James Clapper: “What their most concerned with is face and leverage and recognition of their status as a nuclear power.”

No, I don't. The Chinese setup is that there is a Polit bureau member who is the overseer -- the senior overseer on behalf of the Polit bureau for the entirety of the Intelligence and Security apparatus of China.

I think the reason they were taken off the list was to provide an inducement or motivation for them to agree to some sort of ceasefire.

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…

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