Day 2 of the White House's damage-control plan defending President Biden's fitness for office called for a coordinated attack on special counsel Robert Hur.

Why it matters: Biden's team scrambled to counter Hur's report that called the president an "elderly man with a poor memory" — and aides rushed to defend Biden's performance at a late-night press conference that left even some Democrats thinking Hur had a point.

• Biden officials — led by Vice President Kamala Harris — questioned Hur's motives, echoing Biden's anger that Hur's zinger about Biden's memory overshadowed Hur's decision not to charge the president over his handling of classified documents.
• Harris, assuming a traditional vice presidential role of attacking the president's opponents, said Hur's assessment of Biden's mental abilities were "gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate."