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Greta Conway Van Susteren (born June 11, 1954) is an American commentator, lawyer, and television news anchor for
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. She was previously on CNN,
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, and
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. She hosted Fox News's ''
On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren ''On the Record'' was an American news television program on Fox News hosted by the lawyer Greta Van Susteren. Prior to the show's cancellation after the 2016 election, the show was hosted by the television journalist and political commentator, ...
'' for 14 years (2002–2016) before departing for MSNBC, where she hosted '' For the Record with Greta'' for roughly six months in 2017. On June 14, 2022, she began hosting ''The Record with Greta van Susteren'' on Newsmax. A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she appeared as a legal analyst on CNN co-hosting Burden of Proof with
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from 1994 to 2002, playing defense attorney to Cossack's prosecutor. In 2016, she was listed as the 94th most powerful woman in the world by ''
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'', up from 99th in 2015.


Early life

Van Susteren was born in
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. Her father, Urban Van Susteren, was of
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descent. Her mother, born Margery Conway, was a homemaker of Irish descent. Van Susteren's father was a longtime friend of future U.S. Senator
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. McCarthy was best man at Greta's parents' wedding. Urban Van Susteren, an elected judge, served as a campaign strategist for McCarthy, although Urban later broke with him. Van Susteren's sister, Lise, is a
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in
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. In 2006, Lise was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for
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. Her brother, Dirk Van Susteren, was a journalist and long-time editor of the ''Vermont Sunday'' magazine, jointly published, until folding in 2008, by the ''
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'' and the ''
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''. Van Susteren graduated from Xavier High School in Appleton in 1972 and the
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in 1976, where she studied geography and economics. She later earned a J.D. from
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in 1979 and prior to the start of her television work returned to Georgetown Law as an adjunct faculty member in addition to her full-time legal career. She was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree from Stetson Law School.


Career

During the President Clinton impeachment debate, Van Susteren dismissed the issue as one of an unfaithful husband, and not an impeachable offense. During coverage of the
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, she appeared regularly on CNN as a legal analyst. This led to her stint as co-host of CNN's ''Burden of Proof'' and ''The Point''. In 2002, Van Susteren switched to the Fox News Channel after a highly publicized contract- bidding war. She hosted the
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show ''
On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren ''On the Record'' was an American news television program on Fox News hosted by the lawyer Greta Van Susteren. Prior to the show's cancellation after the 2016 election, the show was hosted by the television journalist and political commentator, ...
''. On September 6, 2016, she resigned from Fox News. She was not able to say goodbye on-air, as the network immediately filled the ''On the Record'' anchor spot with Brit Hume. Van Susteren, who said that Fox "has not felt like home to me for a few years," chose to take advantage of a clause in her contract that allowed her to resign from the network immediately: "The clause had a time limitation, meaning I could not wait." In early 2017, Van Susteren signed on with
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to anchor the 6 p.m. ET program on its 24-hour cable news channel,
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. The program, titled '' For the Record with Greta'', launched on January 9, 2017. On June 29, 2017, according to Van Susteren on
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, she was "out at MSNBC" as her new program did not do well in ratings. Van Susteren is on the Board of Directors at the National Institute for Civil Discourse (NICD). The institute was created at the
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in the aftermath of the
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that killed six people and injured 13 others, including U.S. Representative
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. In October 2017, Van Susteren joined
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as a contributor. In September 2018, Van Susteren testified before
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about the
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and
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against the
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of
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. In February 2019, Van Susteren joined
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, a large group of television stations, as its chief national political analyst out of Gray's Washington bureau, providing commentary and analysis to the newscasts airing on Gray's 140+ stations. She was also developing two nationally syndicated shows for the company. In April 2019, Van Susteren and Gray announced ''Full Court Press with Greta Van Susteren'', a Sunday morning talk show, which would begin airing on most Gray stations in September 2019, along with
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stations in
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and
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. With Gray stations in Iowa and South Carolina, the program hoped to get candidate interviews for such early election primary states. The program planned to roll out "Full Court Press-Overtime", a website and associated app with additional content and user feedback. In May 2022, it was announced that Van Susteren had joined
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, and will begin hosting ''The Record with Greta Van Susteren'' on June 14, 2022.


Personal life

Van Susteren married
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lawyer John P. Coale in 1988. She and her husband are Scientologists, and in 1995 to ''
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'' she said she is "a strong advocate of their ethics". From August 2006 until January 2014, she was a co-owner of the Old Mill Inn, a restaurant in
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, on the North Fork of
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