Robert Gates: “I'm a little out of touch here, but to the best of my knowledge the answer to both questions is no.”

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.

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.

I think there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

There has to be an agreement between the president and the Congress on actually what has to be done to recapture our industrial-military industrial capabilities.