It's the Brian Laird show on W.

Good morning everyone. We'll begin the week with our usual

Monday morning politics segment. This week with Rebecca Davis O'Brien who covers campaign finance

for the New York Times, as they said in the Watergate era,

follow the money trail, right? And there are several newsworthy money trails to follow right now.

One is the money trail from the United States to the

two wars it's involved with at the moment. As the Times and others report, House

Speaker Mike Johnson actually does believe in funding Ukraine to help them

defend against the Russian invasion even though so many of his House Republican

colleagues and led by Donald Trump are more on Putin's side.

Look for details in the coming days of how much Johnson is willing to risk being ousted

as Speaker to pass this funding with Democratic support and only a minority of his own

caucus.

Then there's the war in Gaza.

For all the critical things President Biden has been saying about Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

lately and Biden stated opposition to an assault on the city of Rafa.

The Washington Post reports that Biden has now quietly authorized the transfer of billions of

dollars in additional bombs and fighter jets to Israel. The post says that includes

more than 1800 2,000 pound bombs,

the kind of bombs that the post describes

as being linked to previous mass casualty events

mass casualty events in that war.

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