Leon Panetta: “I take the Nation's defense very seriously, as I know all Members of Congress do.”

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

And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…

I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.

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