Robert Gates: “I support the President's decision to work with Congress this year to repeal 10 U.S.C. Sec. 654.”

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

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 there is a cost. I think it does provide a basis for radicalization in the region.

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