Hello from CNN, I'm Joe Beck, with the five things you need to know for Friday, February 9th.

So President Joe Biden won't face charges over how he handled classified documents, but he's still not happy with Special

Council Robert Hirs report.

For any extraneous commentary, they don't know what they're talking about.

It has no place in this report. The bottom line is a matter is now closed.

Her says Biden did have top secret files from his time as vice president and even shared some

information with a ghost writer.

He's not prosecuting though because he says they wouldn't be able to prove Biden was trying to

break the law and because he thinks the jury could see the president as a quote

sympathetic well-meaning elderly man with poor memory.

Pundits say that's a huge blow to Biden's 2024 campaign.

Given that it's exactly the image the 81-year-old has repeatedly tried to shake, and it plays right into

Republicans' hands.

My memory is fine.

My memory, take a look at what I've done since I've become president.

Biden didn't hold back in an address responding to the claims, but the effort

was undermined slightly by him later mixing up his words and describing Egypt's

leader as the president of Mexico.

The Senate is set to work through the weekend as lawmakers try to pass a more than 95 billion dollar

spending bill for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan.

The final passage of the bill is likely to happen on Tuesday or Wednesday, but there are a

complicated series of floor votes to come over the next few days.

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