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Actors to find an off-ramp. thats a destabilizing moment. >> as a lay observer, somebody with no expertise from the outside, when john bolton became national security adviser and secretary of state, we were all able to assert these were among the hardest hard liners in u.s. government and security circles ever in terms of the issue of iran. i never thought about either and why they might be such hard liners or what that might mean they tomt do. its hards to believe they want a land war with the ...

About questionable conduct by the presidents business. we have very little information about what those irregularities or that conduct might be and how serious it might be. its says to be related in part to insurance claims made by the trump organization. my, again, lay observers take on this is that this might be an effort by michael cohen to try to have his sentence reduced, even though hes already been sentenced. to try to get the judge in this case to go back and lighten his load, basically,...

State level, right? isnt that something called double jeopardy? arent you supposedly protected from that by the constitution. joining us now is barbara mcquade. im so glad youre here to rescue me. >> thanks, racial. coincidentally we just talked about this in my law school class today so im all over it. >> the double jeopardy issue. >> yes? >> all right. so tell me as a lay observer. as i understand it double jeopardy means you cant be charged for the same thing twice. how can to be that state p...

Looked sort of wild eyed. if he is falsely accused, you can imagine that he would feel wild eyed, but this is a man who has been a judge for 12 years, who aspires to be confirmed for a seat on the supreme court. and there is this thing called judicial temperament and we didnt see much of that today. >> do you think that that will become a problem for judge kavanagh moving forward? obviously there is the immediate question as to whether or not hes going to be confirmed to the high court. even if ...

Binney, a guy who has spun conspiracy theories on russian tv and "info wars", ive seen them in the press and bother me as lay observer. as somebody with cia experience, do those things seem like part of a pattern to you? >> they bother me too. and i can tell you, rachel, ive heard from former colleagues, individuals who are still on the inside that they bother them too. fact of the matter is, ever since the cia was founded in 1947, theres been an understanding that intelligence and politics dont...

The meeting. to you know, get the real facts. i know its as weird as it seems but is it potentially not just weird but dangerous. joining us now, ned price, spent a decade at cia. mr. price, thanks for being here. appreciate it. >> thank you rachel. >> laid out a few things about mike pompeo that have appeared in the news in recent months. misstatements about russias interference definitely not affecting outcome of the election. reorganization he made of the cia, in terms of who has to report to...

But ronan farrow in his piece for "the new yorker," what he further adds to this story is tape. he has published the audiotape of a woman frankly i, i mean, to a lay observer, its a woman actively being sexually harassed and pest erred by harvey weinstein. a tape in which he admits that the previous day he had grabbed her breast against her will. he explained to her by way of excusing that behavior, quote, im used to it. that tape was apparently made by the nypd as they investigated sexual assau...

Present a substantial risk of serious harm. and ohio is enjoyed from moving forward with those executions using the drug. >> megan, last point on this. there has become a sort of increasing national attention to this because theyre going try to kill so many people in such short order. they havent killed anybody in the prison system there in more than 12 years. is there a practical legal difference in trying to kill two people on the same night or eight people in ten days as opposed to just tryin...

Determine whether or not the findings that the trial court made based on the evidence before it, whether those findings were reasonable. so another court with a different set of evidence, different facts could reach different conclusions. and thats exactly what we just saw happen in ohio. with a more complete record, the court there said midazolam does present a substantial risk of serious harm. and ohio is enjoyed from moving forward with those executions using the drug. >> megan, last point on...

So another court with a different set of evidence, different facts could reach different conclusions. and thats exactly what we just saw happen in ohio. with a more complete record, the court there said midazolam does present a substantial risk of serious harm. and ohio is enjoyed from moving forward with those executions using the drug. >> megan, last point on this. there has become a sort of increasing national attention to this because theyre going try to kill so many people in such short ord...