Fox News’ Bill Hemmer and Dana Perino cracked a joke about the reported twenty phone calls between Joe and Hunter Biden on “America’s Newsroom” Tuesday. The calls were discussed during Devan Archer’s testimony to House Oversight Committee Monday. “You don’t talk about the weather 20 times,” Perino said. “And you don’t go to Cafe Milano and have dinner with business associates and just talk about the weather.”
“Correct,” replied Hemmer. Perino then quipped that not even Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean would be able to discuss weather for that long. “I don’t even think she would have enough material for that much time,” she said.
President Joe and Hunter Biden have denied any knowledge or communication of overseas business dealings. While Hunter served on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, an FD-1023 form presented to Senator Chuck Grassley revealed an attempted $5 million bribery from Burisma to both father and son. Republican Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs countered, however, that Archer had no knowledge of this scheme.
Democratic New York Rep. Dan Goldman told reporters during a break from the testimony that “the witness described in vivid detail about how devastating that was [Beau Biden’s illness and death] to both Hunter Biden and Joe Biden, and how their communications picked up dramatically in the aftermath.” Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene also weighed in on Goldman’s statement, commenting to the Daily Caller, “Dan Goldman came out during the break and tried to put a big spin on it. Physically sweating while he’s talking about, ‘Oh, they talked about weather — that’s not what Devon Archer said. Devon Archer said he heard them talk more than 20 times about Hunter’s business deals.”
The alleged phone calls remain a source of contention among both sides of the aisle. It is unclear what topics were discussed during the phone calls, although it is certain that meteorology was not. Despite the jokes between Hemmer and Perino, “You don’t talk about the weather 20 times” sums up the opinion of both Democrats and Republicans on the issue.