“They were incredibly worried — in the 1780s and ’90s — that the republican experiment would fall prey to exactly the kind of thing that Vladimir Putin, two-and-a-half centuries on, is doing,” Meacham argued. “He’s running a campaign to destabilize the government and the question is, and I think we’ll have to see from director [Robert] Mueller, to what extent was candidate Trump — and President Trump — a knowing part of that conspiracy or to what extent did that conspiracy — has it affected what he does?”