Leon Panetta: “I believe that waterboarding crosses the line, the use of that tactic with regards to interrogations.”

But the facts speak for themselves.

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

What Trump is trying to do in order to convince Putin to come to the table is not going to work if Putin senses weakness on the part of the United States.