Transcript shows Biden 'fumbled' details in interview with Special Counsel Hur, report says

Transcripts of President Biden’s interviews with former Special Counsel Robert Hur have revealed that he repeatedly told prosecutors that he did not know how classified documents ended up at his home and former Penn Biden Center office in Washington, according to The Associated Press.

“I have no idea,” Biden reportedly said, adding that had he known they were there, he would have returned them to the government.

The president did acknowledge that he intentionally kept his personal diaries -- which officials said contained classified information. Biden insisted were his own property, a claim also asserted by previous presidents and vice presidents, and that he had a right to keep them.

Biden said that he left it to his staff to safeguard classified information that was presented to him, often leaving papers on his desk in heaps for aides to sort through and secure.

“I never asked anybody,” Biden said. He noted that much of his staff had worked with him for years, to the point where they didn't need direction from him. "It just - it just got done. I don’t know. I can’t remember who.”