James Comer gets into testy exchange with reporter about lack of evidence in Biden probe

House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer got into a testy exchange with reporters asHunter Biden gave testimony behind closed doors as part of the Republican House impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

Mr Comer had been asked about the lack of evidence that the probe has so far unearthed to support claims that Mr Biden used his political influence to help enrich himself and his family.

“We have evidence that Joe Biden met with the Chinese officials. We've had several people already testify that,” Mr Comer said on Wednesday, arguing that payment to Mr Biden from his brother James was “influence peddling”.

“Does anyone in here question whether that was influenced peddling?” he asked to the room at large.

“I question it because there’s no evidence that Joe Biden did anything...” Ryan Nobles of NBC News started to say.

“He got $200,000 from it,” Mr Comer interjected as Nobles tried to question him further.

“No, listen, look, you can you can defend Joe Biden all day long… you can be on his legal defence team, Kevin Morris will probably pay your legal bills,” Mr Comer told Nobles.

A Hollywood attorney, Mr Morris lent Hunter Biden money to cover a multi-million dollar debt to the Internal Revenue Service. An attorney for Mr Morris said last month that staff working for Mr Comer lied to him when they asked that Mr Comer not selectively leak portions of his testimony given during a deposition.

Mr Comer claimed that Mr Biden got $200,000 from Americore, a claim not backed up by the evidence.

“What we said over and over and over, Joe Biden took $200,000 directly from Americore Health,” Mr Comer insisted.

“Do you have a problem that Joe Biden’s lied about? Do you have a problem that Americore Health hooked