Viewers may be surprised if they are expecting Vice President JD Vance to merely peddle his new book when he goes on “The View” next week.
Co-host Ana Navarro said she wants more from the conversation, per Fox News.
Navarro and producer Brian Teta talked about Vance’s upcoming interview during the “Behind the Table” podcast when Teta said people were surprised he was coming on the show.
“It shouldn’t be surprising, he’s got a book, right? And I think that everybody, including Republicans, know that at ‘The View,’ we are really good at selling books,” Navarro said. “I think it’s a very relevant time. I want to ask him questions about Epstein. I want to ask him questions where he — where there’s several issues where there’s sunlight between him and Donald Trump, right?”
“The war, going into military action, all of these new wars. He seems to me to be a lot more tuned into the MAGA manosphere than Trump is, actually, and really works those relationships far more than practically anybody else in the White House,” she added.
“I hope we get to have a constructive conversation about the issues that Americans care about and are on Americans’ minds and that it doesn’t turn into some free-for-all for the sake of creating a moment for him so that he can go out and sell books, which is what often happens with Republicans,” Navarro continued.
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Vance will be on the show June 16. He will be the third sitting vice president and the first sitting Republican vice president to appear on “The View.”
All six co-hosts, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Sunny Hostin, Sara Haines, Alyssa Farah Griffin and Navarro, are expected to be part of the interview.
The show is notorious for not having Republican guests.
“The View” had a total of 341 guests in 2025; two of them were conservative and 128 were liberal, according to a study conducted by the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters.
In 2026, the show had multiple Republican guest hosts appear while Griffin, the Republican co-host, was on maternity leave.
Vance will discuss his new book, “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith,” along with his goals for the Trump administration during his appearance on Tuesday.
“Hopefully, it’s passionate debate that’s respectful, and it’s the vice president,” Teta said. “It’s a big deal. So, we’re excited to do it.”
