James Clapper: “I think the purpose there is to trivialize these concerns.”

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

It's despicable. You know, I am out adjectives, but it's just, it's terrible.

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…

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.