It's already shaping up to be a busy political week as Republicans navigate the

fallout from controversial remarks made by former President Trump at a fundraiser

over the weekend. Meanwhile, six months out from the election, President Biden continues to deal with

a jaded electorate as he wrestles with the political ramifications of the war in Gaza.

Following this all closely is our politics Monday duo. Amy Walter

of the Cook political report with Amy Walter and Tamara Keith of NPR. So nice to

see you both. Happy Monday. Six months out as I just mentioned from this

election. This weekend Donald Trump was at this campaign event and he made these comments where he basically

equated the Biden White House with the Nazis saying that they are running a quote

Gestapo administration. Now this is obviously Amy the just the latest in a long history of

Trump saying things like this. But one of his fellow Republicans, one who's vying

to be the number two on the Trump ticket, North Dakota Governor Doug Bergam, came out and

defended Donald Trump.

Here's what he had to say.

The majority of Americans feel like the trial that he's in right now is politically motivated and if it was anybody else

this trial wouldn't even be happening so I understand that he feels like that he's

being unfairly treated. So feeling like a trial is unfair is equivalent to being part of

the Nazi secret police. Well first let's talk about that the majority of

Americans as the governor said right there, feel that this is unfair, which according to the most

recent poll, the NPR PBS, Maris poll, that is not true, 54% in that poll thought that it's fair. Now 46% think it's unfair so there

are a lot of people who think the way that the North Dakota governor does. But if we think that this candidate Trump or a Trump 2.0 president is going to look

any different than the candidate we've known since 2016 or the person who was

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