NYT reporter suggests Putin didn't take military action under Trump because he was unpredictable

New York Times' chief White House correspondent Peter Baker questions whether Trump's lack of predictability might have deterred Putin.

"I know [Putin] very well. Very, very well [and] … this never would have happened … had I been in office, not even thinkable," Trump said.

New York Times reporter Peter Baker said, "[Trump] said yesterday ‘this wouldn’t have happened when I was president,’ or somehow he was too tough …  It is a good question whether President Trump was volatile enough that President Putin didn’t know how he would react to, you know, something more aggressive in Ukraine."