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Jane Harman: “Putin already has not learned Colin Powell's Pottery Barn rule: if you break it, you own it.”

On the recordJune 4, 2014
Putin already has not learned Colin Powell's Pottery Barn rule: if you break it, you own it.
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Jane Harman
California

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Harman criticizes Putin's handling of Crimea and its economic consequences.

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