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Special Counsel Robert Hur will appear on March 12 before the
House Judiciary Committee, which is playing a lead role in the
chamber's impeachment inquiry into Biden, the source said.
Hur, a former U.S. attorney in Maryland during Republican
President Donald Trump's administration, led a 15-month
investigation into Biden's handling of classified documents.
Early this month he issued a report saying he declined to seek
charges against Biden and he would be difficult to convict. Hur
said the president would present himself to a jury as a
"well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."
The Biden administration called the report politically motivated
ahead of the November election. Biden, 81, is seeking a second
term. Trump, 77, is the leading candidate for the Republican
nomination in the race.
Republicans have seized upon the report, saying it demonstrates
an unequal justice system. Trump was indicted in June for
mishandling classified documents.
"A man too incapable of being held accountable for mishandling
classified information is certainly unfit for the Oval Office,"
House Republican leaders said in a statement after the report's
release.
Prosecutors said Trump moved classified documents around his
home in Florida to prevent them from being found and discussed
with his lawyers the possibility of lying to government
officials trying to recover the documents.
(Reporting by Makini Brice; Editing by Cynthia Osterman)
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