Inside-America

As President Biden calls Russia’s actions in Ukraine ‘genocide’ and vows to hold the Russian President ‘accountable’, a member of the US Congress introduces a resolution to end the ‘hypocrisy’ of the United States by joining the International Criminal Court.

Guests:

Alberto Gonzales, Former US Attorney General from 2005 to 2007

John Bellinger, Legal Adviser for the US National Security Council and State Department from 2001 to 2009

Philippe Sands, Attorney and Law Professor at University College London and Harvard University

As President Biden calls for an investigation into Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine which he called “genocide," some US lawmakers say the United States must join the International Criminal Court if it is serious about making Russia accountable under international law.

Guests:

Alberto Gonzalez, Former US Attorney General from 2005 to 2007

John Bellinger, Legal Adviser for the US National Security Council and State Department from 2001 to 2009

Philippe Sands, Attorney and Law Professor at University College London

The US Attorney General faces mounting pressure by Democrats in Congress who say there is now sufficient evidence for the Justice Department to bring criminal charges against former President Donald Trump for his role in last year’s insurgency at the US Capitol.

Guests:

Barry Bennett, Former Adviser to Donald Trump

Fred Wertheimer, Founder and President of Democracy 21

Ramesh Srinivasa, Professor of Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles

As the price of gas at the pump reaches near record-highs in the US, President Biden announces the release of oil reserves to appease global oil markets and limit the political fallout of higher energy prices as the crisis with Russia escalates.

Guests:

Jay Hakes: Former Administrator of US Energy Information Administration, author "Energy Crises: Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Tough Choices in the 1970s"

Ellen Wald: Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Global Energy Center, author "Saudi, Inc."

Dennis McGinn: Retired Admiral, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment (2013-2017)

With around 10% of Ukraine’s population becoming refugees in a month, and 25% internally displaced, the conflict enters its second month with no quick end in sight. But with President Biden calling his Russian counterpart a “butcher” who “cannot remain in power," has the Russia-Ukraine conflict become even more a US-Russian proxy war?

Guests:

Porter Goss

Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2004-2006)

John Tefft

US Ambassador to Ukraine (2009-2013) and Russia (2014-2017)

As the crisis in and over Ukraine deepens, its humanitarian effects widen, and its economic fallout spreads across the world.

Guests:

Alexander Vindman, Director for European Affairs, US National Security Council, 2018-2020 and author of “Here, Right Matters: An American Story”

Roman Popadiuk, US Ambassador to Ukraine, 1992-1993

It has been 10 years since a gunman, armed with a Remington assault rifle, murdered his mother and 20 elementary school children in Connecticut.

Now an unprecedented $73 million ruling against Remington, the oldest gun manufacturer in the US, could end the industry’s longstanding immunity.

Guests:

Sari Kaufman

Co-founder of the MyVote Project and Parkland, Florida Shooting Survivor

Dave Workman

Communication Director at Second Amendment Foundation

Hector Balderas

New Mexico Attorney General

Sixty years ago this month, the United States imposed an embargo on all trade with Cuba to punish the communist government of Fidel Castro and force regime change. Despite a campaign promise to re-engage and lift some restrictions, the Biden administration has imposed more sanctions on Cuba.

As the US deploys additional troops in Poland and Romania amid Russia’s troop deployment along its border with Ukraine, the political stand-off, and a dangerous warmongering rhetoric between Washington and Moscow hides a lingering strategic issue for both countries: Nord Stream 2, an undersea gas pipeline expected to increase Russian gas exports, bypassing Ukraine. It is a major energy project that Washington has tried to derail for years.

Ben Nelson

Former US Senator for Nebraska from 2001 to 2013

John Herbst

Former US Ambassador to Ukraine from 2003 to 2006

Senior Director at Atlantic Council Eurasia Center

John Foster

Former World Bank Economist, Author of “Oil and World Politics: The Real Story of Today’s Conflict Zones”

US Supreme Court justices are appointed for life, but occasionally they decide to step down. Last week, justice Stephen Breyer announced his retirement after 28 years on the bench, giving a Democratic president the first opportunity to appoint a judge to the court since 2016, when president Barack Obama’s attempt to fill a vacancy left by the passing of justice Antonin Scalia was blocked by Republicans.

Guests:

Joe Lieberman

US Senator for Connecticut from 1989 to 2013 (D)

Former Democratic Nominee for Vice President

Leslie Proll

Adviser to NAACP on Federal Judicial Nominations

April Reign

Co-founder of sisterscotus.org