We have jam packed show. First the merging of politics and pop culture is complete. Donald trump on the snl stage. Did he get the last laugh . This is the first time nbc has handed a candidate the keys to studio age 8. He hosted whole somehow. Expectations were huge. The show was just okay. Its getting panned by some critics. Watch this. This was the first sketch he was in last night. Theyve done so much to ridicule me over the years. This show has been a disaster for me. Look at this guy. Great, great, its going to be fantastic. Youre doing great job. I think this show got better by about 2 billion percent. You think youre this terrific person. You think youre this. You think youre that. Trumps a racist. Its larry david. What are you doing . I heard if i yelled that they would give me 5,000. Now as always, trumps appearance was surrounded by controversy. Thats what larry david was references there. There were protesters led by immigrant groups. Lets have some serious analysis of last nights silly show. Bill carter knows snl better than anyone. His most recent book. How well did trump do . It was the biggest ratings since 2012. It was 50 higher than on the premier of the show this season with hillary clinton. It really stood out last night. What do you make of those numbers . Trump expected to get high ratings. Will they be happy with this . I think theyll be happy. Ive been using hugish. Not super huge. Its as big as you can do. Saturday night isnt watched on tv any way. A lot of people watch on demand instead of live. These ratings are above average. Im sure the advertisers are thrilled. What do you make of that. It didnt hit the expectation. People wanted fireworks on the show. They steered clear of that. There was this group that did call for 5,000 to anybody who interrupted the show. The biggest joke is larry david would get 5,000. The group does say they will pay larry david . Well, he needs the money. Where do you think was the best part . The hotline bling where this drake parody. He comes out wearing the glasses. I loved it, but it made we realize i dance exactly like him. It was the most humanizing moments. How we doing in syria . The country is at peace. The refugees have returned and they have great jobs as blackjack dealers in the trump hotel in damascus. Mr. President , the president of mexico is here to see you. I brought you the check for the wall. Im so proud of you and changing telemundo to all english for me. Its the greatest thing. How is the economy . Amazing, sir. In the words of our new national anthem, its huge. I have no idea how you did it, sir. I dont have to get specific. With me its just works, its magic. I ask you if this presidency thing doesnt work out, does he is a future . He can pull off certain things. What struck me about that sketch is they didnt have any latino actors. The mexican president had to be played by an anglo. Thats one of the things that people said about the show. They didnt have someone to put on that was really hispanic. Is this a jump the shark moments of not just having a candidate having part but hosting . I dont think so. I think some viewers at home recent that politics has become so soft and silly. He did sketches on tonight show. Its not really anything out of the ordinary. I dont think it affects the race. I really dont. I dont think it changes anything he hasnt been this campaign. The only shot they took was having drunk uncle be his audience. They said are these the people who like him. That was a subtle point they made. Well get into that in a couple of minutes. Trump is tweeting during the show. He said the ratings were great and said very few protesters. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you. Well hear from a protesters in a few minutes. Lets go out to jay mohr. Thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. What a pleasure. This is my treadmill show. A treadmill show. I love that. I wanted to hear from a former snl comedian this morning. We need your review of how the donald did. Did you think he was flat . No. I thought he was game. He played along. I got to give him credit. In one show he was in more sketches than i was this two years. Kudos. Its funny. He only appeared like 12 minutes. Theres suspicion this is due to nbcs equal time concerns. Having been on saturday night live that is absurd and that is patently false. Theres no way on gods green earth Loren Michaels had a stopwatch. I promise you thats not true whoever said that. As far as the protesters and donald trump, if hes so against foreigners, why did he marry two of them . I have heard people ask that question. I dont think he would say they are foreigners. I thought that was my closer. I thought i was going to get a big laugh. This isnt sunday morning live. I do appreciate the attempt. Its Pretty Amazing donald trump. He was game. Really when youre a host on saturday night live you have to surrender. You have to give in. He was the star of the show. He made fun of himself. People make fun of his hair. Who cares. Let me play a part of weekend update where i thought some of the comedians were getting to make the jabs they have wanted to make. They didnt do it to his face. Heres a clip. I late to break it to you but im not going to be in the next sketch. Ill do the next best thing. Ive live tweet it. Tomorrow its back to cleveland. Wah, wah. I scream, you scream, we all scream. Is he rips us apart . He definitely is. What do you think he just tweeted . Man. Probably Something Like kenan and kenyan. Do you think that was an effective sketch . It helped the sketch. In my eye s really interesting way to go about the sketch because its a new millenium. I checked his twitter amount at that moment, im checking to see if i can get it live. I imagine how many people went over to see if he was live tweeting those things. He gets the millenials. I dont know if he will be president. Hes a billionaire, hes poor. When youre president , you only get four years. Lets hope its an uptick if he does get it. I thought it was pretty good. It wasnt bad. Anybody saying he bombed, he didnt bomb. Deion sanders, Charles Barkley bombed. He played ball. He did okay. If trump has taught us two things about politics, its the power of television and the power of twitter. Thanks for being here. Great talking with you. I watch you all the time. Youre my treadmill show. Get back on that treadmill. Thank you. Well have more on trumps snl appearance after the break. Did the show diffuse the antitrump protests. Political analysis from two experts, next. Dont just eat. Mangia bertolli. Plan well and enjoy life. Or, as we say at unitedhealthcare insurance company, go long. How you plan is up to you. Take healthcare. Make sure youre covered for more than what just medicare pays. 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This is referring to the offer for a 5,000 reward to any person in the audience who interrupted trump. No audience member interrupted but larry david pretended to. Lets watch. Youre a racist. I knew this was going to happen. Who is that . Trumps a racist. Its larry david. What are you doing . I heard if i yelled that theyd give me 5,000. As a businessman, i can fully respect that. Nbc was trying to diffuse the controversy with that joke. Did you feel it insulted your organizers who were trying to raise the alarm about trumps antiimmigrant rhetoric . The entire approach that nbc has had has been to completely dismiss the complaint. The issue is really genuine and honest opinion about whether trump should have ever hosted the show. The very fact they did not allow any kind of communication really speaks volumes about their desire to connect and respect the latino community. Its about choosing ratings over respecting a community. Let me ask you about your efforts to trump and his rhetoric. Were going to invite Loren Michaels and steve burke and people in the entertainment world to have an honest conversation about whats appropriate and whats not appropriate. We hope to have people and so many others, all of these voices who opened and involved this this kind of conversation. Bringing it forward so the Mainstream Media can understand opposing here. I think we would love to have the Party Chairman there to both understand that the extent to which this kind of rhetoric is really hurting latinos. We have to deal with rhetoric on the right and on the other hand we have to deal with the mentality on the left of being right and knowing best. I appreciate you being here this morning and previewing your plans when it comes to that summit. Thanks for being here. My pleasure. Let me now bring in a National Syndicated radio host and long term observer of politics and pop culture. I wanted to get your take on trumps performance as politics. What it means for his campaign. Do you believe last night on snl helped or did it hurt in. Originally i thought this would be a terrific thing for him because its going to boost ratings. Actually watching the entire thing i found it almost painfully unfunny. There was one sketch that was the most amazing sketch which showed trump as president in 2018. When youre treating the idea of trump in the oval office as a joke, and they were, i dont think that helps his credibility at a time when hes trying to move into the mainstream as a serious candidate who belongs on the stage with rubio and cruz. Some tv critics suggests the liberal writers of snl purposely tanked the show, wanted to make it unfunny. What do you think . No one who is a professional ever tries to be unfunny. I think it was trying to use him in way he would accept. Late in the show, there was a segment which was a dummy add for trump, a made up ad for trump featuring two porn star who is were regulars on snl and it was so over the line in terms of being r rated. I think trumps association with that will count against him. It goes along with the other big mistake hes made over the weekend which is piling onto attack dr. Carson. One thing that conservatives dont like, i think, this speaks for myself and 99 of the other conservatives is all of these nonsensical attacks on ben carson. Im not a carson supporter. I dont think he will or should be president. To attack him for saying that he was offered a scholarship to west point when no one knows whether thats true or not, whether someone mentioned that to him. Everyone who goes to west point get a scholarship because they are Living Expenses and tuition are paid for by the government. Again, its such a double standard because obviously there is so much else from other candidates, including democratic candidates, Bernie Sanders. I think its fairly well known, his only biological child is a child out of wedlock. Thats received no attention in the press. None of the aspects of bernies or hillarys past indiscretions and misrepresentations of background. I would say we know about sanders, that point you made, because of the press. I understand what youre saying. Well talk about that later in the show. Thank you for being here this morning. Hope to have you back here soon. Appreciate it. Up next, weve seen trump trying to capitalize on carsons fight with the media. Is that a preview of what well see at tuesday nights debate. Can we expect more of candidates attacking the moderators . News about that after this. Machine i wanna see, i wanna see. Longing. Serendipity. What are the. Chances. And good tidings to all. Hang onto your antlers. 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When you look at the debate that fox business will put on, youre going to actually have a debate about the economy, about tax, about trade, about veterans unemployment, things that the cnbc debate was supposed to be about. I think youll see a level of professionalism that was lacking last time. Let me talk about who will be on teenage. Theres no surprise which candidates are on the main stage like trump and carson. Candidates had to have an average of 2. 5 in the national polls. Theyll be part of the earlier debate. Notably missing from either debate senator lindsey graham. What do you make of this wind widdling of the field . The standards are still low. They will be on the first debate. I think they both are doing very well in iowa and New Hampshire respectively and have a chance to jump back on the main stage in december. Thats what the process is about is maintaining and giving them an opportunity to get their voice out and explain their solutions. If they meet the threshold for the next debate, theyre back. Well see a little volatility in the field as we move toward iowa and New Hampshire. Are you relieved we are at the point the candidates are no longer fighting about the debates . The to some people, especially some democrats, it felt like compla n complaining about the rules as opposed to talking about policy . This was always and should always be about the candidates in the format that best allows them to express their vision for this country. What ke saw is on the day of their first debate there was a protest outside the dnc headquarters. You saw on our side was a discussion among our candidates about areas where they can agree on the format and wanted to have a discussion with networks. Thats the way it should work. Im pleased with the way our side dealt with the situation. The way the other side dealt with it where they limited the number of debates is exactly the wrong way to deal with it. Conservative grass roots debate in january. Can you tell us about that. We put a place holder for a grass roots debate. To have conservative media allow them to question our candidates to express the concerns and interest of our grass root voters and activist pps. Thanks for being here. You bet. Republicans are not the only ones who they they can do a better job producing cable news. Here is what Bernie Sanders said about his dream job. Dream job that you would like to have right now if you could not be a politician . President of cnn. If i was president of cnn, trust me, the way media deals with politics would radically change. Cnn president had a response. Here it is. Can he start monday . I feel a feeling mr. Sanders is busy on monday. Ben carson confronting the press as the gop frontrunner rising in the polls right next to trump and facing additional media scrutiny. The question for is us is ben carson having a Brian Williams moment . Ese. But its not who you think. Its tmobile. 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