President Barack Obama isn't counting Hillary Clinton's chickens just yet.

He told NBC News in an interview at the White House that Donald Trump just might win the November election and succeed him in the Oval Office.

'Anything is possible,' he told Savannah Guthrie.

'It is the – the nature of democracy that until those votes are cast and the American people, you know, have their say, we don't know.'

The interview will air Wednesday morning on the 'Today' show. NBC released a partial transcript of Obama's surprising remarks shortly after Hillary Clinton won the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

Asked if he was worried about a Republican taking his place in the White House, Obama turned philosophical.

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'You know, as somebody who has now been in elected office – at various levels – for about 20 years,' he said, 'I've seen all kinds of crazy stuff happen.'

'And I think anybody who goes into campaigns not running scared can end up losing.'

His 'anything can happen' attitude came up a second time in the same interview, on the subject of whether or not Russian President Vladimir Putin could be trying to swing the election to Trump by overseeing a computer hacking operation that gave the Democratic National Committee a black eye this week.

'Anything's possible,' he said.

If Putin were trying to influence the election's outcome, it would be the second time in recent memory that one nation's government tried to meddle in another's electoral process.

Obama's own State Department spent $350,000 last year on efforts aimed at scuttling Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's re-election, according to a bipartisan staff report report this month from the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.

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The funds went to a group called OneVoice – officially to support Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. But the organization actually deployed the U.S. taxpayer dollars build an anti-Netanyahu campaign with an Obama-linked political consulting firm

Guthrie asked Obama in the new interview if he thought Putin was encroaching on America's November presidential election.

'What the motives were in terms of the leaks, all that – I can't say directly,' the president replied. 'What I do know is that Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin.