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

Yes, absolutely, Anderson, I think it was the right thing to do.

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.

I think it's very prudent.

I think, I'll use the example of what is still the major Russian prize, which is Kyiv. And so they, they're having difficulty surrounding it. But assuming they did, and then they try to strangle the lines of communication bombard the city…