and the ukrainian side. from just plain old homework with respect to route reconnaissance takes a lot of time, effort, monday. we are downfunding. that is what keeps us afloat. and i know you did some of the work with the u.s. pulled out of afghanistan last year. are you still actively working in afghanistan? we are. thanks for asking that question. people think that we ve pivoted to ukraine. we did not. we expanded to ukraine in a very real, deliberate way. we still have operations going on in afghanistan. those operations have slowed down a little bit given the threat and also the needs on the ground. the needs here in ukraine are significant, significant. much different than the afghanistan problem set.
prioritised human beings and that was quite right. and i think we should be incredibly proud of 0p pitting and what it achieved. that is the case for the defence, if you like, but we keep hearing these accusations from various people that the prime minister had a role in this process. his parliamentary private secretary is said to have been involved in a lot of the discussions. she has always said it was a constituency matter but some have claimed they said the prime minister was directly involved in addition to those emails from the foreign office that we saw yesterday. listen to an animal rights campaigner who was involved in the negotiations to get those animals evacuated from afghanistan last year. we had vets and vet nurses and we had animal care assistants within the nowzad charity and mayhew, another british charity on the ground in kabul, who were under real threat,
science. sometimes you go into recession and that s why joe biden and the democrats have a lot of problems in 2022. there is a good chance the economy is going to slow to a recessionary level if the fed goes through with 4 or 3 or 4 or 5 interest rate hikes to basically tamp down inflation. shannon: all right. charlie gasparino, thank you for a look with that we will dig in with the panel more on that coming up. we are learning tonight new details about the isis bombing at the kabul airport during the u.s. military withdrawal from afghanistan last year. that attack left more than a dozen americans dead. we also have the latest this evening on russian plans to provoke a conflict with ukraine. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon tonight. good evening, jennifer. let s start with this. the pentagon declassified intelligence about a potential russian false flight operation approved by the kremlin as a pretext to invade. what more have you learned? shannon
so different and so new was like any other. 27 past the hour and time for a check of the headlines beyond our borders. in columbia, rescue crews are looking for four people missing northwest of the capital after a landslide triggered by heavy rains killed at least 15 people. officials are warning more landslides are possible. at least 60 homes have been evacuated. and we re learning new details about the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan last year. in sworn testimony first obtained by the washington post, military officers say senior white house and state department officials failed to grasp the speed of the taliban s takeover and resisted efforts to prepare to evacuate embassy personnel and afghan allies. i m joined by the washington
meanwhile, the panling of the russia-ukraine crisis prompting sharp criticism from lawmakers. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell saying russian s aggression is directly tied to the biden administration s handling of the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan last year. i don t believe vladimir putin would have a couple of hundred thousand troops on the border of ukraine had we not precipitously withdrawn from afghanistan last august. but that s where we are. looking for signs of weakness. reporter: the former president also formally weighing in with praise for putin. i said this is genius. putin declares a big portion of the ukraine, of ukraine. putin declares it as independent. oh, that s wonderful. so putin is now saying it s independent. a large section of ukraine. i said how smart is that?