Leon Panetta: “It appears to me that we have reached a point in the campaign where a responsible drawdown in U.S. forces is possible.”

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.

But the facts speak for themselves.

Well, I think you saw a tragic and historic moment take place in the Oval Office, in which 80 years of United States foreign policy has largely been turned on its head.

Make no mistake about it, that would be an act of war because it would threaten our national security.