Obamas to appear on Oprah Winfrey show

President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will appear on an episode of the Oprah Winfrey show set to air on May 2, a White House source tells CBS News. The Obamas will tape the appearance in Chicago on April 27.

It will be the president's second trip to his onetime home city this month; he is planning a large fundraiser at Chicago's Navy Pier Thursday night, with tickets starting at $100. Chicago Bulls star Derrick Rose is likely to be a part of the program.

He is also doing two more intimate - and costlier - fundraisers at a pair of Chicago restaurants that evening. Proceeds from the fundraisers go to the Obama Victory Fund with some money going to the Democratic National Committee. The events will mark the first public events of the president's re-election campaign.

In 2009, Winfrey sat down with the Obamas for a prime-time Christmas special. The talk show host, who is ending her show on May 25, also interviewed Mr. Obama when he was a presidential candidate.

The previously non-political Winfrey famously threw her support behind Mr. Obama in the 2008 presidential race, campaigning for him in three key early nominating states and raising millions of dollars for him.

Reports surfaced earlier this month that Winfrey wouldn't publicly support Mr. Obama in his reelection campaign out of concerns about her fledgling television network, OWN. A Winfrey spokesperson denied the claim to the New York Daily News, stating, "Oprah's support of President Obama has been and remains unwavering since she initially endorsed his candidacy in 2007. Any reports that suggest otherwise are untrue."