James Clapper: “I personally believe it's a question of time before Assad falls, but that's the issue. It could be a long time.”

I think he's trying to erase any vestiges of as much as he can of culpability that people that were caught up in this investigation.

it's a question of time. It's not if, it's when we have some sort of confrontation that we're going to have to respond to, the NATO will have to respond to.

I think it's very probable he'll use chemical weapons at some point.

I think, I'll use the example of what is still the major Russian prize, which is Kyiv. And so they, they're having difficulty surrounding it. But assuming they did, and then they try to strangle the lines of communication bombard the city…