He wants to make sure mtgox isn't doing any fractional reserve banking.
And he kind of has a point, it´s not like it is the first time for questions of this kind to appear about Mark/MtGox, more like the 4th or 5th round. Just because he´s "the last man standing" amongst major early bitcoin businesses doesn´t mean he shoud be excempted from scrunity, quite the contrary.
Though I don´t really see an audit happening. It´s been proposed before, it will be shouted down by the fanboys again.