Kevin Liptak - Senior Reporter
Kevin Liptak
Senior Reporter
Kevin Liptak is a CNN senior White House reporter based in Washington covering the Biden administration. He reports on US foreign and domestic policy, campaign politics and the internal dynamics of the administration for CNN.
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Biden’s major missile reversal complicates potential western diplomatic thaw with Moscow
Nov 19, 2024
A major decision by the United States to allow Ukraine to fire long-range missiles deeper inside Russian territory has complicated a potential western diplomatic thaw with Russia as dozens of world leaders gather this week.
Biden fades from view as he exits the world stage
Nov 19, 2024
President Joe Biden’s exit from the world stage this week was less of a dramatic mic drop and more of a slow fade from view, a low-key conclusion to a lengthy foreign policy career whose legacy is now under threat by Donald Trump.
Trump’s influence already generating drama among world leaders as G20 gets underway
Nov 18, 2024
Donald Trump’s influence is already causing behind-the-scenes drama as Group of 20 talks are getting underway here this week after one of Trump’s top global allies put up resistance to a joint leaders’ statement, a move diplomats interpreted as meant to curry favor with the incoming administration.
Biden authorizes Ukraine to use long-range US weapons in Russia
Nov 18, 2024
President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use powerful long-range American weapons inside Russia, according to two US officials familiar with the decision, as North Korean troops deploy in support of Moscow’s effort.
Biden makes first presidential visit to the Amazon as incoming Trump administration poses a threat to climate fight
Nov 17, 2024
When President Joe Biden worked to burnish his climate legacy in the Brazilian Amazon on Sunday, the unspoken presence of Donald Trump shadowed the historic stop.
Trump looms over Biden’s final meeting with Xi in Peru
Nov 17, 2024
President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, closed the book on their diplomatic relationship Saturday, meeting for a final time amid uncertainty over what the next Donald Trump presidency might portend for their two countries’ ties.
Jared Kushner expected to be pivotal to Trump admin’s Middle East efforts without taking a formal job
Nov 15, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is seen as being pivotal to the incoming administration’s Middle East efforts, even though he is not likely to take a formal job within it, regional diplomats and Trump allies told CNN.
Biden set to meet with world leaders who have already moved on to Trump
Nov 14, 2024
When President Joe Biden’s aides were planning his visit to South America this week for a pair of leaders’ summits, two vastly different scenarios were in play.
Biden to meet for a final time with Xi this week as a new Trump era of China relations begins
Nov 13, 2024
President Joe Biden will meet for a final time this week with Chinese President Xi Jinping as he prepares to hand over power — and the reins of the world’s most consequential bilateral relationship — to president-elect Trump in January.
‘Welcome back’: Biden offers Trump the smooth transition he never got as president-elect returns to the White House
Nov 13, 2024
The last time Donald Trump was in the Oval Office, he scrawled out a two-page letter to Joe Biden in his distinctive jagged penmanship, slipped it into the drawer of the Resolute Desk and — notwithstanding the note’s surprisingly gracious tone — walked away from the building defeated and bitter.
Trump picks Mike Huckabee to serve as US ambassador to Israel
Nov 13, 2024
President-elect Donald Trump announced Tuesday that he has nominated former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee to serve as United States ambassador to Israel.
Biden faces doubts over his legacy as he prepares to hand over power to the man he called a threat to democracy
Nov 7, 2024
For years, President Joe Biden has used a single phrase to diminish his onetime rival Donald Trump while signaling his own adherence to American political tradition: “You can’t love your country only when you win.”
Leaders rush to pay homage to Trump as they brace for him shaking up the old-world order
Nov 6, 2024
In the hours after Donald Trump secured another term in the White House, a familiar exercise was unfolding in foreign capitals. Dusting off their proverbial Trump playbooks, leaders from Paris to Jerusalem to Riyadh and beyond began posting congratulatory messages online and pressing their ambassadors in Washington to find a way — any way — to get in contact with the incoming president directly.
Trump’s second term will look nothing like his first
Nov 6, 2024
Donald Trump’s election victory this week will return him to the White House, but both his allies and detractors have made clear his second time around will look nothing like the first.
Biden returns to his hometown after a limited campaign role
Nov 2, 2024
In front of a few dozen union carpenters here this weekend, President Biden was getting worked up.
Harris isn’t ready to talk about who might serve in her potential administration
Nov 1, 2024
Kamala Harris has a packed schedule these days: multi-state campaign stops; briefings from advisers on issues at home and abroad; a steady stream of phone calls, meetings and interviews, all as she hopes that she will defeat Donald Trump in next week’s election.
About
Kevin Liptak is a CNN senior White House reporter based in Washington covering the Biden administration.
He reports on US foreign and domestic policy, campaign politics and the internal dynamics of the administration for CNN. Liptak has extensively covered Biden’s response to the war in Ukraine, his efforts to enact new economic policies and his campaign for a second term.
Liptak has covered the White House for CNN since 2013, traveling to nearly every state and more than 45 countries with three US presidents.
He reported on President Trump’s tenure in the White House, including his summits with the North Korean and Russian leaders, his impeachment proceedings and his battle with Covid-19. Before that, Liptak covered President Obama’s second term, reporting from his historic visits to Cuba, Laos and Kenya.
Liptak graduated from the College of William and Mary in Virginia with a degree in English and History.
