Jane Harman: “This is true, that this is my last congressional hearing, and I have to say that participating in the first bipartisan…”

First of all, let me commend Congress for something it did last year by a veto-proof margin and that was to pass the sanctions law against Russia, Iran, and North Korea that dramatically increased sanctions against all three countries.

I think Congress is AWOL and Congress should be doing this, and the 2001 AUMF that most of us who are here voted for it seems to me doesn't apply to this situation at all.

But imposing sanctions and continuing to impose them on Iran's malign behavior in the region, which is permissible, is the right way to go.

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