Does the adminstration have a good defense against Clarke? Perhaps we’d know if Matt Lauer let Condi Rice talk this morning on The Today Show. The show opened with Clarke unobstructed, an excerpt from 60 Minutes (and a short clip from a Dan Bartlett interview), but letting Rice complete sentences was not a major part of Lauer’s plan this morning, as he interviewed her. Meanwhile, as I write, Wesley Clarke is reacting to Rice, acting as Clarke stand-in, with a mostly enabling Ann Curry.