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A vote that's expected soon. some of them, including fox news, insinuating conspiracy, in that sherrod and her husband won a settlement of their own last year before she joined the usda. working on this story is senior reporter christina bel belantoni. could you take us through this take? >> it started in 1997. in 1999, a settlement was agreed to where several thousand black farmers, it was found they had been discriminated against. mostly in the form of being denied loans from the department of agriculture. she and her husband moved to georgia and started a community farm with several peopl...

Video pushed by conservative news sites to tarnish this woman's name. certainly the settlement doesn't have anything to do with any of that. this is furthering a claim by some on the right you can't prove some of these cases. congressman steve king, a republican from iowa, tweeted there's a lot of fraud in this because you can't actually prove that the farmers were discriminated against. that's dismissed by the majority of mainstream republicans. >> what does this week's controversy do to the possible payment of settlement in this litigation? there's a political question involved in whether co...

The sherrod case is very interesting. she and her husband moved to georgia and started a community farm with several people from the community in 1968. and they were met with repeated problems. my colleague spent a lot of time today researching this and basically determined the sherrod story is that they hit roadblocks from the state government. they were denied many loans. drought ended up causing them major problems. eventually they had to foreclose on the property, which was eventually bulldozed. they were part of this settlement. in 2009, they were awarded $13 million as a settlement for t...

>> it seems they're trying to suggest there's some link as to why she was hired a few months after this settlement was awarded in 2009 by the department of agriculture. but it really obscures the issue of what we're talking about. that's a very selectively edited pushed by conservative news sites to tarnish this woman's name. certainly the settlement doesn't have anything to do with any of that. this is furthering a claim by some on the right you can't prove some of these cases. congressman steve king, a republican from iowa, tweeted there's a lot of fraud in this because you can't actually pr...

Story is that they hit roadblocks from the state government. they were denied many loans. drought ended up causing them many problems. eventually they had to foreclose on the property, which was eventually bulldozed. they were part of this settlement. in 2009, they were awarded $2 million as a settlement for this case. >> 3eeátuáitáz claimed that the sherrod settlement meant that, quote, the plot has thickened. what is it they're trying to suggest about the sherrod elements of that large lawsuit involving billions of dollars and where the story is today? >> it seems they're trying to sugges...