James Clapper: “I just read for something and he said that, you know, unfortunately, when words matter when the President of United…”

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.

I think the Chinese are going to treat the Russians, somewhat analogously, to the way they treat the North Koreans.

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…

I think, though, that what has been in the past considered an annoyance or an irritation, has now risen to the level of a genuine national security threat.