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My guest tonight, a best-selling author and the former mayor of our own New York City.

Please welcome Rudolph Giuliani.

Sir, come on out.

Could you see you?

I'm very good, thank you.

You're looking great.

So this is it.

It's settled.

It's Bush v. Carrie.

Are the juices starting to flow now?

Are you getting into campaign mode?

Yes, absolutely. What do you think your role will be? Do you think you'll be on the stump? What is the stump? I'm not even sure I know. I hope that. That sounds like it hurts or something. It is. It's a small log that politicians are the last one to jump off. I think I'll be campaigning.

I think I'll be campaigning for the president.

Sure, I've done it already. Oh, you've been to some states? A number of places. I was in Iowa, New Hampshire. When I went to Iowa, it was... Well, you're doing great because he's sweeping the primaries. We did very well in Iowa. Very well. We did very well in Iowa. We did very well in New Hampshire. We haven't lost a primary yet. Do you expect this to be, you know, people keep talking about this is going to be a rough

one.

There's going to be a rough one.

Both sides are going to start snipping each other.

Is this one going to be a wild one? Sure, they already started. I mean, it's been months and months of the whole Democratic primary was who can bash the president the most.

I mean, it was sort of like the focus of it.

So I think it's going to be think it's going to be pretty tough, yeah. Right. You think when it, because it's when it down to one guy, it always seems like the candidate tries to avoid besmirching himself with any attacks. He has to send out the other folks. If they say to you, Mr. Giuliani, I'm afraid we're going to have to send you out to knock him down a peg.

It's one of those kind, nice, gentle people. I never, you know, get involved in stuff like that. You're a sweetheart. It's lovely. I'm so young. I have to ask you this. Now, there are rumors that you would actually make for a powerful running mate with the president right now in place of the fellow who's there now,

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