host: david bosco, associate professor at indiana university, his law degree from harvard law.e welcome your comments. the topic is the international criminal court. we are talking about possible war crimes in ukraine. the lines are (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. for independents and all others (202) 748-8002. the u.s. senate is moving towards passing a resolution supporting and international criminal court investigation against vladimir putin. let's take a listen. i will ask your thoughts on what senator graham had to say. [video clip] >> i think the entire world, those who believe in the rule of need to speak on behalf of this complaint. we are not prejudging the outcome. we are saying this is a good thing to be doing. this is a legitimate complaint in our eyes and would ask the icc to investigate. i want to let the russian federals no -- generals know you follow the orders of prudent at your own peril. you could find yourself in the hague if you have a scorched earth policy to get the ukrainian people to submit to your will. the world is watchi

david bosco?: there has been a history here if weight talk about behavior of the russian regime and he was referencing what happened in syria and russian support for the syrian government. there were very serious allegations of war crimes committed by the syrian government including these of chemical and other atrocities there. one of the points from a legal standpoint that is important is that the international criminal court did not have jurisdiction over the situation in syria because syria is not a member country and syria had not given the court jurisdiction. there is a different situation in ukraine because ukraine while not a member has several years ago given the court jurisdiction. that means from the icp standpoint, they have a free hand to investigate in ukraine and the way they did and in syria. the quest of is a possible interrogation going to deter someone like putin. you heard from senator graham's comments that it is not just to get put thinking about the process -- the possibility

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