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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...

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...