Chuck Hagel: “The objective of our relations with Azerbaijan and Armenia should be to strengthen each nation's political independence…”

It just feeds into all that instability, and unrest, and unpredictability, which makes a damn dangerous world.

It is a measurement. But I don't think it is the measurement. I mean, I was in a war with a lot of body counts every day. We lost everyone.

There will be consequences. There will be repercussions.

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.