Robert Gates: “Ambassador Eikenberry and General McChrystal are, as we speak, working on a joint civil-military campaign plan.”

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

I think it would be a very heavy political lift for the president to say he's going to cut off military supplies to Israel unless they stop in Gaza.

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.

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.