this one chose me, across the connecticut border, putney, vice mayor, they asked me to be a judge at this gettysburg memorization ceremony. i wept. i cried at the inspirational nature of it, someone needs to take a flix on this. -- a film on this. help the kids with context over the years and finally at the 150 is approaching, i said we got to to do this. i got to put my money where my mouth is, about the historic struggles of these boys. programmatic aspect to it which is challenging the rest of the country to do something in unison, to have everybody do it. if these boys can do it we can too. >> you have got actors singers sports stars. all sorts of people to do it. >> fourscore and seven years ago. >> our fathers brought fort on this continent, dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> now we are engaged in a great civil war. >> testing that a nation or any nation so dedicated can long endure. >> we have lost our educational mojo, lots of are reasons, lots of hammering, we asked people to stop memorizing stuff. it was rote and no relevance. we reached out and

we don't want to putney human being in jeopardy. so we'll take what we can. >> but meanwhile kids are already learning things. >> you don't see a whale out here every day. so really interesting. so klochlts you can absolutely like see the eye and fichlt he look kind of cool and i never touched a dead whale before so i really want to. >> also learning more somber lessons. >> learning about death and talking about death recently and what it means to be alive and dead. good opportunity to show it little guy what death looks like. >> with death comes agreement emotion that scientist observe in whale. >> i feel bad for the mom because they only have one cal calf. that means that there's really bad mom whale. >> scientist could actually try to identify the whale mother using a national database and find out other things unlocking the mystery of why she died so i don't think. half the size of full grown %f only left on the dry land for awhile. >> we assume she nroot out and may not see her again so we need to get while we can when close to

i just have a roommate in college that we used to visit the putney school all the time.we had dinner, i remember. >> wonderful place. beautiful place. he's also the chair of the democratic chair of the democratic governors association and, therefore, responsible for what happens in the election this year for governor. how many governors are up this year? >> thirty-six. >> if you look on page three of the newsletter you will see that the outlook for democrats for governor is pretty good compared with the outlook for democrats for the senate. over on the right hand side i listed the 2012 me states with democratic senate seats up. as you can see, seven of them are romney states with democrats up for reelection. there's only one obama state with republican up for reelection and that susan collins in maine. on the other hand, it reverses completely for governors, remember the senate seats were last on about six just go which was a democratic landslide, the financial crisis of 2008. most of the governors were up four years ago. that was 2010 which was a republican landslide. y