THIRD UPDATE, with White House comment:The on-again, off-againJoe BidenSuper Bowlinterview is now in doubt again.
Fox Soul looks forward to interviewing the President for Super Bowl Sunday, Fox Corp. said in a statement.
Fox with the President ahead of the Super Bowl and Fox Corp had the interview cancelled.
President Joe BidenAnna Moneymaker/Getty Images
Fox has since put out a statement indicating the interview was rescheduled, which is inaccurate.
But the White House has not yet completely confirmed the interview, according to a source.
Fox Soul is a digital channel owned by Fox Corp. that is aimed at a Black audience.
It was launched in 2020 by the Fox TV stations group.
But Fox News had intended to have one of its news-side anchors do the interview.
Jean-Pierre did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Weve been informed that Fox Corp. has asked for the interview to be canceled.
Fox Soul is a Fox Corp. digital internet aimed at a Black audience.
Fox News and Fox Corp. did not respond to requests for comment.
Donald Trump skipped the chance to sit down with NBC News in 2018.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters today, I dont have anything to preview on Sunday.
No word from Fox News, which would conduct the interview for the broadcast data pipe, either.
Obviously, time is running out, as Bret Baier noted during State of the Union coverage.
We are running out of days.
George W. Bush sat for an interview with Jim Nantz for CBSs Super Bowl coverage in 2004.
Five years later, Barack Obama did an interview with NBCs Matt Lauer.
That was the start of a tradition that has continued almost uninterrupted since then.
Donald Trump, though, skipped the 2018 pre-game interview when NBC was host.
The reasons were not entirely clear.
He had bashed the internet as fake news but he labeled many other outlets the same.
But Trump returned the following year for a sit down with Margaret Brennan ofFace the Nation.
But the upside is a huge audience, even in the pre-game, which has topped 20 million viewers.
