Schiff spars with Hur in heated exchange over report that 'disparaged' Biden: 'That did not happen'

Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff sparred with Special Counsel Robert Hur in a contentious House hearing on Tuesday where the California congressman accused Hur of playing politics with his report on President Biden’s handling of classified documents, which earned pushback from Hur.

"I want to go back to your opening statement in which you said that you did not disparage the president, your report, but of course, you did disparage the president," Schiff told Hur during Tuesday’s hearing.

"You disparaged him in terms you had to know would have a maximal political impact. You understood your report would be public, right?"

"I understood based on comments that the attorney general had made, that he had committed to make as much of my report public, as consistent with legal policy and legal requirements," Hur responded.

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Schiff then suggested that Hur "could have" simply commented on instances where Biden could not remember information about certain documents rather than make a "generalized statement" about his memory, referencing the much talked about section of the report where Hur characterized Biden as an "elderly man with a poor memory."

"Congressman, I could have written my report theoretically in a way that omitted references to the president's memory," Hur explained. "But would have been an incomplete and improper report and that it did not reflect my analysis."

Schiff continued to press Hur and accused him of knowing he would start a "political firestorm" with the language he used to which Hurr said that "politics played no part whatsoever" in the investigation.

"What you did write was deeply prejudicial to the interests of