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Wednesday update with video (CBS): Levi Johnston says he's keeping some "huge" things about Sarah Palin from the public. In Part 1 of a two-part exclusive interview with "Early Show" co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez, which aired Wednesday, the father of Palin's grandson says, "There are some things that I have that are huge. And I haven't said them because I'm not gonna hurt her that way. ... I have things that can, you know -- that would get her in trouble, and could hurt her. Will hurt her. But I'm not gonna go that far. You know, I mean, if I really wanted to hurt her, I could, very easily. But there's -- I'm not gonna do it. I'm not going that far." Johnston says he's referring to things Palin did while she was governor of Alaska. Asked whether those actions were illegal or immoral, he refused to elaborate.

Update Wednesday afternoon: In a statement, Palin criticized Johnston as well as CBS for airing his "mean-spirited, malicious and untrue" comments.

Link: New York Daily News "Watch out, Sarah Palin - it's Levi Johnston's turn." The N.Y. Daily News is among sites reporting today on Johnston's appearance on the "CBS Early Show," set to air Wednesday. The article goes on: "The father of the failed vice-presidential hopeful's grandson acknowledges he's out for revenge and has dirt to spill about Alaska's former first family. 'If she's gonna say things about me, I'm gonna leak things about her,' he boasted. 'That's just how it is.' Declaring 'Now it's my turn,' Johnston told the show's co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez that he's been hurt by what Palin has said about him and that he thinks she's been 'fake.' 'I'm just not going to take it anymore,' he said."

The Washington Post has further excerpts from the interview: "The Sarah Palin I knew before, it was -- it was her putting on a front, it was her being fake to me, and now that everything's slowly coming out and I'm hearing more things, you know, and things she's said and done, you know, I see the real Palin," Johnston says.

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