This Week in Politics

By Cokie Roberts

Published January 27, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

Host Bob Edwards talks with NPR's Cokie Roberts about the upcoming week in politics. President Bush tomorrow delivers the State of the Union. He has to deal with an increasingly disillusioned American public on the issues of economic recovery and the possible war in Iraq.

Cokie Roberts

Cokie Roberts was one of the 'Founding Mothers' of NPR who helped make that network one of the premier sources of news and information in this country. She served as a congressional correspondent at NPR for more than 10 years and later appeared as a commentator on Morning Edition. In addition to her work for NPR, Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming.

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