Wednesday only 4. 5 of the roughly 22,000 ballot boxes had been examined. From kabul. I am pleased to have the program we had earlier last week abdullah. So its a pleasure for me to have a chance to see and talk to someone who has been on this program before. So welcome to the program again. Its a pleasure to be with you. And with the public in the United States. Thank you. Where is the audit stand today . The audit has begun in ernest. All the criteria and indicators have been agreed. We hope that now it would acquire full speed and every day hopefully will be a significant count. Unfortunately, it would be suspended for three days because our major holiday is coming. Otherwise, both the Election Commission, the international observers, and the candidate agents are all geared and are looking forward to carrying out the full audit. And when do you expect it to e completed . We do not know because i think its going to take a week to really see how many ballots can realistically be count
So many crises in the world. Hardly know where to start but lets start with ukraine. After the Malaysian Airline tragedy, putin seems to be doubling down on his aggression firing across the border sending personnel in there, into the eastern russian sympathizers have down two more planes. What can we do to stop him . I think the one thing that might stop him is if the International Community all weigh in. We know we can do more to get sector sanctions from the u. S. But the question is, can we get europe, can we get the International Community to go along. I think we might be at the point where we can and second i would say having been in Eastern Ukraine not too long ago, when i talked to russianspeaking ukrainians, they have had about enough of the kinds of people that he is bringing into the conflict. Up on social media the russians are recruiting every mall content and skin head who will pick up arms and bringing them in from into Eastern Ukraine. Do you think secondorwide sanctions