it's a question of time. It's not if, it's when we have some sort of confrontation that we're going to have to respond to, the NATO will have to respond to.

there's going to be more of the graphic, wanton brutality that they've witnessed.

I think Putin's mind is made up. And he might improvise as he goes he I think he would do he would do that anyway.

He has a grievance eating at him for about 20 years and has made a decision, I think, to try to redraw the national security architecture of Europe.

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…

This is quite different. And, you know, shocking, stunning, but not surprising, a phrase that we often find ourselves using about revelations of abuse of power by the Trump administration.

It's inconceivable to me that the Russian intelligence services aren't aware of this, and that Putin has certainly at least acquiesced if not directed -- directing it.

I think, though, that what has been in the past considered an annoyance or an irritation, has now risen to the level of a genuine national security threat.

I expect this report will be filled with ambiguity as well and people depending on their leanings will extract what they want out of this report.

I think President Biden made exactly the right judgment, and there is no question that, Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence will certainly comply with that instruction.

Yes, absolutely, Anderson, I think it was the right thing to do.

It's despicable. You know, I am out adjectives, but it's just, it's terrible.

It shows once again not that we need proof of it, where the President's head really is and all this. And it's not on national security, not on the pandemic, not on the massive Russian cyber espionage.

I think he's trying to erase any vestiges of as much as he can of culpability that people that were caught up in this investigation.

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

I was never even interviewed by anyone in DOJ about the unmasking. It was a politically motivated probe initiated by William Barr to please Donald Trump.

I just read for something and he said that, you know, unfortunately, when words matter when the President of United States says something, people listen to it.

When words matter when the President of United States says something, people listen to it.

I'd certainly prefer that the Attorney General would announce that the investigation is over and there were no findings of wrongdoing. But that wouldn't support the narrative that the President wants.

I think to some extent the position of DNI and the staff, the Office of DNI which supports the DNI personally I think has become something of a hood ornament for this deep state fiction.

I believe the incumbent in that position should be an intelligent professional or a national security professional and preferably somebody that's had some experience running in large organizations.

This is a partisan staunch supporter of the President.

I completely disagree with Senator Graham and I've never heard him say that during the time I served as DNI.

This is not a trivial undertaking and it's not something that can be done on a part-time basis.

The Russians on the heels in the wake of their success in 2016 clearly they're going to do it again in 2020.