Jeff Scott Goldman is an Emmy award winning Producer and Reporter for CBS News and the PBS NewsHour. Until recently, Jeff worked at the White House covering 6 Presidents over the past 34 years. In that role he traveled the world aboard Air Force One with Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and the beginning of the Donald Trump Presidency.
Mr. Goldman has been an eyewitness to the major historical events. He has covered 6 wars and military conflicts. In the Middle East, he covered both Gulf Wars. He lived in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia for many months during both military interventions. Jeff has also traveled to Israel and other countries in the region multiple times with several Presidents. After witnessing the historic White House hand-shake between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, Mr. Goldman was immediately dispatched to the region. He produced exclusive interviews with key regional leaders to look at the future of the Israeli PLO conflict. Those interviews were with Syrian President Hafez Al Assad in Damascus, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, King Hussein in Amman Jordan and then Israeli President Shimon Peres in Jerusalem.
Jeff has also traveled around the globe with Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton, Condoleeza Rice and General Colin Powell. At the PBS NewsHour, Mr. Goldman produced numerous long form documentaries on a wide range of topics he witnessed overseas included the breakup of the former Soviet Union. He was the first to interview Mikhail Gorbachev after his meeting with Ronald Reagan as Russia opened up to the world. At CBS News, Mr. Goldman also covered every domestic Presidential election since 1996.