Jennings to Cornel West: You Think It’s Immoral to Stop Iran from Getting a Nuclear Weapon?

SEAT: “The Iranians do not speak the language of diplomacy unless force is used. And that is what President Trump and the United States used this past. Weekend in a precision, perfection way. It was — “
WEST: “It‘s illegal, unconstitutional — “
SEAT: “It is not illegal in any way, shape or form.”
WEST: “ — and a violation of international law. You can‘t violate national sovereignty of a country.”
JENNINGS: “Why?”
WEST: “Why?”
JENNINGS: “We do it all the time.”
WEST: “I know, because America violates international law all the time.”
JENNINGS: “Who‘s going to stop us? Who‘s going to stop us?”
WEST: “You would think morality ought to play some role.”
JENNINGS: “You think it‘s immoral to stop Iran from getting a nuclear weapon?”
WEST: “I think that any condition — “
JENNINGS: “Who‘s the moral actor here, Iran or the United States?”
WEST: “In terms of ensuring that we don‘t have nuclear bombs anywhere?”
JENNINGS: “No, in terms of ensuring these butchers don‘t have nuclear bombs that they have fully said they will use on Israel and the United States.”
WEST: “Well, brother, we got a larger discussion. We‘ve got United States, Israel — “
JENNINGS: “There’s no equivocation.”
WEST: “What they‘ve done in Gaza gives neither one of them moral authority. That‘s genocide. It‘s ethnic cleansing. Israel has no moral authority. the United States has no moral authority. You think there‘s some — “
JENNINGS: “I disagree.”
WEST: “No, we just have deep disagreements on that. But I‘d like to hear your Christian formulation.”
SEAT: “So your alternative is to allow them to develop and deploy a nuclear weapon?”
WEST: “Where does the [inaudible] play a role? Where does the [inaudible] play a role, my brother? Where is the loft? Where is the loft for you, for Iranians and for Palestinians and others?”