Leon Panetta: “Let me be clear. You can't take a half a trillion dollars out of the defense budget and not incur additional risks.”

I think the House, both the Speaker, the Republicans, the Democrats, have to come together to now move this supplemental. It is critical to the message we send to the world about U.S. world leadership.

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…

The president, as commander in chief, has the power and responsibility to determine America’s future security.

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.