MSNBC hosts burst into laughter at slap-down of Dr. Oz after 'absurd' hearing answer

The co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" burst into laughter on Saturday morning after watching Dr. Mehmet Oz getting embarrassed by a Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) during a Senate hearing on his nomination to head up the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a key federal department.

In a clip shown Saturday morning, Hassan asked Oz, a failed Republican candidate for a Senate seat representing Pennsylvania in 2022 with Donald Trump's endorsement, if he would balk at following an illegal order from the president.

Specifically, she asked, "First question that I'm asking of every nominee for this administration: if directed by the president to take action that would break the law, would you follow the law or follow the president's directive?"

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"The president would never do that," Oz replied which earned him a rebuke from the Democrat who shot back, "That's absurd and it's a disappointing answer."

Following that exchange, the entire panel burst into laughter with co-host Michale Steele sarcastically pointing out, "Yeah, the convicted felon would never do that."

As Streele added, "Damn!" co-host Symone Sanders Townsend briefly stopped laughing to contribute, "The man that asked, in the last he was president, asked his defense secretary, secretary why they couldn't just shoot protesters outside the White House. He would never break the law?"

"Come on, now," she added.

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