asking and answering questions. one of the things discussed earlier was when major garrett asked was the white house involved with the dismissal of the agriculture employee. she s under the impression and saying publicly she believes the white house did play a role. as i said to ed, that s not anything based on my knowledge. so you re convinced that did not happen. i can only answer your question three times. you re answering once. i gave the same answer three times. fine. is there going to be any effort put forward by the administration to let us talk to sheryl cook but what she did or did not say to miss had sherrod? i direct you to usda about speaking to again, i direct you to. [ laughter ] you asked the same question, i give the same answer. we would like for everyone to
why am i out? they asked me to resign. they harassed me as i was driving back to the state office from west point, georgia, yesterday. i had at least three calls telling me the white house wanted me to resign. so the pressure came from the white house? and the last one asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it. they said, shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it, because you re going to be on glenn beck tonight. glenn: i think, i really truly believe they are trying to make me into the bully. i mean, she seems like a nice woman. she goes on to say the phone call came from the usda secretary sheryl cook. look at this. here is what happened. the first call came and she
look here. sheryl cook was the person on the phone, according to miss sherrod, as she was being told to pull over and resign as a result of a tape which took her words and twisted it into something it absolutely was not. juan williams is us with again. you wonder does this go away? do we get to the bottom? do heads roll? if the white house thinks this is over this isn t over. it s far from over. there s so many little parts, but i would say the big part is president obama. president obama has not reached out to this woman. she said she s got a phone, shield like to hear from him and from the white house. she d like to know people have taken a second to understand she s been hurt, vilified unfairly and another unjustice that has to be a with race and with the white house fears of glenn beck. it has nothing to do with the
was driving back to the state office from west point, georgia, yesterday. hi at least three calls telling me the white house wanted me to resign. that was sheryl cook, the deputy under secretary. she called me and said she called me and i said, sheryl, i ve got a three and a half hour ride to get into athens. she called me a second time. where are you now? i said i m just going through atlanta. she called me again and i said i m at least 45 minutes to an hour from athens. she said, well, shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it. because you re going to be on glenn beck tonight. well, let s skip over the likes of glenn beck and the others over on fox. want to pay tribute to tony harris at cnn. his interview today with shirley sherrod and with elois spooner, the white woman who after all these years recalls shirley as a woman who looked out for her, who, quote, saved our farm, shirley, that she saved the farm.
glenn: okay. this looks really bad. context matters. is this woman a racist? or was this a pivot point? why is it important? well, the white house, the story broke yesterday. i haven t even aired the video until today. this story broke yesterday and the white house forced this woman to resign. and here is how they told her to do it. she said this, this morning on cnn. i had at least three calls telling me the white house wanted me to resign. so the pressure came from the white house? and, and the last one asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it. she said, well, shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it. because you re going to be on glenn beck tonight. glenn: she wasn t on glenn beck, because i didn t even know about the story yesterday. we were focussed on assassinations. is it possible this is a political assassination from the white house? or from the naacp? i don t know. see, context matters but we don t have the full