"If you don't agree with us, we're going to new you. Well that would be ridiculous because we don't need to damage our new sovereign country," he says. "Exactly this attitude is the one that can give Americans a slightly bad reputation abroad." 'I didn't say you did it. John, I'm saying you used it,' CNN's Anderson Cooper asks him. "'We utilized it to a great effect' That's how you control other countries,'" Obama responds.