now my colleague janelle demario is following this story. janelle zalinski arrived to a much pessimistic, much more pessimistic mood compared to when he swooped in last winter for a hero's welcome in washington. is there any sign that he has a swede, republicans to get the funding that he says his country needs steps of the mood definitely watched more differently this time around, even though by most accounts that closed door meeting between us lawmakers and zalinski wasn't seeing us particularly hostile republicans were already telegraphing ahead of this meeting that there was very little of that zelinski could say that would move them from wanting to see a u. s. mexico, a board or deal a tighter board or a deal agreed before any more ukraine aid could be released. now of course, so this means that republicans are essentially using ukraine aid as a bargaining chip in order to achieve domestic policy goals around immigration, around, around the border around asylum policy. of course, these are obviously very important to republican avoiding issues ahead of an election year and 2024. but