Leon Panetta: “That Strait is extremely important to free commerce and to shipping and to the shipping lanes.”

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.

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.

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

I think America will be back fighting Iran again in a few years, no matter what happens now.