g to see you as always. john mclaughlin. for more on the president's relationship with vladimir putin i'm joined by julia ioffe, correspondent for gq and michael isikoff with yahoo! news and co-author of "russian rule evident: the inside story of putin's war on america and the election of donald trump." julia, what do you make of what we've been talking about so far? at some point one goes tired of thinking the president's just not listening to his advisers or the president must know better. you've got to arrive at the conclusion that he knew what he was doing. the whole world told him he wasn't prepared for this meeting and he said he'd been preparing all his life for it. he went in there apparently knowing what he was doing. >> i think that's probably true. i think he went in there knowing that he was meeting with a man who expressed a clear preference for him during the election, after the election. donald trump has seen even more than we've seen in terms of classified intelligence on what the russians did to help him win. so you know, and i think that he -- you know, he again thinks it was a brilliant campaign, the russians hel