James Clapper: “There's certainly a lot of doubt about that. And what's happened most recently, I think just has the effect of casting…”

Ties with Tehran offer some regional governments a means of staking an independent position on Iran, thereby mitigating its isolation while also attempting to extract Iranian financial aid and investment for economic and social projects.

A stark reminder that the terrorist threat to this country hasn't gone away. We cannot take our eyes off this ball.

I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.

I've gotten very concerned about it. There are Chinese, Russians and others so we traditionally thought about it as people coming from Central America, South and Central America. Well, it's much broader than that. So this is a serious…