. >> sreenivasan: joining us now from ahanistan via skype is craig nelson, kabul bureau chief for the "wall streetournal." craig, were you surprise by the president's tweet? >> yes, very. president trump has sort of steered clear of the afghan peace process quite a bit. cas a candidate he of, orse said he would like to see u.s. troops out of th but since the peace process sort of got started and the u.s. strted direct talks with the taliban last summer, he has madcae onal comments but he has generally steered clear.. so that was a pretty-- that was shocking. >> what about the parties involved that you have been able to touch base witreh. hey planning on having a meeting the taliban has said that they had received invitation from president trump last month to come to washington to visit. the taliban didn't specify a date today. the afghan government sort of leaked information on frday suggesting that they were tbg to go to washington. they made no-- ere was no indication at all that they were s ing to meet with president trump and there no indication that they were going so obviously w

joining us now via skype is craig nelson, kabul bureau chief for the "wall street journal." first, it is unfortunately common for people to say that e process is fraudulent. but from what you can tell and all the different monitors that are on the ground, has this been a fair process so r today? >> it's really not clear. i think there's been some problems with the process, just we went to a polling station this morning, and, at 7:00, whea the polls opened, and the election... the electoral staff wasn't even there. there was a problem this afternoon with voting lists at another polling station where people came in and looked for they were sure they registered. they had proof that they're registered, but they couldn't find their names on the voting list. so, is that fraud or is that kind of sort of inefficiency and ineptitude that has so characterized elections for a very long time? i think that the other people i think the biggest problem today is voter turnout. voter turnout seems to have been extremely low. and privately, president ghani's people are talking about a llion,