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...House "managers" are in no mood for expediency. They want to hear from Monica, Betty and Vernon, and even let the President's team cross-examine: a real two-sided trial that the U.S. justice system can be proud of. A legitimate point -- but TIME congressional correspondent Jay Carney says these guys aren't the ones to make it. "In the House, it was the Republicans who insisted that they didn't need witnesses," he says. "Coming from them it could sound a little hollow...
...Lott. "We're closer to where Trent Lott is," one staffer told the New York Times, in what had to be the understatement of the winter. But Lott may not be there for long. "He's going to hear it from conservatives who want a full-blown trial," says Carney. "Clearly, he's floating a trial balloon, and seeing how long it stays afloat." A few weeks is all he needs...
WASHINGTON: It's certainly a good year to run as the integrity candidate. John McCain earned that title from principled (and appealingly quixotic) stands in the Senate on tobacco and campaign finance reform. And as TIME congressional correspondent James Carney puts it, "he's got a story to tell" -- his heroic five years as a POW in Vietnam. "The Clinton scandal has the public more cynical than ever about politicians," says Carney. "And there's no one in Washington who doesn't respect McCain's character...
...Still McCain doesn't have George W's last name or Steve Forbes' wallet, and in the campaign business, a maverick needs one or the other. "The same iconoclastic stands that won McCain his reputation have alienated the Republican establishment," says Carney. "He's a real outcast, and he needs money." Carney says there's always a chance that McCain could hit it off with the public and "catch a wave" in the primaries. But the realities are that he'd be a lot better off if he'd gotten that soft-money ban past Trent Lott last spring. Anyone...
...Reported by Jay Branegan, James Carney, John F. Dickerson, J.F.O. McAllister and Karen Tumulty/Washington