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0 never shy about expressing his opinion, and he knows a lot on this subject, donald trump, and the art of the deal. that is all for us tonight. there s a real simple solution. the speaker of the house could solve this today. our message in the house has been pretty clear. reopen our government and provide fairness to all americans under the president s health care law. the government shutdown gridlock could soon be over. the president meeting today with white house republicans. can they compromise on getting americans back on track? executives have been warning the administration bluntly this whole system is not ready for prime time. obama care s rocky rollout. just how much did the white house know about the problems for the sign-up process for the health care law? libya s prime minister detained by gunmen. we are live with the latest developments there. shaky situation there and get to that in a minute. a lot going on this morning despite the fact it is wicked earliship i m john berman. i m zoraida sambolin. it is 4:01 in the east. take a look at the capitol this morning. the dysfunction beneath that dome that gave us the shutdown we are now under and not able to pay our bills. this morning, there are small, tiny signs of progress, maybe, that might at least keep the country from defaulting on its debt. 18 top republicans are said to visit the white house today to meet with the president. that as multiple republican house members and sources close to house leaders tell cnn they are working on a proposal to raise the debt ceiling temporarily, perhaps four to six weeks. that could open the door to negotiations on a longer term solution. however, it is not all happy music and unicorns yet. it just deals with the debt part. this will be unwelcomed news to hundreds of thousands of federal employees not being paid right now, not to mention a lot of americans who depend on those services. let s get the latest from senior white house correspondent brianna keilar. reporter: finally, they are talking. house democrats met the president at the white house last night. we just had a very positive meeting with the president of the united states. reporter: president obama s message, he is open to a short-term deal to increase the debt ceiling for six weeks, according to a lawmaker in the meeting. republicans are warming to the idea of a shorter deal, followed by negotiations with the president on reducing the debt and deficit. house budget committee chairman paul ryan penned an op-ed in wall street journal that did not demand to obama care but tea-backed party republicans still want that fight after a brief debt ceiling increase and arguing against ending the government shutdown. i would do a debt ceiling for six weeks so the president would negotiate with john boehner and keep the fight on the continued resolution and obama care. reporter:? buffs with local news stations, president obama was asked to explain his own vote against raising the debt ceiling in 2006. i voted against a debt ceiling increase at the time because i had some concerns about what president bush was do. reporter: specifically, the bush tax cuts. and he argued it s okay for certain republicans to protest policies with a no vote, but he said there must be a vote. there should never be a proposition where the speaker of the house is not willing to put those votes to the floor right now. reporter: congress isn t faring well in this budget fight. a new gallup shows republicans with a 28% favorable rate, down ten points since last month, the lowest for any party since 1992. democrats slid four points to 43%. brianna keilar, cnn, washington. seven days to go before the u.s. hits that debt ceiling. jack lew is headed to capitol hill this morning and testify before the senate finance committee in a few hours. the secretary has already warned congress that the u.s. will not have enough cash on hand to pay its bills if the debt ceiling is not raised before october 17th. that could send the nation into default for the very first time in history. it s ten days since they rolled out obama care and the online glitches are continuing this morning. many have tried to logon to health care.gov. we are hearing more this morning about just what the administration was told about potential problems with this site way in advance. cnn s brian todd has that. reporter: luke chung operates a database company in northern virginia. he s an expert on heavily trafficked web sites but even he is frustrated navigating health care.gov. this is interesting. reporter: what do you got? i don t know what i had. i just tried to log into my account that i have already established. reporter: and? and it says unexpected error. reporter: since the rollout last week chung is only trying to get quote on prices and not even to enroll. error messages and booted out of the system and other problems have exasperated hundreds of thousands. one democratic ally of the administration congressman robert andrews, says he spoke to the white house months before the unveiling. i discussed with the white house people things they already knew which was undertaking of this size is going to be very complex. reporter: andrews believes the white house was on top of the situation. robert lachefski, disagrees. he says many of his clients had meetings with the administration ahead of the rollout. executives have been warning the administration bluntly that this whole system is not ready for prime time. it wasn t going to be ready on october 1 to appropriately enroll people. reporter: but he says the white house ignored them. the administration didn t seem to understand the seriousness of it. they were blase about it a. reporter: he says they were not about to delay the rollout. the white house insists it listened to insurers and knew about the problems. everyone was aware and we told you there would be glitches. reporter: what they are not telling you is exactly how many people have enrolled. they say they don t know the precise numbers. luke chung says. the data insists. i hope this has a database inside it that tells you everybody who is enrolled, much less the number of people who are enrolled. reporter: white house official tell us it s more complicated than that. they say they have to collect those numbers from several different sources and they have to make sure the numbers are accurate so they are sticking a plan to release the number of enrollments to once a month to ensure that accuracy. brian todd, cnn, washington. breaking news from libya now. cnn has learned the prime minister was apparently taken, taken from a hotel in tripoli by a large number of armed men. there is some confusion about what is going on here so let s go live to tripoli where cnn s nic robertson has the latest developments for us. reporter: it is a developing story, john. about 3:30 a.m., gunmen went into a hotel and arrived in about 30 or 40 vehicles. the prime minister lives there. they went to his rooms and took him at gunpoint. no shots were fired. a group called the operations room of the libya revolutionary that claimed responsibility. they are portraying this as a legal move, saying that they have detained the prime minister and placed him in a jail in tripoli accusing him of crimes. we talked to the justice minister this morning and he says absolutely no way, no arrest warrant has been issued for the prime minister. the government is calling this a kidnapping. they are meeting now to discuss what to do next. i met with the prime minister last night four hours before this kidnapping. he was happy. he was relaxed. he gave no indication that this might be about to happen. of course, many government officials ministers we have talked to have been concerned that the arrest of abu anas al libi, his arrest over the weekend was going to trigger some instability. this may be it, john. indeed. i mean, seizing him some 150 armed men is instability to say the least. any sign, nic there is a direct connection to the seizing of the libya terror suspect? does the prime minister have a close relationship with the united states? would be he an obvious target for retaliation? reporter: the prime minister has said that libya has a good relationship with the united states. i was meeting with people in his office yesterday and the justice minister here who both said that libya signed a short range, long-range contracts with the united states to improve more enforcement here. these have been signed in the last few weeks. the prime minister has been saying despite the fact they are outraged what they call the abduction of abal libi, they say libya has good relations with the united states and the justice minister told me last night that perhaps he and and the prime minister had not been outraged enough with the situation of al libi. what we have heard from this group that claims to abducted the prime minister, the operations room of the libya revolutionists, they say there is no connection with the abduction of al libi. however, the reality is two days ago, they said on their facebook page that they would go out and hunt down and punish anyone connected to the government who had been helping foreign intelligence services to capture al libi. so the connection is certainly there and it s whatever here believes to be behind all of this, john. last question here. it s kay hottic in libya right now to begin with. right now, the prime minister is in custody somewhere under armed guards. who is in charge? reporter: well, right now that would be the council administrators who are in charge here right now. right now, they are meeting to determine what their next move should be. but essentially this is going to come down to a standoff. this is a militia, the operations it is a militia that has been sanctioned by the government. the government here doesn t have a national security force. it s police is weak. there is no national army here. and the country is essentially, to put it for want of a better word, a lawless place where large militias like this one has abducted the prime minister, have the writ to do what they will and what we have witnessed in the early hours of today is perhaps one of the worst examples of that so far, taking the prime minister, john. nic, in the wild west there in tripoli, appreciate it. abu anas al libi captured last week on the streets of tripoli is still held on a ship in the mediterranean. he has not been read his miranda rights yet. u.s. officials say he is being interrogated by a special team of agents from the california a pentagon and the fbi. anything he tells them cannot be used in court. once al libi is turned over to the justice department, he will be read his miranda rights and evidence gathering will begin for a criminal prosecution. 12 minutes past the hour here. coming up? 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