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.
President Joe Biden speaks at a memorial service to honor law enforcement officers who've lost their lives in the past year, during National Police Week ceremonies at the Capitol in Washington on Wednesday.
Biden is struggling in Pa. — even with his base — as voters prefer Trump on major issues. Here are takeaways from a new Inquirer/NYT/Siena poll. Assistant Attorney General Carlos Felipe Uriarte urged lawmakers not to proceed with the contempt effort to avoid “unnecessary and unwarranted conflict.” “It is the longstanding position of the executive branch held by administrations of both parties that an official who asserts the president's claim of executive privilege cannot be held in contempt of Congress,” Uriarte wrote.
White House Counsel Ed Siskel wrote in a separate, scathing letter to Congress on Thursday that lawmakers' effort to obtain the recording was absent any legitimate purpose and lays bare their likely goal —"to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes.
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