Leon Panetta: “The President has said that Assad must halt his campaign of killing and crimes against his own people, step aside, and…”

It just -- it strikes me that what the chairman was trying to do perhaps was to try to send a wake-up call to both the Speaker and his Republican colleagues, that Russia still remains very much a threat to the United States.

I think the House, both the Speaker, the Republicans, the Democrats, have to come together to now move this supplemental. It is critical to the message we send to the world about U.S. world leadership.

I don’t think there is any question that we are dealing with classified information.

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