The New Yorker’s Adam Entous appeared on Friday morning’s CNN Newsroom to sound off on impeachment and its connections to Joe and Hunter Biden. While he stated that he’s found “no evidence” of collusion amongst the two in Ukraine, he laid out a damning series of points about how, at best, Hunter has exhibited poor judgement. And on that latter point, co-host Poppy Harlow spent the segment sitting rather uncomfortable.

Harlow began by bemoaning all the “debunked allegations” that Hunter Biden has been facing and, after alluding to Entous’s July 1 profile of Hunter, Entous responded that there’s been “a drumbeat of criticism, because he was in the business world and there was always this allegation floating that he was getting these jobs because of his last name or because someone wanted to curry favor with his father and this always bothered Hunter.”

She then raised the concerns about Biden’s job with the Ukrainian gas company Barisma and inquired like a not-surprisingly-clueless CNNer about whether Hunter’s lucrative pay there was real.

Entous replied that the $50,000/month claim was indeed accurate and explained how Biden got the job plus what Barisma was looking to use him for (click “expand”):

Yeah. So, so, initially one of his partners actually was put on the board, a guy named Devin Archer and Devin Archer then brought Hunter in, and, you know, Hunter was working as an of counsel for a law firm and the idea was that Devin wanted to see if Archer could work with this new international board of directors for Barisma to put together a — you know, a kind of governance plan that would help the company appeal to western — western investors and so that's how Hunter sort of initially gets involved. He doesn't tell his father anything about it per the don't ask, don't tell policy to when he first got into the business world and he was eventually offered this position. The $50,000 a month? I've been told the same thing, but I was also told that it kind of depended on the month. Some months he was actually working more as a lawyer for them and he got paid more and in other months, he got paid less. Nonetheless it was a sizable chunk of change. He really had no substantial Ukraine experience. He had no Ukraine experience and no substantial, you know, experience in the energy sector at that stage in his career and so, you know, the suspicion was among people who worked for Joe Biden and some State Department and White House officials was this was an effort on the part of the Barisma to curry — to curry favor.

It was during this answer that Harlow grew visibly uncomfortable seeing as how any discussion of Hunter Biden and Ukraine has been deemed a “conspiracy theory,” thus placing these actual facts in the same place that would normally be reserved for 9/11 truthers since that’s what CNN wants you to think.

Harlow interjected that she “want[s] to deal in fact because there's so much speculation out there, and there is zero evidence that Hunter Biden or Joe Biden did anything wrong here.” Eye roll.

Asked to explain a Hunter quote in his profile about how Joe told him “I hope you know what you’re doing,” Entous knocked a Biden campaign statement about Hunter’s dealings as “rather vague.” He added that the problem has always been Biden aides feeling “too intimidated or don't feel comfortable raising the issue of Hunter with Joe Biden.”

The CNN host concluded by restating a question weekend host Michael Smerconish previously wondered to Entous, which was whether this entire situation could be boiled down to “just a case of bad optics.”

Entous’s final point brought relief to Harlow, but the first part again was uncomfortable seeing as how he argued that what Hunter Biden did in working for a Ukrainian energy company while his father was a point person on Ukraine (and foreign policy more generally) (click “expand”):

ENTOUS: Well, I think there’s two separate issues here. The issue of whether it was wise of Hunter Biden to take this position at Barisma when his father was guiding policy in Ukraine and, you know, the wisdom of Biden and Biden staffers, once they knew that, not to ask Hunter to step down. I think that is a legitimate subject of scrutiny. I’m not saying it’s illegal in any way. I'm just saying that's where the optics come into it and maybe it’s even worse than bad optics. It sort of undermined American policy of promoting, you know, fighting nepotism, fighting, you know, these kinds of problems that Ukraine has on a large scale. So that's one issue. The other issue is, did Joe Biden use his office in order to fire a prosecutor to protect his son? That's the one where I found no evidence to back up and a lot of evidence to the contrary. HARLOW: Yeah. There's just no evidence, and you're right, a lot of evidence to the contrary on that.

In the previous hour, senior international correspondent Matthew Chance told Harlow and co-host/former Obama administration official Jim Sciutto that the former Ukrainian prosecutor general is speaking out about the whistleblower complaint that he alleges, in Chance’s words, say things “about him” that “are not true.”

To see the relevant transcript from September 27's CNN Newsroom with Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto, click “expand.”