White Home Declines CBS Information Request For Joe Biden Tremendous Bowl Interview – Deadline

UPDATED: The White Home has declined CBS Information‘ request for a sit down interview with President Joe Biden tied to the Tremendous Bowl, the community confirmed.

It will mark the second yr in a row that the White Home has bypassed an interview with the Tremendous Bowl host community, which had change into annual custom for administrations on condition that the occasion reaches such an enormous viewers. CBS has the rights to the Feb. 11 occasion between the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers.

Final yr, the White Home declined a Fox Information request for an interview when Fox had the rights to the massive sport. Selection first reported on the declined request.

A White Home official confirmed that the request was turned down. However the administration has not given a cause as to why. Biden has been within the midst of the disaster within the Center East, because the U.S. launched retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria on militia teams which are linked to Iran.

One supply acquainted with the discussions stated that CBS provided a 15 minute interview throughout their information platforms, one thing usually provided by all networks at any time, however solely three or 4 minutes of that might be throughout Tremendous Bowl protection.

That stated, the choice to forgo a Tremendous Bowl interview is a shock, on condition that it will present the president with elevated publicity throughout an election yr. Biden beforehand sat down for interviews with NBC Information’ Lester Holt in 2022 and with CBS Information’ Norah O’Donnell in 2021. Each interviews have been featured within the Tremendous Bowl pre-game for about 4 to 5 minutes. The president was interviewed final October by 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, for a phase on the published that ran for simply over 13 minutes.

Whereas there was a convention of presidents sitting for information division interviews with the host community of the Tremendous Bowl, relationship again to Barack Obama’s chat with Matt Lauer in 2009, Biden just isn’t the primary to interrupt with the sample. Donald Trump declined an NBC Information interview request in 2018.

It’s unclear who the CBS Information had pitched to do the interview. Final yr, Fox Information provided Bret Baier or Shannon Bream to interview the president. The White Home as a substitute introduced that it will be doing an interview with Fox Soul, one other entity of Fox Corp., though that was in the end canceled.

Biden is on his option to Los Angeles immediately for a go to that features a assembly with Black leaders within the leisure enterprise. Biden’s son, Hunter, lives in Los Angeles, though it was not clear if the president will see him throughout the go to.

Talking to marketing campaign staffers in Wilmington, DE, immediately, Biden stated, “I’m feeling good about the place we’re. I actually am. People are beginning to focus in, and the man we’re operating in opposition to, he’s not for something. He’s in opposition to every thing. It’s the weirdest marketing campaign I’ve ever been in.”