Sherrod Settlement News Today

A vote thats expected soon. some of them, including fox news, insinuating conspiracy, in that sherrod and her husband won a settlement of their own last year before she joined the usda. working on this story is senior reporter christina bel belantoni. could you take us through this take? >> it started in 1997. in 1999, a settlement was agreed to where several thousand black farmers, it was found they had been discriminated against. mostly in the form of being denied loans from the department o...

Video pushed by conservative news sites to tarnish this womans name. certainly the settlement doesnt have anything to do with any of that. this is furthering a claim by some on the right you cant prove some of these cases. congressman steve king, a republican from iowa, tweeted theres a lot of fraud in this because you cant actually prove that the farmers were discriminated against. thats dismissed by the majority of mainstream republicans. >> what does this weeks controversy do to the possible ...

The sherrod case is very interesting. she and her husband moved to georgia and started a community farm with several people from the community in 1968. and they were met with repeated problems. my colleague spent a lot of time today researching this and basically determined the sherrod story is that they hit roadblocks from the state government. they were denied many loans. drought ended up causing them major problems. eventually they had to foreclose on the property, which was eventually bulldo...

>> it seems theyre trying to suggest theres some link as to why she was hired a few months after this settlement was awarded in 2009 by the department of agriculture. but it really obscures the issue of what were talking about. thats a very selectively edited pushed by conservative news sites to tarnish this womans name. certainly the settlement doesnt have anything to do with any of that. this is furthering a claim by some on the right you cant prove some of these cases. congressman steve king,...

Story is that they hit roadblocks from the state government. they were denied many loans. drought ended up causing them many problems. eventually they had to foreclose on the property, which was eventually bulldozed. they were part of this settlement. in 2009, they were awarded $2 million as a settlement for this case. >> 3eeátuáitáz claimed that the sherrod settlement meant that, quote, the plot has thickened. what is it theyre trying to suggest about the sherrod elements of that large lawsu...

A vote thats expected soon. some of them, including fox news, insinuating conspiracy, in the fact that sherrod and her husband, civil rights leader charles sherrod, won a settlement of their own last year before she joined the usda. working on this story is senior reporter christina belantoni. good evening. thanks for joining us. could you take us through this sherrod case, the litigation, the sherrod family was involved in? >> absolutely. this is all part of the pigford settlement which start...

Thats a very selectively edited video to tarnish this womans name. certainly the settlement doesnt have anything to do with any of that. this is furthering a claim by some on the right you cant prove any of these cases. congressman steve king, a republican from iowa, tweeted theres a lot of fraud in this because you cant actually prove that the farmers were discriminated against. thats dismissed by the majority of mainstream republicans. >> what does this weeks controversy do to the possible pay...

Reported, the right wing opposes the usda settlements with black farmers and some of them jumped on the sherrod video to pressure congress against authorizing the payment of more than $1 billion to those farmers. a vote thats expected soon. some of them, including fox news, insinuating conspiracy, in the fact that sherrod and her husba husband, civil rights leader charles sherrod, won a settlement of their own last year before she joined the usda. working on this story is senior reporter chris...

Basically determined the sherrod story is that they hit roadblocks from the state government. they were denied many loans. drought ended up causing them major problems. eventually they had to foreclose on the property, which was eventually bulldozed. they were part of this settlement. in 2009, they were awarded $13 million as a settlement for this case. >> foxnews.com claimed that the sherrod settlement meant that, quote, the plot has thickened. the washington examiner went even further. what is...