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Staff there at usda that it wouldn't be tolerated during my tenure. >> so why are you out? >> i said it over and over again. >> why are you out? >> pardon? >> why are you out? >> why am i out? they asked me to resign, and, 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. >> so the pressure came from the white house? >> and the last one asked me to pull over to the side of the road and do it. >> you willing to name names? >> and that's exactly what i did. >> are you...

Toxic mixture, were becoming an issue. and then this story came out and clearly someone, we don't know quite who and we don't know quite how it unfolded, somebody decided, okay, we have to put the kebosh on this. >> this is a white house that believes it was unfairly -- shall we say there was overkill with jeremiah wright, the controversial with the president's former pastor. and some news outlets played over and over again the wright clips in an effort, they believe at the white house, to try to damage this president politically. if you listen to shirley sherrod, what she says her understandi...

>> and they fired her on the spot right there? they didn't ask her what happened? didn't ask her to explain herself some. >> she told the story in an interview yesterday on cnn about being called. she was traveling. she had a 3 1/2-hour drive to athens, georgia, and she was called three separate times by the federal government and finally they said, where are you? she said i'm two hours away. where are you now? i'm 45 minutes away. finally on the third call, she was told to pull over to the side of the road. here is the sound bilt bite. >> they asked me to resign. and, in fact, they harassed m...

Was driving back to the state office from west point, georgia, yesterday. hi at least three calls telling me the white house wanted me to resign. that was sheryl cook, the deputy under secretary. she called me and said -- she called me and i said, sheryl, i've got a three and a half hour ride to get into athens. she called me a second time. where are you now? i said i'm just going through atlanta. she called me again and i said i'm at least 45 minutes to an hour from athens. she said, well, shirley, they want you to pull over to the side of the road and do it. because you're going to be on gle...

It to the man. here is her interview with tony harris. >> i know i didn't discriminate, and i made it very clear to the staff there at usda that it wouldn't be tolerated during my tenure. >> so why are you out? >> i said it over and over again. >> why are you out? >> pardon? >> why are you out? >> why am i out? they asked me to resign. and 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. >> so the pressure came from the white house. >> and -- and the last one asked ...