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Cosa Nostra.
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- In Italian.
- Cosa Nostra. In Italian.
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I think that
it's an important question...
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... that there is no particular pattern
which would make you feel...
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... the crime is in any way
a problem...
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... associated with those
of Italian extraction.
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Senator, I'm not talking
about Italians.
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I'm talking about the Mob.
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Continue.
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They gave me this piece of paper.
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- I was to burn it.
- Demonstrate what you did.
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In other words,
I took this piece of paper.
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It's burning.
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It's lighted in your hand.
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That was symbolic of the fate
that was to befall you...
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- ... if you betrayed the organization?
- Senator, what I'm telling you...
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... what I'm exposing to you...
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... to the press and to everybody...
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... this is the promise I'm breaking.
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Even if I talked, it's...
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Hey, Ryan. This thing's fabulous.
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They're trying to make
a monkey out of him.
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I hope they nail his ass
10 times over.
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We're after headlines, for God's sake.
They're after votes.
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So Genovese was your godfather.
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Godfather is different.
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When you...
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When you go to the church,
you baptize a baby.
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This is a godfather.
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The sworn testimony
you just heard...
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... came from the lips
of Joseph Valachi.
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Lips supposedly sealed
more than 33 years ago...
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... when he joined
the Cosa Nostra.
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But today, before a nationally
televised Senate hearing...
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... the 60-year-old convicted burglar,
dope peddler and murderer...
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... talked in such a way
that he seemed to draw...
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... the sympathy of the crowd
and the crime committee.
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Valachi said he was talking
because he wanted to.
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But it's possible that he is talking
to protect himself...
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... from his syndicate boss,
Vito Genovese...
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... who had ordered him killed
as an informer.