'It felt like they kept explaining': MSNBC host points to evidence of White House panic

During an MSNBC segment on Donald Trump launching what could turn into a trade war, one MSNBC host claimed that a bevy of emails she received on Saturday seemed to indicate panic at the White House.

With the co-hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" joined by MSNBC colleague Chris Hayes to discuss the tariffs that went into effect on Saturday aimed at Canada, Mexico and China, co-host Alicia Menendez claimed there may be doubts behind the scenes in the Trump administration.

After guest Hayes said of Trump, "He has a pathological obsession with tariffs. Like he genuinely, truly believes like –– yes, it's part stunt, yes, it's part demonization –– but also you can't move him off this idea, this wrongheaded idea that tariffs are the solution to all of America's problems," Menendez interjected a personal note aimed at her co-host Symone Sanders Townsend.

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"Symone, I was thinking of you last night," she began. "Did you notice, I had, like, I went into my email and there were, like, five different emails from the White House as though they put out five statements from this and i was thinking of you as someone who has done that work before. It didn't project confidence, right?"

"Like when you actually believe that what you're going to do is work, you're like, ''Here's the thing, we're doing,'" she added. "It felt like they kept explaining."

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