James Clapper: “I think it's fair to say that many of them were not comfortable with this, and were, in fact, unhappy with it.”

I think it's very prudent.

Ties with Tehran offer some regional governments a means of staking an independent position on Iran, thereby mitigating its isolation while also attempting to extract Iranian financial aid and investment for economic and social projects.

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

if the filibuster or the John Lewis bill or the Right to Vote bill isn`t passed, it will be aiding and abetting our enemies, that Russia and China, our adversaries, are hoping that these -- that these voting rights bill protections aren`t…