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Possible Third Interview Between Condit and Police

Aired July 07, 2001 - 13:00   ET

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DONNA KELLEY, CNN ANCHOR: We begin with the case of missing Washington intern Chandra Levy, who has not been seen or heard from for over two months now. CNN's Bob Franken joins us from Washington with the latest in the mystery. Bob, what can you tell us a little bit more about this third possible police interview with Congressman Condit?

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's becoming more and more probable. The police investigators have determined that Congressman Gary Condit, who of course has been so prominently mentioned here in his relationship with Chandra Levy, so thoroughly discussed, that he possibly has information that he still has not been asked about, has not contributed that might in fact, give them some idea of where Chandra Levy is.

Chandra Levy, of course, the 24-year-old former Washington intern, not an intern for Condit, but somebody who has been repeatedly discussed as possibly having a romantic relationship with the congressman, something that the congressman through his spokespeople have up to now denied. In any case, the police have interviewed Condit twice. By all accounts he has been cooperative although he did by several accounts refuse to answer certain questions about the relationship.

The police do say that while they have no plans at the moment, no specific plans, to ask for a third interview, that Congressman Condit may probably be asked to talk with them again.

KELLEY: Bob, the congressman's wife has also been interviewed.

FRANKEN: Carolyn Condit was interviewed. What happened was, the first time Condit talked to the police he did not mention the fact that his wife had been in town during that same period when Chandra Levy disappeared. So, police decided they wanted to talk with her. There was a contracted negotiation before, on July 4, they secreted of Modesto where the congressman did not appear in the Fourth of July parade.

In fact, they were on their way to Washington, where, in a suburb of Washington the next day Mrs. Condit spent about three hours being interviewed by FBI agents and more importantly the D.C. police investigators who are leading this. We have been told by sources that the time was spent with a moment by moment description of what she was doing when she was in Washington, when she was with her husband, when she was not and at those points where they were not in fact together they would go back and try and find out if the congressman could account for his time. That was what happened during that interview.

KELLEY: Bob, have they started looking at those other places, they were going to expand the search to some other places for Chandra Levy, have they started that yet?

FRANKEN: Oh, golly, they are all over the country.

KELLEY: But I mean the other part that they talked about with the landfills and some of those around D.C.?

FRANKEN: Actually they have not done the landfills. For those who might not be following this so closely, all two or three of them, the police have decided that they are going to take meaning exactly what they say, to landfills in the area where garbage is dumped.

They want to look. They realize that sounds ominous. They repeatedly say that it is not as ominous as is sounds. They have not concluded that Chandra Levy met foul play. They just want to expand all possibilities. They were not able to make those arrangements this week. Apparently it is not that easy to get these specially trained dogs. But they expect sometime next week they are going to actually begin doing that.

KELLEY: OK, Bob Franken, thanks very much for the information as usual.

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