Robert Gates: “So there will be boots on the ground if there is to be any hope of success in the strategy.”

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

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.

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