Leon Panetta: “Obviously, there was some valuable information that were derived through those kinds of techniques.”

You know, Erin, as CIA director, I had an awful lot of intelligence on Putin and his background, and his trustworthiness. And the bottom line is that it was clear that we could never trust Putin's word.

The secretaries of defense feel that there have to be hearings to oversee just exactly what took place and what standard this administration is going to use.

I think the United States ought to be part and parcel of any agreement to be able to provide a security assurance to make sure that Ukraine is protected from the kind of invasion that we've seen from Russia.

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.