On October 19, 1992, Rook was a panelist, alongside Gene Gibbons of Reuters and Helen Thomas of UPI, for the third debate of the 1992 presidential election, hosted by Jim Lehrer of "The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS. C-Span interviewed Rook about her Presidential Debate experience. At CNN, Rook co-hosted "CNN PrimeNews" with Bernard Shaw and was the host of "Talkback Live" from its inception in 1994. Rook left CNN in 1997. She hosted a panel on education for the Republican Governors Association in November 1998. Rook was a part of the coverage of the millennium celebrations for PBS in 1999–2000. Rook married Ed Turner, former executive vice president of CNN, in 1993. They divorced in 1994. Turner died of cancer in 2002. Rook is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. In 2000, Rook traveled to Nepal and climbed to the base camp of Mount Everest.