Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) joined Brittany Lewis on "Forbes Newsroom" to discuss President Biden's interview with Special Counsel Hur and the tapes from that event.
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00:00Critics have said that this is either performative or political, and the White House counsel said
00:05this when the Contempt of Congress move was made, quote, the absence of a legitimate need for the
00:10audio recordings lays bare your likely goal to chop them up, distort them and use them for partisan
00:16political purposes. What's your response to that type of criticism? I believe that transparency
00:23is the answer to government, to honesty in government. They're just trying to hide something.
00:29It needs to be it's owned by the public that government. We ought to see it. That is the most
00:33ridiculous argument I think I've ever heard. And I've heard it from these so-called legal scholars
00:39on the left. Look, they got something to hide. Then that's too bad. You elected this president
00:47and now you need to you need to deal with the consequences. And if it's suffer, you suffer.
00:53But again, the public owns those tapes, not Joe Biden, not the Biden family.
00:59The public owns those tapes. We need to see what's on them.