JILL STEIN ON THE SHUTDOWN

The American public, not President Obama, is the force that can have the most impact on how Washington pulls out of its current acrimony, former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein told RT on Wednesday.

"I think it's really the American people who need to kick in here... we need to kick in to say, 'Let's stop this government-by-extortion,'" Stein, the most successful female presidential candidate in US history, said.