so let me ask you, a lot of people who don t know who you are. let s go through an evolution. you obviously as you said yesterday you were a trump supporter. you were actually involved in birtherism. you said some very unkind things about barack obama that you later regretted but you said something fascinating in an interview and that was that it was looking at donald trump and his poor example that actually made you rethink some of the things that you had said. explain. look, i think i m partly responsible for trump and that s kind of a scary thing to say. hey, joe, mika, i think two things got trump elected. the republican party establishment was out of touch with their voters. and trump took advantage of that. he touched upon this issue of people in this country illegally. the republican party ignored that issue, but then the other part that got trump elected was i was part of the tea party
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.
what you see is him trying to triangulate his way through a very difficult trade negotiation and also come out with something that he can defend with a straight face as actually a deal. and also do all of that without avoiding cratering the american economy which is on quite weak legs at the moment because of his own trade war. katty, all weekend people around here at least, mika and i and our friends were talking about the crazy tweets that donald trump was sending out and the random tweets. the happy birthdays to regis and sean connery, by the way, happy birthday, regis. and all of the distractions. i have been talking to all of the g7 leaders and they re all saying why is america so great but why is the press the enemy of the people? i mean, just absolute nonsense. it was so obviously a smoke screen. this all came back to china
administration, when they put out a report on domestic extremism through dhs, they had to rescind that. so you see a lack of will to really focus on this problem which is a far greater situation and barrier than the lack of a domestic terrorism law itself. all right. we have the a.p. s jonathan lemire with us with a question for mika. hi, mika. walk us through what this would mean if the bill would come into law? how would it make the prosecutors job easier, how can it help the law enforcement on the ground? what kind of difference would this make for everyday americans knowing they can sleep safer at night? one of the things that this law would allow to do is to allow the federal prosecutors to plan the attacks. the challenge is it requires a political motive and people are trying to intimidate the population. it s very hard to disaggregate
problems with the kind of products we would need to take to have this great deal. the americans are happy to eat beef injected with hormones and british consumers won t accept that and british voters won t respond well to a prime minister who s signing us up for that kind of a trade deal. he has managed to figure out as sharon was just saying, many others have also done, how you image, it s like managing the truculent child at the party. how do you have to get along with, but not very easy. wait wait wait. so we americans eat chickens that are washed in chlorine? mika, did you know? we need a breaking news banner here. okay. one more reason to be a vegetarian. all right. let s close out with shannon here. what s on the agenda for today and also look ahead if you could