James Clapper: “That's his assessment. I can't argue with it.”

a stark reminder that the terrorist threat to this country hasn't gone away. We cannot take our eyes off this ball.

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 think this was very substantive.