and this is what secretary shultsz and i have been working on in iowa. it started a year ago as we were looking for ways to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the passage of the 26th amendment which gave 18, 19, and 20-year-olds the right of vote. i just learned that secretary reid was actually on the organizing committee and co-chaired it in the state of washington when that bill -- >> so i'm old. >> but he actually helped us craft this program last year as we were looking for ways to celebrate it. what we came up with inspired in part from the icivics concept is to provide free materials to high schools on that day so march 23rd, when it was introduced to the country, this amendment, and give them 100 days to teach their students, that's the length of time to ratify it, teach their students about not only the right to vote but how to use that, get them registered, get them participating. it occurs to us that there's somewhere around 12,000 young people who turn 18 every single day. that's a lot of work for all of us who wake up every morning thinking ab

i mean, eric shultsz' protest to me sounds like a protest against journalism, against the process ofhese figures. >>> coming up in the next hour, jody kantor will the soledad o'brien's guest. >>> it's really getting some traction again now with the gop, thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow republican, right? well, doesn't seem to matter because poor old mitt romney is under fire from rick perry, from newt gingrich, from rick santorum. and even rudy jult giuliani was on piers morgan last night was saying, cut it down, guys. >>> in washington, democratic strategist maria cardona is here and paul steinhauser is us, and from chicago, conservative commentator lenny mcallister. >> they're going after him not only about the whole issue of, you know, capitalism and how his work at bain was somehow what they believe it should be. i didn't understand any of it especially since everybody has come out against it and losing traction. it doesn't stop there. there's a web app right now out and it's paid for by the newt gingrich camp and it goes after the whole sort of language and leftyism of speak