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>> i think it is. i mean, massachusetts -- gun control has been a big thing there. i think it's an issue that voters do care about. the question is -- i mean, gomez does support enhanced background checks, which is what the senate ended up voting on. he does not support the assault weapons ban, which is what markey is trying to make an issue out of. markey is clearly hammering away at that issue. i think it could be an important one to voters. >> matt visor, good to see you again. thanks so much. >> thanks for having me. >> thapg going to wrap up this hour of jansing & co. thomas roberts is up...

It, sparring on gun control, abortion, and benghazi. gomez tried to paint markey as a partisan while markey tried to tie gomez to republicans who he defined as extreme. >> you are the most hyper partisan congressman in it the last 40 years. you voted with your party 99% of the time. >> you're going to hear a lot from mr. gomez about how he's a new kind of republican. you're going to hear the same old stale republican ideas. >> i want to bring in matt visor, reporter for "the boston globe." good morning. >> thanks for having me. >> did you see a clear winner last night? what kind of impact did ...

Did this. >> simultaneous bombing, mass casualties, spectacular event. all the briefings we ever get on a potential terrorist attack, all the ingredients that are in there and we saw that, unfortunately, yesterday which led me to call this an act of terrorism. >> let's bring in matt visor, "boston globe" white house correspondent. i was thinking listening to the president last night it's a tricky line that presidents walk in horrific situations like that. the american people want to see them, hear from them. they want to be calmed by their words, and yet, in those early hours, there's really v...

Means about our own security. and it's diverting a little bit from the discussion we thought we would be having of gun control and immigration and budget issues and little early to tell how much we'll be derailed and how much attention shifted but so far it's dramatic and all the attention's shifting toward boston and what happened there and what it means. >> yeah. and the immediate impact, matt. what kind of security changes are you seeing around the white house and in d.c. in general? >> you know, there's a little bit -- you know, when you hear sirens, you are wondering now. you know? wherea...

Do is be taking on some kind of a global leadership role like president carter and president clinton have done in the past. bottom line is he can do pretty much what he wants to do. he's a man of unusual financial resources and energy. i take him at his word he's not going to fall off the map. >> matt, we've seen other presidential candidates go on to other things. al gore, of course, grew that now infamous beard, invested in a tv network. there's bob dole. he became a pitchman for viagra, eventually pepsi as well. micha micha michael dukakis went the professorial route. >> i think we'd be sho...