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Does that excuse you from having to work in the factual world. the rick santorum campaign is being run out of blog comments on a birther website. it's very hard to treat him or his campaign as a major political force. it's hard to treat him as a major political figure with a shot at the presidency. this is mitt romney's competition. heading into tomorrow's contest in the presidential primary, mr. romney is favored in the latest polling to win the state of marylandly 25 points. in washington, d.c. there's not real any polling but it may help to know that rick santorum is such a serious candidat...

13 minutes past the hour. the tea party movement cutting ties with one of its most visible leaders. mark williams and his tea party express group have been expelled by the national tea party leadership. at issue is williams' blog comments on race that were controversial and to many outright racist. cnn's jim acosta is following developments this morning. he's live in washington. so explain the significance of the tea party federation giving the tea party express the boot. >> well, you know, it's sort of like one of these tea party groups getting booted off the bus, you might say, kiran. all of...

Going to happen with it and try to improve that economy in that section of manhattan. >> let's do this. let's get some folks at home, wherever you are right now, to weigh in on this at the blog, cnn.com/tony. josh, help us work through some of these blog comments later on. thank you. day 86 of the gulf oil disaster and bp plans to test a new cap on the busted oil well. well, that plan is on hold right now. officials say they need to review the testing procedures before they move forward. the hope is that the massive custom designed cap might contain the flow of oil or allow most of it to be ...

What do you see when you look out over the next year, over, say, the next two years? >> well, i see us right in the middle of that perfect storm. >> yeah. >> and i just hope and pray, frankly, that it's a lot more calmer waters on the other end. the $3.2 billion shortfall, approximately $1.2 billion will impact public education for next year, and frankly that has all of us more than concerned here in florida, especially as we continue to drive high riggeror our classes, more advanced placement classes for our children, and truly try to meet the s.t.e.m. programs which is our science and techno...

Couple of blog comments i want to read to you. richard says, "look closely at how much we spend on multiple standardized tests children have to take. so much time is devoted to prepping children for the tests instead of focusing on teaching." jack, a quick comment on that. >> there is a concern that we spend a lot of time on testing, but if we don't spend it on testing, we ought to be focusing on a rich curriculum, then we'll still need the teachers in the classroom. it's not so much a budget savings as what should really be the focus on education. >> and, steve, this one for you. it comes fro...