be enough? there is also this new tonight: the biden administration is asking congress to authorize $6.4 billion in aid, that's in addition to the hundreds of millions of dollars the u.s. has already sent overseas. cbs' weijia jiang is at the white house. >> reporter: tonight, new sanctions on the russian leader himself and his foreign minister. but the u.s. has sanctioned dictators in the past, like syria's bashar al-assad, and it rarely changes their behavior. putin has also buried his wealth, making it difficult to freeze his assets. do you think it will actually have an impact on putin in practice, given the uncertainty about the extent and location of his wealth? >> what we are hoping the world takes away from this is the unity through which the united states, president biden is working with our european partners and allies. >> reporter: president biden spoke by phone to ukrainian president zelensky, vowing to offer more support.
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