James Clapper: “I think this was very substantive.”

I think right now, they're assessing the administration -- that's the National Security Council specifically, is assessing the impacts of this first round of strikes.

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

The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.

Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.