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Let's discuss. former "snl" cast member, dean obeidallah. dean, thank you so much. we have a delay. he's in atlanta. the presidential hopeful you saw him. he didn't want gillis fired. you used to work at "snl" production staff. you say he shouldn't have been fired. how should it have been handled? >> to me, to be clear, first of all, i don't know how he got hired. my friends at "snl," there is this thing called google. you should use it for people you're going to hire. his podcast from last year. yang's point is not whether or not he should be fired. it's the idea if we say anything wrong in o...

Is adored more than he is. and something else about his obsession with president obama which i find very strange, it shows the double standard of his ability to tell lies. he just lies about president obama, whether it was about him putting a spy into his campaign or whether it was about, you know, obama couldn't get -- was going to put us into war with north korea. like he lies about all kinds of things. he blamed the air-conditioning problems in the white house on obama for god's sakes. i mean this is like a "saturday night live" skit, but it's sad. and like, you know, trump supporters, they...

Fired one of it's most recent hires. shane gillis is his name. fired him just days after videos of the comedian making bigoted and homophobic comments came to light. but i want you to listen to these brand-new comments tonight from democratic presidential candidate andrew yang himself, a target of gillis' comedy. >> i thought if i could set an example that we can forgive people. particularly in an instance where in my mind it was in a comedic context or gray area. i thought it would be positive. but, you know, obviously it's in nbc's hands and they made the decision they made. >> he's in the f...

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And he didn't say it -- if he was doing a stand-up routine and he was making you think, and he was using offensive language in some way that it made you uncomfortable, but then it made you think, this was not that. this was a podcast, basically like me and you talking now. just having a conversation. there's no performance here. there's no whatever. we're having a conversation and he's saying these words. >> well, he and the other guy were trying to be funny this their depiction of chinatown. >> i didn't think they were trying to be funny. i thought they were having a conversation. >> no. it w...