Leon Panetta: “the tone of the White House is set from the top by the president.”

What Trump is trying to do in order to convince Putin to come to the table is not going to work if Putin senses weakness on the part of the United States.

it's shaping up to be “Trump’s Vietnam,”

Well, look, I think one of the worst messages the United States is sending right now to the world and to Russia is, our delaying the supplemental request in terms of military aid to Ukraine, to Israel, to Taiwan, and what's essentially…

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.