Leon Panetta: “the Secretary has a prerogative with the Council of Governors, a dialog, to re-engage.”

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.

I think we have to take this intelligence assessment as a real threat to NATO.

I recommend he take Reagan's position, which is trust, but verify.

I think the United States ought to be part and parcel of any agreement to be able to provide a security assurance to make sure that Ukraine is protected from the kind of invasion that we've seen from Russia.