Leon Panetta: “If you want to be free, you have to be secure.”

The facts have to be presented to the American people, and it's the American people who will judge what is right or wrong.

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.

What Trump is trying to do in order to convince Putin to come to the table is not going to work if Putin senses weakness on the part of 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.