The New York Times has a double feature on Rudy Giuliani today. Last year Giuliani told a grand jury under oath that he remembered being briefed by his former chief investigator on some aspects of Bernie Kerik's relationship with a "company suspected of ties to organized crime" before Giuliani appointed Kerik as police commissioner. Giuliani said the investigator cleared Kerik before he appointed him.

Elsewhere in the NYT, Giuliani reportedly said in a "20/20" interview airing tonight that his wife would be involved in policy decisions "to the extent she wants to be." Giuliani was also asked if his current wife was responsible for his divorce from his second wife. "I think I should be very, very clear that she was not the cause of the breakup in any way at all," he said.

Mayoral successor Michael Bloomberg "could wait as late as April 2008 to add his name to the list of presidential candidates," writes Jill Gardner of the New York Sun. The first state ballot deadline is next May.

After James Dobson snubbed Fred Thompson this week by saying he didn't think Thompson was a Christian, Dobson's office released a statement clarifying that Dobson "never met Sen. Thompson and wasn't certain that his understanding of the former senator's religious convictions was accurate." The release also said Dobson appreciates Thompson's "solid, pro-family voting record."

Meanwhile on the Democratic side, Bloomberg's Kristin Jensen and Mark Drajem report that Sen. Hillary Clinton has "parted ways on trade" with her husband's policies as president. Clinton now says "new trade deals may need to be put on hold pending review" and on the stump she is "more skeptical about globalization's benefits than her husband was." At a 1998 Davos Economic Forum appearance she praised NAFTA, but voted against CAFTA in 2005.

It's not certain if Clinton or any other Democrat will show up at a Democratic debate moderated by Fox News this September in Detroit. Detroit News' Gordon Trowbridge reports that the Congressional Black Caucus, which is hosting the debate, hasn't received complaints or protests from Democratic candidates.

This weekend Clinton, Giuliani and Mitt Romney will be in Florida for fundraisers and six of the candidates including Clinton and Giuliani will kickoff Iowa tours beginning Saturday.

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