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are they running on empty? also, this morning one year on the job. find out what americans think about pope francis, particularly catholics, in his one year at the vatican, and what our poll also shows about religious ties overall in america. it's the rise of secular america. plus, the tdr 50 rolls on. the colorado focus dives into the gun debate that has pushed some of that state's leaders out of their jobs already and is radically reshaping the way many western democrats could be talking about guns in this election season. good morning from washington, it's thursday, march 13...

0 about this deal in particular is it was paul ryan. paul ryan has a cachet with his members that john boehner doesn't have. they all trust him. they believe in him in terms of his conservatives bona fides. the fact he's the face of this thing is what's made it possible for republicans to agree with it and for boehner to step out a bit against the conservatives and say back off. >> and that was -- i feel like that was the mama bear coming to protect -- i will say, chairman, after what happened to marco rubio, and i think that was a lesson for a lot of moderate republicans, here's this guy, you...

Elected, you're accountable. i can wait a year from now and if we don't like what the legislators are doing, we'll kick them out of office then. your job as a voter is to do that work during an election and you have to live with the consequences. one is you may have to wait four years to get the politician out you don't like. >> an appropriate lesson to draw from this recall, john morse shouldn't have made the vote he made. because if he is going to legislate for the 13% of people who recalled him, then he's legislating for a vocal minority. it's a -- >> so this is the uphill battle that folks...

This is a complicated election, the people most angry and want to throw the bums out, they have advantages, i think more importantly be senators. i think that's what happened. >> i give you that. ed the complicated. there are other issues put out there. i think the bottom line, to me, i look at this. i think this is something that will have long-term ramifications. i think to later this year t. talk has been the idea of re-introducing mansion to me, the background checks bill. bring it back around if one-year anniversary of the sandy hook massacre, basically shame us into coughing up those ext...

Against what is a clear electoral signal here that it will make you vulnerable if you vote to support gun control legislation? >> i think it comes down to political courage. and john morse and senator giron both said we knew this was a possibility going in and we went forward with it. truthfully, when the colorado gun rights folks wanted to do a recall they wanted to recall everyone who voted for this legislation. and they got two people. and of those two people they got a tiny minority of those voters. so this is about get out the vote, voter awareness, and the question of are recalls based o...