 APRIL 18, 2019  Special counsel Robert Mueller's 448-page report made public today states that there wasn't enough evidence to charge Trump, or members of his team with a crime related to Russian interference. It did lay out a worrying pattern of contact with Russians and lies about those conduct. It raises serious concerns about whether in the face of clear cut evidence of the Russian operation to aid Trump, anything would be different if that effort commenced anew or were ongoing.
Mueller said that the decision not to charge Trump was a difficult one, and that it was not clear he was innocent of obstructing justice. If the Special Counsel's office had been certain that Trump did not commit crimes, Mueller said, it would have said so in the report.
Mueller's office says it weighed charging Trump with obstruction, but didn't in part because "we recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting President would place burdens on the President's capacity to govern and potentially preempt constitutional process for addressing presidential misconduct."
As Jeremy Bash said on MSNBC earlier today, the Mueller investigation may have concluded, but now the attention shifts to Capitol Hill, where House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler confirmed he will subpoena the underlying evidence behind this report. Democratic lawmakers are already calling for Special Counsel Mueller to testify in public to explain his findings and his conclusions.
Read highlights of the report and the full report on MSNBC.com.
ICYMI: Videos from MSNBC Today  Andrew McCabe, former acting director of the FBI, talks to Rachel Maddow about the Mueller report as an outline for the prosecution of Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, either by Congress or by the Justice Department once Trump is out of office.
 On Hardball, Rep. Joaquin Castro says that Mueller should be brought in to Congress and asked if impeachment proceedings should begin.
 According to the Mueller report, a major reason the president wasn't able to gain control of the investigation was that his orders were refused by his various subordinates and associates. Chris Matthews breaks down some of the 448 pages.
 Special Counsel Bob Mueller should testify before Congress, said Sen. Kamala Harris of the Senate Judiciary Committee on All In with Chris Hayes.
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Analysis and Opinion ANALYSIS: Mueller shows Russians and the Trump campaign were friends with benefits. Was it collusion by another name? The Mueller report did establish in painstaking detail that the two sides pursued a relationship of mutual benefit during the election campaign — and afterward. by Ken Dilanian, NBC News National Security reporter.
OPINION: Time for Sarah Huckabee Sanders to resign Sarah Sanders has been asked to simultaneously serve two masters: the president of the United States and the White House press corps (and through them, the American people.) And she has failed. by Kurt Bardella, THINK contributor.
On MSNBC Friday MSNBC's Road Warriors are fanned across the country to talk to voters on what they think of the newly-released Mueller report. Will it affect their vote in 2020?
Presidential hopeful William Weld, who is challenging President Trump for a Republican nomination, joins Stephanie Ruhle at 9 a.m. ET.
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