Here is more on what is heyed. We begin with the impending election in afghanistan to choose a new president who may well decide the fate of the u. S. Presence there. Thousands of ballot boxes have been distributed to some 7,000 polling places across afghanistan. Election authorities have warned that only about half of those Polling Centers are safe from taliban attacks. But nicklas says the country is ready. Everything has been delivered according to time line, both in regard to brood legislative and other provisions, but also the delivery ballot papers. The Afghan Security forces are in the lead country wide. The leaders and staff of the electoral institutions are all afghan. And the Campaign Period was full of open and responsible debate among the candidates, but it will be up to the Afghan People to choose the future direction of their country. Whether that direction will be determined by violence was underlined friday when an Afghan Police commandinger fired on two vettal journ aileses. One was killed in the attack. For more im joined by ambassador peter galbrath. He uncovered massive voting fraud in the countrys 2009 election. Good to see you again. A recent poll by an Afghan Foundation claims three out of four afghans want to vote, have registered to vote despite the talibans threats. But we just showed a documentary of taliban operations, do you think there will be a good turnout . First, let me come comend you on that documentary. It underscores the lack of security in large parts of the country, and so in areas like what was shown in your documentary, i suspect there is going to be a negligible turnout, which unfortunately doesnt mine that there wont be very significant results reported from those places. And even if they want to report, a recent gallup poll showed that 70 of afghans done believe the system is fair, and while it is estimated to have 10 to 12 million reporters, there are reports that some 21 million official Voter Registration cards have been handed out. Do you think this will be a Fair Election . Well, the system isnt fair, and when the White House Press spokesman said it was afghan owned, well that is a part of the problem. In 2009 President Hamid karzai was a candidate for reelection, and he was the one who appointed the independent election commission. And they were the people who either committed the fraud or collaborated with those who committed with the fraud, massive fraud, a third of karzais votes were bogus, but at that time there was an independent body, which could then investigate the fraud and thats one of the ways it was documented. This time, karzai has not only appointed the independent election commission. He has also appointed the electoral complaints commission. And its not as many he is neutral in this race. He definitely doesnt want one of the front runners to win. And he has a preference for the former foreign minister. Lets talk about the con tenders. This man polled second in the 2009 election, at another former former minister, and a form afghan finance minister. And you spoke to him today. What did he tell you about the run up to the election and whether he expects the election to come off successfully . He actually was very optimistic. He said there had been very large crowds; that the debates had been robust, and he put a certainly put a brave face on the fraud. He agreed all problems were still there, but he said the Afghan People wouldnt tolerate the fraud. Im not so optimistic with that assessment, but it certainly was encouraging to hear a degree of optimism from him. The question is whether americans should be optimistic, because relations with karzai have been strained to say the least. Once the election is over, do you think the winner will sign the bilateral Security Agreement that would remain forces in afghan that karzai so far has refused to sign . Clearly from an American Point of view, any of the three leading candidates will be far superior to hamid karzai and the u. S. Government knows and has good relations with all three. All three have said they will sign the bilateral Security Agreement. So i do expect that it will be signed, but the larger problems in afghanistan remain, and they could be very significantly made worse by if there is the kind of fraud that took place in 2009, and unfortunately i think thats quite likely. So you dont think that these elections in any case with so many people registering despite the violence and threats against them, just the fact that there is an attempt at democracy is a good thing . Democracy is obviously a good thing, but if you have an election in which people do not have confidence in the electoral system, then how how can anybody have confidence that the person who is announced to have the most votes actually does . And i think the problem will be particularly acute if abbul la, abbulla doesnt end up winning. Because he was the under up last time he comes from the north so he represents the two larger minority groups in afghanistan, and they are also the best organized, best armed groups, so last time they reluctantly accepted the result, even though they knew it wasnt fair. Will they accept it this time . And if they dont, the danger in afghanistan is that what has so far been a war between among the poshtunes, the taliban are all poshtune, karzai and the people around him are the poshtunes, but what could happen is the conflict between the poshtunes and those on the other side if there is a fraudulent election. You know canthy personally and the shooting and of her and killing of ania neederhouse are sad reminders of the situation there. Sure. When you are in public life sometimes when you deal with washington journalists who are safely at home, they overwrite the story, and you can see it is not reliable. But the war reports they dont have to overwrite anything. They tell it as it is. They are giving you the ground truth. So it is an incredibly valuable service that they were providing, bringing the war home to people all over the world, and very dangerous, and this situation just underscored how dangerous the work of the war reporters is. And lets hope kathy recovers well. Three women are running for office, including the office of the vice president. Thank you for being with us. Turning now to the collapsing peace talks between israelis and palestinians. Kerry expressed his frustrations at a meeting in morocco. He said the u. S. Effort was not open ended. There are limits to the amount of time and effort that the United States can spend if the parties themselves are unwilling to take constructive steps to move forward. So its reality check time, and we intend to evaluate precisely what the next steps will be. For more im joined from washington, d. C. By the International Editor for National Public radio, and form former jerusalem correspondent. I want to start by listening to what james baker had to say back in 1990. Everybody over there should know that the telephone number is 12024561414. When you are serious about peace, call us. Greg as he heard secretary kerry was a little bit more gentle, but is history repeating itself once again . Yes, you do get that feeling. John kerry has made a dozen or trips to the region. He has very little to show from it, and as you heard yourself, he he is feeling a little bit frustrated i think. Lets hear more of what he had to say. This is secretary kerry friday. This agreement between them is not over the fundamental substance of a final status agreement, its over the process that would get you there and what you need to do in order to be able to continue to negotiate. So what he is saying is that they have only be negotiating on a framework to negotiate the substance of the issues. If they cant even agreement on a framework what hope is there . I agree. And they set a deadline for the end of this month to reach this framework, and even that doesnt look like it will happen. You do get the sense the wheels are startling to come off now and the friction is starting to bubble to the surface again. Yeah, they are even struggling to keep the discussions about the framework going beyond the month of april. We see russia rising, egypt in turmoil, the brutal civil war in syria, should these peace talks even be a priority for secretary kerry or the u. S. . Well, thats certainly a good question. As you mentioned you have several pots boiling in the region. Those have not been resolved. There is clearly not any near Term Solution to those things, so i think secretary kerry is going to have to weigh how much time and money he wants to invest. Jim baker who you cited earlier, he also said famously that the u. S. Cannot want peace more than the two sides want it. And we seem to be in that situation with secretary kerry doing all of this pushing and not getting a lot of help from either side. And not only as the israelis and palestinians deeply divided as they have always been, they are deeply divided within themselves. The president does event represent all of them. Because hamas controls gaza. And israel keeps building settlements, and there is a powerful party that wants to keep israels hold on the west bank and even possibly annex it. So is the timing just not right for the u. S. To be pushing the Peace Process now . Well, there is never going to be a perfect time. I wouldnt say now is a particularly terrible tile. The two sides have not been actively fighting for several years. They have relatively stable leaderships, but i i just dont see the the initiative coming from the israeli side. You have Prime Minister netenyahu who has been in office knife years now, and three years in the late 90s, he has never made a big push on the peace front. As you mentioned the twoheaded palestinian leadership in the west bank in gaza there needs to be some united palestinian front before you can do a big deal. Doing the big full settlement, i think will require unified palestinian front as well. Now is there any interest on both of israelis and palestinian part to push this off . Do they both benefit in some ways stringing the u. S. Along . I think the scat us the quo works pretty well. The economy is going well, israel has not suffered any major attacks or major violence in recent years. Life is not not so bad and i think that sort of status quo works pretty well for many israelis. The palestinians i think are very frustrated. We are seeing the leader feeling pressure. He has taken a move to sign up or to push for palestinian membership in 15 international organizations. And so i think theres a real divide there in terms of a sense of urgency on the palestinian side and much less that sense on the israeli side. What if the u. S. Did what james baker suggested in saying here is the white houses phone number call us when you are willing to negotiate . Well, it may come to that fairly soon, and im not sure that is always a bad side. Sometimes when the two sides are left on their own, they may come to their own decisions about where they want to go. I think the process has to be driven by the israelis and palestinian, and i dont think the u. S. Can force an agreement on either side. So that may not be the preferred option when you have had some serious talking going on for a matter of months, you hate to lose that, but the u. S. May have to cut its losses and say we cant keep investing. We have other fires and were going to focus on those issues for a while. Sad to see this possibly failing once again. Greg thank you. Coming up was it hypocritical to force the resignation of this ceo in the name of diversity for his personal beliefs. Also were hear from an american who has helped rwanda rebuild. And her are pictures taken by our fallen colleague. She was killed on the job friday while covering preparations for the elections in afghanistan. She was 48 years old. [ male announcer ] its here Xfinity Watchathon week, your chance to watch full seasons of tvs hottest shows for free with xfinity on demand. Theres romance, face slaps, whatever that is, pirates, helicopters, piratecopters. Argh hmm. Its so huge, its being broadcast on mars. Heroes. Bad guys. Asteroids. 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Wayne ill start with you brendan ike created the widely used java script programming language. He hadnt discriminated against lgbt employees, and the pressure for ike to resign disgusted him as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society. Does he have a point . Oh i dont think so at all. The foundation for any ceo is confidence and respect. When people found out that he gave a thousand dollars to ban lgbt people from getting married, they lost their respect for him. There was a vote of a sense of no confidence. Board members were resigning, and Software Developers did not want to work for him. This was a Silicon Valley mutiny so to speak. He could not operate in such an atmosphere, and so it was the right thing to do to resign. Jason ike has been serving as the chief Technology Officer until he wassel indicated to the ceo position. As wayne is saying, is being a ceo different because he is the public face of the company. Should he be held to a different standard . Of course not. And this is unfair and intolerant. And the company is more than welcome to fire brendan ike and i hope he sues their pants off, because none of this had to do with whether or not he was doing his job. The fact that a number of people foukd out about his personal private politics its not like he was giving speeches across the country or hanging out with klan members, this should havent been a role in him having to resign. Wayne where do we draw the line when it comes to the consequences of personal beliefs . How about if it was a religiousbased belief . Look, this is a little different. First of all he not only gave to proposition 8, he also gave to pat bu buchanan. And in defending himself he said that his position against gay rights might help the company in places like indonesia. So he was saying it was a bonus in places that arent as progressive as we are. That was offensive as all be. People didnt want to be around somebody like this, particularly in Silicon Valley where over 80 of donations were against proposition 8. Ceos are different. This was the face of the company. And people didnt like the face they were looking at. And he wasnt fired, so he didnt sue. He resigned. Jason arent there personal positions that are too odious to be acceptable . Let me put this in a general sense, as an African American male i dont have the privilege to work at places with people who dont have to be racist. I dont care. Ultimately, are you doing your job . All of these behaviors he had not done any of those things or speaking any of those things since he came to that particular pox, so it is a problem, and when you have been forced out of a position, forced into a resignation because you have political beliefs that certain people in your company dont like, yes, you can sue. Yes, that is an eeoc violation, and that is a horrible precedent for how this country would operate. If someone were being removed from their position because they happened to be pro gay marriage at chickfila, people would be cream screaming. Thats a false equivalency, though. There is a difference between an opinion and a person. Race is not an opinion, racism is. Massageny is an opinion. Being a woman is not. Its the same with being gay its not an opinion, its a person no, he has an opinion against gay marriage and he has that right. And you point out as an African American you dont have that luxury but a lot of people have lost their job when they made racist comes, im thinking about Rush Limbaugh onning monday night football. That is completely different. Being against gay rights is offensive but to the point that society saying that is ugly. Its wrong. And people who hold those positions arent necessarily great as the face of organizations and ceos, and were going only to see more of this, because more people are going to be disgusted by trying to strip marriage rights let me make a point wayne, let me make a point. You brought up the Silicon Valley donations. And nate silver on his blog broke down those donations and found that 83 of those who donated to the gay marriage fight back in 2008, 83 in Silicon Valley voted, and the main 11 companies donated in favor of gay rights, 17 do nated to proprop 8 folks. So again, another question about where do we draw the line . Should those 17 be pushed out . Of course they shouldnt be. I dont think that should be pushed out, but they shouldnt certainly be ceos. There are laws in place right now that make it illegal to discriminate against someone, and Rush Limbaughsy saving something about Donovan Mcnabb was messed up monday night football, but unless we have evidence that brendan ike was discriminating against people in the workplace, this is pure speculation. You are forcing somebody to resign because of what you think they might do one day well, according to the board he messed up because he had a series of beliefs saying that