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Judge kavanaugh all but certain to be confirmed in a matter of hours, capping a fight that has divided this country. and what happens next could have enormous consequences for american politics. let's discuss now. julie hirsch field davis is here, michael bender, and adam sur. so good to see all of you again. thank you for coming back on the show. julie, i'm going to start with you. judge kavanaugh looks set to be confirmed by a narrow margin. it was bitter partisanship all the way, a partisan battle. but how does the white house feel right now, you think? >> i think the white house feels terr...

And i didn't think that it could get any more divided. adam, you think the senate democrats -- senate democrats fought the kavanaugh nomination badly. e pla explain that. >> i think they had a bad hand, but they also played it poorly. they didn't really try to nail down the elements of kavanaugh's denial which weren't consistent with the facts. they didn't emphasize the fact -- look, this is a guy who, you know, stood up there in front of the entire country and identified the -- you know, the opposition party as his enemy, and then vowed revenge. by his own standard, kavanaugh's own standard, ...

You have to be beyond a reasonable doubt that he didn't act in self-defense. there was a high burden of proof for the prosecution. i think just the way the law is, the way the jury instruction was, it's not surprising that the jury reached that verdict. >> thank you to msnbc.com reporter, adam. everybody will stay right here. we have much more on this. i'll make a turn next, we'll ask the question is it possible you could be motivated by race even if you don't know it? there is, in fact, an actual test for that. we'll talk about it when we get back. twelve bucks a night! no. they have waterbed...

Sanford, florida. again, thank you for your reporting. >> thank you. >> i'm joined now by founder and president for the center for social inclusion, msnbc contributor and columnist. msnbc legal analyst attorney lisa bloom who followed the trial step by step, editor in chief and founding board meeting member of trayvon martin foundation and adviser to the family and msnbc.com reporter adam sur. lisa, i want to turn to you because i want to talk about this notion that trayvon martin was armed with concrete, armed with the sidewalk. i want to show you the closing argument where this claim was mad...

Does he call the police on them? >> that was in my opinion the fatal flaw throughout the case was from the beginning trayvon martin was treated to a certain extent as the suspect, not george zimmerman. even the prosecution went along with this. to me they seem to be very reactionary through the whole trial. they were offering up things in dispute. they never offered the coherent story, a coherent narrative. you have to give that to a jury. you can't say, no, it didn't happen that way. you must say it happened this way. their failure to be willing to confront the racial issues which permeated e...