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UPDATE: KATHLEEN WILLEY SPEAKS OUT ON '60 MINUTES'; LINDA TRIPP GIVES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW TO 'NEWSWEEK'; MORE
"Former White House employee tells 60 MINUTES on Sunday that President Clinton sexually assault her just outside the Oval Office. She reveals to Ed Bradley: Nathan Landow, a major Democratic donor, tried to influence her testimony by asking her to withhold giving a deposition in the Paula Jones sexual harassment case.
This is known at this hour: The interview will fill two 60 MINUTES segments -- running nearly 40 minutes. Willey is so compelling, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, that close to 9 minutes of Willey's conversation with Bradley will run without a single edit. 60 MINUTES producer Michael Radutzky has been working closely with Willey's lawyer setting up the interview. Willey had a big week, providing testimony to Starr's grand jury on Monday, giving an update to her Jones deposition on Wednesday, sitting down with Bradley on Thursday.
"The Willey interview will be a near-death experience for the President," a network source predicts to the DRUDGE REPORT.
Willey was first introduced to the nation in this space, in a series of exclusive reports that were published over the course of several weeks last Summer.
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Elsewhere, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned that Linda Tripp gave an interview with NEWSWEEK in a hotel in Washington late this week, believed to be for a cover story on Tripp. What is being described as a "closely controlled" Q & A session with the magazine's Michael Isikoff, Tripp gave her first interview on the Monica Lewinsky investigation. She also posed for pictures. There are indications that Tripp's interview did not directly explore any evidence that is
currently being presented to a federal grand jury, including specifics of the famed Lewinsky/Tripp audio tapes. "No talk on specifics... it was more about the overall situation," a magazine source in Washington whispers to the DRUDGE REPORT. It has also been learned that the NEW YORK TIMES is running a Page One story on Tripp this Sunday...
In what is turning into a 'Hell Weekend' for the White House -- with the detailed Paula Jones papers [700 pages] released, a first sit down interview with Linda Tripp taking place for a national magazine, and Kathleen Willey speaking out on 60 MINUTES -- Press secretary Mike McCurry pleaded for compassion.
President Clinton is "a human being and has human reactions," said McCurry.
Clinton's lawyer, Robert Bennett, told reporters in Los Angeles: "This is a form of insanity,what's going on here."
One shock point in the Jones summary judgement papers, obtained by the DRUDGE REPORT, involves a deposition given by Dolly Kyle Browning in the Jones case. Browning testified that she had a long sexual affair with Mr. Clinton, "and that she was contacted by agents of Mr. Clinton, including Bruce Lindsey, threatening to 'destroy her' if she told the truth, and later promising not to spread vicious lies about her in order to get her to downplay her disclosures."
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