political discussion is going to be centered on the midterm elections. 35 senate seats, all 435 house seats up for grab. joining me, time magazine political reporter, zeke miller. and, first off, one of the things, zeke, that our new polling shows us, overwhelmingly americans think this is the worst congress ever, they haven t gotten anything done that matters to the american people. is that fair, do you think? probably saying that for the past couple of congresses. it s been a rough couple of years here in washington for lawmakers of both parties, whether the republicans in congress now to the president approval ratings across the board are way down been but it s definitely, i think, the last two congresses have given each other a run for the money here. it s hard to place yourself back, 12, 15 months ago but they might have been saying the same thing as well. overall, americans are not fans. they don t like us here.
reporter: one thing that is bipartisan, the blame. public doesn t trust either party. 52% say policies of democratic congressional leaders will move the country in the wrong direction. republican leader fare slightly worse, 54%, saying the gop will move the country in the wrong direction. moderate republican susan collins spent the year organizing bipartisan discussion to solve big problems. she wants americans to have hope for 2014. i hope that the american people will realize that there are some of us trying to build bridges and bring people together and solve problems. reporter: congress did leave for the year on a higher note than when it started passing a bipartisan budget through the house and senate. several senators told me they had people coming up to them thanking them for being reasonable. one thought it was a nice compliment but realized, that s a low bar. dana bash, cnn, washington. coming up at bottom of the hour, i ll be talking with the time magazine political
what s going on? da can t they get their act together? we ll know by end of march whether hitting enrollment targets, whether it s going to work or not for the long term. in between, between now and then, there is the daily battle, both sides will be fighting and that s dominate somewhere voters start at when midterms hit up by the summer. that s why it s essential for president obama and democrats to get the program working as well as they can. zeke miller, thanks for joining me. cycling champ finally comes clean while the queen of southern cooking loses her throne amid a racial controversy. we can t leave out toronto s crack smoking mayor, rob ford. some scandals of 2013. joe johns has a look back. reporter: beam me up, baby. seldom you get the crack question of the year in the same
probably won t be too much change. the democrats complain, congressional democrats have been complaining the president not doing enough to help them out for 4 1/2 years, five years now. they re definitely trying to take steps to campaign for the democratic senators and congressmen. the president raising millions upon millions of dollars for them. it s a priority for him now more so than ever before. he needs congress to get things like immigration done. and zeke miller, thanks for coming in. thanks for having me on. prps. what a year it has been, especially on capitol hill where congress has spent a lot of time fighting you. you heard us talking about that, not a lot of time getting things done. personalities clashed and shown on the national stage. chief political correspondent candy crowley takes a look at the top ten moments of 2013. it was the year of living
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