The Daily Showography of Rudy Giuliani | Katie Couric

and we're gonna tell you where it went. We'll get to know Rudy, Juliet me over a few drinks and our guests. Tonight, one of America's most admired journalist, Katiekurik, is here to expose all the secrets of news nobody in New So let's do this people. Let's jump straight into today's headlines. Okay, let's kick things off with the big news from the stock markets. You know the app that they pre installed on your phone to make you

feel dumb. Since the stock market recovered from the COVID tumble in Wall Street has been having a blast, and the more stocks you owned the better time you were having, which is why Warren Buffett has got those new grills. But over the last year, inflation has been rising, the Federal Reserve has been raising interest rates to cool the economy down, and now it looks like the good times

in the stock market might be officially over all. Eyes on Wall Street once again this morning was yesterday, the stocks plummeting, pushing the SNB officially into bear market territory. The dal Jones industrials now six lower for the year, the tech and biotech heavy nastack down year to date, and the broader SMP index common in Americans portfolios sliding into bear market territory down this year. Real money that Americans have s to one day retire, pay for kids, college,

or a new house. The advice from most financial experts, despite the high stress and the anxiety, don't panic. There's no need to panic. The truth of the matter is, don't panic. Sorry, what did they say? I was a too busy chugging that a comic Lodge bottle of xan X. I'm not panic, by the way, I'm just addictings of pills. But yes, people, these are scary times for stocks because we are out officially in a bare market, which is when people are so broke they have to blow Paddington

in the parking lots. Oh heavens, O heavens, oh heavens. Obviously I'm joking, joking. Paddington doesn't have a penis a bare market. It's basically when the SMP has dropped from its previous high, which for many can be very stressful. Yeah, right now, everyone who's looking at the a trade account. It feels like the same way you look when you know, when you're looking at your ex's wedding photos on Instagram, Just like, why why do I keep looking? Why he'd

like my mistake? No, I liked it. Now I have the government. I wish you all that bears that. But even if you don't own stocks, a bare market is often a signal that a recession might be coming, and that affects everybody. The economy slows down, unemployment goes up, Africans become presidents, and your mom starts buying the generic cereals with the knockoff mascots. Yeah, Terry the Tiger says

they're adequate. And by the way, it's not just the stock market that's falling, right, now, yeah, crypto is crashing even harder with Bitcoin plummeting from its high, which I find really interesting because for like the past ten years, every single crypto bro I've met has told me that crypto would protect me when the mainstream economy failed. You

heard them, they were everywhere. Crypto people would act like you were a crazy one for not investing your life savings into a coin some Swedish teenager invented last week. Oh you're not in Doggie monkey coin. What a loser. You know. What's even crazier is that the crypto crowd is blaming Biden for this. And look, you know, here's

the here's the thing. You can blame a president for a lot of things, inflation, unemployment, not being able to cheer for your son Brandon, and a soccer game without it becoming a whole thing, But you can't blame it for crypto. No, my man, If an eight year old man who doesn't even know what bitcoin is can crash your crypto, then your crypto ain't ship I sell it. Yeah. I know you're mad that your Jenga tower fell down, but that's what happens when you play Jenga. Because remember,

like this is what they said to everybody. They said, old crypto is gonna save you from the market. That's what crypto is. It protects you. That made it seem like it was a parachute that would protect us all from the economy. And then now the plane is crashing, and then it turns out the parachute is attached to the plane. He's like, what is this, Oh, it's all going down. Let's move on from that bad economic news

to some other bad economic use. For two years now we have seen the global supply chain crisis impact everything from computers cause to baby formula. And by the way, why is there never a supply chain shortage of bad stuff? You know, it's never a shortage of like racist Halloween costumes. Hope, but how will I get canceled now? But the latest shortage is hitting even closer to home, like as close as you can get now to the latest shortage to

hit our nation's store, tampons. Women are scrambling to find the products as shelves are increasingly becoming there. It's the latest of the supply chain issues to have a disproportionate impact on women. The makers of tampacs and playtax say there's high demand and low supply. It's reportedly stemming from a combination of factory staffing problems, transportation log jams, and

the rising cost of raw materials like plastics. Companies like CBS and Target confirming they are experiencing lower inventory, Walgreens telling ABC News they will have stock, but there may only be certain brands available while they navigate the supply disruption, and prices for this essential item amy up nearly ten according to Bloomberg. That's right. The pandemic supply chain problems have now led to a tampon shortage, a massive tampon shortage.

And before we panic, before we panic, I think we need to make sure that this whole thing wasn't just started by one dude's bullshit excuse for not picking up tampons. You know, it's just like, oh sorry, babe, I tried. But there's like a whole supply chain issue. Yeah, it's like economy stuff you wouldn't understand. Yeah, because look, this is actually a serious problem because without tampons, like what women dip into bowls of blue liquid. Yeah, I know

how women's bodies work. I've seen it in the ads. I'm that guy. By the way, did you catch how they tried to blame the problem partly on women, where they're like due to high demand. What does that mean? No? What is that YouTube high demand? Because isn't the demand always pretty much the same? What has changed? Like is there like some viral get your period challenge on TikTok? Right now? You to high demand here? And this absolutely sucks.

I'll tell you know how it sucks for women. You guys don't have to go through this, but women do. It sucks. I will tell you who is probably loving it right now though? Is that one forgotten tampon that's been sitting at the bottom of your bag for two years? Well? Well, well, Lesia, I knew you'd come crawling back. You spent two years throwing TJ Max receipts, chapstick and gum rappers are chapping

me the look who's desperately digging around for me? Now that's right, give up you approve, go, wait, come back, come back. I'm sorry, Please don't leave me. You have the pennies that don't mean to me? All right? Um? And finally tonight, um, I wanted to wish someone very special a happy birthday. Um. Actually, you guys can join me if you know my Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy birthday, President Donald Trump. It's t night,

it's Tue night. You wished to Happy birthday. You wish to Mappy by all of you. Yeah, you made his day and you wish him a long life. He's here forever. You guys did that. Today is Donald Trump's seventy six birthday. But it turns out he can't hear you. You went louder. Yeah, it is his birthday today. But it turns out the haters can't even give the poor man a day off because all week, all week long, the January six Committee has been writing his ask just because he tries to

overthrow the governments. And now and now they're even accusing him of fraud just because he asked his supporters for money to set up an election defense fund and then didn't set up an election defense fund. And yeah, that looks bad, but people don't realize that some of the

money went to really important causes. Investigators claim that President Trump raised over two d fifty million dollars from supporters to fight election fraud claims, but then funneled the money to himself and his allies, including his son's fiancee, Kimberly Gilfoyle, who has paid sixty thousand dollars for a two minute speech introducing Donald Trump Jr. At the January sixth rally.

God damn Trump took some of the money that he said he was going to use to fight election fraud and paid his son's fiance sixty thousand dollars for a two minute introduction speech, which is such a scam. I don't care what anyone says. That's an even bigger scam than tai Chi there. I'm sorry, who are you going to fight an army of slow butterflies? What is this? What is this? Who he fighting? I will say, though, this does prove that Donald Trump is a proud feminist. Ally, yeah,

that's right, I said. It's everyone's always complaining that women get paid less for more work. But Trump, no, he's doing everything to close the wage gap. He paid Kimberly gilfoil for two minutes of work. He paid Stormy Daniels for two minutes of work. Trump isn't breaking the law, He's breaking the glass ceiling. And in case you were wondering what a sixty dollar two minutes speech sounds like, well,

take a listen to some of the highlights. Well, good morning DC, and good morning God, God, loving freedom, loving, liberty loving patriots that will not that Dan steal. There's a thank you, Resident Trump who stands for law enforcement for the citizen. And let's so the President when he comes out. That's me love and God bless him. God, God, God bless our resident, and ladies and gentlemen, the best is yet to come. Okay, okay, okay, no, no, no,

now I understand, I understand it now. She wasn't paid to speak for two minutes. She was paid to stop speaking off the two minutes. That's what happened there. I can't keep going long. God, no, no no, here's your money, here's your money. That take the money, take the money, take the money, take it all, take it all, take it all. Even the wind was like, why, let's be honest, people, this was not a sixty dollar speech. I don't care which side you're on. No good speech ends with Don

Junior coming out. That's not a good speech. And you know, once again, as much as people want to be angry at Donald Trump, I feel like this is one of those instances where he is the black light on America's democracy because you see, he didn't invent this scam. Politician from every party use their campaign funds to enrich their friends. It's just that Trump does it so egregiously that everyone

notices it. All politicians like, oh, donatus for the fund, it's for Elizabeth, when no one looks at where the money goes. Yeah, it's it's just something you pay attention to because of how he doesn't. It's the same way all of us have eaten a grape or two at the grocery store. But Trump's the guy who walks into Whole Foods with a fucking knife. You know it's not you guys have that best raw chicken. So good, so good.

All right, that's it for the headlines. But before we go to a break, it's time to check in on the weather forecast without very own desilic everybody deasy, so good to see you again. So what's the what's the weather looking like, Trevor, we're inside. It doesn't matter, you know. It does matter is the fact that there's a tampon short it. I mean, I still have a source, but pretty soon my neighbor is going to start noticing that hers have gone missing. Let me tell you it is

bad times for women. I mean no tampons, And Trevor, I know what you're gonna say, what about pads? And while I am grateful for you as a man for trying to help solve this problem, it's very cute, but pads are off the table. Okay, They're huge and obsolete. They're like the iPhone three of feminine hygiene. It's not gonna happen. And I know what you're gonna say next,

DESI what about the Diva cup? That? Look? I know that they are supposed to be great for the environment, and I get it, but I just can't get on board. A tampon you take out you never have to see it again, But a Diva cup it's there every day like it remembers and it's see stuff you know anyway? Also, why do they all in a Diva cup? I do not feel like a diva when I'm cleaning up a murder scene in the work bathroom. Voice. If anything, they

should call it the dexter cup. Look, I think you and I both know that there is only one way to solve this problem, okay, and that's too free bleed women. Yes, yes, women everywhere need to just start free bleeding everywhere, and I mean everywhere. I'm talking the subway, your office chair, happy hour at Applebee's. Trust me, if we all do that, men will stop ignoring this problem and it will get sold in a week tops copes. Yeah, because let me tell you, if there is one thing that freaks men

out more than blood, it's women's blood. By the way, I've been talking for two minutes, do you on me? Sixty grand? Well we can talk about the weather. But thank you so much, Dandy, Like like everybody, I don't always because when we come back, you'll find out the gritsy origin story of Rudy Giuliani. You don't want to miss it. Hold welcome back to the day to Show.

One of the central figures and yesterday's January six hearing was Rudy Giuliani, the one man who didn't abandon President Trump's dreams of re election just because he had already lost the election. But how did Giuliani become the fearless? Ask kiss? So we know today? Well that's the subject of our latest daily show ography. What makes a great leader?

Is it courage, compassion, charisma or is it an integrity and confidence that just leaks out of their pores, a calming strength that drips from every orifice in the way. They give their blood, sweat, and other bodily fluids to make the world a better place. Since the election, Rudy Giuliani has been a national leader, spreading his patriotic message at political rally, landscaping company, parking lots, and arenas across this great nation. But how did he become the man

and or man like creature he is today? This is the daily show ography of Rudy Giuliani Oozing greatness. Rudolph William Louis Giuliani was born in nineteen forty four in East Flatbush, New York. His father was an alleged mob enforcer who did time at sing sing or armed robbery. He would tell me, never take any bales his money. Make sure you always pay for things. I mean. He wanted to make sure that I didn't make the same mistakes that he believed he had me. It was an

inspiring message from a father. Come up with your own original crimes, and he would to keep Rudy away from New York City's criminal element. The family moved to the suburbs. I can remember as a youngster that my father would sometimes threaten me was putting me in public school if my behavior didn't improve, and that was a very frightening thought. But I was a product of Catholic education, and it instilled in me from very early agents desire to be

a priest. That's right, Juliani almost became a man of the cloth instead of a man of sweaty handkerchiefs. Ultimately, he chose not to pursue the priesthood, deciding instead to marry his childhood sweetheart, who also happened to be his second cousin. And while today that may be seen as weird, back then it was seen as super gross. After graduating law school, Giuliani began his meteoric career, quickly rising to

the third highest position at President Reagan's Justice Department. He was the youngest person ever to hold the job, but he was already sporting the comb over of a man twice his age. Soon, Rudy was u S Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Rudy wasn't afraid to take on criminals or to give lots of press conferences

about how we took on criminals. Well, I think of five or six or seven years ago, nobody would believe it was possible to convict the head of the Sicilian mafia and have him sitting in the Metropolitan Correction Center. He loved the camera and the camera just wanted to be friends. But soon taking credit for arrest wasn't enough. He had to pretend to make the arrests himself. I bought Crack. I had a female d agent who's like theoretically my date, and we went up when we purchased

Crack in Washington Heights. Now that's what I call going undercover. Tell me you don't think he smoke crack before picking out that outfit with his I'm fighting career burning hotter than totally normal lust between second cousins, Rudy set his sights on elected office. He first ran for mayor of New York in nineteen eighty nine, but he didn't quite have the name recognition he needed to win. I would like to command Republican candidate Rudolph Geohan Rudy Wow. Tough

break for Rudy Geophiliuni. Four years later, Rudy tried again, and this time he had the perfect foil to rally his voters against New York's first black mayor. Denouncing David Dinkins is soft on crime, Giuliani led off duty police officers in a peaceful protest. Of minutes later, thousands of cops strolled through the barricades and ran on top of cars as they charged the stairs of City Hall. Okay,

it was a peaceful, ish protest. At least, hyping up a crowd to storm a government building would be good practice for him, So through sheer charisma and just a little hint of police intimidation, he finally became Mayor Geohani,

sorry Giuliani. Over the next decade, Giuliani took New York City from a gutter toilet of violence and sex and piss and turned it into a clean, safe utopia with ample magazine jobs that allowed young women to live in giant apartments with walk in closets and so many shoes.

Under Giuliani, the New York Police Department pioneered some of the most iconic anti crime tactics of the era, like stop and frisk, broken windows, policing sexual assault with a broom handle, and shooting an innocent guy so many times Bruce Springsteen wrote a song about it, and Giuliani didn't just go after criminals. He went after all poor people in the most hilarious ways, lying there like that. Don't you have any dignity lying on your butt ol day

collecting welfare? Yeah? I think he was still buying crack. Giuliani was bringing glamor back to New York City, And if he was making a few enemies, he was also making some good friends. You know, you're really beautiful. Oh, finally Rudy found a disguise that managed to fool someone dumber than a crack dealer. By now, Giuliani was ready to shake things up. He dumped his second wife at

a press conference without telling her first. In many ways, we've grown grown to live independent and separate lives, leaving her to respond with her own statement about how he was a cheating hoe. For several years, it was difficult to participate in Rudy's public life because of his relationship with one deaf member. Rudy moved out of the Mayor's mansion and crashed with some friends, a gay couple in their pet shitsu while running a losing Senate race against

Hillary Clinton. Honestly, his life was a lot simpler when he just banging his cousin. And then just as his term was coming to an end, Rudy Giuliani found himself right where he needed to be. New York is going to be here, and we're gonna rebuild, and we're going to be stronger than we were before. Nine eleven gave Rudy his big promotion to America's mayor, and that's when the party started. That is a gentleman, please welcome Mayor

of New York City, the Honorable Rudolph Giuliani. Yes, no one rose to greater prominence after nine eleven than Rudy Giuliani, except maybe Bin Laden. By two thousand and eight, Giuliani was finally confident enough to admit he was bald and to make a play for the highest office in the land. Rudy is in America's mayor. Now wants to be America's president anyway. He came in six and Iowan was out

of the race by February. By the time the election year came around, Giuliani had realized he'd need to be president. He could just be friends with one. It was a win win friendship. Trump gave Rudy the power he was longing for, and Rudy made Trump look attractive by comparison as Trump's bff. Rudy was really going places, even if he didn't always seem to know where he was, from the top to the bottom, from the middle to the side.

The next four years were a whirlwind of campaigning, lawyering, cheerleading, extorting, treasoning, and insurrectioning. By the time it was over, Giuliani lost his law license, several gallons of hair dye, a variety of electronic devices seized by the FBI, and most of all, his dignity. It's Rudy Giuliani and I'm on Gami in the pay for place. But Rudy is still using on, enjoying life to the fullest, maybe even too much. I don't think I've ever done an interview drunk. I have sometimes,

I mean I drink normally. I like Scotch. I drink Scotch. So you do not believe that yourble drinking problem. I know, I don't know, don't believe it. I know, I'm not I know. Prince Andrew is very questionable. Now. I never went out with him ever, never, never had a drink with him, never was with a woman or a young girl with him. One time I met him in my office and one time when we had the party, right, Bernie,

you were there. Yes, Whether he's standing toll through nine eleven or a blood alcohol level of nine eleven, Rudy Giuliani is a born leader, making his mark wherever he goes, one that no stain can ever take away. Will we come back? Candy Carter will be joining on the show, so don't go away. Dark is well the most prominent join in America. She's going to talk about the business information, misinformation and her best selling memoir Going There. Please welcome

Katie Couric. Katie Curry, Welcome to the show. I have two observations. I've never been so happy to have gone through menopause. And I need to get in touch. I need to get in touch with Kimberly Gilfoil Speaker Bureau. Right right, two minutes, Let's talk about the book Going There. You take us through so many aspects of being Katie Kurt. You took us through your eating disorders. You took us

through sexism in the news business and in media. You talk us through the difficulties of news and understanding what your role is in your response believes as a journalist, that's what I liked. You know, we live in a world where these days, people are afraid to be human. People are afraid to show their flaws and that their

mistakes exactly. You know, one of the most vulnerable moments in this book is when you're talking about your interview with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bette Ginsburg and you talk about how in the in the in an interview you sat down with her, you asked her about Colin Kaepernick, and she basically said, you said, what is her opinion?

And to paraphrase, she basically said, I think what he's doing is dumb, and it was irresponsible, were disgusting, and you now had to decide whether or not to put that in the interview after her team call and said she misunderstood the question. Talk me through a moment like that. Because you're a journalist, you are presenting to the public what has happened, but you also have this responsibility to present what has happened in the most accurate way. How

how do you find that balance? So I was interviewing her about a book she had written. So generally, when you're doing that and when you have the opportunity to actually talk to a Supreme Court Justice. You try to think of, is there any news of day that you can get their reaction to, So you know, you have to kind of slip those in because that's really not what you're there to talk to her about. So I was interested in hearing her views about Colin Kaepernick, So

I said, what do you think about it? And I think what people misunderstood who reported about this is I put in about two minutes of her response. You know, you have these ethical dilemmas, and people, you know, make judgments on a regular basis, they just don't talk about them transparently as I was willing to do. And so I remember feeling, gosh, what is my obligation. Should I use everything? Should I be careful? Because part of it

was confusing and I wasn't sure what she meant. So I made a decision, and I still wonder if I made the right decision in retrospect, I probably just should have put the entire statement out and let people come to the conclusion they wanted to. As it was her office had to issue an apology, so it's not like

I didn't run any of it. And I think I wrote about it because I still question if I did the right thing, And I think that's something that if journalists talk more openly about the decision making process and how they approach a subject, it would be more transparent and it would be more helpful. I think to the public, what do you think changed over the years in America?

Specifically because you you were part of a generation who was reporting on the news, you were making these decisions, and yet there wasn't an erosion of trust in the media and in the news because of these decisions. And yet now it seems like everyone doesn't believe that there is any good intention behind any journalist and what they're choosing to covert. What do you think changed, Well, I

think it's a proliferation of media outlets. I think it's more agenda driven news organizations that are focused and using commentary instead of reporting. Now, if you look at cable in prime time, it's it's commentary. It's not reporting the facts. It's not like watching the BBC or PBS News Hour. It's people expressing their opinions. And so I think that

has a road to trust in the media. Plus, anybody in their basement can throw things on social media and and and and then it can basically just spread like wildfire, and they say, what when it comes to disinformation, a lie goes around the world in a nanosecond, while the truth doesn't even have time to tie its shoes. When when you look at your journey, you've gone back into

journalism in a different way. For instance, on your podcast, you know you've been covering really in depth stories about the diminishing access to health care for many women around the country, obviously thanks to you know, abortion restrictions around the US as a whole. Why did you go back into it and what are you trying to reveal to Americans that they may not already know. So I just did a six part podcast that's being dropped in the next The second one is being dropped tomorrow on called

Abortion the Body Politic. I feel like there's so much information coming at us fast and furiously. I've always really appreciated the opportunity to connect the dots and let people understand sort of the arc of history and how we got where we are, and those are the things I'm just really passionate about. And with modern media, you know, you can say all you want about social media and the ills of social media, but it does allow you to like brands do direct to consumer access. So like

when January six happened, I called Mary Trump. I think I was the first, if not, you know, I was one of the first, if not the first interview she did. And it's gotten like well over three million views on

social media. So disintermediation, as they call it, allows me to just go directly to news consumers without work and for the man and and basically you know, being the boss of me, And if I wanted to talk to someone Trevor for half an hour or even forty five minutes an hour about gun violence and why nothing has been done to reduce gun violence in this country, I can do it. I'm sixty five years old, I'm the boss of me. I run my own show, and I can speak out about the need for sensible gun laws,

and I can be an activists. And everyone should be an activist before before they have a fourth grader killed in his or her class, or before they have a grandparent killed buying a quart of milk, right speak out before. Yeah. So I feel incredibly liberated doing what I'm doing. And I have a daily newsletter that you know, I can turn my lens on the issues that I think are important and really talk about them. So I'm having a ball. Basically, you can feel it in the book, you can see

it in your smile. Will thank you so much for joining mess on everything. Thank you cha. There's everything. There's the podcast of the book, all the Instagram live Katie's memoir going that comes out of your paperback ju and be sure to check out the podcast as well. We're gonna take a quick break. We will be right back off the book. Well, let's show it to night. But before we go, before we go, please come sort of

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