rules and move legally to mexico, but we would have to recognize that there is a significant number, maybe thousands, tens of thousands, of americans living there in an undocumented fashion. this is a problem that goes both ways. to mexico officials lobbied the u.s. government to have their citizens continually live illegally in the united states? to provide them with the best kind of legal protections that they can. i think that is something that u.s. populace in mexico do for their own citizens. what we see our countries that try to defend the rights of their own citizens. recognizing the countries also have rights, and the mexican government has been explicit is athe united states sovereign country and has the right to determine who comes into its country and it doesn't. host: the state of relations between the united states and mexico. duncan wood of the woodrow wilson center. we appreciate it.

come back again. we have been dealing with a lot of issues over the last months, immigration, political gridlock, battle over taxes, partisanship between democrats and republicans. without we would lighten it up. you might laugh and say it is unfair, so tell us what you think about the role of political humor. our phone lines are open, (202)-748-8001 for republicans. if you are a0 democrat. if you are independent, (202)-748-8002. every direct your attention to "the washington post." "personnel" -- "snl" with an excerpt in a moment. here's what you have been seen over the last months, "snl" executive producer is insisted that the late-night comedy show always aims to lampoon whoever is president. the show has been more falling

to some. will ferrell portrait president george w. bush is a lovable , chevy chase took it first klutz approached a plane president gerald ford, but michael has admitted that the show struggle with the take of president barack obama that resonated with audiences. trump has remained silent in the public this past week about "snl's" paterno -- portrayal of him, but he was reportedly and settled that melissa mccarthy's impersonation of white house press secretary sean spicer, which clearly the cross gender casting of the role. [video clip] >> [applause] >> settled down, settle down. before we begin, [laughter] gotten off to a rocky

start. all right, all right, all right. start, i meanky it in that sense of "rocky" the movie because i cannot hear to punch you, and also, i don't talk so good. i would like to begin today by apologizing on behalf of you to me. [laughter] for how you have treated me based last two weeks. and that apology is not accepted. [laughter] because i am not here to be your buddy. i'm here to swallow gum and i'm here to take names. [laughter] [applause] all caps, now -- ok, now let me with something exciting in front of you monkeys. i will get back to you. [laughter] as you know, president trump

announced his supreme court pick on the national tv today when he entered the room. the crowd greeted him with a standing ovation, which lasted a full 15 minutes, and you can check the tape on that. everyone was smiling, everyone was happy. [laughter] host: there are unfair -- there unfair?r in the recent tweet on "snl," " nbc is bad, but "saturday night .ive" is the worst always a complete hit job. really bad at television!." host: let's go to bob, republican mind. your thoughts? caller: good morning. thank you so much. ellen degeneres, the day after the election, was very

[indiscernible] but even now, ellen degeneres is turning against the president and i think that is very andvorable to the country all of the gun violence in hollywood movies, i mean, hollywood has got to help. host: last year on the campaign donald trump on the "tonight show" with jimmy fallon. here is an excerpt. [video clip] [cheering] >> thank you. [applause] am about to graft may interview with jimmy fallon. i will call you back after a coma hair. [laughter] talk to you in three hours. wow. i look fantastic. [laughter]

[applause] , we look fantastic, and i mean really fantastic. >> all right, me, we have a big interview with jimmy fallon coming up, so let's be honest. fallon is a lightweight. noah he deserves to interview me . the only one qualified to interview me is me. tonight show"e and that was during the campaign. another tweet from donald trump on "snl" and the response from the precedent for trace -- from the person of proceeds "just watched "saturday night live" unwatchable. totally biased, not funny and the baldwin impersonation just cannot get any worse. sad. this response from how it

baldwin -- release her tax returns and nonstop. ha. politicalthink the satire is fair. it has been around for hundreds of years, part of our free speech, and president trump asked for it. i mean come you cannot have a better person to satire. until they take his twitter account away and smash his device with a hammer, you know, it is unpresidential to respond to people that are beneath him. that is what his staff is for, like comedians, actresses, what have you, but he just feels the need to reach out and comments on every tom, dickens harry that wants to criticize him. it comes with the job. so grow up. host: the weekly standard writing about the upcoming correspondents dinner. will it happen? will president trump get through

the lampooning? you can read about that online at the weekly standard website. augusta, georgia, democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you doing? host: good, i am doing well. caller: coming from a income we pay attention to detail and you are always squared away. i voted the president carter at age 18, i voted for george bush senior. unfortunately, the son did not carry the same amount of class. donald trump is dangerous to me as a desert storm veteran. his language is loose, inaccurate, not consistent and he threatens our city with his actions, and the humor should do him favors by humbling him. i don't know if he has the ability to be humble when life is handed to you. when his father passed away, i am guessing he got more than 8

million, i do not care nor am i jealous, but it is sad that someone at that age, 71 years old of global recognition, is so temperamental, language that is a mature, disrespectful, racist and to make fun of a crippled person is unforgivable. i do not wish harm upon him but i hope americans, as we sit in the marine corps, provide themselves [indiscernible] and appreciate you being on your game. very consistent person. from georgia.u here's that piece in the weekly standard. you can check it out online and talk about the white horse correspondents dinner, an annual event recover live on the c-span networks -- the white house correspondent dinner, an annual event we cover live on c-span. good morning. caller: good morning. comedy the satire in the like "saturday night live" and so one is a good thing, laughter

is a good medicine for everybody but it has jumped over to being very bitter and that is a bad thing. thank you. host: thank you. here is another exchange with jon stewart, appearing on "the late show" with stephen colbert last month. [video clip] >> people, this nation is in crisis. this is serious. >> executive order number one. >> executive order number one, by the authority vested in me, by the constitution, i, donald j . jamieson trump, hereby direct that to secure our border, china -- china! -- chap immediately and without hesitation send us their wall. boom. done. >> i understand. >> china's wall, send us. boom.

done. >> i heard the gun. had to get mexico to pay for it? >> when the wall arrives at the southern border, we shut the lights and pretend we are not home. [laughter] it is cod, mexico has to sign for it, they pay for it, then. host: the role of political humor. can your comments, is it fair, unfair, biting, beyond the pale? arthur from texas, good morning. are you at this? caller: yes. host: good morning. caller: good morning, sir. i enjoy your show. night has always made fun of everybody, from presidents to whomever makes the front page of newspapers. mr. trump, i cannot call him president, i am sorry. i served my country and i cannot call him a commander-in-chief so i will call him mr. trump. host: he is the president.

understand that, sir, but needs to behave presidential. far, he is not the -- he has not. harold is next room -- harold and independent line. caller: good morning. i haveanting to say that a case in north carolina pertaining to the action engaging in terrorism against me, and [indiscernible] decide to the president of the united states and i decided i had a dream that stephen colbert was going to be the vice presidential running mate.

host: and that is your point? ok. front page of "the houston chronicle," a look at senator ted cruz and his role as he prepares for his own reelection next year. outsidem newspapers abortion, "the japan times" has the japanese prime minister -- also from newspapers outside washington, "the japan times" has the japanese prime minister. to target those in the u.s. illegally. sharon from virginia, republican line. good morning. caller: thank you. host: good morning. caller: yes, i am just getting is beingon how trump treated. nobody treated obama like this. people need to have a little more respect for our president and it is really getting old. host: thank you. let's go to ralph from california.

good morning. you with us? you are on the air, go ahead. caller: c-span has been fantastic. i have been watching it for decades. i love political humor. "snl" has been a funny show but they have to admit and need to come clean and admit that their way to the left and in the tank for the democrats. , i decidedependent do it in california, but to be honest, they are not fair. it is very biased. here's a note to the democrats, if you want to keep rolling through and keep electing more and more republicans like his happened over the last six or seven years, huge republican gains across the country come if you want to keep it up like that, keep writing -- writing in the streets, blocking traffic, and burn buildings when you don't like people's speech. keep it up, and you will collect more republicans. host: two rfid the call.

we are talking about political humor, or the like or do not like it. last night, our walden was a guest on "snl," and this skit is done "people's court." [video clip] >> this is "the people's court." >> this is the plaintiff. the president of the united states. he claims phony judges are being very mean to him and he is asking for broad, object power. will he get it? defendants.e three judges from the ninth circuit court to heard the case for terms travel ban and said, not in our house. they are accused of letting bad hombres point of this country. [laughter] >> all rise. judges, do each of you swear to tell the truth and the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you god?

>> we do. >> mr. president? >> i'm good. >> thank you. first of all, mr. trump, you understand this is a tv court, right? >> that is ok, i am the tv president. >> your travel ban has been rejected as unconstitutional once again but here you are. >> thank you, judge, or what do you call a leading judge? flight attendant? i signed a tremendous problem been, i did not read it, it was pictures of the folding of the paper official, and these judges are very disrespect will. i went the been reinstated and there with $725. --alvear, this woman earlier, this woman had more of the case then you. let me ask the court -- >> so-called. >> so-called judges.

>> their federal judges. they are more real than i am. judges, i did you agree with the lower courts projection of the band? >> is bizarre conclusion that it violated the establishment clause because it included a religious [indiscernible] >> stronger, overruled. >> that is enough. >> i will allow it. >> mr. trump, to have one legitimate reason we need this ban? >> the bad people, they are pouring in, and you see them and it is isis, san bernardino, chicago, look at chicago. it is hell. bad boys,ad hombres, bad boys, what you going to do? host: from last night's "snl." we are getting your reaction to the role of political humor.

anita, independent line. good morning. caller: thank you, c-span for being the people's town square. i hope that alec baldwin keeps his word and keeps her training trump until he releases his taxes. if "snl" doesn't, then other people do. to take the like young lady who said obama was not treated like trump. obama never acted like trump. ,s far as people being voted in i hope people wake up that we have been conned by the republican party. thanks a lot. host: let's go to cheryl on the republican line from massachusetts. good morning. has this been fair or unfair to donald trump and the republicans? here and little bit there is ok but i think they have gone way overboard. even to the point where it is

bullying. they are bullying him. it is about not teaching our children the right thing to disrespect our president and it has become hurtful to them and it is not going to make them treat anybody any nicer, that is a sure. i did not know what they are getting out of it, and baldwin is just out of control. i don't know. maybe he needs to be checked by a psychiatrist himself. we will stop you there. thank you for the call. another story that we have been talking about this morning from "the new york times." the missal test by north korea launching into the china sea and details been confirmed late this afternoon in asia and all this coming as the president wraps up his meeting with the japanese prime minister in florida.

let's go to kevin from london, england. this program carried live on the bbc parliament channel. from your standpoint, but you think of the role it is playing? caller: we have a program on our country called spitting image and it makes fun of everyone, including the queen, and members of the royal family watches saturday. they thought it was a credit, a five star rating, so your boss needs to get a sense of humor. secondly, he does not need to have cartoons done about him. his recent handshake with the japanese prime minister was so embarrassing that the whole is laughing.d your president can make his own master. you do not need programs. host: what was the line? mickey? caller: it means make fun. host: thanks, appreciate the call. thanks for watching this on the bbc parliament channel. let's go to jim from wake

forest, north carolina. the morning. caller: good morning. how are you? thank you for your show. people in their history, they have to remember history. what we have was passing this obama was elected, they came out with one big awful mistake america as an acronym. there is a big difference in and somet is funny that are biting and sarcastic. i just have to say one more thing get that is, if this was your child and your child acted the way trump has done and denigrated every candidate that was up there in republican party fighting for the presidency and denigrated a lot of other people ended this was your child come up with you reprimand your child and say this is not the right way to do it? i just ask everybody take a big try tock and let's

laugh, or together at the nation. remember, half the population did not vote for him, so we have to respect the other half and stop the partisan ship the latest try to work together for a better america. host: "vanity fair" right and about jimmy fallon and his approach to donald trump and how different late-night comedians be the president. you can go to the website that vanity fair. jimmy fallon and seth meyers with different views on a 40 foot president to read cap the from albuquerque, new mexico, good morning. democrat line. caller: i love your show. i just wanted to say that even joe piscopo could be considered republican. he said that they do a good job on "snl" and he needs someone to laugh at himself and i agree with that. i think brings him down a little bit, and i think it is important. a lot of the republicans did not have a lot of respect, not much comedians for obama, but if he was there to laugh at himself,

he would become more humble. steve, how do you feel about being called the most impatient man on earth? host: i have not seen that. i'm sure you can laugh at fashion line -- caller: i'm sure you can laugh at yourself. host: he has been out for a while but he will be back tonight. caller: [laughter] ok. just states to spend in all caps. that is all we are asking for. host: let's go to carol from tennessee, role of political humor, what do you think? caller: kid has got to the point. i do not think it is very funny. when i was going to school, we stood up and said the pledge of allegiance and we respected our president. nighthed a lot last watching the dnc chair candidate. their best idea was the gentleman said to take $10 million on the age democrat candidate money that goes to the media and paper 100 people in

each vicinity, county or state, get 100 people, give them each 50,000 people and two years to go out and do things, which to me means bribing, which to me -- means riding. -- rioting. host: it is on their website, www.c-span.org, as they prepared for the winter meeting. be will be covering that live. the best rating in 22 years for this storyrding to at the washington examiner website. we are asking for your cause and comments about the role of political humor. republican mind, michigan, good morning. caller: yes, i went to make the .emark about baldwin i used to respect him so much when he was on tv come when i see his face, i wanted to rep.

america, wake up. we are lucky donald trump won. he is not a liar. want to see 99% .f my friends we are praying again, we thank god donald trump is in power. trump loves america. and obama was not president, he was puppy. he was all for muslims and he was muslim. he was not the president. here is just a [indiscernible] and i used to have respect for come i don't even want to see their face anymore. whoever against donald trump is against america. america,ump saved please. america, wake up. obama was garbage, -- host: i am going to stop you there when you use the word

garbage. by the way, the president was not muslim. fromll go to juan carlsbad, minnesota. you get the last word as a republican. tell us what you think about "snl," and political humor today. caller: it is all funny to read you have got to have a sense of humor. unfortunately, with the wait times are today, people do not see that. and i am from carlsbad, new mexico. host: thank you from the call from new mexico. thanks for joining on the conversation. we are back tomorrow morning 7:00 a.m. eastern time, or clock on the west coast. from politico,s, talking about the busy week for the president, including senate votes this week on capitol hill. max stier, president and ceo of the partnership for public service to talk about the rules of the road for executive branch employees, what can and can't

they do? theing about comments about volga trump and kellyanne conway. -- comments about kellyanne about on her comments ivanka trump. and joseph longer. we hope you tune in tomorrow, live on c-span and c-span radio. enjoy the rest of your weekend, have a great week ahead. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] ♪ >> next, "newsmakers" with kentucky senator rand paul. the senathe