Robert Gates: “The U.S. Senate has always agreed, approving each treaty by lopsided, bipartisan margins.”

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.

Putin believes it's his destiny to recreate the Russian empire.

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

He would be candid and honest, willing to tell the President straight from the shoulder what he needs to hear.