It is shaping up to be a consequential week in the nation's capital as cracks emerge inside the

Republican Party over the Trump administration's handling of its immigration crackdown in

Minnesota and beyond. For analysis, we're joined tonight by our Politics Monday team. That's Amy Walter

of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. It's good to see you both.

So Amy, for all of the talk about this defiant Trump White House, the White House is not immune to sustained public pressure. What does the latest polling show about how the American public broadly views its immigration approach?

Yeah, it's really interesting, Jeff. At the beginning of President Trump's term, his approval rating of

handling immigration was higher than his overall handling of the job that he was doing. Now, as both

of those have come down over the course of his presidency, still for much of the year, immigration

has been higher. But, and it's not just because of what we've seen in Minnesota,

we started to see this dip really going back earlier than this, where opinions about how

Trump's handling immigration are now basically matching his overall approval rating. What happened,

I think a lot of it is that the conversation

about immigration is no longer about immigration. It's no longer about the border. It's not even

about this conversation about what we and how we should be handling the things that we normally

talk about, like path to citizenship or DACA.

Instead, what we're talking about are very specifically the way that agents, whose job it is

to apprehend these folks, the ICE agents, are treating communities.

And then in the case of Minnesota, these two individuals who were shot by these agents.

And, Tam, you heard Senator Smith describe this as a coalition of the horrified, Democrats

and Republicans who take issue with the way that the Trump administration is executing its

immigration priorities here. I mean, could this be one of the moments where voters who

backed Trump on immigration begin to recoil from the methods, even if they still support the end

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