CNN anchor Phil Mattingly ticked through a raft of GOP claims underpinning their impeachment probe and asked White House Spokesperson for Oversight and Investigations Ian Sams “Do you dispute all of these just outright?”

Wednesday saw Republicans formalize their impeachment inquiry in a 221 to 212 vote — despite widespread acknowledgment by journalists and even other Republicans that there is “no evidence” of wrongdoing by President Biden.

Sams was a guest on Thursday morning’s edition of CNN This Morning, during which anchor Mattingly ticked through the claims Republicans say warrant the probe, and flatly asked “do you dispute” them:

MATTINGLY: On the point you’re making now, the question has been what underpins the process here, what underpins the allegations here? And Speaker Mike Johnson in a USA Today opinion piece laid out what he said were the accusations that they are currently pursuing.

They include, from 2014 to 2019, Biden family members and affiliates have more than $15 million from foreign entities. There are 22 examples of President Biden speaking or meeting with Hunter Biden’s foreign business associates. Payments to President Biden from Hunter Biden’s business account. An interim report saying there’s special treatment of Hunter Biden from the Justice Department. A credible FBI source giving information about alleged bribe to then Vice President Biden and that the President and the White House have lied multiple times about his involvement in his family’s business schemes.

Do you dispute all of these just outright?

SAMS: Not only do I dispute those outright, they’ve been debunked time and time again. Just two days ago, the day before the House held this vote, Republicans in Congress were telling your colleagues in the media that there is no evidentiary basis for them to pursue impeachment, that they’ve seen nothing, they don’t see the grounds for it, is what a Republican senator told Politico. So, they’re just making up lies to attack the president in a relentless smear campaign that, frankly, has been going on for four straight years now.

We went through an impeachment in the last administration over these same made-up allegations. And Republicans in the House are just rewinding the tape and running it again to try to score political points against the president instead of doing their actual jobs for the American people.

MATTINGLY: Ian, one of the —

SAMS: And you pointed out one of those things. They act like they get these smoking guns and they create a ton of attention and energy and they act, they send the siren emojis on Twitter. And it turns out last week, for example, one of those payments that they’re talking about was about a pickup truck.

MATTINGLY: Yes, it was a car loan.

SAMS: These are the kinds of things that they’re making up to attack the president.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.

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