Fox News: Fox News Sunday. Sunday, December 12, 1999 Tony Snow - host

SNOW: There's a new GOP front-runner in New Hampshire. He's tanned, rested and ready. He's John McCain and he's all ours this morning. A yuletide brawl in Gotham. Rudy Giuliani says he wants the homeless indoors and in jobs. Does that make him Scrooge or the harbinger of reforms yet to come. We'll quiz New York Congressman Vito Fossella and Charles Rangel.

SNOW: Thanks, Kathy.

Senator John McCain stormed into the lead in a series of New Hampshire polls last week, thus becoming the brand-new front-runner in the Granite State's Republican presidential primary. He joins us now.

SNOW: Now, you have said that your favorite rock band is...?

MCCAIN: Nine Inch Nails. Nine Inch Nails. Yes, my daughter who is now 15 has kept me up to speed. I think the Back Street Boys are her favorite, but I'm terribly concerned, she seems to become enamored with Ricky Martin and I know he is a handsome guy but that's not the one I want her to marry.

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SNOW: Speaking of controversy, I want to flash up some Nine Inch Nails lyrics. This is one on their most recent album. It says, "I play a game. It's called insincerity *" you can figure out what all those things are.

MCCAIN: Yeah.

SNOW: And after that the lyrics get really nasty.

MCCAIN: Yeah.

SNOW: Are you sure you're a Nine Inch Nails fan?

MCCAIN: I was joking when I said it. Obviously, I have not seen their words of their songs. And I was trying to make light of this whole issue of the generation gap that many of us politicians have with younger Americans. But, no, I take exception...

SNOW: Well, your daughter does promotion in the rock business.

MCCAIN: Oh, my daughter Sydney. I thought we're talking about my 15- year-old daughter. Yeah. My daughter Sydney works for Capital Records. I'm very happy and proud of the work that she does. She is a wonderful young woman.

SNOW: Well, if it's any consolation, we've had to hide our daughter's Britney Spears album. We're going to take a break. We'll be back with more of Senator John McCain in just a couple of minutes.