Robert Gates: “I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him…”

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.

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.

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

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.