about Russian interference, I say that might be true. That's possible. But how the hell would you know that? If he is doing it, you're supposed to not know it. That's how it works.

Now what about the credible threat that if Russia interferes again, that this president will make them pay a price? Do we have a credible threat? I think so. The most common criticism of this president is that he's unpredictable, which happens to be one of his strengths. Do you think that Putin is sitting over there saying that he could mess with the United States, be detected — which probably would happen, it probably would be detected — do you think Putin thinks he has a free pass? Does that even make a little bit of sense?

Maybe. Maybe you can't say. I can't read his mind. But does this seem likely to you that Putin is thinking, ah, they didn't do much to me last time, a little bit of sanctions, nothing. I'm just gonna interfere again because this president will never do anything to me. I don't think there's any chance that's true.

I would say that the most the president can do is already happening, which is he's created a persona, a brand, in which the one thing you can be sure of is that just because he said you were a nice guy yesterday doesn't mean he won't kill you tomorrow. Don't you know that's true? If there's anything you could depend on with this president, it's that it doesn't matter how much he complimented you on Tuesday. If he needs to kill you on Wednesday, he's gonna kill you on Wednesday. That's one of the things we like about him, right? I'm not wrong about that. He could love you on Tuesday and kill you on Wednesday. I'm pretty sure Putin knows that because we know it. How would he not know it?

So that's the dumbest comment, is that Trump isn't doing anything. It seems to me that the most he could do, the very most he could do, is to say something in public. And maybe he will between now and the election. It's kind of early to do it. Maybe it's not too early. Any time now he could say publicly, look, here's the deal, Russia. If you mess with our elections again, there's gonna be a specific response and it's gonna be economic and you are not gonna like it at all.

Now that might help, but I also think Putin already knows that. So even that message would be primarily aimed for domestic consumption. It might make a little difference. I might be happy if he did that, but I don't know if it makes a big difference.

I continue to be fascinated, changing the topic, by Glenn Greenwald's tweets about the old Russian collusion and Mueller investigation. As many of you know, Glenn Greenwald, who was associated with The Intercept, has been saying since the beginning that this Mueller investigation was going to be a big nothing. And then when it became a big nothing and he was doing his victory laps, which were also very interesting to watch, and now he's cr