James Clapper: “That's correct. It's just as technology has progressed the Russians have taken advantage of it for this purpose.”

It's all about the base and keeping his grip on it.

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

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.

it's a question of time. It's not if, it's when we have some sort of confrontation that we're going to have to respond to, the NATO will have to respond to.