barack obama challenged, and steve croft asked how he responds to people who say that vladimir putin is taking the lead on the world stage. >> he's challenging your leadership, mr. president, he's challenging your leadership. >> steve, i've got to tell you if you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership. >> meanwhile, southwest airline warning travel about major delays this morning. technology issues causing big problems for the airline on sunday, and causing massive lines in airports from los angeles to d.c. and made it official, dell may acquire for 57 billion in the largest technology deal on record. the vmware business will become an independent company, no premium paid there. up 3%, had been up better than 7% before that. we're coming off six straight days of equities. it's a mixed showing, but we expect a higher opening for the dow industrials. and in trading, mixed trading, and the cac quarante down 15. the dax index continuing to bounce and

kennedy: hello, sunday steve croft interviewed president obama on 60 minutes and held the president's feet to the fire. >> i know you don't want to talk about this. >> i am happy to talk about it. >> mr. putin seems to be challenges that leadership. >> in what way. >> somebody on the line, made some sort of a miscalculation. >> you know, you see, let me say this. >> this is an embarrassment. >> i feel like i am being filibusters. >> no, no, if you want to roll back the tape you have given me long questions and statements and now i am responding. kennedy: oh. is the honeymoon over after 700 years? let's welcome the participant els--participants, caylee, and , and ben. welcome, great to have you with. let's start the week. >> happy columbus day. kennedy: party favors you an afternoon, you thought this was like a real housewife's episode. >> i was waiting for barack on throw glass wines at him, they got on a point on syria, you know, a kid gets louder, when they get mad, that was immature but it was great. >> it was great, if he was that strong with syria we would be winning that war. ke

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. >> that's not the kind of treatment president obama is use to, especially from steve croft. >> yes, he has. they've had a long relationship. >> he prods the president multiple times during the interview. clearly throws the president a bit off his game. one point talking about the e-mails, the president says to steve croft, he says i hope you interview hillary clinton like this. you'll get some answers like that. >> i did the biggest, sort of the lead out of this is he said it is a legitimate issue. >> right, it's a legitimate. >> he said if the secretary of state's use of a private e-mail server is a legitimate issue. >> he did not bury her though. >> no. >> he's not going to. he kept asking if it's a big deal. >> the criticism we received last thursday, i love clair. she came after us. we have heard from the campaign and hillary supporters and people like clair who took me inside at my mother's event and had a real talk with me about the hillary clinton j john, if, in fact your friend now deceased had passed along the information of a cia source, human source on the ground in bengh

. >>> steve croft has been barack obama's go-to guy ever since he was a candidate this golden oldie from 12013. >> how would you characterize your relationship? >> i consider her a strong friend. >> very warm, close. >>> even the administration has abandoned as a failure. >> no, no, i don't want to talk about this, but i want to talk about this program. it would seem to show -- if you expect 5,000 and you get five, it shows that somebody some place along the line made some sort of serious calculation. >> steve, let me say this -- >> it's an embarrassment. i feel like i'm being filibustered, mr. president. >> croft also pressed him on the intervention in syria. >> and today real been being ability to count on their support and maintain the base on syria, mr. putin now is devoting his own troops, his own military, just to barely hold together by a threat his sole ally. >> he's challenging your leadership, mr. president. >> no, no. >> he's challenging your leadership. >>> he also got the president to say -- was polite to poke and prod, because let's face it obama does have a tendency to fil

so you heard steve croft pressing the president on the mess in the middle east and what croft called some of the embarrassing missteps. but what got the most attention was this. watch. >> if you think running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in, in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership. my definition of leadership would be leading on climate change, an international accord that we'll get in paris. >> joining me now, the governor of new jersey, chris christie. >> you know, the fact that the president has seen over 250,000 people in syria murdered, that millions are running for their lives, to europe and other nations in the middle east, and he thinks the way leadership should be shown is on climate change? he's so woefully out of touch with the american people and what they're concerned about. it is startling. it's part of his own incredibly liberal agenda, that he doesn't even care anymore that he promised to protect those people in syria. >> he did draw a red line there. both sides said he didn't deli

. >> without hesitation steve croft asked if he could run a third term if the constitution allowed it he said yes. >> i don't think that's true. this election is going to be an election of the obama. a number of polls say we are headed in the wrong direction. you don't believe you are headed in the wrong direction if you are happy with the person in the white house. this country is on the verge of being the first generation to leave the next generation worse off and it's because political leaders in both parties are out of touch in washington but none more so than this president as evidenced by that answer that he gave. >> senator rubio, nice to see you. hope you will come back soon, sir. >> we'll, thank you. >> the house benghazi committee is used to attacks of democrats and secretary of state hillary clinton that's the outside. but now the committee is under fire from the inside. a former benghazi committee staff now accusing the party of attacks on secretary clinton. that staff claims he was fired for not going after secretary clinton. my interest of the republican leadership who f

and in an interview on this sunday's 60 minutes, steve croft asked president obama if vladimir putin is challenging his leadership. >> if you think that running your economy in to the ground and having to send troops in order to prop up, your only ally is leadership, then we have a different definition of leadership. >> you can see the entire interview with president obama on 60 minutes this sunday night right after nfl football on wusa9. >>> today president obama visited roseburg, oregon to pay his respects to the nine people killed in that community college mass shooting. he met privately with the families of some of the and survivors of that attack. the gunman committed suicide after being shot and wounded by two detectives. but they marched near that protest. >>> coming up, more rain on the way to flooded areas of the south carolina coast. >>> but up next, dc police officer finds himself on the wrong side of the law, how do you stay on top of your health? ahh... ahh... cigna customers have plan choices and tools to take control. so they're more engaged, with fewer high health ris

the president spoke tonight on 60 minutes telling steve croft he and retiring speaker john boehner had a decent working relationship. >> he did care about the institution. he recognized that nobody gets a hundred percent in our democracy. i won't say that he and i were ideal partners, but he and i some things done. >> right now many republicans are rallying around former presidential ryan. check people in manually. southwest is urging customers to arrive at least 2 hours before their scheduled departure time. >>> one of boston's oldest theaters may have held it's last performance. >> the book of mormonite venue anderson college is considered converting it into a dining hall and performance space. >> i think boston would be losing a lot of architectural history, a lot of theater appreciation, and it's one of those things where good is dying here in the city. >> at the moment there are no scheduled events at the theater. the colonial by the way opened in 1900 making it the oldest continually operating theater here in boston. by the bay if you're wondering you can make the outside histori

the president sat down and discussed it all with steve croft of "60 minutes." >> the solution we are going to have inside of syria is ultimately going to depend not on the united states putting in a bunch of troops there, resolving the underlying crisis is going to be something that players there to, to recognize that there has to be a transition new government. in the absence of that it is not going to work. >> reporter: one of key players now is russia. a year ago when we did the interview there was saber rattling between the united states and russia on the ukrainian border. now it is also going on in syria. you said a year ago that, that the united states, america lead, we're the indispensable nation. mr. putin seems to be challenging that leadership? >> in what way? >> he's moved troops into syria. for one. he has got people on the ground. two, the russians are conducting military operations in, in the middle east for the first time since world war ii, bombing the people that we are supporting. >> so that's leading, steve? let me ask you this question. when i came into office ukr

the man they're trying to replace, president obama, discussed the race with steve croft of "60 minutes." the first question? his views on gop front-runner donald trump. >> he is a great publicity seeker. and at a time when the republican party hasn't really figured out what it's for, as opposed to what it's against, i think that he is -- he's tapped into something that exists in the republican party that's real. i think there is genuine anti-immigrant sentiment in a large portion of at least republican primary voters. i don't think it's uniform. he knows how to get attention. he's the classic reality tv character. and at this early stages it's not surprising he's gotten a lot of attention. >> do you think he's running out of steam? do you think he'll disappear? >> i'll leave it up to the pundits to make that determination. i don't think he'll end up being president of the united states. >> did you know about hillary clinton's use of the private e-mail server? >> no. >> while she was secretary of state? >> no. >> do you think it posed a national security problem? >> i don't think it pos

the man they're trying to replace, president obama, discussed the race with steve croft of "60 minutes." the first question? his views on gop front-runner donald trump. >> he is a great publicity seeker. and at a time when the republican party hasn't really figured out what it's for, as opposed to what it's against, i think that he is -- he's tapped into something that exists in the republican party that's real. i think there is genuine anti-immigrant sentiment in a large portion of at least republican primary voters. i don't think it's uniform. he knows how to get attention. he's the classic reality tv character. and at this early stages, it's not surprising he's gotten a lot of attention. >> do you think he's running out of steam? do you think he'll disappear? >> i'll leave it up to the pundits to make that determination. i don't think he'll end up being president of the united states. >> did you know about hillary clinton's use of the private e-mail server? >> no. >> while she was secretary of state? >> no. >> do you think it posed a national security problem? >> i don't think it po

steve croft in the interview, he was asking the president about how other people perceive us. and the president said name them and steve said i think. >> you can find anybody in that world that can defend the current state of affairs on american foreign policy. >> it's outside the administration, once again, outside the administration. then you can't because it's not working. i mean it's clear it's not working. the half a billion dollars that president obama just threw at a program that he thought wasn't going to work and kind of laughed it off. >> hillary clinton tonight i think she's going to try to big-foot president obama. i think she is going to say i was the one that put together the iran nuke deal. i think she's going to embrace it and say i'm the one that brought iran to the table and guarantees that iran won't have a nuke for the next decade or so. >> that doesn't seem ian seem -- >> that's her thing. >> she wants to push away from president obama, but she can't here. >> she wants to be the architect. >> she wants to take credit for it. and let it seem like president

the president sat down and discussed it all with steve croft of "60 minutes." >> the solution we are going to have inside of syria is ultimately going to depend not on the united states putting in a bunch of troops there, resolving the underlying crisis is going to be something that requires ultimately the key players there to, to recognize that there has to be a transition new government. in the absence of that it is not going to work. >> reporter: one of key players now is russia. a year ago when we did the interview there was saber rattling between the united states and russia on the ukrainian border. now it is also going on in syria. you said a year ago that, that the united states, america lead, we're the indispensable nation. mr. putin seems to be challenging that leadership? >> in what way? >> he's moved troops into syria. for one. he has got people on the ground. two, the russians are conducting military operations in, in the middle east for the first time since world war ii, bombing the people that we are supporting. >> so that's leading, steve? let me ask you this question.

. >> the problem was the next question was, steve croft says other people have made mistakes in your administration and gone to jail. >> right. >> that same mistake. >> and what he said is that she didn't create a national security problem. he also said that there's no intent of -- from her -- >> david petraeus had no intent. >> no, he did. he showed it to his mistress. >> the reason she set this up was to bypass any congressional investigation. >> even his denial that he knew is odd because he received e-mails from her. and if you look at the outgoing e-mails, clinton e-mails dot com. so that's strange. a lukewarm defense. >> it was pretty good, wasn't it? >> it was lukewarm. it was perhaps something he had to do. obviously joe biden is someone that he supports and that he likes. i think this is just short of throwing her under the bus. >> i think it helped her because biden is thinking of running. >> last question, a cia lawyer calling these actions of hillary lethal. watch this. >> even inside cia, in e-mails, internal e-mails or cables or conversations, he never mentioned, you ne

it's the latest that steve croft interview that it was a very lukewarm defense of hillary clinton, which indicates that if there were to be a choice to be made by the obama administration, it goes to biden. >> well, he's been measured in the last month or so. >> yes, and the greatest public servant ever associated with, picked biden too. now that would be -- that would wake me up. >> the debate, they leave a sixth podium empty allowing him to step in late as today if he wants to. >> i don't think he's with us anymore, at cnn now, but he said that there would be a standing ovation that would never stop if biden shows up. we're in the presence of greatness ourselves here. we'll introduce you in a second, senator, we have a sitting u.s. senator with us, but what are we talking about? other stories? >> quick headlines to get straight to senator corker. sabmiller has accepted in principle an offer to be bought by anheuser busch inbev. they would attempt to secure regulatory clearances required before the transaction takes place. in banking news, getting ready to name the new ceo, leaving jpmo

>> he also, steve croft, asked him about donald trump. he said he will not be president of the united states. that was his prediction. we'll ask the donald about that in about a half an hour, actually 50 minutes from now. >> he's going to answer it. i'm sure a lot more. you don't want to miss that. >> he's still leading in all the polls. >> by i big margin. >>> wisconsin congressman paul ryan is taking some time to consider throwing his hat into the ring. he's got some congressional support. fox news correspondent kristen fisher is live with who is behind him and who else wants him to run as well. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. congressman paul ryan spent the weekend with his family in wisconsin reportedly reconsidering whether or not he'd run for speaker. his wife and three children are a huge part of the reason why he wouldn't want a job as demanding as speaker of the house. ryan is widely considered to be one who stands a chance of appealing to moderates and the same conservatives who pushed the outgoing speaker into a

yesterday we showed you part of that 60 minutes interview with steve croft. the president got testy. the president got thin-skinned with madeline rom inson, one of his favorite authors. they sat down last month for a new york review of books article which will come out shortly. >> it's bizarre. it's like the president interviewed her. >> yeah. >> he asked her about her character development and somehow -- >> religion. >> he got into his own character and somehow here they can -- >> uh-oh. >> talking in iowa. people always i think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town iowa. and the reason i did was, first of all, i had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win and so i wasn't viewed through this prism of fox news and conservative media and making me -- >> he can't break the bad habit there. he turned the lens on the fox news because we're making him scary. not his policies. >> want proof? this is some more of it. >> if you watch fox news on a regular basis, it is a constant menu. they will find -- folks who make me mad. i don

i assume when the president said to steve croft on "60 minutes," i think it is important for her, meaning secretary clinton, to answer the questions, he didn't mean on the debate stage, where you know, the accolades in the audience are whooping and hollering when she says they're going after me and bernie sanders agrees. i believe the president means under oath in front of the committee. that's the proper place for it. even in the case of huma abedin who testified before congress, she said she tried to be helpful, i doubt that they were asking her questions and her just saying i don't know, i don't know. there are e-mails that have been made public where she is forwarding e-mails or discussing briefly libya and benghazi related matters. this has nothing to do with -- >> is this a benghazi committee or -- >> in my mind's eye, they should have had separate investigations because you can't complete the two. if they're trying to say we in the benghazi committee have discovered this illegal personal server in somebody's closet in denver, by the secretary of state, because that's weird, then --

he also got into this exchange when steve croft questioned whether vladimir putin was challenging obama's leadership in his syrian strategy. >> today, rather than being able to count on their support and maintain the base ned syria which need long time, mr. putin is devoting his own troops, his own military, just to barely hold together by a thread his sole ally. >> he is challenging your leadership, mr. president. he is challenging your leadership. steve, i got to tell you, if you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your own ally is leadership, then we have got a different definition of leadership. >> nbc's chief pentagon correspondent, jim miklaszewski joins me with more on that interview. it seemed like the president was really on defense there, mik. he was not gonna stand to be told that vladimir putin was leading. that's exactly right. you know, he is -- as he said in that interview, you know, leadership is not stretching out your military and conducting military operations when, in fact, there's some sense that the soviet

. >> i learned that steve croft did the first obama interview as president, may have gotten cbs news' last obama interview. >> i may have. >> interesting timing. >> the ghost of mike wallace -- >> all right, wrap it up. >> -- strong. >> if it's "way too early," what time is it, joe? >> well, mika, the kids say it's morning joe. >> yes, but now it's time for "msnbc live," which is up next. have a good day! >>> and good morning. i'm jose diaz-balart. we begin this hour in 2016 and the race for 2016. the candidates are making final preparations for tomorrow's first democratic presidential debate. the contenders will all take the stage tomorrow night in las vegas, the first of six planned debates. but not on that stage, vice president joe biden, who's spending the weekend at home with his family, reportedly deciding whether he should get into the race. nbc's peter alexander is in las vegas for us this morning. and nbc's kristen welker is outside the vice president's home in greenville, delaware. peter, let's begin with you. good morning. >> reporter: hey, jose. good morning to you. welcom

that's why that president obama interview he did with steve croft and he has sounded this explanation before about putin's on the ropes, that this is-- they're not operating from a point of strength, they're operating from weakness. i don't think anybody i know buys that explanation. >> i think your answer that it should matter, is the best answer. it probably won't, but should have a major impact with our negotiations with cuba. why wouldn't it. sandra: it's amazing, the conversation had about the debate the other night is had a lack of confidence on just this, and going more broadly, that the fight against isis. i have to go back to bill o'reilly talking to him on "outnumbered" yesterday. where was our conversation on isis and our strategy how to combat them. that was lacking from the debate. oscar pistorius will be released from prison in south africa on tuesday, comes about a year after he was sentenced to five years for killing a girlfriend, that was back in 2013. he was found guilty on charges of culpable homicide, the equivalent of manslaughter here in the u.s. up next, the-- a

and steve croft said, then why did you go forward with it. >> it was weird to me, willie, he spoke almost like a man vindicated when a policy of his own administration had collapsed in failure. he took the line almost like, see, i told you so. i think that's really one of the problems with the syria mess. the president is allergic to it. he just doesn't like dealing with it. what he didn't address in talking about the failure of this $500 million train program, it was too late by the time that it was authorized. the opportunities to create a strong, less extremist opposition group had large live passed. and the second point, even more telling, the administration never would make up its mind, whether they could be anti assad. the president of syria must go. that was one of his early lines. this group was told, no, no, no. you're here to fight the extremists, isis. that's one of the reasons they had much trouble recruiting people. there is enough to go around to say this shows i was right. that was a surprise. >> mark? >> david, if you think about next year and the general election, what ar

croft if you ran for another term would you win? he says yes i do. that's what joe biden's going on. he's going to be obama's third term. he's going to back up everything he did, and anything he doesn't say is going to look insincere because we know he was in lock-step with the president. how is that going to go over? >> i think it's difficult. i mean, i think joe biden has -- has -- has the same record as obama. obviously, over the last seven years. but he doesn't have the political skills. he -- he's charming. no doubt about it. he's charming. and he beats -- i mean i think he dealt a blow to paul ryan in that vice presidential debate. the one debate that paul ryan had with him, it was either a tie, or joe biden won in my view. >> he yelled the whole time. >> yeah. he did. but, you know, paul ryan kind of sat there as a shrinking violet. look, obama is one of the most, regardless of what anyone thinks, one of the most talented politicians the democrats have seen, of course, since clinton. if biden ran for president before, and los