James Clapper

I think at some point we need to make a determination with the Republic of Korea when they are able to defend themselves.

I hope we don't beat our chest here and just continue coercion because we risk then, which is something that Chinese long concerned about.

They were very successful.

the threat that is the Russians are posing and which they're going to continue to pose to our basic system. And the President is singular indifference to this is a peril to the country.

What's a greater danger to the country is a lack of response to this. We haven't punished the Russians and we don't have a government approach to defending ourselves against further such attacks.

He cannot separate himself from what is needed for the good of the country.

His tweet today was about him. Didn't say anything about -- this was a threat to the country and we need to do something about it.

For a President who likes to call himself strong... he has a weakness which is, he is not a very good poker player.

Bob Mueller and his team know a lot more about all this than is out there than we know and I think there's much more to come.

I think that, I hope he just didn't give him a free pass and not acknowledge, hey, you know, we knew what you were doing in meddling in our -- interfering in our election.

But obviously this has got all kinds of political overtones and where it seems to me Chairman Nunes is more concerned with trying to protect the President.

looking back over now more than a half century in intelligence, I have not experienced a time when we have been beset by more crises and threats around the globe.

I was appalled, embarrassed. I'm out of adjectives that have not already been used. It's vulgar, despicable, it's racist, it doesn't befit the office.

It's sad that apparently he didn't understand exactly what Section 702 is all about, which is designed to govern the collection on non-U.S. persons overseas.

I think it's, to me, it's absurd. I guess what this refers to is a conspiracy somehow among careerists in the government who are in opposition to President Trump or probably more accurately, who are not seen as sufficiently loyal…

I think there's tremendous value to the career employees throughout the civil service in our government. This is one of the, to me, one of the strengths of our government because it provides continuity, it provides knowledge, an expertise…

I just wish the president would exert more discretion and do so -- and have people fact check things before he tweets them out, because some of these -- and to me this is smacks of recklessness or if not abject carelessness.

I mean, this has huge impacts in not only in this country, but the rest of the world.

Well, it does and particularly to have the commander-in-chief, the leader of the free world, seemingly endorsed such inflammatory and it looks to me like contrived or phony videos.

I think the press secretary should be considered for the Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers a sustained tap-dancing award for trying to defend the -- what to me is indefensible.

Well, I do and I've lived through this in previous instances of inflammatory videos which can really incite people in certain parts of the Mideast.

I just think is -- and that's kind of what's happening here -- I think is really reprehensible.

given the broad distribution, low cost, and accelerated pace of development of this dual-use technology, its deliberate or unintentional misuse might lead to far-reaching economic and national security implications.

You know, the thing about all this, Anderson, for me is, you know, you run out of adjectives to describe the daily revelations that come out.

Director Mike Pompeo's characterization of WikiLeaks as a non-nation state hostile intelligence service, which I completely agree with. That's exactly what it is.