James Clapper: “I certainly don't agree with it. It's kind of ironic after his complaints about rigged elections during the campaign.”

I think he's trying to erase any vestiges of as much as he can of culpability that people that were caught up in this investigation.

I think, though, that what has been in the past considered an annoyance or an irritation, has now risen to the level of a genuine national security threat.

I think, I'll use the example of what is still the major Russian prize, which is Kyiv. And so they, they're having difficulty surrounding it. But assuming they did, and then they try to strangle the lines of communication bombard the city…

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.