Anchorage Daily News Article RatingAnalysis: Transcript of special counsel interview paints more nuanced portrait of Hur's questions and Biden's responses
Mar 12, 2024 View Original Article
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| " "He was looking for me to make my case as strong as I could, without him having to ask for it or being associated with it, because his concern in this period was he didn't have overwhelming foreign policy experience, Biden added." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| " "It is also the room where, in 1998, President Bill Clinton testified to independent counsel Keeth W. Starr about his role in the Monica Lewinsky scandal." | Negative | -64% Liberal |
| " "But while Biden was largely transparent and cooperative - earning praise from Hur - prosecutors came to suspect that Trump was misleading them and hiding highly sensitive papers, resulting in a criminal case pending in Florida." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| " "I hope not."Hur also thanked Biden for his cooperation and urged him to "put forward your best efforts and really try to get your best recollection" because some of the events took place years earlier." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| " "Biden was asked during the interview about other events on his schedule that day, which included a workout, a meeting with Ricchetti and a lunch at the Four Seasons in Georgetown." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| " "I'm sorry, I thought that you wanted," Biden began." | Positive | 16% Conservative |
| " A Post review of the complete 258-page Hur transcript, which is expected to be provided to Congress on Tuesday morning, paints a more nuanced portrait of the exchanges between Biden and the special counsel." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| " "I ate there all the time," Biden said." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| " "Hur remarked, "Sir, I'd love - I would love, love to hear much more about this, but I do have a few more questions to get through.""You step your foot on the accelerator all the way down until it gets about six, seven grand," Biden continued." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| " Biden said at a news conference the evening that the report was released on Feb. 8." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| " "The date is 4-20-09," Biden says aloud." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| " One of the areas Hur explored was a handwritten memo that Biden sent over Thanksgiving in 2009 to President Barack Obama." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| " One of the areas Hur explored was a handwritten memo that Biden sent over Thanksgiving in 2009 to President Barack Obama." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| " ""He was looking for me to make my case as strong as I could, without him having to ask for it or being associated with it, because his concern in this period was he didn't have overwhelming foreign policy experience," Biden added." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| " Prosecutors also probed how Biden apparently located the memo in February 2017 while working with a ghostwriter on his book, "Promise Me, Dad." | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| " Much of the interview focused on Biden's routines, in how he read over sensitive documents and what he did when he was finished with them." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| " "In the interview, Biden also indicated that he had started thinking about where to locate his presidential library." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| " In several cases, Biden went into minute detail about the design of his home in Wilmington, which the Secret Service asked to be redacted for security reasons." | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| " I have my arm around Lindsey Graham.")" | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| " Hur asked numerous questions about where Biden purchased a particular file cabinet, how certain boxes were packed and when and where they were moved - including, at one point, with top aide Steve Ricchetti showing up with a minivan to transport boxes from the vice president's residence." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| " "Yeah, okay," Biden said." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| " During the interview, Biden repeatedly bragged about his home." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| " ("I just warn you all: Never make one great eulogy because you get asked to do everybody's eulogy," Biden said at one point.)" | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| " In one case, for example, Biden was asked about documents that dated to 2009 but that were being moved in 2021." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| " Biden opened the start of the second day of questioning by rebutting some of the strongest charges that Hur seemed to be pursuing." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| " Instead, Biden's practice was to take contemporaneous notes and often store them away." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| " At the start of the testimony - which took place just after the deadly Oct. 7 attacks in Israel in which Hamas took hundreds of hostages - Hur thanked Biden." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| " The full transcript provides a more complete window into the back and forth between the two men, in which Biden frequently joked with prosecutors in a setting that seemed more chummy than antagonistic." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| " Biden spoke of working "in my pajamas" while at the Naval Observatory, made light of his poor spelling ("If it's spelled right, it's probably not"), and laughed off a photo of him with a onetime ally." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| " "It has nothing to do with the investigation, you'll understand why this is sensitive," Biden said." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| " ""I don't remember," Biden concluded." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| " Biden again ruminated aloud about the years when he was vice president: "Well, if it was 2013 - when did I stop being vice president?"Rachel Cotton, from the White House Counsel's Office, reminded him that it was 2017." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| " "I want to make clear that I didn't keep anything that wasn't - I thought was classified," Biden said." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| " "I'm a young man," Biden joked, "so it's not a problem." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| " "Just allow me to say for a moment, I am so terribly, terribly sorry for your loss," Hur said after Biden first raised the death of his son." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| " "During the interview, Biden repeatedly professed that he had almost no involvement in packing or moving documents." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| " Several business associates of Hunter Biden have testified that around that time frame, Joe Biden dropped by a meeting they were having with Chinese executives at the same hotel." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| " "We may be interrupted by one," Biden said, noting that he had just gotten off the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| " Biden asked Hur." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| " She has implored him to be more like Franklin D. Roosevelt or Ronald Reagan, who would keep daily diaries." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| " "No," Biden responded, before launching into a long explanation of Beau's death and its impact on him deciding not to run for president in 2016." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| " President Biden was in the early stages of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur when the topic of Beau Biden came up - initially with Biden raising it and later as Biden was attempting to get his chronological bearings and wondered aloud when, exactly, it was that his son died." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| " President Biden was in the early stages of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur when the topic of Beau Biden came up - initially with Biden raising it and later as Biden was attempting to get his chronological bearings and wondered aloud when, exactly, it was that his son died." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| " President Biden was in the early stages of his interview with special counsel Robert Hur when the topic of Beau Biden came up - initially with Biden raising it and later as Biden was attempting to get his chronological bearings and wondered aloud when, exactly, it was that his son died." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| " Two others in the room chimed in with the year, and Biden questioned, "Was it 2015 when he died?"Not long after the exchange, Hur suggested they consider taking a brief break." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| " In his report, Hur said there were instances in which Biden could not recall exactly when his vice-presidential tenure began or ended, which was among the reasons he cited as evidence that Biden's memory was "significantly limited."" | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| " In his report, Hur said there were instances in which Biden could not recall exactly when his vice-presidential tenure began or ended, which was among the reasons he cited as evidence that Biden's memory was "significantly limited."" | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| " Hur is expected to testify Tuesday before Congress about his conclusions, which drew anger from Biden as well as his lawyers and advisers over scathing assertions about the president's cognitive abilities." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| " "Biden didn't know it at the time." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| " Biden took particular offense to the inclusion of his son's death in the report, telling reporters, "How the hell dare he raise that?""Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, was it any of their damn business?"" | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| " "The exchange between Biden and Hur has become one of the focal points of a lengthy interview over two days in October that led the special counsel to conclude that Biden would not be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents - in part because Biden's "poor memory" would make it difficult to convince a jury." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| " "The exchange between Biden and Hur has become one of the focal points of a lengthy interview over two days in October that led the special counsel to conclude that Biden would not be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents - in part because Biden's "poor memory" would make it difficult to convince a jury." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| " "The exchange between Biden and Hur has become one of the focal points of a lengthy interview over two days in October that led the special counsel to conclude that Biden would not be prosecuted for mishandling classified documents - in part because Biden's "poor memory" would make it difficult to convince a jury." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| " Biden doesn't come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be - and Hur doesn't appear as crass as Biden has made him out to be." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| " Biden doesn't come across as being as absent-minded as Hur has made him out to be - and Hur doesn't appear as crass as Biden has made him out to be." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| " It is also the room where, in 1998, President Bill Clinton testified to independent counsel Keeth W. Starr about his role in the Monica Lewinsky scandal." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| " Biden and his likely November rival, former president Donald Trump, have each been investigated by special counsels over their alleged mishandling of classified documents." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| " Biden and his likely November rival, former president Donald Trump, have each been investigated by special counsels over their alleged mishandling of classified documents." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| " But while Biden was largely transparent and cooperative - earning praise from Hur - prosecutors came to suspect that Trump was misleading them and hiding highly sensitive papers, resulting in a criminal case pending in Florida." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| " But while Biden was largely transparent and cooperative - earning praise from Hur - prosecutors came to suspect that Trump was misleading them and hiding highly sensitive papers, resulting in a criminal case pending in Florida." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| " Biden had a copy of the memo, he said, because he viewed it as a key piece of evidence showing that he was right to argue within the Obama administration for a drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, a recommendation Obama nonetheless rejected." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| " Biden had a copy of the memo, he said, because he viewed it as a key piece of evidence showing that he was right to argue within the Obama administration for a drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, a recommendation Obama nonetheless rejected." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
| " Biden had a copy of the memo, he said, because he viewed it as a key piece of evidence showing that he was right to argue within the Obama administration for a drawdown of troops in Afghanistan, a recommendation Obama nonetheless rejected." | Negative | -74% Liberal |
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54% : ""He was looking for me to make my case as strong as I could, without him having to ask for it or being associated with it, because his concern in this period was he didn't have overwhelming foreign policy experience," Biden added.18% : It is also the room where, in 1998, President Bill Clinton testified to independent counsel Kenneth W. Starr about his role in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
16% : But while Biden was largely transparent and cooperative - earning praise from Hur - prosecutors came to suspect that Trump was misleading them and hiding highly sensitive papers, resulting in a criminal case pending in Florida.
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