Journalist Chris Whipple on his Vanity Fair profile with WH’s Susie Wiles [Extended Interview]
The Takeout with Major Garrett
CBS News
4.6 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Major has a wide-ranging interview with Chris Whipple about his profile on White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles. Major and Chris discuss her perspective on the boat strikes in Venezuela, reaction to pardons of January 6th offenders and her role in the administration. Chris provides his take on whether Wiles will receive backlash for her involvement in the piece.
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| 1:00.0 | disingenuously framed hit piece that's what Susie Wiles the White House Chief of |
| 1:04.7 | Staff said about your article Chris is it you know major when the White House starts throwing words like disingenuous and context around, |
| 1:15.2 | you know you've done something right. |
| 1:17.6 | What they have not done is challenge a single assertion in the piece or a single quotation. |
| 1:24.3 | And that's because they know that everything is rock solid. |
| 1:33.3 | So instead we're getting what Ben Bradley used to call a non-denial denial. And this one's a doozy. |
| 1:35.3 | The White House Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt accused you of bias by omission, |
| 1:41.3 | meaning you left out things that would have been more laudatory to the president |
| 1:45.7 | and his first year in his second term. I actually thought the piece was quite laudatory in places. |
| 1:53.0 | You know, I made the case that Susie Wiles is the most powerful person in the Trump White House |
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