His interview with special counsel Robert Hur is at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.
Updated: 17 minutes agoPresident Biden is shown on a video as special counsel Robert K. Hur watches and listens during a House Judiciary Committee Hearing on the Report of special counsel Robert K. Hur at the Rayburn House Office Building on March 12, 2024 in Washington, D.C.
Garland advised Biden in a letter on Thursday that the audio falls within the scope of executive privilege. Garland told the Democratic president that the “committee’s needs are plainly insufficient to outweigh the deleterious effects that the production of the recordings would have on the integrity and effectiveness of similar law enforcement investigations in the future.”
White House Counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a separate, scathing letter to Congress on Thursday that lawmakers’ effort to obtain the recording was absent any legitimate purpose and lays bare their likely goal — “to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes.”
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