07/23/2016
https://transcripts.cnn.com...
"It's a friendship, but it needs an awful lot of work."
"My concern about Syria right now is this, that it looks more and more sectarian, that Assad is an Alawite and with a military that is--about 70 percent of the military leadership is Alawite."
"If they believe that the only outcome of this is likely going to be whether they survive or whether they are purged as that community, then this will be a fight to death whether we offer lethal aid or..."
"To make a sixth of the budget, defense, take 50 percent of the cuts, that was foolish."