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Is it a diplomatic response? because we haven't seen these kind of sanctions in peacetime in our history. >> reporter: and spicer later went on to argue, he compared this to the 2015 opm hack. he said, look, that was by alleged chinese hackers. he said, look, they potentially hacked over a million records and nothing happened to them. a new line of argument here, arguing against the size and scope of these specific sanctions against russia. >> of course democrats would argue that russia used that intelligence, which the chinese, it's unclear whether they ever did, but that's a separate argumen...