Robert Gates: “the certification requirement... ensures that a repeal of this policy would be conducted in an orderly manner.”

the only way I could get significant new or additional equipment to commanders in the field in weeks or months--not years--was to take control of the problem myself through special task forces and ad hoc processes.

This is basically the responsibility of the president to educate people about why this is necessary.

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.

we always discover . . . that we [go] too far in cutting