Quote:WASHINGTON — Attorneys for President Joe Biden and the special counsel appointed to investigate his handling of classified documents have been negotiating for about a month over the terms under which he would be interviewed, two people familiar with the matter said.

Discussions between Biden’s lawyers and special counsel Robert Hur’s office are focused on how, when and where the interview might take place, as well as the scope of the questions, these people said. They stressed that the negotiations are ongoing and that no agreement has been reached.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna99360

Quote:WASHINGTON — President Biden on Friday denied a report that special counsel Robert Hur is seeking to interview him as part of an investigation into Biden’s alleged mishandling of classified documents.

“There’s no such request and no such interest,” Biden told reporters after emerging from a Pilates class in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., near where he is vacationing at billionaire Tom Steyer’s lakefront home.

NBC News reported earlier this month that Hur’s office and attorneys for the president had been negotiating for about a month on the terms of a possible interview. ...

An interview could open the 80-year-old president, who is prone to telling embellished or wholly inaccurate stories in public, to significant legal and political peril.

Lying to federal agents is itself a crime punishable by up to five years in prison, and could even be used to justify articles of impeachment — as happened after then-President Bill Clinton said untruthfully in a 1998 legal deposition that he never had “sexual relations” with White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

https://nypost.com/2023/08/25/biden-denies-special-counsel-robert-hur-seeking-classified-docs-interview/