Tim Mak
Tim Mak is NPR's Washington Investigative Correspondent, focused on political enterprise journalism.
His reporting interests include the 2020 election campaign, national security and the role of technology in disinformation efforts.
He appears regularly on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and the NPR Politics Podcast.
Mak was one of NPR's lead reporters on the Mueller investigation and the Trump impeachment process. Before joining NPR, Mak worked as a senior correspondent at The Daily Beast, covering the 2016 presidential elections with an emphasis on national security. He has also worked on the Politico Defense team, the Politico breaking news desk and at the Washington Examiner. He has reported abroad from the Horn of Africa and East Asia.
Mak graduated with a B.A. from McGill University, where he was a valedictorian. He also currently holds a national certification as an Emergency Medical Technician.
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On the same day gun rights activist Maria Butina was sentenced to 18 months in prison for acting as an unregistered Russian agent, the president stressed his support for gun rights at an NRA meeting.
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President Trump spoke to the National Rifle Association on Friday in Indianapolis. His speech comes at a time of division within the NRA and political mobilization of gun control advocates.
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House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on Friday subpoenaed the Department of Justice for the full Mueller report without redactions and the underlying documents. He set a May 1 deadline.
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The special counsel's report has left many questions unanswered. So where do voters and Congress go from here? The report affirms numerous news media accounts of conduct within the White House.
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The Mueller report concludes that the Trump campaign didn't criminally conspire with Russia during the 2016 election, but there were plenty of contacts between people in Trump's orbit and Russians.
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Oversight Chairman Elijah Cummings, D-Md., is investigating alleged violations of federal records laws. Jared Kushner's lawyer disputes some of Cummings' assertions about what he told the committee. -
The Senate will likely reject President Trump's emergency declaration Thursday. We explain the vote and the Republicans who are expected to break with the president.
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NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., about Michael Cohen's latest closed session testimony before the House intelligence committee on Wednesday.
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Elderly Trump Critics Await Mueller's Report — Sometimes Until Their Last BreathMitchell Tendler, a 93-year-old WWII vet, died recently. According to his son, one of his last statements was about the special counsel: "'I'm not going to see the Mueller report, am I?'" -
President Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, called the president a "racist" and "a cheat" in front of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
