. >> billie earl johnson. ut as a bodyguard for billie earl, says billie and mr. john tried to get him to shoot nancy howard. >> this [bleep] man, he tried to get me to kill that woman. >> did he really? because he -- >> do you want the truth? >> yeah, i want the truth. >> you got that recorder on? >> yeah. i've got to have the truth. >> yeah, you're [bleep] right that son of a bitch tried to get me to kill that woman. >> reporter: now out of jail, charlie told us that sometimes john transferred money between bank accounts and sometimes john met charlie and billie and handed over packages of cash at a hamburger joint or gas station, and john was always pressing them to get the hit done. >> i mean, he was, hey, do you think you can get it done now? what's the chances? where are you all at? billie would tell him, you know, we're about an hour away. we'll call you when we get close. okay. well, call me when you got confirmation. i want this thing done. and i was like, damn, what did this lady do? >> reporter: as l

to the nearest subway stop and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats to everybody that gets on the subway. looks like he's auditioning to replace rock johnson >> carley: you hear laughter, crime is no laughing matter, is that the tone to be setting? >> absolutely not, actually she is handing out clubs. i was at a lee zeldin rally and a four year old was shot in her car inform buffalo, a man after being released because of the cashless bail system, after threatening his wife, shot her in front of her children in her car. this is going on in upstate all across, bill clinton signed the crime bill in 1994, we have drug pair fren ailia and methadone clinics and seeing across the state police being forced to keep drug dealers shooting up in front of children on the streets. you see lifelong democrats turning to lee zeldin for common sense, if we don't have a common sense on the hafrest moon, new york will turn into the exodus state. i'm a lifelong new yorker, my family business was founded by my grandmother, lee zeldin, joe penna, we need to change new york, take back the stay and save it as lee zeldin says or we will see a mass exodus from this

to the nearest subway stop and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats to everybody that gets on the subway. looks like he's auditioning to replace dwayne johnsonn all his movies. stu: zeldin responded "this tells you everything you need to know about how little they care about your life and safety". joe, does crime decide the new york race? >> absolutely. it's the number one issue going away and the number two issue and this is the problem for katie hochul is inflation. if it's crime and inflation, it's a referendum on the sitting governor and as for the former president, bill clinton, he's part of the richest 1%. he doesn't take the suckway and beside that -- subway and he has secret service anyway and can joke about people being pushed off of subway platforms or raped in central park. it's all a big joke but this sort of messaging will have a boom a rang effect if democrats think they can say something isn't happening that is very much happening. stu: thank you, joe. see you soon a. lee zeldin supporter was choked by a man at a hochul ragaini -lily. go through it -- hochul rally. tell me about it, ashley. >> it happened at the landmark stone

to the nearest subway stop and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats to everybody that gets on the subway. looks like he's auditioning to replace wayne johnsonl those movies. rachel: that was former president bill clinton, mocking he lee zeldin and frankly the new york voteers as he campaigns for new york governor he hochul in one of the slowest watched governor races in the country. >> democrats are pulling out all the stops with vice president harris and hillary clinton rallying for hochul last week and president biden set to join them later this eave a thing. >> will it help? joining us now, anchor and executive editor of the story and she'll be doing a lot of election coverage as well, martha maccallum. if the democrats are in new york defending a candidate there, what does that tell you about how they feel across the country in. >> that tells you a lot, obviously. they had to bring in the big guns over the weekend to try to save kathy hochul. one of the things that goes through my mind as i watch bill clinton, bill clinton used to be the best closer of all time in politics. he really helped to save president obama in his second election

nearest subway stop and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats till everybody gets on the subway, doesn't it? well he looks like he's auditioning to replace dwayne johnsonted billion and half- dollar middle-class tax cut this spring. expedited money to help new yorkers and now this is important with but are coming on. this is inflation. she is distributing $550 million to help low income consumers with their home heating bills as the winter comes. she did all governor could do. she suspended the gas tax for a while to help us at the pump. hand, she has announced the largest investment in child care subsidies in new york's history. she actually has had a very comprehensive plan to improve public safety. >> there was former president bill clinton taking some swipes at lee zeldin, the challenger to the incumbent, kathy hochul in new york state. in the meantime, top cnn heroes of 2022 will be announced, one of whom will be named hero of the year by you, or viewers. we will be reintroducing the top 10 as you vote for your favorite in the next five weeks. here is one of them, bobby wilson. >> we have turned five acres of land right here in the heart of the ci

subway stop and hands out billy clubs and baseball bats to everybody that gets on the subway, doesn't he? well, he -- [laughter] >> looks like he's auditioning to replace dwayne johnson those movies. alex: the latest quinnipiac shows governor kathy hochul has a 4-point lead over congressman lee zeldin and crime is the hot topic in the race. congressman lee zeldin has focused campaign around the surge in crime blaming hochul's policies for the lawlessness across the state. he's confident he can become the first republican governor in new york in decades. governor kathy hochul has been touting her record on taking illegal guns off the street and vow to go protect women's right which is are key points also for voters for the midterms. so president biden will attend the rally tonight in westchester county, new york with hochul and the gop chairman calling last-minute visit by the president act of desperation and sure sign that zeldin could win this race, arthel. arthel: we are keeping a close eye on that one, alexis mcadams reporting from new york city. thank you. >> the night of november 8th, 1994 when we saw the results come in and this guy thought he had won, i could

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