[quiet music] ♪ - ladies and gentlemen, please welcome america's mayor, rudy giuliani! [crowd response] - hello, everyone. it seems to me... we don't wanna find out three weeks from now even more proof that this election was stolen, do we? crowd: no! - who hides evidence? criminals hide evidence! [cheers and applause] - if you're surprised by the decline and fall,

or really more crash and burn, of rudy giuliani, you haven't been paying attention. - this is a man who has a consistent willingness to play with fire when it's towards his benefit. - good to see you. thank you all for coming. the reason the morale of the police department of the city of new york is so low is one reason and one reason alone-- david dinkins! - who is rudy giuliani? he's the antichrist. he is the person who set us on a path of ruin. - you're all terrific. - he struck me as a pretty smart man who had some basic understandings of the law that were completely twisted and distorted in service of... the cult master. - rudy giuliani is... the greatest new yorker in the history of the city of new york. - rudy is a take-charge type of individual.

- rudy giuliani was the crusader for truth. - congratulate the police department... - there doesn't have to be a shared truth. there doesn't have to be shared facts. - there's not a thing in the world wrong with hating. and i'll be damn straight that i'm gonna hate him enough that we do something about him. - we have no idea if they really are ballots. let's have trial by combat! there is just america! [crowd cheering] what happened to it? stop that. no! quiet! quiet! - ♪ 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 people do when they have known true pain ♪ ♪ for his sins i don't know who to blame ♪ ♪ what choice was he given? ♪ in this world that we're livin' ♪ ♪ when i see you, i see you ♪ ♪ i see love i see love ♪ ♪ i see america ♪ i see love ♪ when i see you, i see you ♪ ♪ i see love i see love ♪ ♪ i see america [birds twittering] - ladies and gentlemen, how are ya? - good. - it got a little cooler. that's nice. thank you. thank you for clearing up a little. it's nice to be in binghamton. and andrew has been here quite a bit. and i know binghamton quite well from coming here many, many times when i was a law student. crime has to go down now!

democrats have ruined this state enough. give us a chance. [carousel music plays] - andrew giuliani, the son of the former new york city mayor rudy giuliani, wants to be the next governor of new york. - guys, how you doing? guys, thank you very much. - how do you feel, andrew? - thank you. thank you. polls will be closing across the state in the next five minutes. and we anticipate--yes. [crowd whooping] [whooping, horns tooting] ...of over 3,000 votes, andrew has increased his lead! all: whoo! - how are you? good to see you again. - good to see you. - how you doing? - everyone, give a warm new york cheer for andrew giuliani! - new york truly is at a crossroads, ladies and gentlemen. we know that. we all know the problems. and we know the solutions.

all: whoo! - and i wanna thank somebody who i love with all my heart, america's mayor rudy giuliani. [crowd cheering] - let's go! - rudy! - rudy, we love you! - rudy! rudy! - he's back! - that's good. - i think the january 6th committee is a committee made up mostly of proven liars. - all the time. - don't you care about our country? that flag right there means democracy! democracy is what it means! you fascist! go to hell! you traitor! - the protesters and those who have adulation, i think the thing that you realize is the person

that they're looking up to or protesting is just a man also. - andrew giuliani is the guy to vote for if you wanna see the kind of changes that donald trump brought about for the country, that i brought about for the city of new york, and that ronald reagan, who was my boss, brought about for the country... like it used to be. i remember, 'cause i was part of that. [jazzy music] - rudy was very clear that he was a throwback. the old ways of doing things were okay with him. and he was unapologetic about it, which is, of course, part of that whole style, is that this is the way it is, and this is the way it's supposed to be--that's rudy. ♪ - taxi! - so it's this sepia toned 1950s working-class neighborhood

where families were tight-knit-- these were ethnic families largely-- and to a large extent, kinda framed his vision of new york. - raised in a very tight-knit italian family in flatbush, who was linked to the mob. - robinson is the first of his race to be honored with admission to the shrine of the national game. - he was an only child, and he was a yankee fan in flatbush. - a murderous hitter. - you know, the time when the brooklyn dodgers were here. always said that he got beat up. i happen to think that you should get beat up if you're a yankee fan, you know, in brooklyn at that time. [somber music] ♪ - i learned very early in the game that the community that i represented was where rudy giuliani was born and raised. his parents were married in the church right on the corner of nostrand avenue at lincoln.

- like donald trump, rudy giuliani was a guy from not the wrong side of the track, but the wrong side of the river. they were both borough guys who always wanted to make it in manhattan. - but the allegation, as i recall it, was that his father was a mob knee breaker, and that he always kept that hidden. - your father was a boxer, an amateur boxer, wasn't he? - that's correct. - and he wanted you to be a boxer too. - well, he actually never admitted that he did. but, uh, but i think he would have been happier if i were a boxer than almost anything else, because i would have fulfilled his ambition. my father had very, very strong moral views about being honest and would give me long lectures about money and never making money the centerpiece of your life and you can be destroyed if you do. - his father was arrested for the armed robbery of a milkman.

he robbed the milkman, made him pull down his pants, and then left. he got caught and he did time, and he was broke. i mean, you're talking about a guy, who used to scream about parole, right? when he was the mayor, mr. anticrime mayor, he would scream about parole. - i have supported for a long time, eight or nine years now, the bill that has passed the senate on two occasions that would do away with parole and eliminate parole in all federal cases. - he's driven by a desire to, in part, cover up some of the things about the criminal past in his own family. i think, in some level, he's slightly ashamed of what he comes from. - that kinda chip on his shoulder... which was, you know, latently there, you know, fully expressed itself. - you know, i used to get into a lot of trouble - yeah? - when i was a kid in grammar school and in high school. lucky, i had brothers and nuns who kinda straightened me out. [birds twittering] - catholicism was enormously important for rudy.

they call brooklyn the borough of churches, right? i mean, there's catholic churches everywhere. it was very important in kind of framing his... kind of his moral vision. his moral vision could be very-- and i say this in non-racial terms-- black and white, right? i mean, he saw darkness and he saw light. and that reflected, i think, a certain risk of oversimplifying a certain catholic vision. ♪ - being religious doesn't mean you kowtow to every teaching of the church, but it was part of it, and it was the way he was brought up and was critical to his moral compass. - faith and patriotism are pretty much one and the same. this is an identity that was forged in the 1950s.

a lot of sociologists have written about it. it was seen as an anchor for social life, family life, political life-- all contingents. and rudy was very much cut from that cloth and made no bones about it. - "i'm gonna make white people feel safe here." they believe in an autocratic form of leadership where one white man is the boss. - i wanna introduce rudy giuliani, and maybe i'll ask rudy to say a few words. - we'll let you set the priorities so we can have a very, very close working relationship. - there's no appeasing people like rudy. there's no appeasing people like trump. there are people whose core value is white supremacy. [edgy, percussive music] want a smarter way to mop? introducing the new swiffer powermop. an all-in-one cleaning tool with a 360-degree swivel head that goes places a regular mop just can't.

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- senator kennedy has been shot. [shouting, gunfire] - early in 1968, the north vietnamese launched the tet offensive. major cities in the south were attacked. - when vietnam came around, he took whatever deferment he could grab. it's not like he stepped up for his country and felt he had to follow the flag. - liftoff! we have a liftoff. - it was the transformation period for my generation. when i finished law school in 1968, i had changed. i changed because america was going through a transformation to create inclusion, equality, freedom, justice for all. but i don't think rudy changed very much during those three years. and when i look back on it, that was a missed opportunity. - this guy is somebody who's an opportunist

and who's always been very able and willing to adjust to whatever's coming, you know, politically, and to sign on what's next. - he was an independent until reagan got elected, brought him down to washington, right? all of a sudden, rudy's a republican. if you look around, i think his mother at one point said, "he's not really a republican. he just wanted those jobs." [laughs] so... - we can continue this in a-- - rudy was always expedient. and rudy understood politics. rudy was appointed by reagan. he was not above understanding what one needed to do to serve that master, that is a political master. - they should be followed. they must be followed. - he knew how to play from a pretty early time a pretty good game of political hardball. - we've lost any ability to control

the people that come into the united states. - that's the reagan administration's opinion on immigration policy, as expressed by associate attorney general rudolph giuliani. he says reagan's policy of detention and interdiction of haitian refugees has been a deterrent to new arrivals. - he saw black people pretty much as offenders. his attitude toward the haitians, what he did to them, people remember. the whole idea of corralling people, putting 'em in the krome detention center down in florida everglades. - one of those persons that is in detention is not in jail, because any one of them can easily leave and go back to haiti. - i think he is possessed with the anger of the exile. i think his family ran away from black people, from brooklyn. - he looks out the window of his manhattan office, he can see across the river to brooklyn where he was born. when he was six, the family moved to the suburbs in long island. - east flatbush was a working-class, middle-class jewish, irish, italian neighborhood that, within a very fast amount of time,

like, maybe 15 years, had transitioned to becoming a working-class, lower-middle-class, mainly west indian, also haitian, neighborhood. - i reminded him. i said, "the community that i represent is the community that your forbearers came and lived in." and i said, "we've purchased "their old houses that they didn't take care of. "and we have redone those houses, "and we live in them right now. "and the only thing that have changed in that neighborhood is the accent and the color of the people." - the institutions stay, but the people change. just different kinds of people are gonna be going there. and that's gonna be a haitian immigrant. it's not gonna necessarily be, you know, an italian kid from brooklyn. - so there's like this disconnect. he's like a new york city guy who never goes back to the place where he started. - immigration has been the engine that drives america. and immigration is driven by people's aspiration

to growth and development and economic opportunity. - stop 'em at the border, and arrest the people that are here illegally. - we have some bad hombres here, and we're gonna get 'em out. - next tonight, we have a profile. our subject is rudolph giuliani, united states attorney for the southern district of new york. - in order to get this job, giuliani took a demotion. he had spent two years at the justice department in washington, overseeing all the u.s. attorneys in the country. now, he's one of them. giuliani decided to sacrifice the policymaking power for a more hands-on position. - it's one of the most important federal prosecutors' offices in the united states. - a good number of that, 73. - if you're intent on kinda making your bones as a prosecutor and setting out on a political road from there, there are very few places you could go that would be as high profile as the southern district. - when he was a prosecutor, he was smart,

he was tough, he was creative. - you have tied up all of my assets. therefore, i can't afford an attorney-- 'cause i think that's a real phony issue. - when rudy giuliani started as u.s. attorney, i actually had some admiration for him. yes, he was republican, and we didn't agree on everything, but he appeared to be a reformer. he claimed some of that historic mantle of la guardia. - this is a fight against a cruel, vicious, greedy political machine. - he claimed the sort of what we call in new york city a fusion mantle, the notion of sort of more progressive and reform-minded people working together with the people in the mainstream political process for change. - i saw in him, you know, a guy of integrity and credibility and, you know, resoluteness about fighting crime. and we would travel around and, you know, he wouldn't even let the pizzeria owner buy him a slice of pizza and a can of diet coke

because he didn't wanna be compromised. - this is among one of the most anti-democratic things i've ever seen or encountered. - is rudy giuliani, the president's personal lawyer, tied to a russian effort to influence the u.s. election? - mayor giuliani, can you please explain the nature-- - i did not know he was a russian agent. [dramatic musical sting] tv: try tide power pods with 85% more tide in every pod. who needs that much more tide? (crashing sounds) everyone's gonna need more tide. it's a mess out there. that's why there's 85% more tide in every power pod. -see? -baby: ah. ♪ i have type 2 diabetes, but i manage it well. ♪ ♪ jardiance ♪ ♪ it's a little pill with a big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance, ♪ ♪ at each day's staaart. ♪ ♪ as time went on it was easy to seee. ♪

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when two enormous kind of epochal criminal situations were coming to a head. one was insider trading. - people like robert freeman, a partner at goldman sachs. - and the other was organized crime. so it was a juicy moment for a prosecutor. - i first became aware of rudy as this driven, coal-eyed u.s. prosecutor who radiated a moral fervor. he was a very intense character. - if you violate the law, whether it's insider trading or tax evasion or fraud or bribery, a so-called white-collar crime, the overwhelming general rule is that you go to prison. - kind of a crusader knight, which was clearly also kinda how he saw himself. - as the chief federal prosecutor in his area, giuliani comes across like the hollywood stereotype

of the tough, dedicated crime buster. - all of these areas of crime are dangerous and destructive of our society. - this epic sense of himself-- that's what made him such a relentless prosecutor. it's also what made him so cruel. he knew that he was right. he felt that he was the scourge of god. - this fall, in federal court, giuliani will personally prosecute perhaps the biggest case of his entire career, the so-called mafia commission case. - the alleged heads of the new york five crime families have been arrested in a crackdown. and u.s. attorney rudolph giuliani says that the mafia could be destroyed if the pressure is kept on 'em. - his targets include names like paul castellano. - anthony "fat tony" salerno, the 76-year-old boss of the genovese mafia family, now serving 100-year sentence. - one of the things that these indictments demonstrate

is that the upper echelon of the mob is no longer invincible. - he was a perfect match for new york city. he was a perfect match for a tabloid culture. he was a perfect match for a crime-reporting culture. and he was brash and he was, you know, he was a self-promoter. - great day for law enforcement, but this is a bad day, probably the worst, for the mafia. the indictment alleges numerous specific incidences of bribery, extortion, fraud, tax fraud, obstruction of justice, and perjury. - clearly, he impacted the mob in new york more than anyone else had, and was able to take out mob bosses who had been sitting there in place for a generation. - when people say there is no mafia and these organizations don't exist, i mean, i know from my history that there is such a thing. and i know what it does and what it can do. - there have been 80 death threats against mayor giuliani so far this year. - it is not unusual to have the people that you are investigating and prosecuting threatening to kill you.

it's an emotional reaction from people at the time that they're being pursued. - rudy giuliani was always a calculating, intentional demagogue. the way you do politics is find an enemy, beat up on them, play on people's fears and prejudices. he needs an enemy. ♪ - he was gonna be the sheriff of wall street. he was gonna clean it up. there was guy he walked out of the office. he always managed to let the press know. he would very much exploit press coverage of walking an accused. - wall street also found itself a giuliani target in an insider trading scandal. - so if you think about the 1980s, when suddenly these guys like ivan boesky and michael milken were becoming insanely wealthy, they were new villains. - certain months aren't always the best, but at the end of the year, it turns out that that's really what counts.

- they were the "greed is good" people, and rudy went after them too. - three persons were arrested and charged with illegal profits of millions and millions of dollars. - among those arrested, nine stockbrokers all in their 20s and 30s, eight of them from one firm. - that was fantastic. and for new yorkers, it was a spectacle. and rudy, in his ruthless way, would make these guys do a perp walk. that is, instead of doing what was considered the correct thing when you have dignified gentleman in three-piece suits, which is you ask them to turn themselves in at the precinct house-- no, rudy would send in the fbi. he would have alerted tv news. and these guys, who worked at big investment banks, would be marched out in front of the tv cameras to the edification of all new yorkers and, of course, the utter humiliation of themselves and their family and loved ones. - the problem with that thinking is it's not the perpetrator.

it is somebody accused of the crime. there is a presumption of innocence. - when i think of rudy giuliani and i think of theater, i think of those perp walks. - as to the defendant, stanley friedman, the indictment charges his participation in three bribery schemes as part of the racketeering enterprise. this verdict is a very significant victory for the honest and decent citizens of new york city who have had to labor under the yoke of people like stanley friedman for too darn long. - and, you know, there's something sort of horrifying about that, at least from a professional ethics perspective, that we really don't think of ourselves as centerstage. - enormous, vaulting ambition. and that set off some alarm somewhere in the back of your head. this is very bright guy. this is a very ambitious guy. and if you get in his way, he'll crush you. - the charges are quite extensive, what's in the indictment and what's on the public record. but if there are some additional restraints on what we say, you should understand.

- quite a few of rudy's most spectacular wins were overturned on appeal. and that sometimes gets left out of the record 'cause rudy would always brag, you know, "i won every case, every big case, et cetera." well, no, a lot of them got overturned and the justice system pushed back. and so that's the danger of that kind of absolute self-certainty. - the indictment should speak for itself. there's no need for mr. giuliani or any other prosecutor to embellish. - he wasn't getting his picture in the "new york post" as often as he could without the intent of moving beyond the u.s. attorney's office. - but giuliani says he has no game plan, no specific job in mind after this one. - rudy giuliani, i mean, was never thought of as a softy. he was the guy who took down the mob. but there was a change... - thank you, rudy giuliani. - thank you very much. - and he became more of an avenging figure than he had been before. - rudolph giuliani, thank you for being with us. - thank you.

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- to believe that they could take america and make it great again, now those are buzz words: make america great again, meaning white folks gon' be back in charge and on top. - make america great again. ronald reagan used, seldom, "let's make america great." close but not the same. but ronald reagan was good. he said, "let's make--" but he didn't use it--or he used it a little bit. we seriously used it, right? crowd: yeah! - maga! - i'm a person who feels very strongly about things like integrity in government, doing something about the drug problem. - rudolph giuliani is now in his second day of private practice at the upscale law firm of white & chase. giuliani watchers agree his time in private practice is a holding action until he makes a bid for mayor. - rudy giuliani brought this whole idea, this shtick, about going after the mafia.

he thought, "i could use the same method, "the same tactics, used in rounding up the mob-- i could use the same tactics in rounding up black people." - street crime is growing, driven by new york's soaring crack problem. half of the new yorkers surveyed in a recent poll said they were victims of some sort of crime in the last year. [punchy music] ♪ - by 1989, '90, it was a rough place. the '80s boom had kinda come to an end. the kinda horsemen of the apocalypse were running. you had crack, aids, homicide. - we had just come through the trauma of the fiscal crisis of the '70s. and the city frankly just reached a low point. there was never a time where the streets were more dirty and dangerous than in the late '80s into the '90s.

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he came out of the harlem black political base. - good morning. how are you? aww, bless your heart. - she's a plant! - thank you. - just a joke. - he cared about people. and as he would always say, the gorgeous mosaic of people, reaching out to all communities. - how are you? - in 1989, some friends and i did what a lot of young people did, was we just volunteered. we registered a few hundred voters and told everybody why they had to vote. that's how fundamental it was. - my favorite group was a tribe called quest. mr. dinkins, would you please be my mayor? - ♪ mr. dinkins, would you please be my mayor? ♪ - like, i lived that, right? i mean, we loved david dinkins because david dinkins was us. he thought of the world in a different way. instead of being a new york that was about tribal warfare, it would be a new york that was about communities and accountability. - have we scraped and struggled to survive nine years

of reactionary republican government in washington just to hand over our city to the very same voices? all: no! - this is in the reagan-bush years. so the things that are coming out of washington are seen as quite detrimental to the interests of cities in general, new york in particular. black new york, for certain, we weren't even part of the discussion. this was a community's effort to step back on the stage, claim some power, move our neighborhoods forward. - you gave me your votes, and even more, in a tough time, you gave me your trust. you voted your hopes and not your fears. - ed koch's 12-year run as the combative mayor of new york city is over. he lost his primary battle to manhattan borough president david dinkins. - the democratic nomination went to david dinkins, who could become new york city's first black mayor. - this was something that a lot of people of color in new york saw as finally getting a place at the table.

- we are in heaven now. - we are making history. - former federal prosecutor rudolph giuliani, who won the gop primary, could be a formidable opponent. - on the day i become mayor, the old political system that is dragging this city down is out! all: whoo! - i think rudy was surprised. he had hoped, i think, to run against ed koch, who was, as they say, third term, there'd been a lot of corruption. all of a sudden, david dinkins comes along. dinkins knew city government... - the real enemy is poverty and crime. - and knew how to talk about policy, about homelessness, about child welfare, about housing... - you see now how we're bringing new york together. all: yeah! - things that rudy really had not paid any attention to. - rudy! rudy! rudy-- - you take a dialogue that's supposed to be, in rudy's mind, about corruption, and all of a sudden, he's having to talk about foster care and things like this.

- it was all nonsense. - when i would come back to the office after a day of campaigning, people would ask me, "which one was it today? was it the good rudy or was it the bad rudy?" - it will not be long before the contenders take those gloves off and go for the knockout punch. - roger ailes was brought in at the middle of the campaign when we were floundering. we had no messaging. we weren't doing much tv advertising, if any. [percussive music] - new york city 1989... all this going on. david dinkins said, quote... to rudy giuliani, it's clear. - roger ailes started in the nixon campaign. he consulted with reagan. he consulted with h. w. bush. he was probably the foremost republican media consultant.

- a big manipulator. - roger ailes. - my opponent has taken up the tactics of that maestro of mud. roger ailes. ailes seeks to gain votes by turning group against group. - what's negative is something that isn't true or isn't fair. everything we've said about david dinkins came right out of the newspapers and right out of your television reports and is fair and true. - at first, i think there was a horror among the people who were in the campaign that, "we're trying to run as a liberal fusion candidate. "why would you bring in the most notorious republican political consultant?" - democrats, as you recall, have pussyfooted around this issue for a long time. - 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. - mr. giuliani sounds more and more like joe mccarthy.

he ought to be ashamed. he has violated the tenets of office many times. - i don't refer to that as a violation of the law, david. you filed a false financial order form. - let me say mr. giuliani is behaving like the desperate fellow that he is. - we were initially lost as to how to campaign against him and just were sort of dangling in the wind for quite a while. and we never did figure out how to run against david dinkins. - it was a historic day for new york and a triumphant moment for the biggest black population of any american city. - ours is a new coalition of conscience and purpose, one that has room for everyone and excludes no one. - but giuliani, who modeled a sometimes bitterly personal campaign, called for unification. - and now, in the highest tradition of our democracy, we will work together with all our might to build a great city here in new york!

- i give rudy a lot of praise that he came out and started talking about, you know, "we have a new mayor, and we need to get behind him and support him." - i've just spoken to mayor-elect david dinkins. all: no! - no! no! no! no! no. - and people started shouting, "no, no, no." and, "it was a fraud" and all of the stuff you hear today about trump. - quiet! quiet! - and rudy told them to quiet down. - he'll be the first--listen. [crowd shouting] shh. he is the first african american to hold the office of mayor of the city of new york, and that is a historic achievement for which we all applaud. - i think he realized this was the beginning of the campaign in four years. he had to start that campaign with this message of conciliation, of bringing people together, and he wisely did that.

- thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you very, very much. - it was very clear shortly after the race that he was not going away, that he was gonna run from the right, and that he was looking for a rematch with david dinkins. - it's gonna take a while for people to accept the fact that we have a black mayor. - i'd prefer white, but i would not have any prejudice against black. - we're not looking for color. we're looking for a man that can run this city. all: david! david! david! - david dinkins was a good man. and i think that he might have been too good of a man for the kind of new york that it was at the time... - days of violence after a reputed drug dealer was killed by a police officer. - because the nypd decided to go to war. - rudy, for all the nice words, very quickly seems to have made the decision to embrace the sort of racism that a lot of his party believed in. - the reason the morale of the police department of the city of new york is so low is one reason

and one reason alone-- david dinkins! - rudy giuliani, to me, is and was a thug. - rudy giuliani is consistently the same man that he's been, the same guy that he was when he took down the mob, when he changed new york from the rotting apple to the safest city in the world, now representing president trump and is a top surrogate for the giuliani for governor campaign. - they're pathetic. - they are the same people they were in the 1980s. - america! - the strategies, the message, the divisiveness, the racism-- they never want it to change. they wanted to perfect it. they wanted to weaponize it. they succeeded in some ways, and yet, in shakespearean fashion,

the success has been very short-lived. [dramatic string music] ♪ - faith and patriotism are pretty much one in the same. and rudy was very much cut from that cloth and made no bones about it. - but when he was a prosecutor he was smart, he was tough, he was creative. - he was a perfect match for new york city. 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.