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Greta Van Susteren (born June 11, 1954 in Appleton, WisconsinGreta Van Susteren is an American journalist and television personality on the Fox News Channel where she hosts , the highest rated program on cable news at 10 p.m. She previously worked at CNN from 1991 to 2002. She is married to Washington, D.C. lawyer John Coale.

She first came to prominence in 1991, covering the William Kennedy Smith trial for CNN. She was noticed by the network's programming executives and was given a co-anchor spot alongside political analyst Roger Cossack on the legal affairs news show , which was the second highest rated program on CNN.

In 2002, the Fox News Channel snagged her in a highly-publicized contract bidding war. With the funds she received from her new contract, Van Susteren's facelift, blepharoplasty, and dental implants gained media attention for a media pundit with a reputation as being somewhat plain, a rarity in U.S. television broadcasting.

Since that time, she has hosted the current affairs show and has become one of the network's more popular personalities, on par with Bill O'Reilly and Hannity Colmes. Van Susteren tends to take a neutral stance and allows her regular guest panelists to slug it out. She tends to ask detailed, probing questions, in the manner of a well-trained attorney trying to get the facts out.

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She has also taken some criticism due to her coverage of the Natalee Holloway case, which has increased her ratings.

She is of Irish ancestry on her mother's side as well as 18th German on her father's. Her father Urban Van Susteren was an old friend, fellow law student and later campaign strategist for Joe McCarthy's successful 1946 U.S. Senate campaign where he defeated two term incumbent Robert LaFollette Jr. in a three candidate race.

Lise Van Susteren, sister of Greta, is currently a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate from the state of Maryland. Lise is a forensic psychiatrist from Bethesda, Maryland. [1] [2]

Van Susteren is a Scientologist.