James Clapper: “It just shows the lengths to which this administration will go to try to discredit the entire Russia meddling.”

this is the standard Russian -- Soviet Russian way of war. Surround a city if they can and they are having trouble doing that, put it under siege, strangle it, prevent supplies, medicines, food, water, et cetera and then bombard the city…

there's going to be more of the graphic, wanton brutality that they've witnessed.

It shows once again not that we need proof of it, where the President's head really is and all this. And it's not on national security, not on the pandemic, not on the massive Russian cyber espionage.

I think the Chinese are going to treat the Russians, somewhat analogously, to the way they treat the North Koreans.