and max bergmann in washington. motorway at a toll booth, as a notorious criminal, mohammed amra, was being transferred between rouen and evreux, after earlier appearing in court. now several hundred police are involved in a huge manhunt. surveillance footage records the moment a black car rims into a white police van pulled up at least two mask armed and heavily armed men began firing on the van. the gunman somehow set fire to their own ego next to the tollbooth. more footage filmed by someone on a coach shows one of the gunman move in slowly, almost nonchalantly forward. with several prison guards now badly injured or dead the gang free one criminalfrom the van. injured or dead the gang free one criminal from the van. together they flee. more footage from another passing vehicle then shows french police treating one of their wounded colleagues at the scene. what kind of criminal could have prompted this extraordinary act of public violence?— extraordinary act of public violence? . ., , violence? the man the gang f

ben: and max bergmann, briefly if you will, that commitment from the secretary of state to seize russiane says to pay for the rebuilding of ukraine when the war is over, some would question why that has not been done already. we know there are sanctions, we know there are penalties, we know that assets have been seized. this seems to be a new development in what america wants to see. max: yeah, part of the challenge of supporting ukraine is it is going toe more costly. the united states and europe have given away a lot of their old military equipment, and so the way to support ukraine now is that we have to buy new. we have to go to our industries and buy that, and that requires tens of billions of dollars annually, if not more than $100 billion. it requires a lot of money. there is more than $300 billion in russian assets sitting there. it makes regional sense to seize that money now. how we finance support for ukraine is something we can definitely afford and should be doing, but we have to start actually finding the money and putting real money on contract with defense firms to ramp u