video was released by a right wing website in which she admits 24 years ago she failed to give a white farmer all the help she could because of his race. shirley sherrod says the speech was to show how wrong she was at the time. but the right wing media machine has suggested that she discriminated while an obama appointee, in other words, within the last year. that s our top story. plus bp and the lockerbie connection. both president obama and british prime minister david cameron today condemned the release of the lockerbie bomber one year ago. little of that was said today crossed suspicions that bp may have influenced libya s decision in order to get its own oil operation going in libya. also senate democrats plus two republicans have overcome republican opposition to extend the unemployment benefits. it s a big win for president obama today. can he make the gop pay for it this fall? and show time, b-rod, rod blagojevich is finally taking the stand in his own defense ou
has the story. reporter: for president obama and british prime minister david cameron the war in afghanistan, stymied middle east peace process took a backseat to subject that inspires deep anger but had no clear path to resolution. the release of the on convicted pan am 103 bomber abdelbaset al-megrahi. all of us in the united states were surprised, disappointed and angry about the release of the lockerbie bomber. reporter: cameron opposed the release a year ago inherited a mess complicating the british-u.s. relations on terrorism and the oil spill. releasing the lockerbie bomber, mass murder of 270 people, largest act of terrorism ever committed in the united kingdom was completely wrong. cameron tried to fence off british oil giant b.p. from al-megrahi s release despite the revelations the company lobbied for release of prisoners to secure drilling rights off the coast. it wasn t a decision taken by b.p., it was taken by the scottish government. b.p. says it
are made and ultimately they can t cover the damage they re about to do, you break it apart. so you admit that maybe everything you re trying to do to prevent these if i firms from getting bigger won t work. no, no, i m saying that there now is the understand this, before the signature, there s no legal authority to resolve by breaking apart. there s no legal authority that takes part of this business and sells the assets to cover losses of something else. you legally it s not the the mechanism doesn t exist. now it does exist. at yesterday morning s staff communications meeting, what did deputy chief of staff say about the handling thus far of the shirley sherrod incident? i don t i don t know which meeting you re talking about. i have seen the reports of what what somebody believed jim said. i did not hear jim say that and i think other people in the article said jim didn t say that either. so what do you say happened at the meeting? what did come up at
has been offered another job in the government. we look at the naacp initial action and subsequent action to reverse course but we begin with major garrett on repentent obama administration. a disservice was done, and apology. white house apologizes for tom vilsack s decision to fire shirley sherrod after hurdly and falsely hurriedly and falsely conclu concluding she made remarks this spring. he called and apologized and offered another job. i regret the circumstances and i accept full responsibility for them. i asked if she would be interested in figuring out a way forward that would take advantage of the extraordinary life experiences that she s had. vilsack said sherrod would think about it, leaving resolution of the fiasco in her hands, not the administration s. sherrod said she believed the white house played a role in her firing, citing department secretary sheryl cook. vilsack denied it. miss cook indicated a white house hayiason had been contact liaison
bizarre strike for beach goers, a terrified donk yes, that s what it is, flying through the air, how he got up there and what happened to him, the stunt that s now sparking a major animal cruelty investigation. jon: we are here in the fox newsroom, breaking news is coming in from across the country and around the world. we ve got the domestic desk, covering the united states, our foreign desk, watching events around the globe, and our media desk, bringing in all the video and live pictures to you around the clock. we ll have it for you in the next two hours of happening now . jenna: the agricultural department is now reviewing the case of an employee forced to resign, this over a speech at an naacp event back in march, james rosen is live in washington with more on this story. james. reporter: good morning. shirley sherrod is the former official who was fired this week after a videotape remark of herself before that naacp audience in georgia from four-months ago surfaced o