Ash Carter: “Vladimir Putin's conduct there has had the opposite of whatever effect he thought it might have in terms of attracting…”

We need Congress to come together around providing normal, stable, responsible budgets, because the lack of stability represents one of the single biggest strategic risks to our enterprise at DOD.

This, for the eighth fiscal year in a row. That's a deplorable state of affairs.

The international community, United Nations Security Council and especially the other six-party powers must hold North Korea accountable for this latest act and heighten the pressure on North Korea.

It absolutely is. That's why we quadrupled the European Reassurance Initiative.