‘That’s Absurd’: AG Garland Rejects Criticism that He Should Have Blocked Hur’s Language About Biden’s Memory

DILANIAN: “Did you think that that was appropriate, the language that he used to characterize the president’s mental state?”

Garland: “Look, they — I said from the very beginning that I would make public the report of the special — of all the special counsels appointed during a period of my service. That is consistent with the regulation, which requires a special counsel to explain what the special counsel’s decisions are. The idea that an attorney general would edit or redact or censor the special counsel’s explanation for why the special counsel reached the decision that special counsel did? That’s absurd.”