and for that the president didn t even have his interpreter, i believe it was only the russian interpreter. so we re not likely to hear from him. so the phone call, most of it was off the record. but some of it he immediately said when he landed back in public. so it was in his mind. what it basically was, was that vladimir putin had made the argument that the russians are so good at hacking that had they done it, they never would have been caught. and he said, i found that a pretty convincing argument. i said to him, well, you know, if you go back and look at what the intelligence reports told you, they all told you that vladimir putin not only was aware of it, he ordered if the do you believe your own u.s. intelligence reports or putin? and he said, how could i believe people like john brennan and comey and so forth? he took it immediately to the personal, that they re so political that he couldn t believe them. and so he believes vladimir putin over them and that s the upshot.
of these efforts? i believe that russian intelligence is very good at hacking. i don t know that russia intelligence knows which counties in pennsylvania and ohio and wisconsin in which to generate the kind of pressure or news or social media pressure that apparently happened. so those are the kinds of questions i imagine robert mueller is examining. they re not at all incompatible or they don t contradict what donald trump is saying. he deserves a lot of credit. it still might be, however, though many great boxers who were boxing in fights that were fixed. it doesn t mean they weren t great boxers, but the fight was still fixed. fareed is going to get the last word on that and here is why. thank you all by the way because fareed will be back with our cnn special report, why trump won. and don t miss sunday at 10 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. again, thanks. jim, chris, and fareed zakaria. when we come back, the president says maybe his threat of fewer and fury to north korea wasn t
intelligence is very good at hacking. i don t know that russia intelligence knows which counties in pennsylvania and ohio and wisconsin in which to generate the kind of pressure or news or social media pressure that apparently happened. so those are the kinds of questions i imagine robert mueller is examining. they re not at all incompatible or they don t contradict what donald trump is sighing. he deserves a lot of credit. it still might be, however, though many great boxers who were positioning in fights that were fixed. it doesn t mean they weren t great boxers, but the fight was still fixed. fa read is going to get the last word on that and here is why. thank you all by the way because he will be back with our cnn special report. and don t miss sunday at 10 aim and 1:00 p.m. again, thanks. when we come back, the president says maybe his threat of fewer and fury to north korea wasn t tough enough. but what will the rest of the world think?
was not aware of one of existed before the election day. do you buy that? he said i didn t know the name of the russian ambassador. this excuse of i m not familiar with washington ways, i don t think it will be bought by special counsel mueller. moreover there are other people in these meeting he including manafort and including michael flynn. flynn indicated he wants to make a deal. so if mueller is able to flip him, we will have another side of what s going down in these meetings. finally phillip, i have to note that anthony scaramucci s account of why it may not be the russians, they are so good at hacking. they are so good they would cover their tracks and we wouldn t know it was him. a remark that putin told trump. and moscow s cyber operators soar good at covert and computer network operations if they had dipped into the dnc systems they
note that anthony scaramucci s account of why it may not be the russians, they are so good at hacking. they are so good they would cover their tracks and we wouldn t know it was him. a remark that putin told trump. and moscow s cyber operators soar good at covert and computer network operations if they had dipped into the dnc systems they would not have been caught. they are now laundering essentially the putin line about the culpability here. i guess that s what happened. anthony made clear in that interview that his source who had been anonymous at the start of the interview was president of the united states and that s not unusual in dealing with these white house officials. they hear a lot of theories and explanations from the president and pass those along. sfaz. a lot of theories going on. thank four joining me. next, why the details of the senate health care bill are once again a complete mystery even to senators scheduled to vote on it in less than 24 hours from now.