much to reporters this evening sir, could you give us your reaction to the internationa criminal court issuing a arrest warrant for vladimi putin? i think it s justified. but the question is, it s no recognized internationally but i think it makes a ver strong point the icc represents an aspiration to create an actual universal global court o justice. one that could bring to accoun all different parties, including the united states. but is the official position o the u.s. government that its citizens cannot be judged by the international court? in fact, the u.s. was just one of seven countries that vote against the courts foundin statute, along with china, iraq, israel, libya, qatar, an yemen. as we approach the 20t anniversary of the iraq war. being the justified unjustifie attack invasion of iraq wa
thing is certain len we are putin will foreve be tagged as, quote, unindicte fugitive of internationa justice. joining us now, david shaffer, senior fellow at the council for foreign relations. he served as the first u.s ambassador at large for wa crimes this during the clinton administration thank you very much for bein here, david. let s take a listen to wha president biden had to say today about these warrants sir, could you give us your reaction to the internationa criminal authority issuing a arrest warrant for vladimi putin. i think it s justified. the question is it s not recognized internationally bia either, but i think it makes a very strong point. so, ambassador, david scheffer, neither russia or th united states recognized the court. but given that what are th practical invoke implication of this warrant, given tha
as always, thank you all so much for getting us started. coming up, the international criminal court accuses vladimi putin of war crimes. ambassador bill taylor is here on the significance of the mov and what it could mean for the war. later, it s not just donal trump. we look at some of the dar rhetoric we re hearing from public in 2024 hopefuls. francesco soto and carlo curbelo are here the 11th hour is just gettin underway on friday night
how can they actually has been asked so far arrest him and ge him? yes, on the later part of that question, it looks like would be very difficult to arrest him and get him because russia is not a signatory to the icc roam statute that wa the founding treaty that created the internationa criminal court neither is the united states now there are several othe countries but there are more than 100 countries that ar signatories and if vladimi putin decides to travel to those countries, it coul actually face arrest so that is a real threat, this could actually deep in the isolation of a president who i very much isolated particularly in the west now these charges, they ar basically saying the president held responsibility. either he was actively involve in or did not prevent th arrest and deportation o children out of ukraine, where i am now and into russia this has been going on for several years and some of th activists and governors wh have been speaking to southern
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