The following is a transcript of an interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates that aired on May 19, 2024. MARGARET BRENNAN: And we go now to the former Secretary of Defense and ...

Few people know more about the depth and complexity of America's national security than Robert Gates, who spent nearly three decades at the CIA and National Security Council before running the ...

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who served in George W. Bush's administration, tells "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that Russian President Vladimir Putin "feels that he has a destiny ...

Robert M. Gates is a crier. He is also an expert at restraining himself. The war is fought in the throat, and lost in the eyes. He clears his throat as if it will hitch his composure back into ...

Robert Gates, the former defense secretary under President Obama, seemed to reiterate in an interview that aired Sunday night that he believes President Biden has been wrong on nearly every major ...

Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan that he isn't sure if you can judge Russian President Vladimir Putin's intentions in a face-to-face meeting.

Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in a book due out later this month, describes President Obama as "a man of personal integrity" who nonetheless was skeptical of his administration's "surge ...

Robert Gates, who served as defense secretary for the Obama administration, paused for a moment and said "I don't know" in an interview Sunday when asked if he thinks former VP Joe Biden would be ...

This is Part I of Morning Edition's interview with Robert Gates. Part II and a link to the complete transcript are below. Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says his criticism of President ...

In a new memoir, former defense secretary Robert Gates unleashes harsh judgments about President Obama’s leadership and his commitment to the Afghanistan war, writing that by early 2010 he had ...

"I think he has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades,” former Defense Secretary Robert Gates says of Vice President Joe Biden in ...

Based on the early excerpts of former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates’ memoir, Duty, it is obvious that he has written a nuanced account of Washington in the Bush and Obama years. That ...