article_snippet: This is a statement about the impact of a highly unusual letter.
article_snippet: a highly unusual letter does not have legal authority, and I think you have to ask what people are trying to accomplish.'
article_snippet: a letter ignores more than two centuries of precedent in the conduct of American foreign policy.'
article_snippet: I think you are misreading it if you think there is not a mutual interest.'
article_snippet: The Obama administration and Senate Democrats have harshly condemned Cotton's letter, which was presented to leaders of the Islamic republic as a primer on the U.S. Constitution.
article_snippet: Florida Sen. Marco Rubio said Cotton's letter 'erroneously asserts that this is a legally binding plan.