Why Rudy Giuliani's recent erratic behavior is no surprise

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Turns out, former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani has a history of riling up crowds, long before the January 6 Capitol attack.   The new film "Rudy! A Documusical" explores an eerily similar instances in his past ... #tribeca2022

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00:00Who was it called by?

00:02All the networks.

00:03Oh my goodness, all the networks.

00:06Wow.

00:08All the networks.

00:11We have to forget about the law.

00:14Judges don't count.

00:15Music

00:26One thing about Rudy is he's always been very driven by righteousness,

00:32by feeling like he's on this moral right side of things,

00:34but he keeps redefining what the right side of things is.

00:38There's no law that says you can't take in information from a foreigner.

00:42There's a law that says you can't take a monetary contribution from a foreigner.

00:47So does that law prohibit taking information?

00:52Being a strict obstructionist, I would say no.

00:57In looking through his past, and you see this in the film,

00:59there are episodes earlier in his career where he sort of did the same thing on a smaller scale

01:04and basically tried to harness the mob to political ends.

01:07Music

01:22The reason the morale of the police department of the city of New York is so low

01:27is one reason and one reason alone, David Jenkins.

01:33He had become famous by going after the mob, which is when he became sort of America's sheriff.

01:40And then he used a mob, not the mob, to achieve political ends

01:45when he was running for mayor in New York

01:47by riling up a gang of drunken racist cops to storm the city hall

01:56during the tenure of his predecessor, David Jenkins.

02:00Mafia bosses have been imprisoned for life.

02:02Politicians jailed.

02:04Insider traders caught in the act.

02:06All victims of the government's chief prosecutor in New York

02:10and likely challenger to Koch.

02:14He's Rudolph Giuliani.

02:16There's also this strange parallel of him being this impeccable, super moral sheriff

02:25who's the first guy to really successfully bust the mob,

02:28which he justly should get credit for, to take down the mob as an organization

02:32and then cavorting around the world with criminals in more recent years in the Ukraine.

02:40Rudy Giuliani under fire over his dealings with Ukraine,

02:44suggesting he already knew what was in that White House account

02:47of the phone call between the president and the leader of Ukraine

02:50before it was made public.

02:52I think Rudy had always been a public servant until after 9-11.

03:13So he hadn't made a lot of money.

03:15But after 9-11 he was sort of the most popular person in the world.

03:20He remarried and suddenly had this opportunity to make a lot of money

03:24and I think began to value money as the main metric of success in his life.

03:29And that sort of changed his value system.

03:32And I think after he left the mayorality

03:36and was vetted around the world as being the mayor of America,

03:39it sort of got to his head.

03:42And when he then failed to achieve the ultimate goal of being president,

03:48he started spiraling down.

03:50And I think Trump world was a sort of life raft for him to remain relevant.

03:56And he grabbed on to it and like everything in his life,

03:59you see this pattern of when he decides he's doing something that's right,

04:02he convinces himself it's morally right and then goes after it unrelentingly.

04:07And so one of the constants is he's always felt like he's doing the right thing morally.

04:13What's changed is the definition of what moral is.

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