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April 11th, 2011. On Comedy Central's World News Headquarters in New York, this is The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. We begin the night with news out of Washington. The federal government open forbidden it. I repeat, the federal government open forbidden it. Now, that may not seem like much, but on Friday night, very much in question.
With 179 hours to go before a possible government shutdown. Less than 70 hours and counting.
Just 48 hours. In about 36 hours. 31 hours. We are about 27 hours away. 26 hours away from Friday.
Just 18 hours. 13 hours. 11 minutes and 21 seconds. Less than five hours. Three hours. Two hours from right now, your government is going to shut down, and there is nothing that can stop it now.
It's a fait accompli. A train with brakes. No brakes. Speeding down the track, the train is filled with baking soda. It's going to crash into that vinegar truck. May the Lord have mercy on our... A GOP source tells NBC News a deal has been struck to avoid a shutdown. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Our government, saved by mundane pragmatic agreement.
Which should happen all the time, but doesn't. So the whole countdown clock thing was in vain, which is the subject of our special coverage of... Wow.
Now you might be wondering... You're very welcome.
I'm probably wondering, how did we get to this point with the shutdown? How did Congress get to a place where they were going to shut the entire federal government down due to a dispute over .19% of the budget? A budget that should have been passed in the previous Democratic-controlled Congress. Why didn't they do that, by the way? We have a budget enforcement resolution. We passed that.
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