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Misconstrue -- misconstruction. >> among the misconstruers, house republican leader john boehner calling barton into a meeting this afternoon. he promptly caved to boehner's shake down. he said either cave immediately or lose your position immediately. he apologized immediately. in a statement distributed by baner's office, barton is quoted as saying, i apologize for using the term shakedown with regard to yesterday's actions at the white house yesterday morning and i retract my apology to bp. we're joined by congressman mike doyle of pennsylvania. who sits on the energy commerce subcommittee ...

>> could we take that as a no in response to my question, sir, that you did not consider this to be a slush fund? >> i certainly didn't think it was a slush fund. >> even the gobp had enough. talk about a shakedown. barton forced to retract his apology. >> if anything i said this morning has been misconstrued in an opposite effect, i want to apologize for that misconstruction. >> day 59 with howard fineman, with congressman doyle of pennsylvania, with the bp whistle-blower who fears there could be worse to come. the first rule of tea party is you do not talk about tea party. >> i think the big...

White house a, quote, shakedown. how come miller was one of the people calling when barton called it a shakedown, this biblical disaster. was it the apology that made the difference? >> no. i think it's the difference between being an idealogue and devil delving into the post reagan part in the abstract and seeing it on camera. the barton thing was politically hideous. the instant people saw if, they recoiled, including john boehner and everybody in the republican party practically. it's one thing to be theory. it's another to put that out there in the middle of the hearing. i disagree a littl...

Weeks ago, it was a shakedown. they were ahead of the curve. that is what the base believes. they need to make sure more republicans don't actually admit they believe that. >> david weigel of the washington post. thanks. >> thank you. >> has the time come for the man who would be time's man of the year? it's about alvin greene. he's campaigning for the award. and campaigning for the senate. the details on that meeting ahead. worse, what is this alabama candidate hunting? varmits who steal yard sales. >> rachel takes on glen beck for taking on the entire planet. saying the sport of soccer is ...

Announced by the president yesterday for $20 billion in relief in the wake of this oil disaster, he said it amounted to a shake down by the white house. if he had done the same thing he'd be put in jail he said. the white house has responded i understand. >> yes, absolutely, jane. this oil spill continues, the federal response continues, but right now you have an outbreak of hard-core hard ball politics between joe barton and the obama white house. moments after he made that statement robert gibbs the white house press secretary put out a statement that reads in part calling it the headline sa...