Leon Panetta: “You cannot ignore the two-thirds of the budget that are blowing through the ceiling right now.”

The message that went out from this meeting to the world is that United States credibility in dealing with our allies has taken a real hit.

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

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.

And that is the danger here: that rather than bringing peace, it's going to bring more war.