smelter in the 1930 years in which canada agreed to allow itself to be sued by the united states russell miller is the co-author of that book and he's my guest tonight russ is the j.v. stump professor of law at washington and lee university in the state of virginia in the u.s. russ it's good to have you on the day you and attorney william star shaq you took your book as a basis and you brought it into the present day pandemic you wrote an article laying out the argument that china is liable for damages under public international law let's start very basic here what is public international law. well brant we have to distinguish between the cases referenced earlier in the story from mississippi and missouri and you might have mentioned a handful of class action lawsuits filed by individuals as well each of those cases seek to use u.s. law domestic or international law to assert liability in the case of the virus but public international law involves the law that establishes rules that govern the relationships the rights and responsibilities between states is a much different regime it's not the s

miller center site. one where he speaks to jackie kennedy ten days after the assassination. one to richard russell where he bludgeons him into serving on the warren commission, and one, the infamous one in which he orders hager pants from the hager pants company. they compare the public and the private johnson, and the two are just light years apart. even on the phone, he can have very different personalities. >> and just in terms of the circumstances of that detroit riot, this was in the summer of 1967. johnson at this time, i think, was still expecting to run for president again in 1968. his main rival for the republican nomination, it appeared at that time, was going to be governor george romney of michigan. and when the riots took place in michigan, a subtext, maybe contributing to some of why it turned out to be so complicated, was that romney didn't want to say he couldn't handle this situation. and therefore needed federal troops. and johnson insisted that romney say he couldn't handle the situation, so even in the midst of a catastrophic set of events that resulted in dozens of deaths, hun