Robert Gates: “I know you will join me in doing everything to ensure they have all they need to accomplish their mission and come home…”

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.

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

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