legalise same sex marriage. the new family code which is the culmination of efforts by a coalition of lgbtq activists, would help gay couples adopt children and also allow surrogate pregnancies. now on bbc news, it is time for dateline london. hello and a warm welcome to dateline london. i m ben brown. we re looking at two of the week s big stories what s happening in russia as men flee the country after president putin s call up of reservists to fight in ukraine and his threat to use nuclear weapons, and also the british government s announcement of sweeping tax cuts the most far reaching for half a century. well, i m joined to discuss all this with polly toynbee, columnist from the guardian, stephanie baker of bloomberg news, and latika bourke of the sydney morning herald. so, cuts to income tax, corporation tax, national insurance and stamp duty and removing the cap on bankers bonuses. it will cost tens of billions of pounds. the government says it will boost economic
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
statements or about holding a press conference. the justice department declined all of those requests that i was just referencing because we did not think that they were appropriate based on the facts and the law. repeated attempts to over turn the election. much of yesterday hearing focused on jeffrey clark who played a central role in pushing trump s false election frauds and who trump wanted to install as the acting attorney general. just hours before yesterday s hearing, federal agents raided clark s home. we ll have much more on what led them to do that. our panel of experts join us as we cover the angles. the sarah, the select committee bringing into focus doj official jeffrey clark s role. significant role in the former president s scheme. yes, absolutely. rolling out how former president trump wanted to just set aside jeff rosen and steal jeffrey clark as the acting attorney general. look, the witnesses are in person and in their video testimony were not holding
these are the rest of the electors. the rest of the electors? there is no such thing. it may seem ludicrous watching that. the testimony that we will hear more of tomorrow, this was part of a multi-scheme for the president to overturn the election. it s unprecedented. some members of a january 6 committee. he said he received at his home. addressed to his wife had mentioned how she and her husband and their child would be executed. the division of what s to come in the politics and our country. there is violence in the future. i m going to type it until we get a grip on telling people the truth, we can t expect her dan crenshaw, a retired navy seal. at least one used a crude remark going by a fox news host to make light of the items that crenshaw lost during his service. extremism is on the rise. some candidates are trying to use it to their advantage. case in point, eric grade and is a former governor of he is shown hiring talking about going rhino hunting you co