Leon Panetta: “Failure to fund our fiscal year 2013 commitment will be viewed by our allies as reneging on our promises.”

I recommend he take Reagan's position, which is trust, but verify.

I think the United States ought to be part and parcel of any agreement to be able to provide a security assurance to make sure that Ukraine is protected from the kind of invasion that we've seen from Russia.

That’s too long, and it should have been brought back sooner.

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…