The following is the full transcript of an interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a portion of which aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 18, 2025.

"Well, we don’t know for a fact where Osama bin Laden is. If we did, we’d go get him," said Secretary Gates, before adding that "it's been years" since any good intelligence on his whereabouts.

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Putin hasn't given up on any of his original goals in Ukraine," Gates said, referring to an April 26 social media post. In the post, Mr. Trump wrote of Putin, "maybe he doesn't want to stop the war." ...

Our new leader should appeal, in President Abraham Lincoln’s words, to “the better angels of our nature.” Gates is a former secretary of defense.

The following is the full transcript of an interview with former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, a portion of which aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on May 18, 2025.