Chuck Hagel: “I think it is far more complicated than that, as I have already said. My answer is, I will defer that judgment to…”

No one person should ever govern a party. That’s not the point of political parties. Political parties must be diverse, have different opinions.

The President has said, many times, still strongly believes, that Assad has lost the legitimacy to govern his own people.

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.

We had better pay attention to what our scientists, our intelligence people, our military leaders are saying how serious this is and the impact it is going to have.