Welcome back to Podforce One.

I'm Miranda Devine and today we are with Vice President J.D. Vance in his home in Washington

at the Naval Observatory. Thank you Vice President Vance for joining Podforce One.

Of course. Thanks for being here.

And especially thank you for inviting us into your home at the Naval Observatory, which I'm

very interested in my first time here because, of course, when Joe Biden was vice president

during the period in Hunter Biden's laptop, he had a lot of meetings for Hunter Biden's business partners in this building.

Did you know about that? No, I had no idea that it had such an illustrious history.

We have done no grifting thus far in the vice president's residence. So we're only in here for nine

months so far. So maybe I'll take some ideas from Hunter Biden and Joe Biden's business dealings. But no, I mean, for us, we love this place, right? It's, it's a, I joke that it's the world's nicest public housing. But it really is for us. It's a family home because we have, you know, you just met our dog a few minutes ago. We have three little kids at eight year old, a five year old, the three-year-old and so we try to make this you know their their place we still have our place in

cincinnati but we don't, you know, if we're lucky, we'll be there one week in a month. So we really tried to sort of make this a family home. And, I mean, like, for example, this morning, my five-year-old brought me a pumpkin because they've been growing a pumpkin outside. Oh, lovely. And they've gotten, in their big pumpkin patch, they've gotten one usable pumpkins. He was very excited about this. We picked it the last couple of days. So we're going to roast it, try to make pumpkin pie. Fantastic. It's a beautiful place and it's really an amazing place to raise a family. They do. I mean, the president jokes with me that it's actually nicer than his house because it's really an amazing place. And the kids like it. They do. I mean, the president

jokes with me that it's actually nicer than his house because it's so private. Right. I mean, the White House is the White House and it's very beautiful. But if you think about it, we're on 40 acres or so, a very private property. You don't quite live in the same fishbowl, which of course for kids is like the best thing possible because there are a lot of sacrifices for the kids. There are a lot of ways in which their life is different, but their home is still very much their home. And I feel like they can be kids here, which is what you want. And they go to a local school? Well, so our three year old goes to preschool, but just a couple hours a day. And then our five-year-old started kindergarten this year. And he really, really likes it. And yeah, he goes to school about 15

minutes from here. And then our third grader, who's eight, he started a school this year or two. So

they're all in new places. They all like them very much. It's a relatively short drive. But it's

interesting how the different kids react to this life because our eight-year-old is a bit of an introvert. He's more like his mom, maybe. Our five-year-old, everybody says he's more like me. He's a bit of an extrovert. So he like really enjoys the intention. Right. And our eight-year-old could really do without the attention.

Right.

And it's funny, just, you know, kids, as much as you try to imagine that you can kind of shape them and form them. And of course, you can in some ways. At some element, their personality is very innate. Yes. And you sort of see that. And it's one of the cool things about having kids is, you know, you could have seed some of these traits in the eight-year-old when he was 12 months old.

Yes.

Right?

But it's just,

it's kind of amazing. Anyway, it's a very nice place. They're all very, very different. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And you mentioned your dog, Atlas, a German Shepherd. Yes. Beautiful dog. Thank you.

Very well behaved. Very good boy. Is he likely to bite any secret service agents?

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