John McCain

If we leave at the end of 2014, the ANSF will begin to deteriorate.

So in your view, if we left Afghanistan with no residual force, we could see a replay of the Iraq scenario?

It's very disturbing to me to hear the President say that the longer Karzai waits the lower the number of troops will be.

I would not support keeping troops behind, because it would be a needless risk of American lives.

Well, the question is where did the intelligence go? That's always the problem. I talked to the state department today, a senior official, and said you know, Kerry didn't know about the invasion when he was talking to Lavrov right up until…

We are the world leader, we cannot abandon that responsibility. It does not mean putting boots on the ground. But it means as Ronald Reagan did, peace and restraint. That's what I'm afraid has very been missing in this administration.

This idea that utter disbelief that Putin would take the action he's just taken in Crimea, a total and fundamental misreading of Putin and his ambition has been characterized this administration.

We need to accelerate Georgia's membership into NATO. We need to have a Magnitski bill expanded that would apply to Russians who are responsible for this invasion.

I think he loves to strut on the world stage, and I think it could have some impact on him psychologically.

But we can -- there's a lots of range of economic issues, political issues, and frankly comments and statements that can be made, which would help to maybe make Vladimir Putin pay a price for what he's done.

I don't see any military option at this time although, we can be doing some planning for further contingencies, particularly if Vladimir Putin puts pressure on other countries, such as Poland or the Baltics who are members of NATO.

Senator John McCain was on our air earlier talking about revisiting putting U.S. missile defense in the Czech Republic.

There should be some accountability.

Billions of dollars of U.S. taxes were dodged in the course of this with the help of the bank.

Facts are stubborn things. You have reduced the competitive launches by half, down to three, and that is just the reality of it.

I do not understand that, Mr. Secretary. I want to say to you this smacks of the cronyism that we saw in the first tanker contract that ended up in a major scandal.

I think you will find that since the merger between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, that those costs have dramatically escalated again because of lack of competition.

I guess we will see again, but I do not quite understand that some huge cost would be involved in developing a prototype given the previous example of $3.2 billion completely wasted.

You do not want to build a prototype given the previous experience, and you do not want to build a prototype?

I do not disagree with that as a factual point.

We have had hearings just on the JSF itself. The littoral combat ship continues to ignore the basic principle of 'fly-before-you-buy.'

WSARA, which Senator McCain and I introduced in early 2009 and was enacted several months later...

It seems to me that we should be encouraging the capability to manufacture rocket motors here in the United States of America rather than being dependent upon Vladimir Putin.

By the way, the rocket motors are made in Russia. Rocket motors are made in Russia, and we want to continue reliance on a program that the Russians are key elements in providing this capability?

We need competition. I will not go into what you gave me as a response before. Your responses do not hold water.