I thought it was our policy to put economic pressure on the Kremlin to stop attacking our elections, its illegal occupation of Ukraine, its war crimes in Syria.
Bob Menendez: “I thought it was our policy to put economic pressure on the Kremlin to stop attacking our elections, its illegal…”
On the recordAugust 20, 2018
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Menendez questions the contradiction in U.S. policy towards Russia.
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