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Legislators continue to buy and sell hundreds of millions of stocks each year, raising some very clear ethical, if not legal questions. back in december, there was a push to ban this trading, speaker of the house nancy pelosi opposed it saying, quote, we are a free market economy. it appears that she has since changed her mind saying that she is open to a ban on open -- and also, those in the judicial branch. congresswoman katie porter, member of the oversight and reform committee, she is reintroducing the stock act two point oh, along with senator kyrsten of new york, she joins me now. let me...

A broadscale russian in vision any day now. russia denies that an invasion is planned, but u.s. intelligence indicates they have everything they need to do it and very soon. that's the reality. i will say being here in the ukrainian capital, kyiv, it's a different world. people are out walking, riding bikes. they were out on sunday effect with their children. the restaurants are full, et cetera. so something of an eerie calm. they are aware of what's going on at the border. there is a little bit of resignation to it saying, well, we don't know what's going to happen and what can we do about it...

Ukrainian border. and you can see it here. satellite imagery spotted at least 60 russian helicopters moving into a previously empty air base in crimea. we start in ukraine with our senior national security correspondent alex marquardt. >> it does remain to be seen how significant a move this is by russian troops. whether it's symbolic or the beginning of any russian de-escalation. we don't know how many troops are involved, exactly where they are leaving from. the kremlin are downplaying it saying, well, when troops are finished with exercises, that they go back to their bases. but we are stil...

That. some people think this troop buildup is actually all a power play to get the russians more leverage in those talks. but secretary blinken, basically, crash that little party and said, we need to be talking about the bigger issue here. this russian intimidation of ukraine, with a massive military buildup. it is part of what has been an interesting, you know, public offensive by the biden administration, to take the initiative, try to put pressure on vladimir putin, who has the strategic leverage here. ukraine's his own backyard. he has enormous military forces on its border. to try and us...

On its border. to try and use, essentially, public communications by calling out putin saying, we know you're going to do. our intelligence is exposing your plan, falsifying operations. in this case, going to united nations and putting the pressure on it saying, you are threatening world peace. united nations should be treating this is a grave emergency. the stakes here are high. what are you going to do? i thought most interesting was he called on the russians to, basically, say de-escalating, just come out and say. it declared that you are not going to invade ukraine and start pulling your t...