i'm john vause at the cnn center in atlanta. there's breaking news at the ballot box. democrats have scored two significant wins and republicans have seen their support in the suburbs crumble. in kentucky, andy beshear has declared victory in the race for the governor mansion. there was heavy turn out that helped. he addressed supporters just a few hours ago. >> tonight voters in kentucky sent a message loud and clear for everyone to hear. it's a message that says our elections don't have to be about right versus left. they are still about right versus wrong. >> as all this, the incumbent has not conceded even though the state officials have called the

result. kentucky is trumpeter toir with high approval numbers for the president. it seems a popular president may not have been popular enough to secure a win for an unpopular governor. >> this is a close, close race. we are not conceding this race by any stretch. and here's the thing. understand this though, understand this, we want the process to be followed, and there is a process. we know for a fact that there have been more than a few irregularities. they are very well corroborated, and that's all right. what they are exactly, how many, which ones, and what effect, if any, they have will be determined according to law. >> a different story but no surprise in mississippi where cnn is projecting the republican lieutenant governor will win the governor's race over the

democratic attorney general, jim hood. but democrats claiming another big win, this one in virginia where they've managed to flip both chambers of the state legislature. we get the latest from cnn ryan nobles. >> democrats are declaring victory in both the house and the senate here. it looks as though they are on their way to having the democrats control both the house and senate for the first time in more than two decades. and this was a pretty convincing win for democrats across the board winning some key senate races in the richmond suburbs and also northern virginia and picking off house races across the commonwealth in a way that even defied some of the expectations leading into the night. democrats that i talked to, many of the democratic leaders here attribute their big gains in part to a unified democratic party but also deep opposition to president trump. they said it's difficult to ignore the impact that president trump has had on this race and

the energy and enthusiasm that that has created with democratic voters here in virginia. now it's important to keep in mind that virginia was a state that just a couple of years ago was a pretty reliable republican vote. before barack obama won here in 2008 you have to go back more than 40 years to see a republican lose a presidential race here. donald trump has said he thinks he can win virginia in 2020. based on the results here tonight in 2019, it looks like that will be a very up hill battle for president trump and the ub are can party. back back to you. >> joining me from los angeles is jessie and lonnie chin. thank you for sticking with us. obviously this is two good results for democrats in kentucky and virginia.

jessa, just to start with you, is there danger reading into this too much. the president is popular, red states turn blue, it's all over, the impeachment inquiry will move ahead, the democrats have this in the bag. >> yes, absolutely. yes, yes, yes. there's a full fear that you could potentially overreach in this case and you could say look how great this is. it's an off year election. we have huge turn out. donald trump support is cratering. but the truth is we have to look at the specifics, the devil of course is always in the details. when it comes to what happened in kentucky, a deeply unpopular governor, a republican governor who looks like he lost. when we look at what happened in virginia, the demographic trends there for the last decade have been trending democratic. so, if you look at what happened even taking donald trump out of the equation, there's something

kind of predictable about this. this still doesn't tell us exactly what's going to happen to the voter that is we care about, the swing voters in the swing states. >> lonnie, if there is a common thread here, i guess it's what happened to the republican support in the suburbs in both virginia and kentucky. it seems that that is where the republicans crumbled and that is what cost them these two races. >> the decline of the republican party support for the republican party john in suburben areas is a big concern for republicans as they look towards 2020 not just in terms of the presidential race but in terms of what might happen in contested u.s. senate races, house races. this is a longer term trend to watch. but i think absolutely you can definitely read too much into what we saw here tonight. it's not entirely generalizable. so i think we have to be careful when we draw conclusions about

what 2020 might look like because of what happened in virginia and kentucky here tonight. >> well, the president is drawing his own conclusions about the results in those three states. he has not mentioned virginia or kentucky, but he is talking about mississippi. congratulations to tate reeves on winning governor of the great state of mississippi. our big rally on friday night moved the numbers from a tie to a big win. great reaction under pressure, tate. exclamation point. i guess in many ways donald trump does move the numbers. he's proven that in the past. he can move them both ways, for and against a particular candidate. why is it that he managed to move the numbers in a positive direction in mississippi but maybe not so much in kentucky? >> well, i think in kentucky what you had, again, is a deeply unpopular governor. so, even donald trump in that case, i think when we can move the numbers couldn't move the numbers for this particular person. people do vote not just on the

issues, but they vote based on whether or not they like somebody. so, i think you had something in kentucky that was unique which was a uniquely unlikable person. i don't think, again, we can necessarily generalize that to all of the other states that will be in play. but what we certainly saw is that president trump was an enormously motivating factor i think both for democrats and republicans. and he touched on something that's so important in kentucky, in virginia, and mississippi which is what is happening to the suburban voters. if there is a general cratering of support for president trump with the suburban voters, if they're the most likely to be dissatisfied then we can generalize. at that point we can say republicans are in real trouble for 2020. >> what was interesting about the race in kentucky is just how closely tied the incumbent governor basically ran this race in connection with donald trump. he sort of made this almost

referendum on the president and the impeachment process. the airways were flooded with ads. here's one of the campaign ads for the republican governor. >> matt's proudly pro-life, against sanction ware cities for illegal immigrants, and against impeaching our president. >> and so, lonnie, to you, in virginia, the democrats, you know, embrace their candidates for president. but the republicans walked away. trump didn't turn up there. in

so, obviously in other places the republican brand did just fine. >> to that point look at the results in kentucky, last time i checked it seemed that all the other republicans on the ballot who were running heading towards a win. so, the republican party in and of itself, you know, being rejected by voters there. it's either bevin or trump or both. >> i think it was bevin. i don't think it was a wholesale rejection of president trump for the reasons you talked about.

other than bevin the republican party is doing just fine in kentucky. that's what we see from the voter registration numbers from the other demographic numbers. so i think that president trump from here on out even when he's not on a ballot is on a ballot. when you have a governor bevin who's essentially taking the trump flag and wrapping himself around it, then certainly you have president trump on the ballot. but i think that, look, he did move the needle in that case. it wasn't enough. but i don't think in kentucky we can look and say oh there's a deep problem with republican voters. it's more of what we see in the suburban districts in virginia in other states where we see is there a pattern we can look to. but i agree that in that case, governor bevin, there weren't a lot of lanes for him to take. >> in terms of donald trump being on the ballot, that's a point he kind of made fun of or made light of when he was

campaigning in lexington on monday. here he is. >> you're sending that big message to the rest of the country. it's so important. you've got to get your friends. you've got to vote because if you lose it sends a really bad message, just sends a bad -- they were building up. here's the story. if you win they're going to make it like ho hum. if you lose they're going to say trump suffered the greatest defeat in the history of the world. this was the greatest. you can't that let that happen to me. >> it's all about the president, it often is. if democrat -- or republicans are trying to find a lesson out of the results in kentucky, not going to look for spin, if they look for the results in kentucky and virginia what do you think the big take away will be for them as they head into 2020? >> well, you know, i think there is a couple. first of all the president's coat tails can be long but in many cases not long enough. i think folks that are running in states that are more like

border state, purple states, states like colorado and north carolina, i think the question is how closely do you ugh hhug president versus try to separate from him. and then a second issue to return to the question of the suburban voter. how did the suburban voter look in kentucky, virginia, mississippi? was there degradation of support among suburban and x-urban voters. that could be a challenge for republicans and president trump in particular. >> even though the secretary of state of kentucky has called the result, the governor is refusing to concede. this is what he told supporters. it's worth listening to again. >> this is a close, close race. we are not conceding this race by any stretch. and here's the thing. understand this, though. understand this. we want the process to be fol w

followed, and there is a process. we know for a fact that there have been more than a few irregularities. they are very well-corroborated, and that's all right. what they are exactly, how many, which ones, and what effect, if any, they have will be determined according to law. >> so, jessica, this is the first time i think we've heard this question about irregularities in the vote and it comes because he hasn't won. also, we've had the secretary of state declare it. it's done. why is now this talk of irregularities? >> yeah, two things. one, there's no more process to follow. in a close state where the secretary of state doesn't call it, you wait for returns. wait to see if there's an automatic recall. but when the secretary of state calls it, it's finished. trafficking and these types of misleading statements is deeply disturbing for the integrity of the vote. to say i heard about

irregularities, we know there's facts about irregularities. we don't know what they are, if they affected the vote, this is so harmful when you're -- it's a great way to try to suppress voter turn out f. you're looking for reasons people don't show up to vote, they don't understand or think about why their vote matters to their daily life or they don't like either of the candidates or they think there's something rigged about the process. that's exactly what this comment goes to, that there's something fundamentally that we've lost the integrity of the process. when politicians lose traffic in these types of lies, it is the reason we have low voter turn out, that we have a representative democracy where not all of us are represents. >> we've got to take a short break but i wanted to give you the last word on this before we come back. what do you think of the governor's statement. ? >> yeah, the reference to irregularities is highly problematic. process is one thing but

obviously saying there are irregularities and saying they're proven is not the most responsible way to bow out of a race. >> okay. stay with us. as you said, we will get to the virginia race and what that all means in just a moment. also still to come, you know the no kwpg defense by the white house, it's looking shakier by the day. a senior defense saying i do remember. there was a quid pro quo. how about that? [sneeze and sniffles] are you ok? yah, it's just a cold. it's not just a cold if you have high blood pressure. most cold medicines may raise blood pressure. coricidin hbp is the... ...#1 brand that gives... powerful cold relief without raising your blood pressure.

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so far the incumbent refusing to concede. in virginia, cnn predicts democrats will flip both the state legislature. there's a house, senate, and governor, clean sweep. different story in mississippi. lieutenant governor tate reeves will win the race over the democratic attorney general jim hood. back with us is jessica levinson and lonnie chin. so, virginia, this was a state race where democrats embraced the presidential candidates. republicans were running away from the president. why is that that strategy worked for democrats in virginia and it didn't work for republicans? >> well, i think it's largely a story of demographics. i know i keep saying this, but if you look at the voter registration, if you look at how the parties are trending, who the likely voters are in virginia, i think who they

embraced in terms of the democratic candidates is part of the story. but who they are is a huge part of the story. virginia has been trending to be more democratic. if you look at who was elected, this is a pretty young and liberal group. we have a few firsts. i believe we have the first transgender state legislature, first muslim legislature, first indian american immigrant who is a state legislature in this case. i think what we're seeing is partly based on what's happening in the 2020 race. i mean, it is the 800 pound gorilla in the room. i think it's partly what's happening on a state by state level. if you look at the difference between, for instance, virginia and mississippi, it's largely who lives in those states. so, this is still a story for 2020 that it's so important for the candidates to get the unlikely voters to come out and to get those swing voters to come out and vote for them.

>> and lonnie, we keep saying this is an off year election. sort of sleepy elections. there's only state measures on the ballot. if that's part of the story for 2020, is it the level of enthusiasm among democrats that seems unprecedented especially if you look at virginia? >> yeah, i think vurj virj is a challenging state for republicans that's been trending away. donald trump lost the state by five points back in 2016. so, there are a lot of reasons why i think republicans will try to look at virginia and maybe discount it a little bit. the challenge here again though is where republicans are losing in virginia is a potentially troubling sign in terms of the kinds of places. so, you think about the northern virginia, washington, d.c. suburbs. republicans have been losing market share in the same way they lost in norfolk and virginia beach which are areas that are traditionally very heavy military. in those areas republicans have also been losing ground.

how much of this is a virginia story and how much is a story thanks transferable to other states, republicans having challenges in suburban areas and areas that formerly were quite solidly republican. >> part of the virginia story is democrats poured a ton of money to get the result and the result they wanted -- it was a record breaking amount they spent. it comes with the bonuses here. you have a democratic governor who was almost run out of town a couple of months ago. the house is controlled by democrats. gives them control over measures like gun control, minimum wage, but crucially redistricting for 2020. >> absolutely. if you want to think of one of the important ways that candidates and political parties lock in their power before anyone ever walks into the ballot box, it's redistricting. it's these levers of controlling the election machinery. in redistricting the way you draw lines is a big way to make sure you can maintain and/or

increase your political power. so, now that we have basically the trifecta where we have a democratic governor, both houses of state, the people who draw those lines will be in a sense unfettered. they'll draw lines that are very favorable to democrats not just now but going forward. that's important for congressional races. that's important for presidential races. and i think that you'll see throughout the country people will start to key in to this idea of who is controlling the drawing of these legislative district lines. just this last june, the supreme court said federal courts have no business when it comes to gerrymandering when you basically try and keep your power or increase your power by how you draw the lines. i think that's going to hugely embolden state lawmakers to say well this is now no holds barred. we're really going to try our best to affect your vote before any voter even walks into the ballot bach box. >> quickly to that point.

under the 8 years of the obama presidency, democrats lost more than a thousand state seats across the country. do you see that is where a lot of the battle will play out at the state level. that's where the redistricting happens. >> not just entrench your power but also make changes that affect peoples' lives in a real way. if you think about the kinds of policies that state legislatures and state governments have control over, everything from infrastructure to education to health care to corrections, taxation, all of these areas affect peoples' lives. so, if you're able to entrench power, you're able to effectuate policy change in a way that affects not just a few years but decades and generations. >> control the congress in many ways. it's late but it's a significant night in the election. there are a lot of lessons we'll be trying to work out in days to come. thank you for being with us jessica and lonnie.

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welcome back everybody, you're watching cnn news room. it's 1:30 on the east coast. our breaking news this hour, big wins for democrats in state and local elections, seen as a potential bell weather for

president trump's chances for re-election in 2020. andy beshear claiming victory in kentucky. president trump campaigned with bevin. he tweeted matt bevin picked up at least 15 points in the last days but perhaps not enough. no surprises in mississippi where republican tate reeves will win the governor's race over democrat jim hood. president trump endorsed reeves and held a rally for him on friday. now to the clearest indication yet that the trump administration withheld military aid from ukraine in exchange for investigation into joe biden and his son. it comes in newly released testimony. we get details now. >> reporter: tonight, gordon sondland is trying to walk back some of his congressional

testimony. the ambassador to the european union releasing an addendum to his ten hours long interview in mid-october saying i now recall speaking individually with mr. year mac where i said a resumption of u.s. aid would not occur until crew crane provided the pubic anticorruption information. something he did not previously acknowledge during his testimony on october 17th when he told investigators he did not know why military aid was being held up, saying i could never get a straight answer out of anyone. the transcript released today reveals sondland told lawmaker that is rudy giuliani's efforts to get investigation into bidens kept getting insidious and suggested giuliani's scheme may

have been illegal. i'm not a lawyer but i assume so. i don't know know the law exactly but it doesn't sound good. >> that's illegal. you cannot solicit a power to investigate your opponents. >> giuliani's interference was well known around the state department and that officials were fully aware disclosing he discussed giuliani with s secretary of state mike pompeo. sondland rolled his eyes and said yes, it's something we have to deal with. envoy to ukraine kurt volker testimony is now public where the president directed aids to talk to rudy giuliani about ukraine. the president dismissed recommendations he meet with the ukrainian president saying they're all corrupt. they're all terrible people. i don't want to spend time with that. volker said he became aware of the hold on military aid july

18th one week before the trump zelenski call but nobody gave a reason why. >> now with the new testimony from gordon sondland it only adds to the evidence and former vice president joe biden. now, more transcripts are expected to be released in the coming days when even more details will come out. that's all before public hearings on capitol hill which could start as soon as next week. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> with me now from california, former u.s. attorney harry lipman and from los angeles david katz. thank you guys for being with us. the president, his supporters, c they cling to the belief that the transcript is a proof of innocence. >> my father put the transcript out. read it. everything else is opinion.

read the transcript and make your decision from there. >> and on monday night a campaign rally supporters who wore the read the transcript t-shirts which seemed odd. just to be clear the summary does not exonerate the president. now americans have full real transcripts under oath to read, more than 1,200 pages of testimony from administrative officials, trump supporters, career officials, and they seem to be painting a clear picture of exactly what happened. >> that's exactly right. by the way, the transcript itself paints ayou fairly clear picture. that's where trump says we need a favor though and proceeds to say what zelenski has to do. so, it's funny kind of brazen move to say read the transcript when i guess they're thinking nobody will. it's just another kind of slogan that will keep people reved up. but the much fuller version is much more damning. sondland is correcting what was

obviously a lie and that always brings attention to it, brings it into nae i don't kneon light a political supporter of trump. others have been state department career officials. now he's had to say this is a quid pro quo and having previously testified it would be wrong when he was forgetting he had said it. he stuck with the testimony and stuck with it saying that they did something illegal and immoral and in his own words insidious. >> yeah. and here's how the white house responded to another day of evidence which blows up another impeachment defense and continues the heart of theism impeachment inquiry. both transcripts released show there is even less evidence for the sham than previously thought. media headlines change the fact that the president has done nothing wrong. so, david to you. is this best described as a

disney defense, if you can dream it, you can do it? just create your own reality? >> it is trump's own reality. today was devastating news. this was the one witness who supposedly helped him in the impeachment inquiry and that witness, a political appointee who gave over a million dollars to trump to buy that ambassadorship, he jumped ship. there's nobody defending trump on the merits. you remember the lieutenant colonel who came to the proceedings? he was a direct witness to the phone call? why are these trump supporters at a rally talking about read the transcript? first of all, as you say it's a rough summary. on top of that we have a direct witness. we don't need the whistleblower anymore. we don't need the notes that donald trump jr. says husband father released. we have a direct witness, a man in uniform who's given his life for this country, a man who won the purple heart who's come to the congress and said i heard that conversation. what i heard was improper.

so, now, stripped of having any defense on the merits, all there is is noise. all there is is sloganeering and we have a situation where because they know all the evidence is going to be bad and against the president now they've been committing more acts of obstruction of justice, more articles of impeachment by directing people like mulvaney and bolton not to come when their testimony is obviously relevant to the inquiry. >> and this seems to be for the republicans obviously. here's the trump loyalist senator lindsey graham. he's taking the similar approach of just ignoring these latest revelations. here he is. listen to this. >> i've written the whole process. i've written him off. i think this is a bunch of b.s. i think this is a sham process. i think the substance is not worthy of an impeachment discussion. read the phone call for yourself. i don't care what anybody else says about the phone call.

the phone call, i made up my own mind, is fine. >> that's the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. he's also a potential juror in an impeachment trial. he's taking a la la la la don't tell me approach. wouldn't they be recused? >> sure but in fact that's been the latest excuse that republicans have proffered to keep their head in the sand and avoid saying anything about trump. they're not jurors. it's not a criminal trial. it's a political proceeding, and they have to make a political decision. and graham here is of a piece sort of baffling, nothing wrong here, keep moving along as this ten-car pile up wreck puts carnage all over the street. and trump has made it difficult for them now. you would think remember back in clinton's day there was some attempt among democrats to maybe

give a half measure of acceptance, say he did wrong. trump is insisting in his words this was perfect, perfect, perfect, and he wants the republicans to defend him on those terms. and nobody who wants to have any credibility in the future can do that. so, they're not -- there doesn't seem to be a strategy afoot to actually take some middle ground. instead they're in the disneyland defense as you described, john. >> and something that hasn't received a lot of attention, if you look at the transcripts they reveal republicans have been fully engaged in this. most gop lawmakers at the center have simply not shown up. republican questioning during the private interviews have been driven by a handful of president donald trump's allies and gop staff. so, david to you there goes another trump line of defense that this is a process which

lacks transparency and the republicans have no access. >> because they didn't have defense on the merits they went to process argument. >> it doesn't hold either. >> it doesn't hold at all. adam schiff is doing a tremendous job of putting this together. he's going to be one of the managers of the impeachment trial in the senate. that's what lindsey was. lindsey graham was saying it was an impeachable offense and that clinton should be removed from office when graham was a manager. and that was for alleged lie about private sexual conduct. for graham to say that this is not impeachable conduct -- and once adam schiff and the other impeachment managers get in front of the senate, i think the country's going to have a different view. they say that once televised proceedings started against president nixon, there was immediaely a 10% turn against him. if that happened there would be 60% of the country in favor of

impeachment. adam schiff knows how to present a case. i think this is going to be devastating. with no one defending the president on the merit, how can you? even sondland had to say to his testimony the other day was not true. his whole defense now is that he retracted in time that he's free of alleged perjury. that's the defenders of trump. this quid pro quo conversation took place. it took place abroad by someone who didn't even have a charter to cover ukraine because ukraine wasn't in the european union. it's all a farce, john. it's all falling apart. >> very quickly, we're almost out of time. if this does get to public hearings and all the testimony is being played out on television, how devastating will that moment be? >> it looks pretty devastating, but he has dodged bullets before. one thing to note in addition to what david said, we're not just talking about a phone call. we're talking about a three-month course of conduct that is pushing to get him to investigate bah reese ma.

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in mexico police have arrested the suspect in a killing of three women and six children. a newly formed drug cartel may be responsible for the massacre. relatives of the victims believe the family was specifically targeted. brian todd has details. >> reporter: a shell shocked family patriarch films the burned out vehicle where his daughter-in-law and grandchildren were murdered. >> this is for the record, nita and four of my grandchildren are burnt, shot up. >> reporter: the indescribe bli brutal attack is resonating throughout mexico and the u.s. nine member of an extended family, three women and six children, two of them less than a year old, were shot and burned to death in their vehicles. >> none of my grandchildren made

it out. they burnt to a crisp. and my daughter-in-law. and they're about as innocent as they come. and i'm not saying it because she's gone. >> at least seven children survived the assault which occurred monday afternoon as the family was traveling in a caravan of three vehicles in their home south of new mexico and arizona border. criminal groups are suspected of carrying out the attack. but it's not clear if the family was targeted or mistaken for rival drug cartels. it's getting increasingly lawless. >> it seems as though the organized crime groups feel as though they are highly empowered at this point in time. they feel as though they have the upper hand in that area of mexico against federal forces. >> reporter: and the victims were at the center of they chaos. they're part of a mormon community in northern mexico. they're not affiliated with the

church of jesus christ of latter-day saints. the extended la barren family is no stranger to cartel violence. when teen ij eric la barren was kidnapped, his brother benjamin led protests. erick was released but benjamin and another relative were dragged from their home and killed for standing up to the cartel. >> we're not going to stand by and watch this happen anymore. the cartels have taken too many of our family members. >> reporter: but with so many powerful cartels surrounding them, what recourse does the family have. >> i think what we've seen in many parts of mexico and in that part of north western mexico, we've seen society arming itself, protecting itself. at the moment they feel as

though they are not being protected by the federal government. so they're going to find ways in which they can protect their loved ones, their families, their communities. >> in a tweet, president trump said it's time for mexico to wage war on the drug cartels and wipe them off the face of the and trump offered more american help to get that. mexico's president manuel lopez obrador politely declined saying it's mexico's responsibility. but analysts say don't expect obrador's government to get a handle on that anytime soon. last year saw a record 33,000 homicides in mexico and 2019 is on pace to eclipse that. brian todd, cnn, washington. a last break coming up. more breaking news here on cnn when we come back. two key victories for democrats in state and local elections in the u.s. what this could all mean for republicans and donald trump in 2020. ♪ do you recall, not long ago ♪ we would walk on the sidewalk ♪ ♪ all around the wind blows

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