Jeremy Herb - CNN Politics Reporter
Jeremy Herb
CNN Politics Reporter
Jeremy Herb is a national security reporter covering Congress for CNN Politics.
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Trump’s pick for intel chief has deeply rooted distrust of agencies she would oversee
Nov 21, 2024
In 2020, the woman who has become Donald Trump’s pick to be the nation’s top spymaster met with one of the most infamous leakers of all time.
Manhattan DA agrees to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in hush money case but opposes dismissal
Nov 20, 2024
The Manhattan district attorney’s office said Tuesday it would agree to postpone Donald Trump’s sentencing in his hush money case to give prosecutors time to litigate the president-elect’s expected motion to dismiss the case.
Trump picks his criminal defense attorneys Todd Blanche and John Sauer for key Justice Department posts
Nov 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is turning to his personal criminal defense team to fill out top roles at the US Justice Department in his second term.
Trump’s Pentagon pick aims for clash with top military leadership
Nov 14, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary Pete Hegseth has railed against women in combat, voiced support for troops accused and in some instances, convicted of war crimes, and advocated for the firing of the military’s most senior officers accused of supporting so-called “woke” policies.
Trump picks Tulsi Gabbard for Director of National Intelligence
Nov 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump said Wednesday he’s selected former Democratic congresswoman-turned Trump supporter Tulsi Gabbard as his pick to be director of national intelligence.
Trump picks Fox News host and Army veteran Pete Hegseth to serve as secretary of defense
Nov 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host and Army veteran, to serve as his secretary of defense.
Decision on whether to overturn Trump’s New York hush money conviction is delayed
Nov 12, 2024
Donald Trump’s lawyers and the Manhattan district attorney’s office have agreed to delay activity in the hush money case until November 19 to give the president-elect’s lawyers time to make new arguments on how his election victory impacts the case.
What happens to Trump’s criminal and civil cases now that he’s been reelected
Nov 12, 2024
Donald Trump has been reelected to the White House as a convicted felon who is awaiting sentencing in his hush money case in New York and still working to stave off prosecution in other state and federal cases.
A buoyant Trump believes he has a mandate to hit the ground running as he revels behind closed doors
Nov 8, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump is reveling in his victory and the subsequent celebration, being described as having a much different mentality than he did in 2017 and feeling like his popular vote win gives him a mandate as he speaks with world leaders, top aides and allies, business CEOs and his transition team.
Trump’s allies are already jockeying for high-powered spots in his administration
Nov 7, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s allies are quickly jockeying for positions in a new Trump new administration on the heels of his decisive victory, sources familiar with the matter told CNN, pitting loyalists against each other to land top roles in the new government.
Battleground states counted ballots quickly after mostly smooth Election Day vote
Nov 6, 2024
Battleground states are counting the ballots that will decide the next US president into the early hours of Wednesday morning, after Election Day voting that largely went smoothly despite fake bomb threats that targeted multiple states.
Voting nationwide has been mostly orderly, despite non-credible bomb threats from Russian origin
Nov 6, 2024
Polls have closed in most of the US while voting continues in some Western states as tens of millions of American voters went to the polls Tuesday to choose the country’s next leaders.
How Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to dispute the election results – again
Nov 5, 2024
Donald Trump is re-using his 2020 playbook to baselessly claim the 2024 election is being stolen from him and is being joined by allies with big megaphones amplifying his falsehoods ahead of Election Day.
What happens to Trump’s November sentencing?
Nov 1, 2024
Donald Trump has several legal tactics to try to stay out of state prison, but his best chance of success turns on the outcome of the presidential election.
Election workers prepare to handle ‘concerning list’ of poll watchers who could disrupt the vote
Oct 25, 2024
During a special election in Wisconsin over the summer, a group of partisan poll watchers showed up at a handful of precincts in Glendale, a suburb of Milwaukee, and created chaos by contesting every absentee ballot that was cast.
About
Jeremy Herb is a national security reporter covering Congress for CNN Politics.
Prior to CNN, Herb was a defense reporter at Politico, where he wrote about the Pentagon, Congress and defense industry political influence, and did a stint as author of the “Morning Defense” newsletter.
Herb was also a national security reporter at The Hill and a Washington correspondent for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, where he covered the short-lived presidential campaigns of former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty and former Rep. Michele Bachmann.
Herb is originally from San Jose, Calif. He has a bachelor’s degree from Santa Clara University and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Journalism School.
