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NBC WARMS UP 'JANE DOE' INTERVIEW; TIM RUSSERT PHYSICALLY SICK AFTER WATCHING BROADDRICK TAPES **Exclusive** NBC NEWS has taken its interview with Jane Doe #5 out of the freezer -- and has put it into the oven! On Wednesday night at 8 pm ET [Family Hour?] NBC NEWS will broadcast an exclusive television interview with Juanita Broaddrick, a woman who has accused Bill Clinton of rape. "This was the hardest day of my life since I lost my father in '71," Broaddrick told a producer from NBC NEWS after her five hour interview. The interview was scheduled to air on Jan. 29, at the height of the impeachment trial in the Senate, but it hit resistance from NBC NEWS executives. One month later, NBC NEWS has announced that it will now air that interview -- an interview that made one NBC NEWS superstar physically sick after he watched it! The DRUDGE REPORT has learned that NBC NEWS Washington Bureau chief Tim Russert got sick to his stomach when he viewed the five hour session between NBC NEWS reporter Lisa Myers and Broaddrick. Russert told associates that Broaddrick's story left him speechless and upset him physically after he viewed raw tapes of the interview. Broaddrick tells NBC NEWS, in graphic detail, how Bill Clinton raped her back in 1978. Broaddrick had denied under oath that such an assault occurred. Clinton lawyer David Kendall issued a denial last week. "Any allegation that the president assaulted Mrs. Broaddrick more than 20 years ago is absolutely false," Kendall said. "NBC is just trying to compete with the GRAMMY AWARDS," one White House source told the DRUDGE REPORT on Tuesday afternoon. "This is a sweeps stunt!" charged another Clinton supporter. NBC NEWS reporter Lisa Myers was en route to New York from Washington late Tuesday night, according to network sources. Myers will anchor her Broaddrick story in-studio for DATELINE. A source close to Broaddrick on Tuesday evening questioned if NBC NEWS has edited out the most dramatic moments of the interview. "They've never shown it to her," explained the Broaddrick confidant. "We don't want it to be all on the editing floor with fill ins." Developing...