but when snl s trump shook with vladimir putin it was putin who tugged and patted trump. at least a long handshake gives photographers a chance to get their shot. when the president asked about the japanese photogs what did they say? please, look at me. reporter: the president gazed at the prime minister. on monday canada s leader shook president trump s hand, but he held his own resisting any tugging and inspiring headlines like trudeau one-ups trump with the handshake game. with trump yanking at a rate of two or three times in ten seconds, you almost need a hand to hold you up. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. and we will be right back. there s no time for distractions. it s not enough to think i m ready. i need to know i m ready. no matter what lies ahead.
thinking, what on evert is he talking about? of course we cover terror attacks. it s one of the biggest news stories every time it happens around the world. i don t know i don t know where he gets his information. in his speech we should note he did not mention any examples. there was no evidence that the media is somehow ignoring terrorist attacks in an effort to collude with isis or whatever he s imagining. we do cover terrorist attacks. add that to the list of thing he says without evidence to back it up. voter fraud is another one of those things. thank you for joining us. we to want get to this. i hope you were watching saturday. if you weren t, we re going to show you, late night taking jabs at the new administration, from moose to lambs. melissa mccarthy did not disappoint for snl s return this weekend. i m not here to be your buddy. i m here to swallow gum and i m here to take names. my words too big, i got to show you in pictures?
welcome back to hardball. that was hillary clinton played by snl s wonderful kate mckinnon, urging an electoral college voter to dump trump. the love actually parody has gone viral. and even inspired parodies of the parody. and today the real electoral college voters certified donald trump as the 45th president of the united states. so what kind of mandate have they delivered him? for more, i m joined by our roundtable, mike lupica, and phillip bunn, political reporter for the washington post. andy carney. thank you all for being here. i am going to defer you to you mike, because you probably know donald trump or covered donald trump more than anybody else at this table. why do you suppose donald trump seems to be so fixated on convincing his supporters that he won in a landslide when he didn t? yeah, it starts to sound like his real party is the flat earth society. and, you want to say to him sometimes, dude, you got the gig, okay? you can stop running now.
taxes and i ll stop. this is good for snl s business model, no question about it. does the president-elect, bill, have to get a thicker skin? do you think he knows what he is about to enter? i think he needs a skin. he doesn t even have a skin it s so thin. it s going to be he thinks this is bad now. when he s in office, it is going to be all over the place. every comedian everywhere. saturday night live has done this to everybody. this guy has hosted the show. he knows what it is about they stopped to say, by the way, he really did this. it wasn t even satire. the 16-year-old tweet s was complaining about cnn. it s showing the relevance of big, old-fashioned institutions. old-fashioned. snl, new york times cnn. he s going after power. almost as big as the institution of the presidency.
if you want to go shopping or visit the attractions, it s better value for americans. so that s the main reason. reporter: of course, all of this because of the brexit referendum in june, which has driven down the value of the pound by 16%. thanks, chris. back to you, frances. matt, thank you very much. happy shopping to you there across the pond. donald trump is getting support from an unlikely source. after snl s weekend update co-anchor says some of this is deserved. he sat down with esquire magazine where he was asked about trump s latest criticism that snl is too one-sided. he responded, quote, oddly, i agree with him. we try to write that way, but comedy should take both sides. no matter who is in power, we should be making fun of them. all right. here s a reason to head to your freezer and grab some ice cream. ice cream for breakfast is apparently good to you. that s according to research from the university of tokyo. they find that eating the frozen treat in the m