Leon Panetta: “I think the less he takes time to attack President Obama, I think the better off he will be.”

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.

The facts have to be presented to the American people, and it's the American people who will judge what is right or wrong.

It’s poor planning to wind up with your stockpiles of key weapons being depleted.

And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.