Biden grilled by special counsel investigating classified documents: report

President Joe Biden sat for an interview with Robert Hur, the special counsel investigating classified materials found stored improperly at his office, reportedThe New York Times on Monday.

“The voluntary interview was conducted at the White House over two days, Sunday and Monday, and concluded Monday,” said White House spokesman Ian Sams.

According to Washington reporter Charlie Savage, the interview suggests that Hur is nearing the end of his investigation in to the materials, which were found by lawyers representing Biden mixed into personal documents at a closet in his office at the Penn Biden Center.

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Subsequent Justice Department searches also turned up documents at Biden's private home in Delaware, although there is no publicly known evidence these documents were stolen or deliberately concealed.

Hur was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland around the same time as special counsel Jack Smith, who separately investigated the boxes of classified national defense information stored at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago country club in Palm Beach, Florida.

In that case, Smith found evidence Trump deliberately removed the documents, shared information in them with members of his club, and took steps to conceal them from investigators trying to retrieve them for the National Archives, which led to Trump being indicted on Espionage Act charges. Trump was later hit with a superseding indictment alleging he, his body man Walt Nauta, and maintenance worker Carlos de Oliveira, tried to have subpoenaed security footage destroyed.