President Joe Biden was the impetus behind his prime-time address regarding special counsel Robert Hur‘s report into his handling of classified documents and his memory.

“It was the president’s idea,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Tuesday. “You saw the president out, do this, make a statement, take questions from all of you because he wanted to do it.”

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