I'm John Batchett with my colleague Professor Richard Epstein of the Civitas Institute.

We turn to remarks by the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres.

The Secretary General said there are, quote, reasonable grounds, end quote, to believe both sides

in the U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran may have committed war crimes, citing attacks on energy infrastructure

and civilians. The Secretary General warned the conflict suggested is rapidly escalating with

severe humanitarian and global economic consequences, suggested Israel sought to draw the U.S.

into war, argued Washington holds the key to ending it.

Gutera has also stressed the urgency of de-escalation, warning that crisis is spiraling out of

control and could have far-reaching global impacts. Professor, is the UN the way forward? It's not been participating in any of these decisions till now.

Is it a forum that can be used to stop the fighting?

No, it cannot. Once it's changed took place, there's one Israel and there are 60 or 70 Arab nations

or other nations that are impocable to it, it can't be

a nuclear broker.

If you looked at the way in which it operated in Gaza, if it was anything, it was an arm

with respect to Hamas with whom it worked and had very close time.

So they have no credibility on the side of the Israelis or on the side of the American.

And in fact, one of the things I think

that we could do to prove the human condition is to move the UN from New York to a place

where the restaurants aren't very good and have them work in some place in the Midwest, in a town

that's less than 50,000 people. That's what I think you have to do. So I just don't think

it has any purchase. What it could do is try to use some good offices in order to make this work.

But Gutierrez is such a shameless partisan, such an ignorant man, and that he cannot, in fact,

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