country. he said i don t need a ride. i need ammunition. was there ever a moment where he thought of leaving just to save his own life or the life of his family? no, no. i came to the office six hour in the morning of the 24th. the president was already in his cabinet. and all the 50 days, he s in the office of the president. if he hadn t stayed, do you think this war would have gone differently? do you think maybe the ukrainian people found inspiration in fighting because he stayed, too? absolutely. 100%. it was so important. we here in the office of the president and other government bodies, we are working. our obligation. it is real heroes, the people, the soldiers, it is our army. of course, the ukrainian army was never supposed to be in this position with russia. now repeatedly violated agreement in the 1990s was meant
intend to have some of the municipality government bodies call them in and have a hearing saying, why should we continue to put money in here, which means they will be forced to give time tables and goals to maintain public funding. this is not going to just linger now. we re going to follow this up immediately. i think when people say in polls we re doing too much for athletes, the question is, okay, what do you think they re doing too much of. they can t answer that because there s nothing there. if somebody says you re doing too much, okay, what is that? i think if we really look at it in the whole question of american history, there have always been people that accepted blacks to entertain them but not to be able to engage and do business with them. they can accept our being the entertainers but not the owners, not the ones that can be in the front office. that is reflected in the biggest sports in the business, football
about what happens to it rest with the various government bodies, right? it rests with the central bank of the u.s., i think the royal bank of belgium and from the eu as well. so, we don t decide what happens with swift. but you do have some members of congress, including some members of the united states senate, who are saying that we should have some legislation to impact russia s access to swift. can that be done and will that be done? i think we can do it. and frankly, the economy in russia is none to be proud of. i think that is one of the reasons why putin has nothing else to do but to show the russian people he can be a bully. and that is what he is doing. their economy is not strong, the basis of their economy s oil and energy. and young people are not seeing russia for the future, they re seeing it for the past. putin is only doing this to restore the old soviet union, to give his own personal ego and legacy something to stand
organizations and government bodies are investigating alleged russian war crimes, collecting evidence, trying to build a case that these things actually happened. ukraine s prosecutor general said over the weekend that her office has dozens of investigators looking at evidence in ukraine. on sunday, ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy said that he also plans to create, quote, a special mechanism of justice involving both ukrainian international experts to hold russia accountable. but where and how this evidence will be presented remains unclear. so, what can the world actually do to hold vladimir putin accountable? joining me now is owned a hot the, way professional of international law at yale law school, and founder for the center of global legal challenges. professor, thank you for being with us. is there any way to actually charge vladimir putin or anyone else in the russian chain of command with warcrimes? yes, probably the main way