David Gergen

We asked them to stand with us time after time when we think we're threatened, and now they're threatened and we have to stand with them.

I think first of all, we ought to give credit to the administration, to the president today when they reversed themselves and said they made a mistake.

When you have three-man people, four-man people marking all over France, and joined by people from all over the world, that sends an extraordinarily important signal.

His critics think beyond what the Constitution allows, but in almost every case, what he's showing are his true colors and that is much more to the left in these last few weeks.

I personally think he should have given the Republicans six months to see if they could work it out.

One of the issues of 2016 elections is going to be who's more responsible at governing?

I think the President took a hard line. He said he was going to sign the executive order. He's going to do it.

I mean, he just said flat out he is going to sign this executive order on immigration reform. And just moments after Mitch McConnell said it would poison the well.

This is a problem we want out of power in Syria itself.

I think this made a lot harder and if Jay Carney were back there, he'd be very frustrated and say, 'Hey guys let's get this straight', because they have had a series of muddled messages.

What is clear over the last two days including those comments from tonight, the report, Jake, is the president seems to be off his game.

There seems to be conflicting views within the administration on that very question.

It's probably the worst relationship between a leader of the United States and leader of Israel since all the way back to the Eisenhower days some 50, 60 years ago.

Obama thinks that Netanyahu is bullheaded and Netanyahu thinks Obama is weak. Neither trusts the other.

The Israelis now think Kerry played something to the bad cop this time around as well.

America has been Israel's best friend. We stand up for Israel.

I think there is going to come a time, I hope sooner rather than later when we actually get a cease-fire.

But if you think about it, these sanctions overtime could cost investors in Russia, a trillion dollars, according to some estimates.

Well, first of all, I think these sanctions are very good news. We finally see a stiffening of the western spine, something has been terribly absent here in the weeks behind us.

We haven't played the big card yet, we haven't gone to the nuclear option and that is to cutoff their oil exports, the way we did with Iran.

But Anderson, the other part is that the other good news is that Ukrainian forces are now in the outcast against the separatists.

I think a lot of them American feel that it's unfair that John Kerry has been trying very hard to be anonymous broker.

The world is a mess. And a lot of this effort are failing and I think was particularly distressing this evening is relations between the United States and Israel had fallen into a low point.

What we ought to be doing is treat the ones who've gotten here with as much care and compassion as we can.

I think it was a mistake. I think it signals to the Central American country, both about compassion but about the fact that the United States really discourages people from coming.