James Clapper: “Well, he certainly could be. Again, having some understanding of the leverage that a president can exercise, I worry…”

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 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 the reason they were taken off the list was to provide an inducement or motivation for them to agree to some sort of ceasefire.

He has a grievance eating at him for about 20 years and has made a decision, I think, to try to redraw the national security architecture of Europe.