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>> yeah. hey, eloise, a couple other quick questions here. >> caller: okay. >> about this relationship. i'm just trying to establish this relationship. explain to me -- i've got a line here that said -- that says that you guys picked a bunch of tomatoes? >> caller: yeah. one year -- after things settled down, i had a really pretty garden that year, and we were going up to albany for some reason, and so i told roger i was going to pick shirley some tomatoes, and i did. and we carried them back to her and had a good visit. >> you know, what do you think of the statement that's on the tape? it's ...

Don't have to take jobs at the bottom and work their way back up, so they can hold out for a while for that right job to come along. unfortunately, there just aren't a whole lot of them. >> carter, good to see you next hour. sir, thank you. the battle over a mosque near a 9/11 ground zero like you have never seen it before. next hour, you will hear from an army of veteran fighting the planned building, and see his commercial, the tv networks refuse to run. plus, you will hear from the new york developer behind the controversial project, and preparing to come home from war, the 82nd airborn...

Controversy swirling around? >> yes, our son -- he came up this morning and says, "mama, turn on the tv to cnn. and he said, it's about your friend, shirley sherrod." and i said "what?" and we listened, and i said "that ain't right, they haven't treated her right." she is the one i give credit to for saving our farm. >> let's see. some of the story here is that you met in the '80s, it was a bad time. i see that. it was -- it was a bad time in the family's life at the time. tell me why you were in trouble with the farm. >> caller: well, we had a lot of dry weather, and we had to run the irrigat...

>> that's okay. >> is he aware of the controversy swirling around? >> our son, he came up and said, mama, turn on the tv to cnn and he said, it's about your friend shirley sherrod and i said, what. i listened and said, great days, that's not right. they have not treated her right because she's the one that i get credit for helping us save our farm. >> some of the story is that you met in the '80s, and it was a bad time. >> mm-hmm. >> it was a bad time in the family's life at the time. tell me why you were in trouble with the farm? >> well, we had a lot of dry weather, and we had to run the irr...

Hello, everyone, i'm tony harris. top of the hour in the cnn "newsroom," where anything can happen. here are some of the people behind today's top stories. racial controversy. the former usda official at the center of it speaks out about it. >> in fact, they harassed me, as i was driving back to the state office from west point, georgia yesterday. i had at least three calls telling me the white house wanted me to resign. >> ground zero mosque plans to build just blocks away from a site of the 9/11 attacks stirs strong emotions. >> have we forgotten what happened at 9/11? >> what happened that ...