We are now wrapping up our live coverage of the fall-out from the special counsel report on how Joe Biden handled classified documents.

We've heard Democrats and White House officials question why the report addressed his mental fitness. And Republicans have raised issues with Biden's ability to lead and with what he did with the classified information.

You can catch up on the major developments here.

Our coverage team today included Brandon Drenon, Sam Cabral, Brandon Livesay and Lisa Lambert.

It's been a day of political fallout for President Joe Biden, after a report into how he handled classified documents raised concerns about his age and memory.

Here's a recap of what's happened today:

• Democrats have defended Biden, with Vice President Kamala Harris calling remarks in the report about Biden's mental capacity "gratuitous" and "innacurate"
• White House Counsel Office spokesman Ian Sams also frequently used the word gratuitous during a White House briefing to describe the language used in the report, questioning why it was included
• At that same briefing, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre frequently defended Biden's ability to lead and respond to multiple questions about Biden's age
• Biden's gaffe on Thursday night, confusing Egypt and Mexico's leaders, has made headlines across Latin America and the Middle East

Anthony Zurcher
BBC North America correspondent

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Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy, once one of the most powerful Republicans in the country, was at the Trump Nevada Republican Caucus victory party in Las Vegas last night – in town, he says, to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday.

That didn’t stop him from talking to the gathered press after Donald Trump’s speech and taking a few swipes at Joe Biden, with whom he negotiated while leading the House of Representatives.

I asked how he would characterise Biden’s mental fitness, and McCarthy went on the attack.

“I question it,” the former speaker said. “I've had personal experience with President Biden, in the White House, when I questioned his capabilities.”

He went on to note Biden’s confusing the leaders of Mexico and Egypt in last night’s press conference, as well as his decision not to make any public appearances in the immediate aftermath of the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.

(In fact, the two days after that attack were when Biden was speaking with Robert Hur about his classified documents investigation - interviews that have become central to the ongoing drama about Biden's ability to remember key events).

John Sudworth
North America Correspondent

Just three miles or so from the White House, in this most Democrat-leaning of cities, the Florida Avenue Grill has a sign commemorating the spot where Dr Martin Luther King sat while planning his 1963 March on Washington.

The diner's neighborhood was once predominantly black but is more mixed today. Still, black or white, there’s not a diner here who has a bad word for Biden.

That’s not to say they’re not worried.

“I’ve been listening to the people on the news, and they’re very concerned about him getting up in age and should he, or will he, or can he continue to make the right choices for the world,” Kecia Ramsey tells me.

“I like President Biden but likes don’t give you the right to rule world.”

Andrew Epstein, sitting at the breakfast bar, takes a more pragmatic view.

“We all have concerns about our leader having all of the facilities and so on to do his or her job,” he tells me, “but actually what I’ve found over the years is that it’s also about who the president surrounds themselves with.”

Ultimately, he is the man with the nuclear codes, I point out.

“That’s right,” Andrew replies, “but again he doesn’t sit in a room by himself, right? He’s surrounded by people, and he takes advice, and I believe he’s still fully capable of making those kinds of decisions.”

Democrats get that the headlines about Biden’s memory are not good news and they’re not easy to dismiss. But what bothers some of these customers is a nagging sense of injustice.

Former President Donald Trump appears to be able to turn his legal troubles to political advantage, while a report clearing Joe Biden of legal wrongdoing turns into a political disaster.

“If there’s someone else who can run, perfect. But you’re talking about Biden. What about Trump? Look at his thinking! He’s old too," Angela Harrison tells me.

Pascal Fletcher
Latin American Specialist, BBC Monitoring

President Biden's public mistake in referring to the Egyptian leader Abdul Fattahal-Sisi as the "president of Mexico" on Thursday won him unflattering media headlines across Latin America.

Particularly in Mexico, where debate and controversy over the cross-border problems of migrants and drug-trafficking are raising tensions ahead of key Mexican and US national elections in June and November respectively.

"Biden slips up," Mexican daily Reforma noted in a headline at the bottom of its front page on 9 February.

Daily El Universal fronted on its 9 February print edition the headline: "Biden's memory, under the microscope".

Some of the coverage took on a mocking tone. Mexican business daily El Financiero mentioned Biden confusing al-Sisi with Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador - who is known as AMLO. It ran a headline saying Biden "can't get AMLO out of his head".

The news rippled across Latin America, a region whose love-hate relationship with the superpower means that any signs of problems in the US, its government or political system, are immediately picked up and widely commented on.

"Another Biden slip up," Colombian daily El Colombiano headlined its report.

"Joe Biden assures that his 'memory is very good', but he confuses the president of Egypt with that of Mexico," Peruvian daily Peru21 declared.

"Biden has made many mistakes recently, especially in the last few days. Without having to look very far, on Wednesday night [7 February], he confused the former German chancellor Angela Merkel with her predecessor Helmut Kohl, who died in 2017," leading Argentine daily Clarin reported.

Communist-ruled Cuba's state media, which normally need little excuse to pillory or ridicule US leaders, joined the rest of Latin America in prominently reporting Biden mistakenlycalled Egypt's al-Sisi "the president of Mexico".

Sam Cabral
Reporting from Capitol Hill

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What can Joe Biden do to disprove the claims in the special counsel report?

"Just keep rolling out important programmes, making critical decisions and remain effective with respect to our allies," said Jack Reed, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"The more you succeed as president, the better off you are," the Democrat said.

Reed also shared his thoughts on another news-making moment from last night's White House news conference - the president's claim that Bibi Netanyahu had gone "over the top" in his response to Hamas.

The Israeli PM "hasn't done enough to ensure the basic humanitarian needs of the Palestinian people are met, consistent with the laws of war and international war", Reed said, echoing with Biden.

It's a recurrent aspect of the Democratic response today to the report - dismiss the concerns about their party leader and try to focus on the pressing issues that the president is working on.

Remarks from Vice President Kamala Harris about the report came up repeatedly during the White House briefing.

During a White House meeting on gun violence this morning, Harris was asked about the descriptions of Biden's memory.

Reminding the guests she was once a prosecutor, she said the "way that the president's demeanour in that report was characterised could not be more wrong on the facts".

Exhibit A in her argument was Biden's response to the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel.

Here's what she said:

"It was an intense moment for the Commander in Chief of the United States of America and I was in almost every meeting with the president in the hours and days that followed - countless hours with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the heads of our intelligence community.

And the president was in front of and on top of it all: asking questions, and requiring that America's military and intelligence community and diplomatic community would figure out and know how many people were dead, how many are Americans, how many hostages, is the situation stable.

He was in front of it all, coordinating and directing leaders who are in charge of America's national security, not to mention our allies around the globe, for days and up until now."

She also said that as a former prosecutor she found the special counsel's remarks "gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate" and also politically motivated.

Harris served as California's attorney general - the top prosecutor in the state - from 2004 to 2010.

Sam Cabral
Reporting from Capitol Hill

The special counsel report continues to be a major topic of conversation on Capitol Hill.

It is fueling the growing perception that Joe Biden is not up to the job of president, according to North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis.

"He's trying to do his best and his best is beginning to concern me," the moderate Republican told me.

"It's not a cheap shot. I don't care if you're 78 or 178. If you're going to be the leader of the free world, you've got to be on your game 100% 24/7/365. And I think it's a serious question as to whether or not the president is capable today, and will be capable a year from now and four years from now."

I asked if Biden could do anything to dispel his concerns.

"He can show up at one press conference and not make serious gaffes," he replied. "Yes he makes gaffes, but if you're mindful of the fact that you're making gaffes, you need to be on top of your game."

Tillis also took issue with Special Counsel Robert Hur's findings that the president shared classified information with a ghostwriter not authorized to view it, "something that other people have gone to prison for."

"We've got a former president running for office who's going through a similar trial," he said, referring to Trump.

"For the American people, how can you judge something that was irresponsible and illegal? I don't know how you can, on one hand, absolve President Biden and not assume you have the same result for President Trump."

At the briefing that just ended a reporter mentioned that Nikki Haley previously asked for Biden to take a mental competency test.

Jean-Pierre responded that she's "not a medical doctor" and doesn't plan to "opine" on "anything of that nature".

To assauge the age concerns - and questioning - she recalled a conversation she had with one of Biden's doctors last year.

Jean-Pierre said the doctor told her that "because of the president's actions every day and what he deals with ... that shows that the president is very much active and understands what's going on".

Just before the White House briefing ended, Fox News journalist Peter Doocey asked how the president can be trusted to run the country and be in control of the nuclear arsenal.

He brings up a line from the special counsel's report which said Biden's memory "appeared to have significant limitations".

Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre is firm in her response.

"I'm going to be very clear here... that part of the report does not live in reality," she says.

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That's it from the White House. They've wrapped up the daily briefing, which focused heavily on the special counsel report into Joe Biden.

White House Counsel’s Office spokesman Ian Sams took the brunt of the reporter's questions.

Stick with us, we'll bring you more analysis and updates shortly

Jean-Pierre is asked if there was any plans for Biden to engage more with the media after criticisms of his age.

She says: "We're going to find many different ways to engage with the press".

"He literally took questions from all of you three times this week," she said.

The press secretary's frustrations with the same questions about Biden's age are beginning to show.

Another question about Biden's age came soon after.

Jean-Pierre says Biden has joked about his age and is aware of the public's perception.

"He jokes about it all the time," she said, before quickly pivoting.

"I think the other thing that we want to make sure that you all understand is that this is a president that also has delivered for the American people. That is a fact."

When asked about Biden's recent gaffe on Thursday, mistakenly calling Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi the president of Mexico, Karine wrote it off as a common mistake.

She said Biden has misspoken at times and points to instances where many others have also accidently said the wrong thing.

"[Biden] has misspoken. So many of us do," Jean-Pierre said, adding that House Speaker Mike Johnson flubbed recently and said Iran when he meant Israel.

"It happens. It truly truly happens," she said.

She also said that Biden spoke in detail about the Middle East on Thursday, gaffe-free, but that Twitter wasn't interested in that.

Karine Jean-Pierre has just been asked about Biden's age for the umpteenth time.

She's unable to avoid the topic, despite her best effort, and has instead moved to his defence.

Jean-Pierre says there were things in the report about his memory "that we don't believe live in reality".

She says the president knows "what's going on around the kitchen table" and has acknowledged the public's concern about his age and even made jokes about it.

"I've known this president since 2009," she says, adding that everyone in the White House knows how hard Biden works and how "mentally sharp" he is.

There was a moment of levity right before Sams left the press briefing when a reporter asked him to confirm he was not lawyer.

He replied: "That's correct. I'm a spokesperson."

The reporter then asked: "Okay. Any chance that we'll get the White House counsel to come out here and answer our questions?"

Sams cracked a smile.

"Should be offended by that? I mean, come on," Sams said. "I was asked to come here today by your colleagues at the press corps."

Ian Sams has now finished speaking. Karine Jean-Pierre is back up.

Reporters are pressing on about questions regarding Biden's age and the report as she tries to focus on the Israel-Gaza war, Hamas - anything but the report and Biden's age.

Ian Sams, from the White House Counsel Office, is being repeatedly asked by reporters whether the White House believes the report is politically motivated.

The questioning comes after comments made by Kamala Harris earlier on Friday who said plainly comments on Biden's mental acuity were politically motivated.

Robert Hur, the Special Counsel who led the investigation into Biden, is a Donald Trump appointee.

"I saw the vice president's remarks I thought they were very powerful," Sams says.

He does not endorse Harris' position, but says: "It leaves one to wonder exactly why [Hur] included a lot of the criticisms that were in there."

"To suggest that he couldn't remember when his son died is really out of bounds," Sams says.

President Biden appeared particularly outraged last night in response to accusations in the report that he could not remember when his son Beau Biden died during questioning in the investigation.

Robert Hur - who wrote the report - mentioned this alleged lapse as evidence that Biden is "an elderly man with a poor memory".

When asked how concerned Biden and the White House are with the recent report, Sams says: "I think the public is smart. And I think that they can see what's going on.

"I think that they see a president who fully cooperated. I think they see a president who did the right thing and made sure everything got back."

The White House is repeatedly drawing a contrast between how Biden responded to requests from the FBI for the classified documents and how former President Donald Trump handled similar requests. Trump has been accused of resisting turning over documents he kept at Mar-a-Lago and of trying to sabotage the FBI's investigation.