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Hello, it's 785 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Today we're going to talk about various things as always but this in this episode

well the long delayed foreign aid bill in the US Congress a vote will now take place on

Saturday so will that massive amount of money be going to Ukraine?

Well that's what Ukraine is hoping for. The House of Representatives, i.e. the

lower house, is voting late on Saturday, but that's not the end of it.

It'll still go, we'll have to go to Senate and then approved by Joe Biden.

Joe Biden says he will approve it,

but it's still the subject of a lot of wrangling and wheeling

and dealing, and well, there's movement, but this isn't the end of it. And what did the speaker say

this week? He said on Wednesday that giving aid to Ukraine or releasing aid to Ukraine is the right thing to do and he was saying it

knowing full well that his political future his role as how Speaker might be under threat, just because he's putting

it on the floor, because more hard-lined Republicans, and he's a Republican, they are fiercely opposed to aiding Ukraine and some have called

for him to be removed from the post of House Speaker. Here is Mike Johnson speaking on Wednesday and you can hear the emotion in his voice.

I think providing lethal aid to Ukraine right now is critically important.

I really do. I really do believe the intel and the briefings that we've gotten that I believe gee and in Vladimir Putin and Iran really are an axis of evil. I think they're in coordination on this. I think that Vladimir Putin would continue to march through Europe if he were allowed.

I think he might go to the Balkans next.

I think he might have a showdown with Poland or one of our NATO allies.

To put it bluntly, I would rather send bullets to Ukraine than American boys.

My son is going to begin in the Naval Academy this fall.

This is a live fire exercise for me as it is so many American families. This is not a game, it's not a joke. We can't play politics of this. We have to do the right thing.

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