James Clapper: “It was a high confidence assessment that the preference here was, one, to damage Hillary Clinton, and two, to advantage…”

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.

It's all about the base and keeping his grip on it.

I think it's very probable he'll use chemical weapons at some point.

Putin is committed to conquering, if he can, which I think will be impossible, all of Ukraine.