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Transcripts of President Joe Biden’s two-day interview with Department of Justice investigators reveal that Mr Biden had a much more accurate memory of past events than how it was described in the report released by Special Counsel Robert Hur.

The transcripts of the interviews – conducted on 8 and 9 October of last year – take up 268 pages and show a more detailed picture of Mr Biden’s capabilities than how was written by Mr Hur, the former Trump administration appointee who Attorney General Merrick Garland brought on as a special counsel to investigate how classified documents ended up at Mr Biden’s former Washington, DC office and his Wilmington, Delaware home.

This comes as Mr Hur is set to testify before the House Judiciary Committee today after releasing the scathing and much-criticised report.

On Tuesday, a US House of Representatives committee will also hold a hearing on a three-year unsolved mystery: The 6 January pipe bombs.

During the Capitol riots on 6 January 2021, authorities identified two pipe bombs in Washington DC: one outside the Democratic National Committee (DNC) building, the other outside the Republican National Committee (RNC) building.

Transcripts of President Biden’s two-day interview with Department of Justice investigators shows Mr Biden having far more accurate recall and command of past events than was described in the report authored by Special Counsel Robert Hur.

The transcripts of the interviews, which were conducted on 8 and 9 October of last year, span 268 pages and paint a far more nuanced picture of Mr Biden’s faculties than was depicted by Mr Hur, a former Trump administration appointee who Attorney General