James Clapper: “Well, it does and particularly to have the commander-in-chief, the leader of the free world, seemingly endorsed such…”

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.

The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.

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

No, I don't. The Chinese setup is that there is a Polit bureau member who is the overseer -- the senior overseer on behalf of the Polit bureau for the entirety of the Intelligence and Security apparatus of China.