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Putin is on the same plane as american leadership. if so we need to know that. >> wajehan to you, to touch on something david just mentions about confusion in the world. what do you think the middle east hears when they hear donald trump speak well of vladimir putin, especially considering what we've seen unfold in syria over the past few years? >> let me be very blunt. there's a reason why people are calling him putin's poodle. and david made a good point. if you look at donald trump's twitter account, he has tweeted against john lewis, civil rights icon, republican senators, the cia, hamilto...

With him. obama and him, he hates obama. >> reporter: but analysts have a warning for donald trump, reminding him putin once managed kgb agents. >> he reads trump, and he says this is a guy i want to feed his ego. i want to make him feel like he can actually achieve the unrealistically big things he says he can achieve. and then i want to use him in doing that. >> reporter: experts say by praising trump, putin probably was taking a jab at president obama. but they say putin and trump also have similar perspectives on leadership. >> they're both focused on this image of action and strength and ...

M. >> putin has won it twice before. >> he is influential though, right? >> you want to be controversial? >> they have had dictators. >> stalin on it? >> andy, what do you think? putin and goodell are out of control and they will can sell each other out. the acting lead is only on there to make it seem more serious. tim cook is boring. jack ma's company is chinese, no chance. ebola caretakers, we have moved on. >> i don't like when it is one person. >> taylor swift, i kind of hope she wins because i think it will start a huge firestorm over why beyonce was not

>> you have the now fugitive former president of ukraine who apparently at the word of putin was really pulling the strings to many people there calling him putin's puppet. in your article you said putin loss in ukraine could be barack obama's gain. how do you mean? >> look. obama tried to do the reset with russia and thought the bush administration had misplayed the relationship with moscow. they reached a low point and putin is difficult and caused a lot of problems for obama. the policy in syria by supporting assad and taking in edward snowden who can forget the times oped. here's an opport...

Everyone i've spoken to in the administration, both administrations, accept that view. i think the president feels if he makes any concession on that, somehow that gives credence to collusion. but these are two separate issues. he's got to realize that. it's also definitely wrong to ain any way be suggesting any moral equivalence between the u.s. and russia. to me, it's a terrible mistake and he's got to correct it. >> reporter: king also stood by that house intelligence committee finding. he said he absolutely stands by the finding, questioning whether or not putin wanted trump to win, despit...