A funny thing happened on the way to wall-to-wall coverage of the Supreme Court hearing on Colorado’s decision to disqualify former President Donald Trump on 14th Amendment grounds: Special Counsel Robert Hur published his office’s report on the investigation of President Joe Biden’s handling of classified documents‚ and bedlam ensued. Special counsel Robert Hur’s report bumped the Supreme Court hearing as the top story across the dial. Each of the networks differed slightly in their approaches‚ but ended up in the same place: using the report’s explosive comments on Biden’s mental acuity in order to distract from contradictions between Biden’s statements and the report‚ with a dash of “what about Trump”. Most emblematic of the coverage is NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt’s introduction to the story filed by senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez: LESTER HOLT: No criminal charges‚ but at the same time‚ little to celebrate for President Biden today‚ after a special counsel investigation found he willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after leaving the vice presidency. A scathing report centered on documents‚ some classified as top secret‚ found in Mr. Biden's home and former office that special counsel Robert Hur said presents serious risk to national security but raising serious questions about the president's recall‚ saying his memory was significantly limited in interviews with investigators. Tonight the president says he cooperated completely‚ threw up no roadblocks‚ and sought no delays. The special counsel‚ meantime‚ drawing a sharp distinction between the president's document troubles and the criminal documents case pending against former President Trump. The controversy providing another split screen moment in the race for president on the day the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over whether Donald Trump belongs on the Colorado ballot. Always and at all times‚ as I’ve often said‚ the truest and purest victim of the news cycle on any given day is the electoral prospects of Joe Biden. Today was no different. Every report featured some type of reaction‚ either from the White House or the Biden campaign‚ to the age and mental acuity portions of the report. Most notably‚ ABC’s Mary Bruce: MARY BRUCE: Look‚ the White House is well aware of voters' concerns about the president's age‚ and they are pushing back against the special counsel's characterization. Biden's legal team in a letter saying‚ quote‚ “We do not believe that the report's treatment of President Biden's memory is accurate or appropriate. The report uses highly prejudicial language to describe a commonplace occurrence among witnesses: a lack of recall of years-old events. Such comments have no place in a Department of Justice report.” Then adding‚ “In fact‚ there is ample evidence from your interview that the president did well in answering your questions about years-old events over the course of five hours.” Bottom line‚ while this report legally clears the president‚ politically‚ David‚ this could still be damaging.  Everyone mentioned classified reports‚ but the greatest amount of detail as to the scope of that information came from CBS’s Catherine Herridge: CATHERINE HERRIDGE: The records included documents marked classified‚ as well as Mr. Biden's personal notebooks of national security briefings. The records contained highly sensitive intelligence‚ sources and methods‚ military programs and capabilities of foreign terrorist groups. That piece of information alone demolished the narrative that Biden’s documents case is somehow different from Trump’s. We were also reliably told that Biden’s documents were “locked”. Come to find out‚ they were all over the place.  The special counsel’s report cites a recording of Biden acknowledging in 2017 that he had boxes of classified documents‚ which contradicts any narrative of immediate turnover of documents to the National Archives as soon as Biden became aware. The networks did not report this‚ as it demolishes the narrative of this case somehow being different from Trump’s. Emphasis of Biden’s mental woes was the shiny object that allowed the networks to hide this plain contradiction. Even then‚ ABC and CBS were not fulsome in their coverage of the memory aspects of the report. Only NBC mentioned the phrase “diminished capacities”‚ which speaks to Biden’s future ability to perform his duties beyond memory lapses. Overall‚ a very bad day for the White House‚ one which the media could not mitigate despite their level best attempts at firefighting. For the ABC transcript‚ click HERE   For the CBS transcript‚ click HERE  For the NBC transcript‚ click HERE   

Democratic Rep. Dean Phillips of Minnesota‚ who is seeking to challenge President Joe Biden for the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination‚ said that the special counsel report released on Thursday demonstrates that the president cannot remain in office for a second term‚ according to Fox News Digital."It's another sad day for America and particularly for President Biden and his family‚" Phillips told the outlet. "While President Biden 'willfully retained and disclosed classified materials‚' the Special Counsel elected not to prosecute him because a jury would likely not convict a 'well-meaning‚ elderly man with a poor memory.'""The Report simply affirms what most Americans already know‚ that the President cannot continue to serve as our Commander-in-Chief beyond his term ending January 20‚ 2025. Already facing the lowest approval numbers in modern history and losing in each of the key battleground states‚ this Report has all but handed the 2024 election to Donald Trump if Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee — and I invite fellow Democrats to face the truth‚" Phillips noted‚ according to the outlet.The executive summary of the report stated that‚ "Our investigation uncovered evidence that President Biden willfully retained and disclosed classified materials after his vice presidency when he was a private citizen‚" but noted that "we conclude that the evidence does not establish Mr. Biden's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt."Biden has been on a glide path toward easily clinching his party's presidential nod‚ but Phillips has been sounding the alarm."In 2016‚ Joe Biden made the wrong decision by not running‚ and in 2024 he's making the wrong decision by running‚" Phillips recently tweeted. "Compare him at the 2016 convention (link below) to yesterday‚ and then think 5 years into the future…" — (@) Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors‚ sign up for our newsletters‚ and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The full-sized reconstruction of the colossal statue of Constantine that once stood in the Basilica of Maxentius in the Roman Forum has gone on display in the garden of the Villa Caffarelli Garden‚ just behind the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitoline Hill where the surviving fragments of the original statue are exhibited in the entrance courtyard. The original colossus was an acrolith (a composite where the head‚ chest and limbs are made of expensive materials while the hidden structural elements were wood covered with draped clothing) of Constantine seated and enthroned in the style of the cult statue of Jupiter in the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus on the Capitoline. It may have even been reworked from a statue of Jupiter‚ as there is evidence the head was recarved from a figure with a high forehead and a beard into the clean-shaven‚ wavy-banged Constantine. Created between 312 and 315 A.D.‚ the colossus was placed in the western apse of the Basilica Nova‚ also known as the Basilica of Maxentius. After the Fall of Rome‚ the statue was looted for the gilded bronze draped around the body and broken up. Nine pieces of it‚ including the head‚ hand‚ foot and knee‚ were unearthed in 1486 and relocated to the Palazzo dei Conservatori by Michelangelo when he was working on the Capitoline piazza in 1536–1546. A tenth fragment was found in 1951. The reconstruction was a joint collaboration between the Capitoline Superintendency‚ the Fondazione Prada and Factum Foundation for Digital Technology in Preservation. In 2022‚ the Factum Foundation scanned the 10 surviving fragments of the statue in ultra-high resolution and used the data to create a 3D model‚ extrapolating the lost parts from the shape and size of the fragments and from surviving examples of smaller-scale statues of seated and enthroned deities/emperors. Once the model was mapped out‚ the material reconstruction was carried out using resin‚ polyurethane‚ marble powder‚ plaster and gold leaf on an aluminum support to make a light-weight but visually accurate replica of the massive original statue. The finished reconstruction is more than 40 feet high. The new colossus made its debut at the Fondazione Prada in Milan last year. On Tuesday‚ February 6th‚ the Colossus of Constantine was unveiled in Rome. Visitors will be able to see the surviving fragments at the Capitoline Museums then pop over to the beautiful garden of the Villa Caffarelli to see what they looked like before they were fragments.

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