Chris Matthews to interview Obama
By HADAS GOLD | 12/3/13 8:52 AM EST
MSNBC's Chris Matthews will interview President Barack Obama this Thursday, the network announced Tuesday.
The interview is part of Matthews' "Hardball College Tour," and will take place at American University in Washington, D.C.
According to a news release from MSNBC, Matthews, along with university students, will "discuss a variety of topics with the president including voter suppression, healthcare, the decline of confidence in the government and the overall political dysfunction in Washington."
On Monday our colleagues Carrie Budoff Brown and Jonathan Allen reported that the White House is launching a coordinated campaign to return attention to why the Affordable Care Act passed in the first place.
The Matthews and Obama relationship has been a bit of a roller coaster. During MSNBC's coverage of the 2008 primaries, Matthews famously said he felt a "thrill going up my leg" whenever he heard Obama speak.
But during the 2012 election, Matthews was not granted an interview with the president for MSNBC's Obama documentary, which was set to run prior to the Democratic convention. The White House offered Biden instead.
By May Matthews seemed to have soured on Obama, saying he "obviously likes giving speeches more than he does running the executive branch." Since then he's criticized the president on Benghazi and the botched roll out of the Affordable Care Act.
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