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By Paul Beston on 3.29.07 @ 2:52PM

From a Giuliani campaign that has been pretty shrewd on the whole so far, Rudi and Judi’s interview with Barbara Walters, airing tomorrow night, sounds like a potential misstep:

Asked whether his wife would sit in on Cabinet meetings, Giuliani said, “If she wanted to. If they were relevant to something that she was interested in. I mean that would be something that I’d be very, very comfortable with.”

Giuliani described his wife as a close adviser who has as much involvement in his campaign as she wants.

Asked if she would sit in on policy meetings, Mrs. Giuliani said: “If he asks me to, yes. And certainly in the areas of health care.”

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Paul Beston is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal.

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