Cokie Roberts's file

Journalist from Maryland

Cokie Roberts is a political journalist and commentator for ABC News. She also is a contributor to National Public Radio's Morning Edition. She previously was co-anchor of ABC's Sunday morning show This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts and also worked for PBS.

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Recent statements made by Cokie Roberts

The shedding is real

Cokie Roberts

Democrats have "lost more than 900 state legislators" since Barack Obama has been president.

— PunditFact on Sunday, January 25th, 2015

Cokie, you should join Twitter!

Cokie Roberts

"In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, it’s 1 in 14."

— PunditFact on Wednesday, July 16th, 2014

Rice avoided 't' word, downplayed connection

Cokie Roberts

In discussing the attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, "Ms. Rice did say 'a terrorist attack.' It’s not that she put the whole thing on the video."

— PunditFact on Sunday, May 4th, 2014

She's pretty close

Cokie Roberts

"Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female."

— PunditFact on Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014

Depends on what you're paying for

Cokie Roberts

Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost every U.S. family $45,000.

— PolitiFact Georgia on Monday, May 13th, 2013

Recent stories featuring Cokie Roberts

Rush Limbaugh, Cokie Roberts, Fox News 'banned' in Canada: PolitiFact Oregon Roundup

Rush Limbaugh says "not a single" Repubican senator voted to confirm U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, while Cokie Roberts edges ever closer to getting a Twitter account, all in today's PolitiFact Oregon Roundup.