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Perception is not that secretary vilsack made an honest mistake like you did. and -- >> why not? we both made the same mistakes. >> he's the decision maker. >> but he's running around like i'm running around. he's in ohio. somebody calls him and says this woman said this. he doesn't know who the woman is. i'm going to cut him a little slack. i'll going to say he did exactly what i did. >> cut him all the slack you want. i won't. i think number one, he fired her on instructions from the white house because they wanted to stop fox news from running the story and getting embarrassed and they felt...

Country tries to evaluate the 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. that's the first glimmer of white house involvement of this story before she was fired. he said it wasn't necessarily an expression of press...

Control in the grassroots movement. you might remember, was it the tea party federation? there's a couple of different groups that tried to act as though they're the national group, the national spokesperson group. i don't play into all that because i think each individual group can speak for themselves. >> somebody had a -- somebody had to make the statement that this guy was no longer welcome in the tea party. >> yeah, one of those groups, i think, with the tea party federation told him, all right, this doesn't jive with us, you're out. >> we tried to get a hold of him to come on the program...

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 sylvia's 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, that could be problematic. in her speech last march, the speech you just saw there, miss sherrod sai...

-- >> billy, this is -- you know, i don't know. >> this is a big story, billy. >> it is big. >> it's a big story. and we're -- and in a world where the estate is lined up outside the courthouse for lindsay lohan like lindhberg arriving, this is a pretty big story right here. and, of course, in the 24/7 cycle, things are going to happen quickly. but she could have her job back tomorrow if she wanted. i'll be interested to see where this story goes tomorrow because i heard the rest of that speech. was this an epiphany story? yeah, it was. when you nibble on that cookie, man, nothing good can hap...