JD Vance To Guest On ABC’s ‘The View’ In VP’s First Appearance On Show

Vice President JD Vance will make his first appearance on The View next week.

His guest spot comes as the show is the subject of an FCC investigation, led by President Donald Trump’s appointed chairman Brendan Carr, over the agency’s equal time rule.

ABC has pushed back on the investigation, saying that the crackdown is a chill to its First Amendment rights. The White House also has attacked the show and one of its co-hosts, Joy Behar. The FCC also ordered the early renewal of ABC owned-and-operated station broadcast licenses, something that network called “an extraordinary demonstration of power and coercion.”

Vance will be live in studio on Tuesday to discuss his new book, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, as well as the news headlines. He is the third sitting vice president to appear on the show, after Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.

Donald Trump made his last appearance on the show in 2015, when he was in the midst of his first presidential campaign.

The FCC’s investigation of The View — a probe that is officially of a station that airs the show — was launched after the show featured James Talarico, a Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from Texas, as a guest.

The FCC’s equal time rule requires broadcasters featuring candidates to offer rivals similar broadcast opportunities — if that time is requested. For decades, though, talk shows have booked candidates with the near certainty that they fall under an exemption to the equal time rule, carved out for news programming. But earlier this year, the FCC’s media bureau under Carr has warned that talk shows should not assume that they fall under the exemption, putting such programming under a new level of scrutiny.