And the conventional wisdom in Washington was, this is terrible, but there's nothing we can do about it. Senate, I didn't believe that, so I drafted sanctions legislation that was targeted to stop the pipeline. My legislation passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. It passed the House and Donald Trump signed it in law. Why would I ask, why wouldn't you want Germany to have cheap energy? (1:40:41–1:40:46)
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