Chris Whipple is Still Covering the White House
2/3/202644 min
Chris Whipple is an Emmy award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, author, and political analyst. A former CBS 60 Minutes producer, Whipple is also the EP and writer of the Discovery Channel documentary series “The Presidents’ Gatekeepers” and the Showtime Network documentary series “The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs”. Whipple continued his research on these topics in two of his books and is the author of four New York Times best-sellers including: Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History, The Spymasters: How the CIA Directors Shape History and the Future, The Gatekeepers: How the White House Chiefs of Staff Define Every Presidency, and The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House. Whipple has also written for Vanity Fair, Politico, the Daily Beast, and many other publications. Notably, Whipple wrote the two-part 2025 Vanity Fair profile on the second Trump presidency and White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles.
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Chris Whipple· Guest0:37
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Alec Baldwin· Host0:39
[upbeat music] This is Alec Baldwin, and you're listening to Here's the Thing from iHeartRadio. In today's world of endless scrolling and twenty-four-hour news cycles, it's rare for any one piece of journalism to become culturally relevant. But that is precisely what happened to a piece written by my guest today. Chris Whipple's groundbreaking profile of White House Chief of Staff, Susie Wiles, became one of Vanity Fair's most-read stories of twenty twenty-five. The piece was debated constantly on TV news, and photos of Wiles and her staff from the article were shared across the internet for weeks. Along with his work for Vanity Fair, Chris Whipple is an Emmy Award-winning journalist, author,