If it's Monday, the DeSantis campaign is burning through cash, laying off staff and struggling in the polls as the Florida governor and presidential candidate tries to hit the reset button.

Plus scorched earth and flash floods, the record heat wave baking the southwest is set to expand as Pennsylvania authorities search for two missing children swept away amid a torrential rainstorm.

And Democrats' divisions over Israel, as the party's top progressive apologizes after calling Israel a racist state just days before their president is set to address Congress.

Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welk, reporting in Washington.

We're tracking new troubles for the

DeSantis campaign. Of all the potential roadblocks facing the GOP candidate, money wasn't supposed to be one of them.

But a staff shakeup and a new NBC news analysis of its fundraising operations are both raising serious questions about the campaign solvency.

DeSantis has touted the $20 million he raised

last quarter. But more than that, two-thirds of the cash came from donors who gave the legal

maximum, which means they're tapped out. They can't donate again. And the campaign is struggling

with the other big source of cash, small-dollar donors. Only 14% came from donations of $200 or less.

Meanwhile, the campaign has been burning through cash spending millions of dollars.

Without much to show for it in the polls,

as the field's frontrunner, Donald Trump,

keeps attacking DeSantis on the trail.

De Sanctimonious and his establishment handlers are wasting such precious time and resources to divide the party.

They're dividing the party, although he's dropping so quickly he's probably not going to be in second place much longer.

Now, DeSantis's campaign seems to recognize the need for a shakeup.

NBC reports the campaign has fired roughly a dozen staffers with more on the way in an effort to cut costs.

And after a week of blaming the media for his political struggles, DeSantis is set to do a rare mainstream national TV interview this week.

It comes after DeSantis defended his current strategy while

vowing to engage more with national media. I've done more press conferences as governor

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