. >> the president once again sat down with jeff glore of cbs news moments ago and cbs released an excerpt of the interview. i want to play a clip with you and then we'll discuss. >> you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016? >> i have said that before, jeff. i have said that numerous times before. and i would say that that is true, yeah. >> but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personally responsible? >> well, i would because he's in charge of the country. just like i consider myself to be responsible for things that happen in this country. so, certainly, as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. >> what did you say to him? >> very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, we can't have that. we're also living in a grown-up world. will a strong statement, you know, president obama supposedly made a strong statement. nobody heard it. what they did here is the statement he made to putin's very close friend and that statement was not acceptable. didn't get very much play relatively speaking. but t

so i would have liked to see glore be more aggressive. but on the other hand as a network anchor man he has a different posture in terms of institutionally of how he can behave in that interview. the other problem with trump is that you don't get anything from him. cbs was saying they got him to admit he holds putin accountable. well, he sort of said that, he said he's in charge of the country -- >> i would hold him accountable. he said i would hold him accountable. wait, hold on, he attacked the country. >> but then trump, i don't know if it was before or after because it's all a blur with him, of lies, he said it could be the russias, could be a lot of other people. so you got nothing out of him. i think with trump you need to press harder. i smile because i criticize chris cue mow sometimes on the morning show when he would go after somebody, i think that's how you have to go after trump. >> i'd love for chris or anyone at cnn to get an interview with trump. let me show you one part of the interview where trump trashed the media. >> th

cbs news has released an excerpt of the interview that jeff glore, their anchor had with the presidentlier in the day. let me play a little clip of what the president now says he said to putin. >> i let him know we can't have this, we're not going to have it. and that's the way it's going to be. >> do you believe him? >> well, i know this is what we would all hope the president would say, the one thing we know is that he didn't say that in public, and that's really where the failure was and the clean up had to happen. but we're talking about meddling in our democracy, penetration into the election apparatus in the various states, meddling in the various campaigns, this is something you would want your president to be very strong on and i would hope in public he would make that statement for strongly. >> when he told jeff glore of cbs news today, yes, putin is responsible that russia meddled in the u.s. election. >> and what's important for him to have stood next to putin and said it, is because mainly the world would have heard it. putin has been meddling in other countries, we need to

to maximize their finite assets meaning oil to the point that the global economy can't tolerate the glore global economy will not be shy in telling the world that you have reached the limit in the rise in oil prices saw i believe also that the global economy can absorb easily a price of one hundred dollars or more furthermore opec members which account for seventy four percent of global production they need an oil price above under a dollar to balance their books the number of their last three hundred billion dollars between twenty forty and twenty sixteen so they don't want to pass again through that ordeal the iranian revolutionary guard saying we can't enforce closing the straits of hormuz if we need to and that's what president rouhani has been waving that threats a lot of oil go to syria little stretch of water a million barrels a day indeed but can i and would they military lee they cannot close it because the story it is not that narrow but what they can do they can mine it and they can level threats against any time catus crossing the street. that will frighten all ten cans of oil

cbs news, jeff glore, said to the president, your dna says this country is su susceptible to an attack. it is similar to pre-9/11. do you agree with that? president trump said i don't know if i'd agree with that. even back on saturday the president was wishy washy about whether he really bleeshz the russi believes the russians and others are continuing to meddle in our election. his answer on saturday was i don't know if i would agree. this is the president's first real interview since that disaster in helsinki. he has a lot to answer for. this is going to have to be one of the questions he's asked right now. >> david gergen, from your perspective in all your years with various administrations, the wishy-washiness, to use brian's term. how dangerous is that for a president to be perceived as wishy-washy, walking back, the need to clarify? >> i think it is very dangerous in the sense of two things. one is, the declining trust people have in what he is saying, especially because he appears back and forth and you are never sure which interpretation is the right one. secondly, the white ho

scott, during the cbs interview with president trump jeff glore read the quote of dan coats, trump appointees red alarms like before 9/11 in terms of attacks on the united states, cyber attacks on the united states with russia being the worst actor and the president said he didn't know that he agreed with dan coats. does it matter if the commander in chief doesn't agree with all the people on the front line? is it enough that they're there doing their job? >> well, i think he does agree otherwise he wouldn't be implementing the sanctions which are very tough. they wouldn't have gone after more military spending. he wouldn't have pushed nato allies to spend more on the mutual defense. he wouldn't be doing the things. ultimately, he needs to talk more about that. i was stunned yesterday and today he didn't use the sanctions that they're implementing as a shield because he did sign the sanctions. you said they were under duress and did sign it. under executive authority he did it and punishing them for participating in the election and he will have to say more about that. i want to see them tal

yesterday, president trump sat down for a second interview with jeff glore of cbs.ng in the election of 2016. >> and i have said that numerous times before. i would say that is true, yeah. >> but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personally responsible? >> well, i would because he's in charge of the country. just like i consider myself responsible for things that happen in this country. as the leader of a country, you would have to say yes. >> what did you say to him? >> strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, we can't have any of that. look, we're living in a grownup world. president trump supposedly made a strong statement. nobody heard it. >> but he denies it. so if you believe u.s. intelligence agencies, is putin lying to you? >> i don't want to get into whether or not he's lying. i can only say that i do have confidence in our intelligence agencies as currently constituted. i think i did great at the news conference. i think it was a strong news conference. i think we did extremely well and i think the press makes up the -- look,