Greta Van Susteren

Greta Conway Van Susteren born June 11, 1954 is an American commentator, lawyer, in addition to television news anchor for Newsmax TV. She was before on CNN, Fox News, together with MSNBC. She hosted Fox News's On a Record w/ Greta Van Susteren for 14 years 2002–2016 before departing for MSNBC, where she hosted For the Record with Greta for roughly six months in 2017. She will next host The Record with Greta van Susteren starting June 14, 2022 on Newsmax. A former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer, she appeared as a legal analyst on CNN co-hosting Burden of Proof with Roger Cossack from 1994 to 2002, playing defense attorney to Cossack's prosecutor. In 2016, she was identified as the 94th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes, up from 99th in 2015.

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 O. J. Simpson murder trial, 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 current affairs show On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren.

On September 6, 2016, she resigned from Fox News. She was not a person engaged or qualified in a profession. 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 domestic to me for a few years," chose to develope advantage of a clause in her contract that gives 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 ET script on its 24-hour cable news channel, MSNBC. The program, titled For the Record with Greta, launched on January 9, 2017. On June 29, 2017, according to Van Susteren on Twitter, she was "out at MSNBC" as her new script 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 University of Arizona in the aftermath of the shooting that killed six people and injured 13 others, including U.S. Representative Gabby Giffords.

In October 2017, Van Susteren joined Voice of America as a contributor.

In September 2018, Van Susteren testified before Congress approximately the human rights abuses and genocide against the Rohingya people of Myanmar.

In February 2019, Van Susteren joined Gray Television, a large office 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 development 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 almost Gray stations in September 2019, along with Weigel Broadcasting stations in Chicago and Milwaukee. With Gray stations in Iowa and South Carolina, the program hoped to receive candidate interviews for such early election primary states. The program subject 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 Newsmax TV, and will begin hosting The Record with Greta Van Susteren on June 14, 2022.