something, tucker, i have never seen before or heard of, an electronic sniffing dog and they took all of the electronics from my house. new fallout this morning from revelation that is six republican lawmakers sought preemptive pardons from former president trump before and after the attack on the capitol. that is according to emails and testimony revealed by the january 6th committee. was representative gaetz requesting a pardon? i believe so. a pardon that he was discussing, requesting, was as broad as you could describe. mr. biggs did, mr. jordan talked about congressional pardons but he never asked me for one. mr. gohmert asked for one as well. mr. perry asked for a pardon, too. did marjory taylor green contact you? no, she didn t contact me about t i heard that she had asked white house office counsel for a pardon. so what were the roles of the pardon seekers in january 6? let s bring in tom foreman to walk us through that. tom? if you look at all sifolks
president biden looking for a gas tax holiday but will it pass? the senate passing the first gun legislation in years as frustration grows in uvalde. that s what we re watching this hour. we begin with the house insurrection committee revealing new evidence of donald trump s personal involvement in a coordinated effort to target and intimidate state election officials. the committee highlighting the courage of the people who refuse to be intimidated, who continue to do their jobs and to stand up to those efforts. the committee used the fourth public hearing to highlight just how severe the threats to our democracy is. that threat that was faced in the days and weeks after the 2020 election, as the former president and his aides promoted the big lie to put forward slates of fake electors in key battleground states. we also learned in the hearings that trump s personal attorney rudy giuliani admitted they have no evidence of fraud to back up these dangerous claims, and the pl
keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. the new york times reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6 unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks this email before the insurrection. the times says this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. much more on this in just a moment. but first cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will say at today s hearing which focuses on th
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Mesothelial not well send you a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 you are in the cnn newsroom. Im Alex Marquardt in washington. Thank you so much for joining morning us today. We begin with a developing story on capitol hill. The senate says, it will take up the 95 of foreign aid package on tuesday day. That was just passed by House Lawmakers just hours ago and a special session on this saturday package includes billions and military aid for ukraine, israel, and taiwan as well as billions for humanitarian aid. We have reporters covering reaction from washington to ukraine and jerusalem. Lets start with cnns Lauren Fox Live On capitol hill. So lauren, how did this get pushed through . And what does it mean for Speaker Johnsons job . Yeah. There are a lot of questions about what this means for Speaker Johnsons future after this vote today, despite the overwhelming bipartisan support for this series of sap elemental bills, what you s