Overview
- ABC confirmed that Vice President J.D. Vance will appear live on The View on Tuesday, June 16 from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. ET to promote his memoir Communion and discuss administration priorities.
- All six co-hosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro — are scheduled to be in studio for Vance’s first appearance on the program.
- The booking is notable because the FCC opened a formal inquiry of The View after a Democratic candidate’s appearance and has issued new guidance narrowing talk-show news exemptions.
- Coverage of the interview is split along partisan lines with outlets emphasizing either the publicity and book promotion or the political optics given The View’s history of mostly liberal guests.
- Under the Communications Act, broadcasters normally must offer equal time to rival candidates but long-standing exemptions exist for bona fide newscasts and interviews; the FCC under Chair Brendan Carr has warned those exemptions may not apply to entertainment-style talk shows.