evidence: Attorney General Merrick Garland on Thursday appointed former federal prosecutor Robert Hur as special counsel to investigate the discovery of classified government records at the private home and office of President Joe Biden. [...] Jean-Pierre refused to answer whether Biden would agree to an interview with the special counsel or his investigators. [...] Biden's lawyer, Richard Sauber, in a statement on Hur's appointment as special counsel, said, "As the President said, he takes classified information and materials seriously, and as we have said, we have cooperated from the moment we informed the [National] Archives that a small number of documents were found, and we will continue to cooperate."