CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER: Of course it affects individuals, but it's the general economy that is not going to be affected by the shutdown, but it will profoundly affected the growth rate if you have a default. The president is the one who carries the burden and the blame for the overall economy which is why he enjoys the shutdown, politically. He enjoys

MARK LEVIN: I'm going to tell you folks something. I want to say this loud and clear to the people on Capitol Hill who are listening, to this administration -- you lay one damn hand on one of those World War II vets at that memorial, I'll bring half a million people to that damn memorial! You got that? I'm sitting here stewing thinking about thi

PRESIDENT OBAMA: During the course of my presidency, I have bent over backwards to work with the Republican party and have purposely kept my rhetoric down. I think I'm pretty well known for being a calm guy. Sometimes people think I'm too calm. And am I exasperated? Absolutely I'm exasperated because this is entirely unnecessary.

Dr. Ben Carson says as soon as he began speaking out about Obamacare, the IRS conducted an audit on his investment property.

HARRY REID: The whole answer is this: Why would we want to have the House of Representatives, John Boehner, cherry-pick what stays open and what stays closed. Listen, I gave a speech on the floor talking about the babies, 30 babies. Little kids who are not going to have clinical trials, of course I care about that. I have 16 of my own grandchildren

MARTIN BASHIR: McKay, how long will it be before the president is accused of being an angry black man, because he said he is exasperated? MCKAY COPPINS: Well, I won't be making that accusation. BASHIR: You won't be. That’s why you're on this broadcast. It’s not going to be long, though, is it? COPPINS: Look, I think the politics of thi

REP. PETER ROSKAM (R-IL): I think President Obama is going to end up negotiating. I think he's on an island that will become more and more flooded. It's too shrill. It's actually not very Obama-like to say, I'm not going to negotiate. He negotiated on the debt ceiling, Jake, in the past, two times. You know, one time the sequester resulted. One

DANA BASH: You all talked about children with cancer unable to go to clinical trials. The House is presumably going to pass a bill that funds at least the NIH. Given what you’ve said, will you at least pass that? And if not, aren’t you playing the same political games that Republicans are? HARRY REID: Listen, Sen. Durbin explained that very

JOHN HARWOOD: You mentioned calm. Wall Street's been pretty calm about this. The reaction I would say, generally speaking, has been, "Washington fighting, Washington posturing, yaddah, yaddah, yaddah." Is that the right way for them to look at it? PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: No, I think this time's different. I think they should be concerned. And--

“Eric Cantor and his Republican Party are the most dangerous demagogic force in American politics since Joe McCarthy, and that’s what this is about,” Washington Post veteran journalist Carl Bernstein said on MSNBC’s Morning Joe. “And it’s about the parts of the Republican Party that are willing to appease this awful

House Speaker John Boehner told reporters Democrats "will not negotiate," while Democratic leaders say the House Speaker will not agree to discussions on a full-year budget or the debt ceiling.

The Morning Joe panel wonders why Obamacare wasn't ready for rollout on October 1, leaving millions of people confused. Mike Barnicle gets big laughs telling his story of checking out the glitchy website: "Obviously I didn't enroll."

In an interview with Steve Chaggaris of CBS News, RCP's Caitlin Huey-Burns discusses the ongoing budget battle and the role of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX).

"Did you read the story today? Some idiot in government sent goons out there to set up barricades, so they couldn’t see the monument. People had to spend hours setting up barricades where there are never barricades to prevent people from seeing the World War II monument because they're trying to play a charade. They're going to play a game with u

NEIL CAVUTO: Well imagine that, the government shut down and we didn't default. But didn't the president all but equate a shutdown to leading to a pending debt crisis and we would default? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) President Barack Obama: We can't have any kind of meaningful negations under the cloud of potential default-the first in U.S. history

Video by Passcode Creative highlights Ted Cruz and his fellow GOPers fight against Obamacare. 

Around 2:45, Ted Cruz joins Bill O'Reilly to talk shutdown strategy.

First, Rachel Maddow contrasts the treatment of the shutdown in the liberal and conservative press.  Next, Congressman Scott Rigell, R-Va., who represents the nation's largest military district, talks with Rachel Maddow about the damaging effect of congressional redistricting on the democratic process and why Congress needs to break its habit o

"In standing alone, Israel will know that we will be defending many, many others," Israeli P.M. Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations General assembly Tuesday, meaning that his country would not be afraid to strike Iran's nuclear program with or without American support. The "Special Report" Panel discusses what the U.S. should do. Steve Hayes

MSNBC's Ari Melber says that Ted Cruz is more interested in the media spotlight than governing the country. Next, Robert Costa (the National Review) joins in the discussion about Cruz's strategy.