Cable news roundup: Is there ‘new evidence’ in the Biden family investigation, and the GOP’s ‘dysfunction’ in the House

Friday night, Fox News discussed new evidence in the Biden family investigation and MSNBC talked about the issue of still not having a speaker in the House of Representatives.

Fox News — Comer’s ‘bombshell’ Biden information

On “Hannity” Friday night, Sean Hannity spoke to James Comer, R-Ky., on the ongoing investigation into the Biden family business dealings.

Hannity said “new evidence” has been released that is “bombshell” information.

According to Fox News, Comer is demanding a response from President Joe Biden regarding new evidence that “Joe Biden, in 2018, received a ‘$200,000 direct payment’ from his brother James Biden and sister-in-law Sara Biden.”

Hannity asked, “Why did Joe loan Jim $200,000 in the first place? Question two: How did Joe, admittedly one of the poorest members of the Senate, a career public servant, how did he have and how was he able to afford to give that amount of money to his brother?”

“It’s not just that they got a $200,000 payment,” Comer said. “It’s where the money came from. And the money came from Jim Biden where he influence peddled to a company in the United States that he went and said that he could help through his brother’s contacts get capital from the Middle East.”

Comer said the company then gave Jim Biden $600,000 in increments, with the last one being the $200,000.

Comer added that new evidence involving Biden’s business dealings has surfaced that will be released later this week.

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MSNBC — GOP’s ‘dysfunction’ in the House

MSNBC’s Ali Velshi spoke to The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin on “The Last World” about the “dysfunction” in the House of Representatives with there still being no House speaker.

“This is simply picking a leadership amongst themselves, and this is extraordinary,” Rubin said. “They are completely paralyzed. This is the natural situation, the natural consequence of Donald Trump’s dysfunctional, violent, crazy party.”

Rubin added, “One thing is clear, and that is we have a functional, impressive president and a dysfunctional, clownish House of Representatives led by the Republicans.”

Velshi referred to an article in The Atlantic on what drove Mitt Romney, R-Utah, to retire from the Senate that said, “When one senator, a member of leadership, said he was leaning toward voting to convict (Donald Trump), the others urged him to reconsider. You can’t do that, Romney recalled someone saying. Think of your personal safety, said another. Think of your children. The senator eventually decided they were right.”

Velshi said that reading the excerpt, there is a sense of “thuggery that seems to exist among the supporters of Donald Trump in the United States Congress.”