Former President Joe Biden early last year dismissed Special Counsel Robert Hur's report that sparked additional concern about his mental acuity, just months after he was interviewed about his mishandling of classified documents.

Axios on Friday released audio from Biden's October 2023 interviews with Hur. In the recordings, Biden seemed to struggle to remember when his son Beau died, when he left office as vice president, what year President Donald Trump was elected to his first term, or why he had classified documents that should not have been in his possession.

The recordings not only showed Biden's memory lapses, but also slurring his words and muttering when speaking to Hur. Transcripts of the interviews — conducted on Oct. 8 and 9 of 2023 — were released on March 12, 2024.

In February 2024, Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy was the first to question Biden about Hur's report on his mental fitness.

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"Something the special counsel said in his report is that one of the reasons you were not charged is because, in his description, you are a ‘well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory,'" Doocy said to Biden at a press conference on Feb. 8, 2024.

Biden responded: "I'm well-meaning and I'm an elderly man and I know what the hell I'm doing. I've been president and I put this country back on its feet. I don't need his recommendation—"

Doocy then asked Biden how bad his memory was and if he could continue as president.

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"My memory is so bad I let you speak," Biden told him.

Hur, who was appointed by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland to investigate Biden's handling of classified documents, said he declined to bring charges against him, in part, because a jury would find him to be a "sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory," despite the acknowledgment that the documents were "willfully" obtained by Biden during his time as vice president and as a senator.

The special counsel's report, in addition to gaffes seen during Biden's public appearances, amplified pressure from Republicans who said he lacked the mental fitness needed to serve as president.

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Democrats and Biden's White House initially criticized Hur for his report, repeatedly insisting he was "sharp" and that the special counsel was politically motivated.

Later in 2024, amid Biden's re-election campaign, Democrats called on him to drop his candidacy over his performance in the June presidential debate against Trump, citing his age and mental acuity. Biden, now 82, ended his presidential campaign in July but finished his term, and his vice president, Kamala Harris, was defeated by Trump in November's general election.

Though new audio recordings released by Axios paint a picture of an elderly man suffering memory loss, rare exchanges showed glimpses into former President Joe Biden's earlier days, and shed light on what could have led to Hur's "sympathetic" characterization and findings related to the investigation.

Biden reminisced during his interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur about a 2011 visit to Mangolia where he claimed to have "embarrassed the hell out of the leader of Mongolia."

"I went to Mongolia and, and great pictures," Biden said. "They were showing — they were doing a what they would do at the time of the invasion of the Mongols into Europe in the 14 — in the 800s. And they — and then show what a normal day was, or how they, how they bivouac."

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He described being "out in the middle of nowhere" and looking up on a hill, seeing a tiny line of a 20-mile horse race between kids under the age of 16 on bareback.

"And you know, there are sumo wrestlers doin' everything they do," Biden said lightheartedly.

He said the leaders walked over to a target with bales of hay a hundred yards away, where locals were practicing their aim.

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"I think — I don't know if it was to embarrass me or to make a point, but I get handed the bow and arrow," Biden said. "I'm not a bad archer. But (indiscernible) where I can pull it back, so I — and pure luck, I hit the goddamn target."

The people in the interview room burst into laughter, to which Biden assured them, "No, I really did."

He went on to describe the scene — "20 bales of hay with a big target in the middle of the bale of hay."

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"And so I didn't mean anything by it, I turned to the prime minister and handed it to him and the poor son-of-a-bitch couldn't pull it back," Biden said.

The room roared with laughter once again.

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"I was like, ‘oh, God,’" Biden said through the cackling.

Hur ultimately decided the former president should not be charged criminally for having classified Obama-era documents after leaving office, describing him as a "sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory."