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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NewsHouse Democratic committee chairs set an April 2 deadline for Attorney General Barr to give Congress the full Mueller report. Committee aides won't say if they will subpoena it if DOJ doesn't comply.
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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. -
NewsPresident Trump and congressional leaders name infrastructure as one area where they think they can reach a bipartisan deal. But the committee working on a plan is also investigating the president. -
NewsThe chairman of the House intelligence committee says he supports House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's high bar for impeachment but also argued there's already a strong case against the president. -
NewsMitchell 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?'" -
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., says his panel is investigating allegations of obstruction of justice, corruption and abuse of power by the president and other officials.
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NewsMichael Cohen was just the beginning. Lawmakers probably want to hear next from his infamous onetime real estate partner Felix Sater as well the Trump company CFO and the president's other associates. -
President Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, called the president a "racist" and "a cheat" in front of the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
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President Trump's former lawyer is not expected to hold back when he appears before the House oversight committee Wednesday. Cohen has pleaded guilty to several crimes including lying to Congress.
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NewsWhistleblowers told the Oversight committee that efforts by some national security officials to try to transfer sensitive nuclear technology to the Saudi government potentially violated the law.
