in response, google opted for a compromise displaying both names. gulf of america in parentheses for users outside the united states. so this is part of what mexican president said, and we're expecting to have her presser. and this she will talk about more details on how the mexican government is going to respond to google. kate. >> let let us see what avenues they see in terms of the legal front here. thank you so much. and a new hour of cnn news central starts now. we are standing by for an emergency meeting of european leaders on the future of ukraine. as u.s. officials arrive for direct talks with russia. without ukraine. president zelenskyy says no deal behind ukraine's back. the department of education is now

warning all schools, from preschool to college, to cut rates out of all considerations or risk losing federal funds. and the best performances from saturday night live 50th anniversary, plus new details about what happened backstage. i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn news center. >> very soon, european leaders will meet for an emergency meeting in paris as the u.s. closes in on its high stakes talks with russia. top white house officials will meet one on one with top russian officials tomorrow in saudi arabia. the goal, of course, to end russia's war in ukraine but notably missing ukraine or any officials with ukraine this morning. serious alarm now being raised over how president trump plans to negotiate. trump has said depending on how these talks go in the next 24 hours, he could be meeting with putin very soon. cnn's alayna treene

is at the white house. we saw the secretary of state, marco rubio, arriving just hours ago. we're seeing him come down the stairs there in saudi arabia for these upcoming talks. what is the very latest on what you understand what will happen here? >> well, look, when i talked to trump administration officials about this, sarah, they say depending on how tomorrow goes, as you mentioned, we could see potentially a meeting between president donald trump and russian president putin, which they have said they want to have in saudi arabia, happen sooner rather than later, potentially even as early as this month. now, they also tell me, these officials, that those who are representing the united states delegation are going into this, trying to make sure that everything is on the table. they're not taking anything off the table. they are simply looking at this as kind of a first step to broader negotiations. now to get into who is negotiating from the united states side. we know secretary of state marco rubio, as you mentioned, who just arrived in riyadh this morning. he will be there, as well as middle east envoy steve witkoff,

who is more and more starting to have russia and ukraine fall into his portfolio. and then also national security advisor michael waltz. now, from the russian side, we know that russian foreign minister sergey lavrov, as well as presidential aide yuri ushakov, are going to be taking part. from the point of view of moscow now, as you mentioned, who is not there? ukraine. and that has caused a lot of consternation among those in kyiv, but also throughout europe. many of these members and united states allies who have been really putting forward a united front in how they are approaching the war between ukraine and russia. as you mentioned as well, they are going to be having an emergency meeting in paris today to discuss this. but i do want you as well to listen to what we heard from rubio yesterday. he tried to tamp down some of these concerns and argue that ukraine is going to have a big role in these talks, as will europe. take a listen. >> if it's real negotiations and we're not there yet. but if that were to happen, ukraine will have to be involved because they're the ones that were

invaded and the europeans will have to be involved because they have sanctions on putin and russia as well. and they've contributed to this effort. we're just not there yet. >> so, as you could hear there, sarah, he saying, we're just not there yet. again, kind of framing this as a first step after that call last week between president donald trump and russian president vladimir putin. i think, you know, today we know that the u.s. delegation is preparing for these talks tomorrow. as they lead into that, hopefully we can learn some more details about what the specific things that they are hoping to gain from these talks. you know, as that comes together, sarah. >> all right. alayna treene, thank you so much. live there for us from the white house. kate. >> and to the second piece of alena was just talking about this morning. european leaders are holding an emergency summit to coordinate how they will respond to what's happening in saudi arabia without them. british prime minister keir starmer calling the meeting a once in a generation moment for national security and also saying that he is ready and willing to put british troops on

the ground in ukraine to enforce a peace deal if necessary. cnn's clare sebastian is in london. she's tracking much more on this. clare, how worried are european leaders about the the possibility of them being completely left out of talks to end this war in ukraine? >> yeah. >> i think you can. >> tell that there is. >> significant concern. >> by how hastily convened this meeting in paris was. >> it was. >> only confirmed by the elysee. >> palace on sunday night that it was happening, and it includes not all european leaders, but a significant quantity. this is a measure, i think, of the level of concern after this week of political whiplash that we've seen with nato, with the ukraine defense contact group and then with the munich security conference. i think the big fear in the short term for europe is that they could be left to front the security guarantees for ukraine and to foot the bill, essentially to implement a peace deal that they haven't necessarily been involved in deciding. that is the big fear in the short term. that is why i think this summit in some ways is a is a moment of counter-programming. europe

doesn't want to look like a bystander. they want to be seen to be setting the agenda here. and i think the other part of this is that there's a level of unpredictability, right? we really don't exactly know what the u.s. plan is yet. it feels like it's sort of being formed in real time and in public. we had pete hegseth last week in brussels saying, look, nato is off the table for ukraine as part of a peace settlement, but then hedging that and saying, you know, actually everything's on the table in negotiations. then keith kellogg said that europe wouldn't have a seat at the table. but rubio has now couched that and said that europe will have to be involved. so this is really a tightrope for european leaders avoiding criticism of the u.s. they really don't want to sacrifice that relationship. they want to salvage something out of this, while at the same time trying to avoid, as i said, looking like bystanders in their own future. and that's why you see this diplomatic calendar filling up. europe is added this meeting. then we'll have the eu council president meeting with keith kellogg, the trump administration's russia, ukraine envoy, president zelenskyy is putting in his own meeting. and

we just got confirmed by the the british prime minister's spokesperson that keir starmer, the british prime minister, will be traveling to washington next week to meet with president trump. so this is a real flurry of activity as no one wants to be left out of this process. >> that's a great point. look at their travel schedules to see how much of a priority it's become very, very quickly. it's good to see you. thank you john. all right. with us now is ron brownstein, cnn senior political analyst. ron, great to see you. alayna treene played some sound from marco rubio that, on the one hand seems innocuous, but it really jumped out to me because rubio was talking about whether ukraine should be part of the negotiations. and he had a sentence. he says ukraine will have to be involved because they were the ones that were invaded. now, on the one hand, that seems obvious. on the other hand, it's the type of language you really don't hear from president trump or vice president vance or secretary of defense pete hegseth. it's different than what you're

hearing from the administration. and some republicans. and, ron, i just think it's a big sea change that i hope you can explain between where republicans used to be on ukraine and where republicans used to be vis a vis russia. >> yeah. well. >> look, i mean, i think. >> you're right to. >> pick up on that. i think. >> rubio's. >> you know. >> pretty clearly his. >> role in all of this is to be the. >> good cop., kind of papering over. the clear. >> signals from. >> trump. >> vance and others at, you know, at the. core of the administration with more traditional international sentiments among republicans. i mean, if you. >> look back at public. >> opinion in the 80s, even into the 90s, more republicans than democrats said, voters said that we should. be expanding our commitment to nato. and there. >> is. >> still, john, important to note. >> a. >> substantial internationalist cohort in the republican coalition. >> but clearly, at the political leadership level. >> you know, in the trump era, the the shift has been toward.

>> those who are deeply skeptical of. >> these relationships. >> trump clearly. >> does not really see any difference in his mind between allies, traditional allies and adversaries. every interaction is transactional, and if anything, he is displaying more, you know, willingness to work with the traditional adversaries, in particular russia. and so you have this concern, i think, in europe. >> which. >> is pretty fundamental, that trump, at a basic level, is moving towards some vision of kind of division, you know, dividing the world into spheres of influence, where he is going to give russia a lot more leeway. over its. >> attitudes toward europe. >> last yesterday. >> there was. >> a debate in germany, you know, the leading parties for that election coming up later this month and the the the likely chancellor from the cdu, which is the center right party that is likely to finish first. said explicitly putin has nato territory in his sights. that is not something you're going to hear from donald trump.

>> so, ron, on another note, i've been trolling you on social media, which i like to do, and you tweeted about 12 hours ago about a poll from the aarp that had trump -19, in job approval with independents, -26 favorability among independents. and i put that up there because a lot of the talk the last few weeks have been about how donald trump's numbers are good overall. but what does that tell us? the independent numbers. >> yeah. well, look, i mean, you know, the you have three polls taken in early february. you have the yougov poll for the economist. you have the marquette law school poll, which is well respected. and you have this aarp project which people should understand is done by the firms of tony fabrizio, who is trump's pollster, uh, and john anzalone and molly murphy, who were harris and biden pollsters. um, all of them had the same

>> ok, solid. and i think that's what one of the reasons why among republicans in congress on many fronts, including those voices who should be, you know, by dint of their previous statements, supportive of the u.s. >> role in these international alliances and skeptical of of russia exerting too much influence on the continent. but the independent numbers really haven't gotten a lot of attention yet. and there is a sign that you're kind of getting this backlash against

the extent to which he is taking a 49% victory as kind of justification for fundamentally remaking policy at home and abroad, to kind of the wish list of conservatives solely. >> of the new dnc chair, ken martin is about to to travel the country, and the democrats have been engaging in a lot of self-flagellation, which is part of what democrats do. but is there anything in these numbers among independents that gives him a direction as he travels and meets around the country? >> you know, democratic numbers in these same polls are often pretty bad to worse than than among worse than the republican party, which is which is extraordinary. the the democratic image is really in a difficult place right now. but, you know, if you look back, i mean, the precedent that i think is most relevant here is bill clinton after 1994. you know, clinton's approval rating cratered in the summer of 94. it produced this historic republican landslide in the fall of 94, which, you know, surged the gop into control of both

chambers of congress, including the house, for the first time in 40 years. and clinton tried a lot of things through 1995 to recover, and none of them worked until the fall of 95, when he was pushed into a fundamental battle with the republican congress over priorities. when the gop, as i wrote recently on cnn.com for the that was the last time, john, that republicans put tax cuts and spending cuts in the same reconciliation bill. and clinton came out strongly against what he basically argued was cutting programs for the middle class to fund tax cuts for the rich. that was what allowed him to recover. he went back over 50, went back, passed. bob dole ultimately won that 1996 reelection pretty easily. i would i would think that that is the most likely road for the democrats, if they are going to be if they are going to improve their image in 2025, it's likely going to be through a fight with republicans about priorities, because, again, it is worth noting that

what the house is driving the gop toward is a repeat of the 9596 strategy, where they cut taxes and spending, particularly on medicaid. at the same time, they didn't do that in oh one, oh three and 17 with those tax cuts, with those tax cuts, they just did sugar, no spinach. but now they are, you know, driving toward that, pushing themselves at least the house freedom caucus is pushing them toward a position where they are going to. democrats are going to have the opportunity to say they are targeting benefits for the middle and working class, to fund tax cuts for the rich. and that may be, as it was for clinton, their best chance of reversing their fortunes. >> bears watching in the next few weeks. all right, ron brownstein, thank you so much, sarah. >> all right. ahead, a deadly coast to coast winter storm slamming the south particularly hard. at least ten people are dead. and officials are worried that number will go even higher. plus, why some people say president trump and elon musk are leading a quiet revolution to dismantle civil service as we

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been raging pretty intensely for the better part of 48 hours, though it has receded earlier. over the weekend, though, sarah, this water was going completely over this bridge. you can even see that there are icicles that have stayed from where the water was going over there. cleanup continues in this particular area. we actually saw some local crews come by to find road signs that have been swept away and caught up in trees and debris right here on the river bank. so just goes to show you how intense some of these storms have been over the weekend. this area of salem relatively unscathed at this point, but other parts of southwestern virginia and certainly kentucky not as lucky. the governor of virginia, glenn youngkin, he yesterday submitted a request for an expedited major disaster declaration because at one point, over 200,000 people were without power. there were 150 water rescues and two communities in western virginia had catastrophic and historic flooding. but then, of course, sarah, we need to talk about kentucky because they really

face the brunt of this particular storm. as you noted. over 1000 water rescues over the weekend and nine people sadly confirmed to be killed. that includes a mother and her child out in hart county who were swept away in the floodwaters. take a listen now. first responders described that incident. >> and it had rolled over upside down. rescuers did rescue the seven year old out and rescue her, but retrieve her out of the vehicle, but could not get to the mom because the water was coming up so fast. >> now, while some parts sarah are doing a little bit better in the light of day, the governor of kentucky and the government of kentucky maintains that there is still a risk of flooding, especially some rivers that might see some flood cresting over the next 24 hours or so. but we're going to get an update from governor andy beshear of kentucky at 10:00. so hopefully we'll have more answers. and also hopefully the number of those killed and impacted by the storm. stays

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up like a rocket ship. my goodness. up now in february of 2025 to 41%. and the clear majority of republicans and of course, republicans are in charge of the u.s. government. now, 62% of republicans say that the u.s. support for ukraine is too much. what a difference from just three years ago. i can remember, john, all those backyards in the united states with those ukrainian flags. far fewer of them today as americans opinions on ukraine have changed dramatically. >> what about opinions of the ukrainian president? right. >> you know, obviously, if you would expect changes amongst the public on feelings towards ukraine, feelings towards zelenskyy have changed also dramatically. look at this confidence. zelenskyy will do the right thing when it comes to world affairs. back in 2022, it was the clear majority, 72% through the floor, through the floor and by 2024, just 48% of americans say that they're confident that zelenskyy will do the right thing when it comes to world affairs. and gop confidence has also plummeted

dramatically. now, the clear majority of republicans are not confident, not confident that zelenskyy will do the right thing when it comes to world affairs. really a real trend line, ones you rarely see in the american public when it comes to ukraine's zelenskyy confidence in both going down to the ground. >> some allies of president trump have targeted zelenskyy with harsh criticism over the last few years, and it could be that that's having some impact. >> absolutely. the republican establishment, the republican electorate, has moved as the republican establishment and republican leaders have moved on. >> all right. let's talk about the idea of a peace deal. and again, the way you ask, this matters. but go ahead. >> the way you ask it is important. so we can talk about this a little bit. so the poll question essentially is do you support a russian ukraine negotiated peace deal. the vast majority of americans, this is what they want. 78% say that they support this idea versus just 16% opposed. of course, as we were talking about. does this question actually get at what's going on right now? i think you would say that it probably does

not necessarily get what's going at right now. >> no. the question asked, do you support a russia, ukraine, negotiate a peace deal? ukraine is not there at the negotiations in saudi arabia this week. so the people were not asked this. and i do think in general, if you ask anyone in any poll, do you support peace? peace tends to rate pretty highly. >> peace tends to win. you really get 78% of the country agreeing on anything. they do agree on the idea of a negotiated peace deal between russia and ukraine, whether the majority would agree on a russia peace deal with ukraine, where ukraine has nothing to do with it. that might be a different question. >> hard to know. harry enten thank you. >> thank you, my friend. >> okay. >> also this morning, ukrainian president zelenskyy putting out new reaction to the meeting in saudi arabia that ukraine is not part of. making clear that the war will not end if ukraine is not involved. >> ukraine will not participate. ukraine knew nothing about them. ukraine perceives any

negotiations about ukraine without ukraine as those with no results. we cannot recognize anything or any agreements about us. without us. >> and joining us right now is retired navy admiral james stavridis, a former nato supreme allied commander. on with us now as a cnn senior military analyst. and we are lucky to have you. he's also a partner at the carlyle group, a global investment firm, serves on the boards or advises a handful of defense related companies. admiral, it's really good to see you once again. thank you for coming in. first, can i want to ask you first about the meeting happening today, this emergency meeting between between european leaders france, britain, germany, italy, poland, spain and more meeting in paris to coordinate a response to these opening talks. right now that europe is blocked out of. what do you see as the options for europe if they aren't brought in pretty quickly? >> i think this meeting is excellent and what it shows is the light is going on for the

europeans that they've got to come together. when you put together the european nations economies, their defense spending, it's always the second largest entity in the world after the united states. but individually they don't have that throw weight. so as they come together, look for emmanuel macron of france, look for the u.k. keir sterner, look for the german leader. all of them are going to try to push together this idea of european unity, particularly as they perceive, i think, correctly, that the united states enthusiasm, as harry just showed us for the ukrainian project is waning. it's time for europe to step up. this is a good meeting. >> and then let's look ahead to tomorrow. i want to play something else that we actually heard from ukraine's president in an interview that aired over the weekend, leading into this big meeting tomorrow between the u.s. and russia.

>> do you think. >> president trump is negotiating in good faith? >> i hope so, i hope so, yes, i count on it. i count on it very much. >> is putin capable of negotiating in good faith? >> no. you will see. everybody will see. he will he will try to begin something new. >> admiral, where do you see this is going? what do you see? as i don't even know if you can call it a best case scenario. just the most likely scenario to come out of out of this right now. >> yeah. let's stay on the realism side of the equation. kate. i think realistically, uh, putin has a pretty strong hand of cards to hold on to crimea and the four provinces, the land bridge to russia, that's about 20% of ukraine. on the other hand, if the united states puts pressure on putin, if we

continue to support ukraine, and if, as we discussed a moment ago, the europeans step up, i think the remainder of ukraine, that 80% will sail on democratic free. ultimately, it will have a path to nato. but one of putin's conditions will be in the short term, no nato membership. but to summarize, i think what you see in current terms of territoriality is probably what you're going to get where the deal lands. >> if you if it if it lands at 8020, who then has won this war? how do you see that being decided? >> i think putin lost the war in that scenario. and you can argue about this, but, um, don't forget, three years ago, his stated objective was to conquer the entire country. effectively absorb 40 million ukrainians. all of that mineral resources, all of that agrarian capacity.

he's getting 20% under this scenario. and look at that 20%, kate. it's been a war zone for three years. it's full of unexploded ordnance. it's infrastructure is largely destroyed, and it is anything but the grand prize. frankly, it's a bit of a poisoned chalice at this point in that putin would have to pay to do the reconstruction. and then finally, what else has he accomplished? he strengthened nato. he's brought finland and sweden into nato. he's made the baltic sea a nato lake, and he has brought the alliance to a position of operating together. i think in every sense, he's not a winner. at the end of this negotiation. >> mm. let's see what comes today and tomorrow for sure to see, at least in the most immediate, the direction this is all headed. admiral james stavridis, it is great to see you again. thank you.

>> some global political experts and historians are now warning president trump and elon musk's push to reshape the government could be threatening the very foundation of american democracy. we will discuss. and it was a star studded, nostalgia packed night at snl, which celebrated 50 years with legendary host, iconic sketches and some unforgettable music moments. >> it's the news. >> welcome back. >> but it's also kind of not the news. >> we don't fact check him. we don't care, man. why sell the information on this show so terrible? >> have i got news for you? saturday at nine on cnn. >> hi. hi. >> chocolate fundraiser. >> check this. >> with the chase mobile app. things move a little more smoothly. >> champion. i'm the champ in the number one.

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>> pentagon. >> and this is cnn. >> over the last few weeks, president trump and billionaire elon musk have been reshaping the federal government, firing thousands of workers and gutting several agencies. they say it will make the government more efficient and save taxpayer dollars. some are comparing these changes, though, to something far bigger and more dangerous. regime change in the atlantic. historian anne applebaum says this is hardly new. she writes, in the 21st century, elected leaders such as hugo chavez or viktor orban have also used their democratic mandates for the same purpose. chavez fired 19,000 employees of the state oil company. orban dismantled labor protections for the civil service. trump, musk and russell vought, the newly appointed director of the office of management and budget and architect of the heritage foundation's project 2025. the original regime change blueprint are now using i.t. operations. captured payment systems, secretive engineers, a blizzard

of executive orders and viral propaganda to achieve the same thing. she joins me now from warsaw. thank you so much for joining me. and reading through this piece, i am curious about this regime change. is the replacement of a government, usually through force. how did you come to the conclusion that this is what is happening in this country? when donald trump was elected by the public? >> so, to be clear, this kind of change does not usually use force. and the two examples that you cited from. >> my article, which is hungary and venezuela. >> no force was used. >> to change the nature of the government. >> i'm not talking yet about. democratic elections. we haven't seen an assault on. >> on that system system yet, but it's pretty clear that despite its name, the department of government efficiency is not interested in efficiency. if you want an efficient reworking of

the government, you don't offer a buyout to every government employee. you don't know which ones you're you're you're hiring and firing. you don't randomly cut people from, you know, from from from government departments that whose, whose functions you don't understand. um, you don't hide and conceal the conflicts of interest of the people who are doing the cutting. elon musk has personal interests in many of the institutions and organizations that he's seeking to reshape. you know, they've been regulating his his own businesses, and we just simply don't know what what what his interests are here. therefore, you have to conclude that there's something else happening. and it's clear from the way these the way this is going, that the purpose is to change the ethos and the values of the federal civil service. and again, that's something that people have done before in other in other countries. the u.s. has a civil service that dates from the late 19th century. it has an ethos that that its members work for the constitution, not for one person or for one political

party. they change their policies, whether it's a democrat or a republican, but their goal is to achieve things on behalf of the american people. once you don't have that ethos, once you have people who are working just for trump or just for the people around trump, then you will get a different kind of government. and that's the that's the argument that i'm making. and i think it's indisputable because it's what they say they want. um, they this is what vance said before the election. he talked about replacing every member of the of the of the federal government. it's what steve bannon said. he talked about destroying the administrative state. so these are this is their language. this is this is what they've said they want. and what we're watching is, is, is them carrying it out. >> i do want to ask you about this because doge has this, you know, website. it sort of set up like x or formerly known as twitter, where they reveal what they have saved americans and they list a bunch of different

things. you take issue with some of the things that they have listed and the way that they have described them to the public. give me some sense of what you have found and some of the things they have listed, for example, condoms to gaza, which turned out not to be to the gaza that everyone is talking about that is in war. but in another place. >> nor was it 50,000 condoms. but anyway. but no, they there have been the, you know, clearly false statements about payments to politico, about payments to chelsea clinton, about about condoms for gaza. um, there has also been a, a kind of smear campaign conducted against usaid, which has been the united states's premier institution, both for distributing humanitarian aid around the world, helping the poorest people on the planet. uh, has also been really important to the promotion of democracy. um, the, you know, in, in parts of

the world that the u.s. has cared about, it's been a really important tool of american foreign policy. and musk has sometimes leaked things and sometimes revealed things that were well known. i mean, most of the information about usaid spending has been available on government websites forever. you know, if you wanted to know something about it, you could have you could have found out last year. um, but the goal of doing this seems to have been to traumatize the people who work for usaid and also to traumatize people who work for other government institutions. i mean, everybody saw what happened, right? at usaid was from one day to the next, destroyed. this is a congressionally created institution, and congress had no voice in destroying it. and its members were smeared and its goals were distorted. and now everybody who works for any other part of the federal government knows that the same thing could happen to them. so the purpose of doing that right at the beginning, and particularly something like foreign aid, which is maybe less well understood than it should

be among most americans, the purpose of doing that was to frighten other people and to make other people in other parts of the government aware that at any moment they could be the targets of that kind of campaign. >> to anne applebaum. thank you so much. appreciate it. and you have this whole article in the atlantic. appreciate your time this morning. kate. >> this morning. we have the best on screen and behind the scenes moments that you might have missed from snl's 50th anniversary celebration. >> i thought we were hosting together. >> oh, uh, do you have your passport on you? no. i.c.e.! get him! no. >> no. >> i'll cooperate. don't take me. i'll name names. mike myers, jim carrey, catherine o'hara. >> lockerbie. sunday at nine on cnn. >> just close the doors and you're in a world of your own. travel is not just about the destination. it's also about

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>> i loved the entire show, jon. this was really the rare tv moment that it felt like a huge deal. it felt like everybody you were talking to was watching. and as you said, everybody was there. of course, there have been nearly a thousand guest hosts over the 50 years. so you had a ton of celebrities and you had a ton of returning alums from snl. so there, of course, we see tina fey and amy poehler, and they did this roll call in the audience. and honestly, one of the best parts of the show was just looking out at the audience and seeing how star studded it was. i mean, you had jerry seinfeld, you had larry david, you had billy crystal, like every which way you look. the stars were more famous than the next. so let's take a moment at that roll call with tina fey and amy keith richards. >> thank you. i left a.

>> scarf here. >> in 1988. and i'm kind of wondering if anybody has seen it around, you know. >> the scarf? >> yeah, it's in 1998. well. >> that's a long. >> time ago. >> i don't. >> know, i don't think so. i'm not sure. >> look, it's simply not here, okay? can we all just stop looking? next question. >> so there you see zach galifianakis. and by the way, he also had a joke about kanye west. there were some jokes throughout the night about diddy, who is currently in jail. also, ryan reynolds and blake lively were there. so as snl always does, it leaned into the pop culture drama of the moment. now, as i said, there were so many returning alums and you kind of forget how many comedic stars came from snl, whether it's chris rock or adam sandler. eddie murphy in fact, eddie murphy was part of a sketch, black jeopardy! and he

impersonated tracy morgan while standing next to tracy morgan. so let's take a look. >> speaking of family. darius and tracy, y'all seem like y'all might be related. >> well, james earl jones is my. >> biological father. >> james earl jones. >> impregnated my mother on the. >> set of claudine, or edgecombe avenue in harlem. are. you know what? >> i think we might be related. i don't see it. >> what do you guys think? how was eddie's? tracy morgan? did he nail it? >> he. >> man, i miss eddie murphy on that show. he was a delight. >> it was so great. is the 40th anniversary. he came back, but he sort of just was on stage. he didn't play ball in the in the skits and stuff. this time he was everywhere was fantastic. just fantastic. we're looking at adam sandler right now who also. >> was a really sweet. >> he brought the house down with that song, elizabeth.

>> he did. and even before he started this song, which was about the 50 years of snl. and it was funny. there was a lot of heart and soul. he gave a tribute to his good late friend norm macdonald. but even before adam sandler got on the stage for his performance, jack nicholson introduced him. this was jack nicholson's first television appearance in years, and audiences at home were shocked and so happy to see him looking happy and healthy. so again, star studded, great night and really incredible what snl has done for not just comedy, but american culture throughout these five decades. >> yeah, reuniting the stars of anger management, you know, which everyone had been clamoring for. elizabeth wagmeister, thank you very much for that. >> thank you all so much for joining us today. this is cnn news central, cnn newsroom. >> live from new york. it's cnn news central time monday. >> well done. >> on monday.

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