MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reveals House GOP held 'emergency meeting' on cheese law after giving up on bill to avert shutdown

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow revealed on-air Friday night that Republicans in the House held an "emergency meeting" hours before the government was set to shut down -- but that the topic was cheese.

House Republicans had already given up on finding a resolution to Donald Trump's feud with Democrats over border wall funding but nevertheless still found a "natural cheese" bill important enough to hold an emergency meeting over.

The host then played a clip of Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) telling his Republican colleagues that it's "really something" for them to be holding the meeting about the "Curd Act" but not discussing the looming shutdown.

Watch Maddow explain it below: