SNL's Barr, Trump, and Mueller have very different reactions to the Mueller report

After a two week hiatus, NBC's Saturday Night Live returned to the airwaves on Saturday evening.

The show's cold open, naturally, took on the end of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation. Alec Baldwin and Robert De Niro reprised their roles as President Trump and Mueller, respectively, while SNL regulars Aidy Bryant and Kate McKinnon portrayed Attorney General William Barr and Rudy Giuliani.

The sketch consisted of cutting back and forth between three scenes — all of which provided a very different take on Mueller's final report. De Niro's Mueller seriously explains his findings, indicating that while he did not find any concrete evidence of collusion with Russian election interference, there are still many questions remaining about the conduct of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign. Bryant's Barr, meanwhile, downplays Mueller's words while writing a summary of the report for Congress, outright declaring that Trump will get off scot-free. As for Baldwin's Trump? Well, he's in quite the celebratory mood, even invoking some lyrics from Smash Mouth's "All Star" to express his jubilation. Watch the full skit below. Tim O'Donnell

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