James Clapper: “I think it would have been useful assuming there were no inflammatory rhetoric while he was up there.”

It's despicable. You know, I am out adjectives, but it's just, it's terrible.

He has a grievance eating at him for about 20 years and has made a decision, I think, to try to redraw the national security architecture of Europe.

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.

Putin is committed to conquering, if he can, which I think will be impossible, all of Ukraine.