said i have a three-and-a-half hour ride ahead of me. second call, she s driving in the car. the third call, they finally call and say just pull over to the side of the road. you have to resign. the white house wants it right now. are you sitting down at the white house? are you comfortable, robert? may i call you bobby gibbs or do you prefer the pillsbury spokesboy? here is my take on shirley sherrod. i don t think shirley should have been fired. i m sorry. forced to resign. based on the facts that we have right now, this is something that i wouldn t demand a resignation on. mm-hmm. no. i wouldn t. why? we did van jones and we had the clip of van jones, do you know how many audio pieces we have and we couldn t run? and we couldn t call the full context of the speech. context matters. first of all, let me ask you this, bobby.
trading punches on what has become the uglyist fight since the healthcare overhaul. it all starts right now. we are awaiting a briefing from white house press secretary robert gibbs, a briefing where we expect pointed questions on the white house role in the resignation of shirley sherrod. she quit less than 48 hours ago following what she called pressure and harassment from the white house. she attributed directly to the white house. that pressure came after a tape surfaced showing what appeared to be her making racist remarks. but the tape was taken out of context and we now have reports out of washington suggesting that sherrod will be offered her job back. team coverage on the breaking developments right here on america live. james rosen is in our studio and major garrett is at the white house. we want to play for you portions of sherrod s controversial speech that have surfaced this morning. this is not what you saw over the past day or so. these show sherrod talking a
and i need to do a better job of reaching out to get input before a decision of this magnitude is made. that is a very serious lesson i learned. i was very sensitive and remain sensitive to the civil rights issues regarding this department again, when you deal with tens of thousands of claims, tens of thousands of claims, it is something that needs to be resolved, that hasn t been resolved and must be resolved. we have done two things. we have made a concerted effort to try to resolve these cases and we ve also begun a process looking at our entire operation an outside consultant to take a look and see whether or not there are any other things we re doing or shouldn t be doing, that would potentially lead to claims in the future. because we want to put a stop to this. this is a great agency. a lot of hardworking people who care deeply. shirley is one of them. and they re proud of this agency. this is part of the history we need to close the chapter on. that was foremost in my
said i have a three-and-a-half hour ride ahead of me. second call, she s driving in the car. the third call, they finally call and say just pull over to the side of the road. you have to resign. the white house wants it right now. are you sitting down at the white house? are you comfortable, robert? may i call you bobby gibbs or do you prefer the pillsbury spokesboy? here is my take on shirley sherrod. i don t think shirley should have been fired. i m sorry. forced to resign. based on the facts that we have right now, this is something that i wouldn t demand a resignation on. mm-hmm. no. i wouldn t. why? we did van jones and we had the clip of van jones, do you know how many audio pieces we have and we couldn t run? and we couldn t call the full context of the speech. context matters. first of all, let me ask you this, bobby.
what s up with that? yeah, well it s great theater certainly. i ve got my jify pop with me while i m watching all the infighting going on. certainly nice for once if you re on the other side of the aisle to just sit back and watch this all play out. i think what s going on is basically you ve got attention between a great tension between the white house whose main agenda is promoting and protecting barack obama. and the congressional democrats whose main agenda right now is getting re-elected and there are great conflicts there. i think there s a lot of bitterness among house democrats in particular. and we saw that, that s why barack obama had to broker this special meeting last night to try and make peace. who these house democrats who basically crawled across broken glass to help barack obama and then who have to sit there and watch bobby gibbs kiss them