🔵 Biden-Hur Audio Leaked

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Citizen Frank
May 17, 2025

Good evening. It’s Friday, May 16.

 

Audio of former President Joe Biden‘s October 2023 interview with special counsel Robert Hur was leaked Friday, revealing more insight into the ex-president’s memory lapses about important information.

During the interview Hur conducted for the investigation into Biden’s handling of classified documents, Biden struggled to remember key dates, including when his son Beau Biden died and when President Donald Trump was first elected, and he trailed off topic when recalling past memories.

The audio recordings were published by Axios on Friday. However, transcripts of the interviews were made public just weeks after Hur’s report came out early last year. The audio provides a deeper look into how Biden struggled through his interviews with Hur, in which his lawyers had to assist the then-president in remembering key dates and keeping him on topic.

Moody’s Ratings cut the United States’ sovereign credit rating down one notch to Aa1 from Aaa, the highest possible, citing the growing burden of financing the federal government’s budget deficit and the rising cost of rolling over existing debt amid high interest rates.

“This one-notch downgrade on our 21-notch rating scale reflects the increase over more than a decade in government debt and interest payment ratios to levels that are significantly higher than similarly rated sovereigns,” the rating agency said in a statement.

The decision to lower the United States credit profile would be expected, at the margin, to lift the yield that investors demand in order to buy U.S. Treasury debt to reflect more risk, and could dampen sentiment toward owning U.S. assets, including stocks. That said, all the major credit rating agencies continue to give the United States their second-highest available rating.

The Supreme Court on Friday granted a request by Venezuelan nationals seeking to block their removal from the United States under the Alien Enemies Act.

In a 7-2 decision, the court said the Trump administration had not given the detainees enough time or adequate resources to challenge their deportations.

“Under these circumstances, notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest that removal, surely does not pass muster,” the ruling said.

The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.

The plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libya’s leadership, two people with direct knowledge of the plans and a former U.S. official said.

In exchange for the resettling of Palestinians, the administration would potentially release to Libya billions of dollars of funds that the U.S. froze more than a decade ago, those three people said.

Former FBI Director James Comey is expected to meet face to face with U.S. Secret Service officials in Washington, D.C., for an interview about his “86 47” post, two sources briefed on the meeting told Fox News.

Comey is under investigation for an Instagram post showing seashells arranged on a beach to read “86 47.”

“Cool shell formation on my beach walk,” he wrote in the since-deleted Thursday post. Some have interpreted the post to mean “86” – get rid of – “47” – Donald Trump, the 47th president.

Newly released video shows the moment nearly a dozen inmates fled from a New Orleans jail in a brazen escape early Friday.

Video cameras captured 10 inmates breaking out of a cell and running from the facility, before the group scaled a fence, using blankets to protect themselves from barbed wire, and ran across an interstate to a nearby neighborhood where they changed clothes.

Officials said the video feed was not being actively monitored at the time, but it was reviewed after the inmates were discovered missing hours later.

The U.S.-born pontiff delivered an address Friday to the Vatican diplomatic corps where he affirmed that marriage is between a man and a woman, and emphasized the dignity of unborn children and the elderly.

“It is the responsibility of government leaders to work to build harmonious and peaceful civil societies. This can be achieved above all by investing in the family, founded upon the stable union between a man and a woman, ‘a small but genuine society, and prior to all civil society,’” Pope Leo XIV said, with a reference to Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum encyclical.

“In addition, no one is exempted from striving to ensure respect for the dignity of every person, especially the most frail and vulnerable, from the unborn to the elderly, from the sick to the unemployed, citizens and immigrants alike,” the Holy Father added, echoing his predecessor, the late Pope Francis. He also noted his own personal story as a descendant of immigrants who chose to emigrate to the U.S.

The Federal Reserve system plans to reduce its staff count by 10% over the coming years, primarily through attrition, its leader told employees in an internal memo Friday.

The Fed is structured to be independent from the executive branch, but the nation’s central bank is taking cues from the anti-bureaucracy political winds in Washington.

The staff reductions will apply to both the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, with about 3,000 employees, and the 12 reserve banks scattered around the country, with another 21,000 staff.

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