pennsylvania. if this becomes the real alarm bell for republicans in the house to say, it's over, we're cooked, run for it, this will be a signal moment. >> dana: let me ask you about syria. we understand that general mattis, secretary mattis is on his way to the white house. there are indications, reports, that there probably will not be any military action today. but i do want to read to you what noah rothman just wrote. i think we have it here. imagine a post world war ii germany but without a conference that established firmly delineated zones and control. instead those zones are fluid and each power is testing the other to see where its freedom of action ends and another's begins. this is an unthinkably dangerous condition. the risk of an accident or miscalculation triggering a broader great power conflict is extraordinarily high. pretending we can avoid engagement in that project is a