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Evangelist Franklin Graham said the firing of longtime "Today Show" anchor Matt Lauer over sexual misconduct allegations is a "warning to all of us to examine our lives."

Evangelist Franklin Graham said the firing of longtime "Today Show" anchor Matt Lauer over sexual misconduct allegations is a "warning to all of us to examine our lives."

Kanye West was at it again at the “Saturday Night Live” 40th Anniversary red carpet special on NBC!

As Matt Lauer gave his closing remarks and tossed to the live broadcast of the celebration, a smiling-from-ear-to-ear Kanye jumped in to snatch the microphone right out of the host’s hand.

"Thank you very much for joining us. The ‘Saturday Night Live’ 40th Anniversary Special begins," Matt said before being cut off by the rapper.

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Co-host Savannah Guthrie yelped, “Kanye!” as Al Roker and Carson Daly looked on.

Matt put his arm around the rapper, asking, “What’s happening, man?”

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Savannah reeled things back in to get on with the show, asking, “When does it start?”

As he pushed Kanye away, Matt responded, “Right now.”

Kanye nearly interrupted Beck’s acceptance speech at the Grammys last Sunday when he briefly took the stage and he famously crashed Taylor Swift’s MTV Video Music Awards moment in 2009.

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Rachel Dolezal, the embattled former leader of the NAACP's Spokane, Washington chapter, was on Today Tuesday to discuss her story. Dolezal, born to white parents has been accused of pretending to be black. When Lauer asked her if she was African American, Dolezal replied, "I identify as black."

Lauer asked Dolezal about comments her biological and estranged parents have made where they wondered why she couldn't do the work she's doing without pretending she isn’t caucasian. Dolezal said, "I don't see why they’re in a rush to whitewash some of the work I have done and who I am and how I've identified. And this goes back to a very early age with my self-identification, with the black experience. As a very young child…I was drawing self-portraits with the brown crayon instead of the peach crayon, the black curly hair, you know, that was how I was portraying myself."

Dolezal, regarding her skin appearing darker now than it did when she was younger told Lauer, "I certainly don't stay out of the sun, you know, and I also don't, as some of the critics have said, put on blackface as a performance."

Lauer brought up Albert Wilkinson, a black man who Dolezal claimed was her father. She said that she considers him to be her dad, even if they’re not actually related. She also said her sons, both black, consider her to be "culturally black."

Donald Trump was on the phone for an early morning interview with Today’s Matt Lauer on Monday after he made headlines for his comments on Senator John McCain, when he said, at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, “[McCain is] not a war hero. He’s a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren’t captured, ok? …He’s a war hero because he was captured. Ok, and I believe perhaps he’s a war hero.”