NEIL CAVUTO: What do you make [of Obamacare]? Obviously, a lot of people have been focusing on the law but not really cognizant of the privacy part of the law, and how hackers could have a field day with it. Is it that bad? JOHN McAFEE: Oh, it is seriously bad. Somebody made a grave error, not in designing the program but in simply implementing

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) were caught by a hot mic Wednesday discussing their strategy regarding the government shutdown. Sen. Paul told McConnell "we're gonna win this, I think." "I just did CNN and I just go over and over again 'We're willing to compromise. We're willing to negotiate.' I think... I don't think they

ED HENRY, FOX NEWS: The last thing is, we're just two and a half weeks after the Navy Yard shooting, and he used the analogy today about putting a gun to someone's head in negotiations, putting a gun to the American people's head by shutting down. When he was in Tucson in 2011, he said we're so strongly polarized right now, we need to "make sure we

QUESTION: And just very quickly, a housekeeping question on health care reform. I know that the President said that there were more than a million visitors by 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday morning, and there’s been a lot of talk about visitors to the website. But isn’t enrollees really the better metric for gauging as to how well that is doing? And d

PRESIDENT OBAMA: So my simple message today is, call a vote. call a vote. put it on the floor and let every individual member of congress make up their own minds, and they can show the american people are you for a shutdown or not. if you're not for a shutdown, you will vote for the bill. if you're for a shutdown, you won't vote for a bill. we don'

"We're hearing not a single person locally has been successful getting through to the new health insurance exchange," said a local reporter. "It seems to be a problem especially in states like Tennessee, where the state opted out and left it up to the federal government to run what is essentially an online shopping site."

JONATHAN KARL, ABC NEWS: On the Treasury Department's statement today, there's a paper on the cost of default; it said we could provoke an economic crisis that could echo the events of 2008 or even worse. Given that -- first of all, the White House -- I assume the President agrees with his Treasury Department's analysis on this. JAY CARNEY: Co

WOLF BLITZER: So a lot of people wonder, why not accept these piecemeal House bills that are passed in the House, they go to the Senate, they die in the Senate? Why not fund, for example, children who need clinical trials, clinical work at NIH, they have cancer, why not at least allow this to go forward? REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ (D-FL): We

ERIN BURNETT: Now, Senator, one final question. You just heard Harry Reid when he was asked by the reporters there, from that meeting, do you feel that the debt ceiling will be broached. And of course, the debt ceiling breached, I'm sorry, is that is the big thing. That is much bigger than this government shutdown, at least as pertains in the Unite

Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) says Democratic congressmen tell him they want to prolong shutdown, and are encouraging GOP. TAPPER: Interesting quote I wanted to read you, Congressman, from your colleague Representative Marlin Stutzman of Indiana. He was quoted in the "Washington Examiner" talking about the end game saying quote "we're not

SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN KERRY: "We have an obligation – it would be diplomatic malpractice of the worst order not to examine every possibility of whether or not you can achieve that before you ask people to take military action or do what you have to do in order to prevent something from happening. And I think that people understand that. You hav

REP. TODD ROKITA (R-INDIANA): Well, the wrong way to go for the Senate not to produce a budget for the last four years. As a member of the Budget Committee, I'm proud of the budget we produced, it balanced in ten years, balanced one year before the 10-year window, and all we've seen from the Democrats and the president are budget proposals that nev

WOLF BLITZER: One final question, Congressman, before I let you go. An incident like this which clearly scares everyone up on Capitol Hill, staffers, workers, members of congress. Do you think it will propel you guys up there, Democrats and Republicans, to say you know what, enough is enough, let's get back to work and end this government shutdown?

(CNSNews.com) – When asked by CNSNews.com whether he had read all 10,535 pages of final Obamacare regulations that have so far been published in the Federal Register, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) asked in return whether it was "important" the he read them, dismissed the inquiry as a "propaganda question," and did not ultimately answer. CNSNew

Republican congressman Randy Neugebauer (TX-19) confronted a Park Ranger at the World War II Memorial on Wednesday. Upset that tourists were being denied access to the memorial, Neugebauer asked a Park Ranger, "How do you look at them and... deny them access?" "It is difficult," she responded. "I'm sorry, sir." "The Park Service should be ash

Steve Chaggaris of CBS News interviews RCP congressional reporter Caitlin Huey Burns about House Republicans' efforts to pass piecemeal funding bills.

Anthony Salvanto of CBS news interviews RCP reporter Scott Conroy about the prospect of compromise on Capitol Hill. Many House Republicans come from districts where their biggest political threat is a primary challenge from the right while Democrats are stuck in a bind where they can not allow the Affordable Care Act, the signature legislation of t

O'REILLY: The sane thing to do would be for President Obama to give individuals the same treatment he has given some corporations, that is, a one year waiver for signing up for Obamacare. If you want to sign up now, you can; that is, if you can get through. But if you would rather wait and see, you can. We the people should be given that option. If

It turns out that the "clean CR" Democrats are urging House Republicans to pass in order to end the government shutdown is much closer to the 2014 Ryan budget than anyone expected. Larry Kudlow, host of "The Kudlow Report" on CNBC, joins Chris Hayes to explain.

The panel discussion begins around 11:00 of this video.

Chris Matthews says that Republicans pose as defenders of the World War Two veterans, pretending that they didn't vote to close the memorial. "There should be an award for such buffoonery."