Wisconsin radio network said it edited out portions of Biden interview at his campaign's request

A Wisconsin radio network acknowledged on Thursday that it agreed to edit out portions of an interview with President Joe Biden before it aired last week at the request of the president's re-election campaign.

Civic Media said in a statement Thursday that "The Earl Ingram Show" conducted a phone interview with the president on July 3 —one of two that aired the following day. The network said that it learned on July 8, that the program had edited out two portions of the interview at the Biden campaign's request.

In the statement, the network said that "the production team at the time viewed the edits as non-substantive and broadcast and published the interview with two short segments removed."

One of the portions edited out of the interview centered on Biden's claims about diversity in his administration — specifically that his administration has employed more Black people than any of his predecessors combined.

Roughly five minutes into the interview, Biden noted that he had selected a Black woman to serve as vice president and said that he had appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson as the first Black woman to be seated on the Supreme Court.

"I have more Blacks in my administration than any other president, all of the presidents combined, and in major positions, cabinet positions," Biden said in a portion of the interview that was not aired.

Another edit was of a portion of the interview that referred to former President Donald Trump’s past comments urging for the death penalty for the Central Park Five.

When reached for comment Civic Media referred NBC News back to its statement on the matter, which said it stood by its team but that it had fallen short of journalistic interview standards.

“Civic Media disagrees with the