This week, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address and Special Counsel Robert Hur’s congressional testimony; crime and punishment with the Wren Collective’s Jessica Brand; and Congress’s move to ban the Chinese government from TikTok. Mar-a-Lago employee who helped move classified docs speaks with CNN Adam Serwer for The Atlantic: How …
WASHINGTON — Lawmakers turned a Tuesday hearing on President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump, as a newly released transcript of Biden’s testimony last fall showed that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency. Special counsel Robert Hur, …
Rosenstein is of course no stranger to controversy himself, and he has known Hur for a long time. When he left in early 2021, Maryland’s senators — both Democrats — released a statement saying that “Rob should be proud of his legacy to make Marylanders safer, preserve the rule of law, and uphold the civil rights of all of our …
Lawmakers turned a hearing on President Biden’s handling of classified documents into a proxy battle between the Democratic president and Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Tuesday, as a newly released transcript of Biden’s testimony last fall showed that he repeatedly insisted he never meant to retain classified information after he left the vice presidency. California’s Rep. Tom McClintock called it …
