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Scattered across one street there. they were apparently shot execution style. some had hands bound behind their backs. their bodies discarded in a final cruel indignity. russia is dismissing this evidence of a massacre as staged. ukraine's president calls it genocide. >> translator: some things they have done when we find people with hands tied behind their back and decapitated such things i don't understand and comprehend. the kids who were killed and tortured so it wasn't enough just to kill for those criminals. maybe they wanted to take gold or washing machines and they were killing but the...

President zelenskyy called it genocide and we're sitting at the negotiating table with the regime that did this. not only sitting with them at the negotiating table but depending on them to cut the deal with the iranians. we expect russia to buy iran's enriched uranium and letting the russians build a civilian nuclear reactor. the deal will not only benefit iran it will give russia billions of dollars they can use to pay for the bullets they put in the backs of the heads of ukrainian civilians. >> dana: it is mad. >> bill: you don't know what putin is negotiating behind closed doors over ukrai...

War crime. we just heard president biden join president zelenskyy calling it that. biden stopped short of calling it genocide. you're an expert on the development of these legal concepts. is this a genocide? what do you think it is? >> a little primer. until 1939, there was only one international crime and that was called war crimes. that includes things like targeting civilians which apparently is going on. the images are absolutely appalling. in 1945, at the nuremberg tribunal, crimes against humanity, systematic killing, and this may be a crime against humanity. it is a horrific scale. geno...

Court, and does not allow its citizens to be tried in it. so there's a bit of, you might say, hypocrisy to say others should be tried but ours shouldn't when things happen. i think the urgency now is to end the war, and that can only be done by diplomacy. >> i want to come back -- >> we need to return to it. >> forgive me. i do want to talk more about diplomacy in just a moment. but before we go there, i just want to come back to what we saw there in bucha because i think the average person is trying to make sense of it. what motivates somebody to take action that is just so barbaric, so horri...

Doesn't have the muscle anymore to do it. we have to figure out a way. that's a great question, katy. >> let's talk about genocide. zelenskyy is calling it genocide and president biden did not go as far but said it is pretty clear there are war crimes. what does the president need to see to define it as the ukrainian president is? >> first of all, this is a -- this is a -- this is just awful war crimes that are going on at the highest level. violates every charge of the geneva convention and the international tribunal at the hague. genocide is a hard definition but there is a prospect and it's...