Chuck Hagel: “I said it, and I don't remember the context or when I said it.”

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.

There is going to be some severe reckoning and review, and a top-down, break it all down and asking themselves, who are we? What do we believe in?

Iraq's continued political progress toward a more inclusive and representative government and its programs of reform and reconciliation will be critical to achieve the progress required.