James Clapper: “A greater emphasis on the Intelligence Community on force protection for our diplomat facilities.”

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.

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.

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…

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