Robert Gates: “I think he has demonstrated, in the past few weeks, that he would take advantage of such a cease-fire, simply to round…”

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.

He wants Ukraine, basically, to be a client state of Russia.

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.