Leon Panetta: “Yes. I believe that being a party to the Convention would help enlist support from other countries to get offending…”

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.

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

The answer is no, not at all. Not in 100 years. These plans that the Pentagon develops, we -- we develop these plans to deal with every potential crisis that's out there.