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Saturday Morning News

Hillary Clinton, Rick Lazio Face Off in Final Debate

Aired October 28, 2000 - 8:32 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: In another closely watched race, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Rick Lazio today will campaign in upstate New York, a key battleground area. This comes after the two Senate candidates faced off last night in their final debate.

CNN's Frank Buckley has the details.

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GABE PRESSMAN, DEBATE MODERATOR: Good evening. We welcome our viewers to the third and last New York Senate debate.

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FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a talk show format that saw both candidates trying to talk over each other.

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HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY), NEW YORK SENATE CANDIDATE: ... made so many inaccurate statements...

REP. RICK LAZIO (R-NY), NEW YORK SENATE CANDIDATE: Which ones?

(CROSSTALK)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BUCKLEY: First lady Hillary Clinton and Congressman Rick Lazio clashed in the most combative of their three debates.

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LAZIO: In Arkansas, Mrs. Clinton, when you had responsibility for education, the student performance when you left was at the bottom of the barrel.

CLINTON: I'm not here to defend Arkansas. I'm here to run for the Senate to represent New York...

LAZIO: Could I just finish? Could I finish my point?

CLINTON: ... I take great, great offense...

LAZIO: Could I finish my...

(CROSSTALK)

CLINTON: ... misinterpreting and mischaracterizing what went on.

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BUCKLEY: Mrs. Clinton accused Lazio of unethically taking campaign contributions from the housing industry.

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CLINTON: He received $1 million in contributions. He fought to weaken the safety standards for manufactured housing and in-home building.

LAZIO: That's absolutely false. And you know it, Mrs. Clinton. Please do not make up things.

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BUCKLEY: They both claimed credit for the recent passage of a breast and cervical cancer bill. Lazio sponsored it. Mrs. Clinton said she worked with advocates behind the scenes.

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CLINTON: When the Republican leadership decided that they didn't want to fund the bill, he didn't join the fight.

BUCKLEY: Mrs. Clinton, I don't know, perhaps you helped in some way. But I never saw you. As the author of the bill, and as the architect of the bill, and as the architect of the strategy that moved this bill through the House and had it to the point where it got the president's signature, never noticed that you were involved with it at all.

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BUCKLEY: In a light moment, moderator Gabe Pressman (ph) asked each to name three things they liked about each other.

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CLINTON: Well, it seems like he has a very nice family and that he has worked very hard and that he's an attractive young man.

PRESSMAN: And you?

LAZIO: Well, I think you're an attractive woman.

(LAUGHTER)

CLINTON: Thank you. LAZIO: And I think you've got a very nice family. I'm sure you're a very good mother as well.

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BUCKLEY: That was as kind as it got.

(on camera): After the debate, Clinton supporters called Lazio a bully, saying his entire campaign is based on insults. Lazio aides said Mrs. Clinton wasn't telling the truth, one strategist suggesting Mrs. Clinton go to work for Burger King considering all the whoppers she tells. The level of rhetoric from both sides at full volume now where it will stay until November 7.

Frank Buckley, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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