James Clapper: “In my 50-plus years in the intelligence business, I cannot recall a more diverse array of challenges and crises that we…”

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 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.

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

I think this was very substantive.