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And on the other side, i think we see that democrats are just as energized, if not more so, saying that this process was unfair, that this is a person who doesn't belong on the court, and that the process exposed that. and so i think what you have is just a much more profound divide even than you had a couple weeks ago, which didn't seem possible going into the midterm elections. >> ah, you are right on that. i think the country, we, meaning the country, are more divided than we were before this. and i didn't think that it could get any more divided. adam, you think the senate democrats -- sen...

Night. he's got a very clever way to test the waters for running for president. he's big on gerrymandering, re-districting. that's where the democrats got their heinies whooped is at the state level. they lost all of these state legislatures all across the country. that's where the districts are done. you're going to have a not trickle down but you're going to have a bubble up problem with these kinds of things. but that's politics and power. what i'm saying is in this country, you've got to find common ground. you have to find points of accommodation. you have to. >> but you know what? this i...

Country, you've got to find common ground. you have to find points of accommodation. you have to. >> but you know what? this is our system. we saw it playing out for us in front of our face in realtime this week and the last couple weeks, and that's what it is. so we have to embrace it, and we have to move forward and then try to figure out how we do it better. >> well, you accept the result. the result is legit, but they have to change the process, not because of the out, but because of how they arrived at it, what they ignored, what they wound up sacrificing. that matters for the -- for chri...

Kafd is the author of the book the most dangerous branch inside the supreme court's assault on the constitution. now, that is the name of a book. okay. thank you all for joining us. so, carl, i'm going to start with you because president trump has been remarkably effective in reshaping the court, not just the supreme court but even at the appellate level, right? even statewide he's been appointing conservative judges. so he's going to get a conservative justice now. so it's good for trump, but is it good for the country? >> well, i think this whole process has been awful for the country in the...

Barring any last-minute surprises, though -- i mean let's face it, there have been plenty of those certainly -- judge brett kavanaugh is set to be confirmed to the supreme court. and there's no question that a fifth consecutive justice, conservative justice, is a big victory for president trump and for his party. but what does having kavanaugh on the bench mean for the court itself? let's discuss it now. carl bernstein is here, abigail tracy and david kaplan. david is the author of the book "the most dangerous branch: inside the supreme court's assault on the constitution." now, that is the na...