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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 ....
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? ....
Also joining us, tiffany cross co-founder and managing editor of the beat d.c. and charlie sykes also back with us. i ll go to you first just for statistical analysis of this. the trump campaign should be very confident. there is sort of a cultive personality around him among republicans. almost none will ever leave him no matter what he does. however, they are closing off the possibility of a primary. does that signal they might actually be scared? i don t know if they re scared but i do know when presidents have traditionally faced primary challenges at least modestly successful, presidents dealing with rickety or even plummeting economies, whose approval ratings are not particularly robust, and trump is looking at some economic uncertainty given the jobs report today and his approval rating is stuck in the low 40s which is not a solid position for an incumbent president. let me to go to you. are you still a registered republican, charlie? the thing is that the trump ....
Vanderbilt university and is the author of the book identity crisis the 2016 presidential campaign and the battle for the meaning of america. also joining us, tiffany cross co-founder and managing editor of the beat d.c. and charlie sykes also back with us. i ll go to you first just for statistical analysis of this. the trump campaign should be very confident. there is sort of a cultive personality around him among republicans. almost none will ever leave him no matter what he does. however, they are closing off the possibility of a primary. does that signal they might actually be scared? i don t know if they re scared but i do know when presidents have traditionally faced primary challenges at least modestly successful, presidents dealing with rickety or even plummeting economies, whose approval ratings are not particularly robust, and trump is looking at some economic uncertainty given the jobs report today and his approval rating is stuck in the low 40s which is not a solid posi ....
Cofounder and managing editor of the beat d.c., democratic strategist nathan ruben, the author of boomers to millennials: moving america forward. you ve got to see the best of the day and we spoke to the majority of all of those who spoke in new hampshire. i got to speak with a handful of them. the question is, what does this say about how they re going to do, those who are going to be in the debate, at least i m kind of curious. how are they going to do? listen, we have to remind everybody they re not running against donald trump right now, they re running against each other so it s time to distinguish their record and there s going to be some jab throwing. this debate is going to be an hbcu in texas so it s been really clear that the appeal to communities of color, particularly the black community, particularly black women who stand in front of that path to the white house is something that all the candidates have taken note of and tried to make, you know, inroads with that commu ....