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It came in an exclusive interview with jim sciutto. jim, i understand you delve into the spiraling situation with director clapper. what did he have to say? >> it's interesting. this guy has been in intelligence for 50 years. the toughest job is seeing into the minds of foreign leaders trying to guess their plans and intentions. he says that's particularly difficult with vladimir putin because he has such a tiny circle. he says he's in a decision bubble. what he does know and this guy is good at reading people, he is very impulsive and opportunity and that has relates to syria, he doesn't beli...

Very opportunistic. it's a debate but i personally question whether he has some long-term strategy and i think his intervention into syria is another manifestation of that. those things are hard to predict when there's a very -- in his case, a very small number of people around him unlike our president, he is not subjected to a steady stream of bad news. that's not a good thing for his intelligence services to do. so he's very much, i think, in a sort of a decision bubble and he makes these decisions on pretty much on his own. >> do you think he has a plan for syria? >> what his long-term plan...

Intelligence inside a decision bubble, a small circle not very many people challenging him. he's impulsive and when i asked if he has a plan, vladimir putin has plan in syria, he said in his words he is winging it. here is how he described that. >> we're expected to know that a decision has been made by a foreign head of state before he makes it. putin is case in point. i think he's very impulsive, very opportunistic. it's a debate but i personally question whether he has song long-term strategy or whether he is, you know, being very opportunistic on a day to day basis and i think his interven...