james clapper is with me, he was director of national intelligence.io is hinting at some intel about putin's state of mind here. do you agree, he's different from a few years ago? >> i do. and that's without benefit of any current inside baseball intelligence. just watching putin over many, many years, he's always been very cold, pragmatic, objective, and rational. his behavior is different now. and that could be the result of a number of things. the 22 years he's been in an ivory tower. he's the classic example of the emperor has no clothes. it's pretty obvious no one in his circle is pushing back. he's had 30 years to stew over the grievances that the soviet union and russia suffered, and this is all coming to a head. the warning he issued about -- when he said if anyone interferes, it would incur consequences that have never been incurred in history. and readying nuclear forces, it's worrisome and really bears watching. and all of this is heightened by the obvious frustration and the disappointing performance thus far of the vaunted russian army. s

former director of national intelligence james clapper joins me now. anks for being with us. i appreciate it very much. what is your read, your initial read of putin making this comment today that he's putting his deterrence forces, his nuke l nuclear forces on high alert. >> jim, i took notice when he issued this statement, this warning, about whoever -- whoever tries to interfere should know that russia will be immediate response and will lead to such consequences you have never experienced in history. that got my attention. of course it implied the full range of his potential arsenal. then the alert, raising the alert level of his nuclear forces. to me it strikes me as a bit of chest beating. the russian army hasn't performed to expectations, in fact, have been pretty terrible. i think he just needed to remind everybody maybe for his own insecurity or his own ego that, hey, we're still in nuclear power. and when you think about it he's been in an isolated bubble bureaucratically if not physically for about 22 years and brooding about this huge grieva

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director of national intelligence under then-president obama, james clapper. ncertainty over how this moment will unfold, but do you believe the sanctions imposed today by the u.s. and western europe will impact putin's calculations? >> well, not right away, wolf. one of the frustrations that people have with the imposition of sanctions is it doesn't result in instant gratification. what you're looking for when you impose sanctions is a change in behavior, and we're not going to see that, at least right away. the other thing is, of course, the administration is trying to parse out sanctions in anticipation of further action by putin. so the sanctions won't, i don't think, directly affect anything right away. but their impact will be felt over time, and then they could have the effect of changing behavior. but initially, no. >> the u.s., as you know, director clapper, didn't initially yesterday call this an invasion. they still haven't necessarily confirmed if russian troops, formal military troops, have crossed into eastern ukraine. you've studied putin over a

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do our next step, i want to bring in former director of national intelligence, retired general james clapper. what's the potential significance if there is a firefight going on in the area of the chernobyl nuclear disaster with all that still radioactive dust? >> it's huge. would have huge implications not only for ukraine but for the whole region. to include ironically enough, russia. this is -- apart from the 15 other nuclear reactors still active at four different sites across ukraine, none of them in donbas region. so this, to me, is a real problem. and the russians are not known for discriminate targeting. either wittingly or unwittingly hit one of these facilities, you have a real disaster on your hands. >> it's a sobering news, of course, on a very serious day already. >>> let's talk now with the former united states ambassador to ukraine, bill taylor. ambassador taylor, good to see you, as always. i guess the first question is, is there anything that can be done to stop putin and russia from a complete and total takeover of ukraine, short of nato sending troops in which they will not

dana bash, john king and abby phillip and general james clapper.what putin did today. it was anticipated that he might try to do what he did with crimea, which is seize a little bit of a chunk of the country. not that that makes it acceptable, but that that was what he -- people thought he was going to do. let me show the map of the region of the donbas region in southeast ukraine which is the region people thought he was going to seize. you can see in the yellow and white shaded area, that's the one-third of the donbas region that's controlled by russian-backed separatists. there's a war fought there for the last eight years. and putin just declared and recognized the entirety of the donbas region to be two independent states. and then yesterday he claimed the kremlin claimed that the separatists, even though two-thirds of that area is controlled by the ukrainian government, yesterday the kremlin claimed separatists were seeing please come, send troops and rescue us. that was the pretext. but let's take a look. let's pull out to show the larger uk

joining me now to discuss, former director of national intelligence james clapper. good to have you on this morning. >> thank you, jim. >> i imagine you, given your decades in intelligence, watching russia very closely, watching events in recent days re closely. i twoowant to ask you about whau see when you see the increased contact along what is known as the line of contact, artillery fire here, as well as the growing claims by russia both in state media and public statements that ethnic russians in eastern ukraine are under threat. is that the kind of false flag or false pretext that the u.s. is looking for right now? >> i think so, jim. i don't know that this is a provocation, but it certainly fits the bill. and, of course, russians can justify that they have to move in to eastern ukraine, donbas region, to restore stability and protect the separatists. so we have been looking for provocation, intelligence community dimed out the russians on some previous potential false flags, so this could well be it. there aren't too many things left to be done before they act

joining us now, cnn national security analyst, james clapper.tin is facing unprecedented pressure right now from the west. he's also facing the embarrassment of this offensive not necessarily being pulled off as smoothly as he originally thought. do you fear putin will lash out even more dangerous -- in more dangerous ways right now, now that he's backed into a corner? >> well, i do. i think he's probably even more frustrated than he was before. he did not expect two things. i don't think he expected resistance of the ukrainians, ukrainian people and i don't think he expected a lackluster performance of the russian army. that's got do contribute heightened frustration. i think what it will do is, i'm not unique here, i think he's going to double down on heavier fire power, particularly artillery which the russian army is always big for. it's going to become very brutal and very nasty in the ukraine. that's what i anticipate. >> you've been very blunt in your comments and you say putin has become more unhinged than you've ever seen him before. is

are james clapper and john brennan next on the chopping block?y did a pretty good job of trying to throw us off of hillary's trail. listen how they responded when former attorney general william barr said in congressional testimony he believed trump was spied on. >> well, i was very disappointed in what the attorney general barr said today about spying. when he was referring to the investigation, that was predicated, certainly, and that the fbi was trying to understand exactly what the russians were doing. >> both stunning and scary. i was amazed at that and rather disappointed that the attorney general would say such a thing that you know, the term spying has all kinds of negative connotations. and i have to believe he chose that term deliberately. >> jesse: feds usually circle the wagon around other feds. who anies what's going to happen to those two clowns. this a level of corruption not seen in american history. this is more brazen anthony than the watergate break. in hillary's hackers broke in, planted evidence, then got the feds to try thro

. >> former dni james clapper who served under president obama reflecting on how the white house treatedrward with invasion of ukraine. >> carley: fox news contributor and former congressman sean duffy joins us now. you were 2008 up verification georgia and 2014 invasion of crimea. do you have to wonder if obama had taken a different stance back then when would he be in a different stance rate knew. >> i don't think so. greater sanctions one would be scenario today one russia would get the message when you invade your neighbors are there are really significant consequences for that bad action. what we should have done is given more weapons to ukraine. anti-tank, anti-aircraft technology so if putin was going to invade, there would be serious consequences on his military there would be great blood shed because we had given the armament to ukraine that were necessary to defend themselves. that was the answer and, by the way, biden and obama have sat by and not provided any weaponry. they gave blankets to ukraine the last time this happened. if you want to actually send a message, carley, m

the former director of national intelligence under obama, james clapper, said something that reflected conversation that is really going on as you know intensely among intelligence circles in the west right now. take a listen. >> i personally think he's unhinged. i really worry about his acutie and balance right now. here a guy who really has his finger on the potential nuclear button so that to me bears close watching. >> i don't need to tell you as former ambassador to ukraine, putin has been a murderous thug for decades. that hasn't changed. what seems to have changed is his calculations, his strategy, his emotional outbursts. do you think that he has lost his mind in some way? >> i've never met this man but all indications are that he is not in full control of his emotions, of his thought patterns. he has this kind of almost fierce anger, fierce hatred for president zelenskyy. president zelenskyy, a young politician, showing the world what leadership really is, and president putin doesn't know how to deal with that. president putin does not understand ukrainians or this ukrainian.

this is james clapper.the director of national intelligence under president obama in 2014 when president obama was in office, russia invaded and took crimea and this is what he thinks of that decision now. >> putin clearly is more a lot more emboldened than he was eight years ago. and we have a lot better intelligence. we as an administration have been more aggressive in 2014. >> jesse: you think? >> dana: they should've been more aggressive in 2014. is there anything we find about what we should do in 2022? >> geraldo: it's job dropping how mild and meek our response was to the seizure of crimea. almost as soon as it happened people were saying well, crimea is really historically part of russia. you know, the little green men, purple with mine, whatever they were were almost expected and then it just went on to something else happened and the world's attention shifted. we could -- let me start by just with the major on biden. i think president biden's team has accurately forecasted everything putin was goi

that's why jim comey and john brennan and james clapper went all pressed under oath, is there evidence of trump russia inclusion, they all said, no, there isn't. what i found was interesting that i didn't know as a member of congress. we had a lot of intelligence of fake trump russia collusion. we had information that hillary clinton had a plan to create this narrative, false trump russia connection. that is the notes i declassified, john brennan's handwritten notes that showed he briefed president biden and vice-president biden about that plan. in addition to those declassified documents, i gave john durham thousands of other documents that are still classified that detail what that plan was. these public filings are starting to be -- john durham is starting to reveal to the public what some of the details of that plan specifically were. >> laura: john, did they also withhold that briefing or those details if you can say this from then candidate trump in august of 2016, if my memory serves me correct? >> your memory is absolutely correct. as a candidate, donald trump received a briefi

and here's former director of national intelligence, james clapper. >> i personally think he's unhingedbout his acuity and balance right now. he's a guy who really has his finger on the potential nuclear button, so that bears worth watc watching. >> for more, christiane amanpour. i heard some suggesting that this all could be part of a putin chess match, trying to give the impression he's unhinged to make the west nervous. what do you think of this? >> reporter: well, honestly, kate, i think that's really wishful thinking right now. i'm not saying what he's going to do but the idea that somehow putin is still rational or pragmatic, playing games simply has to be put aside given the fact he lied to the world about all his aims during the last several weeks and months of negotiations by telling them he had no intention of going into ukraine. so most people believe and certainly here in europe, you can imagine that the level of fear and anxiety and alarm is incredibly high, given how close one is to the situation, and to it is something that's causing a huge amount of anxiety. neither the

we heard from the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, on cnn earlier today sayingyou agree? >> well, as a diplomat, thank you for asking the question the way you did. of course, we also have to resort to diplomacy as soon as there is space for it but the reality, of course, is after having heard the speech by the president of russia yesterday and after having had the decisions he took, now it's time also for us for action. but we want also to continue to do everything to deter what could be the next step. and we are fully aware of the volatility of the situation and of the dangers of further escalations. after the escalations of yesterday, which were the decision by russia and which are violation of russian international commitments and of the integral sovereignty of ukraine. >> so do you believe the planned meeting between the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken and russia's sergey lavrov will not happen? >> it's not for me to answer the question. >> okay. i thought i would give it a try since i think you probably know the answer to that. but let's talk a littl

a specific exchange you referenced between a democrat of oregon and james clapper about nsa spying.et's listen. [video clip] >> last summer he was asked about the nsa surveillance of americans. he replied, "the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people is completely false. " does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? >> no, sir. >> it does not? >> not wittingly. there are cases where they could inadvertently collect, but not wittingly. susan: that exchange blew up. can you tell me why? amy: it blew up because technically the answer director klapper gave was wrong. the nsa did have records of millions of americans, but the records were phone records. not the content of your calls, but the number you called and the time you called and the duration of the call. that was incredibly important. that moment. the senator believed director klapper lied to him. he could not reveal the classified program, highly classified program. he was in a conundrum. how was he supposed to answer the question in an unclassi

james clapper, former director of national intelligence. we were really struck by something that nina said on the program. this is someone who, by the way, studied ukraine, studied vladimir putin, in general, gotten inside his mind a little bit. she said she never would have imagined he would be crazy enough to do what he has done to go pore all of ukraine. what do you think? . >> well, i think there's some question about his mental state, frankly >> really? >> he's been a bureaucratic bubble for 20, 22 years, and a physical one for two. and it's very obvious from his performance at these meetings that there's nobody pushing back. he is the ultimate decision maker. and he's not getting bad news from his intelligence services. so i wonder about that. i was worried about the chilling warning about the consequences for ukrainians. that was pretty chilling. on the heels of a theatrically staged nuclear exercise, the triad of their nuclear arsenal. and i really wonder about his mental state. >> are so his warning was basic live to say, if you in

. >> the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, told me this week he fears russia won't stop at ukraine. do you share those fears? >> i certainly know that the front line states, the eastern flank, former states of the old soviet union have those fears. we want to provide them reassurance. we want to provide them defensive capabilities. they all have their own, but we have flown some troops to provide additional reassurance to them. one can never underestimate vladimir putin. this is not just a war of choice he has made. it's going to be a war of carnage, and i certainly hope he doesn't make this choice, and i certainly hope he does not go further. he could set off an enormous conflict in europe. what is really fundamental here, wolf, which you know from all of your years covering international relations and foreign policy and international security is what putin is doing here is not only a front to ukraine, to europe, but to the rules-based international order. it says that authoritarian leaders can act with impunity to throw out the rules and do whatever they want. tha

joining us now retired air force lieutenant general james clapper, author of "facts and fears, hard truthslligence." also with us steve hall. director clapper, i wonder what you make of the white house saying putin is supposedly improvising and adapting his plans after the u.s. made so much intelligence public over the last several weeks that he has a false flag operation and other things. do you think that's had an effect on the strategy about putin? >> well, i'm not sure i'd go that far. i think it's certainly been a distraction to him. it's been somewhat disruptive, but i think putin's mind is made up, and he might improvise as he goes. i think he'd do that anyway. that said, i completely support what the administration is doing and using intelligence, but we must contest against the russians in the information operations space. it remains to be seen how much impact that's had on his kiz making, which that's another subject. >> steve, it's interesting clarissa ward in kharkiv was saying a lot of the ukrainians she's talked to in the last couple of days are saying are in cafes saying it

i want to bring in former director of national intelligence, james clapper. well, it's very dangerous with chernobyl and what i recall the disaster in 1986. just the fact that it's the protective zone is in contest between the ukrainian protective force and russians. i also worry about the 15 other nuclear reactors across -- which are active across ukraine in four different sites. if one of those is struck, either intentionally or not, and the russians, not known for their discriminate targeting, we could have a real disaster not only for ukraine but the whole region to include, ironically enough, russia. >> one of the story lines right now is the way ukrainians are doing everything they can to fight back. they are begging the u.s. and other allies for help. just from an intelligence point of view, what is that will to fight tell you? especially given the recent history the biden administration seemed to get that dynamic really wrong in afghanistan? >> we always had a challenge gauging will to fight during my war, southeast asia, we profoundly underestimated

james clapper? >> you wish that obama had done harsher, stricter sanctions in 2014?s i do. i wish as an administration had been more aggressive in 2014. jackie: your thoughts on being more aggressive at that time, being more aggressive this time, and how this situation could have potentially been prevented? nile? >> i have to say that's, you know, without a doubt the obama response to the russian invasion of crimea was absolutely disasterous and the response by the biden presidency today, to what is without a doubt a russia's second invasion of ukraine, beginning right now, the response so far has been very weak. it has been very slow. and, it does not fill, i think the free world with confidence. biden, following in the footsteps of barack obama has been very, have weak-kneed in terms of response on the russian front. the sanctions biden announced yesterday, are very limited in scope. they target two russian banks. they also target russia's sovereign debt but they don't go far enough. and the entire response or strategy on the part of the biden administration has be

. >> martha: reminds me of spying on americans comments that we heard from james clapper. of meta data that everybody wants to know about. thanks, congressman nunes. so let's continue the conversation with ron johnson on the homeland security and foreign relations committees. senator, good to have you with us today. reminds me of james comey, the former fbi director that said, it's not just the dossier that we're relying on. there was other information out there, too. right? and that was a big deal. because there were many that were trying to prove that the dossier was phony, that it was based on unsubstantial evidence. they said oh, no, there's other things, too. i'm wondering, is this the other thing that is out there that we're substantiating, an fbi investigation to the president of the united states and if so, what is in here? >> martha, i felt for quite some time that the whole russian hoax was a diversion of the operation to misdirect the american public from the real wrong doing of the clinton campaign and members inside the fbi and department of justice that were

i want to go on the back of that now to james clapper who was the director of national intelligence under president obama and the director of the defense intelligence agency under president george h.w. bush. general, i appreciate your time. so we are now in the early hours of a new day here in ukraine. president zelenskyy just said the enemy has entered kyiv. he says quote, according to our information, the enemy marked me as target number one, my family as target number two. he did then say he is in the government area of kyiv. he was specific about where he was. said he wasn't leaving. matthew chance said he is in an undisclosed bunker somewhere. what is your reaction to what zelenskyy is saying? >> it's heart wrenching, but it gets to putin's immediate objective is to decapitate the leadership of ukraine and to install subsequently puppets who will be more compliant and obedient to moscow. so i think he's very realistic. very stark. >> putin has threatened anyone, general, who supports ukraine with quote, consequences greater than any you have faced in history. the words stand out. pre

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. >> all right, joining me now is cnn national security analyst james clapper, the former director of national intelligence during the obama administration. and, sir, it is great to have you here this morning. thank you so much. do these sanctions that biden has announced, do they deter russia in your opinion? >> well, i think one of the frustrations with the imposition of sanctions is expectation of instant gratification. so they're being staged, i think very deliberately, and the sanctions we're imposing in conjunction with those imposed by the eu and the uk. so i think it is too early to tell. the ultimate objective of sanctions is to change behavior. and that probably hasn't happened yet. will it? well, hope so, but the jury is out on that. >> do you think the staggering of these sanctions is helpful, this desire not to just do hammer down all at once? >> well, that's almost a religious argument. you can make a case for doing it both ways, the administration has elected to hold back some for leverage and deterrence purposes, rather than doing the whole money right at the outset. i

james clapper, the director of national intelligence, lied when he was asked about the nsa surveilling people. james comey, the fbi was completely went rogue. we have the kleinsmith alteration of the fisa document. there were no consequences. and then when you look at the traditional watchdogs, the left always used to brag we have law faculty's. we have democratic senior senators, we have the aclu and you look at those institutions and they're on the side of the surveillance. the aclu has degenerated into an activist left wing political group. and you know, we have people in the media that outwardly and explicitly saying we're not going to cover the news like we used to. jim rutenberg, christiane amanpour, hogy ramos' we have to be biased because there's churches in the nineteen seventy five watchdog committees when you add silicon valley in the in the equation and they electronics, electronics and weaponizes at fabulous speeds and surveillance and coverage new technology and they're all left and they merged at the hip with washington. it's pretty scary what's happened. well you would

if you're james clapper and said no, no, the nsa does not spy on people. it has to be repercussions ifre you're anthony fauci say we don't substitute subsidized gain of function research. there has to be repercussions if you're james comey and you say two hundred forty five times i can't remember under oath and there is repercussion because they feel that their state onto themselves. so weo b got to break these peoe up and these administrative bureaucracies maybe put some ofa them in kansas city or texasyb r have tenure limits or stop the revolving door. so if you're the head of a health agency, you don't go right on to a pharmaceutical board the next year you get out of office or you're a four star general, you don't go to work for a big contractor and you have to have a cooling off. but t we have to have some harnesses to restrict the powere of these unelected legislative executives and judicial powers. and one person that's for sure. yeah, it sounds like a bigger task really than we imagine that we learnrn a lot from your analysis of these things. victo

i would like to see james comey question, james clapper. we need to know who authorized this, who was involved and if it is hillary clinton, i hope they question her. if republicans take over congress you can be pretty sure we will see some investigations here. maria: that's exactly right. you know, i mean, to think that they were able to intercept the white house in the office of the president of the united states, i mean, you would think how many foreign adversaries there are out there that want to be able to intercept the data and the internet traffic of a sitting president of the united states and here you have hillary clinton who is running for president able to pay a technology company who obviously had access because they were contracted to actually intercept data from a sitting president michael, we don't know if we are going to see indictments further in the next couple of weeks, but i would say there will be many more indictments to come as this continues to show what took place there. michael? >> every time you peel back the laye

james clapper said we should have taken action sooner.from president putin himself, it confirm what is we have been saying. that he did not send more than 150,000 troops to the ukrainian border because of the denying military exercises or threaten ukraine. or stop fabricated genocide by ukraine or any other manufactured reason. his plan all along has been to invade ukraine to control ukraine and its people. destroy ukraine's democracy which offers a stark contrast to the auto to come crazy that he leads reclaim ukraine as a part of russia. >> do you wish that obama had done harsher, stricter sanctions in 2014. >> yes, i wish we had been more aggressive in 2014. >> ainsley: senator, if biden knew, if obama knew, why didn't they do something sooner? >> exactly, that's the point. as secretary blinken, we have been telling you this for months now. we knew that putin's intention was to invade ukraine and not just take these areas in eastern ukraine but a full on onslaught against the people of ukraine and its sovereignty. so it's almost a litt

and over the last couple of days we have heard from the former dni james clapper yeah, i wish we wouldave done more last time. well, now, what we have done so far doesn't seem like enough. russia is in there, they seem, you know, they are yawning at these sanctions so far. >> we did hear the night before last direct from ukraine foreign minister he told bret baier he really wishes all the sanctions in place now had been in blaze a couple of weeks ago. what we are seeing is definitionly not going to be strong enough unless it is really only a very preliminary first step by the biden administration. is he kind of in agreement with you. steve: yep. okay. we will hear from the president in that building behind you at noon. gillian, thank you. >> ainsley: thanks, gillian. a former european leader whose homeland was invaded by russia wishes the west that we all have listened to him. >> pete: former georgian president says he, quote: warned all my western friends about russia becoming more dangerous and drawing more red lines. and they looked at me like i was nuts. now lots of people believe

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