Leon Panetta: “I remain hopeful that you will do the right thing with regards to sequester.”

Somebody needs to get fired.

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

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.

And that is the danger here: that rather than bringing peace, it's going to bring more war.