them. axios itchy finger. trump said, i got it, why don t we nuke them, according to one source who was there. that source continued to paraphrase the remarks claiming trump said they start forming off the coast of africa as they re moving across the atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. why can t we do that? the senior administration official responded to axios and to the axios report saying we don t comment on private discussions that the president may or may not have had with his national security team. all right. let s bring in the cofounder of axios, mike allen. and mike, i mean, it s an idea that we have heard before. it s not out of nowhere. just along with everything that comes with trump, it seems a little scarier. little more disturbing. we heard it was a long time ago and it was laughed off immediately, right, mike? well, joe, you know a few
we have someone in the white house who we all know is unfit. someone who lies virtually every time he opens his mouth. and someone who places his own interests above the nation s interests at every single turn. we cannot afford four more years of donald trump. no way. my name is joe walsh. i m a former republican congressman. i m a conservative, i m running because donald trump is not who we are. former gop congressman joe walsh of illinois is challenging president trump for the republican nomination for president. and he joins us now. welcome to the show. good to have you on board. welcome as a candidate here. mika, joe, great to be with you both. thank you. yeah.
these comments. the this is a time when the president s comments usually get laughed off. like the hurricane. but this is a place where they have a real world impact. all right. mike allen, thank you very much. and still ahead on morning joe, we ll talk about the race for the white house and the new republican challenger to president trump. former congressman joe walsh is our guest straight ahead. you re watching morning joe. we ll be right back. here s your buick sir. actually, that s my buick. your buick doesn t have a roof rack! this is my buick. how are we gonna fit in your mom s buick? easy. i like that new buick. -me too. i was actually talking about that buick. i knew that. -did you? buick s fresh new lineup is full of surprises. current eligible non-gm owners and lessees get 20% below msrp on most 2019 buick encore models.
crazy the last couple of years which is russian meddling in the u.s. presidential election in 2016. and the midterm elections in 2018. in some way russia needs to speak to that. it s obvious that donald trump in 2020 when he s the host of the g8 would like to when in the great ceremonial way would like to say i m the guy who brought russia back. okay. if you want to be that, you need to think about what s the price of that. now, i don t think s a crazy idea that we should have full diplomatic discussions with russia again. it s not crazy, but there s a price. and trump as president has to communicate it starting now. i m told that over the weekend that at dinner on saturday night he got some strong push back from the british and french leaders who said to him, basically, you know, you need to slow down on your russia talk and think about what the price would be. so i think we ll have some discussion of that.
weekend. joe, there may be some dictator envy going on here, but my base line after watching the back flips and the scowls and the threats over the last few days that then end up with the president sounding like xi is his best friend, it s the politics, stupid. trump is running for re-election. if he had not made a statement like this, the markets would have fallen out of bed again this morning. it s begun in asia already overnight and i think trump is primarily focused on keeping enough of his accounts seeming to be successful. that he just doesn t he wants to sound confrontational to get the last bit of the deal. but i think he was looking at a continuing market hemorrhage. he didn t like what he saw. the language that he used this