Sep 19, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 11 segments
JD Vance, Peter Thiel, and the Hillary Clinton backchannel nobody knew about — breaking down Chris Whipple's bombshell Vanity Fair piece "God and Vance at Yale." Michelle Kinney digs into the new…
Michelle KinneyHost
Julie RoginskyHost
Um, The interesting thing about J.D. Vance, at least as far as I'm concerned, is that I have spent the last four-ish years making ads and content about this man.
Um, I think partially because I always expect people to be in charge, to be older than me, but also I look at him and I'm like, you're younger than me.
Um, anyways, um, so there was a, a pretty revealing article written for the vanity fair by Chris Whipple.
He is the same person, um, who's written articles in the past about this administration.
It has a lot of insight into Donald Trump world in this White House and and has obviously spent a lot of time researching and speaking to anybody who would speak to him about J.D. Vance.
I guess front page of this article, which you can find on a Vanity Fair dot com, and the name of the article is called God and Vance at Yale.
Or is the presumptive 2028 GOP frontrunner waiting for the chance to be his own man? And what does his wife Usha think about all of it? The answers may lie in Vance's pivotal years at Yale Law.
Chris Whipple returns to the school and talks to the VP's professor and mentor, Tiger Mom, Amy Chua.
My former colleague at Lincoln Project, Stuart Stevens, was quoted and saying that I don't think the man believes in much at all.
Um, The interesting thing about J.D. Vance, at least as far as I'm concerned, is that I have spent the last four-ish years making ads and content about this man.
Um, I think partially because I always expect people to be in charge, to be older than me, but also I look at him and I'm like, you're younger than me.
Um, anyways, um, so there was a, a pretty revealing article written for the vanity fair by Chris Whipple.
He is the same person, um, who's written articles in the past about this administration.
It has a lot of insight into Donald Trump world in this White House and and has obviously spent a lot of time researching and speaking to anybody who would speak to him about J.D. Vance.
I guess front page of this article, which you can find on a Vanity Fair dot com, and the name of the article is called God and Vance at Yale.
Or is the presumptive 2028 GOP frontrunner waiting for the chance to be his own man? And what does his wife Usha think about all of it? The answers may lie in Vance's pivotal years at Yale Law.
Chris Whipple returns to the school and talks to the VP's professor and mentor, Tiger Mom, Amy Chua.
My former colleague at Lincoln Project, Stuart Stevens, was quoted and saying that I don't think the man believes in much at all.
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