Special counsel Robert Hur was unclear whether the Department of Justice could release the audio recordings of his five-hour interview with President Joe Biden, leaving House Republicans disgruntled.
Hur testified before Congress on Tuesday, where Republicans and Democrats grilled him on his lengthy report released last month that documented a five-hour interview with Biden over his mishandling of classified documents. GOP lawmakers were already annoyed after the DOJ released the 250-page transcript of the interview just hours before Hur was set to testify.
When asked by House Judiciary Chairman Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) why Congress and the public shouldn’t also have access to the audio recordings of the interview, Hur said that it wasn’t up to him to decide.
“Chairman, what I can tell you is that my assessment that went
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