Barack Obama: “We've obviously sent a strong message to Iran that they should immediately release those individuals.”

There’s no doubt that we are going through a period right now of disruption, polarization.

While we are non-partisan, we are not value-neutral. We have a point of view.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

The success of this experiment was never a given.