The Daily's Look Into the Mueller Report (News Analysis Week 11)

By Joe Kelly

For this week's news analysis, I decided to listen an episode of the New York Time's podcast "The Daily" that covered Attorney General William Barr's decision on the Mueller report.

The story started with a recap of Barr's decision that the president and his team did not conspire with Russia to impact the election. They then discussed the apparent disagreement between Barr's four-page summary of the investigation and Mueller team's reporting. As the episode went on, the speakers went into the technicalities of the power that Mueller had as an independent investigator versus the power that Barr had in his own review of the investigation.

The podcast featured two guests that report for the New York Times, including Nick Fandos who covers Congress, and Mike Schmidt who covers national security. They are both correspondents in Washington D.C.

Near the end of the episode, the podcast featured audio clips from the House Judiciary Committee Chairman, Jerry Nadler, and his statement that there might be subpoenas for the full report if Barr doesn't release the full report. This amplified the story's urgency because everyone wants to see what might be evidence that the president is doing un-presidential things, even if those actions aren't enough to say there were high crimes.