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A vote that's expected soon. some of them, including fox news, insinuating conspiracy, in the fact that sherrod and her husband, civil rights leader charles sherrod, won a settlement of their own last year before she joined the usda. working on this story is senior reporter christina belantoni. good evening. thanks for joining us. could you take us through this sherrod case, the litigation, the sherrod family was involved in? >> absolutely. this is all part of the pigford settlement which started in 1997. in 1999, a settlement was agreed to where several thousand black farmers, it was found ...

That's a very selectively edited video 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 any 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? it was a very obscure thing that none of us knew abou...

Reported, the right wing opposes the usda settlements with black farmers and some of them jumped on the sherrod video to pressure congress against authorizing the payment of more than $1 billion to those farmers. a vote that's expected soon. some of them, including fox news, insinuating conspiracy, in the fact that sherrod and her husba husband, civil rights leader charles sherrod, won a settlement of their own last year before she joined the usda. working on this story is senior reporter christina belantoni. good evening. thanks for joining us. could you take us through this ç sherrod case...

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 this case. >> foxnews.com claimed that the sherrod settlement meant that, quote, the plot has thickened. the washington examiner went even further. what is it they're trying to suggest about the sherrod elements of that large lawsuit involving billions of...