Panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" mocked Rep. Jason Smith's (R-MO) meltdown when pressed by a reporter to explain why a message from Hunter Biden to a business association implicated his father in "corruption and misconduct."
The Missouri Republican highlighted the June 2017 WhatsApp message as evidence of political influence peddling, but he was unable to explain how Joe Biden could have done that when he was not in politics or an elected official at the time when put on the spot by NBC News reporter Ryan Nobles.
"How deeply pathetic was that?" said co-host Willie Geist. "This was headlines across other networks the last couple days and websites, this WhatsApp message, making some suggestion that the Biden family brand was being peddled. Again, Joe Biden was neither president, vice president, nor a candidate. The WhatsApp message is a suggestion, not evidence or a direct link."
Host Joe Scarborough ripped the Republican effort to impeach the president as ridiculous and pointless.
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"I mean, it's like me taking a Risk board to the local kennel down here and asking a group of dogs if they want to play Risk," Scarborough said. "It's just not a fair fight. I mean, these guys are so dumb. It's -- and they bring up this -- this keeps happening time and time again. This keeps happening. They lead with something, then find out there's no connection there. They look like fools, then they blame the media. I mean, we keep going back to that FBI tape recording. You have [Sen. Chuck] Grassley going, 'I don't care if he's guilty or not.' You have Republicans saying, 'We're going to impeach the FBI director.' Then they find out there's absolutely nothing there. They start screaming about a missing informant. 'Oh, I can't find the informant, the informant is missing. Oh, what have they done with the informant informant?' Well, the informant is an international fugitive who was busted for being an agent of China, busted for illegally selling Iranian oil to the communist Chinese party, illegally dealing in arms."
"I mean, this keeps happening," he added. "This is the gang that couldn't shoot straight. It really does, doesn't it, just underline how stupid their efforts are to try to bust Hunter Biden and Joe Biden."
"Well, that's why your comment about the dogs was unfair to dogs," joked contributor Charlie Sykes.
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