President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign is looking to remind the American people that sometimes people “forget s**t” after a special counsel report continuously made references to the president’s failing memory‚ one staffer told Politico Playbook. Special counsel Robert Hur released a report into Biden’s handling of classified documents Thursday though he chose not to pursue any criminal charges. During an interview with the counsel‚ Biden forgot when his vice presidency began and ended as...

White House spokesman for oversight and investigations‚ Ian Sams‚ pointed the blame to Republicans for Special Counsel Robert Hur's politically "pressurized" report during a press briefing on Friday. Hur's report into classified documents that were found at President Joe Biden's Delaware home and his Penn Biden Center office in Washington‚ D.C.‚ drummed up criticism from both Republicans and Democrats‚ with Republicans sharing concerns over Biden's memory and Democrats airing their...

The Biden campaign and the White House have landed on an initial strategy for responding to special counsel Robert Hur's report that has spurred questions about the president's fitness to hold office: Attack Hur and the media covering the report. The morning after Biden flashed anger at Hur for what he and other senior advisers argue was an inappropriate and excessive focus on his age‚ Ian Sams‚ a spokesperson for the White House counsel‚ sparred with the press corps for cherry-picking...

By all accounts‚ Russian president Vladimir Putin is obsessed with history. That was apparent in Putin’s two-hour-long interview with former Fox News Channel host Tucker Carlson. Russia’s autocratic president spent the first hour dragging his interlocutor along a languid tour of Russia’s history‚ beginning at the first East Slavic state in 862 and continuing into the modern era‚ with many detours along the way. Just as he did at the outset of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine‚ Putin...