and titles after a u.s. judge saying a sexual harassment could go ahead. the prince denies the allegations. a senior officials with the world food program says afghanistan is facing a tsunami of hunger because of a shortage of funds to keep the supply intact. the country is teetering on the edge of economic ruin since the u.s. military withdrawal and subsequent takeover by the taliban. the agency says more than half the population is struggling to find food this winter. secretary of state anthony blinken says the u.s. still does not know what the illness known as havana syndrome is or who is responsible for it the comments come after additional diplomats were reported ill in paris and geneva. blinken says the entire federal government is working to get to the bottom of the illness which has afflicted almost 200 diplomats officials and family members overseas. symptoms including migraines,
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
The Taliban s sweep to power in Afghanistan in August drove billions of dollars in international assistance out of the country and sent an already dirt-poor nation, ravaged by war, drought and floods, spiraling toward a humanitarian catastrophe.
flow. it just can t because of the sanctions regime. we have to continue to ease some of those sanctions in a way that does not help the taliban but does help the afghan people and there s a way to do that that we ve outlined in our letter. there s more to be done. today president biden signed the ndaa, the defense funding bill, which includes a multi-year independent afghan war commission to look at the war in afghanistan after the u.s. military withdrawal. what are the biggest questions you want answered by that commission? i want to have answered, the penultimate question is, how did we let this happen? 20 years of war. thousands of american lives, tens of thousands wounded, tons of american families that have had their life altered and we ve had general after general, administration after administration, republican administration, democratic administration, multiple congresses that always said we could do this. we can just if we had more
mother says she is ready for whatever is next in this case. likely sentencing in a few weeks and then those same very three men will be heading to federal court where they face hate crime charges. mike. mike: jeff paul live in georgia. jeff come offense a lot. tonight we check in on an afghan family we ve been following since they left that country following the military withdrawal. this evening we look at how the children are adjusting to life here in america.a. there s national security correspondent jennifer griffin. three months ago, johnny, who served as a combat translator for the 82nd airborne in afghanistan did not know what would happen to him and his family after the u.s. military withdrawal. today his daughters are getting something they never would have received under the taliban, and education. everyone could come into my room, we want to go to school, we like school we have a friend