. >>> joining us now from washington, d.c., political reporter for the washington examiner emily larsen, great to have you with us on this monday morning. let's talk about joe walsh and the possibility that more gop contenders enter the race. specifically on him, what does joe walsh's newly launched campaign mean for president trump opening another front for him. >> well, so far the trump campaign does not seem to be worried about joe walsh running at all. their official response or initial response was whatever. and there's certainly a lot of reason for them not to be worried. joe walsh is launching a gadfly campaign. trump has a war chest, as does the rnc. from a financial perspective, they are pretty much set. when you combine that with the fact that he has 80% approval ratings. there's not a lot of reason to be worried. joe walsh is planning reportedly to have sort of a media centric strategy running against trump. if he can bait trump into coming out and respond to go his tax, that's going to be his first step going forward. >> one of the main differences, we have seen, as far as t