Leon Panetta: “we believed that Iran was furnishing new, more deadly weapons to militant groups targeting U.S. troops in Iraq.”

And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…

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.

Somebody needs to get fired.

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.