• White House Senior Advisor to the President Jared Kushner and U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson exit the West Wing as they arrive for a joint press conference with U.S. President Donald Trump and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, in the Rose Garden at the White House October 17, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

    Tillerson reveals frustrations about Kushner working behind his back

    By Kylie Atwood and Zachary Cohen, CNN
    One evening during his tenure as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was out to dinner in Washington when the restaurant owner asked if he would like to say hello to the Mexican Foreign Minister, Luis Videgaray, who also happened to be at the same establishment. As they walked to the back of the restaurant Tillerson was shocked to find Videgaray, who Tillerson did not know was in town, dining with President Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
  • LEFT: WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 29: U.S. President Donald Trump waves while finishing answering questions from the press while departing the White House November 29, 2018 in Washington, DC. Trump answered numerous questions regarding his former attorney Michael Cohen's recent court appearance and testimony before departing. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

RIGHT: Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is pictured while meeting with the Tunisian President at the presidential palace in Carthage on the eastern outskirts of the capital Tunis on November 27, 2018. (Photo by FETHI BELAID / AFP)        (Photo credit should read FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images)

    The slow-motion disaster of Trump's Khashoggi strategy

    By Zachary Cohen and Phil Mattingly, CNN
    Shortly before 1 p.m. on Tuesday, having just received a classified briefing from the director of the CIA in the basement of the Capitol, two Republican senators stepped to a crowd of cameras and reporters. With a few pointed words, the pair blew up the Trump administration's efforts to minimize the political damage stemming from journalist Jamal Khashoggi's murder.
  • Credit: Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Photos from the Middlebury Institute of new developments of a North Korean missile site taken in October/November 2018.

    New satellite images reveal activity at unidentified North Korean missile base

    By Zachary Cohen, CNN
    New satellite images obtained exclusively by CNN reveal North Korea has significantly expanded a key long-range missile base located in the mountainous interior of the country, offering yet another reminder that diplomatic talks with the US have done little to prevent Kim Jong Un from pursuing his promise to mass produce and deploy the existing types of nuclear warheads in his arsenal.

About 

  • Zachary Cohen is a writer and reporter for CNN Politics, where he focuses on the national security beat in Washington, covering the Pentagon, US State Department, White House, intelligence community and Capitol Hill.

    Cohen began his career with CNN as a video journalist, quickly moving to a video producer role for CNN Digital. He curated, edited and produced content for the CNN homepage, as well as shot, edited and produced original video content targeted directly to the digital audience.

    Cohen graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in Journalism.