Trump nominee burned for 'slack-jawed, whack-job moment' with Ted Cruz

Former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi's appearance this week before a Senate committee considering her nomination to the Donald Trump's next U.S. attorney general drew no small amount of scorn on MSNBC on Saturday morning.

Reacting to Bondi's answers, many of which avoided the topic altogether, MSNBC host Michael Steele singled out one exchange with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) that he found stunning.

Speaking with his co-hosts on "The Weekend," Steele noted that Bondi was given an obvious free ride by many of the Republican senators on the committee.

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"What is stunning to me is that level of questioning was not put on Pam Bondi," he told his co-hosts. "And the moment, to me, what made the hearing a real sort of slack-jawed, whacked-out moment was the exchange with, you know, the senators around Donald Trump in his election results."

"You know, she and Ted Cruz having this, finishing each other's sentences moment where they're talking about, you know, the election and she's like, '"Oh yes, 77 million people," he laughed as he mimicked her voice.

"You know, it's like really? I mean, I know you're concerned about the one and not the 330 million. So this is, I don't know, I think you said it right, Symone [Sanders Townsend], you know," he continued. "Going to find out –– y'all going to find out a whole lot of stuff and people going to be running around looking for help for people who aren't there and that's going to be a big problem."

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