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Actors to find an off-ramp. that's 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. it's hards to believe they want a land war with the united states innovating. it's hard to see the value they see in shooting missiles at iran. do you...

About questionable conduct by the president's business. we have very little information about what those irregularities or that conduct might be and how serious it might be. it's says to be related in part to insurance claims made by the trump organization. my, again, lay observer's take on this is that this might be an effort by michael cohen to try to have his sentence reduced, even though he's already been sentenced. to try to get the judge in this case to go back and lighten his load, basically, because of cooperation he's doing with prosecutors right now, even while he's on his way to pri...

State level, right? isn't that something called double jeopardy? aren't you supposedly protected from that by the constitution. joining us now is barbara mcquade. i'm so glad you're here to rescue me. >> thanks, racial. coincidentally we just talked about this in my law school class today so i'm 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 can't be charged for the same thing twice. how can to be that state prosecutors might charge paul manafort for essentially the same set of facts we've seen laid ou...

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 didn't 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 he's going to be confirmed to the high court. even if he isn't because his nomination fails in vote or because he's withdrawn, he'll still go back to th...

Binney, a guy who has spun conspiracy theories on russian tv and "info wars", i've 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, i've 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, there's been an understanding that intelligence and politics don't mix. that cia needs space to provide policy makers with unbiased, unvarnished intelligence anal...