Leon Panetta: “I think the most important mission right now is to do whatever is necessary to provide the weapons to the Ukrainians so…”

You know, Erin, as CIA director, I had an awful lot of intelligence on Putin and his background, and his trustworthiness. And the bottom line is that it was clear that we could never trust Putin's word.

Something, somebody, somewhere failed to do the proper planning for what had to take place in order to properly support our men and women in uniform.

Well, it should not have happened. I don’t care what excuses you want to use, it should not have happened.

And ... we’re going to have to respond. And right now, because our missile systems and our supply of weapons being down, this is a vulnerable period for the United States.