Leon Panetta: “I appreciate your leadership on this issue.”

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.

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.