James Clapper: “It could be for some people, it doesn't really apply to me or I don't think to John.”

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.

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

I've gotten very concerned about it. There are Chinese, Russians and others so we traditionally thought about it as people coming from Central America, South and Central America. Well, it's much broader than that. So this is a serious…

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