Wednesday on CNN's "New Day," former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he hopes that "the Mueller investigation will clear the air," but also cautions the results might be "anticlimactic, and not draw a conclusion."



Clapper said he "rather doubts" that Trump is a "witting" asset of the Kremlin, and it is more likely that Trump is being influenced by the Russians through flattery.



"The strange thing that has bothered a lot of people, in and out of the intelligence community, is this strange deference to Putin by the president. I've speculated in the past that the way Putin behaves is to treat President Trump as an asset, but put that in air quotes," Clapper said.











"I think the hope is that the Mueller investigation will clear the air on this issue once and for all," he said. "But I'm really not sure that it will. The investigation, when completed, could turn out to be quite anticlimactic, and not draw a conclusion about that. Again, I don't know."



"The unknown here for me is what might the Congress do on its own, particularly the House Intelligence Committee or the House Judiciary Committee, they might take the Mueller investigation's results and go on from there. I have no idea where that might lead."