'It's just a fact!' Brutal CNN interview ends with James Comer being hit with fact check

CNN's Pamela Brown was taking no nonsense when she interviewed Rep. James Comer's (R-KY) Wednesday after the star witness in the Joe Biden impeachment probe pleaded guilty to lying to federal investigators.

Alexander Smirnov, the Ukraine-born former FBI informant who dished up dirt on the president and his family, admitted to two counts of making false statements and creating a false and fictitious record for information provided to federal agents.

Comer, the head of the House's oversight committee who had headed up the investigation, backtracked on CNN as he tried to downplay Smirnov's importance to it.

"I never said he was a crucial part of the investigation," he said.

But Brown jumped in to fact check, pointing out over Comer's crosstalk that Biden, as vice president in 2016, had leveraged $1 billion in aid to persuade Ukraine to fire its top prosecutor, Viktor Shokin, because he was not investigating political corruption.

"Okay, but hold on, but let me just ask – this is a simple question," Brown said as Comer continued talking and gesturing with his hands. "You threw a lot out there. Of course, the White House says President Biden never benefited from any of his son's business dealings. If you did have the proof, if you did have enough evidence, why didn't you have enough support from your Republican colleagues to move forward with the impeachment inquiry?"

Comer insisted the inquiry had been a success, but though the Judiciary, Oversight and Ways and Means committees accused the president of "impeachable conduct," they did not directly call for an impeachment vote and GOP leadership never scheduled one.

"We voted unanimously to move forward with the inquiry," Comer said, his voice rising. "It wasn't a failed effort. That's what CNN's trying to say. It was very successful effort."

Brown cut in again.

"I'm not trying to say that – it's just a fact," she said. "You didn't have enough Republicans on board because they didn't feel, see the proof that was necessary."

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Comer regained control of his voice's pitch and insisted his investigation had found evidence of impeachable acts.

"That was everywhere – that's not true, that's not true," Comer said. "Every Republican in our conference voted to proceed with the impeachment inquiry. Now, Trump got impeached twice by Jamie Raskin and the Democrats. He's supposed to be sworn in as president of the United States, the Democrats have devalued impeachment," he said.

"We did an impeachment inquiry to be able to get more information, to be able to have a standing in court, because if we were just investigating Joe Biden in a regular investigation, when we went to court to get like the pseudonym emails and all the stuff that they failed to turn over, then the White House was going to argue this is political, but if all the Republicans vote, which they did 100 percent to move forward with an impeachment inquiry, then we have better standing in court. That's why we did the impeachment inquiry, and it was a success."

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