Leon Panetta: “The Department has begun a comprehensive review of the defense programs in light of the current fiscal environment.”

Well, look, I think one of the worst messages the United States is sending right now to the world and to Russia is, our delaying the supplemental request in terms of military aid to Ukraine, to Israel, to Taiwan, and what's essentially…

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.

Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.

I think it's a -- it is something we've got to pay attention to because I think this is a dangerous moment. If we're facing other lone wolf terrorists in this country.