Robert Gates: “The decision on Taiwan arms sales is fundamentally a political decision.”

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's going to insist on occupying all four of the eastern provinces of the Donbas.

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.

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