Biden interviewed in special counsel investigation into documents found at his office and home

President Joe Biden has been interviewed by the workplace of particular counsel Robert Hur, who’s overseeing an inquiry associated to the invention of paperwork with classification markings at Mr. Biden’s Wilmington residence and former personal workplace. 

Ian Sams, the spokesman for the White Home counsel’s workplace, mentioned in an announcement that the interview was carried out on the White Home over two days, on Sunday and Monday. It was “concluded Monday,” he mentioned. 

Sams went on to state that the president and White Home are cooperating with the probe. Different questions have been referred to the Justice Division.

Hur is the second particular counsel appointed to supervise an investigation into delicate paperwork, after Jack Smith, was tapped to take over the probe into former President Donald Trump’s dealing with of delicate authorities paperwork.

Lawyer Normal Merrick Garland appointed Hur hours after the White Home confirmed the invention of a second set of paperwork in a storage at Mr. Biden’s Delaware residence. Garland mentioned the federal government first discovered in regards to the preliminary group of paperwork that have been present in an workplace Mr. Biden used upon leaving the vice presidency final November, and the FBI started an evaluation of potential mishandling of categorized data a number of days later. Garland revealed the paperwork in Mr. Biden’s storage have been subsequently found on Dec. 20.

A spokesperson for the president’s private lawyer, Bob Bauer, has declined remark. 

Hur’s workplace additionally declined to remark.

Robert Legare contributed to this report.