evidence: The confrontation creates another election-year flashpoint between Republicans who have threatened Biden and Garland with impeachment and the Democratic administration dismissing the charges as partisan theater. At issue are recordings of the controversial interview that led Special Counsel Robert Hur to report that Biden is a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." [...] Garland appointed Hur to investigate Biden independently. The prosecutor interviewed the president in October about the documents dating to his time as a senator and as vice president. Hur decided not to charge Biden but his report called him a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory." [...] "The American people will not be able to hear why prosecutors felt the President of the United States was in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s words, a quote, elderly man of poor memory," Johnson said. Biden’s decision to withhold the audio of the interviews, the speaker argued, confirms "what the special counsel has found and would likely cause I suppose in his estimation such alarm with the American people."