Hello from Washington. I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd Caz. If it's Wednesday, I

always like to say if it's Tuesday, somebody's voting somewhere, well, if it's Wednesday,

it means we get to talk about election results. And last night was a pretty good night for

the Democrats in Virginia. The party took control of the Senate and the House. Despite the

fact that the two highest ranking state office holders, Democratic governor Ralph Northam,

Lieutenant governor Justin Fairfax had been mired. Uh, shall we say in scandal and that's

to be polite. Meanwhile, in Kentucky, it appears Democrat attorney general Andy Bersier

ousted the Trump backed sort of mini Trump candidate of Republican governor, Matt Bevin.

Bevin hasn't conceded yet, but there's 5,000 votes between them and 100% in. So there

would have to be a lot of errors to change that. But other Republican candidates down the

ballot did do well. So what does that mean? Bad night for Trump and survival, bullnight

for the rest of the Republican party. That's something we should talk about. And speaking

of bad news for the president, House Democrats will hold the first public impeachment hearings

at the next Wednesday, November 13th, Bill Taylor and George Kent will be the opening acts.

Obviously, Bill Taylor, probably the most important narrator of the Ukraine scandal.

On Friday, the 15th former Ukraine ambassador, Marie Ivanovich will also testify. This

news follows ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, uh, changing his testimony in the impeachment

inquiry, saying he now recalls talking about a quid pro quo and now marks the fourth admission

as Democrats have slowly released the transcripts of testimonies of fourth admission of somebody

in and around the president saying yes, it was a quid pro quo. So putting together the news

of this week is there a lesson on impeachment joining me to attempt to answer these questions.

National Journalist, Political Editor Josh Kraszauer and Washington Post National reporter,

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