And then they persuaded him, you know what, we got a deal for you, Mr. President. Europeans will pay for them. Now, the Europeans are saying very rightly, that the seized Russian assets. We have hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian assets that are in European banks. most of them. We have some in American banks. And I have a bill that would essentially use those Russian assets to pay for American arms bought by the Europeans and then transferred to Ukrainians. (53:29–53:36)
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Asserts that there are hundreds of billions of dollars in Russian assets in European banks.
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