Obama Warns Russia: ‘We Will’ Take Action Against You — Despite Incomplete Investigation

President Obama, in an interviewing airing Friday morning on NPR, warned Russia that America will take action in response to alleged hacking.

"I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections that we need to take action," Obama told Steve Iskeep. "And we will — at a time and place of our own choosing. Some of it may be explicit and publicized; some of it may not be. But Mr. Putin is well aware of my feelings about this because I spoke to him directly."

In the same interview, Obama also conceded intelligences agencies hadn't arrived on a consensus about the hacking.

There are still a whole range of assessments taking place among the agencies," Obama said. "And so when I receive a final report, you know, we'll be able to, I think, give us a comprehensive and best guess as to those motivations. But that does not in any way, I think, detract from the basic point that everyone during the election perceived accurately — that in fact what the Russian hack had done was create more problems for the Clinton campaign than it had for the Trump campaign."