James Clapper: “We have invested billions, and we put people's lives at risk to glean such information.”

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.

Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.

I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.

The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.