WASHINGTON ― House Republicans on Monday took U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland to court over his refusal to hand over audio of President Joe Biden’s interview with former special counsel Robert Hur. The interview led Hur to describe Biden in a February report as “an elderly man with a poor memory.” Concerns about Biden’s mental […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio recordings of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, the Republican federal prosecutor who declined to recommend charges against the president over his handling of classified documents. Hur wrote in his report that one reason not to bring a case against Biden is that […]
WASHINGTON — House Republicans are threatening to hold U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress if he doesn’t hand over material from the Justice Department’s recent investigation of President Joe Biden. In a letter to Garland on Monday, House Oversight Committee chair James Comer (R-Ky.) and Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) demanded […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden was returning from church a week ago when he stepped out of his armored SUV onto the driveway of his Wilmington, Delaware, home on an important mission: He wanted to inspect the landscaping. The sprawling home on a manmade pond, three miles or five kilometers from downtown, has a […]
A transcript of Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur was released Tuesday, revealing that critiques of his memory may be overblown and offering a glimpse at Biden’s sense of humor.Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images A transcript of Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur was released Tuesday. The transcript suggests […]
A transcript of Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur was released Tuesday. The transcript suggests critiques of his memory may be overblown and shows Biden’s sense of humor. In the log, Biden cracked jokes about investigators finding photos of his wife and made car sounds. Many quickly picked apart the transcript of Joe […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s a now-familiar ritual in Washington: a federal prosecutor being summoned to Capitol Hill to discuss the findings of a politically explosive investigation. Tuesday’s hearing with special counsel Robert Hur, who investigated President Joe Biden’s handling of classified information, broke little new legal or political ground. But it delivered plenty of talk […]
The full transcript of President Joe Biden’s five-hour interview with special counsel Robert Hur’s investigators “paints a more nuanced portrait” of Biden’s memory than the special counsel’s report, according to The Washington Post, which noted that “Biden doesn’t come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be.” The transcript “could […]
WASHINGTON — Special counsel Robert Hur’s bombshell report on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents concluded that he presented himself as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who was unable to remember key dates, including when he served as vice president or the year his son died. Biden, for his part, has lambasted […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House knew it had a political problem on its hands when a special counsel report questioned President Joe Biden’s memory last month, but Biden saw a much more personal affront as well. Robert Hur, who had been appointed to investigate whether Biden mishandled classified documents, wrote that the president couldn’t […]
Former special counsel Robert Hur will testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Tuesday on his recent report that concluded that President Biden should not face criminal charges for “willfully retaining and sharing highly classified information.” Yahoo News will have a live video stream of the hearing, which is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. […]
A transcript of President Joe Biden’s interview with the special counsel who investigated his handling of classified information contradicts the president’s characterization of an exchange about the death of his son, Beau Biden, from brain cancer. “There’s even a reference that I don’t remember when my son died,” a visibly irate Biden told reporters hours […]