Robert Gates: “I think in effect doing a referendum of the service of the members of the armed forces on a policy matter is a very…”

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

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.

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