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GOP reprises Eastwood's empty chair stunt

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Rachel Maddow points out that congressional Republicans rejected the offer of a conference committee 18 times before suddenly agreeing to the idea at the last minute before allowing the United States government to shut down, and reminds them their joke about debating a set of empty chairs is not so funny when they're actually losing the debate.