ABC News celebrated chief legal analyst Dan Abrams at the Upper West Side’s Atlantic Grill Tuesday evening for his new book, Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense: The Courtroom Battle to Save His Legacy.
Good Morning America senior ep Michael Corn gave a toast to Abrams, saying “The rare thing in this world is not being the super smart guy that wants to talk and share what they know. The rare thing is the super smart guy who is really interesting when they do that, and that’s Dan Abrams.”
Abrams thanked his family, friends and co-author David Fisher, “without David these books don’t happen. David makes me a better writer and a better historian and I owe that to his expertise.”
Corn was joined by ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, Good Morning America’s Roxanna Sherwood and Simone Swink, ABC News’ senior ep of special events Marc Burstein, Nightline co-anchor Dan Harris, The View’s senior ep Hilary Estey McLoughlin, 20/20’s senior ep David Sloan, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’s ep Chris Licht, CNN’s national security analyst Sam Vinograd, ABC News’ senior ep of the investigative unit Chris Vlasto, ABC News’ vice president of news practices David Peterkin.
Abrams is a media renaissance man. In addition to his work appearing across all ABC News programming, he runs Abrams Media, and hosts a daily Sirius XM radio show. He served as MSNBC host and general manager, and NBC News legal analyst before joining ABC News in March 2011. Abrams was later named Nightline anchor and chief legal affairs anchor in June 2013. In December 2014, he stepped down from those roles and into his current role of ABC News chief legal analyst.
He also founded the OTT and linear network Law&Crime, and presently hosts of A&E’s Live PD, the No. 1 basic cable entertainment series among adults 18-49.