Meet the Press (NBC) - 1999-03-07

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[0:00] Next, Oprah.

[0:00] >> Monday at 4 on Northwest News [music]

[0:02] Channel 8.

[0:07] >> From NBC News in Washington, this is

[0:10] Meet the Press with Tim Russert.

[0:13] [music]

[0:14] Our issues this Sunday, Monica Lewinsky

[0:17] is back in the headlines. Did we learn

[0:20] anything new about the behavior of Bill

[0:22] Clinton or the conduct of Ken Star? or

[0:25] is this just all about remaking her

[0:28] image and mass marketing? With us, the

[0:32] author of Monica's new book, Andrew

[0:34] Morton, and the writer of tomorrow's

[0:36] Time magazine cover story, Michael

[0:39] Duffy. Then this,

[0:41] >> this coming Sunday, I'm going to

[0:42] announce the formation of exploratory

[0:44] committee

[0:46] to determine whether or not I should

[0:48] seek the presidency.

[0:49] >> Today, Texas Governor George W. Bush

[0:52] will move closer to a presidential run

[0:54] as a compassionate conservative. Former

[0:57] Tennessee Governor Lamari Alexander says

[1:00] those are weasel words. We'll ask him

[1:02] why. And in our political roundt,

[1:05] Bradley and Buchanan in New Hampshire,

[1:08] Elizabeth Dole poised to run. And

[1:11] Hillary storms New York. What standards

[1:14] will the media use to cover these

[1:16] campaigns? with us. David Broer of the

[1:19] Washington Post, Fred Barnes of the

[1:21] Weekly Standard, and Wayne Slater, the

[1:24] Austin, Texas bureau chief of the Dallas

[1:26] Morning News.

[1:29] [music]

[1:32] >> But first, the New York Times says there

[1:34] has been a major breach of our national

[1:36] security. China has stolen nuclear

[1:39] secrets from the Los Alamos lab in New

[1:41] Mexico. The Washington Post confirms a

[1:44] lab employee has flunked a lie detector

[1:47] test. The stolen secrets have

[1:49] dramatically helped China deve