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Senior legal analyst laura coates about this. good evening to you. what do you think of what justin kagan said, her warning? >> justice caning is absolutely right. this would be the definitive slippery slope. we hear about this could be a slippery slope, might have a domino effect. if you allow states to be able to an end run around judicial review, you give them cart blanch to do whatever they want as long as they figure out a way not to have a state actor enforce the law. remember, fundamentally what's wrong with this case is normally if you want to try to prevent a law from going into effec...

To do an end run around judicial review, you essentially give them carte blanche to do whatever they want as long as they can figure out a way not to have a state actor enforce the law. remember, fundamentally what's wrong with this case is that normally, if you want to try to prevent a law from going into effect, you have to be able to sue the state actor who was charged under the statute to actually enforce the law. in texas, they decided, huh, we will avoid that by allowing anyone in the country, not a state actor in texas, to be able to sue anyone who aids in an abortion. thereby, allowing...

Solicitor general. what did you make of that? >> yeah. we heard justice gorsuch, for example, more aggressive toward the abortion clinics. remember justice kavanaugh taught constitutional law at harvard and other places. and he made i think a really interesting point, particularly given we hear so much swirling around originism and how the law is static if you're a conservative justice. he said listen, it used to be that you couldn't sue states. and in this old case from 1908 colded ex parte young, the supreme court decided if states are acting in an unconstitutional way, you can't sue the sta...

These were attacks. there hasn't been another explanation put forward. i spoke with a senior state department official who told me, look, they just don't know who this is, they don't know if it was a state actor and if they called it attacks, that would imply they had figured this out. >> between that story and the resignation of the special envoy to haiti, afghanistan, so many issues, what's the morale like at the state department now? it seems like story after story, they're getting kicked in the teeth over there. >> reporter: not only do you have these folks leaving under really questionabl...

That suggests they know who did it and there's a state actor involved. if that is the theory they've not been able to affirm that in or out. and that's one of the reasons that we shouldn't hold out that the government is getting to the bottom of it soon. >> real quick, when can we get concrete answers? you said last week that the deputy director of the cia said that we are or they are getting closer to figuring out the cause of this? >> well, we know that there's a renewed investigation under way that the director of national intelligence are undertaking. they have a 90-day clock for producing...