Since 2009, the president has almost always sat down for an interview
with the network broadcasting the Super Bowl. But ahead of Sunday’s big
game, Fox News is worried Biden is freezing them out, Variety’s Brian
Steinberg scooped. Though Fox didn’t demand any conditions for the
interview, the White House hasn’t committed, and “executives at Fox News
are proceeding as if it will not” happen.

And Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Florida Republican Sen.
Rick Scott's “Rescue America” plan, which states, “All federal
legislation sunsets in 5 years,” with no exceptions for Social Security
and Medicare: “This is a bad idea. I think it will be a challenge for
him to deal with this in his own reelection in Florida, a state with
more elderly people than any other state in America.”

More McConnell: “Speaker [Kevin] McCarthy said Social Security and
Medicare are not to be touched, and I’ve said the same. And I think
we’re in a more authoritative position to state what the position of the
party is than any single senator.” (h/t AP’s Seung Min Kim)

Scott world’s response, via longtime Scott spokesman Chris Hartline:
“Lol. Rick Scott knows how to win Florida a hell of a lot better than
Mitch McConnell does. Some DC Republicans can keep parroting Democrat
lies, but that won’t stop Rick Scott from fighting for conservative
principles instead of caving to Biden every day.”

Reminder: After Biden called out “some Republicans” Tuesday for wanting
to sunset Social Security and Medicare, Scott called the suggestion “a
lie” but has not changed the wording of his plan.

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