This President is derelict in his duty as commander in chief to brush off information that is critical to the life and death of our service members, and do so just because he doesn't want to hear bad news.

How can you make a decision, Jim, let's think about this. First of all, it's not important, then it's fake news, then it doesn't merit as attention but all of a sudden, he knows enough to know it doesn't merit action. This all does not add…

I have faith in our uniformed military. I have faith in the American defense establishment's readiness and desire to adhere to the norms and the laws of war.

It's hard to see how diplomacy can be retrieved at this point.

The killing of Soleimani will require from the Iranian perspective a clear and definitive retaliation. And that retaliation could take any number of forms.

You do need off-ramps. It's very hard to see where they might be in this context.

I think we need to be prepared for that possibility. And as I say, it's no certainty, but what's happened in the last several days and even frankly in the last several months, has led us on a course of increasing escalation that I'm quite…

And it is so much worse than I imagined. Every day, a lie, a disparagement, and a trashing of the institutions and the norms that we all believe have held us together.

We're handing over our Kurdish allies to slaughter. And that blood is going to be on Donald Trump's hands.

It's galling and it's disappointing.

But I think we're seeing it is really me first. And that is how he is governing. Everything is about him.

For the president to put his own self-interest, it seems, above the national interest of the United States, above the national security of the United States, which in so many instances, this just being the latest, seems to be his pattern…