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>> can i also add, chris -- >> yeah, i know. this afternoon senator mcconnell -- we have to get his point of view here. >> right. >> i know that's politics. he talked about that -- also stuck strictly to his talking points. in other words, a reporter asked him a question. he ignored the question. here's his spiel. >> right. >> as you know last month my wife's ethnicity was attacked by a left-wing group in kentucky and then apparently they also bugged my headquarters. so i think that pretty well sums up the way the political left is operating in kentucky. >> is it fair game for you to question ...

We're still waiting for him to respond to the substance of the story. a day before the story was most posted we contacted his campaign office and senate office to put questions to them and get responses and we never heard a peep from either office. and he's trying to make it about watergate without talks about what actually happened. >> indeed. well, to that point, he did not respond to the actual contents of the tapes but here's what he said just a short time ago. >> as you know, last month my wife's ethnicity was attacked by a left wing group in kentucky, and then apparently they also bugged...

Hours in the re-election efforts of senate republican leader mitch mcconnell. first he decided the president's moving speech on gun control to the sandy hook community monday was the perfect moment to announce his support for a gun control filibuster. then today moments after majority leader harry reid spoke movingly about gun control and his own father's suicide, mcconnell took to the floor to praise the louisville cardinals, margaret thatcher and left just enough time to batch the president's budget much as he would again later in the day. yet, nothing whatsoever about gun control or the new...

Julieiard. which political stories will make headlines in the next 24 hours? we want to bring people into this flap over what mitch mcconnell did or did not do at a strategy session when he and his staff thought ashley judd might have been challenging him. she decided not to run. but this race is getting nasty. there's an audio tape and they were going after her vaguely on personal stuff. >> fascinating. >> mcconnell has asked the fbi to find out, how did that audio tape get into play? he is not questioning the veracity of it. >> no issue of whether this is mitch mcconnell and his campaign s...

Louisiana. our national political correspondent jim acosta spoke with senator landrieu earlier today. >> no. i have very personal views about same sex marriage. i believe people should love who they love and marry who they want to marry. like other people said, my views have evolved thon but my state has a very strong constitutional amendment against gay marriage and i think i have to honor that. >> let's get back to our strategy session. our cnn contributors still with us, donna brazille and anna navarro. what do you make of her explanation, donna, that she's not going to support same sex mar...