currency. russian forces are threatening local educators and replaced tv channels with russian counter parts. the american ambassador to the organization of security and cooperation in europe said today the u.s. has information that russia plan to take over ukraine apparently includes gutting the country s government. setting up a new one and blocking current leaders from holding office again. back at home with vladimir putin nuclear threats hanging in the air, president biden asked congress for $33 billion in military economic and humanitarian assistance. for ukraine. we re not attacking russia. we re helping ukraine defend itself against russian aggression. and this is putin chose to launch the brutal invasion, he can make the choice to end it. our unity at home, our unity with our allies and partners, our unity with the ukrainian people is sending an unmistakable message to putin.
her grandfather. recovering from the horrors of war. one game at a time. such an extraordinary story. that a child has to go through this. it s horrible. the idea she s held up as something that russia did well. we have to remember the only reason she s put in that situation is because russian troops killed her dad and brought her there because of a war they started. it s a twisted narrative that exists. air raid sirens have been a constant sound this evening. and joining us as well. mj, president biden unvailed a proposal for a a huge package. $33 billion. can you talk about what s in it? $33 billion is a huge, huge price tag. let me give you a break down of what kind of money we re talking about. they re talking about some $20 billion that would be military and security assistance.
different agencies working together including the treasury department. doj and state department and commerce. and what essentially it would allow the u.s. to do is seize properties, assets from certain russian oligarchs. yachts and luxury properties. and then they would be able to liquidate the assets and find a way to get that money that has been liquidated directly to the ukrainian people. as you know very well, the u.s. has rolled out a number of sanctions and punishment essentially. economic punishment. on russian throughout the crisis. but this is new and that it creates a path way basically for the u.s. to be involved in seizing money and assets from the russians. and then direct that to actually help the ukrainians. now, when president was asked will all of the new actions could that be seen as es ka l.a. toir. could that be seen as the u.s.
secure my release? david is his twin brother joining me now. thank you. i m sorry we re under these circum circumstances. i know you are pleased for the trevor reed. what answers do you have for your brothers questions of why not him. we have more questions. we don t know why not him. it s not clear why the government did have a concession they were willing to make. why they didn t try to bring home more americans. and there maybe a very good reason for that. but we don t have the answer. as you know, his parents met with president biden after a public campaign for his administration to do more to get their son released. particularly because of health concerns. the only family of a prisoner detained in russia to meet with the president. does your family want or expect to meet with the president? is that something you have been trying to do? yes, my sister has made numerous requests to meet with the president and none of them
secretary of state and secretary of defense left and went by train and russians hit the train stations. the un secretary general is here and they sent a missile attack here. if you were hoping or thinking that maybe the secretary general made a lot of progress with the russians in terms of changing their behavior, i think it s safe to say based on the fact they sent a missile to the city where he is in right now, that maybe he didn t do very much progress. yeah. along the president biden will ask to strengthen u.s. law enforcement capability to seize property from russian oligarchs and i guess sell that property? or if it s money that they re seizing, give it all to ukraine. that s a major change in policy. is that even legal? yeah, this was an interesting part of his announcement today. that came in addition to that $33 billion funding request. it was a proposal that was put together by a number of