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Kurtis lee from the denver post. two senators facing recall on tuesday. if you could tell a national audience that doesn't know much about giron or know about morse, what the dynamics is, is one more vulnerable than the other, how are they looking? >> john morse is senator in colorado in el paso county which leans -- it's divided evenly among democrats, republicans and unaffiliated voters. it's a very competitive seat. that's why he was targeted in these recall efforts. in pueblo senator giron, in a much more democrat-leaning districts. they're not your denver or boulder liberals. they're more...

Act is now because these emissions are increasing. he recently said in the last ten years it's increased to levels where action is necessary. some argue, critics argue, it's a weather anomaly, it's not climate change and actually the numbers have remained fairly stable. >> actually we've seen emissions increase 3% in this last year, 2000 to 2010 was the hottest decade on record, 2010 was the hottest year on record. the national academy of sciences, the most prestigious scientific body in the world says 97% of global climate change experts are in agreement that climate change is created by huma...

That matter to the american people. >> i don't want to ignore you, rick. you know, even with all of this critical coverage of the president's economic policies, media is still talking about the republican party and constant attempt to beat down my kind of idea that the president puts out there like it should be surprising that the opposition party would try to put down the president's idea. >> yeah. i was going to bring up the fact that there is one reporter who didn't get the message. and that was jonathon weissman from the new york times. let me read to you his first paragraph above the fold...

Other elements in here that are controversial, but i heard your setup piece, rachel, i don't see the analogy, because those fights that bush had were free-standing fights. they weren't part of this larger struggle, and i think most americans in this country, including those who consider themselves progressives, understand that that central economic challenge is the one we have to go after, and if we go down that republican road, we're going to exacerbate the problems that we've seen over the last many years. >> but in what the president has put forward, he's not trading away cuts to social sec...

Research and development, in energy and infrastructure, he proposed a universal pre-k program. that's a progressive vision of how we build the economy, and as part of that compromise, he has other elements in here that are controversial, but i heard your setup piece, rachel, i don't see the analogy, because those fights that bush had were free-standing fights. they weren't part of this larger struggle, and i think most americans in this country, including those who consider themselves progressives, understand that that central economic challenge is the one we have to go after, and if we go dow...