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

I think the president is — based on what I read — is getting the sense that, as he put it, that Putin is 'tapping' him along.

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

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.