With less than two weeks to go in the election, the Democratic Party is in a pick-me-up situation. The FBI is investigating a long-standing corruption case involving a well-known Democrat, and a Republican congressman is demanding the FBI hand over all the dirt they have on him. Meanwhile, liberal attorney general candidate Letitia James is running for governor in a close race against Republican Lee Zeldin. On today's show, Lou Dobbs talks with Michael Henry, who is running to become New York s next attorney general.
00:00:28.380The Marxist Dems in the deep state, according to news site Semaphore, are investigating Democrat Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey.
00:00:39.040It's unclear what exactly the U.S. attorney in New York City is investigating,
00:00:44.320but DOJ dropped corruption charges against the very same senator four years ago.
00:00:50.300And another long-standing, this one an even longer-standing investigation involving another well-known Democrat.
00:00:59.160What's going on here less than two weeks before the big election?
00:01:03.360This investigation has been underway for more than four years.
00:01:07.500That's right, I'm talking about Hunter Biden.
00:01:10.400The Marxist Dems have him and his dad hidden away as the days get short before Election Day.
00:01:18.160But top Republican Congressman James Comer is demanding that the FBI turn over any information they have accumulated on Biden's secretary at the time,
00:02:11.740He's running for attorney general against crazed leftist Letitia James, who's made a career of going after President Trump.
00:02:21.200Michael Henry means to restore the New York State Attorney General's office to law and order.
00:02:27.440And Michael, great to have you with us here on The Great America Show.
00:02:30.660You're in a tough, tight race with the incumbent Marxist Dem.
00:02:34.420How do you feel about your campaign and what you've got to do in these closing days?
00:02:40.660So, first, thank you for having me on the show.
00:02:43.460We know this is a tight race, both based on outside polling and internal numbers.
00:02:48.860Right now, we just have to make sure that we can, one, get our base out.
00:02:52.080And then, secondly, make sure we get those independent and like-minded Democrats that are, quite frankly, tired of the crime crisis, corruption crisis, and close to living crisis here.
00:03:01.580And what we've seen is we have a message that's transcended party affiliation.
00:03:05.480And we're literally just working right now to make sure we hit our marks in New York City, the auto boroughs, the suburbs, and get the job done.
00:03:12.800And we're very confident that we're going to win this race.
00:03:14.960And I also think Lee Zeldin is going to be the next governor of the state of New York.
00:03:18.520Well, you know, looking at the polling, Zeldin is close, you're close.
00:03:22.680And you're in a state that is overwhelmingly Democrat.
00:03:30.680And how is it that – give us your sense of the mood of the electorate, what people are thinking about, and how your agenda is responding.
00:03:45.120So the way we've been able to make traction – gain traction is we focus on crime, which people are living in fear, Lou.
00:03:53.260I mean, they're living in fear, especially in our major cities.
00:03:56.300Just in New York City alone, we've seen a 36% rise in major crimes, a 25-year high in subway homicides, a 41% rise in hate crimes.
00:04:05.460Nassau County, the neighboring county, has a 34% rise in major crimes.
00:04:08.960Rochester has a higher murder rate than the city of Chicago.
00:04:13.080Buffalo has a three-year increase in homicides.
00:04:16.440We have a fentanyl crisis throughout the state.
00:04:18.220So good law-abiding citizens, they're living in fear as criminals are walking around doing whatever they want, wherever they want, whenever they want.
00:04:26.000And I have an opponent who said she needs to see more data before she would revisit any changes to Castles Vale.
00:04:44.980They kind of felt all politicians can't be trusted.
00:04:47.620But Kathy Hochul has taken pay-to-play corruption and scandals to a whole new level.
00:04:52.840And this is an issue, especially this one case with these COVID testing kits where the state of New York paid double what California paid.
00:04:59.360After this family raised $300,000 for Kathy Hochul, they received the $637 million no-bid contract during a period when the Emergency Powers Act was actually extended by the governor.
00:05:14.800And one of their sons actually is working on the Hochul campaign.
00:05:30.440And the one other issue that's really helped us in ethnic communities like Asians, Latinos, and other ethnic communities has been the failing educational system.
00:05:38.700So we've been very focused on the issues that transcend party affiliation and the issues that everyone really wants to see addressed.
00:05:47.540And that's what we've been providing the voters is a real alternative.
00:05:52.080So I'm going to ask you a very serious question now because it's something I truly – I have covered politics for a very long time.
00:06:08.700But I have never seen a time in any state, ever in this country, in which the crime rate was rising, and I mean atrociously so, that there was no public outrage expressed.
00:06:24.460In part, that's because the national corporate media doesn't let there be a response from the American people.
00:06:31.300We are watching the education system being devastated.
00:06:34.800We're watching transgender issues take over K-12 education because of two teachers' unions.
00:06:43.680We are watching an assault by Marxist Dems who lead the Democrat Party.
00:06:49.620They are corrupt at every level of government from their community, through their county, through their state, to the federal government.
00:07:24.260That's political and financial corruption.
00:07:26.500And where in the world are the federal authorities if the state authorities won't do anything?
00:07:33.160How is it anybody would vote for a Marxist Dem running at any level, local, county, state, or federal?
00:07:41.880How is it that anybody wants to have the stench of this continue over our country?
00:07:49.400Well, you know, a lot of times Republicans are more comfortable fighting a Republican than they are a Democrat.
00:07:55.100I will tell you in this instance in my race, I can't tell you how many times people said to me, oh, my gosh, you're running against Letitia James?
00:08:06.180I don't care because I meet people every day who are fed up, who are heartbroken as to what's going on in this state, people who live in fear.
00:08:18.000I've been to multiple police officer funerals.
00:08:20.200I had a lieutenant on the FDMY who was six months away from retirement stabbed over 20 times to death in the same neighborhood where I live.
00:08:30.080And quite frankly, these elected officials are so stuck in their ideology with the defund the police and all this nonsense.
00:08:38.340And Letitia James has been one of the biggest viewers of anti-police rhetoric.
00:08:44.820She supports the de-escalation bill that makes it nearly impossible for a police officer to make an arrest.
00:08:49.400And I could tell you my father was a police officer, and early in his career he spent four weeks in the hospital staving a baby out of a burning building.
00:08:56.240The last thing you want is police officers tasked with making split second life for that decision to waste critical seconds overthinking because some grandstander is going to come for their badge and their pension.
00:09:06.780We have a recruitment problem right now in law enforcement.
00:09:09.900We have a retention problem right now with law enforcement.
00:09:12.200During the 2020 riots, when people were coming from all over, the riot in New York City, Mr. James didn't want to find it.
00:09:23.180Let's be very, very clear about whose riots those were, whose arson and street violence, murders, property damage.
00:09:31.980That was all inspired by Marxist Dems, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, and they were operating under orders from the Marxist Dems in this country.
00:09:45.340And just as soon as it approached election time, it ended.
00:09:50.420There were no arrests, all but no arrests.
00:09:55.020And I'm talking about from murder to arson to assault.
00:10:00.800Magically, none of those local prosecutors did a thing.
00:10:05.120That is what we're dealing with in this country.
00:10:08.240That kind of violent corruption, the likes of which we've never seen because it's driven by the politically corrupt Marxist Dems who drive the Democrat Party, right?
00:10:18.920Yeah, well, Lou, my ticket mate, who is our candidate for lieutenant governor, was in the NYPD during those riots.
00:10:28.100She had a kitchen cabinet thrown on her head and received spinal damage from that.
00:11:31.520It eventually goes to our rural areas.
00:11:33.200And people need to be held accountable.
00:11:35.260And under my watch, they are going to be held accountable.
00:11:37.940Well, I'm glad to hear you say that, Mike, because here's the deal.
00:11:43.140Albany is one of the most corrupt cities in the entire country.
00:11:47.560The state government of New York, let's talk straight, is one of the most corrupt state governments.
00:11:53.520And not perhaps the most, but one of the most.
00:11:56.260And they've been inspired for years by the Democrat Party to continue this.
00:12:05.020You've got a lot of people's livelihoods that will disappear if you rip out that system of corruption that has this state government in its hold.
00:12:18.420The federal government right now, we have all of the law enforcement agencies.
00:12:22.020I'm talking about the FBI and the intelligence agencies, the Department of Justice, are just absolutely toxic with political and, in some cases, economic corruption.
00:12:34.780This is going to take an inspired, energetic, and I mean courageous candidate, attorney general, to take that office and to really do something about it.
00:12:47.560And you've got to have the help of your entire party and all of the people of New York to win.
00:12:54.200You know how amazingly difficult this chore is.
00:13:03.660If I served for four to eight years, do the right thing, and never serve in elected office again, I could care less.
00:13:09.500This is really not something I – if you asked me two years ago if I would be the Republican nominee for New York State Attorney General,
00:13:15.620I probably would have laughed, but as I've met people and as I've seen what's going on, I want to go in for four to eight years, do what needs to be done,
00:13:25.460and if I move on with my life and never serve in elected office again, guess what?
00:13:29.500I was the best attorney general I could be.
00:13:31.740I did the best job I could do, and I don't have – I do not have higher aspirations than just cleaning up this mess.
00:13:38.480And there is a lot of work that could be done in Albany.
00:13:41.040There is a public integrity bureau at the attorney general's office.
00:13:43.800You could work jointly with the federal government.
00:13:46.940If there is a public integrity office within the attorney general's office, what in hell have they been doing?
00:13:53.380Well, you have to remember, Letitia James was the number one recipient from the money from the man at the center of a pay-to-play scandal involving our lieutenant governor who was just federally indicted, Brian Benjamin.
00:14:05.040As a matter of fact, when he was indicted, she didn't say anything.
00:14:07.720So we went through her disclosures and found she actually kept accepting money from the man when Brian Benjamin was returning it,
00:14:14.100and then once the man was federally indicted, she returned the money.
00:14:17.120We actually – the New York Post covered that story.
00:14:19.880We have this medical answering services, this Medicaid transportation company here in New York.
00:14:24.980The inspector general said that they overbilled $196 million in Medicaid reimbursement.
00:14:32.900They raised $100,000 for the New York State Democrat Party and Kathy Hochul, and also the owner of the company held a fundraiser – or his husband held a fundraiser during a blackout period, which is a clear violation of state finance law.
00:14:48.980And we've called on Letitia James to not only speak on investigating this, she took money from the same company, and she hasn't explained if she's kept the donations, if she returned the donations.
00:15:01.500And it really paints a bad image to the public that you take money from a company, and then you fail to speak up because they're issued a no-bid contract for a billion dollars.
00:15:11.860And this is the kind of stuff – she does not have the stomach to go after the people in her own party unless it's to make herself the next governor or unless it's to promote an agenda against Republicans.
00:15:23.380And she's clear she's not going to investigate corruption, and many times it's because she travels in the same circles as these people.
00:16:01.600And that is wrong, and that's what we are going to address.
00:16:05.560She's shown herself to be the most political attorney general in the nation, but she also has shown herself to be unfit to handle all these issues – crime, corruption, cost of living.
00:16:56.920That run for governor lasted about as long as our interview is going to last.
00:17:00.220And she had to come back to the attorney general's office because she doesn't want to leave public office, but she clearly was rejected by her own party for her run for governor.
00:17:10.260She wasn't gaining traction in the 41 days she ran, and now she's here.
00:17:13.860And we have been holding her accountable, and the people of this state are not receptive to her.
00:17:20.280It crosses every kind of party affiliation, ethnic line that people know that she was sold in 2018 as somebody that was going to take on the system.
00:17:30.600Look, she's a product of the – actually, not even the Democrat Party.
00:17:34.520When she first ran for city council, she couldn't even get the Democrat nomination.
00:17:38.700She ran on the third-party line of the Working Families Party.
00:17:42.520And she's enthusiastically accepted that party's line this cycle.
00:17:46.020And in their questionnaire, they say, you cannot revisit any changes to cashless bail.
00:17:50.660And on top of that, you can't support police or correction – or take support from police or correctional unions.
00:17:55.700So the one thing I have is, how could you be the chief law enforcement officer of the state of New York when you do not believe in law enforcement?
00:21:27.460I'm talking about what will you do within your authority to straighten out New York City because the current mayor has made a point of telling the people of New York to go to hell.
00:21:42.260The first one is you can work in conjunction with local district attorneys who are going to – who would need your resources, obviously, to prosecute matters.
00:21:50.160I'm not thinking that Alvin Bragg is going to do that, but Lee Zeldin has also promised to remove him from office day one.
00:21:55.860The second thing I can do is work in conjunction with federal authorities, you know, for things of, for example, you know, illegal firearm trafficking, gangs, things like – things of those nature – things of that nature.
00:22:06.580There are also bureaus at the attorney general's office where there are crimes that you do have jurisdiction over.
00:22:13.860And then lastly, I can introduce program bills to the state legislature, and I believe we are going to make significant gains in the state senate with Republicans.
00:22:23.220I can introduce program bills into the state legislature to make changes to laws or introduce new policies.
00:22:30.560But the main thing is being able to work in conjunction at the local level.
00:22:33.620And, you know, we really have to get this under control.
00:22:36.980The other thing that needs to be done is they need to remove – and this is something Lee Zeldin is going to do – remove the people from the parole boards that think it's a good idea to let cop killers, violent sex offenders, and violent criminals back out onto our streets.
00:22:50.480But the main thing is it's a three-step process.
00:22:53.000It's where do I have the – working with the local district attorneys, where do I have the jurisdiction as far as the bureaus at the office and working in conjunction with the federal government.
00:23:02.360And then lastly, the introduction of program bills to push into policies into place that I think could help get crime under control.
00:23:49.020If you look in Manhattan at the district attorney's office, they're not prosecuting the possession of an illegal firearm.
00:23:54.860In many instances, they're dismissing it or dropping the cases to – or dismissing or dropping the cases to misdemeanor charge because the weapon wasn't discharged.
00:24:06.300The public wants their police officers back.
00:24:08.580The public wants criminals behind bars.
00:24:10.660And we have to stand our ground on this because we are on the right side of this, and it's transcending party affiliation, racial lines, ethnic lines, religious lines.
00:24:20.780And everybody's fed up, and we just have to show spine and fight for these policies and stop letting them try to create these narratives that are just not true.
00:24:31.660We are doing this 100 percent wrong here in New York, and we're just a few good decisions away from turning it around.
00:24:37.100Just a few good decisions could turn this all around.
00:24:38.860The last thing Letitia James wants to do is remind the people of New York of just who she is and what she's done and what she will do.
00:24:49.780We always give our guests the last word.
00:24:52.080So your concluding thoughts as you run your race for the people of New York and for a much better future.
00:24:59.060The first thing is I wish everybody could go to my website, michaelhenry4ag.com.
00:25:04.720I also have a great ad we released that holds her accountable.
00:25:07.760That's on my Twitter page, so everybody could review that ad.
00:25:12.060Look, I'm running to be the attorney general.
00:25:20.900And everyone could see our ad that we launched last week.
00:25:23.300And, look, I'm running to be the attorney general for the people of the state of New York because I know under one-party control things are not going well.
00:25:33.840I know we have a cost-of-living crisis.
00:25:35.680But what I also know is this is providing our Republican Party a unique opportunity to build out because so many different communities are now coming to us because they realize that it's our side that's going to be able to get the job done for them.
00:25:48.740But the main thing I want to emphasize, this isn't a win for New York.
00:25:51.940When we defeat Letitia James, we are putting on notice all the attorney generals and district attorneys and secretary of states around the country that want to use their offices for political reasons and want to weaponize their offices against political opponents.
00:26:06.680Once we defeat the most political attorney general in this nation, all those district attorneys, attorney generals, secretary of states, they're going to know that their days are numbered and nobody's safe when they use the offices for the weaponization of politics.
00:26:20.660And that's one of the things we are going to do here in New York is we're going to shake up the country.
00:26:25.140We are going to defeat the most political attorney general in the country, and we're going to send a message throughout the country that the days of this kind of behavior are numbered.