Overview
- Former Domestic Policy Council director Neera Tanden was the first to testify in a closed-door, transcribed interview Tuesday on Capitol Hill.
- Committee Chairman James Comer has scheduled former senior advisor Anthony Bernal for questioning Thursday and plans interviews with Ashley Williams and Annie Tomasini.
- Lawmakers are probing claims that top aides concealed signs of the former president’s cognitive decline and bypassed him on key decisions.
- Dr. Kevin O’Connor, Biden’s former White House physician, refused an initial request and now faces a subpoena to appear before the committee on July 9.
- Biden and his aides insist the president remained fully in charge and note a 2005 Justice Department memo that deems autopen use legal.