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 so many institutions, including congress. they re losing trust in their government. you look at the approval rating of congress, they are some of the lowest ever. i think a root canal is more favorable than congress so something has got to be done. and we need to restore the
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af after vladimir putin and also kremlin officials, really kind of some of their personal finances and, you know, mega-sanctions we re talking about. a bill here with teeth. the biggest holdup here seems to be the nord stream 2 pipeline, and if they were to address that, that might undercut the european if allies. you know, this sends natural gas to germany. that s a problem. and there was a meeting here with olaf schultz here in the past few days, and it seems senators are very concerned about cutting off their allies in europe who get the natural gas from this pipeline. you know, even during the cold war west germany got natural gas from the soviet union, so kind of what s the difference here? you know, this is the problem in how they balance that. so, in short, the sanctions bill is stalled out. chuck schumer, the senate majority leader, indicated that he wanted to have a bill done before an invasion to make a deterrence, but that doesn t seem to be the case.
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 the american people, they want to see something done here. edward: thanks for the plug. and senator majority leader chuck schumer signaling maybe he supports this. what s the likelihood this gets past the senate? it s gaining traction and this is the first bipartisan bill with elizabeth warren and my bill and most time we don 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 plays [laughter] would not commit to having this bill done before the presidents day recess on capitol hill at the end of next week. and with all this saber rattling, there s talk this could happen in the next couple of days in terms of an invasion, it looks like they ve missed their mark on capitol hill. ed that was my next question, where do we go from here then? reporter: yeah.