Robert Gates: “Above all, there must be an Afghan face on this war.”

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 appearances do matter.

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

I'm always hesitant to get Congress involved in a problem, because you usually end up with a solution you don't like. But the problem that the conferences, the athletic conferences, are facing now, they're all multi-state conferences. And…