Biden BLOCKS release of special counsel audio tapes in which he appeared 'elderly' saying AG Merrick Garland is shielded from Republicans preparing vote to hold him in contempt of Congress

President Biden has asserted enforcement privilege implicit the audio tapes of his interrogation with ex-special counsel Robert Hur successful a determination to shield Attorney General from transgression charges arsenic Republicans determination to clasp him successful contempt.  

A brace of Republican-led House committees volition beforehand resolutions to hold  Garland successful contempt of Congress connected Thursday.

The Oversight Committee and the Judiciary Committee volition clasp dual markups of their contempt resolutions on Thursday, Judiciary successful the greeting and Oversight successful the evening.

Both Oversight Chairman James Comer and Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan issued subpoenas to Garland for the audio of ex-special counsel Robert Hur's interrogation with Biden. They accidental Garland refused to comply with either subpoena, truthful some committees volition determination to clasp him successful contempt. 

The Justice Department says that it has been much than accommodating to the Republicans' requests for information. It has handed implicit a transcript of the interview, but not the signaling itself. 

'There indispensable beryllium consequences for refusing to comply with lawful legislature subpoenas and we volition determination to clasp Attorney General Garland successful contempt of Congress,' Comer said successful a connection to DailyMail.com Monday. 

'These audio recordings are important to our probe of President Biden’s willful retention of classified documents and his fittingness to beryllium President of the United States.' 

The lawyer wide had until April 8 to manus implicit requested materials from Robert Hur's interviews with Biden that led him to reason the president is 'elderly' and 'well-meaning' but has a 'poor memory.'

They subpoenaed transcripts, notes, audio and video files mostly related to Hur's interview.

While the DOJ has handed implicit transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden arsenic good arsenic the transcripts of an interrogation with Biden's ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer, Republicans are unsatisfied.

They person insisted they request audio from the Hur and Zwonitzer interviews too.

The DOJ, however, said successful an April missive to the GOP committee chairmen that the section had already been 'extraordinarily' accommodating successful giving up the Biden transcript.

They said releasing audio arsenic good mightiness marque it harder for prosecutors to unafraid recorded interviews successful the future, with witnesses knowing they could beryllium blasted retired into the public.

'The Committees person already received the bonzer accommodation of the transcripts, which gives you the accusation you accidental you need,' the letter, written by adjunct lawyer wide Carlos Uriarte, read.

'To spell further by producing the audio files would compound the likelihood that aboriginal prosecutors volition beryllium incapable to unafraid this level of cooperation. They mightiness person a harder clip obtaining consent to an interrogation astatine all. It is intelligibly not successful the nationalist involvement to render specified practice with prosecutors and investigators little apt successful the future.'

The missive said that the Oversight and Judiciary committees person not identified immoderate valid reasoning for needing the audio of the interrogation successful summation to transcripts.

Still, the GOP disagreed.

Comer clapped backmost successful a statement: 'The Biden Administration does not get to find what Congress needs and does not request for its oversight of the enforcement branch.' 

Hur, successful a study explaining his determination not to prosecute Biden implicit mishandling classified documents, sparked absorption from each sides - Republicans who questioned wherefore helium would not complaint the president and Democrats who took contented with his statement of Biden arsenic a 'sympathetic, well-meaning, aged antheral with a mediocre memory.'

'The February 27 subpoenas make a ineligible work connected you to nutrient this material,' the GOP lawmakers wrote to Garland. 'If you neglect to bash so, the Committees volition see taking further action, specified arsenic the invocation of contempt of Congress proceedings.'

The Justice Department has lone said it is conducting an 'interagency review' for classified and confidential accusation wrong the material.

Hur said helium recovered that Biden had 'willfully' retained classified worldly but stopped abbreviated of filing charges, believing a assemblage would not convict the president.

He explained his determination to marque the appraisal successful the hearing: 'I knew that for my presumption to beryllium credible. I could not simply denote that determination would beryllium nary charges, I needed to explicate why. I needed to amusement my work.'

'We identified grounds that the President willfully retained classified materials aft the extremity of his vice presidency, erstwhile helium was a backstage citizen,' Hur said during a high-stakes proceeding successful April.

In interviews with investigators, Biden became muddled astir the dates helium was vice president and could not adjacent retrieve the twelvemonth successful which his lad Beau died, according to the transcript reviewed by DailyMail.com.

Biden forgot the twelvemonth Beau died, erstwhile Trump was elected and said 'I don't recall', 'I don't remember' and 'I person nary goddamn idea' much than 100 times portion cracking jokes and making car noises with the investigators.

And it said his cavalier cognition to classified documents, specified arsenic his wont of speechmaking delicate files to a ghostwriter, posed a important nationalist information risk.

One of the reasons they decided not to property charges was due to the fact that 'at trial, Mr. Biden would apt contiguous himself to a jury, arsenic helium did during our interrogation of him, arsenic a sympathetic, well-meaning, aged antheral with a mediocre memory.'

Hur said during grounds that helium described Biden this mode due to the fact that of his 'inability to callback definite things' and that helium had to beryllium prompted by his lawyers to callback definite dates.

According to transcripts of Hur's interviews with Biden connected October 8 and October 9, 2023, Biden's lawyer had to archer him what twelvemonth his lad Beau died of encephalon crab and the president joked astir the peculiar counsel uncovering pictures of his woman Jill successful a swimsuit.

I conscionable anticipation you didn’t find immoderate risqué pictures of my woman successful a bathing suit. Which you astir apt did. She’s beautiful,' said Biden.

'What period did Beau die?' Biden mused astatine 1 point, adding, 'Oh God, May 30th.'

'He did not remember, adjacent wrong respective years, erstwhile his lad Beau died. And his representation appeared hazy erstwhile describing the Afghanistan statement that was erstwhile truthful important to him,' Hur said.

A White House lawyer past chimed successful with the year, 2015.

'Was it 2015 helium died?' Biden asked.