Leon Panetta: “I'm probably one of the few people here that, having worked on a number of budget summits, ultimately did achieve a…”

I think it was Walter Mondale when he was asked about the legacy of the Carter administration, said something like, we told the truth, we followed the law and we preserve the peace.

But the facts speak for themselves.

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

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.