James Clapper: “I do think that is -- I won't say the only channel, but I think it's the most promising would be a direct dialogue with…”

No, I don't. The Chinese setup is that there is a Polit bureau member who is the overseer -- the senior overseer on behalf of the Polit bureau for the entirety of the Intelligence and Security apparatus of China.

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

I think right now, they're assessing the administration -- that's the National Security Council specifically, is assessing the impacts of this first round of strikes.

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.