Brussels goes looking for billions to fund Ukraine

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With Washington's support for Kyiv increasingly uncertain, Brussels is looking to its allies to help keep Ukraine afloat. The price tag: €70 billion. On today's show, Zoya Sheftalovich and Kathryn Carlson discuss how the EU hopes to persuade Canada, Britain and Japan to help foot the bill — and whether closer trade and defense ties could be part of the bargain. Then, Germany's far-right AfD leader Alice Weidel is in Strasbourg to present her vision for a radically different European Union. And…