(CBS) It happened again last week, when a photo of Obama in ceremonial African tribal dress during a visit to Kenya was featured prominently on the Internet and attributed to people in the Clinton campaign.

Senator Clinton disavowed any knowledge of it.

“You don't believe that Senator Obama's a Muslim?” Kroft asked Sen. Clinton.

“Of course not. I mean, that, you know, there is no basis for that. I take him on the basis of what he says. And, you know, there isn't any reason to doubt that,” she replied.

“You said you'd take Senator Obama at his word that he's not…a Muslim. You don't believe that he's…,” Kroft said.

“No. No, there is nothing to base that on. As far as I know,” she said.

“It's just scurrilous…?” Kroft inquired.

“Look, I have been the target of so many ridiculous rumors, that I have a great deal of sympathy for anybody who gets, you know, smeared with the kind of rumors that go on all the time,” Clinton said.

Her big leads in Ohio and Texas are both gone now, but she still has a chance of ending her losing streak and winning both states.

“There are a lotta people that think even if she manages to win both states, by a small margin, and there's no difference in the delegates, it’s most likely impossible for her to catch you,” Kroft told Sen. Obama.

“That's true,” he replied.

“Is there a point where you say it's not in the interest of the party to continue this?” Kroft asked Sen. Clinton.

“No,” she replied, laughing. “No. You know, I am going to win. And I am going to go on.”

“You seem to be saying that as long as you think you have a chance to win, that you're going to stay in it, even if it goes to the convention?” Kroft asked.

“Well, I don't think that will happen. But, you know, my husband didn't wrap up the nomination until June,” she replied.

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