BILL O'REILLY: I was wrong in the beginning of this analyzing the Cruz business. I said to myself, you know, why is he doing this? He's going to create chaos and division in the Republican party, but now -- and I'm not as quick in the uptick as you are, Charles -- I have changed my mind. This is a brilliant move by Cruz because he's trying it take

SEN. DURBIN: The Senator has spoken at length many times, including today about his education. I respect it. He's gone to some very famous schools. Certainly the Senator understands it takes 60 votes to achieve the goal that he's trying to achieve, which means that the Senator believes he has at least all the votes on his side of the aisle and anot

BRIT HUME This has all the outward appearances of a filibuster, but it's not a filibuster. A vote will be held tomorrow whether Ted Cruz goes home now or not, but he's's been talking all day and says he'll talk until his last breath or whatever. What's happening here is, I think this is a case of a guy who got painted into a corner. He challeng

Ted Cruz reads the Dr. Seuss book "Green Eggs and Home" on the Senate floor.

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) is receiving support from a few Republicans as he takes to the Senate floor to give a marathon speech on defunding ObamaCare. He launched the effort to stop Democrats from stripping the ObamaCare provision in the bill passed by the House. Over three hours into his speech, Cruz yielded to take a question from Senator Rand Pau

PRESIDENT OBAMA: "What you've had is an unprecedented effort that you’ve seen ramp up in the past month or so that those who have opposed the idea of universal health care in the first place -- and have fought this thing tooth and nail through Congress and through the courts -- trying to scare and discourage people from getting a good deal." (Cli

SARAH PALIN: We must stop these things now. One of the things we must stop in order to halt this transformation of America, for those who love America and what it is that we were built upon and have made it so exceptional, one of those things is this socialist healthcare coverage policy of Barack Obama's. It's unpopular, it's unaffordable, it's imp

SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY): Everybody knows where Republicans stand on this issue. We may be divided on some things. We may not always agree on tactics. But on the question of repealing Obamacare, we’re totally united. This law should be defunded. That’s what the House bill does. That’s why I plan to support it. But if we’re going to re

RICK SANTELLI: We all know the topic of the day. Everybody in the media, the social media, every magazine, every newspaper, is talking about the debt ceiling. You know, all for one and one for all. When you look at the economies of Europe, China, the U.S., Japan, it's almost as though there has been a pact. We’ve talked many times about how stimu

Van Jones and S.E. Cupp discuss reform or repeal of Obamacare with Dr. Cornel West and The Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol. JONES: Welcome back. Here in Washington today, Senator Ted Cruz tried to get the Senate to defund Obamacare. It didn't work, but here's what I want to know. Whatever happened to compassionate conservatism? Ge

PRESIDENT OBAMA: And just as we reviewed how we deploy our extraordinary military capabilities in a way that lives up to our ideals, we've begun to review the way that we gather intelligence so that we properly balance the legitimate security concerns of our citizens and allies with the privacy concerns that all people share. As a result of this

BRIT HUME: If you're a pragmatic politician up for re-election, you're looking at the landscape and you don't want to a lot of problems. And in many of these districts, Democrats can't cause you any problems, there are just not enough of them. What there are enough of is conservative Republicans and conservative Republicans around the country today

KARL ROVE: His fellow senators don’t know where he is coming from. Sunday morning sitting in the green room waiting for ‘Fox News Sunday’ to begin, I get a call from a senator whom I don’t know too well who said to me ‘Do you know what he is going to say? Because I don’t. I’m a senator and I have no idea what his end game is. I’m go

Brit Hume, A.B. Stoddard, and Charles Krauthammer discuss President Obama's options for dealing with Iran at the UN general assembly Tuesday. 

Sen. Ted Cruz is profiled in a new GQ piece entitled "The Distinguished Wacko Bird from Texas" MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell talks to the writer Jason Zengerle.

In a flashback to 2002, Bill O'Reilly says that western governments and media fail to recognize the reality of Muslim extremism.

Anti-Obamacare activists claim that the healthcare law will have a negative impact on employment. Chris Hayes tell us why that isn't the case.