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

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

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…

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

It’s poor planning to wind up with your stockpiles of key weapons being depleted.