so robert hur clearly emphasized that during his report, and president biden himself pointed that out yesterday during remarks. he said he was glad robert hur noted the differences between president biden's handling and former president trump's. host: the report included characterizations of his memory. what details did it include about that? guest: the conclusions of the report were a legal victory for president biden. there were no charges recommended. the fallout of the report has seemed that, the political fallout is larger. so, robert hur repeatedly made references and notes about president biden's memory, and pointed to specific details that president biden seemed to forget or seem shaky on during his interviews with investigators. one particular line that robert hur included was that president biden seemed to forget the day that his son died, and we thought president biden spoke on thursday night in an unplanned speech to the american public, and he shot back at many of the characterizations of his memory in -- that were outlined in the report, and specifically against that bea

his statement directly on the findings of robert hur.ning me now is nbc news justice correspondent ken dilanian, seize on what mem was talking about, the willful retention of documents? >> reporter: it's crucial because i think it's getting a little bit lost here. this report clearly says, and this was surprising to me, i did not expect to see this, that president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified information. that is a felony, but then the report goes on to say that we don't think we could win a prosecution in this case for various reasons, including mr. biden's memory lapses and the fact that he's an elderly, well intentioned man. that is a deeply significant finding, and it's in two respects, one, they found that mr. biden was on tape speaking to his ghost writer back in 2017 saying the words i found all the classified stuff downstairs. this was when he was living in a home in virginia after he left the vice presidency working on a memoir. and they also found that he disclosed classified information to the ghost writer

the next question, why didn't robert hur recommend charges? you cannot charge under doj with a sitting president the answer is, it is prosecutorial discretion. they're supposed to think about factors like, how will this play with the jury? are there defenses? in a way that is probably politically damaging, he talks about his age, memory, and mental capacity. >> yeah, but we said, while we were covering the trump classified documents case, that it seemed likely. a lot of our legal experts, i think including you, that if trump had just turned them over and cooperated the way that president biden did, he might not have been charged with anything. >> i still think that is absolutely true. you have to look, first of all, did the person have documents? did they know about them, where they classified and sensitive? yes, yes, for both trump and biden. you have to look at factors like, was the person cooperative? turn things over on the one hand, which joe biden did. and donald trump did not just lightly obstruct, he all out obstructs. he tries to dest

and robert hur is incorrect.cript could be released if they say it is so wrong. >> the president owes it to the country to resolve that doubt. release the tapes of the five-hour interview. special counsel summary of the interview was unnerving. >> process of possibly releasing this deals with redacting classified information if discussed. i'm told doj need to look at factors if the attorney were to turn over the transcript. the attorneys general's office received the letter from congress and will respond by monday. >> kayleigh: we'll be following it. white house was asked, will you release the transcript, samms speaks for the and his personal counsel. here is what samms said about releasing the transcript. >> the redacted version, would president support the release as long as you can keep what needs to be kept secret? >> we will look at that make a determination. >> kayleigh: if i'm the president and i say, i am all with it, i'm the partly cloudy we'll do the super bowl interview. we'll do the competency test. i

all eyes on the robert hur report and the fallout from last night's remarks. ben, quick thought. >> the most press conference both of their careers today and they better do a really good job. they have democrats watching it, not just republicans, and if they fumble this, like kamala harris fumbled this morning, it's going to be really bad for them. >> kayleigh: and this one, you can't say hatch act, word of wisdom to karine jean-pierre. it's friday, "america reports". >> sandra: thank you for the build-up, await the news. we will hear directly from the white house, the first response since the release of the scathing special counsel report detailing how president biden mishandled those classified documents and called into question his mental fitness to be the president of the united states. hello, welcome, everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, great to be with you kicking off this friday afternoon. >> john: if you thought yesterday was a day, today is just as much. i'm john roberts in washington. and this is "america reports". it's a presidency in peril, t

>> so, look, you know, just to speak to the hur report really, really quickly, special counsel hur is, as far as i remember, is obviously a republican, a prosecutor. he's not a medical doctor. he's just not. it's not for him to speak to, it's just not. and you've heard from, over the past couple of days since the report has been out, you've heard from legal experts from across the ideological spectrum, even former attorney general, and he says, and they have come out to say that the stuff in this report that is capturing all of your attention right now is just wrong, it's flatly wrong. it is inappropriate. it is gratuitous, i'll leave it there and up for a medical doctor to decide on that. but look, i have said the medical doctor, the president's doctor is going to do a physical, and he has always put forth in the last two years a detailed memo on the president's obviously medical physical and so i'm going to leave it there. i don't have anything else to add. >> curious -- >> sandra: so kevin o'leary is still with us here, really important we took the second question in its entirety a

that hur hearing hard to say.is not going to be a good day for hur or for the republicans because the facts, you know, the actual facts are on biden's side. house democrats are very effective in these committee settings at sort of deconstructing. same thing happened when jim comey went up to testify on capitol hill on his report. he got crucified. i think the same thing will happen here. and the white house can figure out do they do that, put it out the day before the hearing, near the hearing, coordinate that with house democrats. and for them to -- you know, the way -- with integrity this time, but the way bill barr did when he presented the mueller report. bob bahher, these are the things you need to know and package in a way that is putting the facts in the right context. >> jen palmieri and jen psaki, thank you for your time tonight. that does it for our show this evening. "way too early" with jonathan lemire is coming up next. >>> you've been intrusive into people's personal lives. you're confused. you think

and robert hur , in his report, goes into that. he says there are number of factors that make this very, very different. including the fact that donald trump refused to turn over documents, classified documents after he received a subpoena that required him to turn it back over. that there were a number of other obstruction acts by the former president, including telling witnesses to lie, and hiding documents when the fbi came to do a search of mar-a-lago. for those reasons, robert hur says this is a completely different situation. it is not quite the same thing as the trump investigation. >> i want to zoom in on something you just reported, that was in the report about this ghostwriter that was helping president biden write a memoir, that apparently had material that was deemed classified and inappropriate for him to have. you mentioned that it was some of the most damning evidence. is the application here that that evidence was designated as top-secret, the highest level of classification? >> right, that is exactly what the repor

hur of fabricating the fact mr. biden couldn't recall the time frame of when his son died or are they implying that president biden was lying and really did remember those things? how is it highly prejudicial to quote the president's own answers verbatim? must be maga's fault. now, hur's team went into detail about the president's debilitated memory not to be cruel and not for political reasons, but because it's relevant to whether they could have established intent, writing in the report in a case where the government must prove that mr. biden knew he had possession of the classified afghanistan documents, after the vice presidency and chose to keep those documents, knowing he was violating the law, we expect that at trial his attorneys would emphasize these limitations in his recall. now, marinate on that m for a moment. what hur revealed in this report is what we have been telling you for years. the democrat party, the media, the party's plutocrat donors who have all been behind closed doors with biden, the entir

rob hur was the prosecutor. it was his job to make that decision, that recommendation to the attorney general who as you acknowledged has previously committed to make this report one, that's one difference. the special counsel investigation. there was no procedure to make those reasons public. here it's baked into this regulation. now we sit, jake, 25 years down the road. that regulation was passed by attorney general reno in 1999. now we have 25 years of experience. i think it's worth while to city -- sit back and ask is this the right procedure? should we have prosecutors writing reports for public release? or is there a better way to do that without having all the embarrassing information come to public light? >> donald trump, of course, is charged in had the january 6th case with conspiracy to defraud the united states, conspiracy of and conspiracy against rights, in this case voting rights. what do you make of those charges in the january 6th case? how worried should donald trump be about that case in parti

hur violate in your mind any ethical guidelines?hink he has committed any unethical act here. the key to remember is that he took an investigation where the retention and mishandling of classified information was established within the first hour. so he already knew that president biden had classified material. he knew that they were housed in highly inappropriate spots. the president lied about that. even after the report they were in his garage in these torn up boxes. so the question for hur was well, do we still go ahead and prosecute him, that's a matter of, in his view intent. he said we could not establish that full intent because of a lack of memory. that lack of memory was material to his decision. he was saying the president would just blank out whenever we asked him about these dates, going back 40 years. so i was talking about the key issue. the only issue that remained. i have a serious problem with a report because he describes every element of a crime and then says well, we just didn't think a jury would take to convic

larry: really. >> we don't know what hur asked. we need to know. we need to know because, a central theme in the biden influence peddling invest tbeag is t -- the fact that biden family were selling access to joe biden, one of the e-mails was dated in a time when hunter biden was trying to prove his worth to a certain foreign national after joe biden left the presidency, we know that hunter biden of receiving a huge salary, from a ukrainian business, the day joe biden left was on the, they cut his salary in half, e-mail went out at a time when he was trying to prove his birth. that is what biden brand did, any time they pitched themselves to a foreign government they would put joe on the phone, see we're close with joe. larry: do you think robert hur asked joe biden who else saw the classified documents? for example i'll pick a name, hunter biden. do you think hunter biden wandered into the garage or corvette or whatever with the classified documents strewn about. and looked at them and maybe communicating something from them to his clients in chin

and what special counsel hur was looking at. that's the reason why you don't see charges in this case. all of the other language, what used the word extraneous, gratuitous, i think those are generous words. i think those or to not cite. they were not supposed to be there. i don't understand what this report was a partisan. i don't understand why it was so politically motivated. stick to this facts and evidence, special counsel. if there is no evidence of wrongdoing, that's what you have to lodge. and in fact if you rate the executive summary, alex, it was nothing there, nothing theory, no evidence, no evidence. that's what it says over and over again. and i think that's what needs to be harped on by the biden white house and by the biden surrogates. >> here is as simple observation in this report. special counsel robert hur, a former trump administration official described president biden as an elderly man with a par member and said he had diminished faculties in advancing age and struggled to remember events and strained at tim

hur did the same. he said, we find no charges would be warranted. the biggest problem is this one sentence that said were we to charge him, even though no charges were warranted, he would likely present himself to the jury as an elderly nice guy with a bad memory. hur has no idea how biden would present himself to a jury so he's offering speculation and on the basis of that speculation he's concluding that charges aren't warranted. that's not what his job is. his job is to say did he willfully possess? did he willfully distribute? can i obtain a conviction and sustain that conviction? if i can't, then the case is done. we don't need him to editorialize about the mind of a prospective juror when he has no basis to offer that observation. >> leah, is this a wash? when we talk about age and mental acuity. president biden, former president trump, they would both be octagenarians. we've seen mistakes come from the former president as well. is one any better or worse for the candidate or the country over the other? >> let me explain why this moment is act

the bottom line is hur had to include this and robert hur in his report and while they interviewed himy in the year and that was relevant and he would have been charged but we've got to go. elizabeth: joe concha, appreciate you. have a good weekend. welcome brandon judicial crisisd officer and bill, first to you. and then going soft on criminal suspects accused of murder, robbery, sexual assault and drug charges. da bragg going after trump. what do you think? >> i think time and time again, liz, thank you for having by the way and when you have a da based on color and more importantly the hypocrisy and like the member of the service trying to save people on the train and now we have teenagers getting this. elizabeth: illegal immigrant from venezuela reportedly took a gun 15 years old and shot a tourist at time square and shot at a cop. we have new body cam footage of the moment illegal immigrants attacked text message at what we're looking at here. >> inviting illegal immigration and we don't prosecute and support the rule of law, we can expect this to happen. we're seeing the society

robert hur has been the only person allowed inside to see it.of it is the white house protecting joe biden. >> harris: oddly the president went there several times as if he were proud of those five hours that he spent and they were filled with examples of things that didn't go well for him. all right. quick on this. senator john kerry lighting up treasury secretary janet yellen at a hearing before the senate banking committee. >> these prices caused by bidenomics are here to stay, aren't they? >> well, the high prices were not caused by bidenomics. i don't expect the level of prices to go down. some prices will be higher than they were before the pandemic and will stay higher but wages have risen considerably. >> you don't think we need to get these prices down? it's okay that bacon is up 20% under president biden, chicken is up 23 1/2%, coffee is up 30%, gas is up 44%? new cars and trucks are up 20% because people can't afford -- used cars because people can't afford a new car? they're up 24% under bidenomics. you don't think we need to get the

forget what robert hur said in the report, this is president biden speaking topically. do you understand why some democrats are going to polls, majority of democrats are concerned? >> there should be no concern pictures the reality, president biden, who i've been around numerous times this last year, he is sharp and focused, he is bright, he is experience and with age comes incredible wisdom . this is the most prepared person ever to be president of the united states. is looking at the big picture, look at the accomplishment of what he has done. democrats are very confident in this president and united behind what he is going to do. escobar spokes getting things wrong, people do all the time. mike johnson just compared israel and iran, donald trump compares nikki haley to nancy pelosi. we all misspeak sometimes. the important thing here is we should not be focused on this one issue around age. we should focus on what the results look like, what the accomplish -- accomplishments look like access to more rights. that is what president biden is focused on pick the bottom l

biden attacked hur for asking when bo dyed. but hur never asked that question.resident, not hur or his team who first introduced beau biden's death, they said. >> we don't have the transcript but we have a confirmed that element of the story, byron. >> that was the emotional core of the president's pushback. we all know from listening to him from years that he does often speak of his late son bo and when he said how dare bo raise that in the questioning and then if it turns out he didn't raids it, that biden himself raised it, that's a big deal. now, republicans, in congress, are asking for the transcript of this. they are going to have hur come and testify to the house. and the white house is trying to push back by saying well, the transcript would cover some classified information, maybe something that's covered by executive privilege, we can't really give it out. well, it seems like there is really a fairly simple way to deal with this and which is to at least see the portions of the transcript that deal with this contested story. >> bret: i think it's going

the president coming before the cameras slamming special counsel robert hur's report on his handling of classified documents. hur not seeking charges, but describing the president as a, quote, elderly man with a poor memory. mr. biden hitting back >> and my memory is fine. >>> and vice president kamala harris today also blasting the report. what she said in defense of the president. >>> also tonight, the deadly plane crash on the highway in florida. the plane colliding with at least one vehicle. >>> the shooting in times square in new york the nypd saying a 15-year-old wounded a tourist then fired at a police officer in the heart of manhattan. the arrest tonight >>> the urgent manhunt in tennessee a deputy fatally shot. the armed and dangerous suspect on the loose. >>> the dramatic video of the first tornado on record to hit wisconsin in february. >>> israel ordering an evacuation ahead of an expected invasion in the gaza city of rafah, and president biden's sharpest rebuke yet of israel's offensive. >>> the military naming the five u.s. marines killed in a helicopter crash what we'r

s yesterday, the hur report.op. >> joe biden is the worst and most incompetent and most corrupt president in the history of our country. [cheers and today i issue another warning. if crooked joe gets four more years, his second term will make his first term look like paradise. we're not going to have a country left anymore. >> shannon: spencer, those lines getting a lot of applause. is he also going after this hur report and saying there is a double standard with respect to president biden. hur was very clear in his report. these cases are very different there was a different level of cooperation. allegations of obstruction. all those things as well. >> yeah. definitely. obviously the president is on home turf tonight at the nra. that's a place where he excels. you heard that crowd going absolutely wild. i think it when it comes to the differences in these cases obviously you had the ian sam's for the two different things and draw that distinction again. i think the president, obviously, has an uphill battle when

you see what robin hur is talking about. does thia s seem like a mano cognitively strong to be president? to me, the answer is obviously no. >> i am very worried about it. look, this election is not coming down to american people rushing to the polls enthusiastically to vote foror their favorite t president.pr this is a campaign for who is the least worse. who don't you want to be president? and today's performance andd today's report is going to give a lot of solace to people who say, gee, we may not like trump, but we cannot vote for biden. we are afraid to have somebody with those memory problems nuc having access to the nuclear trager trying totr resolve the issue in the middle east. even today he bumbled over the middle east very badly dealing with vladimir putin. today's decision and today'son a reports will have a big impactva on the selection on a lot of people, including people like me who are democrats, inclined to vote for president biden, butbie obviously have to think hard about whether we will trust in the next

hur writes there is evidence that when mr. biden left office in 2017 he willfully retained his classified notebooks, that is he knew he kept classified information in notebooks stored in his house and he knew he was not allowed to do so. we conclude there are no criminal charges warranted in this matter. we would reach the same conclusion even if the department of justice did not foreclose criminal charges against a sitting president. he says we also have considered that a trial mr. biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him as a sympathetic, elderly man with a poor memory based on our direct interactions with him and observations of him. he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. it would be difficult to convince a jury they should con dict him by then a former president into his 80s a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness. the white house said we disagree with the accounts in the special counsel's report. no charges are warranted is

we don't know exactly what hur asked. we need to know.the biden influence peddling investigation has, is the fact that the biden family specifically, the son and the brother, of the president of the united states were selling access to joe biden and one of these emails was it todayed at the time when hunter biden was trying to prove his worth to a certain foreign national after joe biden left the presidency. we know that hunter biden was receiving a huge salary from a ukrainian business. when, the day joe biden left offers, they cut his salary in half. so the email wint out at a time he was trying to prove his worth and that's what the biden brandied. that's what we learned in all of our interviews and depositions. anytime they were pitching themselves to a foreign government or foreign national, they put joe on the phone. see, we're close with joe. larry: do you think robert hur asked joe biden who else saw these classified documents? for example, i'm going to pick a name randomly, hunter biden? do you think hunter biden wandered into th

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now, did this hur report have to become public? it didn't. but merrick garland has promised to make the reports public. once he went down the road of promising transparency, there wasn't a way to go back. >> the white house putting ian sams in front of reporters and forcefully saying biden was found to have done nothing wrong, and forcefully pushing back on the assessment that robert hur made saying it was inappropriate. what else are you hearing today? what are the next steps? >> the word, and to say really that this entire report, she found, as a former prosecutor was quite unprofessional and really included things that didn't need to be included. you heard a little bit of that from the president last night specifically on this question of memory, and specifically we saw the president who was quite upset and angry in his push back to this because he says that line that was included in the report specifically arguing that the president couldn't recall when his beloved son beau had died, angered the president privately so much when he learned

you see what robert hur is talking about.does this seem like a man that is cognitively strong enough to be president? to me the answer is obviously no. >> i am very worried about it. this election is not coming down to american people rushing to the polls enthusiastically to vote for their favorite president. this is a campaign for who is the least worst. who don't you want to be president? today's performance and today's report will give a lot of solace to people who say we may not like trump, but we cannot vote for biden. we are afraid to have somebody with those memory problems having access to the nuclear trigger, trying to resolve issues in the middle east. today he bumbled over the middle east a very badly. dealing with putin. today's decision and today's report will have a big impact on this election. a lot of people, including people like me who are democrats that would be inclined to vote for president biden. but obviously have to think hard about whether we will trust in the next five years for the president not to

that's all hur needed to do. didn't need pages of psychoanalysis of perspective jurors. >> interesting perspective you're giving us this morning. i appreciate it. ken, what are the differences in there? vast differences between president biden's handling of classified information and former president trump's handling of classified information? >> these cases are not even in the same universe and rob hur, who is a life long republican and appointee in the trump justice department made a point of enumerating the differences because, again, his audience here are republicans in congress as well, who are going to criticize him for not charging biden, while trump is charged for similar conduct. what hur said is it is not similar conduct because mr. biden is not accused of trying to hide documents or withhold evidence or refuse requests from the government to return classified documents and not accused of obstructing justice, where as mr. trump is accuseed of all those things including ordering subordinates to destroy e

hur was appointed by then. donald trump. we're told to expect robert hur to testify on camera in public al some point in the coming weeks and months. attorney general merrick garland has said with all special counsels, he wants them to testify in public free from any interference for anyone to hear. back to you. >> sandra: thanks, david. should the biden transcripts be released? that's the big question at this hour. john yoo joins us now. great to see you. if they're so confident in what the president said in that room, why not release the transcript? >> exactly, sandra. i think we were one of the first people on this show to call for the release of the transcripts in respond to president biden and his lawyers attacking the integrity of the special counsel. i have to say, as a former doj lawyer, i do not find the comments that special counsel hur made in his report to be under the belt or unusual, a prosecutor has to take in into account how sympathetic is a defendant going to be to a jury if they will bring charges and whet

we saw the report that came down from robert hur. it was detrimental but then you had the news conference tonight. did the president make a mistake by coming out with this news conference? would it have been better to issue a statement and then maybe move on or at least address it tomorrow? what do you think about the timing and the decision-making? >> i think the decision-making was even poorer than the actual execution of it, both of which were terrible. i think the reality is this, the managerial class in the democratic party, and i believe in the deep state, has decided they've lost their use for joe biden as a puppet. i think they laid a trap for him. they invited him effectively to prove the to the american people that he doesn't have the mental acuity to do it. he fell into their trap and now they are laying the groundwork for the coming three months to sideline him and actually put up who the real nominee is going to be. i said this at the end of one of the republican president republican presenter debates and i'll say it aga

>> i think that lets him off the hook, too much, really that was what robert hur was doing robert hurfy why he wasn't bringing charges. and so it is -- it is the things that he did from the president all the president's allies, this morning, all spanning out across the media is to attack robert hur call him trumpee. >> he can't win dammed if he does dammed if he doesn't, he should have charged joe biden because joe biden had all these classified documents all over the place, senate days stashed, in have very insecure locations, like in a complete mess in his garage. so i think, robert hur had to find something justify that calling him elderly man with poor memory i am sure joe biden when asking questions during entire true with robert hur said he couldn't remember anything that is about what people do when they have done something long they say "i can't remember that was too long ago" joe biden himself a to blame for that i do think you see the press conferences, for gets things not the full as they say not very sharp but sharp enough, i mean, he is even back in 2020 he has sharp in t

that is in that hur report. also in that hur report, joe biden said he didn't remember when he was vice president. it's like 380 pages. granted, c-span doesn't have enough time to show 380 pages, but let's show the facts. and it is what it is, and they are not going to do anything to joe biden because of his age -- host: and joe, we do have that report on our website to peruse. denver, kentucky, democrat. caller: yes, thank you for taking my call. trump, if you didn't fight a resurrection, why did he wait for three hours to stop it? is there anybody out there who think she would only do four years -- he would only do four years? i don't think he would. he would have a change in a heartbeat. host: let's talk to dusty next in myrtle beach, south carolina, independent. caller: yes. my opinion about the ballot is go ahead and give it to donald trump. let him win something for a change. we know he is a complete loser. and then when they have the american calls, will -- not give him immunity, and then jack smith will

>> no, with hur! >> robert hur. >> michele will be the nominee, i thought that was what you were talking about. media trying to defend joe biden if he is mentally fit by saying he can ride a bike. there are some things that work better together. like your workplace benefits and retirement savings. voya helps you choose the right amounts without over or under investing. so you can feel confident in your financial choices. voya, well planned, well invested, well protected. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein! those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks. -ugh. -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams protein, 1 gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals. and a new fiber blend with a prebiotic. (♪) hi, i'm janice, and i lost 172 pounds on golo. (upbeat music) i could've had gastric bypass surgery, and i didn't like the idea of not being able to eat a normal portion for the rest of my life. for the last two and half years i have steadily lost weight with golo. g

hur. >> he had to give a reason as to why he wasn't going forward with any prosecution.gine if he said look the only elements, really good-looking guy, charming guy. >> exactly. >> so charming, said he is -- the jury in this district is going to be predominantly black not going to charge that is not with a special counsel is supposed to be dock he is supposed to be laying out elements of the i'm not predictions how jury will assess evidence that is up to jury itself he went way beyond scope of what he should have been doing maria: let me ask you about this impeachment inquiry hours oversight committee chairman james comer did he man offeding unfettered access for class of documentsp biden was holding on to if determine whether used to help biden family influence peddling scheme robert hur's report confirmed biden held on to confidential documents related to ukraine and china hunter biden on border of burisma in june of 2014 had a joint business venture with communist party of china cefc what chairman comer told me yesterday about all of that, watch. >> your reaction to t

robert hur's findings, former house judicial house epstein and brian claypool. i want to bring you in first, the idea for not prosecuting for robert hur is baffling. i imagine you think this as well because he practically just calls biden, he would be a sympathetic well meaning elderly man with a poor memory that he would basically present as not a great defendant, but that he willfully retained and disclosed classified materials and continues to sort of speak untruths out there. we saw that at the press conference. he's been speaking untruths about where the classified documents were found, a level of classification and then saying that he didn't tell any of the stuff to the ghost writer. so, is it poor memory or is it deceit? >> well, the reason for the non-prosecution, it's a difficult witness to prosecute given his memory issues, look, i think you want to think that everybody plays as a straight shooter and i've been amazed how the defendamocrats have bee playing this, and that willfully violated the law. he said and explained that all of this information ab

in i deleted the tapes when i heard robert hur got assigned to investigate.y said give me your computer and decided not to charge him because he was cooperative after he wasn't cooperative. then they asked him who told you to blank those tapes he? said no one. okay. >> you interview a sitting president. you don't destroy those tapes. >> brian: i would think. steve. >> ainsley: unless there is an investigation. >> brian: which would be a problem. >> steve: if those tapes exist and they do because robert hur heard them. information, on the tape, the ghost writer is talking to the current president and he goes, hey, look at all the secret stuff i found in a box downstairs. it's all top secret. so essentially joe biden confessed to the fact that he was in possession willful possession of that stuff it. would be much easier to get those from the -- not the department of justice, i guess technologically they would belong to the ghost writer. >> ainsley: what are you going to say? >> brian: so the lawyer, joe biden's lawyer spent the weekend. >> steve: bauer? >> bri

fox news is told while hur's office is not specifically commenting, it is unlikely that hur will releasenscript via a source familiar. however, it doesn't mean biden world won't in some form. >> it was a pretty surprising that the special counsel would state the obvious in writing that joe biden's mental capacity is diminished. we see that play out on a daily basis. >> bill: hur is also under fire from democrats for including information about the president's cognitive abilities. a former u.s. attorney in maryland appointed by then president donald trump. those close to the president, though, they keep insisting over and over that hur crossed the line in this report. >> the special counsel did this in the case, made a conclusion that there is no case, case closed. then made unnecessary and inaccurate personal remarks and those are improper. >> like other special counsels in the past we expect robert hur to testify in public on camera in the coming weeks and months. no timing on that right now. attorney general merrick garland is committed to allowing all the special counsel, all of them,

we don't know what hur asked.me they in the biden influence peddling investigation is the fact that the biden family, specifically the son and brother of the president of the united states,e were selling access to joe biden. and one of these e-mails wasin a dated at a time when hunterr biden wabis trying to prove hiss worth through a certain foreign national after joe biden left t thhee presidency. we know that hunter biden was receiving a huge salary from a ukrainian business. the day joe biden left office they cut his salary in half. the e-mail went out at a time w when hhee was trying to prove hs worth. that's what the biden brand did. any time they were pitching themselves to a foreign government, a foreign national, they would putfo joe on the pho see, we're close with joe. larry: do you think robert huro asked joe biden who else saww these classified documents? for example, i'm just going tolp pick a name randomly, hunter 00. 00. hunterbiden. do you think hunter biden walked into the garage with the classifi

the president coming before the cameras slamming special counsel robert hur's report on his handling of classified documents. hur not seeking charges, but describing the president as a, quote, elderly man with a poor memory. mr. biden hitting back. >> and my memory is fine. >>> and vice president kamala harris today also blasting the report. what she said in defense of the president. >>> also tonight, the deadly plane crash in hawaii. >>> the shooting in times square in new york. the nypd saying a 15-year-old wounded a tourist and fired at a police officer in the heart of manhattan. the arrest tonight. >>> the urgent manhunt in tennessee. a deputy fatally shot. the armed and dangerous suspect on the loose. >>> the dramatic video of the first tornado on record to hit wisconsin in february. >>> israel ordering an evacuation ahead of an expected invasion in the gaza city of rafah. and president biden's sharpest rebuke yet of israel's offensive. >>> the military naming the five u.s. marines killed in a a helicopter crash. what we're learning. a house divided. and taylor swift right in th

hur not seeking charges, but describing the president as a, quote, elderly man with a poor memory. mr. biden hitting back >> and my memory is fine. >>> and vice president kamala harris today also blasting the report. what she said in defense of the president. >>> also tonight, the deadly plane crash on the highway in florida. the plane colliding with at least one vehicle. >>> the shooting in times square in new york the nypd saying a 15-year-old wounded a tourist then fired at a police officer in the heart of manhattan. the arrest tonight >>> the urgent manhunt in tennessee a deputy fatally shot. the armed and dangerous suspect on the loose. >>> the dramatic video of the first tornado on record to hit wisconsin in february. >>> israel ordering an evacuation ahead of an expected invasion in the gaza city of rafah, and president biden's sharpest rebuke yet of israel's offensive. >>> the military naming the five u.s. marines killed in a helicopter crash what we're learning. >>> and her dad's a niners fan, but she's rooting for travis and taylor a house divided just two days from the s

as a matter of fact, rubert hur caught biden in a trap.ated biden's improper storage of classified documents in the garage of his delaware home. this is the famous story about boxes that lie next to his rare corvette, these boxes contain material that has been accumulated over many years. the years that biden first served as a senator from the cause of faith, and then as vice president of the united states. the special prosecutor needed to summarize whether biden was liable in this case, if biden himself was not liable, then were the people who were partly to blame for keeping the documents in this way liable? robert hur gracefully came out of the situation, he said that biden cannot be tried and investigated to the fullest extent, he can’t even... be called to a jury for the reason that biden is an elderly man with a poor memory, this is precisely the wording spelled out in black and white in the report of special prosecutor hur. during his testimony in the case of mishandling of classified documents, joe biden could not remember when he

hur found they were handled inappropriately by biden. we will follow that this summer.t to have you. thank you. up next republicans making end roads with strong democratic supports, gaining support from black and hispanic voters. is there panic in the democratic party after a tough week for the president next. she lifts her calf to its first breath of air, and then protects it on their long journey. one of the most important things you can do is help the next generation. protect the ones you love with pacific life's trusted financial solutions. talk to a financial professional about life insurance and retirement income with pacific life. vo: if you're buzzed and doing this... to make yourself feel okay to drive... man: z-w-x. vo: you're not okay to drive. man: y-g-k-l-v-w...regular u. >> big news here is there is a special counsel appointed to investigate president biden and it exonerated him. >> it is clear after reading this report they have chosen to weapon weaponize justice department against president trump and protect joe biden. >> shannon: democrats and republica

with that, hur, a former u.s.orney once appointed by trump said, case closed, george. >> pierre tom marques thanks. bring in mary bruce. mary, the president angry last night. >> reporter: in fact, george, i don't recall the last time i saw the president this angry. biden furious and frustrated, ripping into the special counsel for questioning his memory and recall in this hastily arranged press event. the president doing a little damage control as his legal exoneration threatens to become a political liability. overnight president biden defending his handling of classified information and his memory, firing back at special counsel robert hur after he declined to prosecute the president, but raised questions about biden's mental acuity. >> they're tasked with making a decision about whether to move forward with charges in this case for any extraneous commentary they don't know what they're talking about. >> reporter: biden, well aware his age is a top concern for voters, defending himself. >> do you think your memo

a lot of democrats were upset that hur wrote that and that garland appointed special counsel hur, and i want to read this from politico. joe biden has told aides and outside advisers that attorney general garland did not do enough to reign in. and diminished mental faculties. hur's explanation for not bringing charges that biden would have persuaded the jury there was a forgettable event, and then infuriated the white house also leaks coming from the white house that garland will not be back for a second term, a second biden term should there be one. >> understand not inviting someone back for a second term when they already have the job means they are threatening to fire the attorney general of the united states because he's not doing enough to interfere in the special independent counsel helping joe biden get re-elected. that's what's happening. this alarming. i was under the impression that meddling is a major problem. >> do you have any problems? >> i think merrick garland is a person of integrity. i don't think he should be undermined. it's common for people to have different cab

robert hur set to testify on march 12, will tell you about the letter the d.o.j.t to the white house. as the fbi indicts a longtime trusted informant claiming he gave false information to the agency when he saying about ukraine's burisma $5 million obese, is it a message to other whistleblowers wanting to come forward were breaking down the timing of the announcement, joining the conversation montesquieu group founder john lonski and candidate and gop strategist joe pinion and fox business cheryl casone. "mornings with maria" is live right now. ♪. maria: time for the hot topic of hour robert hur is set to testify on capitol hill over the investigation of president biden's mishandling of classified documents. he will appear before the house judiciary on march 12, the day before the report was made public the white house counsel wrote to merrick garland slamming the way president biden was characterizing the special counsel report saying that robert hur latently violated the justice department's own policies the department of justice responding same robert hur's rep

last night you tweeted that hur, a lifelong republican and creature of d.c.n't have a case against biden but that he knew exactly how his swipes could hurt biden politically. can you expand on that? >> yeah, look, ana, i think it is very clear what the special counsel decided here. he didn't have enough to charge the president, but he's a republican and felt the need to take some political shots. i think this stuff about the president's son is completely out of bounds and weird to be in the report. i agree with tristan, it's not the same thing as donald trump, and yet, the special counsel makes an effort to malign the president and to go after him on really personal things that have nothing to do with what his task was. so it just becomes a political document that's going to be out there like everything else, but it is light years different than the 91 counts donald trump is facing. i think voters need to remember that. >> i guess that's the question. do voters recognize that, or do voters see what they want to see? >> well, voters are going to be able to see

then, former director of national intelligence john ratcliff on what special counsel hur really saidassified documents and why the u.s.' adversaries are exploiting biden's a weakness from china to iran and beyond with. plus, heads are beginning to roll in the republican party with 268 days until next day as president trump seeks the gop if presidential nomination. republican donor and new york jets owner woody johnson on the shake-up underway on this super bowl stunned. -- sunday as a some republican senators are calling for mitch mcconnell to step down after no border security was put in place despite billions of dollars additionally expected to go to ukraine. utah senator mike lee on the botched senate border deal and mitch mcconnell's future leading the senate. the fallout coming up. it's all a right here, right now on "sunday morning futures." ♪ ♪ b. maria: we begin with special counsel robert hur telling attorney general merrick garreland he will not recommend charges against biden from his time as a vice president largely because he is too feeble to prosecute, and an elderly ma

rob hur did what jack smith should have been the center cotton.eighed the equities the balance of equities what's the harm to national security and biden have these documents outside of the skiff versus the harm to the trust and confidence in the justice system are perhaps the republic that indicting a former vice president or the sitting president would cause? what's the balance of the defenses the mental acuity are no secret now in hur's report then that willfulness hur would have to prove that a reasonable doubt there is been a point it's on the right that in the report itself it says there is evidence of willfulness by joe biden yes that is true. but hur concluded there is not evidence beyond a reasonable doubt of willfulness there can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt very big distinction with a significant difference. >> former u.s. attorney j town we could talk about this all night we got to say goodbye thank you. >> thanks jon. jon: coming up. >> were not going to make the runway. we lost both engines are going bigger justrelease the car

hur was there to determine whether or not biden had committed a criminal offense. not whether or not the president is senile. why extend beyond this if it's not politically motivated? >> the rationsial for including the judgment on biden's memory was the idea if you put him in front of the jury they would find the same thing hur found, the idea of the well-mean, kindly man. and would probably not convict him of a crime in which show intent, that he deliberately took documents and deliberately broke the classification. there was a rastionale, it's jut the biden team felt this went beyond what was necessary and into punching a bruise, i think is how he would describe it in politics. we know, as you reported, that a really substantial majority of americans have got concerns about biden's age. some of them have concerns about donald trump's age, but actually slightly fewer. i think as i wrote in "the atlantic," there is this incredible bronzed energy that donald trump gives off. he often makes verbal slips, but he seems incredibly energetic with it. and biden's problem

hur is not qualified to make the statements that he made and that the news media is going wild about the man is not a psychiatrist or geriatric md, and his comments i believe were inappropriate. they are his personal beliefs and it really showed. you know, for him to especially call biden on his son's death. i cannot tell you how many times that he has talked about his son's death and how it has impacted his family. just saying. and the supreme court. i am sorry, i do not believe in it anymore. i feel like ginni thomas is the 10th jurist. host: let us hear from president biden from last night when he held a news conference after the report came out. [video clip] >> i was pleased to see that he reached a firm conclusion that no charges should be brought against me in this case. this was an exhaustive investigation going back more than 40 years, even into the 1970's when i was a new senator. the special counsel acknowledge that i cooperated completely. i did not throw up any roadblocks and i sought no delays. i was so determined to give the special counsel what he needed i went forward

now hur is saying i didn't ask him.were talking about timeline and he knew he was getting confused. and he wasn't sure about dates. he knew what day his son died but he didn't know the year. >> steve: exactly. and, brian, to your point, i don't think the tapes will ever be released but now people are starting to leak. and so the truth is leaking out. so if that's all we get, we are getting closer to the truth. >> brian: freedom of information act i think legal experts believe that no one can stop it. >> steve: well, but the question is before the election. let's see. meanwhile, as i started to say, talking about the presidency in 2016, donald trump turned the state of michigan red, first time since 1988. joe biden won michigan by less than 3 points in 2020. now, if there were a rematch today as you can see right now. joe biden is 2 points behind donald trump but, as you can see at the bottom, margin of error is 3. so they are within the margin of error. it's close in michigan. >> ainsley: lawrence? >> lawrence: yeah. i