MSNBC hosts burst into laughter at Trump official's inability to answer tariff questions

Donald Trump's treasury secretary's inability to answer questions about the president's sweeping tariffs announcement on Tuesday drew gales of laughter from the hosts on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Friday morning.

The segment began with a Comedy Central "The Daily Show" montage of clips of billionaire-turned-Trump cabinet member Scott Bessent answering, "We're going to wait and see how this plays out," "I just don't know if there are going to be negotiations," and "I don't know," when pressed by reporters on what Trump is doing.

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That led Comedy Central's Micheal Kosta to joke, "I have a question: do you know anything? Why are you out there doing interviews?" before doing a hilarious impression of the hapless Treasury secretary.

Cutting back MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and Jonathan Lemire, the two laughed as Scarborough quipped, "Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent not completely comfortable, I think, with this whole tariff thing," before turning to the release of the most recent jobs numbers.

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