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
don t know for sure, but here s my theory. the obvious person is hunter biden, why? because the action, what people aren t focused on, why would someone take it out of their pocket and leave it somewhere? the answer is when you re in the mind-set of 5d ikt, you want drop poikts to sneak in, take a quick hit, leave it for safe keeping and come back. it was being stored somewhere. you could easily keep it in your pocket, get in and out without being detected. the person that put it there had to be there on a consistent basis to use it undetected. second thing, hopefully he stopped, but people typically don t stop using the drug unless they suffered massive consequences. this guy hasn t suffered consequences for anything, whether it is nthe board of buries ma, becoming a famous artist, selling
ukraine being tied to the investigations into buries ma and the bidens. he s the witness who so impressed this committee behind closed doors with his meticulous note taking. he brought receipts. he had backup for everything he said, every meeting he was in, every phone call he took. we know that yesterday, and some of the transcripts that were released yesterday, he expressed concerns going back even earlier than that. by taking this job in ukraine he would be tied up in a giuliani-biden mess he wanted to avoid. george kent was a counterpart, a colleague of his back in d.c. during this time who will describe meetings in which officials working on ukraine policies were sideline in favor of giuliani, rick perry and others. he can provide the washington backstop to the ukraine, on-the-ground experience that ambassador taylor will provide. on friday we ll get the second hearing with maria yovanovitch
now trying to save himself, telling a story that in some ways doesn t add up. he says, of course it s not appropriate for the president s outside attorney to be directing foreign policy, that should be done by the state department. he said it s not appropriate for the president to direct a foreign government to investigate one of his political opponents. he says throughout this time he was working to get ukraine to advance an investigation into corruption into buries ma. he had no idea that made joe biden and hunter biden, and when the president first brought this up, he thought it was part of a legitimate effort by the president to advance our interests to have ukraine investigate corruption. this, of course, was just several weeks after the new york times reported multiple stories what rudy giuliani was after on behalf of the president was to get an investigation into joe biden. i think in some ways sondland s story doesn t add up. i think it s important he s here testifying and do