warrants. we re going to move on. a second top official who oversaw the obamacare debacle is stepping down. she was set to leave her position at the end of 2012, but stayed on to help with the website launch. snider s name has been at the center of the website debacle before, perhaps most notably when kathleen sebelius was pressed on capitol hill about who was responsible for the failures. who was in charge? who is the individual? michelle snider. michelle snider is the one responsible for this debacle. well, excuse me, congresswoman. michelle snider is not responsible for the debacle. hold me accountable for the debacle. so this news comes at
gut check on this special morning. we have a case of the holiday giggles. let s have fun with our list now. it s been a busy year in washington, a government shutdown, the disastrous website launch for obamacare and now a surprising bipartisan budget compromise. who knew? so who was naughty and nice in the capital this year? we ve made our list and checked it twice. our santa is cnn political analyst and executive editor of the daily beast, john avlon here to break it down for us. myr merry christmas. who s on the nice list this year. quickly. it will be short. i feel good about the results. good. right at the top, you ve got to lead with paul ryan and patty murray coming together late in the year, coming up with a bipartisan budget bill. that s a big deal in this environment. that puts them on the nice list. see if they can carry the holiday cheer, the bipartisan spirit in the new year. we ll see.
think that was 85% of people said that. i would say, steve, one of the sort of nails in this was obama care and i know it s very hard to launch a website, to website launch is perfect. having said that, in terms of really trying to sort of get people behind something, you lose trust when you can t get on-line. . unfortunately as we know, it was more than the website, also the trust in what the president and the other leaders said. people want things to work. how this was going to work and what was going to happen to people. and not to harp on poor congress, but when you look at i was looking at a poll on approval rating for a series institutions, schools, police, big bink, congress is dead last below all of them. i think while there whether it s lance armstrong, the obama care thing, lots of things to point to, if things on capitol hill started to function in a way where people could say stuff is getting done and they re addressing the nation s problems, i think it might m
about the concerns of experts on whether your information is secure on this website. she ll get asked if she thinks the deal is good for the american people and will she go on the website and sign up herself. bill: what is she going to say today? reporter: she is calling for and i inspector general review two months after the rollout of the website. the timing a lot of people are finding, why is it coming out the day that she is going to tef five on capitol hill. you can expect she is going deflect some questions by saying i asked for an investigation into that. i don t want to get ahead of the investigation. that sort of thing. the bottom line. we have done a lot of reporting on fox. there were warnings last spring, six months before the website launch that there were serious issues with the development of the website. you can bet law makers say why
these are actual people lying. people are defending these stories, i don t begrudge them anything. but to sort of manipulate people this way, scaring people as we are trying to just clear away the confusion. again, i say this to conservatives and said it about the website and will say it to them again, if you think it is so bad, it is going to play out in your favor. and that was true about the website, don t shut down the government, let the website launch, if you think the whole policy is bad let it play out in your favor and don t go around spreading lies about toddlers. joining me now, co-chair of the congressional progressive caucus. and congressman, there is an interesting piece, ryan grim co-authored it, about the law that actually rests on a lot of densely populated urban areas, where a vast majority of the uninsured are. somebody representing the