News organizations scrambled to summarize the findings of special counsel Mueller's report as cameras rolled. MuellerReport
Photojournalists photograph four pages of the Mueller Report laid on the witness table in the House Intelligence Committee hearing room on Capitol Hill, in Washington, Thursday, April 18, 2019.
Reporters scrambled through stacks of paper with blacked-out portions to glean highlights. Cameras peeked over shoulders to display Mueller’s words on computer screens. Anchors continually asked colleagues, “What have you found?” or “What jumps out at you?”Mueller’s report was released shortly after 11 a.m., following Attorney General William Barr’s more detailed verbal summary of the written summary he delivered on March 24.
Journalists were warned in advance to slow down and take time to digest the news before talking about it or interviewing opinionated guests. But that ignores a hyper-competitive world with airtime and web pages to fill and consumers who are never more than a click away from rivals. A smiling Rudolph Giuliani, Trump’s lawyer, was on Fox News Channel within a half hour of the report’s release.
“The way Barr described what he called the top line or bottom line conclusions of the Mueller investigation tracks very closely with what I’ve been able to read,” NBC News’ Pete Williams said. “His summary of what the investigation says is pretty much on point.” The Washington Post led its first post-release story by describing how Mueller’s investigators “struggled with both the legal implications of investigating President Trump for possible obstruction of justice, and the motives behind a range of his most alarming actions, from seeking the ouster of former officials to ordering a memo that would clear his name.”
Fox News anchor Bret Baier mused about what point Mueller had concluded that there was no collusion with Russia. If that news had gotten out earlier, would it have changed the results of the 2018 midterm elections?
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