James Clapper: “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…”

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

I think it has more to do with the psychology of Putin, and Russia. And he needs to assure his own people, Parliamentarians, he was talking to, and for that matter, himself, that Russia is still a great power.

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

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