Two networks. Two vice presidential candidates. Same questions. Today co-host Savannah Guthrie on Friday interviewed Mike Pence and urged the Republican to trash Donald Trump. On CBS This Morning, Norah O’Donnell talked to Tim Kaine and urged the Democrat to trash... Trump. She did not demand that Kaine bash Hillary Clinton. Instead she asked if Trump was “sane” and “competent.”

On NBC, Guthrie lectured, “Paul Ryan himself said that Donald Trump has been on a ‘strange run’ for the last few days. You’re down in every national poll, some by double digits, in every recent battleground poll. Would you acknowledge you’re climbing out of a big hole and does Trump have only himself to blame for that?”

She demanded, “Donald Trump says... the campaign has never been more united than right now and yet we see these big Republican defections. Can you agree with that statement with a straight face?”

Guthrie also hit Pence for Trump’s controversial remarks about the gold star Khizr Khan family.

Over on CBS This Morning, co-host Norah O’Donnell talked to Tim Kaine and offered this softball: “At the Democratic convention, the former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, spoke and he said that Americans need a sane and competent president. Do you think Donald Trump is sane and competent?”

When O’Donnell brought up Trump’s mistaken recollection about seeing a video of money going into Iran, the co-host played along with the idea that the businessman is “confused”:

TIM KAINE: It doesn't exist. He might be thinking about Iran Contra from, like, 35 years ago or something like this. He recently criticized me saying I was a bad governor of New Jersey. O’DONNELL: I think he confused you with Tom Kean. KAINE: Yes, Tom Kean was governor of New Jersey 26 years ago. I mean, it hurt my feelings until I realized, wait a minute I was never governor of New Jersey and didn't even live in New Jersey. He was confusing the situation from two or three decades ago and maybe that is why he confusing this bogus video claim. O’DONNELL: Do you think Donald Trump is confused. KAINE: I absolutely think he is confused.

The closest thing O’Donnell came to asking Kaine to critique Clinton came when she wondered, “Is a Clinton/Kaine administration, essentially, a third Obama term?”

However, O’Donnell should be given credit for asking Kaine about the Obama administration’s Iran deal:

NORAH O’DONNELL: If you were vice president, would you allow a plane full of money to land in Iran on the same day that four U.S. hostages are freed?... Let's talk about the perception of on the very same day, a plane with 400 million dollars in foreign currency landing and being delivered. Is that ransom?

A transcript of the NBC questions to Mike Pence can be found below: