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Van Susteren: ‘I hope the Fox audience comes over here’ to MSNBC

by Joe Concha - 01/06/17 10:35 AM ET

Longtime Fox News host Greta Van Susteren is hoping Fox viewers follow her over to her new home on MSNBC.

“I think that the MSNBC audience is going to like me. I hope the Fox audience comes over here,” Van Susteren told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday night.

“I want to do a good job for MSNBC. I want to do a good job so you’re proud of me, my colleagues are proud of me and most of all I want to do a good job for the viewers.”

{mosads}Maddow — MSNBC’s highest-rated host — asked Van Susteren if Republicans and right-leaning guests who appeared with her on Fox’s “On the Record” will come on her new MSNBC program, “For the Record.”

“Do you think those Republican connections that you made, the Republican guests you’ve been able to book, up to and including the president-elect, do you think they will still want to talk to you over here?” Maddow asked.

“I certainly hope so. I think they’re going to come over here. I’m going to give them a fair shake, I’ll give Republicans a fair shake, I’ll give Democrats a fair shake,” Van Susteren replied.

The former criminal defense and civil trial lawyer shot to stardom on CNN in 1994 covering the O.J. Simpson murder trial.

Van Susteren, 62, was at CNN for 10 years before jumping to Fox in 2002.

She and Fox parted ways abruptly in September after the host reportedly tried to renegotiate her contract after the July resignation of former network chairman and CEO Roger Ailes.

“For the Record” debuts Monday at 6 p.m.

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