is senior washington correspondent for bloomberg news, also the author of "paper soldiers," saleha mohsins a complex issue, part of the foreign aid package. they're calling it the repo act over there, but tell us how this works. >> ali, in 2022, the u.s. immobilized millions of dollars that the russian central bank parked in dollars, saying, now, putin, you cannot use this for your war chest to continue financing your war. now that the world is considering how to finance the rebuilding of ukraine and tapping into taxpayer money for that refinancing, here from the u.s., there's also a call to say, hey, the assets that putin had, that we've immobilized, we're looking for them, we think we know where everything is, let's use that. there needed to be a change of law. now, the u.s. congress which can agree on very little, agreed to give the administration the authority to confiscate those assets or use the return on those assets to help ukraine. but, as republican lawmakers and a lot of folks inside the white house and the democratic party are aware of, is that this actually sort of continues