I'm Virginia Allen and this is the Daily Signal Top News for Thursday, May 16th.

Here are today's headlines. House Republicans want the audio of Special Counsel Robert Hirs interview with President Joe Biden.

You'll remember that her interviewed Biden during his investigation over Biden's handling of classified documents.

Ultimately, her found through his investigation earlier this year that while Biden willfully

retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency.

Her said Biden should not be charged and one of the reasons why her gave that recommendation against charging Biden was that a jury would be unlikely to convict

Biden because of his diminished faculties and advancing age.

GOP lawmakers received a transcript of hers interview with Biden, but not the audio.

And today the Justice Department told House Republicans that Biden had asserted executive privilege over that audio of his interview with her.

House Republicans were reportedly preparing to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress

for refusing to release the audio, but

Biden's decision to use executive privilege over that audio protects Garland.

White House Council Ed Siskel wrote a letter to the GOP

controlled House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

and the Committee on Judiciary today.

In the letter, a Siskel accused the G GOP members of wanting the audio files of Biden to chop them up, distort them, and use them for partisan political purposes.

Representative James Comer is chair of the oversight committee and he responded to the news on X

writing the White House is now asserting executive privilege over the her

audio recordings.

Clearly, the president and advisors fear releasing the recordings because it will reaffirm

that Joe Biden's mental state is in decline.

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