Robert Gates: “The focus of the leadership on what's important. And that priority in my view, when we are at war is taking care of…”

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

I think it doesn't make strategic sense.

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

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.