Charlie Gibson on ACORN Scandal: ‘I don’t even know about it.’


	Charlie Gibson on ACORN Scandal: ‘I don’t even know about it.’

merrie

9-15-2009 8:23 PM

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acorn scandals, charlie gibson, leave to to cable? huh?

merrie says:

Roma: Well I think that this is a huge issue because there’s so much funding that goes into this organization and it’s a multi…

Charlie Gibson: Well, I know we’ve done some stories about ACORN before but uh, uh this one I don’t know about.

Roma: Jake Tapper did some blogging on it. I know he’s at least blogged once on this scandal.

Charlie Gibson: You guys, you guys are really up on the uh on the website.

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Footage of the San Bernardino investigation was not available at the time of the interview.

Thank you to WLS AM Chicago for providing the audio.

http://www.wlsam.com/sectional.asp?id=17450

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