President Biden’s personal adviser on Sunday dodged a question about whether he supports releasing records of the president’s meetings with the special counsel investigating Biden’s handling of classified documents.
Bob Bauer, who represented Biden in the investigation, told Margaret Brennan on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that the issue ultimately rests with the government.
“Well, that’s actually a decision that has to be made within the government. This is a classified document,” Bauer said when asked if he supported making the interview transcript public.
Bauer made the unusual move last Thursday after special counsel Robert Hur released a 388-page report concluding that Biden “intentionally” kept classified documents but declined to press charges. responded to a public interview. The report also detailed Biden’s memories and recollections, describing the president as a “sympathetic and well-meaning older man with a poor memory.”
Bauer began the interview by sharing his recollections of the special counsel’s meeting with Biden, telling Brennan that he remembers a “president who was very direct in his questions and shared his best memories.” Told.
Bauer claimed that Herr decided to “cherry pick” certain details from the interview, such as Biden reportedly having trouble remembering the year his son Beau died.
“Some of the references you’re discussing here are examples of what I would call really shoddy work product and are completely outside the scope of a prosecutor,” Bauer said.
Brennan later asked again if Bauer “would recommend making things public if he really supported it.” [his] This is a personal record. ”
“Yes, there is a process going on. I’m not an expert on this process, so you really have to defer to the people who have to deal with these issues,” Bauer responded.
He insisted Biden has no memory problems and shared anecdotes from the interview room.
“While we have noted from the beginning that the special counsel sometimes asks inaccurate questions, there have been several occasions when the president has asked questions that he has chosen as a matter of logic,” Bauer said. Ta. “He indicated that the question had no logical support. Now, everyone in the room knew that the president had listened carefully and understood exactly what was at stake in the question. We recognized that this was an incident that demonstrated that
Asked if he had any evidence to support that claim, Bauer said: “My concern over the course of this special investigation was that we had a special prosecutor with one eye on the foreseeable legal outcome and the inevitable.” Amid firestorms from members of his own party. , must we conclude that the president has not broken the law? ”
“Given the attacks that Republicans have made on the law enforcement process, you have to wonder about the outside pressure on the investigation. Did he decide it was necessary to abandon the remaining conclusions to appease his political supporters?”
He later argued that no one was saying “the system is rigged,” but rather that the special counsel’s particular performance was “just insane.”
“He came to the correct legal conclusion and then read 400 pages.”[s] “Then there were misstatements of fact and completely inappropriate and derogatory comments that were baseless and unsupported by the record,” Bauer added.
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