Greta Wire

This episode features a wide-ranging conversation with Todd Chrisley about fame, family, prison, and life after a presidential pardon. He explains how his reality TV career began almost by accident, how the family franchise grew into multiple new projects, and why he now sees his next chapter as bigger than television. The discussion moves from the business of entertainment and real estate into th...

This episode features a deeply personal conversation with Len, a father describing the long and painful impact of drug addiction on his son and on the entire family. He explains how his son’s struggles began in adolescence after serious health problems and depression, then spiraled into years of substance abuse, relapse, homelessness, legal trouble, and unstable recovery. The discussion highlights...

In this episode, Vanilla Ice opens up about the unusual mix of talents and disciplines that shaped his career, from breakdancing and poetry to rap stardom, motocross, television, and high-end real estate. He explains how early hustle, self-discipline, and relentless work ethic helped him turn creative ambition into long-term success, first in music and later in property development. Rather than tr...

In this special bonus episode of Greta Wire, taken from Greta Van Susteren’s NEWSMAX show The Record, Greta is joined again by Dr. Jen Ashton for an important update on GLP-1 medications, the class of drugs commonly associated with weight loss treatments such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro. Greta opens with a new study from the Cleveland Clinic suggesting that GLP-1 drugs may be linked to reduce...

This episode features a long-form interview with former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who argues that his prosecution was an early example of political lawfare and that his case foreshadowed what later happened to Donald Trump. Blagojevich walks through the Obama Senate-seat controversy, the FBI tapes, the trial, and the evidentiary fights that shaped his conviction, insisting that prosecutor...

This episode features a wide-ranging conversation with young biographer Solomon Schmidt about his new book on J.K. Rowling, tracing her rise from an impoverished single mother to one of the most successful authors in history. Schmidt explains how Rowling built the Harry Potter series from years of planning, personal grief, and creative discipline, and why her life story is compelling even beyond t...

This Shorty uses the NBA Finals as a jumping-off point to revisit one of the strangest live-TV moments in American history: June 17, 1994, when the Knicks and Rockets were playing in the Finals while O.J. Simpson’s white Bronco chase unfolded in real time. Greta focuses on the sheer absurdity of the moment, describing how NBC kept interrupting or splitting the screen between the game and the slow-...

In this short episode, Greta uses the anniversary of the deaths of Natalee Holloway and Stephany Flores to make a jarring point: the Aruba room once tied to Joran van der Sloot is now being rented out on Airbnb by his mother. She frames that detail not as a curiosity, but as a grotesque symbol of how the case still reverberates, tying together the murders of both young women and arguing that van d...

In this episode, Greta sits down with Tito Ortiz for a wide-ranging conversation that starts with the upcoming UFC event at the White House and turns into a primer on the sport itself. Tito explains the difference between UFC as a promotion and mixed martial arts as the sport, argues that wrestling is the foundational skill for success, and walks through the mechanics of the cage, rounds, scoring,...

This Shorty is a teaser from Greta, who says she has finally obtained, through a FOIA request, the full documents and videotape from the FBI’s 2010 sting operation targeting alleged Natalee Holloway killer, Joran van der Sloot in Aruba. Greta argues the material shows van der Sloot committed extortion on camera in a setup that should have ended with his arrest, but instead he was allowed to walk a...

This episode is a long-form conversation with Dr. Steven Hatfill about the FBI’s handling of the 2001 anthrax attacks and the years he spent under a cloud of suspicion. Greta frames the interview around a central question: how does the government fail to solve five murders, then aggressively target a man it never arrests, and eventually exonerate him years later without ever truly making things ri...

In this raw, behind-the-scenes interview, Mike Gilbert — OJ Simpson’s longtime manager, agent, and one of his closest friends for decades — reveals explosive details about the 1994 murders and the Trial of the Century. Gilbert discloses that OJ privately confessed to him, stating, “If she wouldn’t have opened the door with a knife, she’d still be alive,” and explains how heavy doses of Prozac tran...

This episode is a firsthand account from Belarus, where Greta joins Franklin Graham during his Festival of Hope in Minsk. The heart of the story is how extraordinary the event is: an evangelical preacher is allowed to come into Belarus, preach with the blessing of President Lukashenko, and fill a 10,000-seat arena with thousands more in overflow — all without formal advertising, relying only on wo...

This episode tells the deeply personal story of Greta’s producer, Jessica Marquez, whose husband spent nearly five years on nightly dialysis while waiting for a kidney transplant. Jessica describes the exhausting reality of structuring family life around his treatment, raising a young child during that period, and living with the uncertainty of whether a transplant would ever come. When the long-a...

This episode is a deeply personal conversation with Yvonne DeVries about the 2004 disappearance of her 14-year-old son, Max, in Aruba, a case Greta says never received the attention it deserved. Yvonne recounts traveling to Aruba with her children as a healing trip after the death of her husband, only to have the vacation turn tragic when Max vanished during a jet ski outing with an older American...

This episode is a deeply personal and emotional conversation with Tim Miller, the founder of Texas EquuSearch, about the 1984 disappearance and murder of his daughter Laura. Greta introduces Miller not just as a grieving father, but as someone who turned his pain into a lifelong mission to help other families find missing loved ones. The interview retraces Laura’s case from the moment she vanished...

This Shorty is a deeply personal Mother’s Day reflection centered on Greta’s long relationship with Samaritan’s Purse, Franklin Graham, and the work they have done in some of the world’s hardest-hit places. Greta recounts traveling to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake and later during the cholera crisis, where she saw firsthand the scale of suffering, displacement, and the number of chil...

This episode is a warm, wide-ranging conversation with Brett Favre that blends football history with a much more personal look at his life now. He talks about being drafted by Atlanta, getting unexpectedly traded to Green Bay, and building a bond with Packers fans that turned him into one of the most beloved figures in Wisconsin sports. The conversation also revisits some of the defining milestone...

This episode is a short, affectionate remembrance of Ted Turner that doubles as a funny behind-the-scenes story from Greta’s CNN years. After learning of Turner’s death, Greta decides to share an old memory that captures both the strange energy of early CNN and Turner’s larger-than-life presence. She reflects on how beloved he was inside the network, how unconventional he could be, and how complet...

This episode is a deeply personal and emotional conversation with Christine Levinson about the disappearance of her husband, former FBI agent Bob Levinson, who vanished in Iran in March 2007. She recounts how what began as a routine business trip quickly turned into a nightmare when he failed to call home, never made it to his next hotel, and was later discovered to have traveled to Iran’s Kish Is...

This episode is a personal reflection on Donald Trump built around a story from Greta’s years covering him long before his presidency. After interviewing Trump again, she revisits the case of Sergeant Andrew Tahmooressi, a veteran with PTSD who mistakenly crossed into Mexico with legal firearms in his car and ended up jailed there. Greta explains how she pursued the story, retraced the route herse...

Are our jobs safe? When will the Iran war end? President Donald Trump speaks with Greta Van Susteren about some of the pressing questions facing Americans. The President also shares his thoughts about Jimmy Kimmel.  (As seen on Thursday's "The Record with Greta Van Susteren" on NEWSMAX TV)   Don’t miss Greta every weekday on “The Record with Greta Van Susteren” at 4 PM ET, only on NEWSMAX TV.    W...

Today's episode of "Greta Wire" is a deep and personal conversation with author and "Life Below Zero" star Sue Aikens, whose life in the Kavik River Camp in remote Alaska feels almost impossible by ordinary standards.   Aikens' memoir, "North of Ordinary: How One Woman Left It All Behind for Wilderness and Wonder in Alaska's Frozen Frontier," is now available in bookstores. Greta reconnects with A...

This episode is a wide-ranging conversation with Dr. Jennifer Ashton about GLP-1 medications and why they may be far more significant than simple weight loss tools. She explains that drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and others belong to a broader class of therapies that appear to affect not just body weight, but inflammation, heart health, liver health, immune response, and even behaviors lik...

This premiere episode of "Greta Wire" takes a fresh look at championship boxer and actor Mike Tyson through two very different lenses: the private man and the public scandal that reshaped his life. Greta Van Susteren begins by explaining that after years of knowing Tyson, what has always stayed with her is how unlike his fearsome public image he really is in person—gentle, reflective, and deeply h...