We think the best advice right now on the Mueller report is to take a deep breath and wait, because we know virtually nothing about its conclusions and (more importantly) its "comprehensive" investigatory materials.
Marshall Cohen at CNN has a pretty fair list of questions/ analyses surrounding the report that we recommend reading. Here are Cohen's questions, minus his analysis:
Was there a conspiracy to collude?
Why didn't Mueller interview Trump in person?
What will the public see of Mueller's report?
Were there even more contacts with Russians?
Did Trump or anyone else obstruct justice?
Are there more big lies that will be exposed?
Was Trump deemed a counterintelligence threat?
How much of the (Steele) dossier could Mueller confirm?
What did Mueller find when he crossed Trump's "red line"?
Will Mueller knock down left-wing conspiracies? *
How many related investigations are still active?
That final question goes beyond the investigations we already know about being conducted by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, the Manhattan DA's office and the State of New York's Attorney General. During the course of his limited- charter look at Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Mueller also is thought to have spun off evidence of potential crimes or kompromat to other jurisdictions within the Justice Department. Of course, then there are the investigations that Congress is undertaking on a breadth of misdeeds by this corrupt regime.
The Mueller report is the first chapter of what is likely to be a tome.
BONUS: As Booman says, it's not about the absence of indictments coming with the Mueller report. It's about seeing the underlying evidence -- the full counterintelligence report -- that Congressional Dems are demanding.
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* He needed to slip this in for "balance" no doubt.
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