Biden lawyer sidesteps question on releasing transcripts of classified docs interviews
by Miranda Nazzaro - 02/11/24 11:36 AM ET
President Biden’s personal counsel on Sunday sidestepped questions on if he supports releasing transcripts of the president’s interviews with the special counsel who investigated Biden’s handling of classified documents.
Bob Bauer, who represented Biden in the investigation, told CBS’s Margaret Brennan on “Face the Nation” that the matter is ultimately at the government’s discretion.
“Well, it’s really a decision that has to take place within the government. It’s a classified document,” Bauer said when asked if he would favor releasing the interview transcripts.
Bauer gave the rare public interview in the wake of special counsel Robert Hur’s release of a 388-page report last Thursday that concluded Biden “willfully” retained classified documents, but declined to bring charges. The report also featured stark details about Biden’s memory and recall, describing the president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
Earlier in the interview, Bauer offered his own recollection of the special counsel’s interview with Biden and told Brennan he remembers a “president who engaged with the questions very directly and gave his best recollection.”
Bauer argued Hur decided to “cherry pick” certain details from the interview, such as Biden reportedly struggling to remember the year in which his son Beau died.
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