James Clapper: “I think the thousands of people willing to turn out in a bitter, bitter Moscow cold in January and February is a great…”

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

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 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.