Leon Panetta: “The Department recognizes the defense industrial base is more global, commercial, and financially complex than ever…”

The president, as commander in chief, has the power and responsibility to determine America’s future security.

And the problem is, we now realize that 80% of our THAADs are down, that our Patriots were down almost more than one half … and we’re down in our Stingers, we’re down with all of our critical missile systems at a time when there is a real…

I think it's a -- it is something we've got to pay attention to because I think this is a dangerous moment. If we're facing other lone wolf terrorists in this country.

It is inexcusable not to do the proper planning that has to be done in order to make sure that their deployment is not overextended, that they’re getting the supplies they need, that they’re getting the support they need.