Committees Threaten Contempt for Garland Over Biden Tapes
• House Judiciary and Oversight committees threatened to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt if he does not share audio of Robert Hur's interviews with Biden and his ghostwriter.
• Tapes could bolster or undermine Hur's assessment that Biden's mental decline would prevent conviction for mishandling classified documents.
• Recordings of ghostwriter Mark Zwonitzer could provide more detail on exchanges described in Hur's report.
• Contempt threat could pressure Garland to share tapes, as it did to obtain documents on Biden family bribery allegations.
• Garland would decide whether to prosecute himself if held in contempt; previous attorneys general Eric Holder and William Barr did not prosecute themselves.