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Condit Agrees to Allow Police Search of His Apartment

Aired July 10, 2001 - 07:01   ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: All that and more, but first, Congressman Gary Condit tells Washington, D.C. police they can search his apartment for evidence. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken has the latest on the case of the congressman and the missing intern.

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BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Law enforcement sources tell CNN they will accept an offer from Congressman Gary Condit and his attorney to let police search his Washington apartment.

ABBE LOWELL, CONDIT'S ATTORNEY: The congressman will provide whatever additional information or material he can to the police. This includes access to his apartment, telephone or cell phone records, a request that his entire staff make themselves available and whatever else I can arrange with the police.

FRANKEN: In a flurry of activity that followed what police sources say is Condit's admission that he did have a romantic relationship with Chandra Levy, Chandra's family has demanded that the California congressman submit to a lie detector test.

SUSAN LEVY, CHANDRA LEVY'S MOTHER: Mr. Condit has not been very truthful to me until now and I think that there is things that are unknown and the truth has to come out.

LOWELL: I know there's a great public appeal to lie detectors, but I know from our practice that they leave a lot to be desired. If the police call me and tell me that at some point they think that, no matter how suspect it might be can be helpful, I will discuss it with them. But I will discuss it with them and not with you.

FRANKEN: Meanwhile the Levy's lawyer, Billy Martin, was asked on "LARRY KING LIVE" about the possibility that the family might want to meet again with Condit and talk openly and honestly about his relationship with Chandra.

BILLY MARTIN, LEVY FAMILY LAWYER: And it would be meaningful for them, that if this man spent any meaningful time with their daughter, to at least have the dignity and the respect of their daughter to tell the family something about her during the last days that she was seen.

FRANKEN: And another figure in the spiraling story is about to resurface. Anne Marie Smith and her lawyer James Robinson are coming to Washington where they will meet Wednesday with the U.S. attorney's office over claims by Smith that she, too, had a romantic relationship with Condit and that Condit asked her to sign an affidavit lying about it under oath.

Spokesman for the congressman argued repeatedly that all of this is a sideshow, which distracts from the effort to find the missing 24- year old former Washington intern, Chandra Levy.

(on camera): Condit's attorney, Lowell, has sent a letter to the major television news networks requesting that they discontinue what he called the 'round the clock stakeouts at the congressman's home in Washington and California. Lowell called the stakeouts -- quote -- "a safety threat for the congressman, his wife, children, and neighbors."

Bob Franken, CNN, Washington.

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