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Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos on Co-Anchoring ‘GMA’ for Almost 20 Years and Trump Era Attacks on the Media: ‘It Stings When You Hear the Words “Fake News”’

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When George Stephanopoulos was approached in 2009 about replacing Diane Sawyer as co-anchor of “Good Morning America” by then-ABC News president David Westin, the former politico was the host of Sunday news show “This Week.” “He had a great position there in Washington,” Westin tells me. “They had a beautiful house in Georgetown, and he […]

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