Live updates: Democrats rip special counsel over Biden documents probe

• Democratic lawmakers slammed Special Counsel Robert Hur for assessing President Joe Biden's mental state during his investigation of Biden's retention of classified documents after he was vice president.
• Hur in testimony to Congress said he could not determine whether Biden retained or disclosed national defense information willfully without assessing the president's memory.
• Hur also explained to the House Judiciary Committee his rationale for not filing criminal charges against Biden.
• Former President Donald Trump was criminally charged in Florida federal court for retaining classified documents after leaving the White House, and for allegedly trying to thwart their recovery by government officials.

Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday slammed Special Counsel Robert Hur for assessing President Joe Biden's mental state during his investigation of Biden's retention of classified documents after he was vice president.

"You cannot tell me you're so naive as to think your words would not have created a political firestorm," Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., told Hur as the special counsel testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing.

Another Democrat on the committee, Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia, told Hur, "You're doing everything you can do to get President [Donald] Trump reelected so that you can get appointed as a federal judge or perhaps to another position in the Department of Justice."

Hur replied that he had "no such aspirations."

But the prosecutor declined to pledge not to accept a future appointment from Trump when asked by Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif.

"I'm not here to testify today about what will happen in the future," Hur told Swalwell.

Hur defended his controversial decision to assess the "memory and overall mental