Joe Biden is set to give his first television interview as president before the Super Bowl on Sunday (February 7).
The interview with CBS News will be broadcast ahead of the game and will feature the president being interviewed by the channel's Evening News anchor Norah O'Donnell.
As per the Hollywood Reporter, excerpts from the interview will also be broadcast during Friday's edition of the evening newscast, and again on the Sunday morning during the public affairs show Face the Nation.
The interview will air as part of the Super Bowl pregame coverage at during the 4 p.m. ET hour on CBS.
In the video below, President Biden delivers his inaugural address:President Obama began the tradition of giving a pre-Super Bowl interview in a bid to reach the millions of Americans who may not regularly watch traditional news broadcasts.
President Trump continued the tradition by giving pre-Super Bowl interviews to Fox in 2017 and 2020 and to CBS in 2019, however, he skipped 2018 when the broadcaster was NBC.
As is typical for the network with rights to the game, there will be extensive coverage from Tampa, Florida, featuring Super Bowl Today host and CBS News special correspondent James Brown and CBS News correspondents Mark Strassmann and Jamie Yuccas.
The coverage will also include information about the Covid protocols in place at the stadium as well as a reflection on the 30th anniversary of Whitney Houston's performance of the Star-Spangled Banner at Super Bowl XXV.
Sunday's much-anticipated Super Bowl will feature the Kansas City Chiefs going head to head against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
The interview will come after President Biden signed three executive orders on immigration to "undo the moral shame" of the Trump administration.
The Independent reported that the new orders will include measures to help reunite families who were separated at the US-Mexico border and a review of the Trump administration's policy on US asylum.
The president said his order will "work to undo the moral and national shame of family separations" by forming a task force to reunite the families who were separated at the US-Mexico border under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" policy.
