Former President Joe Biden's speech is marked with long pauses and a halting delivery in a recording of his interview about classified documents released Friday.

Audio of then-President Joe Biden’s interview with special counsel Robert Hur in the now-closed probe over Biden’s handling of classified documents was published by Axios on Saturday.

Republicans have long sought to make public a recording of the 2023 interview, arguing that it might offer evidence of a decline in Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s mental acuity.