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Its too premature to speak about his legacy. After all yesterday we began an audit of these 8 million votes according to the deal that secretary kerry brokered last week. It will be a complicated audit and i wouldnt be surprised having gone through something similar myself with the ambassador and it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree question that we are going to talk about today cannot president karzais legacy will also be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leaving...

We have been monitoring the as closely as we can. Nobody in the pentagon has been shy about talking about the continued threat posed by these separatist elements in the ukraine. Is the pentagon or the u. S. Government surveillance along increasing the border in the wake of the disaster . We are continuing to monitor, i do not have anything to add. Were there any warnings given to commercial airline companies, or any civilian airline authorities about these assist about the existence or the level of training for these systems . There were warnings put out to civilian aircraft to take care over ...

And part of which was a reality. We also dealt very closely on the issues of detentions. This goes again to this issue of president karzai seeking to establish and to reinforce the sense that afghanistan was a sovereign country and to wrest from the United States and other countries the kinds of respect due to that country and due to its people, and as we negotiated a contentious mou for my turning over of several thousand afghan detainees to afghanistan, that process and that sense of sovereignty came home in a very real way for me. And then, unfortunately, when president karzai abrogated par...

It will be a complicated audit. I would not be surprised, having gone through something similar myself with ambassador ida, that it may be longer than expected. And i imagine that to a certain degree, the question that were going to talk about today, president karzais legacy, will be affected by how this election comes to an end. Nonetheless, i think we all still have a great deal to say. President karzai has been leading afghanistan in one way or the other for the last 13 years since december 2001. We thought here it was an appropriate moment while the election is being worked out to take sto...

Peak, he thinks he will reach the top in a few days. But it takes weeks to approach. They reached what we believe is a Lower Mountain on the flanks of pikes peak called mount rosa. At that point pike wrote, given the conditions, given the equipment that they had at the time, no one could have summited the peak. Pikes peak inspired america the beautiful written by katherine bates. And the view down to the plains from the top of the mountain inspired the poetry and inspired the images that are captured in the poetry of the United States. Watch all of our events from Colorado Springs saturday at ...