by Geoffrey Bennett

CBS News has released a clip of Katie Couric's interview with Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin. The two spoke this morning; in the clip below, Couric asks, "If this [bailout plan] doesn't pass, do you think there's a risk of another Great Depression?"

Read the transcript.

In other political news, Republican presidential nominee John McCain has suspended his campaign and is calling for Friday's presidential debate to be postponed. Here's more via Reuters:

Republican presidential candidate John McCain said on Wednesday he will break off from campaigning to help on a Wall Street rescue plan and asked that a Friday night debate with Democratic rival Barack Obama be postponed.

McCain, in a statement to reporters, said he would suspend his campaign on Thursday to return to Washington and called on Obama to join him, saying he had spoken to the Democrat about doing so.

As of now, Obama says he is inclined to move forward with the debate. The Associated Press reports:

Obama's campaign did not immediately say whether he ... would also stop campaigning.

The Obama campaign said in a statement that Obama had called McCain around 8:30 a.m. Wednesday to propose that they issue a joint statement in support of a package to help fix the economy as soon as possible. McCain called back six hours later and agreed to the idea of the statement, the Obama campaign said. McCain's statement was issued to the media a few minutes later.

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