different media groups. i will give you one group of media types that looked at this tape edited and ran with it, but what you re sitting at the newspaper editor and i come and hand you a statement from the secretary of agriculture. ask chris lick that question. a statement from this lady. and i say, hey, mr. editor, it looks like the secretary of agriculture just fired a lady accused her of racism. do we run with it? ask chris lick. by the way, here is the naacp. boom. they valso released a statement. at that point, you run. don t we split news organizations into two groups, those who responded to vilsack and did at the time right way like chris did it and those who respond to do a tape that was edited. let s wake chris up in the control room. chris, yesterday morning, when did this become a story in your mind? once we heard directly from the usda.
congratulations to chris. chris called the department of agriculture. i got to say this morning, the thing it doesn t surprise me that there are going to be people on the left or the right on the web in news organizations that took words from the proper context. we know that all happens time and time again. i got to say, i am stunned that the secretary of agriculture and that the obama administration would fire this woman without knowing the full story. they know it s an ugly political climate out there. they know there are political huxsteres on the right and on the left who are constantly trying to destroy people. and it s amazing to me that you have, in this case, a woman who has a fantastic story to tell, a story that we should all listen to about growing, about moving
of the obama transition, maybe we could solve health care just in that green room today. you have a got your own cabinet down there in washington. i m telling you it s going to be a wild show, you ve got to watch. you ve got to ask robert gibbs about wearing the canadian hockey jersey and take it go off and wearing the u.s. hockey jersey as well. trust me, that s going to come up. thank you, chris. curious to find out how the republicans react to lahood s comment. one thing i want today ask chris, but we ran out of time. one of the ideas in the republican health care bill allowing americans to buy insurance over state lines and i m cure why to see what gibbs has to say about that. he s saying 40 million americans are without health care coverage. that s an inflated number though. a couple a couple of different numbers. 36 million. 40 million way hey. 35% of americans know that. and 100% of you are getting headlines now. now it s your headlines.
clutch bucket. deshon butler hitting a tough runner in the main. mountain ears up. and back the other way. chris weight tries to tie it no dice. they loved the health care reference from that sports highlight. west virginia wins its first ever big east championship. and today acc final, sec final and big ten final should be a great day. kansas locked up the number one overall seat with their win in the big 12. let s check with rick reichmuth now and check the crazy weather. does that come to you naturally? well, i saw it at about six o clock this morning and ramming through came right to mind and ramming through health care, i don t know. there s a lot that goes on up here, mike. trying to get in the mind after sports guy. i like it, also what about the pies behind me we can t get rid of. key lime, thank you, morton s. all kind of flooding concerns that we still have across parts of the northeast from the very heavy rain and the rapid snow melt. all of these counts here i
administration which then became the trigger, at least on our part, for reporting this story. chris, had we reported this story prior to the department of agriculture firing her? no. we actually we held it until we actually woke them up yesterday morning and we held it until we spoke directly to the usda. but, still, it s a horrific reaction to the quick excitement of politics and also an indictment of who we are today in the media, what we cover. this is a clip provided by a guy who is probably selling shoes in someone s basement five years ago. a right wing blogger, whatever his name is. it s a clip of a 45-minute speech given in march about an event that took place 24 years ago. it goes out and on the air several airways with no context given. she s fired. this is an event that s mass ka raiding as news, that has carried, you know, again by