doing wake boarding at a resort hanging out with his friends. he face as bunch charges when he gets back here in the united states. he was arrested, smiling in his mug shot, drunk driving, drag racing, resisting arrest. so you have that. i don t think he worries about too much. you think he is worry? i don t think he is worrying. bill: not yet, at his age. great to be in panama with minus 5. martha: better than minneapolis for a few days. bill: hang out with the beebs. white house saying 2014 this year will be a year of action but latest fox news polling show the president s job approval number dropping now to 42%. his disapproval rising to 53%. here is the top white house advisor dan pfeiffer, asking point-blank how the boss can get the agenda through. public ended 2013 with shutdown, near default and problems with healthcare.gov
and president will focus on what we can do to help. as long as people are losing in the economy, america itself is not doing as well as it could be, and we hope republicans can join the president instead of trying to block him every step of the way. hold on. we re going to come back to you. wns again, waiting for the president of the united states. he ll be walking into the briefing room. running obviously a few minutes late. we ll hear from the president momentarily. jake tapper has been watching together with me. this new cnn poll has interesting numbers comparing where president obama is right now in the end of the fifth year of his presidency in his second term to where other two-term presidents recently were. the president now is at 41%, job approval number. that s the same number george w. bush was in, december of 200200. 41%. bill clinton at the same time was at 56% job approval. ronald regan in 1985 was at 63%. i m sure when the president sees that he s in the same boat right
away from president obama s news conference. you re looking at like pictures from the briefing room. as soon as it starts, you ll see the whole thing live on cnn. let s talk a little more about the president s agenda during this second term, his prospects of getting some things done. joining us are maria cardona and benferri ferguson. the new cnn poll has the president s job approval number at 41%. pretty low. in january, almost a year ago, at 55%. why do you believe it s collapsed like that? well, certainly, it s been a very tough year for the president, wolf, and i think he ll be the first to admit that with the nsa issue and the obamacare rollout, which he also admits there was a huge downfall, but i think the president has a terrific opportunity in front of him. we now see even the website,
own party, are starting to abandon him. he s going into an election year where it will be hard to get anything done because of midterm elections. is it smart to be optimistic and view the glass as half full, yes, that s the right political strategy. the question is, can you take that attitude and make some adjustments in how you govern and then find the coalition to get stuff done in 2014, to get stuff done is still a giant question. he started the year at 55% job approval but let me show the numbers as it went down. in may, it was down to 53%. in june, 45%. now, 41%, which is record low as far as job approval number in our cnn polling. how does he get over this? first of all, by focusing on what the american people elected him to do. makes sure we have a strong economy for the future, that we can help the middle class continue to grow and thrive in this kind of economy and not focus on all the distracting things that happened here in washington, d.c. i remember we spent much of th
job approval number was 55%, but throughout the year, it went down. and now he ends the year at only 41% job approval. which, wolf, this life in politics aren t fair, but that s the exact same number george w. bush had at this point. that s why the president has a lot of thinking to do on this va vacation. does he want to reach out. will they reach out in an election year even if he does reach out? the president has to worry about democrats because they see that number and the risk of holding the nat is at stake, losing seats in the house is at stake. george w. bush had that number at this point, they lost 30 seats in the midterm election. no one thinks the democrats are going to lose 30 seats, but if you talk to democrats in the house and senate who are in competitive seats, they re nervous and no longer willing to say, let s see what the president wants to do, let s let him lead. they re puthsish and poking and screaki skrieming at the white house to