James Jeffrey: “the first thing we have to do, and this would be a change from the last administration, is to recognize that Iran is a…”

It's unpleasant, it's transactional, it's ugly, but we and Turkey have very similar strategic goals.

I agree with the CENTCOM assessment. ISIS is still there in the northeast and throughout Syria.

Whatever it takes--well, whatever political process and diplomatic process is necessary to get that government to behave differently toward its own population and to its neighbors, that is an absolutely essential precondition for a…

We would do everything short of military force to try to hold off a Turkish incursion.