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DON IMUS: See, the last time we talked to her she was playing three card monte with ing records in the book room and jerking your chain on Wall Street and hiding suicide notes and she wants to run for the Senate against the most vicious person on the planet, Rudolph Giuliani? What is she nuts?
CHRIS BURY: (voice-over) This afternoon, Mayor Giuliani, who has yet to announce his candidacy for the Senate, refused to speculate about a possible match up with Mrs. .
Mayor RUDOLPH GIULIANI: I don't have anything to say to her. I mean she's got to decide what she wants to do and I'll decide what I want to do and rather than play your game, I'll do it on my own terms.
CHRIS BURY: (voice-over) In New York, politics is a rough and tumble game. Consider last fall's Senate race between Charles Schumer and Al D'Amato. The most hotly contested question was whether D'Amato had called Schumer a putzhead.
AL D'AMATO: I have absolutely no knowledge of ever having made that statement.
Sen. CHARLES SCHUMER: Al D'Amato used a cheap slur against me and then when asked lied about it.
LISA CAPUTO: I think is such a fighter. She's got a real tough skin and I think that if she could weather what she's weathered over the past six years, I think that she can just about weather anything.
CHRIS BURY: Two other popular first ladies, Jackie Kennedy and Eleanor Roosevelt, were also encouraged to run for the Senate and of course neither did. Some of those who have spoken with Mrs. in recent days are convinced she will ultimately follow their example. But until her decision is known, the political world will be asking is serious about a Senate race or is she just teasing.
This is Chris Bury for Nightline in Washington.
CHRIS WALLACE: So, does have what it takes to run? We'll ask three veterans of New York political warfare, when we come back.
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