James Clapper: “I think we need Saudi Arabia as an ally. Now that -- right now, I guess the administration view is that Saudi Arabia is…”

it's a question of time. It's not if, it's when we have some sort of confrontation that we're going to have to respond to, the NATO will have to respond to.

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.

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.

I think it's very probable he'll use chemical weapons at some point.