James Clapper: “I must say I'm very concerned about the security implications of having... contractors who are working for the…”

Putin is committed to conquering, if he can, which I think will be impossible, all of Ukraine.

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…

I think right now, they're assessing the administration -- that's the National Security Council specifically, is assessing the impacts of this first round of strikes.

I think Putin's mind is made up. And he might improvise as he goes he I think he would do he would do that anyway.