Leon Panetta: “Our Reserve component is a valuable, highly experienced and well-trained element of that force.”

Mr. Trump has always prided himself on being a dealmaker, pledging in his campaign that he would resolve such conflicts in the first few days of his presidency.

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.

If he is careless with that awesome power, the United States could very well find itself in another world war.

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