Leon Panetta: “I have made that clear time and time again.”

But the facts speak for themselves.

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 we have to take this intelligence assessment as a real threat to NATO.

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