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Dan Coats: I don't think they were invited in there, would have been invited in there, had we known that they were going to breach…

On the recordMarch 12, 2014
I don't think they were invited in there, would have been invited in there, had we known that they were going to breach their responsibility in terms of invading a neighbor.
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Dan Coats
Republican · Indiana

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Coats comments on Russia's exclusion from the G8 due to its invasion of a neighbor.

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