sherrod s account. ed henry went looking for her, to get some answers. reporter: in the saga of shirley sherrod, only one mystery left to be solved. where is cheryl cook? she works as a top aide to secretary tom vilsack and is in the middle of this story because shirley sherrod allege that is cheryl cook called her three times and demanded that she resigned and cheryl cook said it was at the urging of the white house. white house officials and secretary vilsack have denied that. cheryl cook has not come forward to answer one single question on this matter. we ve spent the day tracking her down at the agriculture department, a few blocks away over the at white house. dan lothian pressed robert gibbs whether the white house would make cook available. i would point you over to the usda on that. i don t know whether you ve talked to the u is sda. she s the person who supposedly said the white house again, call the department of agriculture. you can hear on the overhead
mystery left to be solved. where is cheryl cook? she works as a top aide to secretary tom vilsack and is in the middle of this story because shirley sherrod allege that is cheryl cook called her three times and demanded that she resigned and cheryl cook said it was at the urging of the white house. white house officials and secretary vilsack have denied that. cheryl cook has not come forward to answer one single question on this matter. we ve spent the day tracking her down at the agriculture department, a few blocks away over the at white house. dan lothian pressed robert gibbs whether the white house would make cook available. i would point you over to the usda on that. i don t know whether you ve talked to the u is sda. she s the person who supposedly said the white house again, call the department of agriculture. you can hear on the overhead intercom is doing his briefing. he said call the press office if
house. secretariville tack has denied that but cheryl cook hasn t come forward to answer one single question on this matter. we spent the day trying to track her down atat. dan lothian pressed robert gibbs on whether the white house would make cheryl cook available. i would point you to usda. i don t know if you talked to usda. the person who supposedly said that the white house wanted her to step down. again, call the department of agriculture. you hear on the overhead intercom robert gibbs just told cheryl cook, call the press office. we ll try to track her down. hey there, ed henry at cnn. we re working on a story about cheryl cook. i want to see if we can get an interview with her. robert gibbs just said in the briefing for the second day in a row that if any reporters want to talk to her, we should call over to the press office. can you help us? let me see. let me take your information down. reporter: later in the afternoon i got a call back from another press person
alleges that when the story first exploded cheryl cook called her three times and demanded she resign and cheryl cook said it was at the urging of the white house. secretary vilsack and white house officials have denied that but cheryl cook hasn t come forward to answer one single question on this matter. we spent the entire day trying to track her down. in the afternoon, my colleague dan lothian pressed robert gibbs on whether the white house would make cook available. i would point you over to the usda on that. don t know whether you talked to usda. the person who supposedly said that the white house dan, if you want to reach the under secretary or deputy secretary, again call the department of agriculture. you hear on the overhead intercom robert gibbs is still doing his daily briefing. he just told dan lothian if you want to reach cheryl cook, robert gibbs just said in the briefing for the second day in a row that if any reporters want to talk to her we should call
make cook available. i would point you over to the usda on that. i don t know whether you ve talked to the usda. she s the person who supposedly said the white house again, call the department of agriculture. you can hear on the overhead intercom that robert gibbs is still doing his briefing. he just told dan lothian that you want to call the press office if you want to reach cheryl cook. it s ed henry at cnn. we re working on a story about cheryl cook and just want to see if we can get an interview with her. robert gibbs just said in the briefing for the second day in a row if any reporters want to talk to her we should call over to the press office. can you help us? let me see. i can let me take your information down. reporter: i got another call from another press person, shedding no new light on cook s contact with the white house. i think we ve been pretty clear about what their involvement was and wasn t. obviously, we informed them of what was going on because