how does the balance of power look, republicans need a net gain of six in the senate? how is it looking? both parties are within striking distance and playing defense to hold on to their lead. my guess is the margins will shrink. democrats are under real pressure, three southernรง democrats, okay hagen, mark pryor and mary landau. republicans see though as big pickup opportunities. they ll make a lot of money and effort into demonizing those democrats. on the republican side of the aisle, the tea party wave has crest. even though republicans have a built-in advantage because of the rigged system of redistricting that allowed them to build up their lead in the house, democrats can t really pick up swing seats. the republicans will be looking to hold on to their lead, 17-seat margin. it s a longer haul. sometimes your fringe groups are just the first ring in a
0 would react if you were in their shoes. i m anderson cooper. thanks for watching. and i m robin meade. thank you so much for joining us. happy new year! it s the first of the year which means new laws and big legal challenges to come. the nsa, same-sex marriage, obamacare. we ll break down the year ahead. the president s challenge, 2013 was a rough one for president obama. can he turn it around in 2014 or will the republicans gain ground? our experts weigh in. new year, new day, new you. you ve made the resolution but will you keep it? the secrets you need to know to follow through on those life-changing promises. your new day and year starts right now. oh, good morning. welcome it a very special edition of new day. let s call it new year. shall we? it s january 1st, of course, 6:00 in the east. happy new year to you. a warm welcome to all of you as we kick off 2014. can you believe it? i know. so much to look forward to this year. we ll bring it to you all
part of that were not consulted on the moratorium. the president used that kind of in a tricky way but they never approved it. i don t want his new commission, which is an antidrilling commission, to come out with something they ve i think they ve made up their mind, stuart. the american people need to know what happened and prevent it from happening again. stuart: could you be accused, your commission is simply the voice of big oil? i know it s bipartisan but of the five democrats that you have on your commission, there is tim johnson from north dakota, that arguably these days, that s an oil state. mary landrieu, louisiana, clearly an oil state. you will be accused of being the voice of big oil. is that fair? not at all. that certainly doesn t apply to jean sheen and mary landau and
markets don t care about deficits but i do. i don t want to see my country go the way of greece and if you keep spending that s where we re headed. there s two things, our short term deficit we have as a result of our recession, that s the reason we have a deficit is because we have a great big ole recession. markets aren t concerned about that. even dennis hawks realize we have to spend in recession to generate recovery. what they re concerned about are long term structural deficits. you spent a trillion dollar, virtually a trillion dollars. it was a stimulus plan that did not work as advertised. now, it it has worked as advertised. did not. it did not keep the unemployment at 8%, it went to 10% and is rising. it did not work as advertised. now you want to spend some more money, and add to the deficit, a report from the cbo showed we re galloping towards a greeklike situation. with all due respect this is irresponsible. with all due respect your wrong on it not w
captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions lehrer: good evening. i m jim lehrer. president obama demanded a final up or down vote on health care reform. ifill: and i m gwen ifill. on the newshour tonight, democrats are ready to force action without bipartisan support. we ll have excerpts of the president s speech, and analysis from ceci connolly of the washington post and congress watcher norm ornstein. lehrer: then, two political stories. the first in new york where two top democrats are embroiled in ethics problems governor david paterson and house ways and means chairman charles rangel. ifill: and political tale number two from texas, where governor rick perry beat longtime senator kay bailey hutchison in yesterday s republican gubernatorial primary. texas voters said no. they said no to washington bureaucrats making decisions that state leaders and citizens should be making for themselves. lehrer: then, tom bearden reports on special courts that gi