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  • -You were telling me backstage.

  • You actually did have a phone call with Donald Trump.

  • -I did.

  • After he got elected and before he took office,

  • I wanted to be -- he wanted me to know he wanted a call,

  • so I called him.

  • He was the Pres-elect and I don't have an ego, so okay.

  • And he asked me what he should do and I said,

  • "Well, you don't know anything

  • about a lot of parts of government.

  • You've never been in government before.

  • What you need to do is to get some people

  • that have experience, try to find a bunch of people

  • who are smarter than you,"

  • at which point he alleged that there weren't any.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • And then he gave me his private cellphone number,

  • which I didn't bother to write down.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • [ Cheers and applause ] -Oh, my God.

  • Have you talked to him since? -No.

  • -You haven't talked to him? -I have not talked to him since.

  • -Last time you were here, you were --

  • -But I mention him in my commercials.

  • [ Laughter ] -Yeah, I heard that. I saw that.

  • When you were last on our show, I think you were still mayor,

  • and everyone here asked you, begged you to run for President,

  • And you said no.

  • Why are you deciding to run now? Why now?

  • -Because I took a look and I thought the people

  • who are running didn't have ideas that were practical.

  • We couldn't afford them, and Congress wouldn't pass them,

  • and I didn't think they could beat Donald Trump,

  • and I think the most important thing is to change

  • who's living in the White House,

  • because as I said back in Philadelphia in 2016,

  • "Not the right guy for the job."

  • -Yeah. [ Cheers and applause ]

  • I think your strategy for your campaign

  • is very, very different.

  • We haven't seen anything like this.

  • You're not focusing on, like, New Hampshire and Iowa and --

  • -Well, I entered the race too late to really compete

  • in the early four states,

  • and you have to build a team and there are

  • only a certain number of people you can hire that would know

  • who to talk to and where to go and where to have dinner

  • and what to say and the local knowledge.

  • So I just really didn't have the chance to enter

  • those four early states,

  • but I've spent my time since then going around the country

  • for all the states who have their elections in March,

  • and so far I've been to 24 states and 56 cities

  • in four or five weeks. -Wow.

  • -And tonight I'm going to Houston.

  • Tomorrow, Washington. -Really?

  • -Then California and Arizona and Colorado

  • and that's before the weekend.

  • -Wow. It's a --

  • [ Cheers and applause ]

  • It's a big job.

  • You are self-funded. -Yes.

  • For me to ask other people for money is ridiculous.

  • [ Laughter ]

  • I mean, let's get serious here.

  • Also, I didn't take any money

  • when I was running for mayor three times.

  • I want people to understand that my integrity is everything.

  • You cannot buy me, and people say,

  • "Well, if everybody just gives $1,"

  • but it just sets the right -- I think it sets the right tone

  • to say I'm not taking anything from anybody, and unfortunately,

  • the Democratic Party has rules you can't be in the debates

  • unless you have 200,000 or 2 million, whatever it is, donors,

  • and I only have one donor -- me.

  • [ Laughter ] -Yeah.

  • -If they were to change the rules, I'd love to debate.

  • -Yeah. You would like to debate?

  • -Sure, why not?

  • It's a good chance to show the public

  • that you can take the grief as well as give it out,

  • and I think I have good answers to the kind of questions

  • that reporters would ask you, and some cute remarks for those

  • that come from the other candidates,

  • where they don't care at all.

  • -That's basically what the debates are, yeah.

-You were telling me backstage.

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