Robert Gates: “I'm concerned about the level of, frankly, subversive activity that the Iranians are carrying on in a number of places…”

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.

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

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

Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine.