Connie Chung
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"Constance Yu-Hwa Chung Povich" better known as "Connie Chung", is an American journalism/journalist. She has been an anchor and reporter for the U.S. television news networks NBC, CBS, American Broadcasting Company/ABC, CNN, and MSNBC. Some of her more famous interview subjects include Claus von Bülow and U.S. Representative Gary Condit, whom Chung interviewed first after the Chandra Levy disappearance, and basketball legend Magic Johnson/Earvin "Magic" Johnson after he went public about being HIV-positive. In 1995 she was removed as CBS Evening News co-anchor after a controversial interview with a fireman which seemed inappropriately combative, during rescue efforts at the Oklahoma City bombing and her interview tactics to get Newt Gingrich's mother to admit her unguarded thoughts about Hillary Clinton.

She is married to talk show host Maury Povich and they have one adopted son, Matthew Jay Povich.

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I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

They just said Hispanic male mowing a lawn, and so I didn't connect that with my brother at all.

So I'm expecting the officer to come to my window, but a blaring light comes on and he starts blaring orders over a P.A. system for all the passengers in the car to get out with their hands in the air.

Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'

I'm delighted to be part of an organization of dedicated journalists whose sole mission is to report the news every minute of every hour every day.

I will not describe [the violent scenes] out of respect to Daniel Pearl and his family.

[During the interview, Condit, 53, admitted to having a close relationship with Levy and said he liked her very much, and he said] No, ... Did you kill Chandra Levy?

I do not and have not had a romantic relationship with Congressman Condit.

He was always calm, clear and concise. If you told him the world was coming to an end, he would still report it factually.