Chuck Hagel: “A nation is always stronger when it is together, when the President gets the Congress and the American people with him…”

Because I had the responsibility and I play my own game here. And that is because by law, I am the one official in government charged with certification with release of detainees. I take that responsibility very seriously.

When you have a national leader, our national world leader, who has left dignity behind, decency behind, honesty, integrity behind them, that's where you start.

This is so unpredictable. And we've never seen anything quite like this in our lifetime, so there is no playbook here.

Well, first recognize that we have a problem and then start addressing the problem, locally, nationally, globally.