The killing of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk has ignited a political firestorm that

only seemed to intensify over the weekend. For more on that, we turn now to our Politics Monday

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

Good to see you both. Good to be here. As we've reported, as you have seen, since Kirk's

killing, the rhetoric, the finger pointing

have only gotten more intense.

We saw folks like Utah Governor Spencer Cox calling on people to tone it down, but now we've

also seen others, including President Trump, for whom Kirk's death is personal, we should note,

who's been overtly blaming radicals on the left, as he calls it.

Tam put President Trump's response to this in the context of past responses that I know you've

reported on when he comes to political violence.

Right. And President Trump has been all over the place in terms of how he responds.

You might obviously remember the assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania.

And after that, a lot of his supporters immediately wanted to blame left-wing rhetoric.

And President Trump was more restrained at that time and didn't really go there.

And ultimately, we found out that the shooter didn't really have an ideology. He had

President Biden on his potential target list as well. I went back to 2018, and there was a Republican

supporter of President Trump who was sending bombs to Democratic lawmakers and also CNN.

He was caught. The president praised law enforcement for catching him. But then he immediately

turned to criticize the media for trying to say that the actions of one person were somehow

should be blamed on either him or the Republican Party.

He says we did not, he says that doing that,

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