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Did you tune in for the return of eddy murphy to saturday night live? if so you are rewarded with murphy popping up in every sketch. except the cold open. many of the classic characters showed up for the first time in 35 years. buckwheat, mr. robinson. >> its your old pal. so much has changed since we last spent some time together. my neighbors have gone from so much. from something called gentryification. its like a magic trick. white people pay a lot of money and then poof, all the black peopl...

Ane an apparent parrot twitter account orin heck points out its a selfie theres an entire industry of fact checkers letting elizabeth warren getting away with calling these selfies and i wont stand for it. dana bash, cnn, washington. >> youve got to have long arm tuesday do a good selfie. thank goodness my husband has those long arms. hes the selfie master in our house. >> it was a revival 35 years in the making. last night eddie murphy made his much anticipated return to "saturday night live" f...

"saturday night live" tackled dinner politics and greta thunbergs clash with president trump in its cold open. >> im happy everyone flew here for the holidays. theyre impeaching trump. >> they did it. theyre impeaching trump. >> dad, stop. >> its a disgrace. what crime did he commit? >> an alpha male that gets things done. >> you dont think "bad boys 3" is going to be good or not? >> can we talk about politics instead? >> oh, you mean how trump is definitely getting impeached and then getting re...

Going to vote to impeach you. thank you, ladies. >> thank you. and new coming up, rudy giulianis trip to the ukraine and from someone who came back from that trip, and more on what the presidents personal attorney found there. and "saturday night live" is a cold open going viral as they describe the politics of the season. >> i am so happy that everyone flew here for the holidays and more happy that they did it, and they are impeaching trip. >> it a disgrace, what crime did he commit? >> the...

Moscow nights. white house rumble. to russia with love. mueller time. individual one. a trumped-up emergency. cohen doubles down. bar fight. whos a friend of big bad mueller? second term or prison term? the whistle-blower versus the tweeter. lets play hardball. lets play hardball. lets play hardball. >> im chris matthews. lets play "hardball." >> it gets no better than that. >> oh, my god. >> how great is that? >> second term or prison term? bar fight, i love that one. but size matters, i mean, ...

>> in the cold open, i guess a couple things. i know theres an 80-year-old kid once who said they loved this show because they loved the opening. they loved the lets play "hardball" like you created "morning joe" with mika. a lot of it is generic. one time i said lets play "hardball" and we kept saying it. a lot of this stuff, tell me something i dont know on the sunday show. a lot of it, you do it once, yeah, lets do that. you know? thats how it works. >> how did we do? >> you did good. you got...

Mika. everything else revolves around 7 p.m. every night. >> its true. >> when did you get that idea? >> in the cold open, i guess a couple of things. theres an 80-year-old kid once said they loved the show because they loved the opening. they loved the lets play "hardball" like you created "morning joe" with mika. lets play "hardball" and we kept saying it. a lot of this stuff, tell me something i dont know on the sunday show. a lot of it, you do it once, yeah, lets do that. thats how it works....

Snl is comedy. but what youre talking about swallowed guffaws youre taking a punch at those reporting on this. >> absolutely. snl, the cold open which i didnt think was terribly funny, it wasnt a surprising. i think alec baldwin is a little tiring. >> harris: do you think one affects the other? >> i think theres a broader sense of it out there. what snl was doing was kind of lazy. what we see on kwrut lets are people are not holding themselves took accepted standards of journalism, whether it be...

Lets get him on the phone, too. >> hello. [ laughter ] >> welcome back, everyone. >> so that was part of the cold open as you could see from "saturday night lives" season premier over the weekend. they had quite a few things to play on to say the least. >> theyve nailed so many of those characters. >> on friday fox news host chris wallace criticized the presidents allies for dismissing the whistle-blower complaint arguing that their spin has been, quote, misleading. >> the spinning thats been do...

>> if we are going to solve the issues of our nation, pass the torch. >> reporter: the former vp did not talk to reporters after the debate but the exchange with harris didnt hurt his campaign. harris is widely regarded the winner of the night, pete buttigieg scored major points with the partys liberal wing on gun-control. >> we lose as many as were lost at parkland every 2 or 3 years in my city alone. common sense matters like universal background checks, cant seem to get delivered by washingto...