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Seeing him. of course white house is hiding him. >> laura: a contributor on msnbc says to unleash him. >> this campaign has tried to coral joe biden and keep him out of the public eye and not give him interaction with journalists, maybe that need to change. when hes doing policies and implementing them, that seems to benefit joe biden more not less, maybe a strategy that helps him. >> laura: more joe biden? they wont release audio of the robert hur deal or the full transcript -- they had to, but...

Tapes of his interview with his special counsel, robert hur, given garland was the one who pushed for that. >> do you believe that the attorney general made the right call? >> i dont know enough to have an informed thought on that. i mean, they have the transcript for having six. and so if you want to know what joe biden said at any moment during that interview, you can read it. i guess the concern at the fbi in particular is if we start turning over tapes of interviews, thatll chill future inte...

Biden said at the time, he was careful to focus his criticism on trumps response to the verdict. that seemed like that was the lily pad that the white house would put the president on, which is to say they would leave it to outside surrogates. the campaign itself might use convicted felon and in press releases, which they did friday evening. the first time the president had a public opportunity, monday night, not only did he say it but the white house or the campaign sent out a transcript at of ...

Just wanted to get that out of the way as it relates to merrick garland you know, it is a game and its sad because they are playing a serious game. i mean, when we were in that hearing, where most people only remember the b6 its commentary that was made. one of the people on the committee was talking about how we need to jail the attorney general of the united states. now, juxtapose that with the fact that our hearing was taking place at apm because they skipped out on work that day so that they...

Themselves, but theres a bigger audience at play as we talk about the political spectacle and who youre trying to address by making these points trolley. this was obviously legislative body and their job is to legislate and obviously potentially deter problems in the future. have a bureaucratic solution at the ready. >> but garland challenge the very reason why theyd want allege it had a lead us floods are slated purpose to ab is audio. >> listen to what he said in an exchange about why hearing ...

Anything else that comes from his demeanor as he as he is interviewed youre chuckling, is this something that is a legitimate legislative purpose its dubious, dubious but its a real good political purpose. >> i mean, thats what this is about. they want, as stated, they want the think they want the audio tape and you can make a lot of good a lot of good commercials out of this, you could get a lot of good audio and really bludgeoned joe biden with it. i think thats what this is all about. i mean,...

Public is because special counsel, her concluded that there were issues with bidens memory, right? i mean, thats the reason is that actually, counsel her well, special counsel, her said that he also said in the course of the interview that president biden has a photographic memory and ultimately you have the transcript. >> so if you have issues with his memory or with what he said, you have the traits, would you have the substance of it? the only reason for for the audio is for political partisa...

Intense hearing. garland standing firm, but one of the key race hes since he was there is because republicans want him to release audio of bidens interview with special counsel in the classified documents case. and so far weve got the transcript from the doj thats it. no audio and i know to begin, youve got some new reporting on this tonight. >> yeah. aaron. right now, there is a fight on capitol hill today between merrick garland, the attorney general, and the republicans who want this audio ta...

Whether it comports with the transcript or whether it reveals things about his capacity or his veracity, or anything else that comes from his demeanor as he as he is interviewed congressman, do you think the audio should be released absolutely not. it is a preposterous proposition to say that congress has some legitimate legislative purpose to obtain in the audio when it has the substance of the interview in transcript form, they cannot enumerate any reason for congress not necessarily the media...

Communicated with fani willis or alvin bragg know . the asked weve asked for all those communications months ago, but he says he still ions mon doesnte comm know. >> give us the communications if they exist, if they dont tellunicationsexist, us.l no >> but he wont say, whichh leads anyone with common sense to believeleadit there was communication going on. for example, we know nathaunican wade came up from georgia and had meetings with the white house. the justicom georgad meetinge de january 6 ...