Leon Panetta: “My understanding is that the transition from DOD and DOS is on track.”

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

But the facts speak for themselves.

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…

And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.