Benjamin L. Cardin: “Both of you have said that our foreign policy and your--our aid needs to be wrapped in our values and to protect human…”

Thank you very much for holding this hearing on the implementation of Global Magnitsky sanctions.

If Putin hates this so much, we're sure that there are a lot of other dictators who would hate this as well.

You have found the Achilles hill of the Putin regime. They rape, torture and kill with impunity and keep their ill-gotten gains in the West.

If Putin is so mad about this, probably there will be some other dictators that would not like it as well