not too sweet, not too dry. it s just right. the key lime pie with the graham crammer, this hits all those notes. the crew wanted me to ask, you ve got five bottles of open champagne here. what s going to happen to them? i see five of us right here on the set. we ll see. they re going to wrestle you for it. john and sabato, thank you very much. a pleasure. happy new year. happy new year to you. i want that grilled cheese sandwich. straight ahead on this tuesday, you re never going to believe what she did out there. maria, what have you been up to? find out shortly. i m nathan and i quit smoking with chantix. when my son was born, i remember, you know,
fantastic. of course, here in new york city, they ll be dropping a big ball and people are going to be drinking because it s time to celebrate. gone are the days of dining on caviar while sipping champagne. turns out the perfect champagne is probably already in your refrigerator. joining us from the union square hospitality group are wine director john reagan and the chief restaurant officer, sabato. how are you? great. you go to a restaurant and see, there is a fancy bottle of champagne for $300. you don t need to spend a lot of money to have a good champagne experience, right? not at all. i think as long as you re drinking champagne, john and i are happy. you are. you guys do start early, right? absolutely. it s your business. we re going to do like a popular wine tasting with champagne. for instance, tonight if somebody is going to chow down on some fried chicken, what kind of champagne do you put with it? we ve all had beer and chicken wings, so this is that same
two democrats not up for re-election. liberal connecticut senator richard blumenthal and moderate senator, joe manchin want new legislation. sponsored with john any isakson of georgia to delay the individual mandate a year. you look at the 11 days of the shutdown, and compare that to how many days we re going to be watching these critical obamacare rollout stories. something tells me the critical stories about obamacare rollout will last a lot longer than 17 days. reporter: in fact we ve already been told by computer experts this thing could go on for months as they try to rejigger the actual sign-up and enrollment. sabato hurt republicans and helped democrats politically. gop needs to pick up six seats in the senate, in a second year presidency that is historically get progressively worse of party in power in the white house and obama white house is seeing a
benefits, and that is we were promised if you like your health coverage, you can keep it. but in this case, it looks like if you work at uva or ups, that is not the case if your spouse has insurance elsewhere. brian: right. that s why the reaction to dr. sabato, he is lifeguarding overt summer to get extra money. steve: i heard painting houses. brian: is he? he told me lifeguarding. ainsley, tell us what s happening in the news. ainsley: there is a nurse that is spending the next 12 years behind bars as punishment for a failed murder for hire plot. andrew martin admits offering a to pay $10,000 to a patient to kill an 80-year-old ohio woman. martin and the woman were fighting over ownership of her late brother s house. the patient eventually tipped off police. brian? brian: thanks. he managed to sneak into j-lo s hampton s mansion and live there for six days before anyone
a slight uptick. what is the uptick? it s better than it was. it s marginal. neil: i agree but perspective is everything. you re a hater. you re an economic recovery hater. i don t know what that means. i m usually the optimist. you are, it s a long day. i don t think so. he doesn t sabato does. larry, you re an optimist? charlie s right. democrats are good at getting out the vote in presidential election. not as good in midterm. that s their challenge for 2014, get them out to vote the way they vote in presidential elections. neil: thank you. professor. what he said, by the way. i disagree. i m not hate. neil: thank you. with these scandals starting to hit the president s approval, an accomplished c.e.o. says it will get worse for the commander in