texas, sean, for michael nachmanoff. go ahead, please.question, iain would like him to explain on .eferred adjudication if someone has not been convicted of a crime and they served everything on deferred adjudication, putting them back on the chopping block, so to speak, how is the federal government -- they do not recognize that. they change the law in 1996 for illegal aliens. how has -- why have they not federald by someone in government for double jeopardy? can you explain that? that is my main question. yes, that is a complicated issue that i am not sure that i understand entirely. the concept for deferred adjudication is the idea that a person might be placed on relation or supervision for a. of time and the adjudication, the ultimate resolution of the case is delayed. so, if they comply with probation, the case may be -- may be dismissed over a. of time. sometimes referred to as that version. it is a function of state law. i am not referred to -- familiar with the law of deferred adjudication in texas, but the second part of the cal

our guest has been michael nachmanoff. thank you for the insight. thank you forest: having me. host: we will be back tomorrow morning, like we are every day. have a great day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> congress is back in session today. the house gavels in at noon eastern for general speeches. 2:00 eastern for legislative work. the senate is also back at 2:00 p.m. here is a preview of the week ahead on the hill. >> we want to take a step back and talk more broadly about congress. it is going to be a busy week. is on therowicz phone. he is a reporter with the hill. thanks for joining us. budget us about the first. we've been waiting for the larger omnibus spending bill to be unveiled. is that happened -- has that happened yet? >> and has not as of last night. that is the big mission of the week for congress. they will have to do it in two stages. they will have to pass a short- term bill through saturday and that will give them time to wrestle through the giant, a little bit more than $1 tr

host: thanks for calling into our guest, michael nachmanoff. what types of cases are we talking about? guest: we represent the widest array of crimes that you can imagine. in the eastern district of virginia, where i practice, that is particularly true. across the river we have a lot of federal a -- federal agencies , like the pentagon, the cia, and other federal agencies. have seen a lot of very high- profile national security cases, cases involving allocation -- allegations of terror and espionage. district also extends to the tidewater area. those cases also attract. they are very interesting and unusual. people accused of piracy from somalia, including capital cases from that area, because they have been flown in to face prosecution. we represented the alleged 20th hijacker just after 9/11, right after the office was opened. , and federal defenders across the country have frequently gone to the supreme court. because we represent so many of supreme court,n these issues often arise and allow for federal defenders to litigate in the highest c