Ben Cardin: “I think that is a pretty direct, honest answer, and I appreciate that.”

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.

I introduced the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act as a way of saying that we will hold abusers accountable even if their own country does not.

There is no reason why somebody should be sanctioned in America and not in Europe or not in the U.K.

It was originally a piece of legislation targeting the people who killed Sergei Magnitsky.