President Biden will sit down for an interview with CBS News that will be broadcast just before the Super Bowl kicks off on the network Sunday night.
The recorded interview is slated to run sometime in the 4 p.m. hour, Variety reported. The president will be interviewed by Norah O’Donnell, host of the “CBS Evening News.”
The network said it will release excerpts of the interview during Friday night’s broadcast of “CBS Evening News” and during “Face the Nation” Sunday morning.
CBS’s pregame Super Bowl coverage is scheduled to begin before noon and kickoff between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers is set for 6:30 p.m.
A sit-down interview between the news division of the network broadcasting the Super Bowl and the current president has become somewhat of a tradition in recent years.
Former President Trump was interviewed last year by Fox News host Sean Hannity and used the eight-minute segment to call Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) a “communist” and rip the recent impeachment effort against him.
“There’s a revolution going on in this country, I mean a positive revolution,” Trump told Hannity last February, predicting he would be reelected in November.
NBC News anchor Savannah Guthrie, who interviewed former President Obama for a pre-Super Bowl segment several years ago, told Variety that distilling policy issues for a broad audience such as one that watches the Super Bowl can be a challenge.
“The last thing everyone is thinking about or wanting to talk about is politics,” Guthrie said, adding the goal for a journalist interviewing the president on such a day “is striking the right balance, having the right tone for the context of the day, but you want to do an interview that is helpful, asks some important questions.”