A newly released special attorney interviewed then-special counsel Joe Biden confirmed memories denied by White House officials at the time, including a president's clear efforts to remember the year his eldest son died.

Even after the release transcript, Biden aides, including then-White House spokesman Ian Sams, insisted that the president has not forgotten the year his son Beau died of brain cancer. The audio shows that Biden struggles to remember the year and must be prompted by his lawyers that they are sitting in an interview with him.

The recording of the interview was first published by Axios.

SAMS did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The audio interviewed by Biden to special counsel Robert Hur may inspire debates among Democrats and others on other aspects of whether there is a unanimous effort to mask the president's psychological degradation and whether that will help the party's 2024 defeat in the polls. This is also because several new books provide insight into much knowledge behind the scenes.

Biden conducted more than five hours of interviews in two days in October 2023, as part of the Hur investigation, which was part of a confidential document retained by Biden at his home and office as vice president. Hur later cited the interview, and at the end of the investigation he described Biden as "an elderly, poor memory."

Donald Trump and his Republican allies captured Hur's description of Biden and asked for an audio of his interview.

At the time, General Natane Merrick Garland released a transcript of Biden's interview, but did not publish audio. Garland said at the time that the audio was covered by executive privilege and the White House did not want to release it.

Republicans despise Garland, who refuses to master audio.

News organizations, including NBC News, filed a lawsuit to demand any recordings from Biden and did not resolve the issue before Biden's left office.

About a month after Trump took office, the Justice Department asked the court to consider the issue more time as the new administration is "still installing" in the department, according to a court application.

The judge agreed to the extension and ordered the Justice Department lawyer to submit latest news about the status of the case by May 20.

After confidential documents were found in Biden's home and office, Hur was eavesdropped by Garland for a criminal investigation, concluding that there is evidence that Biden intentionally retained confidential information - a felony. But Hur said he doesn't believe he can win the faith, partly because Biden has a poor memory.

"We also believe that at trial, Mr. Biden may introduce himself to the jury as he did when he interviewed him, as a sympathetic, kind-hearted, elderly person with poor memory," Hur wrote in his report.

Biden's attorneys at the time actively opposed the description, believing that he performed well in a difficult interview and suffered the same memory errors that Witnesses often had. Biden's aides and senior Democrats included such descriptions in their report that did not file the allegations.

Hur's assessment of Biden was disastrously shown in a debate with Trump a few months later. Biden worked hard to complete the thoughts and sentences throughout the debate, which led to his 2024 game exit a few weeks later.