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<p>A defiant Gary Condit says he would never admit to the news media that he had a sexual affair with Chandra Levy. In an interview in the upcoming issue of Esquire, Condit says, "They want me to say that I did her. Not gonna do it. Not gonna do it." As for his TV interview with Connie Chung, now with CNN but then with ABC News, Condit says, "She wasn't gettin' anything out of me. She wasn't going to break me, no way." Of Chung's performance, he says, "If anyone bothers to watch the tape, they'll see where she went into a daze, she just lost it."</p>

Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle has sold CROWN PUBLISHERS a memoir of the 107th Congress, a project that may say as much about his presidential ambitions as about how he became the Democrats' most powerful voice of opposition to President Bush. NYT reported Monday: The book, "scheduled for release in late 2003, is to be Daschle's account of two turbulent years in politics that began with the contested presidential election of 2000 and the Florida recount," and follows through the switch of control that "made Daschle the most powerful Democrat in Washington and one with a story to tell." The...

McCainiac was a guest on Imus this morning at about 7:30 EDT. Imus was doing his usual sucking up, but did get around to asking one of Bernard's questions (which are usually the best ones). Paraphrasing a bit... Imus: Senator, you've heard about Majority Leader Daschle slipping that ammendment into the Defense Spending bill to exempt SD from enviromental lawsuits, so they can clean up the forests to prevent fires. What's your thoughts on that. McCainiac: Hmmm, haawwww, well Iman, you know a lot of that goes on and that there's really not that much wrong with it. He did...