Leon Panetta: “We are making a big mistake if we just suddenly pull out all of our forces out of Afghanistan”

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.

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 recommend he take Reagan's position, which is trust, but verify.

The president, as commander in chief, has the power and responsibility to determine America’s future security.