"America's Mayor" In Critical Condition
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4.3 • 3.7K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
81-year-old, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani has been hospitalized in critical, but stable condition. His spokesperson says he is fighting like he has fought every other challenge in his life. Giuliani sounded hoarse and was coughing on his show on X this past Friday, but it’s unclear what specifically sent him to the hospital on Sunday. President Trump and former mayor Eric Adams both released statements on Giuliani’s condition, Trump taking the opportunity to discuss the 2020 election results.
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| 0:36.4 | Hey there, folks. It is Monday, May 4th. |
| 0:40.8 | And America's mayor is in a Florida hospital and in critical condition this morning. |
| 0:47.3 | With that, we're welcome you to this episode of Amy and TJ getting up to this news. |
| 0:51.0 | Roves, a lot of people might have missed overnight. |
| 0:52.6 | But Rudy Giuliani, |
| 0:57.8 | apparently he's in pretty bad shape in the hospital. We don't exactly know why. We don't exactly know why. There's no official word on what sent him to the hospital. We only have |
| 1:02.6 | word that he is in critical but stable condition. And if you look at the headlines and you start |
| 1:07.7 | to see the reaction from folks who were already putting out statements, |
| 1:11.5 | it almost appears as though we're witnessing someone dying. I mean, that is the tone that you're |
| 1:17.2 | hearing from folks. It's almost like people that are printing his obituary already just because, |
| 1:22.1 | and I shouldn't say just because. I mean, he is in the hospital, possibly fighting for his life |
| 1:27.2 | right now, but this seems to be fairly significant and scary. Look, this is in the hospital, possibly fighting for his life right now, |
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