stuff unravelled. he s got two things coming at him. there s an investigation in the southern district of new york of his associates for campaign finance violations. that s independent of everything going on in congress. meanwhile congress is unraveling this other scheme to essentially tilt ukraine against biden in trump s favor for the 2020 election. both of those things are hugely problematic for him. legally, reputationally and operationally. because at some point most of these people around trump aren t going to be loyal to him. we ve seen this already with lev parnas. he was someone they assumed wouldn t cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. how many other people are going to start cooperating and change their stories like gordon sondland did today? when there s just a couple of people involved in a conspiracy or wrong doing, it s easy for them to keep their stories straight. when you have an entire group of people and they all start to get picked off by prosecutors or professio
blame personally, and i assume when he speaks about this tomorrow, he ll echo that statement from the campaign. but we should underscore what a significant loss this is politically for the president. kentucky is not one of those swing states. it s a state that he won handily in 2016 that he s expected to carry with a significant margin in 2020. he flew there last night because he thought he could get bevin over the finish line. that was a rally to get out the vote, to turn out all those trump supporters to vote for the republican incumbent governor, and it was not enough. and so that s an indication that trump s supporters are not necessarily going to follow his lead there and vote for his candidate. that being said, the mcconnell aligned republican nominee for attorney general did prevail. yeah. down ballot in that state. and bevin, as bob was just saying, is uniquely unpopular there. but it is still a political defeat for the president. hey, bob, did we get it about right at th
expected to testify thursdayhouse democrats were aiming be even higher today, summoned white house chief of staff mick mulvaney to testify. it was mulvaney who confirmed a quid pro quo before he took it back later. the white house is blocking him from showing you. so far half what dozen trump administrative officials asked to give their testimony in the impeachment inquiry have been no-shows on the hill. time to bring in our discussion group. philip rucker is here with us in the studio. robert costa, national political reporter for the washington post and moderator of washington week on pbs. and veteran federal prosecutor, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquaid. welcome to you all. my apologies to my friends from the washington post for making you colleagues and employees of the post. with tonight s election results in mind, start with our lead story and tell us what you ve learned. a significant day here on
average day. it has now been established that rudy giuliani has been conducting foreign policy for donald trump with at least the tacit approval of the man our founders imagined would be in charge of foreign policy, the u.s. secretary of state. we now know that trump fund-raiser turned eu be ambassador sondland, pom yof rolled his eyes and said it s something we have to deal with. just yesterday we found out lev parnas is willing to provide documents and testimony to impeachment investigators. as to why the change in cooperation, the new york times reports the turn about occurred after mr. trump denied knowing mr. parnas when he was arrested. he was very upset by mr. trump s
secretary of state find themselves entangled in this controversy, this impeachment inquiry at different levels, and the answer to all this is so many people who succeed in president trump s inner circle, they accept the culture, the transaction the nature, the way of accepting his behavior and conduct. once you do that, some things fester on the sides like rudy giuliani s rogue foreign policy conduct. and because of that acceptance and that culture, so many people like the secretary of state and the vice president find themselves facing really tough questions about what they knew and what they did. barb, remember the republican flash mob in the hearing room where these depositions were being taken behind closed doors. they demanded the proceedings be opened even though they were part of the proceedings all the while. they demanded transparency. this is what transparency looks like. now we re able to read the testimony gathered behind those closed doors all the while. do you think in