'The less satisfied you are': DOJ rejects GOP’s request for Biden audio — again

'The less satisfied you are': DOJ rejects GOP’s request for Biden audio — again
U.S. Congressman Jim Jordan of Ohio speaking at the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Image via Gage Skidmore.
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House Republicans have — once again — been rejected by the US Department of Justice in their attempt to secure audio from President Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur in his classified documents probe, according to Axios.

Hur concluded that he would not charge the president.

The Justice Department also denied the GOP's request for the audio earlier this month.

READ MORE: DOJ rejects GOP’s request for Biden classified docs interview recordings: report

CNN reported the DOJ wrote that "committees already have all of the transcripts of the interviews they requested from [special counsel Robert] Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents, including the transcripts of interviews with the president and with his ghostwriter, which the department turned over Monday."

Now, per Axios, "House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) has threatened contempt charges against Attorney General Merrick Garland over not releasing the audio."

The news outlet reports Thursday's letter addressed to Jordan and House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer (R-KY) read: "It seems that the more information you receive, the less satisfied you are, and the less justification you have for contempt, the more you rush towards it."

Axios notes, "The audio recording of the interview would likely be used by Republicans to portray the 81-year-old president as too old to do the job four more years."

READ MORE: 'Angry' and 'defensive' Hur accused of using report to trash Biden, get Trump re-elected

The House GOP is working on determining whether or not it will proceed with contempt charges against the attorney general, the news outlet reports.

Axios' report is available at this link.

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