Robert Hur, the special counsel who investigated President Biden's handling of classified documents, famously referred to the president as a "well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory." Hur testifies Tuesday before a House panel, and the Justice Department has turned over a lightly redacted transcript of their five-hour interview in advance. Major outlets got an early peek:
- The Washington Post finds that the transcript "paints a more nuanced portrait of the exchanges between Biden and the special counsel. Biden doesn't come across as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be—and Hur doesn't appear as crass as Biden has made him out to be."
- NBC News agrees that a "more nuanced" pictured is revealed in the full transcript. Biden at times can't recall dates or specifics, but at other times, "he expanded beyond the narrow subject areas of particular questions," including a 2011 visit to Mongolia.
- The transcript "shows that that on several occasions the president fumbled with dates and the sequence of events, while otherwise appearing clearheaded," per the New York Times. It also shows some additional Biden miscues that Hur chose not to include in his report.
- Biden "was at times fuzzy about dates and said he was unfamiliar with the paper trail for some of the sensitive documents he handled," according to the AP. "While Biden fumbled some details in his interview, the full transcript could raise questions about Hur's depiction of the 81-year-old president as having 'significant limitations' on his memory."
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