could spell trouble for republicans. not as much trouble as people think. democrats say they will beat carlos, and in double digits, this district perfectly, he carved out an independent imagery and debbie has a lot of criticism running a negative campaign, spent a lot of money but very negative and people think carlos really fits this district. rob: let s go to west virginia moving way north, this is trump country. a seat republicans should expect to win. democrats have been saying they think they can challenge the democratic candidate, former veteran but i look at him, the be50 rourke of west virginia. seems to really turn things on
branch coal mine explosion that killed 29 people. this morning, trump tweeted in part, balankenship currently running for senate. can t win. no way. remember alabama. west virginia is among four states which is going to have primaries tomorrow, including indiana, north carolina and ohio. these are states president trump won in 2016. i want to bring in msnbc s garrett haake who covers the hill. let s go to west virginia first. president trump didn t say, don t vote blankenship because he is a convicted felon and what this guy has done. he said, look what happened in alabama. we need to remind our viewers, president trump, while he originally supported luther strange, he supported roy moore in the end. reporter: this might be a once bitten, twice shy situation here for the president and his supporters who don t want to be attached to don blankenship, who establishment republicans
this is the only legal way to do this. this is an important intelligence community equity to defend the the sort of integrity of this process and i think it s really notable that you re not seeing director of national intelligence dan coats, you re not seeing nsa director mike rodgers, you re not seeing cia director mike pompeo. come behind him and say we agree with you don t release the memo. let me hit pause on this conversation. let s go to west virginia where the house speaker is talking. so take home pay is going up, wages are going up, benefits are going up, businesses are expanding. consumer confidence is at a 17 year high while unemployment is at a 17 year low. tax reform is working but one of the reasons we re here in west virginia is because we want to build on this success of 2017 in 2018. we want to make sure that secretary mattis, who we heard from this morning, has the tools and resources he needs to
afghanistan and iraq where we will have, no matter how many troops are pulled out of there, will have permanent military bases? who shares a board we are those two countries? iran. iran. iran. we surround iran with military, forward military bases if we leave troops in both those countries and we will. let s go to west virginia. asking for significant troop reductions in afghanistan. here he is on the senate floor. let s listen to senator mansion. mr. president, the time has come to make the difficult decision. charity begins at home. we can no longer afford to rebuild afghanistan and america. we must choose, and i choose american. here s the heat. just minutes later, senator john mccain took on mansion on afghanistan. let s listen to this. in case the senator from west virginia forgot it or never knew
they were 43rd and 44th. after they left they were 49th. it is not going to stimulate anything. thank you for calling me mr. president. as somebody who has gotten high off a lot of speed and rails, i am for this. don t knock it until you try it. okay. perry reid wants to ban prostitution in nevada. you started the story by asking is nevada saying no thanks to skanks? skanks, sir? seems to me that it was the only word i could find that rhymes with thanks. honest women trying to make an honest living by providing an honest service are not skanks, except maybe for you and your buddies at your upper west side cocktail parties. you are disgusting. i have never been to an upper west side cocktail party. i wish you would just drop dead. wow. so you felt bad, didn t you? not in the least.