Ben Cardin: “The bottom line is, we all have a responsibility to protect taxpayers' rights and to protect the taxpayers' dollars.”

If we are going to carry this as a value on the international stage, that the United States stands up for human rights and certain values and the rule of law, is it not important that we be willing to apply these sanctions to accomplish…

We need to consider how we deal with that.

We are going to do something about this.

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