also this hour, we will bring you the latest from the justice department issuing a flurry of subpoenas to trump insiders in connection to the january 6 probe. a former top u.s. attorney levels new accusations against bill barr for allegedly targeting prominent democrats for political prosecutions. we will have a report from new hampshire where the midterm s last primary today is taking place featuring a republican battle between a trump candidate and a more mainstream republican to challenge the democratic senator in a contest that could decide control of the senate. we begin overseas with nbc s kelly cobiella and keir simmons in london and andrew roberts and jillian tet. the casket departing earlier today than expected. tell us about the reception as the coffin left after an outpouring of people scottish people in chilly weather lining up to pay their last respects. there were tens of thousands waiting in that long line overnight. some waiting up to five hours or more,
bradley, and i m going to ask a couple of specific questions to a couple of you. jillian, overall, how would you rate the president s performance at the g-7 summit? i m curious what stood out to you the most. i think it s been remarkably good. both in terms of the substance, that they ve come away with quite a number of pledges. they re not going to be enough to please everyone, but you have come out with unusually concrete actions, whether it s on the climate change or the vaccine or the common front in facing china. you know, this is quite remarkable by the standards of other g-7s. admittedly quite low standards in the past. but to me the really interesting thing, which is something i wrote about in a column friday in the financial times is the shift in the overarching ideological intellectual framing. just before the summit started, the british government, the right wing british government put out a memo entitled the cornwall defenses, which is just
welcome jillian tet, editor-at-large for the financial times and author of the book anthro-vision. a welcome to all of you again. sarah, at what point will we have an idea of what was said behind closed doors at the meeting? i know we re never going to get a transcript but at some point might there be an indication of what went on? alex, what i think you re probably going to get is a still praf showing that meeting took place. anything else at this point is going to be speculation. that s one of the nice things about the privilege of a meeting with the queen. what happens behind these closed doors tends to stay behind the closed doors. we know they ll probably talk about trans-atlantic relations. they have lots in common, including the topic of grief. joe biden has lost a lot in his life. the queen lost her husband in april. she has a new american relative in the family, her great
statement is essentially condemnation without consequences as far as russia is concerned. and i think that in fact people are missing it if they don t understand that putin is benefiting from this entire controversy. you know, putin has a whole discourse in which russia is the victim of these foreign powers. it doesn t really do anything to anybody else. they re constantly attacking it and right now he s running for re-election. the election on will be on sunday and he s going to win a huge majority, everybody expects that, but one reason he will get that is because he s convinced the russian people he s standing up to defend them against all this international pressure which he claims is totally unjustified. jillian, i m not just asking this question because of your accent and upbringing but we did just hear katy kay theorize that maybe just maybe the british
formal condemnation of moscow. as we said, the kind of thing we used to see. the joint statement reads in part and we quote, we share the united kingdom s assessment that there is no plausible alternative explanation and note that russia s failure to address the legitimate request by the government of the united kingdom further underlines russia s responsibility. we call on russia to address all questions related to the attack in salisbury. we are so fortunate to have these two guests with us tonight, christopher dickey, a veteran foreign correspondent currently paris based world news editor for the daily beast and willing to wake up at 4:40 in the morning to talk to us jillian tet is with us of the financial times. i m told there is a delay of a couple seconds to paris so, christopher, i ll start with you. your view of the reaction to today s statement and the u.s. action overseas. well, i think today s