almost 2 34i8on people collected outs yesterday alone, and that is a record. joining me now "time" magazine political reporter zeke miller. so the problems with -- i mean, we already saw you this trend, right, with obamacare not being popular. it taking its toll on president obama. the website didn't help, but now you've got this surge. does that really help him or is it a drop in the bucket? >> well certainly i mean the one-day delay in terms of enrollments so they extended the deadline quietly, that slight technical fix that was reported yesterday and they finally confirmed a sign that there is interest in this product. the white house has been talking about it for a while that people do want to sign up in this health insurance. at the same time, it's sort of the drip, drip, drip continues. starting from october 1st when this part of the law was implemented almost weekly and sometimes daily there's been new revelations and new changes being made on the fly. and that's sort of going to be a political sort of -- something that the white house and the administration is going to have