new details on the company that the governor hired to transport unsuspecting migrants across the country, and its links to other top republicans. plus, how pleading the fifth and his fraud case could doom the disgraced ex president. the astonishing scenes of protests in iran. all in, starting right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. republicans unveiled their agenda, if you can call it that, if they retake the house this november. before we get to that, the most revealing preview on what it comes to look like, came earlier this week. that is what the overwhelming majority of the house republican conference voted against a law, that would clarify the language of the electoral count act. that is a somewhat obscure piece of legislation for the 19th century, governing how presidents are elected, and how members of congress can object to electors. this would just fix part of it to, explicitly, state what was obvious. that a sitting president, and his supporters i
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
vineyard, or the boston area, we are not clear on what exactly was promised an,. the rest is history. that was the wednesday before last. then, this tuesday, they were trying to do the same thing. miami herald, did a good job reporting, the night before, the morning of the flight that, was planned for delaware, that got canceled. yet, desantis folks did not tell the rest of the press, on tuesday, desantis, when asked, are you guys flying to delaware he said, i cannot confirm that. by then, he will knew, it had been canceled. as i reported, later that evening, some folks who are familiar with desantis s thinking, had said, they wanted to punk the media, the white house, and democrats buy, having everyone wait. so, now, we know, there are interesting connections to his administration s. allies, matt gates, his transition chair, gates didn t have anything to do with this contract, as a member of congress, we understand. but, for larry keeps role, the
there for the state of kentucky, laying out his priorities, also introducing us to his transition chair. he was, of course, the attorney general in kentucky but also the son of matt bevin s predecessor, the son of steve beshear. it should also be noted here that governor bevin has yet to concede. the last time we heard from him he said, quote, this is a close, close race. we are not conceding this race by any stretch. we have not seen or heard from matt bevin since that statement. let s bring in rick tyler, msnbc political analyst, tiffany cross, managing editor of the beat d.c., and i wanted to bring back in phillip bailey, reporter at louisville s courier journal who joined us to talk about kentucky politics. he joined us yesterday. phillip, how surprised were you by the results last night?
and health care. it s time we started taking the steps to put together the cabinet, the administration and the budget that s going to be necessary to move our families forward. so i m here this morning to announce that j. michael brown will serve as my transition chair. i have the utmost confidence in michael. he has served our country in uniform. he currently serves as the deputy attorney general. he s previously served as a district judge here in jefferson county and as secretary of the justice cabinet. he has a long track record of exemplary public service. i could not ask for a better person to help lead this transition. we ll be announcing more members of our transition team in the coming day and in the coming week but now it s time to come together and to get to work. there is so much that jacqueline