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Greta Van Susteren

lines on the record: 75
first: 2017-11-22
most recent: 2017-11-22
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“I don't know why I got fired at MSNBC. It's the same show I've done at CNN, Fox, MSNBC. You'll have to ask them. I certainly am unwilling to in any way do anything I think is bad judgment that doesn't pursue the facts. I thought my show was fair. I thought it was smart. I had guests who were Republican, Democrat. I had all of it, and that apparently was not what management wanted. My ratings were up 94% overall in June. I mean, that was the mark they sent to me documents they sent everybody. He said my rains were up 94% overall, 92% in the coveted demo. Other shows were up more, but in less than six months, 94% and 92% over the show I replaced, which was Mark Halperin, whatever the show was.”
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“Yeah, he would have had a different pass, which is really interesting. All right, let's get him. So you went to MSNBC, try to show, how do you look at the state of news, cable news, because you've been one of the iconic. I don't know why I got...”
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“I think that there was internal corporate problems at Fox, and if there weren't sort of a fight at the top over Rodrigo's, and apparently, I'm just repeating stuff that I've read. I don't have any personal knowledge, is that the two sons wanted them out, so that made a very convenient time to move them out. So, I mean, I think that was probably a contributing factor. If this had happened 10 years ago, maybe it would have had a different ending.”
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“Or maybe in the past they wouldn't have. But I think also it's our awareness. I mean, if you go back to the Clinton days, I think that a lot of women gave Bill Clinton the president a pass, you know, and I think that, you know, as I look back at my own coverage of it, I think I should have been more aggressive in my own coverage of it”
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“Is a little bit different than the legal standard. I'm going to, just from a journalist point of view, it used to be considered rumor if somebody printed something like this where somebody wouldn't go on the record with their name and the like. And I think the Weinstein story kind of changed that. The standard then became if there was a corroboration at the time. In other words, if the woman had told somebody at the time that this had happened and that that person was willing to go on the record. And then I think editor's willingness to kind of put this story out in a way where maybe in the past they wouldn't have.”
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“I think I don't look at it as a lawyer, but more as just a woman making observation. I think we're going to have a lot of time of self-reflection. I think people are going to learn a lot. And I think that I hope that we emerge stronger. I hope that men stop doing this. I hope we don't demonize all men. Many people raising sons and the responsibilities. We want the sons to be treated fairly in the future. But I think that's going to be an incredible time of self-reflection. I mean, these careers are destroyed, and some rightfully destroyed.”
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“Tied the difference of law is that let's take this guy Roy Moore down in wherever Alabama. Eight women I think have come out, maybe more. You take eight women and as a normal person, I think, eight women, you know, he had to have done it. He was guilty. I mean, how could that possibly be? How could eight women make the same accusation if we were in the courtroom? There would be eight separate trials because people tend to think of if so many people have made the same accusation against you, you must have done it, and the court looks at it and the law looks at it differently. So you'd have eight separate trials in the courtroom.”
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“Pull out a little bit to being a lawyer when you look at all this, how this is unfolded, because a lot of it is, it used to be sort of, he said she said, and now it's like so clear these are patterns. Let me tell you the difference.”
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“Irena Briganti and I have, we haven't spoken since 2003 or four. There's no secret that I was not a fan of hers. Bill Schein, it still shocks me this day because I don't know what's fair in terms of Bill Schein. I really don't. I'd been around him. I'd never heard him say anything inappropriate about women. I never heard a mate can he crack, so I never saw any. I don't know.”
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“Maybe it was just stunning. I remember being at the Republican convention like two weeks later, and we're all standing around looking at the computer, like reading the Drudge Report as a group as we're reading this. I mean, we literally, I mean, there are so many people in any news organization, and certainly in Fox, that just were shocked. We knew nothing. And here we had a very sort of stable situation for some of them that had been there 20 years at that point and didn't know anything. It was just shocking. Absolutely shocking.”
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“They're scared. They're worried about. Or whatever. But within Fox News, after it started to come out, how did your thoughts change? Because it really was the beginning of, it metastasized to everybody.”
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“No, no, and I totally understand that, but I had never heard anyone so unhappy in my life, and she had a long litany of things, and I sat there and listened to it. So that was fixated in my brain. And so that's why I said that.”
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“Was Gretchen Carlson filed a civil complaint And that started it. And there was no information about anything else. It was just Gretchen Carlson. So a fox asked me to talk to me and tell what I knew. So I said, this is what I knew. I said, it never happened to me. I never heard about it. And I knew that Gretchen was a disgruntled employee. That's what got me into trouble because here's the problem is that Gretchen worked in New York, I worked in DC, and as a consequence, I mean, you don't know these people. It's a big corporation. I'd had one in-depth conversation. I think I only talked to Gretchen once in my life off camera, and that's that we both got sent to London to cover Prince William's wedding. And at the time, I was in the bar having a beer from Wisconsin, so that's allowed. And I was having a beer, you know, we were all staying at the same hotel, and she walked in. And she sat down and she sat down and she told me she was very unhappy at Fox News. She told me how she'd been valedictor high school class. She'd gone to Stanford. She was Miss America. She did all these things. And that Fox didn't recommend.”
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“About Roger Els. Okay, let me tell you Roger Elles went to New York. I worked in DC. I saw him once a year. I'd have lunch with him in his office once a year in April. Maybe I'd see him some other time, but probably not, because he never was in the DC Bureau. And the last time I saw him in April, he was hiding for me the fact that he had a walker. So here I have in my mind this very, you know, and obviously someone can do something with a walker, but my vision of him was a man that, you know, had a walker and didn't seem particularly aggressive towards women and that he had never been towards me. And then the other thing, too, is that if you look at the statement that got me into so much trouble is that the night it broke, I was interviewed.”
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“I suspect that look, if you'd asked me a year ago, I'd probably give you a different answer I'm now seeing how everything has unfolded. I don't think it's limited to the media. I don't think, I mean, we just have a bigger spotlight. And we put a giant spotlight on it. I will say this. I will give you a little background on what happened at Fox. The Fox thing was shocking, absolutely shocking. Everyone said, how could you not know? You were shocked.”
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“That I would have the same experience I did at CNN for that year. And I hated that. And so I had 60 days to make a decision. And there was also a financial component to it. So I opted to leave. So I left.”
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“And this is the problem that you have with corporate owned media. Not that state-owned is so great either, but corporate owners is worried about the bottom line for the obvious reason because they have shareholders and they have fiduciary duty to the shareholders not to waste money. Well, I want to travel and do specials. And the problem is specials don't do well. They don't rate well. I've done human trafficking. I did a human trafficking story in Cambodia and Fox put it on the Fox Business Channel, which I'm grateful for. And, you know, the viewers don't watch. Everyone says, oh yeah, I want to watch that stuff, but people really don't watch that stuff. So it was a little bit over my contract, a little bit over what I wanted to do, but it was mostly over that neither one was listening to the other. And it was a very tough time at Fox, I think, in Rupert Murdoch's defense is that he was quite surprised to find out that things had been turned upside down, what was going on at Fox News. He was unwilling to listen to me. And I had a clause that had 60 days on it. I'm not leaking that. That was actually in the...”
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“I'm pausing because I'm trying to think of what I can tell you, what I can't. It was basically about what I want to do with the network. And anyone who knows me is that I like to get out of the studio.”
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“Yeah, we were number one. Now, coincidentally, when I left, that was the last time CNN was number one. Then it then flipped over to Fox. But I had never seen O'Reilly. I'd never seen O'Reilly. He was on it. He was also on it the same time I was. I was on at 8 o'clock with a show, so that was another reason why I never saw O'Reilly. But I had no idea who he was until I got to Fox. So I went to Fox. And I will say this, is that in 14 and a half years nobody ever bothered me in terms of telling me what to do. Nobody, I never had any command influence. I had all the resources. I traveled the world. Went to North Korea three times, Afghanistan, Iraq. I had a real old-fashioned reporter's experience at the Fox News Channel. And of course I left September 1st of 2016. Rupert Murdoch and I had a rather”
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“Which part? Which part? Actually, when we were at CNN at the time, we didn't pay any attention to Fox News. In fact, in 96, in July of 1996, MSNBC launched, and we all were around the TV looking at MSNBC launching, and all we comment about was that they had nice studios or something. In October of 96, three months later is when Fox launched, we didn't pay any attention. Nobody paid any attention to Fox at CNN at the time. None. I mean, at least not because you were dumb.”
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“So you leave there. So I left there and tended to go back and said I made a stop to talk to Roger Ailes, who I never met. I'd never watched Fox. Fox was not number one at that point. I didn't even know who he was. Vaguely knew who he was, something to do with the Bush 41 campaign at the time. I didn't pay that much attention to it. And we made a deal right then and there on a handshake. And I went to Fox News. And I didn't know much about it, but they agreed to give me an hour. They agreed to give me the resources I need. They agreed to leave me alone. So I stayed there for 14 and a half years.”
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“I have to say in current CNN's defense, Jeff Sucker's brought that rock and roll back to news. I mean, he has, he's an energized reporter, he's energized anchors. It does have a feeling again like getting the story out there is kind of the point of it. And I think there were some rough years there for a long time in between, but it's better. I didn't have a voice.”
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“I'm well aware that she wrote the definitive book. I read it. And so in December, I decided December of 2001, which is after 9-11, that I'd probably go back to practicing law doing something else, but I was done with TV because it was really a terrible environment, I thought. Although they offered me more money, which annoyed me more, not because I didn't like more money, but they were firing my friends and I felt a little bit like a prostitute if I stayed there.”
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“This point. Well, I hope they understand. It's the only TOGA party I've ever been to I'd like to emphasize. It's the only time I've ever worn just a sheet to a party. But anyway, so that's how I got on TV. I'm the accidental anchor. I went to do a little coverage and William Kenny Smith and basically I never left. And then in about 2001, January AOL bought the CNN and it was the ugliest year at CNN. And all the time, Ben, there's always exciting working for Ted Turner. But when AOL came in, it became very corporate. It wasn't Ted walking through the newsroom in his pajamas anymore, which was actually quite interesting. It was a very different time, and it made it really unfun. And they started firing all my friends. And when corporations come in, there's so much dissension. And that was a problem.”
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“Yes, and I got on TV because, well, actually, William Kenny Smith because CNN called American Bar Association was looking for a lawyer to do commentaries, the first capital gap coverage. And they called the American Bar Association, and for years I thought the reason that my name was given is because I had two law degrees taught at Georgetown. Law School was an adjunct professor, and I tried rapes and murders and civil rights cases and everything else. I found out about 10 years later, though, that the reason that I was chosen was because they called and the receptionist, this is about 1991, gave the person who called my name because in 1976 she lived in a group house and I came here to law school and I went to a Toga party at the house and my name was the only one she could remember. So it was a TOGA party.”
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