind of emotional resonance, both within new york and nationally. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - quiet! quiet! - rudy very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - white power! - i saw god out on the block today he was darker than the preachers say with a teardrop tattooed on his face and dirt in his fingers i heard angels when he laughed the way that peopl
i think he saw in rudy some of what more of us began to see over time, that rudy had those qualities. - they should be followed. they must be followed. - he s the mayor of new york city, america s mayor. - quiet. quiet! - he blames it on me. he blames it on you. david dinkins! [cheering] - throw him out of office. get somebody else. - who demonstrate some irresponsibility on his behalf. [dramatic music] - the high power, high profile addition to the president s legal team, rudy giuliani. - anyone can become an influencer. - throw him out. - just sort of a mini cult leader in their own right. - the corruption in the ukraine. - there s an effort by rudy to get information about evidence that hunter biden was on the take, and that joe biden was getting money from ukraine. - he sounded like a mobster. - when people say there is no mafia, i mean, i know from my history that there is such a thing, and i know what it does and what it can do. - he s he is a he is a warrior. - i sa