Robert Gates: “the intelligence that I've gotten indicates that the first IOC for anything like a fifth-generation fighter in Russia…”

I'm kind of pessimistic for the near term.

He is deeply knowledgeable about the international scene and geopolitics.

My staff and I have learned that it was nearly impossible to get accurate information and answers to questions such as, 'How much money did you spend?' and, 'How many people do you have?'

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.