immigration officials. could you put your hands right here for me, interlock your fingers. reporter: now, megyn the law says, that if you have a driver s license or valid id that is supposed to be presumptive proof that you are in this country legally, but phoenix pd, which opposes the law just came out with its guidelines saying it is going to run everybody through immigration computers to treat everyone alike, critics say they are trying to create a backlash to kill the bill. megyn: william la jeunesse you left your id in paris perhaps. reporter: what did you say? la jeunesse is french right. reporter: it is. megyn: thank you. that is kind of scary, the whole arrest thin. i half expected to see stossel in his uniform coming out. he ll be here a little bit later. moments away the white house press briefing that you do not want to miss. was the white house behind the forced resignation of shirley sherrod or wasn t it? her accusation to that effect has been denied by her boss,
supportive of what secretary vilsack did. then approaching midnight a phone call was initiated at the white house to the agriculture department and this morning secretary vilsack put out a statement saying i m going to review this. something changed late last night. what it was and what the white house hopes to achief having changed its own mind about this we ll bore into when robert gibbs comes to the podium. megyn: what s happening around you? is he coming out? it s a little late now? we have the standard gathering of reporters. we have grown accustom here, megyn twobt appointed time of for the briefing stlipg once, sometimes twice and often times when we get that 2-minute warning it s often 7 minutes, 8 minutes, even 20 minutes after
to be president, it was hope and change and a new kind of government. people want change and they got it. he came into office and it was politics as usual. the tone didn t really change. we just showed alan grayson. then obama came in with policies that independents don t support. i think he overpromised during election. he suggested if you voted for him and elected him things would instantaneously change. they get in and they see it s easier to make the promises than it is to govern. megyn: they get into office. it s been difficult to change the tone. so i think he did overpromise. also they lost control a lot of the narrative. you see that it s easier to go negative, it, easier to criticize than it is to govern.
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[ female announcer ] with aarp you get so much more out of life. discover the best of what s next at the new aarp.org. megyn hayward megyn: we are awaiting tougher questions at the white house briefing. shirley sherrod is at center of the saga. she says the white house pushed her to resign after a video surfaced of her discussing a discriminatory she made more than 24 years ago. she says the white house push came before the white house had all of its facts. we see a bit of a split between shirley sherrod and the department of agriculture, both of them telling different