One of the new perspectives that we're hearing the world is that there's a new world order. It is changing. It's a multipolar rather than the one or two kind of big guns out there.You know, Leon, when I started my career in 1984, it was already a changing world. Things keep changing, powers change. So, we're always moving towards some sort of multipolar status.For a long time, of course, the US was premised into Paris, but I think that the ground is shifting maybe a little bit quicker than we're used to, an ...

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Joining us now, former FBI general counsel and senior prosecutor on the Miller investigation, Andrew Weissman. He is now co-host of the Main Justice podcast. Also with us in studio, MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin and Paul Reichoff.He is still with us. Andrew, um, welcome to the conversation. So, what does the Constitution say about the role that Congress plays in declaring war.Sure. Well, there there are two bodies of law that that people have to be thinking about. what is um the constitution sort of ...

I'd like to get your reaction from what we got over the weekend from Donald Trump air strikes over Iran. I would like to get an idea if you have an appraisal of how imminent the threat from the Iranian nuclear program was. Was it was the American action in violation of international law as a matter of a consequence.Well, the international law says, you know, gives you good to reasons where you can use force. One is self-defense and the other one is by the mandate of the Security Council. So those who use fo ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran condemns in the strongest terms the United States brutal military aggression against Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities. It is an outrageous, grave and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the charter of the United Nations and international law. The warmongering and lawless administration in Washington.Is solely and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and far reaching implications of its act of aggression. The U.S. military attack on the territor ...

Our peaceful nuclear facilities have also been targeted despite their being under full monitoring of IAEA and despite the fact that attacking such facilities are absolutely banned under international law. Israel attacks on nuclear facilities are grave war crimes. We are entitled, tasked and determined to defend our territorial integrity, national sovereignty and security with all force.This is our inherent right. We were attacked in the midst of an ongoing diplomatic process. We were supposed to meet with A ...

Both US intelligence per the testimony of the director of intelligence to Congress back in March and also the IEA have said that there is no unequivocal evidence to suggest that Iran were on the path to build a nuclear bomb. Where does that leave the legality of this war. And so it begs a bigger question, Joanna, of what is the future of international human rights law, international law, even laws in the conduct of warfare when countries can now have their borders violated without the kind of declaration of ...