Leon Panetta: “The Army's share of the cut could be almost $134 billion through 2017.”

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

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.

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.