Obama doing 5 network interviews in renewed push for health care overhaul

Obama in media blitz to push health care overhaul

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is sitting down for interviews with five television networks this afternoon, a highly unusual schedule even for a president who regularly uses the media to get his message across.

Obama will be taping interviews with ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Univision that will be shown during the networks’ Sunday morning talk shows. The only network missing from the lineup is Fox.

Obama also is visiting David Letterman on Monday, the first appearance ever by a sitting president on Letterman’s “Late Show.” White House aides say Obama agreed to the interviews to reach as many people as possible with his health care overhaul message.