Dean Phillips
Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips.
  • Dean Phillips defended Biden after the president responded to Robert Hur's special counsel report.
  • "He is a decent man," the Democratic presidential candidate recently said of Biden on Fox News.
  • But Phillips continued to argue that Biden needed to step aside for a next-generation leader.

Democratic presidential candidate Dean Phillips defended President Joe Biden as a "decent man" after the president angrily pushed back against a special counsel report that questioned his memory.