tapper: joe, are you going to write this story? - yes. - tapper: what's the story? the story is that something is going on-- first of all, i didn't know 85 was speeding. - ( laughing ) - not in jersey, new mexico or arizona. so you better raise the number. i mean, nobody told me. this is a story that the public just loves, because the public doesn't trust the car industry. people live in cars. it's the scariest thing in the world for them, especially if they find out they're going to be going 85, and that's dangerous now. so of course you're gonna do the story. you'd be an idiot not to do the story. joe is absolutely right that people are interested in that story. that is a story they wanna read and they will respond to. whereas if you said, "yeah, but we're helping the war in iraq by buying the cars," no one cares about that. i want to ask some drivers. and paul and leslie, you're married. and you guys love your i-care car. you love it. you love zooming by those long lines of suvs - at the gas station. - lowe: i always tell him to slow down. zooming by-- but stayin

- even though-- - tapper: nell, what do you want? - yes! i-- - tapper: you want it shut down? yes, i want it shut down immediately. - tapper: mr. donaldson. - donaldson: we got a ship, and we gotta get this asbestos out of it. we gotta get it done. tapper: what do you want to do with this project now? - i want to stop it. - tapper: you want to stop it. - yeah. - mcdonough: i don't think you have to stop it. i want to figure out how we can-- mcdonough: i think you have to say to the foreman in whatever accent one wants to put on "put the masks on, and get the workers busy." - he would say, "yes, sir." - tapper: the masks are on. and if the masks come off, then you're relieved. and we'll find an alternative person who will comply and wear the masks. because we know that there's a plethora of workers and not a lot of high-paying jobs in novastan. tapper: okay. mr. mcdonough, you're a chief executive at casablanca. your daughter joanne comes home from grad school with a copy of "bleeding heart magazine." ( laughing ) ah, you hate it when she brings that home. and in it is a very l

oil for now is finally stopped, and on the political front, his financial reform so, why suc jake tapper breaks it down. >> reporter: some democrats have been grumbling that the public is not giving the president enough credit for all he has accomplished in such a shor >> we will rebuild. we will recover. the united states will emerge stronger than before. >> reporter: after all, democrats argue, 18 months into his presidency, mr. obama has chalked up a number of big victories. an $862 billion stimulus bill that many economists say staved off a depression. a major overhaul of america's health care system. and just yesterday, the biggest reform of wall street and the nation's financial system since right after the great depression. so, what's going on? it's this. as unemployment has gone up, up, up, the president's approval rating on the economy has gone down, down, down. >> accomplishments on paper are one thing. it's the change in real life that people aren't seeing. >> reporter: the president's three big achievements came after compromises and fierce debate. >> hell, no, you haven't! >

jake tapper reports. >> reporter: it was combustible. a conservative website posting a video clip of department of agriculture official shirley sherrod at an naacp event talking about meeting with a white farmer. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farmland. and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so, i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: an obama administration official called sherrod in her car and demanded she pull over and type a resignation letter in her blackberry. agriculture secretary tom vilsack said in a statement that there is zero tolerance for discrimination at his agency. none of them bothered to learn that the incident in question happened 24 years ago when sherrod worked for a nonprofit. the question is, why would you look at the white farmers differently than you looked at the black farmers? >> because i always, up to that point, i felt they had all of the advantages. >> reporter: then, in 1986, she changed her mind, as s

here's jake tapper. >> reporter: president obama posed in an electric car, in at an event in michigan, heralding the stimulus bill. >> i recommend them. >> reporter: but the real electricity this week, has been behind closed doors among democrats. an explosion of anger, building up for months. a fuse lit by spokesman, robert gibbs, saying that democrats could lose the house this november. >> i think there's no doubt, there's enough seats in play. that could cause republicans to gain control, there's no doubt about that. >> reporter: remarks many house democrats thought unappreciative and suspected as an attempt by the white house to distance itself from am impending loss. >> i think the comment was unfortunate. >> i think robert gibbs' statement was completely wrong. we're not going to lose the house of representatives. >> reporter: and it prompted larger gripe sessions among house democrats this week with the president. what's their beef? one democratic congressman told me that, quote, obama has a general thrust of, we've got to do tough things. and then he says to congress, okay. yo

here's jake tapper. >> reporter: late this afternoon, agriculture secretary tom vilsack apologized to shirley sherrod. >> this is a good woman. she's been put through hell. and i asked for shirley's forgiveness and she was gracious enough to extend it to me. >> reporter: the public mea culpa came after president obama privately expressed strong regrets about the whole affair. >> he talked about the fact that an injustice had happened, and that because the facts had changed, a review of the decision based on those facts should be undertaken. >> reporter: actually the facts had not changed. it's just that the obama administration finally learned all of them. the story started when a conservative blog, and then cable tv, ran this video clip of sherrod at an naacp dinner earlier this year talking about a meeting with a white farmer seeking her assistance. >> so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: but that clip did not tell the full story. the meeting with the white farmer was 24 years ago when sherrod worked for a non-profit and she ended up helping those far

jake tapper reports. >> reporter: it was combustible. a conservative website posting a video clip of department of agriculture official shirley sherrod at an naacp event talking about meeting with a white farmer. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people have lost their farm land and here i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: last night, an obama administration official called sherrod in her car and demanded she pull over and type a resignation letter in her blackberry. agriculture secretary tom vilsack said in a statement that there is zero tolerance for discrimination at his agency. none of them bothered to learn that the incident in question happened 24 years ago when sherrod worked for a nonprofit. the question is, why would you look at the white farmers differently than you looked at the black farmers? >> because i always, up to that point, i felt they had all of the advantages. >> reporter: then, in 1986, she changed her

. >> and we turn now to our chief white house correspondent jake tapper. jake, the president is sounding more partisan here than usual. can we expect to hear more of this heading into the midterm elections in november? >> reporter: absolutely, midterm elections, they're usually referendums on the party in power and every white house wants to change that dynamic, make it a choice election, and that's what you see here. president obama is leading the way in making the argument that it's a choice between president obama's policies and president bush's policies. so they're trying to reclaim the 2008 momentum that way. >> jake, the republicans are countering that even a year and a half into his own term, the president is still running against president bush, as you just noted there. is that a fair criticism? >> it's absolutely fair. in fact, in our interview with vice president biden that's going to air tomorrow morning on "this week," you'll hear him use the term "repeal and repeat." and that what means is he thinks he's -- accusing the republicans of wanting

governor chris christie told jake tapper that the show is not good. >> mtv's jt jersey shore" positive jersey in which or negative? >> what it does is take a bunch of new yorkers, drops them at the jersey shore, tries to make america feel like this is new jersey. it's a beautiful place. we've got another six weeks or so of summer left. come to new jersey. >> governor certainly was not the only critic of the show. many italian-american groups have panned the show as offensive. >>> in sports, alberto contador road into the tour de france. meanwhile, seven-time champion lance armstrong finished 23rd, competing for the last time. for other highlights, kevin connors at espn news. >>> good morning, historic sunday in indianapolis. we take you to the brickyard for the action. pole sitter juan pablo montoya getting focused for the brickyard 400. jimmie johnson both eyeing their fifth brickyard victory. first lap of the race turned to kyle busch, flipped sam hornish jr. from behind, where there's smoke, there's generally a pileup. seven cars. busch would finish eighth, hornish, 30th. 40 left to

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jake tapper is in washington tonight. goldman sr: aig, goldman sachs, group,roup, bank of america, morgan stanley, jpmorgan chase ving11 other banks receiving s xpayer bailout funds gave their own executives $1.6 billion in salary and bonuses at t for their their performances at the end of 2008, beginning of 2009. that was the exact same time that was asen the economy was crashing down, because of decisions made by some of these same executives. some of whom were paid more than some of whom wer $10 million apiece. according to treasury department ennethal kenneth feinberg. >> the taxpayer has a right to be outraged. who wouldn't be? >> reporter: all of this was be legal, because executive pay executivens on companies receiving bailout funds did not exist until february 2009. he at the time these payments were made, they were ill the part of t viosed, bad judgment on the part of these companies, but they didn't violate any statute, they didn't violate any regulation at the time. >> reporter: feinberg had few reporter: fein

republicans are fighting back, and so we bring in jake tapper, host of abc's "this week." jake, you spoke to treasury secretary tim geithner about these cuts. >> reporter: that's right, and republicans and even some moderate democrats are promising a fight over these tax cuts, but secretary geithner says the administration is going to fight back. >> i think that's the responsible thing to do because we had to make sure we can show the world that we're willing as a country now to make some progress bringing down our long-term deficits. >> don't you think it will slow economic growth? >> just letting those tax cuts that only go to 2% to 3% of americans, the highest earning americans in the country expire i do not believe will have a negative effect on growth. >> reporter: the secretary also talked about job creation and he even weighed in on the controversy involving shirley sherrod, the agriculture employee, who was fired earlier this week now the administration says unjustly. sharyn? >> all right. thanks, jake. you can see jake's full interview with the treasury secretary

jake tapper joins us now. jake? >> reporter: that's right, diane. many congressional democrats have been furious this week, and the person they've been angry with is the man who lives in the building behind me. president obama today posed in an electric car at an event in michigan today heralding the stimulus bill. >> i'm telling you guys -- i recommend them. >> reporter: but the real electricity this week has been behind closed doors among democrats. an explosion of anger building up for months. a fuse lit by spokesman robert gibbs saying that democrats could lose the house this there are enough that could cause republicans to gain control, there's no doubt about tha ter anye democrats thought unapprecia and suspected were an attempt by the white house to distance itself from a pending loss. >> i think the comment was unfortunate. >> i think robert gibbs' statement was completely wrong. we're not going to lose the houf epativ largripens house deday lasnighhe pnt. what's their beef? one democratic congressman told me that, quote, obama has a general

at we begin tonight with jake tapper at the white house. cccccc >> reporter: good evening, good evening, e president spokht. president obama spoke with ccrley sherrod, the former stice.lture department employee, obae resignation the administration sought and then wased an injustice. president obama today told shirley sherrod he was sorry. >> he expressed his apologies for for the events of the last events of the l >> reporter: it was an apology that sherrod accepted and one she felt was she due, as she she felt said on "good morning america" this morning. said that iave people think that i as a racist, someone who has worked against racism all of my hufe, really, really hurt. theeporter: after all the speech she had originally told unfairlyspeech that was unfairly edited, was about her father a whikilled by a white man in ing her crow south during her teens and how she overcame her prejudice. this morning, aides to tom details, secretary of sriculture, e-mailed sherrod he men about a new job offer, as she told the women of "the view." >> he

put taxpayers on the hook for wall street's mis >> and our senior white house correspondent, jake tapper, joins us from washington. ped., you have the well looking passage of financial reform big >> reporter: thxact and president call on air force one from chi of staff rahm emanuel, and the white house top environmental adviser, carol browner. emanuel said, i have two things for you. browner told him that the well was at least temporarily capped. and emanuel said that the reform had passed the senate. the president said, mark this down as a good day. >> but, you know, jake, the president faces this as a paradox. this is not a big pillar of his legislative agenda. following stimulus. following health care. yet, his poll numbers continue to slide. how does the white house plan to address that? >> reporter: well, they're going to try to cast this election as a choice between obama policies and bush policies. this wall street reform bill will be an example of that. this is a major change to the financial system. the biggest one since right they side o d what republicans want to do. >> and do

from the heart of the nation's capital, "this week" with abc's senior white house correspondent jake tapper. live from the newseum on pennsylvania avenue. >> immigration reform. you've said this issue is too important to demagogue. who is demagoguing in the senate right now, and what is the solution to immigration reform? >> first of all, on demagoguing i wasn't talking about anything that's going on now, that's a two-year-old quote, and there were things going on in new jersey at the time while i was u.s. attorney that i thought was demagoguery and i called it that. this issue is a federal issue that should be handled by the feds and fixed finally. as a former united states attorney, i had to deal with these issues for seven years and we simply didn't have the resources to deal with them effectively. so the president and the congress have to step up to the plate, they have to secure our borders, and they have to put forward a commonsense path to citizenship for people. >> you prefer to talk about springsteen but the "new york times" today has this profile of snooki from "jersey shore." mtv

jake tapper has more on that story. >> reporter: it was combustible.osting a video clip of department of agriculture official shirley sherrod at an naacp event talking about meeting with a white farmer. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many blacle here i was faced wving land. so i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: an obama administration official called sherrod in her car and demanded she pull over and type a resignation letter in her blackberry. agriculture secretary tom vilsack said in a statement that there is zero tolerance for discrimination at his agency. none of them bothered to learn that the incident in question happened 24 years ago when sherrod worked for a nonprofit. >> the question is why would you look at the white farmers differently than you looked at the black farmers? >> because i always -- up to that point, i felt they had all of the advantages. >> reporter: then, in 1986, she changed her mind. as she said in the speech. >> that's when it was revealed to me that it's about poor versus those who

jake tapper, abc news, the white house. >>> a congressional panel has charged new york democrat charlestate holdings, fund-raising and financial disclosure. rangel gave up leadership of the house ways and means committee in march because of a sepate in marchhiccause of a sepate elc e c to prove his innoc >> i feel extraoriy that my supporters over 40 years will be able to evalua >> specific cha rangel will be revealed at public hearing on t >>> an openly gay army officer is calling his discharge from the military infuriating and painful. lieutenant dan choi, veteran of the iraq war, announced yesterday he was discharged by the california army national guard. he disclosed last year that he's gay and then protested the military's don't ask, don't tell policy outside the white house in march. that policy requires openly gay personnel to be discharged, but efforts are under way now to repeal it. >>> white house pay czar ken feinberg releases his report on executive pay today. it concludes u.s. banks paid out $1.5 billion in unwarranted bonuses as the financial system was collapsing. the rep

from the heart of the nation's capital, "this week" with abc's senior white house correspondent jake tapperewseum on pennsylvania avenue. >> there's that famous saying in washington by mike kinsley that a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. robert gibbs experienced some of that -- >> i've never had a gaffe. >> you've never had an issue can that. no, i know. so you can't relate. but he said that enough seats are in play in the house for the democrats to possibly lose the house. empirically true. how bad are the losses going to be for democrats? >> i don't think the loss is going to be bad at all. i think we're going to shock the heck out of everybody. i really -- and i've been saying this now, i think when you and i went down to north carolina, you followed me on a recovery trip, i was saying it then. i am absolutely confidence -- confident, when people take a look at what has happened since we've taken office in november and comparing it to the alternative, we're going to be in great shape. here's the deal. what robert gibbs also said is what he believes, what i believe

let's bring in jake tapper hosting "this week" later. jake, good to see you, sir. >> hey, bill. tiinder >> that's right.el, f tuts areh the obama administration says that they're going to try to keep those for thoho m $200,000 a year or less or for couples that make $250,000 a year. but they want the bush tax cuts on the wealthiest americans to expire. here ofterv >> we think that's the responsible thing to do because we need to make sure we can show the world that we're willing as a country to make some progress briningur long-term deficits. >> don't you think it will slow conc g that only go to 2% to 3% of the americans, the highest earning americans expire i don't think will have a negative effect on growth. >> obviously not every economist agrees with that. some do feel that that will hinder growth, will slow growth. so this is going to be a big fights in washington in the months to come, bill. >> let's go to the other story of the week. it was fascinating watching the reporting on shirley sherrod. this is the former agriculture official forced to resign when some oer onte c

let's bring in jake tapper, who is hosting "this week." good morning, jake.oto s >> goo good to see you as we >> while the president has a lot riding on this crisis ending as soon as possible, tell us, what is happening behind the scenes? >> behind the scenes, they feel confident as matt has said, but i will be very surprised if anybody declares this over until that relief well is in motion. they do not want to get ahead of where the story could go. there have been a lot of fits and starts to this story from the very beginning. from the very beginning when they were told by bp that there was not any oil spilling from the well at all. i think until the relief well is in place, you won't hear any mission accomplished declarations. >> we have this big development in the gulf. then, we have the passage of landmark financial regulations. and the oil spill looking to be stopped. this was a good week for the president. you talked to the vice president about regular reform. >> that's right. we talked to vice president biden. the interview will air later on "this week

jake tapper, abc news, the white house. >>> coming up later, the man who sparked the controversy.tbart. >>> a competitive cheerleading it not a official college sport on title ix. jernd equity law. the women's basketball team brought the suit after the team was eliminated and replaced with a cheerleading squad. the judge said the cheerleading may one day qualify but right now it is too underdeveloped and disorganized. >>> closing arguments start next week in the rod blagojevich corruption trial. the defense rested yesterday without calling a single witness, including the former governor himself who long-promised to take the stand. blagojevich said he planned to testify until advised not to do so by his attorneys. >> brainstorming and free speech is part of what the american experience is supposed to be. and talking to your advisers as a governor and seeking advice, especially from those who are lawyers, to make sure that you do your duty the right way, was what i did and what those tapes proved. i've learned a lot of experiences -- i've learned a lot of lessons from this whole exp

but first, jake tapper has the latest there at the white house. good morning, jake. >> reporter: good morning, robin. you know, you seldom see something like this where somebody claims they've been wronged, the white house adm she's offered a job, but the white house does seem very er to get this story be overnight, secretary of agriculture tom vilsack met with members of the congressional black caucus to discuss the circumstances which led to the ouster of agriculture department official shirley sherrod. it was vilsack's most recent act of contrition for the episode. >> it was a very good meeting, and we really believe that mrs. sherrod deserves our respect. >> reporter: this followed vilsack's apology to sherrod after it became clear that her words had been taken out of context in the short clip making the rounds on the internet and cable. >> this is a good woman. she's been put through hell. >> apparently she's watching this briefing, shirley sherrod, on cnn right now. is there anything you want to say to her? >> on behalf of the administration

jake tapper is at the white house with the details. jake, it looks like there was a flurry of activity last night. the tape is released. white house officials get on the phone with the agriculture secretary. and this morning, he says he's reconsidering the whole matter. >> reporter: that's right. secretary tom vilsack says he's willing to review the decision to terminate shirley sherrod. it's a story of twists and turns, and a story that's become a real distraction for the white house. yesterday afternoon, secretary vilsack defended his decision to seek her resignation, saying it was his and his alone. this after a conservative website posted a video clip of sherrod earlier this year at an naacp event, talking about a meeting with a white farmer. >> i was struggling with the fact that so many black people had lost their farmland. and here, i was faced with having to help a white person save their land. so, i didn't give him the full force of what i could do. >> reporter: but vilsack had never bothered to learn that the incident in ques

and jake tapper asked him if it was good for his state or bad?sey or negative? >> negative. it takes most of the new yorkers. drops them at the jerry shore. and tries to make america feel like this is new jersey. >> that's from the governor. >> i looked at her picture. she looked like the goddess. i've never seen the show because i don't like to watch humiliation. and i turned down 25 reality shows of my own. but how can it be bad for the state? someone from new york? >> first of all, they're probably not from new york. my husband's from new jersey. he always went down to the shore. you went -- everybody from your town went to certain block at a certain place on the beach. you saw the same people you saw during the week. and snooki is not an representative. >> what was your town? he said, i don't know. what do you think it is? that's all we have time for. what do you think it is? that's all we have time for. cybill's going to be back in our next half hour, talking about we'll be back. nd sauteing can be kinda relaxing at the end of the day. [ fem

jake tapper has much more. good morning to you, jake. >> reporter: good morning, juju.hat's right, white house officials are eager to put this controversy in the rear-view mirror. but president obama did tell abc news, about his phone call with shirley sherrod. after landing in atlanta after her frenzied media tour, shirley sherrod said she was thinking about her job offer from the agriculture department. >> this has been a whirlwind. and i need a little downtime to -- and i really have not seen the offer in writing yet. >> reporter: in a rare moment of bipartisan agreement, both democrats and republicans, including house republican leader, john boehner, expressed sympathy for her. >> the whole episode has been unfortunate. and i think this lady has been put through hell and back. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with "good morning america's" consumer correspondent, elisabeth leamy, president obama explained how he told sherrod he related personally to her speech. the full one, not the unfairly edited excerpt. >> one of the things i shared with ms. sherrod was the

on abc's "this week" jake tapper speaks with david axelrod and brian billbray. the guests included david axelrod and jon kyl. also there is an interview with the netanyahu. on "face the nation" interview air colder. on the "state of the union" david axelrod and bill richardson. kenneth feinberg, the administration of the bp compensation fund. you can listen to all five of the sunday morning talk shows starting at noon eastern on c- span radio. that is 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c., area. also on the web at cspanradio.com. i can follow us on facebook and twitter. host: coming up, leslie sanchez, a new spinoff, the dean resurgent republic. we will learn more about that in a few minutes. geopolitics coming up on "newsmakers." there is not a morning hearing because of our live coverage of the nj summer meeting. in our conversation with darrell issa, this came up. >> michael steele, the head of your party -- the head of the national republican national committee. >> is this someone who should remain as the top executive of the rnc? >> michael steele is supposed to

the rifles will fire a 21-gun salute and the bugle will sound tappers in last time as the name of staff sergeant jesse ainsworth is placed on the hallowed roles of those who have given their lives for american freedom of the will be surrounded by his family for the last time and the war will be over for staff sergeant ainsworth but the war will not end for his family. it has been said what we have done for others -- what we have done for ourselves dies with us, what we have done for others remains and is immortal. staff sergeant jesse ainsworth is that rare american breed that lived and died for something bigger than himself. today we honor his life and sacrifice. that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: mr. hoyer of maryland. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california rise? >> i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady they may proceed for five minutes. ms. woolsey: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, after general stanley mckristal was relieved of his -- mcchrystal was relieved of his command last mont