Leon Panetta: “We need to examine all aspects of compensation in a manner that recognizes the unique nature of military life and the…”

But the facts speak for themselves.

The secretaries of defense feel that there have to be hearings to oversee just exactly what took place and what standard this administration is going to use.

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.

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.