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Agriculture jumped the gun so quickly. the media is another matter. let me -- let me get your overarch on this story. is this an important story for the administration? >> its important in this sense, bill. if, as the administration says, it -- if as the white house says, it was indifferent to whatever secretary vilsack originally decided about shirley sherrods future meaning it was informed but not consulted about the decision to fire her, and then late last night reversed course and said no, s...

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Roots movement. you might remember the tea party federation. there are groups that tried to act theyre the national group and spokesperson group. i dont play into thachl i think each group can speak for themselves. >> someone ought to make the statement this guy is no longer welcomed in this tea party group. >> one of the groups with the tea party federation told him this doesnt jive with us, youre out. >> okay. we tried to get a hold of them to get on the program. nobody can find him. now, the ...

Lately on this issue of health care. >> all right. >> some of the racism we thought was buried, here -- now, we endured eight years of the bushes and we didnt do what the republicans are doing because you have a black president! >> so here we have blatant partisanship, publicly put forth by miss sherrod, also very unusual for an appointed public servant and a possible ethical violation because, according to the hatch act, federal employees are forbidden to endorse political parties while on duty...

What do you care? youre passing them all in ratings. >> thats true. we will cover it and we will cover it fairly. >> just tell everybody in the united states that if you didnt watch fox news, oreillys show on monday night, you dont know whats going on. >> right. dick morris, everybody, check out his web site at dickmorris.com. in a moment, explosive press conference about the sherrod situation. major garrett and james rosen will weigh in. and later, dennis miller following the twists and turns i...

First black american president and its sensitivity at the white house to matters of race. now, secretary vilsack said today there was no direct white house pressure. for the first time, he allowed how the deputy secretary at the agriculture department who talked to and subsequently fired miss sherrod the first time might have mentioned those conversations, dealings with the white house liaison with the agriculture department. thats the first glimmer of white house involvement of this story befor...

Than 30 minutes long and we used just a small portion of it in which she said that years ago, as an administrator in georgia, she did not help a white farmer with aid as much as she could have because he was white and she thought he was talking down to her. after hearing that statement, i said miss sherrod should resign from the usda and secretary vilsack felt the same way so the woman was fired. what i did not know at the time was that miss sherrod told the farmers story in order to make this p...

Vilsack made an honest mistake like you did. and -- >> why not? we both made the same mistakes. >> hes the decision maker. >> but hes running around like im running around. hes in ohio. somebody calls him and says this woman said this. he doesnt know who the woman is. im going to cut him a little slack. ill going to say he did exactly what i did. >> cut him all the slack you want. i wont. i think number one, he fired her on instructions from the white house because they wanted to stop fox news f...

Administration. how do you explain the -- those three departures? do they really have nothing to do with the campaign that had been waged against them? >> i was asked a larger question about this and my answer doesnt change. why do you do stories on all three of them? >> you can fault the media, if you want. >> im not faulting the media, jake, but -- hold on, im not here to fault the media. i apologize on behalf of the administration. >> one of the lessons to be learned here that the administrat...

Banner. should she be doing the peoples business with that kind of resume? i dont think so. she should be in the private or charity sector. and thats a memo. i hope it was fair. in a moment, dick morris will analyze a political implications of the story. well be right back with morris.