my theory of book festivals is too many jerry springer moments. we are going to try to provoke an argument. i will probably be unsuccessful. i am going to try to get them to argue and we have time at the end for questions from the audience so if fireman's successful maybe you will be. obviously one of the very hottest topics in the politics of education is the question of standardized assessments. i will state the case, we have an enormous system and without objective measures of how kids are doing you run the risk of the soft bigotry of low expectations, providing diplomas to kids who can't read them and so it seems reasonable there should be some things and to your point about democracy there has to be a common foundation of knowledge. even if we trusted e -- every school that the full rigor, you produce that in a society and as you say in the book, one generation grows up not knowing who kurt cobain and another doesn't know -- literally speaking that changes government. each of you has critiques of the standardization of education. talk about i

[applause] >> the reason is hard to get jerry springer out of this is this is our only bipartisan issue. everybody cares about it. everybody has been on the same side dating back to ted kennedy and george bush. there are a lot of reasons the election is important. they ton either candidate will take in office will affect what happens with education. >> paul, you wrote in the new york times magazine the obama before he was elected and the obama in the white house having different towns about posture. using the changes if he gets a second term? goes back to the tone he had before? >> i wrote about his policies around poverty and he stopped talking about poverty the last couple years. i would like to think he would go back to poverty in 2007. .. >> the low-income population grew 71%. the english language learning population grew 169%. these are the issues we have to address in this state. thank you all for joining us up. [laughter] >> this event took place at the 17th annual texas book festival in austin, texas. for more information about the festival visit texasbookfestival.org. >> brooke

find out tuesday on the next "jerry springer." jerry springer, cia smackdown, 11:00 a.m. on wpix new york. >> wow. >> time now to take a look at the morning papers. the "wall street journal." a boom in shale oil will help the u.s. overtake saudi arabia as the world's largest oil producer by 2020. >> do you believe that? do you believe that? >> that's amazing. >> the top oil producer by 2020. it changes everything. >> by then, the u.s. is expected to produce 11 million barrels of oil a day, u.s. production peaked in 1970 at 9.5 million barrels a day. >> add to that the natural gas discoveries and energy suddenly becomes our strong suit moving forward. wow. >> that's much more -- and in the long-term, that's so much more important to national security than what we've been talking about. >> yeah. i would agree. >> it is shocking. >>> from a parade of papers, the "houston chronicle," less than a week from president obama's election, petition from texans to secede from the union. similar petitions have been filed on the white house website from a number of states from florida

find out on the next jerry springer. >> before our panel debates sex, power and politics.est on the ladies involved in toppling america's napolian. >> they should not be able to profit. i don't know if you want dip dipic protection. ntampa bay socialit. the other woman in the middle of the shady au pair that brought down david petraeus and new emaims sent to tampa mayor bob buckhorn reveals. this one shortly after six o'clock a.m.. >> my kids are scare need their home back. >> these are communities where power speaks to next thing you know, you have wealthy socialites that are now, they are in the respective very haves that are close with the other power sector and that is leadership in mac del air force base. >> fred wilco served under general petraeus and lives in the tampa area. >> it is it a woman with no security clearance gets unescorted full acess . nthe work she had done in the military community certainly relationships she had developed with top level commanders here. that is not the norm. me, i have brought people through the gate at mac dill air force base on ma

find out tuesday on the next jerry springer. >> before our panel debates that intersection i've beenalking about, sex, power, and politics, craig has the latest on the ladies involved in toppling the man i call america's in napoleon. >> i don't know if you want to get diplomatic protection involved as well. >> tampa socialite jill kelley, the other other woman in the middle of the shady affair that brought dow in cia director davd petraeus. continues too push political buttons as new e-mails sent directly to tampa mayor bob buckhorn revealed. this one shortly before 6 a.m. on wednesdayment bob, hope all is well. my kids are scared and need their home back. >> these are communities where power kind of speaks to power and the next thing you know these wealthy socialites and their respective better halves are very close with the other power ac sector in the community, and that's the leadership out of mcdill air force base. >>rv he lives in the tampa area where he hosts his own radio show. >> how does a woman with no security clearance get on escort escorted full access into these bases?

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the lohan family saga, which is an episode of "jerry springer," continues to get messier and dirtierer. michael lohan father of the year nominee once again. >>> do you want to collaborate on this one again? >> yeah. go for it. >> last night on mtv, cast of "the jersey shore" collaborated, if you saw, "restore the shore." the telethon. spawning out of this, donna schroeder, wonderful graphic artist, graphic designer here, her son and his fraternity took it one step further. they attend james madison university. they're selling wristbands. i'm going to try to hold it up. i'm wearing one right now. both of us are holding one up. restore the shore. delta sigma phi. >> yes, indeed. restore the shore. it says on here. it has restore the shore, name of the fraternity on the bracelet. they've raised $2,000 so far, which is great. hopefully we can help them raise a little more. down there at jmu buy them. go to deltasigjmuservice and click on the donate button. >> very cool. well done, guys. well done, guys. certainly folks in the area need that money. >>> real quick, back to oprah in the hea

this is like a jerry springer episode. >> this is dynasty, total dynasty. >> someone will start throwingwrestling in ball gowns in a mud pit. the second woman jill kelley was platonic, i don't know. oh although his biography turned lover paula broadwell saw her as a romantic rival. petraeus also denied that he had begin broadwell any military sensitive information. >> she was with the commanders on the ground. >> she had extraordinary access to the general. >> sounds like it. >> she had had access to a lot of generals on the ground. >> in the bed. >> and she had access to his g mail. >> wow. >> stephanie: we just lost jim for the morning of the shower inference. he has pictures in his mind. joe, hello joe. >> caller: for years i thought there were people who never said anything during the bush administration and never could understand why people didn't come out with their criticisms until after the election. in this incident we were notifiedwe hear he wasnotified before the election. >> stephanie: joe, there was a piece in "time" magazine before this came out about why romney stopped tal

so it appears ohio possibly the nation's fate will come down to a city once run by jerry springer. [ch our own bill hemmer hails. we will get to that in a minute. take to you virginia. we are still waiting on results there. we are not able to project a winner in the state of virginia. you can see with 69% of the expected vote counted, mitt romney now has 51% and barack obama 48. i want to take you to north carolina, another critical state, and with 94% of the expected vote counted, mitt romney does have a lead there as well. you can see by two points over barack obama. >> bret: as we look outside, times square here in new york city, this is a cool shot, isn't it. >> very. >> bret: that's the electoral vote up there. it's still tied at this hour as our map continues to fill in 163 to 163 and the magic number say it together 270 to win the white house. >> megyn: kind of left you hanging there. [ laughter ] sorry, next time. >> bret: crickets chirping. >> megyn: i have your back next time. >> bret: let's bring in peggy noonan your thoughts on the evening? >> it's quite a night. i'm hear