Leon Panetta: “we must avoid a hollow force, and maintain a military that will always be ready, agile, deployable, and capable.”

Well, look, I think one of the worst messages the United States is sending right now to the world and to Russia is, our delaying the supplemental request in terms of military aid to Ukraine, to Israel, to Taiwan, and what's essentially…

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, I think you saw a tragic and historic moment take place in the Oval Office, in which 80 years of United States foreign policy has largely been turned on its head.

Mr. Trump has always prided himself on being a dealmaker, pledging in his campaign that he would resolve such conflicts in the first few days of his presidency.