James Clapper: “I'm hopeful that we'll learn something about the psychology of people that get caught up and become radicalized.”

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.

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

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…

Ties with Tehran offer some regional governments a means of staking an independent position on Iran, thereby mitigating its isolation while also attempting to extract Iranian financial aid and investment for economic and social projects.