Robert Gates: “It's a terrible way to budget. I mean, it is a gimmick.”

I think that it's still a problem for the Saudis.

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 it doesn't make strategic sense.

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