President Donald Trump is taking a victory lap abroad after the announcement of a ceasefire in the Middle East.

But at home, the government shutdown enters another week with no clear end in sight.

To take a closer look, we're joined by our Politics Monday duo.

That is Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR.

Great to see you both. Let's start with the biggest story.

Obviously, President Trump oversees there, Tam,

signing that major ceasefire deal is the first step to end the two-year war.

Now, you cover this president, but you obviously covered the last president too.

You traveled with President Biden to Israel soon after the October 7th attacks.

When you compare the approaches of these two

presidents, what do you see? They definitely had different approaches. They had different relationships

with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. President Biden had a very long but also

very complicated and strained relationship with Netanyahu.

When we flew into Tel Aviv about less than two weeks after the October 7th attack, though,

he embraced Netanyahu and hugged Israel close as well, really throughout his presidency.

Occasionally there would be, or more than occasionally, there would be pushback behind the scenes, but it wasn't out front.

President Trump has a very good relationship with Netanyahu is popular and even more popular now in Israel.

He's a popular figure broadly in the Middle East.

And he also, though, gave Israel exactly what they wanted, gave Netanyahu exactly what he wanted,

including the the airstrikes on the Iranian nuclear facilities over the summer.

So all of that, though, gave Trump a little bit more leverage to then come back and say, no, this is,

this is the time. It needs to happen. And also because he had those relationships with other countries

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