Robert Gates: “We cannot kill our way to victory in these situations.”

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

The President does not like having countervailing opinions, he does not like being disagreed with.

I think we still have quite a bit of time, Chuck. I think there's still broad bipartisan support in the Congress for helping Ukraine.

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.