Chase their tails. Do we have two stories for you . You saw the first. Don jr. Saying this had nothing to do with donald trump, and donald trump the night before saying you have to do this for me, basically saying this is all about me. This is all about trump. Bevin has to win or if he doesnt this will be the biggest loss in the history of american politics. Bevin campaigned on trumps name. And another were going to be talking about, our second story excuse me in a state that trump won. Oh, by 30 points. Wow. So youd think hed had all the momentum. Were going to get to what happened again in the suburbs, in the cincinnati suburbs, which, again, once again shows that donald trump is toxic. The second story this morning more dog chasing tail as you actually had Lindsey Graham a month ago going, well, i suppose if they showed quid pro quo, well, then that would be really, really serious. Yeah, well deal with it. And so sondland yesterday came out in a shocking this is a Shocking Development basically turns were going to show you how that moved forward, and now Lindsey Graham, what is he saying . Hes not even pretending to be an honest man or a fair dealer. Im just not paying attention to it no more. Im just shutting my brain down. Im just going to stop. And nor will fox news. They wont kor cover it. What the heck. A couple of prime time shows refused to cover it. Just stayed away from it. Two huge stories. It gets old saying this was the worst day of the trump presidency. I dont know that this was the worst day of the trump presidency, but the sondland testimony, willie, was absolutely devastating and losing the reddest of red state devastating, and watching all of the red bleed out of virginia. So now it is a completely blue state again after a trump plea to vote for republicans there. I mean, this president had three huge strikes against him yesterday. Yeah, he did. We know its a huge mortganing because Steve Kornacki is here. Matt bevin very unpopular governor. The entire impetus of his campaign is he is like donald trump. Donald trump of course came in on monday night and made that speech. Donald trump last night after the results came in and matt bevin lost said, well, he lost, but he picked up 15 points just in the last few days after i started talking about him. Thats not true of course, but you know that. He was a trump candidate. He did get routed in the suburbs of cincinnati and even started to lose some of these Rural Counties that trump swept up when he won kentucky by 30 points, donald trump won by 30 points in 2016. Donald trump cant run away from this. Republicans cannot run away from the fact that a Donald Trump Backed candidate probably lost. He has not conceded yet but probably lost the governorship in a state that President Trump won again by 30 points. You know, yes, he was an unpopular governor, but unpopular governors and senators lose all the time and win all the time. In this case, though, just looking at the specifics here what has to be especially difficult for donald trump this morning and for all republicans, they have to heres the thing, before donald trump went to kentucky on that last night and had those stupid shirts that said read the transcript printed up. By the way, which of course the document he was talking to said up top this is not a transcript. The stupidity. Its really shocking, and were sitting there how do people get away with that . They dont. Heres the thing, they dont get away with it. He doesnt get away with it. Hes going to be impeached. His party lost the biggest landslide vote lost in the history of the United States republican 2018 for following him blindly. And then bevin, get this, oh, so unpopular. This had nothing bevin was ahead by 5 Percentage Points in the polls before donald trump came to the state, before donald trump donald trump cost him 5 1 2, 6 Percentage Points by that one rally. Think about it, if youre donald trump youre waking up this morning and you know donald, donald come here. Get a little closer. He likes to say he doesnt watch. But hes watching. Donald. I know. Bevin was ahead, son. He was ahead by five points before you went to kentucky. Right . Look at this. Messed it all up. Donald, look at that. I know you dont like reading, donald, but look. That stands for republican. He had 52 before you went and did that rally for him, and he got those poor folks wearing that shirt that said read the transcript when the piece of paper itself said this is not a transcript. Donald, this is not working for you. You should just stay home and watch like those cage fuights, right . Sit down, drink some tang, the drink of the astronauts and maybe have some coffee, stir it up. This is what happened after you showed up in kentucky. Donald, my friend, you lost the state for republicans. Poor guy. Lost his race. They said of bill clinton in 1994 that some candidates were thinking about putting antiaircraft guns up along state borders to keep his plane from coming into town to campaign for him. It was a joke, but its pretty dark humor now for republicans. Donald, he was ahead by five points and then you went there and he lost because of you. I think he get it is. God dang thats hard. Can you believe that . Republicans will watch these developments. Can you believe that . Yes, i can. Its the reverse midas touch. All right, so well talk more reverse midas touch in just a moment. Thats tough. As well as that Major Development in the impeachment push as trump donor turned Ambassador Gordon Sondland changes his testimony and says actually the message to ukraine did involve it did involve a quid pro quo. He was involved with it. Donald, this is a bad development. Thats also bad news. You could just go to a channel that doesnt cover it most of the time. Here we will. He likes that or network right . More on the two big results in yesterdays elections with potentially big implications for next years president ial race. In the governors race in kentucky nbc news projects the states democratic attorney general andy beshear is the apparent winner and will unseat republican governor matt berch. You already explained this. Little known fact, mad bevin was ahead by five Percentage Points before donald trump went there. Willie, help me out here. Matt bevin who aligned himself closely President Trump and who framed the race as a referendum on trump and the issue of impeachment, interesting, the race was close separated by about 5,000 votes, a difference of less than half a percentage in a state that trump carried. Yes, we mentioned this, but its worth mentioning again by 30 points. Bevin was the only republican running statewide to lose in kentucky last night. He is currently refusing to concede the race. Lets talk about this. We at the Virginia Legislature. Its a good one. It is. In kentucky i you cant get over kentucky. Im just absolutely shocked. Well, it happens. Donald trump lost five Percentage Points in one day. So lets talk about it Steve Kornacki really quickly. Obviously it wasnt just that donald trump and his candidate performed poorly in the cities and in the suburbs. They didnt run up the totals even in some Rural Counties that they had you know, that the republican gubernatorial candidate had run up four years ago. It was mainly those suburbs, those campbell and the suburbs up around cincinnati, wasnt it, that really changed . Yeah, they did. I mean, look, when you have a democrat winning in kentucky and the margin is 4 10 of one point, it sort of ends up being a perfect storm and everything that needed to go right if the democrats went right for them. It was the first sign last night that bevin really was in trouble. If you look at a map of kentucky, the Northern Group of three counties that kind of juts out. Cincinnatis on the other side of the ohio river. These are the cincinnati suburbs. In each one of those counties relative to what he did four years ago when he got elected governor, bevin was tenplus points behind that pace, and he was also tenplus points behind the pace that donald trump set when he won in 2016. So that was Significant Movement, pretty large in terms of population part of the states, about 10 of the states population is just in those three counties. That was a major problem getting really just monster turnout, monster numbers out of louisville and lexington, the two sort of democratic parts of the state. That was key. There were, if you look really in the eastern part of the state, the eastern side of kentucky, rural, blue collar, you saw a bunch of blue counties there, and a bunch of red counties where it was close. Thats a major reversal from what happened in 2016. Its a fascinating story in that part of kentucky. What you have there, if you look on paper in rural eastern kentucky. There are still more registered democrats than republicans. Its just incest ral democratic is the term youd use. Their father was a democrat, theyre a democrat, but they voted big for donald trump in 2016. Theyre culturally conservative, and the hope of sending trump in for that rally in part was in places like that where they still have old time ties to the Democratic Party but the voters really like donald trump in 2016, that you bring trump in there and then those counties perform for bevin like they did for trump or Something Like that. Thats where it fell short as well. Steve, you talked about turnout. Its estimated 1. 4 million, thats 400,000 more people turning out than the last fw Gubernatorial Election in 2015. Lets talk about the trump effect on this race. Obviously hes running for the hills. Don jr. Running the hills. Donald trump said he made a 15 to 20 point difference in this race. Thats of course true. His rhetoric on the trail, his ads, how much was this race about President Trump . To the extent he could. Bevin could read the same polls we could. His Approval Rating was measured at 34 . The pollster, they do every state, all 50 states. He clocked in as the second least popular governor in america when they took that poll at 34, 54. He had all sorts of controversies around teachers, around Medicaid Expansion. There were a lot of issues with bevin before this race that made him extremely vulnerable. He saw tying himself to trump and trumps popularity in kentucky as his only chance to defy that. There was a lot of baggage weighing him do. We want to go to louisville, kentucky. Vaughn hillyard is there. Good morning, the city where youre standing, perhaps the suburbs there, kentucky suburbs of cincinnati and louisville as well, made all the difference in this race last night. Reporter exactly. Lets look at those two personalities of these actual individuals running this race. You have matt bevin, the republican incumbent who is known as a rather brash individual. Many votered wou ers would call bully and talking to folks is the fact of what he said about teachers. During the debate over Pension Reforms he called them selfish. Accused them of throwing temper tantrums. Everybody knows a teacher, and that seemed to really percolate not only in the suburbs but across these rural areas, and then youve got andy beshear, the son of the former governor of the state, a much more soft spoken man. I talked to him yesterday, up until the polls closed he was talking about jobs, health care, education, pension reform, and so i asked matt bechk who predicted a 6 to 10 point victory, i asked him, why did he nationalize this race . If you watch the televisions it was all about donald trump, donald trump, and impeachment. I put that question directly to him yesterday. This is what he told me. Why nationalize this race so much and talk about President Trump so much . I dont know if you do you watch the news . Oh, yeah, last night i saw a lot of your ads. Awesome. Do you watch the news other than political ads . Have you ever heard anything about President Trump in the last two, three, four five years . Youre running for governor of kentucky. Exactly. I am. Heres the irony, the fact that you ask why this is being nationalized and why people are talking about President Trump would indicate to me that you really have sort of come out from under a rock. Here in america thats pretty topical every night. Talk to the average person, ask the next 100 people who come in here if they care about this impeachment process. And they will tell you almost to a person that they do because they find it to be a charade. Its an absolute sham. Nice guy. Reporter that back and forth went on for a little while. I asked him, youre not running for the house of representatives. Youre not running for the senate. Just trying to get clarification how you can help President Trump and you clearly understood by what he said politically, this is a place donald trump won by 30 Percentage Points. Not only is it the suburbs but also i think what steve was talking about eastern kentucky, this is a largely rural area, coal country, an area that is looking for jobs and talking with the campaign of andy beshear where they told me it was that part of kentucky, it was that little incremental crunching of those margins in that eastern part of the state that ultimately saved them, put them in this race and gave them the victory here this morning. We saw in the interview some of the charm that got him a 34 Approval Rating. Vaughn hillyard, thanks so much. We should point out that Governor Bevin has not conceded the race. The attorney general in kentucky, the democrat, she says beshear has won the race. The Senate President who is a republican says we might Staten Island decide this. This thing is still up for grabs. Right now by 5,000 votes, andy beshear is the governorelect. You did see the campaigning charms he shares with donald trump and why he really was trying to focus in, and again, just being difficult, rude, insulting, very trump like. And for the first time in more than two decades, democrats in virginia have taken control of the state house. Do you all like the color blue . I said do you like the color blue . Because im here to officially declare today, november the 5th, 2019 that virginia is officially blue, congratulations amazing, thanks to unusually high turnout especially in virginias suburbs. There we go, the suburbs again. Yesterday marked the third election in a row in which democrats made significant gains since President Trump was elected. Before trump was elected, republicans held a 66 to 34 majority in virginias state legislature. Before trump was elected they had an almost 21 margin, republicans did over democrats in virginia, and now theyre in the minority. Thats breathtaking. The sweeping victory will give virginia democrats control of the legislature and governorship for the first time in 26 years. Thats incredible. David ignatius, you know a little bit about virginia and virginia politics. What a dramatic change. A state that was on the state level the legislature especially just one of the reddest in america, its taken three years of donald trump and his policies to reverse that, and now democrats firmly in control of everything that moves in the commonwealth state. I think virginia is a combination of donald trump who just really is not the candidate of the new suburban tech centered virginia, and this virginia result also shows demographic changes. Virginias a very different state from the place that mika grew up in, was across the river from where i grew up in. Its a state that really has benefitted from the tech boom t. You dont think of virginia as a Silicon Valley spinoff but in many ways it. I cant help but think looking at these results tonight, another few years were going to be looking at a blue texas, the same process of economic growth, were going to have a very different texas. You can go around the country and look at places that have been traditionally solid republican that i think are in the process of change. The virginia result is overwh m overwhelming, and it shows somethings going on for a while. Here it is tonight or today. Yeah. For sure. You know, there was of course that terrible mass shooting in el paso where that paranoid mass shooter focused on immigrants coming in to texas from mexico as being the reason why texas was changing. You also have some republican ka candidates and Republican Leaders fearful of those demographic changes, but texas is changing. Its like virginia in the suburb. You look at so many of the suburban seats in dallas and other areas that went from red to blue, thats really as we go into 2020, if youre a republican, thats where you really have to be concerned, in florida along the i4 corridor, in virginia of course the suburbs of d. C. You go up to philadelphia, the suburbs of philly. Mike barnicle, you look around the suburbs of detroit. You look at all of you look at these suburbs, and republicans are just bleeding support because of donald trump. Joe, theres no doubt about it, and you know, the kentucky story is big. About that, but the virginia story is huge. You control the state legislature, democratic governor, democratic legislature, they can move on things like gun laws, on redistricting on health care. So if youre a republican strategist looking at last night measuring last nights results, looking forward to a year from now, your next years election, the canary in the coal mine, if youre a republican strategist, can you tell your clients got to watch out because the canary is dead . I mean, look, it tells you in the suburbs, a traditional republican strategy, sort of a pretrump republican strategy of relying on those suburbs, tho