James Clapper: “I think just as an obligation to the American public, there should be an explanation.”

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 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.

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