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
democratic member on the intel committee. led by adam schiff on the democratic said, someone who pelosi has a ton of faith in. the republicans have pushed back really hard, saying he s the prosecutor, the judge and the jury thus far. on the republican side, devin nunes is the ranking member, he was in charge of the committee process during the russia investigation that both parties criticized, it got overly partisan. he ll be backed up by allies of the president. the intel committee bench is not as pro trump as the other committees might be. republicans are interested in getting jim jordan onto that committee. they d probably have to drop some other member off. they wanted to get another big trump ally on that committee who they hope can try to poke holes in democrats arguments. this has been traditionally a committee that does a lot of
greebl to raising taxes is going to be appointed by mitch mcconnell. three guidance the gang of six need not apply. if that s what mitch mcconnell is going to to say, we know who pelosi and harry reid is going to do. this is destined for deadlock. it doesn t seem like there s gong to be a lot of progress on this. i see a congressman tweeting on this saying the last time a committee worked is when they framed the declaration of i understand pence. it s been a while since a congressional committee has done something like this. it s interesting this supercommittee is just another way for liberals to be upset with the administration. just another way for conservatives to be upset with their leadership in congress. but anybody who they appoint in the senate is going to bring up some reason for conservatives. this is live pictures of the senate floor. harry reid wrapping up things. the vote will begin shortly.