safe. it was a simple question for this top doctor wouldn t answer. why democrats walked out of his confirmation hearing and refused to vote. good morning, everyone. it is thursday, january 27th. it is 5:00 a.m. here in new york. thank you for getting an early start with us. i m laura jarrett. i m christine romans. good morning, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin here with a thunderbolt in washington, d.c. the retirement of supreme court justice stephen breyer. the liberal justice is expected to formally announce his decision at a white house event with president biden as early as today. more on that in just a moment. now, as for his replacement, the president has promised to make history here, naming the first black woman to the high court. such a move could serve as a political lifeline for democrats hoping to motivate the base before midterm elections this fall. but for now, many in the party are breathing a sigh
plot to install fake electors to declare donald trump the winner of these seven states, we show, all of which president biden won in the 2020 election. many were sent weeks after the election to state party officials. until now the justice department has never acknowledged investigating any significant part of the plot by the former president to overturn the election. evan perez, tell us more about what you ve learned. well, kate, as you said, this is the first acknowledgment we ve had from the justice department, which is to say that they are looking into these referrals from a number of state prosecutors who believe that perhaps a federal law was broken when these fake electors sent these certificates to the national archives. some of these electors were smart enough to change the language that was presented to them by trump allies to sort of cover themselves legally, others did not. so i asked the deputy attorney general lisa monaco about this aspect of the investigation
for dateline london. hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading columnists, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to their audiences back home, from the dateline london. this week, borisjohnson s stay of execution, the uk s inflation problem and why joe biden has a problem keeping nato allies on side over ukraine. to discuss all that, we are joined by marc roche, a columnist and correspondent with the french news magazine le point and isabel hilton, who is distinguished as a foreign correspondent, and has been followed by founding china dialogue, improving the understanding of china s environmental challenges. here in the studio, the bbc s business editor, simonjack. welcome to all of you, good to have you all with us this weekend. now, it is official, everything in the uk is going up. the number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mp
more now on our top story, and america s top diplomat has warned against imposing sanctions against russia too early, over its threats towards ukraine. the ukrainian president has called for sanctions to be imposed now, but the us secretary of state said that could have a detrimental effect. russia denies it s planning any invasion, but it has seized ukrainian territory before and it has an estimated 100,000 troops deployed near its borders. president biden has threatened russia s leader with measures like none he s ever seen if ukraine is attacked. so what would they involve? the ultimate economic hit would be to disconnect russia s banking system from the international swift payment system, effectively cuting the country off from the global economy. another key threat is to prevent the opening of russia s nord stream 2 gas pipeline in germany, and approval for that is currently being decided by germany s energy regulator. there could also be measures targeting russia s so
hello, and welcome to the programme which brings together some of the uk s leading columnists, bbc specialists, and the foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast to their audiences back home, from the dateline london. this week, borisjohnson s stay of execution, the uk s inflation problem and why joe biden has a problem keeping nato allies on side over ukraine. to discuss all that, we are joined by marc roche, a columnist and correspondent with the french news magazine le point and isabel hilton, who is distinguished as a foreign correspondent, and this has been followed by founding china dialogue, improving the understanding of china s environmental challenges. here in the studio, the bbc s business editor, simonjack. welcome to all of you, good to have you all with us this weekend. now, it is official, everything in the uk is going up. the number of conservative mps demanding a vote on whether to replace the prime minister, the number of labour mps, after this we