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
of argument that they believe are acceptable to their own constituents to prevent them from voting to remove the president from office that s correct good for him. the democrats have two bites at the apple on this. one is the removal case they will make. the second one, of course, is an argument to the electorate that, if republicans should have impeached and removed president trump from office and did not, that the electorate will get an opportunity to do that next november. jonathan, as you know, so far no republican lawmaker has publicly endorsed the idea of impeachment. it would seem as if, based on that, the president s strategy heretofore has worked. that s right, craig. he has not lost a single republican. there has not been a defection from him in terms of a vote. we saw last week on the house floor every single republican stuck with him, voted against even investigating essentially whether or not there should be an impeachment. jonathan, stand by,
hickley at the signing ceremony. how meaningful for you and the families was the passage of the bill? oh, so meaningful to the families. they were so discouraged with what was happening in washington, and i think they real wanted a bipartisan bill, so the idea that they came together in a way and had a conversation, that was respectful, and that we were able to do that at the legislature and have the strong backing of governor malloy was something that was very gratifying for them, but at the same time, it was such a sad day, because we all wish we hadn t been there. we all wished that, you know, as she says, home waiting for her kids to get home from school, instead are trying to make change in america. you mentioned washington. a few moments ago there. let s talk about the effort that gun control reform effort. do you think they waited too long in washington, d.c.? do you think they waited too long, and do you think their strategy heretofore has been sufficient? it s difficult