James Clapper: “This simply encourages them to do something they're going to do anyway.”

I think it has more to do with the psychology of Putin, and Russia. And he needs to assure his own people, Parliamentarians, he was talking to, and for that matter, himself, that Russia is still a great power.

This has devolved into an ad hoc - ad hocing, at this point, this bizarre news conference, from Ministry of Defense, which trying to sort of rationalize, and explain, the Russian Military predicament, really, in Ukraine.

I expect this report will be filled with ambiguity as well and people depending on their leanings will extract what they want out of this report.

Putin is committed to conquering, if he can, which I think will be impossible, all of Ukraine.