Big picture quotes from:

WaPo's print front page for the morning:

Kellyanne's hubby says: IMPEACH!

George Conway: Trump is a cancer on the presidency. Congress should remove him.

Oped by George T. Conway III @ WashingtonPost.com, April 18 8:09 pm

George T. Conway III is a lawyer in New York.

So it turns out that, indeed, President Trump was not exonerated at all, and certainly not “totally” or “completely,” as he claimed. Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III didn’t reach a conclusion about whether Trump committed crimes of obstruction of justice — in part because, while a sitting president, Trump can’t be prosecuted under long-standing Justice Department directives, and in part because of “difficult issues” raised by “the President’s actions and intent.” Those difficult issues involve, among other things, the potentially tricky interplay between the criminal obstruction laws and the president’s constitutional authority, and the difficulty in proving criminal intent beyond a reasonable doubt.

Still, the special counsel’s report is damning. Mueller couldn’t say, with any “confidence,” that the president of the United States is not a criminal. He said, stunningly, that “if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state.” Mueller did not so state.

That’s especially damning because the ultimate issue shouldn’t be — and isn’t — whether the president committed a criminal act. As I wrote not long ago, Americans should expect far more than merely that their president not be provably a criminal. In fact, the Constitution demands it [....]

For those who don't know, George is more than "a lawyer in New York", a selection from wikipedia:

[....] Conway was one of the lawyers who represented Paula Jones in her lawsuit against U.S. President Bill Clinton.[4][5] During the representation of Jones, he worked closely with Ann Coulter and Matt Drudge.[6] On March 29, 2010, Conway argued the securities case of Morrison v. National Australia Bank before the U.S. Supreme Court, and won with an 8–0 vote with an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia.[7]

Conway had been considered a candidate for some U.S. Department of Justice posts. In January 2017, Conway was considered for the post of Solicitor Generalalong with Gregory G. Katsas, prior to the post going to Noel Francisco.[8][9][10] On March 17, 2017, Conway was reported to be the nominee as Assistant Attorney General to head the Civil Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.[11][12][13] However, on June 2, 2017, he announced that he declined to pursue the post.[14][15] On November 16, 2018, Conway stated that a reason he did not join the Trump administration is because it is “like a shitshow in a dumpster fire.”[16]

On November 9, 2018, Conway and Neal Katyal wrote an op-ed in the New York Times challenging the Constitutionality of Trump's appointment of Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general, to replace Jeff Sessions.[17][18] [....]

Reps. Rashida Tlaib & Al Green on #TimetoImpeach​:

Lawfare "first analysis" is out after tweeting earlier in the evening that they would take some time to comment:

CNN not going all namby pamby on Mueller report messaging:

Spy thinking as opposed to lawyer thinking:

And file under big picture "Russians going for chaos in the U.S." Especially the section labeled "Turning to Trump", i.e., uncontrollable idiots can be useful at times depending on watcha want.

From Paul Rosenzweig @ Lawfare on Barr. (He seems to be a conservative, based on this googling by me: he was @ Homeland Security under Bush and did a stint @ Heritage and Washington Examiner published op-eds):