Biden documents hearing live updates: President was not exonerated, gave ‘inconsistent’ account of report

Former special counsel Robert Hur would not specifically weigh in on whether or not Congress should have access to audio recordings related to his report when pressed by Republican committee Chairman Jim Jordan.

Jordan directly asked Hur: “Is there any reason why you can see why the American people and their representatives in United States Congress should not have access to those tapes?”

But Hur would not say either way, and instead responded by saying that his report did take into account the audio recordings. It was unclear which recordings Hur was referencing; given the way Jordan asked the question, it could have been regarding audio of Biden’s interview with Hur or audio of Biden’s conversations with his ghostwriter.

“Chairman, what I can tell you is that my assessment that went into my conclusions that I described, my report was based not solely on the transcript, it was based on all of the evidence, including the audio recordings,” Hur said.

Jordan then asked Hur again, saying if he thought the audio recordings were “valuable evidence” for his report then “shouldn’t the United States Congress have access to that same information?”

“It is not for me to weigh into what information Congress should or should not have” replied Hur, while reiterating that he believed “the audio recordings were part of the evidence, of course, that I considered in coming to my conclusions.”