Good evening. I'm on the Navas. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight

President Biden pushes back at the Special Council's comments on his mental fitness that the White House calls

gratuitous. A climate scientist's million-dollar legal victory shines a light on

conservative attacks on science.

And the father of a Palestinian-American teenager killed in the West Bank remembers his son.

My son was full of life.

A 17 years old, always happy, and smiles.

Never say anything to hurt anybody's feet.

He had dreams, he took all that away from. Welcome to the news hour.

On Thursday, Special Counsel Robert Hur's report concluded that no criminal charges were

warranted against President Biden for his handling

of classified documents.

However, the report made several references to President Biden's age and called his memory

into question. The President shot back last night.

I'm well-meaning and I'm an elderly man and I know what the hell I'm doing. I've been president and I put this

country back on his feet. White House correspondent, Laura Barone Lopez has been following all this and joins me now.

Laura, the president spoke directly to the nation last night about this report and a very heated press conference.

Why?

Sources inside the White House told me that the president felt compelled to respond, that he wanted

to highlight that there were no charges, remind people of that, and point out the differences between the way he handled

his classified documents and the way former President Donald Trump

handled the classified documents. Basically that he cooperated and

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