The Department of Justice announced Sunday that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation did not find evidence that President Donald Trump’s presidential campaign “conspired or coordinated” with the Russian government in the 2016 presidential election. Further, Mueller did not “exonerate” the president of obstructing justice, according to Attorney General William Barr, who said his summary “sets out evidence on both sides of the question.”

**Follow all of the events on the Breitbart News Live Wire below. All times in eastern.**

11:50 PM —

Van Jones on Mueller findings: “There’s an honest level of sadness and disappointment and disorientation among progressives and Democrats and I think it goes deeper than just what’s in the report.” https://t.co/0sF0fQ4YY4 pic.twitter.com/YV6l7KNxIQ — CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) March 25, 2019

11:24 PM — MSNBC host Ari Melber says House Democrats must accept that Mueller did not find a “chargeable election conspiracy” and there will be no additional indictments.

“Some people want those charges because they just think they are true, they expected that there would be a chargeable conspiracy after hearing so much about Trump publicly asking for Russia’s help and his aides going to meetings,” Melber said, according to Mediaite. “Other people, let’s be real may just hope for charges that challenge the legitimacy of this very controversial president. Those motivations are not what guides our justice system.”

11:24 PM — ICYMI:

Top 10 Propagandists Who Pushed Russia Collusion Hoax https://t.co/GvivsiVIDh — Josh Caplan (@joshdcaplan) March 23, 2019

11:03 PM — MSNBC analyst not happy tonight:

#Mueller turned out to be weak. — Howard Fineman (@howardfineman) March 25, 2019

10:49 PM — WikiLeaks says “no-one from Robert Mueller’s team (or any other element of the US DoJ) ever approached WikiLeaks or its staff for information.”

10:32 PM — Ready for more?

Reminder that we get to do this all over again when the Justice Dept gives lawmakers its official summary of the #Mueller report (after letting Mueller’s team redact sensitive info.) This was just the top level findings. More to come. — Katie Benner (@ktbenner) March 25, 2019

10:19 PM —

More from Giuliani, hinting at calling for a probe of the probe: “I think this should not happen to another president. If there are people who contrived this investigation, who made up this collusion, maybe they themselves should be investigated. We’ll find out.” — Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) March 25, 2019

10:12 PM — After Mueller concludes no Trump campaign-Russia collusion occurred, Democrat National Committee head Tom Perez asks if President Trump was compromised by Russia.

DNC Chair @TomPerez on the President: The question for me that remains is was he compromised? pic.twitter.com/oF26IPbUkr — Kasie DC (@KasieDC) March 25, 2019

9:23 PM —

Special Counsel’s office declining to comment on AG Barr’s letter summarizing Mueller’s findings, per @JackDate. — Ben Siegel (@benyc) March 25, 2019

9:06 PM — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggests Comey will be asked to testify before his panel.

Could not agree more. See you soon. https://t.co/KNGzyDizdq — Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) March 25, 2019

8:56 PM —Meadows discusses pardons with Politico: “It is too soon to have discussions of pardons but many of us who have a deeper understanding of what transpired and the motivations surrounding General Flynn’s case believe justice would be served with extreme leniency from the sentencing judge.”

8:32 PM — Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) echoes former Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), says it’s not a prosecutor’s job to exonerate a subject―they either uncover evidence or they don’t.

My Democrat colleagues keep seizing on this line that the Mueller report “doesn’t exonerate” the President. Folks, prosecutors don’t exonerate people. They either find evidence or they don’t. They looked for 22 months and found none. It isn’t there. No collusion, no obstruction. — Mark Meadows (@RepMarkMeadows) March 25, 2019

8:14 PM — House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) breaks his silence:

Mueller did not find sufficient evidence to establish conspiracy, notwithstanding Russian offers to help Trump’s campaign, their acceptance, and a litany of concealed interactions with Russia. I trust Mueller’s prosecutorial judgement, but the country must see the evidence. — Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 24, 2019

7:39 PM — A senior White House official tells the Daily Mail that they haven’t witnessed the president “this happy in months. It’s like election night again.”

7:36 PM — Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) calls Barr’s summary of the Mueller report “inadequate.”

Feinstein: Barr’s 4-page summary of the Mueller report is inadequate and demonstrates why Congress needs to obtain the full report and underlying evidence. — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) March 24, 2019

Feinstein: Congress must do its job and determine whether President Trump abused his authority and what next steps are appropriate. I plan to call on Attorney General Barr to provide the full report and underlying material to Congress so we can conduct proper oversight. — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) March 24, 2019

7:24 PM — Vice President Mike Pence issues a statement on the Mueller report summary’s findings:

“Today is a great day for America, President Trump and our entire administration. After two years of investigation, and reckless accusations by many Democrats and members of the media, the Special Counsel has confirmed what President Trump said along; there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election,” the vice president said. “The Attorney General also confirmed that there was no obstruction of justice. This total vindication of the President of the United States and our campaign should be welcomed by every American who cherishes the truth and the integrity of our elections.”

He continued: “In the days ahead, the American people can be confident that the President and our entire administration will continue to focus where we always have, on the issues most important to our country. We can only hope that Democrats, who have spent so much time on these discredited allegations, will join us to advance an agenda that will make our nation even more prosperous and more secure for every American.”

7:11 PM — President Donald Trump returns to the White House from Mar-a-Lago. “I just want to tell you that America is the greatest place on earth,” he told reporters.

The President has returned to the White House, stopping to say to reporters, “I just want to tell you that America is the greatest place on earth.” He did not take questions. pic.twitter.com/PbNUG5LgcU — Betsy Klein (@betsy_klein) March 24, 2019

7:10 PM — CNN political analyst says media coverage of Mueller probe was “not quite aggressive enough.”

Contra a lot of commentary: given the issues, stakes, and seriousness with which special counsel treated all of this, the media’s coverage of Russia-Trump connection and possible obstruction over the last two years was somewhere between about right and not quite aggressive enough — Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) March 24, 2019

7:08 PM — Some analysis by the Wall Street Journal’s Kim Strassel:

1) On the #NoCollusion findings of Mueller's report. It's worth recognizing that this is more than an exoneration. It's a searing indictment of the FBI. — Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) March 24, 2019

3) The Papadopoulos conversation was always thin gruel. And the Mueller findings now prove the dossier was a fabrication. The country now deserves a full accounting of how the FBI blew this so badly–so that it doesn't happen again. — Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) March 24, 2019

4) If Mueller has done his job, he will address some of this. But the real accounting needs to come from a full declassification of FBI/DOJ probe docs. Mueller report is only half the story. Time to go back to the beginning, to how we got a special counsel in first place. — Kimberley Strassel (@KimStrassel) March 24, 2019

6:58 PM —

Pres described as very happy on the flight back to DC based on the Barr letter on the Mueller report. Spokesman @hogangidley45 told press pool on Air Force One that @POTUS “feeling very good. It’s complete and total exoneration. No collusion. No obstruction.” — Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 24, 2019

6:57 PM —

.@SenBlumenthal tells @NBCNews that Barr must give Congress more of the Mueller report "within weeks, not months." "We’re in uncharted waters here on the timing issue," he said 1/2 — Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) March 24, 2019

6:56 PM —

“The principal finding from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation confirms what my own review found: there was no collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin to influence the presidential election." –@ChuckGrassley https://t.co/ubjWnu7K4k — Sen. Grassley Press (@GrassleyPress) March 24, 2019

6:55 PM — Failed Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams reacts to Mueller clearing the president of collusion with Russia:

.@staceyabrams on the Mueller findings: “Until Mueller’s full report is released to the public, we may never know the extent to which Trump and his allies worked with Russia to alter the outcome of the 2016 election.” #gapol pic.twitter.com/R04kUSkNly — Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) March 24, 2019

6:48 PM —

LIVE NOW: House Judiciary Committee Chair Jerry Nadler holds news conference after Congress receives letter from Attorney General William Barr on the Mueller report. https://t.co/o6RAcvwTQL https://t.co/uiaU9YOXcp — ABC News (@ABC) March 24, 2019

6:46 PM —

Alan Dershowitz on the Mueller report: “This is a good day for the President. It’s a very, very bad day for CNN … they should be hanging their heads in shame.” “They misinformed the American public and they have to have some public accountability”pic.twitter.com/Ly3N6jqURg — Michigan Grandma (@MichiganGrandm1) March 24, 2019

6:43 PM — Just one day ago:

Beto O'Rourke campaigns in Charleston, SC: "You have a president who, in my opinion, beyond a shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government or foreign power to undermine and influence our elections." pic.twitter.com/piez8d9v26 — The Hill (@thehill) March 24, 2019

6:36 PM — Former Justice Department spokesperson Matthew Miller is spinning the theory that Mueller wanted Congress to determine whether President Donald Trump obstructed justice, but Barr took it upon himself to decide it could not be proven.

We need to see the full report, but I don't read it that he left it to the AG – that's just not the way DOJ works. I think he left it to Congress because of the OLC opinion and Barr stepped in to decide. https://t.co/0Zu1atWipH — Matthew Miller (@matthewamiller) March 24, 2019

6:32 PM — Ex-Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ), a former federal prosecutor, says it was Mueller’s responsibility to determine whether the president committed a crime, not exonerate him.

Bob Mueller “did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. Presidential election.” Complete exoneration by one of the prosecutors with the most integrity and experience in America. — Governor Christie (@GovChristie) March 24, 2019

On the charge of obstruction of justice, Bob Mueller’s report “does not conclude that the President committed a crime”. That’s an important finding because that is what prosecutors do—they prosecute, they do not exonerate. Why? Because we all enjoy the presumption of innocence. — Governor Christie (@GovChristie) March 24, 2019

We are all presumed innocent under our constitution whether you are President or any other citizen. Prosecutors don’t exonerate folks because that’s not their job—they either prosecute or they don’t. When they don’t, no other exoneration is needed-we are innocent under our laws. — Governor Christie (@GovChristie) March 24, 2019

6:27 PM — Ronna McDaniel, Chair of the Republican National Committee, issues statement following the release of the Mueller report summary:

6:20 PM — House Judiciary Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) will give remarks in roughly 30 minutes.

House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler will hold a press conference today at 6:45PM ET — Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) March 24, 2019

6:13 PM — This did not age well:

This is DAY ONE and there's HARD, DIRECT, *ADMITTED* collusion. BYE, Felicia. — Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) October 30, 2017

6:09 PM — Donald Trump Jr. reacts to Democrat congressional leaders casting doubt on Barr’s summary of the Mueller report:

We knew it was coming… the patented Democrat tripple down (X 100,000,000,000,000…) When the media is on your payroll I guess you can get away with anything as proven by the last two years collusion farce. https://t.co/u4uWsoZuK6 — Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) March 24, 2019

6:07 PM — The Young Turks’ Cenk Uygur claims the Mueller investigation failed to adequately investigate the president:

Let me be clear, I CONCEDE NOTHING! If #MuellerReport didn’t look into Trump’s business ties with the Russians before the elections and didn’t look into his secret meetings with them after the election, then this is an epic debacle that looked into the exact wrong things. — Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) March 24, 2019

6:04 PM — President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign releases a video montage of Democrats hyping Russia collusion claims:

5:55 PM — President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Brad Parscale issues a statement: “Today marks the day that President Trump has been completely and fully vindicated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, exposing the Russia collusion conspiracy theory for the sham that it always was and catching Democrats in an elaborate web of lies and deceit.”

Our statement from ⁦@parscale⁩ on the complete exoneration of President ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩: pic.twitter.com/BfsvutPexq — Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) March 24, 2019

5:53 PM — The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald with another zinger:

MSNBC hosts should collectively go on the air, bow their heads in shame, and apologize to the public for what they've done. Outlets should fire the ex-CIA, NSA and Pentagon officials who used their disinformation training to help these "news agencies" mislead everyone: https://t.co/oNgtwkaNEe — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 24, 2019

5:45 PM — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) issue joint statement, say Barr letter “raises as many questions as it answers.” Further, the Democrat congressional leaders claim Barr has a “public record of bias” against the Mueller probe and request the “full report and the underlying documents.”

Read their full statement below:

“Attorney General Barr’s letter raises as many questions as it answers. The fact that Special Counsel Mueller’s report does not exonerate the president on a charge as serious as obstruction of justice demonstrates how urgent it is that the full report and underlying documentation be made public without any further delay. Given Mr. Barr’s public record of bias against the Special Counsel’s inquiry, he is not a neutral observer and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report.

“And most obviously, for the president to say he is completely exonerated directly contradicts the words of Mr. Mueller and is not to be taken with any degree of credibility.

“Congress requires the full report and the underlying documents so that the Committees can proceed with their independent work, including oversight and legislating to address any issues the Mueller report may raise. The American people have a right to know.”

5:39 PM — Fired FBI Director James Comey tweets he has “So many questions” after Mueller report summary released.

5:33 PM — 2020 Democrat presidential candidates call for the Mueller report to be released to the public:

I don’t want a summary of the Mueller report. I want the whole damn report. https://t.co/VU1oNfBMK0 — Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) March 24, 2019

The Mueller report needs to be made public, the underlying investigative materials should be handed over to Congress, and Barr must testify. That is what transparency looks like. A short letter from Trump's hand-picked Attorney General is not sufficient. — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) March 24, 2019

Congress voted 420-0 to release the full Mueller report. Not a "summary" from his handpicked Attorney General. AG Barr, make the full report public. Immediately. — Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) March 24, 2019

The American public deserves the full report and findings from the Mueller investigation immediately—not just the in-house summary from a Trump Administration official. https://t.co/8Lj0O881Cw — Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) March 24, 2019

The Mueller report must be made public. Not just a letter from someone appointed by Trump to protect himself—all of it. The President works for the people, and he is not above the law. https://t.co/XH5NqzLJAb — Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) March 24, 2019

5:22 PM — Rep. Denny Heck (D-WA), on live television, falsely claims Barr authored quote from the Mueller report summary that states the 2016 Trump campaign did not collude with Russia.

EMBARRASSING! It's very clear that @RepDennyHeck didn't read or do his homework before talking about Mueller's exoneration of @realDonaldTrump. pic.twitter.com/KwoF1DQsnz — Steven Cheung (@CaliforniaPanda) March 24, 2019

5:22 PM — Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani reacts to the Mueller report summary:

Trump atty Giuliani: "This is a complete and total vindication of the President.” — Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) March 24, 2019

5:21 PM — The founder of the now-defunct Weekly Standard was wrong again:

Lest we lose sight of the forest for the trees: It seems to me likely Mueller will find there was collusion between Trump associates and Putin operatives; that Trump knew about it; and that Trump sought to cover it up and obstruct its investigation.

What then?

Good question. — Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) August 9, 2018

5:19 PM — White House aide Kellyanne Conway congratulates President Trump:

Congratulations ⁦@POTUS⁩ ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ Today you won the 2016 election all over again. And got a gift for the 2020 election. They’ll never get you because they’ll never “get” you. #MuellerReport#NoCollusion#NoObstruction#Went2MichiganNotMoscow pic.twitter.com/gFqLLLb1fS — Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) March 24, 2019

5:15 PM — (AP) — The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald eviscerates those who pushed Trump-Russia collusion theories over the last two years.: “Everyone who questioned this bullshit scam from the start – who endured accusations of being Kremlin agents, Putin stooges, Trump supporters, anti-US haters, who got banned from cable news & had smear jobs published in the New Yorker & the like – should wear it all with pride.”

Everyone who questioned this buillshit scam from the start – who endured accusations of being Kremlin agents, Putin stooges, Trump supporters, anti-US haters, who got banned from cable news & had smear jobs published in the New Yorker & the like – should wear it all with pride. — Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 24, 2019

5:14 PM — (AP) — A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin says the Kremlin has not yet seen the summary of the U.S. special counsel’s report on the investigation into whether the Trump administration colluded with Russia.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was quoted by Russian news agencies quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying Sunday night after the Justice Department released the summary. “We are not familiar with the report.”

5:07 PM — Lynne Patton, a senior Department of Housing and Urban Development official, lauds the summary of the Mueller report:

Longtime Trump aide and current HUD official @LynnePatton weighs in on the Barr Memo pic.twitter.com/7xNlQyId60 — Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) March 24, 2019

5:01 PM — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) weighs in: “The Special Counsel’s conclusions confirm the President’s account that there was no effort by his campaign to conspire or coordinate with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election.”

4:50 PM — Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA), the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, says the Mueller probe was grounded on “false pretenses, false intel, and false media reports.”

The Russia investigation was based on false pretenses, false intel, and false media reports. House Intel found a yr ago there was no evidence of collusion, and Democrats who falsely claim to have such evidence have needlessly provoked a terrible, more than two-year-long crisis. — Devin Nunes (@DevinNunes) March 24, 2019

4:50 PM — President Trump tells reporters that the Russia probe was “an illegal takedown that failed.”

“It’s a shame that our country had to go through this. To be honest, it’s a shame that your president has had to go through this,” he adds.

HAPPENING NOW: Pres. Trump speaks to reporters after the Justice Department released a summary of the Mueller report. https://t.co/x25ToVYnRp pic.twitter.com/PnVWyGKt6S — CBS News (@CBSNews) March 24, 2019

4:42 PM —

No Collusion, No Obstruction, Complete and Total EXONERATION. KEEP AMERICA GREAT! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 24, 2019

4:31 PM — MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough scolds the media’s reaction to Mueller clearing President Trump’s campaign of collusion.

Memo to Journalists: It is GOOD NEWS for America when someone as respected as Robert Mueller takes two years to methodically determine that the sitting president of the United States did not conspire with Russia. Take a breath. — Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) March 24, 2019

4:30 PM — Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) questions whether Barr’s “interpretation” of the Mueller probe summary is correct:

Maybe Barr’s interpretation is right. Maybe it’s not. But why the heck would we be ok with an ally of President, appointed because of his hostility to the Mueller investigation, tell us what the report says? Give Congress the report. Give the public the report. Now. — Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) March 24, 2019

4:27 PM — Donald Trump Jr. issues a statement on the Mueller probe summary:

“After more than 2 years of non-stop conspiracy theories from CNN, MSNBC, Buzzfeed and the rest of the mainstream media, as well as daily lies and smears coming from Democrats in Washington, the Mueller Report proves what those of us with sane minds have known all along, there was ZERO collusion with Russia.

Sadly, instead of apologizing for needlessly destabilizing the country in a transparent attempt to delegitimize the 2016 election, it’s clear that the Collusion Truthers in the media and the Democrat Party are only going to double down on their sick and twisted conspiracy theories moving forward.

It’s my hope that honest journalists within the media have the courage to hold these now fully debunked truthers accountable and treat them with the scorn and ridicule that they so deserve.”

4:28 PM — CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin says the Justice Department’s report on Russian interference during the 2016 election gave President Trump “total vindication” regarding collusion.

4:27 PM — Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) says he will call on Attorney General William Barr to testify soon before the House Judiciary Committee.

In light of the very concerning discrepancies and final decision making at the Justice Department following the Special Counsel report, where Mueller did not exonerate the President, we will be calling Attorney General Barr in to testify before @HouseJudiciary in the near future. — (((Rep. Nadler))) (@RepJerryNadler) March 24, 2019

4:13 PM — White House press secretary Sarah Sanders issues a statement on Mueller summary findings:

The Special Counsel did not find any collusion and did not find any obstruction. AG Barr and DAG Rosenstein further determined there was no obstruction. The findings of the Department of Justice are a total and complete exoneration of the President of the United States.” — Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) March 24, 2019

4:02 PM — Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) weighs in our Mueller report summary:

After two years, two congressional investigations, and now the closure of a Special Counsel investigation, it is abundantly clear, without a shadow of a doubt, there was no collusion. This case is closed.

My full statement: pic.twitter.com/XiPQZom3Fp — Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) March 24, 2019

4:00 PM — (AP) — Mueller investigated whether Trump obstructed justice but did not come to a definitive answer, Attorney General William Barr said in a letter to Congress summarizing Mueller’s report.

here’s the 4-page letter DoJ sent to the Judiciary Committee leaders with topline findings from the #mueller report pic.twitter.com/ki0lP4sy4j — Katie Benner (@ktbenner) March 24, 2019

The special counsel “does not exonerate” Trump of obstructing justice, Barr said, and his report “sets out evidence on both sides of the question.”

After consulting with other Justice Department officials, Barr said he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined the evidence “is not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction of justice offense.”

Barr released a four-page summary of Mueller’s report Sunday afternoon. Mueller wrapped up his investigation on Friday with no new indictments, bringing to a close a probe that has shadowed Trump for nearly two years.

Barr’s chief of staff called White House counsel Emmet Flood at 3 p.m. Sunday to brief him on the report to Congress. Trump was at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, about to return to Washington after spending the weekend there.