Chuck Hagel: “The United States is heavily engaged in supporting the SOC and SMC as a counterweight to extremist elements in Syria.”

The Chinese are watching this as relates to Taiwan, the Iranians, the North Koreans -- all countries are watching this, and watching the U.S. response to it, and the West response to it.

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

When the National Guard opened up on students and killed students, partly because they weren't trained, they panicked.

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