Biden's interview with special counsel released audio, who described him as “an elderly man with poor memory”

Axios released an interview with former special counsel Robert Hur in a current secret investigation of then-President Joe Biden’s handling of confidential documents on Friday.

The interview became one of the most eye-catching and controversial parts of the HUR investigation, concluding that there was not enough evidence to accuse Biden of inappropriate crimes after his vice presidential term. In the last report, Hur called Biden, who was 81 years old at the time, “a sympathetic, kind-hearted, elderly man with poor memory.”

Although Biden's transcript of an interview with HUR was released last year, the excerpts were the first recordings of the interview.

A Justice Department official confirmed the authenticity of the videotape to CNN.

“The transcript was released more than a year ago by the Biden Appartiond. The audio does nothing but confirms what has been published,” Biden spokeswoman Kelly Scully told CNN.

The audio appeared, and Biden's physical and mental abilities were back on the show. A forthcoming book by CNN's Jake Tapper and Axios' Alex Thompson – “Original Sin: The Fall of President Biden, the Disastrous Choice to Cover and His Run Again” – details the signs of Biden's decline while in office.

Biden SAT conducted a five-hour interview with Hur over a two-day range in the fall of 2023 as part of a special counsel’s investigation into his handling of confidential materials.

In one, Axios published nearly a quarter of the edits, and Biden was asked where he “actively” continued to work after leaving office in 2017. Biden paused for a long time, saying, “I don’t know and then continue talking about what happened to him during that period, when he had a while during this period, because he was busy with the woman in 2016 throughout the period, which was his 2016 pandemic, which was a 2016 pandemic period, which was his 2016 pandemic period. Beau, dead, needs to be confirmed from the people in the room.

“Beau died for a few months,” Biden asked, pausing. “Oh God, May 30…”

The two completed the then president's sentence: “2015.”

“Did he die in 2015?” Biden asked.

Biden, when asked if he knew he had kept a memo related to Afghanistan, first said: “I don't know I know. But when imposed further, Biden said: “I think I want to hang it on it just for the sake of future generations.” ”

Not long after, a man from Biden's team interjected and tried to clarify the president's answer.

The man said: “I really wanted to avoid going into the speculative area out of clear records, adding: “As far as I know, his recollection is that he doesn’t remember keeping this memorandum after he left the vice president. ”

Last February, HUR declined to file a lawsuit against Biden, but said in the final report that the former president “deliberately retained and disclosed confidential materials.” The more politically destructive part of Hur's findings is that he describes the president as “a good person with poor memory, older people” who may win a jury if he faces indictment.

Biden and his allies’ descriptions of Hur are inaccurate and unfair, including stepping back from a special counsel who does not remember his eldest son, Beau, died in the report.

House Republicans sought records related to interviews, including transcripts and recordings, and in a long improvisation into Biden, ultimately led to it.

The Justice Department provided a transcript of an interview to Congress, but Biden advocated executive privilege for recordings. House Republicans voted to pass the then-Merrick Garland refused to refusal to record, but the Justice Department refused to file accusations of contempt at the time.

On Friday, President Donald Trump told reporters that Attorney General Pam Bondi and her team will determine whether audio should be released.

“It depends on Pam [Bondi] and group. I haven't really investigated it,” he said before leaving Abu Dhabi. “Everyone knows his situation. I know that 89, 90, 92, 93 years old are actually perfect. But Joe is not one of them, they did a lot of hiding places. They were really playing games at the time. And, you know, you can't do that. Our country is under threat. ”

Top Democrats, including potential contenders in 2028, have raised questions about new revelations in the forthcoming book Tapper and Thompson, including whether they know the decline of the former president. A new round of scrutiny is as the party aspires to surpass the 2024 election and focuses on stronger opposition to Trump.

Biden's team has withdrawn the book's claims. A spokesman for Beden told CNN: “We continue to wait for anything that shows where Joe Biden has to make a presidential decision, a threat to national security or a failure to do his job. In fact, the evidence shows that the contrary – he is a very effective president.”

Biden, 82, defended his tenure and delayed his cognitive decline during his tenure during his tenure in an interview with ABC last week.

“They were wrong,” Biden said last week. “There's nothing to maintain.”

This story has been updated and additional details are provided.

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