Leon Panetta: “the recent attacks on our troops 'will not alter our commitment to get this job done.'”

But the facts speak for themselves.

Make no mistake about it, that would be an act of war because it would threaten our national security.

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.

You know, Erin, as CIA director, I had an awful lot of intelligence on Putin and his background, and his trustworthiness. And the bottom line is that it was clear that we could never trust Putin's word.