This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Dr. Professor Richard Epstein.

He's here.

I'm going to take advantage of the breaking news, fog of war from the coast of Venezuela.

Professor, we're told the U.S. Navy has three major warships with cruise missiles and landing forces attending a marine

expeditionary unit up up to 4,000. And there are other craft that are part of this flotilla.

It's a war flotilla. It's off the coast of Venezuela. We're also told that the State Department

has increased the bounty on Nicholas Maduro, the president of Venezuela. We're also told that the State Department has increased the bounty on

Nicholas Maduro, the president of Venezuela, to $50 million. We're also told that it might be

that Nicholas Maduro is going to be the new Noriega, reminding everybody in 1989, George H.W. Bush then president,

vouchsafed the abduction of the president of Panama, the Panama Canal Zone, taken back to the

U.S. prosecuted in jail for being a drug lord, the same accusation that's alleged at Nicholas

Maduro as the head of a foreign terrorist organization.

Your understanding of the international law that every now and again people mumble about it, but I've

never been sure what it actually means. If the U.S. abducts in the way that it did in Panama in 1989, is this a matter for the courts

and what court? We have a couple of minutes. Okay, well, first of all, no American court has

ever decided to intervene in any exercise of president or congressional power in terms of

the international sphere. Their attitude is, we're too little,

we're too late, we can't get it right. It's going to be a battle between the president and the

Congress or factions inside the executive branches to what is done. There is an old constitutional

doctrine which says that the Congress declares war, and the president fights it.

The last time that was invoked in that form was about 1943, going after, I think it was Bulgaria in World War II. Everything else afterwards has been called the police action of one

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