President Joe Biden’s top aides decided he should skip the traditional Super Bowl interview last year due to concerns over the political fallout from special counsel Robert Hur’s report, former senior White House adviser Anita Dunn told House investigators on Thursday, according to sources familiar with her testimony.

Dunn, a longtime Democratic strategist and communications aide to Biden, said the team feared that lingering scrutiny over the president’s memory, following Hur’s findings that he was an ‘elderly man with a poor memory,’ would overshadow the high-profile appearance and serve as a distraction, one source close to the House Oversight Committee said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.