Robert Gates: “I strongly urge Congress to complete its work on the request as quickly as possible.”

I'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

I think appearances do matter.

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.

The Chinese have played a lot of clips of what happened at the Capitol on January 6. And in their propaganda... have talked about how we’re in no position to advise other countries on how to govern themselves.