Yes, well, this is -- yes, as we've come to know the President, he is not a stalwart for a consistency or coherence. So it's very hard to explain that.
James Clapper: “Yes, well, this is -- yes, as we've come to know the President, he is not a stalwart for a consistency or coherence. So…”
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Clapper comments on Trump's inconsistency regarding his views on the intelligence community.
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Well, Anderson, that's exactly right. And this is what this whole issue boils down to, is will to fight.
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.
There's this gray area of First Amendment protection rights versus an insidious presence in our country that is really there to weaken and destroy our system. That's really what this is about. And its state sponsored.
This has devolved into an ad hoc - ad hocing, at this point, this bizarre news conference, from Ministry of Defense, which trying to sort of rationalize, and explain, the Russian Military predicament, really, in Ukraine.





