In the first commentary on President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi’s interview with CBS, secretary of the parliament’s committee of foreign affairs Tarek El-Khouly accused the channel of attempting to spread negative energy through engaging in efforts to “embarrass the president”. On Monday, US media network CBS channel broadcasted an interview with Al-Sisi which was conducted in New York three months ago, when he was there to attend the UN General Assembly. The channel reported that the Egyptian ambassador in the US requested them to not broadcast the interview, but it still did, claiming that their interview embarrassed the president. In his press statement, which came on behalf of the foreign affairs committee in parliament, El-Khouly said that the channel sought to convince the world that request of the Egyptian state to hold broadcasting of the interview came in order to not present what could blemish the president before the public. He added that “he watched the full interview and found the president’s reaction to be normal to all the questions and that he did not realise from any of the claims of the channel that the president was embarrassed by the journalist’s questions”.

Source: Daily News Egypt January 08, 2019 18:45 UTC