hardball except for the open. steve kornacki thank you so much. still ahead, there s another huge story this morning that we re actually we re not going to ignore it. it s massive. because you can t. a key witness in the impeachment unless you re state tv. impeachment inquiry completely rewrites his testimony, there are times this needs to be done. you need to reverse your testimony, maybe, i don t know, to avoid jail? stay out of jail. so he now admits there was a quid pro quo, member of the house intel committee. congressman shawn patrick maloney joins us next on morning joe. we call it the mother standard of care.
can lose for donald trump. the white house sending out talking points, last night on fox news sondland and ukrainian official were dismissed as some low level guy, and then willie of course lindsey talked about some guy. the some guy was the person that was running what john bolton described as rudy giuliani and donald trump s drug deal across europe. he was a guy that showed up. sondland was the guy that showed up across europe, and he was the president of the united states point man on this, quote, drug deal, and lindsey graham is now claiming that he s a nobody after the guy himself has propped himself up as the ambassador of europe for the past several years? i mean, it s not it s not a sellable story by republicans, and they re fools if they think americans are going to blindly follow along with it. and let s remember, he s a political appointee, say it
so that was significant movement, pretty large in terms of population part of the states, about 10% of the state s 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. that s a major reversal from what happened in 2016. it s 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. it s just incest ral democratic is the term you d use. their father was a democrat, they re a democrat, but they voted big for donald trump in 2016. they re culturally conservative,
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 doesn t this will be the biggest loss in the history of american politics. bevin campaigned on trump s name. and another we re going to be talking about, our second story excuse me in a state that trump won. oh, by 30 points. wow. so you d think he d had all the momentum. we re 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,
areas, to drive up support from voters who didn t participate in 2018, didn t participate in 2016, and to sort of add them to the republican coalition to undo the losses in these suburban areas. the cautionary note in 2016 there was that famous quote, i think it was chuck schumer a couple of weeks before the election. they looked at pennsylvania and he was basically asked what about that strength in western pennsylvania, the rural part of the state, and schumer s answer was for every vote we lose they were going to get two more in the suburbs. there was enough strong rural support to give trump pennsylvania in 2016. has there been further movement in the suburbs since then? has there been further mobilization? i think that s the story for 2020. all right, so heidi przybyla, what are you looking at? one of the things it s hard not to notice the shifts that are happening here given these elections. you wonder if republicans might start changing their tune because isn t this the missing