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Confront this whole notion of immigration in this country. you have to make a decision, what are we going to do? right now, everything is pea piecemeal and haphazard. congress, republicans and democrats have to confront this. >> there is a bipartisan legislation ready to go. i know you hate to hear this, the white house is responsible for this. >> and they took a lot of heat for trying to do this. there is legislation to be done. >> conservative, liberal, independent, i don't care what you are, all of congress needs to confront this issue of immigration reform. talk about confronting, finall...

They were in financial trouble. >> she put us in touch with a lawyer that knew what to do. he helped us save our farm. >> she went with us. she went with us in our car. she asked us, did we want her to go. we definitely wanted her to go. i don't know what brought up the racist mess. >> and perhaps a thing that added gasoline to the fire in this case was sherrod's assertion that the white house, which is run by, of course, the first black president, was somehow involved in asking her for resignation. it's pretty evidence this case could become a political problem for democrats in an election ye...

Twisted on the internet, as so often happens and an administration and naacp and a lot of other people who jumped the gun in going after her and crusifing her. first, they hung her and now we're going to get around to a trial. what needs to be done is to correct what appears to be a deep injustice to this woman. miss sherrod deserves by all accounts -- this is not -- >> i'm with david on this. i don't think there's any question, everybody screwed up and needs to admit they screwed up, end of story. >> campbell asked a broader question to which tim was speaking to, i was talking to as well, her...

Member of the local clan unit, someone that rose above those circumstances and committed a life she could have left the south. she stayed because she felt so much more needed to be done. they saw this as a way of neutralizing her and the naacp and embarrassing the administration all-in-one stroke. >> can you take away from this a little bit of people shouldn't jump to conclusions, maybe you shouldn't jump to conclusions about everybody who claims to be a tea party activist and maybe they shouldn't jump to conclusions about what she was trying to say, as you did in this instance? >> we did not ...

I had at least three calls telling me the white house want node resign. >> now, the secretary of agriculture, however, told us that just wasn't the case, and it didn't matter whether shirley sherrod felt she had been taken out of context. what mattered was what she said that was captured on the videotape. >> i didn't speak to anybody at the white house. when i saw the statements and the context of the statements, i determined that it would make it difficult for her to do her job as a rural development director and potentially compromise our ability to close the chapter on the civil rights case...