We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.

I saw the relation with Russia as necessary to the U.S., for the interests of the U.S. We worked very closely with them on the Sochi Olympics. We were working closely with them on the Iranian nuclear deal.

The Islamic ideology is a political ideology based on a religion.

The threat of nuclear warfare is very, very low. Trump is no fool, and he sees the world as a globalized world.

I would have preferred to capture bin Laden and expose how he uses Islamic ideology for his own purposes.

I believe there's a diseased component inside the Islamic world, the Muslim world, absolutely. It's like a cancer and it has metastasized and grabbed hold in a much bigger way, and it's because we, have tried to be, globally, tried to be so political correct.

Obama's decision to leave, to not sustain the victory that resulted after eight years of fighting, from 2003 to 2011 in Iraq, was another incredibly stupid decision. It was totally based on politics, not based on any notion of national security. It's a nightmare for our national security. And then you have the Libya intervention.