Gary Condit for obstruction of justice and witness tampering.Ĭosby served as a lead reporter during the 19 Presidential campaigns. In 2001, Cosby’s interview with flight attendant Anne Marie Smith led to a U.S.
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As that story unfolded, Cosby secured another major first, by reporting the names and license plate numbers of the sniper suspects.
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Bush, President Bill Clinton, President Ronald Reagan and President Gerald Ford, as well as more than a dozen world leaders, including King Abdullah of Jordan, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi, Mexican President Vicente Fox, and embattled Liberian President Charles Taylor, only days before he fled his country.Ĭosby made national headlines for her interviews with boxer Mike Tyson, singer Michael Jackson, and convicted serial killer David Berkowitz, “The Son of Sam,” who wrote to her during the October 2002 D.C. Years earlier, while broadcasting live from Belgrade during the NATO bombing, she broke the news that three American POWs were going to be released.Ĭosby also was granted a rare, private meeting with Pope John Paul II after receiving an exclusive letter from Timothy McVeigh explaining why he carried out the Oklahoma City bombing. In addition, she was the first to interview former American POW Thomas Hamill, whose escape from his Iraqi captors made international headlines. Cosby was the first journalist to see the suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo and witness an actual interrogation. She secured historic back-to-back interviews with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and conducted an exclusive interview with Arafat when his compound was under siege in April 2002. and global breaking news, including an exclusive with former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic while he was imprisoned at The Hague. Prior to joining MSNBC, Cosby hosted Fox News Channel’s “The Big Story Weekend Edition with Rita Cosby” and “FOX News Live with Rita Cosby.” As a senior correspondent for the network, she secured some of the biggest interviews while covering U.S. Additionally, she conducted rare interviews with Erik Menendez and Dr.
She conducted the last broadcast interview with former Crips gang leader Stanley “Tookie” Williams, and was one of a few journalists selected to witness his execution at San Quentin Prison. Most recently, Cosby hosted MSNBC’s “Rita Cosby: Live and Direct.” She traveled extensively for the show, covering breaking news and other major stories, originating live for several weeks from New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region to report on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as from the war zone in Afghanistan and along the U.S.-Mexico border. She currently anchors a daily live one-hour show, in addition to being the primary anchor of top-rated “MSNBC Investigates” and heading up the “Rita Cosby Specials Unit,” which secures the most sought-after interviews and exclusive reports that air on both MSNBC and NBC network news programs. Emmy Award-winning journalist Rita Cosby serves as a host and special correspondent for MSNBC.
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