Attorney General Merrick Garland says releasing audio of a special counsel’s interview with President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents could jeopardize future sensitive and high-profile investigations.
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Attorney General Merrick Garland says releasing audio of a special counsel’s interview with President Joe Biden over his handling of classified documents could jeopardize future sensitive and high-profile investigations.
House Republicans want to hold the attorney general in contempt over the department's refusal to hand over an audio recording of a special counsel's interview with the president.
President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur at the center a Republican effort to hold...
CNN By Annie Grayer, Holmes Lybrand and Evan Perez, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden moved to assert executive privilege over recordings of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur as House Republicans press ahead with contempt proceedings against Attorney General Merrick Garland over his refusa…
The assertion came as the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees were slated to move forward with a contempt of Congress resolution against Attorney General Merrick Garland.
President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over audio of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur at the center a Republican effort to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress.
The White House asserted executive privilege over recordings related to Special Councel Robert Hur's depositions of Biden and his ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer.
The president agreed with the attorney general that releasing the recordings could make it less likely for witnesses in high-profile investigations to cooperate in the future.
“The absence of a legitimate need for the audio recordings lays bare your likely goal — to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes," White House counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a scathing letter to House Republicans.
President Joe Biden Thursday used an executive privilege claim to block Republican-led House committees from getting audio recordings of Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur regarding classified documents.
President Biden moved Thursday to block the release of audio recordings of his interview with special counsel Robert K. Hur by exerting executive privilege over the materials, saying House Republicans' request for it is politically motivated.
Biden invoked executive privilege on Thursday, blocking the audio recording of his interview with Hur during an investigation, according to the Washington Post.
The move comes as House Republicans threaten to hold Attorney General Merrick B. Garland in contempt over his refusal to turn over audio of President Biden’s conversations with the special counsel.
The White House has blocked the release of the audio, arguing Republicans in Congress only want the recordings “to chop them up” and use them for political purposes as the
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has asserted executive privilege over an audio recording of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur, the Republican federal prosecutor who declined to recommend charges against the president over his handling of classified documents.
(CNN) — President Joe Biden on Thursday morning asserted executive privilege over the recordings of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur regarding classified documents, hours
