James Clapper: “the intelligence chiefs said they were going to tell President-elect Trump about it.”

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

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

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.