Biden invokes executive privilege to shield Hur interview tapes from House
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🗓️ 17 May 2024
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USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen discusses how President Joe Biden invoked executive privilege to keep the recording of his deposition about storing classified documents at his home confidential.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Friday, May 17th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:18.7 | excerpt. Today a look at Biden's use of executive privilege surrounding his deposition on classified documents, |
| 0:29.4 | plus the Texas governor as pardoned a man who killed a Black Lives Matter protester and today marked 70 |
| 0:35.7 | years since the decision that led to the desegregation of schools. |
| 0:41.9 | President Joe Biden invoked executive privilege yesterday to keep the recording of his deposition |
| 0:46.6 | about storing classified documents at his home confidential. |
| 0:50.7 | I caught up with USA Today Justice Department correspondent Bart |
| 0:53.7 | Chanson to learn more. Bart thanks for wrapping on. |
| 0:56.7 | Thanks for having me. So Bart what exactly is that issue here and what did this move |
| 1:00.7 | functionally do? What it really did is block the House where House Republicans have sought to obtain the |
| 1:08.4 | recording from getting it at least for the time being. |
| 1:12.7 | The Justice Department has already released a transcript |
| 1:16.1 | of the recording. |
| 1:17.4 | Special Counsel Robert Herr spoke to President Biden |
| 1:21.1 | for hours in early November about him keeping classified documents |
| 1:26.2 | from his time as vice president at his Delaware home during the four-year |
| 1:30.5 | interim between serving the Obama administration and then |
| 1:34.1 | becoming president himself. Her decided not to press charges against Biden and |
| 1:40.3 | Republicans want to know more about how that decision was made. |
| 1:45.0 | They think that Biden had the documents that he shared them with others such as his ghostwriter. |
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