{"id":4316,"date":"2024-02-13T00:03:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/house-republicans-demand-transcript-of-bidens-interview-with-special-counsel-as-part-of-impeachment-inquiry\/"},"modified":"2024-02-13T00:03:54","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T00:03:54","slug":"house-republicans-demand-transcript-of-bidens-interview-with-special-counsel-as-part-of-impeachment-inquiry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/13\/house-republicans-demand-transcript-of-bidens-interview-with-special-counsel-as-part-of-impeachment-inquiry\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans demand transcript of Biden\u2019s interview with special counsel as part of impeachment inquiry"},"content":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX: <\/strong>House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry against President Biden are demanding the Justice Department turn over the transcript <\/a>and any recordings of Biden\u2019s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in his investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents.<\/p>\n

Hur, who released his report<\/a> to the public last week after months of investigating, did not recommend criminal charges against Biden for mishandling and retaining classified documents and stated that he wouldn’t bring charges against Biden even if he were not in the Oval Office.<\/p>\n

BIDEN RETAINED RECORDS RELATED TO UKRAINE, CHINA; COMER DEMANDS ‘UNFETTERED ACCESS’ AMID IMPEACHMENT INQUIRY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Those records included classified documents about military and foreign policy in Afghanistan and other countries, among other records related to national security and foreign policy, which Hur said implicated “sensitive intelligence sources and methods.”<\/p>\n

Hur did not recommend any charges against the president but did describe him as a “well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory” \u2014 a description that has raised significant concerns for his 2024 reelection campaign.<\/p>\n

On Monday, House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan and House Ways & Means Committee Chair Jason Smith penned a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland to request that he turn over the transcript and any recordings of Biden’s October 2023 interview with Hur and the special counsel team. The three committee leaders are leading the impeachment inquiry against Biden.<\/p>\n

SPECIAL COUNSEL CALLS BIDEN ‘SYMPATHETIC, WELL-MEANING, ELDERLY MAN WITH A POOR MEMORY,’ BRINGS NO CHARGES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Comer had asked Hur if any of the classified records that Biden held were related to the countries with which his family allegedly conducted business.<\/p>\n

Comer told Fox News Digital last week that he wants “unfettered access to these documents to determine if President Biden\u2019s retention of sensitive materials were used to help the Bidens\u2019 influence peddling.”<\/p>\n

The letter sent to Garland and obtained by Fox News Digital on Monday detailed the concerns that “Biden may have retained sensitive documents related to specific countries involving his family\u2019s foreign business dealings.”<\/p>\n

“Further, we seek to understand whether the White House or President Biden\u2019s personal attorneys placed any limitations or scoping restrictions during the interview that would have precluded a line of inquiry regarding evidence (emails, text messages, or witness statements) directly linking the President to troublesome foreign payments,” they wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

COMER DEMANDS ANSWERS ON WHETHER BIDEN CLASSIFIED RECORDS MENTION COUNTRIES RELATED TO FAMILY BUSINESS DEALS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Additionally, the Committee on the Judiciary requires these documents for its ongoing oversight of the Department\u2019s commitment to impartial justice and its handling of the investigation and prosecution of President Biden\u2019s presumptive opponent, Donald J. Trump, in the November 2024 presidential election,” they continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Despite clear evidence the President willfully retained and transmitted classified materials willfully, Mr. Hur recommended ‘that no criminal charges are warranted in this matter,'” they wrote. “Although Mr. Hur reasoned that President Biden\u2019s presentation \u2018as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory\u2019 who \u2018did not remember when he was vice president\u2019 or \u2018when his son Beau died\u2019 posed challenges to proving the President\u2019s guilt beyond a reasonable doubt, the report concluded that the Department\u2019s principles of prosecution weighed against prosecution because the Department has not prosecuted \u2018a former president or vice president for mishandling classified documents from his own administration.\u2019”<\/p>\n

They added, “The one \u2018exception\u2019 to the Department\u2019s principles of prosecution, as Mr. Hur noted, \u2018is former President Trump.\u2019 This speaks volumes about the Department\u2019s commitment to evenhanded justice.”<\/p>\n

Comer, Jordan and Smith demanded the materials by Feb. 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans leading the impeachment inquiry against President Biden are demanding the Justice Department turn over the transcript and any recordings of Biden\u2019s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur in his investigation into Biden’s mishandling of classified documents. Hur, who released his report to the public last week after months of investigating, … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}