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Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts

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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Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on January 25, 2015 comments on ABC's "This Week":
Democrats have "lost more than 900 state legislators" since Barack Obama has been president.  
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By Katie Sanders • January 25, 2015
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on July 13, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
"In New York, your chances of getting murdered are 1 in 25,000. In Honduras, it’s 1 in 14."
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By Linda Qiu • July 16, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on May 4, 2014 comments on ABC's "This Week":
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."  
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By Julie Kliegman • May 4, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on March 31, 2014 an interview on NPR's "Morning Edition":
"Two-thirds of the people who receive the minimum wage are female."
Mostly True
By Katie Sanders • April 2, 2014
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on May 5, 2013 television interview:
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have cost every U.S. family $45,000.
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By Janel Davis • May 13, 2013
Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts
stated on October 4, 2009 appearance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos:
Forty percent of gross domestic product "is state, local, or federal money."
Mostly True
By Louis Jacobson • October 6, 2009
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