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The judiciary, has no reporting. the supreme court has no disclosure. it has no reporting of stock transactions and it makes important decisions every day. edward: the momentum is growing in d.c. to ban lawmakers from trading stocks. house speaker nancy pelosi changing her stance now saying she'd back it, but only if it's government-wide, that includes the judiciary branch. reaction from one of the lawmakers who introducedle bill. republican finance committee, senator steve daines. what do you think, should the judiciary branch be involved in this? >> well, look, americans have lost trust in s...

Trust of the american people in this institution. when you're elected to serving congress, you're elected to serve not to be served. the american people see what's going on, and some of the things going on on capitol hill and that's why if a republican from montana, a democrat from massachusetts who are working together. edward: wow. >> with this ban on trading individual stocks and keep in mind, your own fox poll that came out recently said 70% of the american people support this. and by the way, it doesn't matter whether you're a democrat or republican, the number is about the same, 70% of t...

Ahead of vietnam if, afghanistan and iraq. edward: so where's your sense of where congress is related to sanctions that go forward and the president's power to do that? should russia decide to act. >> reporter: he could certainly do some things unilaterally, on a unilateral business. chuck schumer indicated that this bill has to be bipartisan, so there are divides there. you know, just a couple of weeks ago, mind you, bob menendez, the chairman of the foreign relations committee, said they were on the 1-yard line, and, i tell you, i don't know how many downs they have, they keep running these ...

That might actually intensify the resolve to do something ex post facto, if that's possible, but again, you know, i asked chuck schumer straight up, i said, what about doing this right now before there's an invasion. the purpose of the sanctions are to be a deterrent, but so far this doesn't seem to have deterred anything because congress is -- [inaudible] edward: thanks, chad pergram. your reporting excellent as always. thank you very much. so u.s. destroyers that were off the east coast of the u.s. now in european waters all as a russian invasion of ukraine could be imminent. stay right he...

My husband grew up under communism in the soviet union, i grew up in brazil. we just feel so blessed to be able to raise our kids here in new york city. edward: and now you'd like to change it from within, to change some of those ideals. i appreciate that. thank you, danyela. we'll see when all the kids can finally see each other's faces in school. thank you very much is, appreciate it. with new warnings as a russian invasion of ukraine could begin at any time, where does the sanctions bill in congress stand? veterans.ore than at newday, you can buy a home with no down payment. and they're h...