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All right. moving on -- students in florida weren't making the grade when it came to a state writing exam. so the department of education decided on this solution this week. they decided to lower the bar. lower the standard. joining me now, mom jan and her son a fourth grader who took that exam. good morning to both of you. >> good morning, gretchen. >> you're so polite. thank you so much, sir. let me start with you, hayden. what did you think of the exam sf what was the question and how did you answer it? >> well, i thought the exam was sort of in between. it was a prompt -- it was fairly dif...

It's ok for "the washington post" to run a 5,000 word front page story on a prank that romney at the age of 15 committed and yet, it's somehow illegitimate, the low road or whatever for people to bring up the fact that the adult obama had a 20-year relationship with a racist, anti-american preacher whom he considered spoke about -- wrote about as his mentor and spiritual advisor. that is a double standard unlike any i've ever seen. now, john mccain accepted it in his campaign. >> he did. part of the other hypocrisy is the fact for a year, we've heard the mainstream media talk about, oh, mitt r...

Immediately with some sort of a racial situation. here's mitt romney. >> i want to make it very clear i repudiate that effort. i think it's the wrong course for a pac or a campaign. i hope that our campaigns can respectfully be about the future and about issues. and about a vision for america. i -- i've been disappointed in the president's campaign to date which is focused on character assassination. >> and he's talking about really what he's talking about, too, is what joe biden is doing. that's attacking what mitt romney did at bain capital and what he didn't do in terms of investments. but ...

Brought it up in the first place as if republicans were robbing them from it. that's the most illogical thing that i've heard of to date and he doubled down on it yesterday is unthinkable. did you notice he was looking straight ahead and his prompter was on the left and right? i don't know what he's supposed to be saying. when he's looking straight, turn out the lights. >> another illogical thing, apparently when i was talking about marijuana, it's thc. >> what did you call it? >> h -- whatever was in the teleprompter. i don't have a lot of knowledge on these types of things. don't e-mail me a...

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