President Obama’s “green-energy czar,” Van Jones, has resigned unexpectedly. To understand the strange road that led to his resignation late Saturday night, we need to look back a couple of weeks, to when Glenn Beck appeared on Fox and Friends and said that President Obama “has a deep-seated hatred of white people.” (Click through for Van Jones’ previous appearances on The Takeaway.) For a closer look at the resignation and how this effects President Obama’s favorability, we talk to Julie Mason. She covers the White House for the Washington Examiner.