joining me, georgia house minority leader stacy abrams and state representative alicia thomas morgan. thank you for joining me. >> thank you for having me. >> so what is it. you both worked on the common core in the state legislature. what's your feeling. you're a supporter of it. >> absolutely. how could you not support high standards for all kids across this country, particularly at the state level. we have been lying to kids long enough. it is critical we have high standards, high expectations for them, period. >> did you anticipate that you would see it become this kind of right wing back lash issue? >> absolutely. when you talk about something that the obama administration supports, in this state, it is red meat, we are pavilion loafian dogs when it comes to saying no. >> it was the obama common core. >> it was done by sonny perdue, david perdue's cousin, one of the architects of common core. it was lovely and wonderful when he was part of it. the minute president obama embraced it, it became evil. >> there is a lot of perdue common implementation, there's criticism from the left