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Now, we've got to talk about what's going on in Congress because, well, the moderates of the GOP look like they may be siding with the House Democrats here shortly.

So let me explain the theater.

And it is theater. We're careening towards a government shutdown. And I'm normally okay with a government shutdown. But there is a problem

here. So the House Republicans got all the families in a room.

You know Godfather and you get all the families in a room and the mob bosses all get

together and they divide up the area and occasionally they go to war with each other.

But generally they try to get together in a room and plot who's

the drug runner, who's doing the shakedowns, who's the extortionists, who controls the ports,

who controls Long Island, who's got Manhattan, and they lay out their territories and what they

can control and what they do. You got the crime families.

Well, the House Republicans, because they have such a small majority, they've only got a four-vote majority.

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