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Get away with this feeling they need to move if for mitt cal reasons if not for substance? >> the chain of events you just described is ri remarkable chain of events that even five years ago would never have been possible and it shows how dramatically the center of gravity around this issue has changed and a year ago we had a little bit of a preview of this when jan brewer in arizona vetoed a very similar bill. she saw what was coming and governor brewer never thought to be the smartest tack in ...

Saying the real issue is that religious people face their own kind of reverse discrimination here? >> i dont think it will be successful. what we as democrats believe is that religious freedom has been an important american value and will continue to be an important american value but we have always been able to realize religious liberty is important while at the same time putting the value of equality front and center. these two values coexisted in american law and governance for a long time. h...

>> the chain of events you just described is ri remarkable chain of events that even five years ago would never have been possible and it shows how dramatically the center of gravity around this issue has changed and a year ago we had a little bit of a preview of this when jan brewer in arizona vetoed a very similar bill. she saw what was coming and governor brewer never thought to be the smartest tack in the box saw this coming. so you could see it coming but its been a remarkable couple of wee...

Pronouncement to fire miss sherrod way before -- not way before but hours before "factor" came on, "hannity" came on and greta came on. they didnt know what we were going to do about it. its true they may have been anticipating. >> they probably could guess. >> yeah, you know what? all right. thats fair. >> they said oh, my god, fox has a hold of this story. theyre going to beat us over the head. and if we dont get out there and fire her pre-emptive ly, were going to look terrible and were going...

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...

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...

Matter. >> so i owe miss sherrod an apology for not doing my homework, for not putting her remarks into the proper context. since the exact same thing happened to me a few years ago on the despicable media matters, and nbc news took my words out of context about sylvias restaurant in harlem, i well understand the need for honest reporting. but the story does not end there. this afternoon, secretary vilsack announced miss sherrod would be hired back by the feds. but in a different job. however, t...

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...

Matter. >> so i owe miss sherrod an apology for not doing my homework, for not putting her remarks into the proper context. since the exact same thing happened to me a few years ago on the despicable media matters, and nbc news took my words out of context about sylvias restaurant in harlem, i well understand the need for honest reporting. but the story does not end there. this afternoon, secretary vilsack announced miss sherrod would be hired back by the feds. but in a different job. however, t...

President of the united states under pressure for alleged reverse discrimination under the justice department fires a black agriculture department official for telling a story of racial redemption? does juan have it right? >> first of all, the woman in question says she doesnt blame president obama for this. she got her-- it was her boss, the agriculture secretary, who supposedly asked her to resign. we dont know how far up this goes. i mean, i cant believe that the white house didnt order this....