Jesse Ventura: Shutdown is 'despicable,' pardon Manning and Snowden (VIDEO)

Politics has hijacked the United States and still lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have yet to come closer to an agreement that would put nearly 1 million government employees back to work.

According to a recent poll, 72 percent of Americans are opposed of the Republican strategy to shut down the government in spite of "Obamacare."

And as the dysfunction continues, former Independent Governor Jesse Ventura sounds off on the Capitol Hill shenanigans with RT's Sam Sacks.