Leon Panetta: “When he becomes the issue, then that's a trouble.”

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.

I never thought I would see that in my lifetime.

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

I don't like the idea that former soldiers who served well, uh, at least during the time they spent in the military, uh, that somehow there was something that happened that then turned them into terrorists.