Robert Gates: “The restructured program will mitigate cost and schedule challenges.”

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

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

No more continuing resolutions.

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.