Robert Gates: “I certainly stand by my statement this morning that I agreed with General Pace that we are not winning, but we are not…”

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.

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 that it's still a problem for the Saudis.