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D.C. Police Likely to Interview Condit Again in Missing Intern Case

Aired July 07, 2001 - 09:00   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, ANCHOR: We begin this hour with the case of Chandra Levy, the missing California woman last seen April 30 in the nation's capital.

CNN national correspondent Bob Franken joins us now from Washington with details of the connection between Levy and California Congressman Gary Condit. Good morning, Bob.

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Kyra.

And there's a real debate among investigators about what they believe the nature of that connection to be. Of course, there has been widespread speculation -- and we have to use that word -- there has been widespread rumor that Congressman Condit had the romantic relationship with Chandra Levy, something that up until now Congressman Condit's spokespeople have routinely denied.

But Congressman Condit, of course, has never submitted to reporter questions. His spokespeople say that that would just be feeding the media frenzy.

Among those who has absolute conviction that there was a romantic relationship is an aunt of Chandra Levy's, Linda Zamsky. The intern, before she disappeared, would go to Zamsky's house, which is a couple hours drive from Washington, and Zamsky said, "From my conversations with her, it was clear without a doubt that they were involved in an intimate relationship." She described, she said, in detail some of their bedroom encounters.

Now, after Zamsky made that statement to reporters yesterday, the public relations spokesperson for Congressman Condit came out with her statement. That's right, there is a public relations spokesperson. Her name is Marina Ein, and she put out a statement saying, "What Congressman Condit and anyone else can do is tell the authorities who are looking for her," meaning Chandra, "what they know can be helpful. The congressman and Mrs. Condit have done so on a number of occasions. Their complete willingness to do this with police investigators should not be confused with their decision not to fuel an already out of control media frenzy."

That the comment from Marina Ein, a public relations person representing Congressman Condit. And that is the theme of late, that this is really an irrelevance, whatever the relationship is, relationships are, that Congressman Condit has, that the idea here is to find the intern, Chandra Levy, who has been missing for nine weeks, former Washington intern, not an intern for the congressman.

Now, Carolyn Condit, the congressman's wife, was interviewed this week by the Washington police investigators and the FBI, interviewed here in Washington. There was an interview about the time that she was supposed to have spent in Washington at the time Chandra Levy disappeared.

And the question now is, will Congressman Condit be interviewed for a third time? Police say they haven't made any plans yet, but they wouldn't be at all surprised, in fact, they probably say it's likely -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right, Bob, thank you. Thanks so much. We'll see you back here soon with e-mails and questions.

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