david devona is chairman of go pack. give me your thoughts. the fox news poll shows this really is a two-person race between the attorney general, patrick morrisey and congressman evan jenkins. the key to this, melissa, is the fact that republicans should gain seats in the senate this year and the path goes through west virginia. we win the seat in west virginia, republicans are going to pick up three to four seats in the u.s. senate. so that is the prediction that is well outside the norm. where do you see the three seats coming from and why the pickup as opposed to the conventional wisdom, which we think of, nonetheless, has been that the democrats are going to do very well in these mid-terms? you have incumbents in indiana, montana, here in west virginia, in missouri who are all in political cross currents.
this is mtp daily and it starts right now. good evening. i m chuck todd in washington and welcome to friday s mtp daily. everyone is trying to decode president trump s action in syria. what do last night s strikes mean? are we looking at mission creep or mission accomplished? what is his goal? end of blood shed? remove assad? rattle some sabres? what is mr. trump s men to the world. was this a warning to russia? a warning to north korea s ally china? it happened with president xi actually staying at mar-a-lago. and what is the message to president trump s base at home? how does he sell it? how does he navigate the political cross currents? that one question, the one closest to home, may be the most difficult to answer. it comes as our ambassador to