Among those questions, what it could mean for 2020. Could some in the president s party be rethinking whether they want to stick with mr. Trump amid the impeachment fight. Well break down all the im kagss of last nights elections results. A significant new twist in the Impeachment Inquiry. Eu Ambassador Gordon Sondland changing his story now, backing up the testimony of several other key witnesses regarding aid to ukraine and the commitment to investigate the 2016 election and the bidens. But why was he allowed to change his testimony . Were going to dig into that in just a moment. Lets go right to the implications of tuesdays elections. For that i want to bring in msnbc National Political correspondent Steve Kornacki. Hes at the big board. Nbc news road war i dont Vaughn Hillyard joins us from louisville, kentucky. Vaughn, its a state that President Trump won by about 30 points in 2016. Here we are just three years later. Looks like there will be a Deck Kr Democrat in the governors me
perhaps he doesn t. right now 55% of republicans would like somebody else to be the standard barer of the republican party. so while he is still the dominant force, a year from now is that 65%? you know, he is ultimately at some point going to become a fading member of the party. someone new will emerge. sara, i ve heard this from a lot of republicans. we want a year of this. maybe you re right. anna palmer, it seems like mitch mcconnell has been betting on the fade for a year, and it didn t come to fruition. i think that s right. i also think what s an important point is whether it s trump who runs or not, it s the brand of politics he represents, and that is a growing part of the house conference in particular and also the senate. when you look at some of these other republicans who could potentially run, they re also running in that same vein. it s not as if establishment republicans will see some
make the pentagon seize voting machines in key states, in the quote, air quotes, hunt for evidence of fraud. here is draft memo that they got. effective immediately, the secretary of defense shall seize, collect and retain and analyze all machines and material records required for retention. i mean, that is the lengths that they were willing to go every day, we learn more. and as astonishing. and he s gotten more dug into his election lies so what do we need to learn from that. what guardrail could be put up to prevent that from happening in the future? yeah i mean, look, chill yging is right. it didn t come to fruition or even close. but this was brutal. because every other scheme they had involved somehow pooling the wool over the eyes of another institution. another branch designed to push
it s the congressional leadership that failed to hold them accountable in that first impeachment, that emboldened him going into a pandemic, resulting in 600,000 dead. imagine the world in which he was removed or even censured, and he was back on his heels. would he have taken the pandemic more seriously? would 600,000 people have died? and i think not. you know, his first impeachment hinged on what you heard during that infamous phone call. take us back. what were you thinking when you heard trump asking ukraine s president to do us a favor ? well, to me, it was the culmination of an enterprise. in the preceding months, i watched as this irregular channel unfolded where giuliani was looking to demand an investigation into president biden, and it didn t come to fruition. so it was a nuisance until it
listening to jim jordan. what do you make of what we heard from the republican congressman from ohio? reporter: we got a little preview of how the republicans will make their argument, as you started to hear jim jordan make there, that an attempted shakedown is not really a shakedown. if the ukraine didn t know at the time why the aid was being withheld and if the aid was ultimately released without an investigation being opened, that a crime could not be committed here, that if there was an attempted shakedown, it didn t come to fruition. you also heard from jordan advocate for kurt volker s testimony to take a more prominent role. republicans think that volker, through his very careful answers and demeanor not to lay blame on anyone in his testimony, will be good for them. i will put money on the table that you will hear republicans make an argument next week that volker needs to be called, that he is a witness they want to