from an important impeachment witness. let us first tell the story through tonight s headlines. new york times, sondland updates impeachment testimony, describing ukraine quid pro quo. there s that phrase again. and the new york post i m sorry washington post it s early yet sondland adds to testimony linking aid to ukraine probes sought by trump. gordon sondland raised a lot of money for donald trump and was richly rewarded with the job title u.s. ambassador to the european union. that made him a big witness on ukraine. and today he remembered the story differently from the last time he testified before so many other witnesses came forward to tell the story the other way. there has been a three-page update issued to amend his initial closed-door testimony to those house investigators last month. he originally told lawmakers he didn t know if military aid for
this is, you know, home of lexington, university of kentucky. again, look at this. the beshear margin here sitting at about 36,000 and change. it was 10,000 for the democrat in the last gubernatorial election. so really drove up big numbers in those areas. then the other key here is eastern kentucky. i think vaughn mentioned this as well. coal country in the eastern portion of the state. you re seeing blue counties here, counties in the eastern part of the state, rural eastern part of the state that beshear won. you didn t see that when donald trump won this state. let me give you a couple examples. check out this county right here for instance. beshear wins it by 19 points. what did this county look like in the 2016 presidential election? complete opposition. trump won it by 22. tonight bevin lost it by 19. they get even more dramatic in some of the other counties. in bath county, trump won it by 37. basically the story here is rural coal country, eastern kentucky. this is an ancestra
the military with no motivation or reason to lie. they all seem to be telling pieces of the same story. that s right, brian. and what s so significant, i think, today about the testimony of ambassador sondland is he s not one of these career patriots. that s right. he s not somebody that trump can say was from the deep state or a never trumper to use the president s phrase. but he s a political appointee. he gave a ton of money to the trump campaign in 2016. he s been supporting the president. he wanted a job in the administration, and he was rewarded with this ambassadorship. and in his testimony, his initial testimony a week or two ago, he actually spoke in a way that helped the president. he was defending the president s integrity and motivations and so forth, and for him to make this correction to point out the quid pro quo, to acknowledge the quid pro quo that the president and his aides have been denying all this time is really extraordinary because of his political identit
kentucky. real quick, virginia results tonight. i think we have a graphic. the house of delegates. democrats were trying to flip the house of delegates and trying to flip the state senate. effectively there was a vacancy here, so effectively it was 51-49 for the republicans coming into tonight. the associated press right now has a five-seat gain. right now according to the associated press, the democrats have a net gain of five, and the associated press has called the house of delegates for the democrats. control for the democrats. op the state senate side, there was an open seat. it was effectively 21-19 for the republicans and the associated press has called two seats flipped for the democrats. they ve also called the state senate in virginia going to the democrats. it means democrats will have the state senate. they ll have the state house of delegates, and they already have the governor. democrats get what they were looking for, complete control, executive and legislative. demo
for kentuckians. with all the partisan bickering and nastiness that we re seeing in politics, we have an opportunity to do better right here in kentucky. he lived in the governor s mansion as a young man, and nbc news has declared democrat andy beshear the apparent winner of tonight s governor s race in kentucky. he defeated the incumbent governor matt bevin in an upset. for more we are joined by vaughn hillyard, who is covering the race from beshear s campaign headquarters, emptying out, let s be honest, in louisville. vaughn, interesting story. among the most unpopular incumbents in the country, tried to weaponize impeachment against his opponent. didn t work. his opponent part of the political aristocracy in kentucky, tried to run a local governor s race on issues including health care. turns out that did work. reporter: mm-hmm. health care, education, jobs,