deal that we re hearing about. this is about getting supplies natural gas supplies to europe to wean europe off of that supply to russia. again, this is the this is how russia funds its military, by selling gas to europe. yeah. russia is essentially a petro state and much of its profits come from europe. this has been an intensive back and forth in the u.s. and the e.u. in the leadup to the talks this week even before the talks had been scheduled. it was a contention point as the u.s. nudged europe to reduce the russian depend sentences dense si. europe relied on the united states to do that. u.s. officials were in touch with others whether it was in japan to locate areas where l&g
i love it. but i am interested in your sense of what the political impact of this might be, particularly because we have been hearing more from some republicans of that tone from howard stern, including jim justice who is the governor of west virginia. he one of our columnists on msnbc daily, hayes brown, wrote for months, he has cajoled, nudged, and begged the people of west virginia to get vaccinated to protect themselves and those around them but the message is just not getting through. if you have not heard that message, here is part of what the governor has said. for god sakes, the living, how difficult is this to understand? why in the world do we have to come up with these crazy ideas and they re crazy ideas that that that the vaccine s got something in it and it s tracing people wherever they go. and the same very people that are saying that are carrying their cell phones around. i mean, come on. come on. aisha, what is our sense of whether or not any of this
a pr effort for the last couple of weeks but the sense from people i talked to is they re saying the right things until the last american plane lifts off and it s back to their medieval business. so what s the sense of what afghan looks like on wednesday? reporter: well, the taliban are being nudged by many different actors, qatar among them, but not only. and they are being nudged in the right direction. they are saying to the taliban, you can t go right back to the way you were. the people won t accept it. you ll face an insurgency, you ll be ostree sized by the international community you ll be hated. you don t want to do this. there are many in the senior taliban leadership who agree with this, want to try to have a fresh start. want to have taliban light, if you will. where they control the basic
as i said on this show, i don t think there s an absolute bottom but there is that direction. and i think abbott nudged ahead of desantis this week in terms of where he s headed. yeah. if this isn t rock bottom, it will do until he gets here. i was not expecting joe stalin to make a cameo appearance but there you go. two long time friends of this broadcast. thank you both for hanging out. coming up, a former u.s. intelligence official here to talk about just how it is that afghanistan fell so far so fast to those guys. fast to those guys.
in the nevada desert. now it s time for a look at the weather with nick miller. it may be the summer solstice but no guarantee of summer like weather. in scotland, we had the most daylight hours. there is some sunshine, maybe a passing shower in the highlands. in the midlands more rain to add to the growing total. an area of high pressure nudged across scotland and northern ireland where we will see most of the summer solstice sunshine today. a passing shower in the highlands. passing rain and drizzle passing further south. the heaviest rain sitting across southern england, southern parts of east anglia. temperatures struggling, around 12 celsius as a high today. even in the sunshine we are talking high teens.