Claire McCaskill: “This is going to be ridiculously hard for you, because we are like a dog with a bone on this stuff.”

This is never a referendum. Presidential elections, by the time they run around, is always, 'well, who do you like slightly better than the two you don't like?' So it is a binary choice.

He's focused on himself?

The culture wars? I've got to tell you, this time around, bring it, because I think that Democrats want to talk about abortion, and they want to talk about guns.

There is an over-classification problem, and I was surprised Secretary Gates didn't mention it.