Robert Gates: “If you cut the defense budget by 10 percent, which would be catastrophic in terms of force structure, that's $55 billion…”

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.

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 appearances do matter.

Such an attack would make a nuclear-armed Iran inevitable.