Local Democrat in Kentucky claims two members of Progress Kentucky bragged to him that they recorded the Mitch McConnell campaign strategy session, the NPR station in Louisville is reporting.

There were at least some signs during the day yesterday that the NRA might not go full-bore in opposing the Manchin-Toomey background checks compromise. By last night, that had all changed.

Biden: “The one thing the NRA has done so well lately is the disinformation.” Watch.

Benjy Sarlin has a fascinating look for us at the undocumented immigrant community in Washington, D.C. Give it a read.

Brian Beutler on the key factual issue that will likely determine whether that McConnell campaign strategy session was legally recorded.

Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS), who chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, jumps into the McConnell tape maelstrom, calling on all things left-leaning, whether animate or inanimate, to pinkie swear that they had nothing to do with it: “I am calling upon the Democratic National Committee, the DSCC, Kentucky Democratic State Party and left-leaning 501(C)(3) and (4) organizations like Mother Jones, Think Progress, American Bridge, Organizing For Action, and any other relevant political organizations to state for the record that they had nothing to do with these illegal acts, denounce them, and make clear they have no place in our political debate.”

Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) reiterates his opposition to gay marriage.

Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD), who is not running for re-election, says his views on gay marriage have “evolved sufficiently” to support the idea, leaving just two Democratic senators opposed to gay marriage. A third, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, is in the awkward position of being “undecided.”