after finally watching and posting the entire speech on its website. this time, it says, quote, we were snookered by fox news and tea party activist andrew breitbart into believing she, sherrod, had harmed white farmers because of racial buy as. what we didn t realize is it had been spliced and diced six w ways from sunday so as to completely hide this beautiful story of transformation. reporter: that evening on cnn, john king presses breitbart about why he posted just a portion of the speech. breitbart dodges the questions, never gives clear answers about anything. did you reach out to her and say, what is it you re talking about? when did this happen? this was not about shirley sherrod. this was about the naacp attacking the tea party and this is showing racism at an naacp event. i did not ask for shirley sherrod to be fired. reporter: around 2:00 am wednesday with the full tape now public, the usda decides to take
i saw the statements and the context of the statements, i determined it would make it difficult for her to do her job as a development director. reporter: difficult? he acknowledges there was more to the speech but said it didn t matter. 5:00 pm tuesday, the naacp does a 180. it releases a new statement, after finally watching and posting the entire speech on its website. this time, it says, quote, we were snookered by fox news and tea party activist andrew breitbart into believing she, sherrod, had harmed white farmers because of racial bias. what we didn t realize is it had been spliced and diced six ways from sunday so as to completely hide this beautiful story of transformation. reporter: that evening on cnn, john king presses breitbart about why he posted just a portion of the speech. breitbart dodges the questions, never gives clear answers about anything. did you reach out to her and
condone this. what we didn t realize is it had been spliced and diced six ways from sunday as to completely hide this beautiful story of transformation. as we understand it, ben jealous called you to apologize yesterday. what do you think of his turnaround here? do you accept his apology? he did call me and as soon as he said i apologize, i said right away i accept. you know, it hurt i think even more for the naacp to condemn me, especially when you look at my life s work. you foe, i ve been out there for 44 45 years, i should say, working for justice and to help an organization like the naacp condemn me so quickly without looking into the facts was very hurtful. but i accept the apology and just ready to move on. some are asking is this a teaching moment and what s next
sherrod, and most importantly orleans had a longer road back heard the testimony of the white from katrina than waveland, farmers mentioned in this story, we now believe the organization miss. that edited the documents did so the coastline was nearly wiped off a map by a 30-foot wall of with the intention of deceiving millions of americans. next time we are confronted by a water. they are weathering recession and the oil spill and believe it racial controversy broken by fox or not, stronger. news or their allies in the tea party, like mr. breitdart we tom foreman is live in waveland this morning. reporter: good morning. you are both absolutely right will consider the source. ben jealous tried to explain about this. this place was hammered by katrina. they lost all of their his actions initially last night. businesses, almost all of their listen. in this line of work where we homes. and places like this are so a are called o respond to video reminder how bad it was. evidence all
georgia. we tried to figure out what was going on. we looked at it, and we said, you know what, there is just no way to condone this. what we didn t realize is it had been spliced and diced six ways from sunday, so as to completely hide this beautiful story of transformation that you see if you go to our website, and you look at the full video. the white house agrees with the decision to take another look at shirley sherrod s case. white house correspondent, suzanne malveaux joins us now with more on that part of the story. so what is the white house saying now, and what might it be saying a little bit later? reporter: well, fred, we have a white house briefing in about an hour or so. robert gibbs is going to come out. it s really going to be the first opportunity to ask a lot of these questions that we have about this story. but i can tell you, i ve been talking to white house insiders this morning, and they say do not necessarily expect for this president to pick up the phone and