Robert Gates: “I expect to continue to conduct training, advising, and assisting activities and joint counterterrorism operations.”

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.

Putin feels that he has a destiny to recreate the Russian Empire.

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 it doesn't make strategic sense.