Transcripts For CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings 20240622

And of course there are a lot of things we need to do. Make sure we finally the Women Equal Pay for equal work. [speaking in native tongue] and i am going to say this is not just a womens issue. This is a family economic issue. If people are not being paid fairly that hurts everybody, the Small Business that does not get enough customers because people cannot afford with there selling. I mean that is a growth strategys. A growth strategy. The more we equalize what people are paid according to there own effort the better off we we will be. Our longterm strategy we must make investments that we will grow our economy and research and investment, infrastructure. It is beyond my understanding that we are having a partisana partisan battle in congress. We are in a global competition. Other countries are investing in there infrastructure command i do not mean the physical infrastructure come as important as that is the more roads and airports and bridges. I mean our virtual infrastructure. We need to get affordable quality broadbands everyplace this country just as we have electricity. Now, theyre is one particular issue i want to talk about. I reallyi really think our corporations are missing a big bet. Because credible studies quite a number of them actually got through that profitsharing with your employees is good for the employees, good for the businesses, good for the economy. Ii want to incentivize more companies to do just that. We havewe have some great examples are New Hampshire. One you are familiar with. You know market baskets provide profitsharing for employees who work more than a thousand hours a year. For both fulltime and parttime employees. Ii am pretty proud of that and think that it makes Good Business sense. And what you here from companies that you no what, this increases productivity, loyalty of employees. It gives you a bond with your employees. They will work harder, look for more things to do to improve what is going on in the stores. That is just common sense. Treat someone like to have a stake in your business and they will stand up straighter, work a little harder, make a difference. A difference. Theyre is another company here in portsmouth pack world investments. And joe started this company as an Investment Company and is also a big believer in profitsharing. He provides profitsharing to his employees. So i want us to try to convince more companies to do just that. I am proposing a rising income sharing profit tax credit that would encourage more companies to provide profitsharing by giving those companies a 15 percent tax credit of the amount of the profitsharing for two years to get that started and to see that it works like so many of the other companies that already do it [applause] you know, i think that by providing examples and incentives and comparing what works to what does work just like economic policies that work and dont work corporate policies that work and dont work we have got to do a better job using information as a tool for changing corporate behavior the purpose. Itit is a big part of what we can begin to implement when im president. And i believe that if we do more of that we will send a very stronga very strong signal. I we will have more to say about corporate purpose next week about we need to get businesses back looking after there employees and there customers and there communities and our country notcountry, not just their executives and shareholders. Theyre has got to be [applause] theyre has got to be a recognition that there is more in it for all of us if we do it like that. And soand so therefore i am going to be presenting a lot of plans that i hope will find favor 1st with voters and then as president with those who i am going to try to influence by incentivizing but eventually by changing laws if that is what it takes so that we have more have an economic approach that reflects how lucky businesses are to be operating in the United States of america with all the we provide the support we give, the rule of law that is part of our National Economic climate in the forward it to work more as partners and not have an adversary relationship between our economy and our society. I believe the ability of the economy to work for everybody and get our democracy towork for everybody command it will require changes in both. [applause] so i am excited about this campaign. Campaign. He cited below we can do together. I really believe that this is one of those elections that we will set the course for the rest of the century command we need to get it right. We cannot go backwards. What i am proposing is not left to right some much as it is forward or backward command we we will go forward. [applause] so with that lets start with your questions. They can be about anything. Anything. The firsthand as i go up was this young woman either. My name is brenda bouchard. I have been a caregiver for my husband for nearly ten years. He has anger onset alzheimers. My mother is almost 89. I am one of 65,000 alzheimers care givers in the state of New Hampshire and no firsthand the pain of seeing someones the boy to this disease. I no the financial burden is disease carries for families as well as our country. My question to you is, in your president ial campaign and beyond what we will you do to ensure this devastating disease and the potential bankruptcy to Medicare Medicaid will get the attention it needs. Let me thank you. You. Let me really thank you for your caregiving and your care. [applause] i want you to think about what you said. 65,000 caregivers right here in one state and multiply that many, many, many times over. We have a caregiving crisis. We have sowe have so many millions of people who are providing either fulltime or parttime care for those they love, spouses, childrenging parents or other relatives. To come. New line have to come to grips with this because right now we are not doing enough to support you and the important work you are doing in your home. I want to make three points. With respect specifically alzheimers i am 100 committed to increasing the research that goes and alzheimers. One of the real unfortunate setbacks from the cutbacks in the congress is that so much of the Health Research done by the National Institute of health and other firstrate Research Institutions has been cut back. I was talking to a scientist the other day who said that when the congress cut the money for the nih and others literally labs were close young scientists were laid off and it stopped progress in a number of very important efforts including with respect to alzheimers. We have to get back funding our research and science agenda and in particular our research into diseases like alzheimers because we are were going to be on the brink of making some breakthroughs secondly, i think we have got to do more within the government programs, particularly medicare to provide more support for caregiving that is given by relative. Now, people worry, how do you make the judgment. We couldwe could pay for a visiting nurse, pay for somebody coming in from the outside but how do we provide some kind of Financial Support for the woman taking care of her husband and mother. I think there smart enough to figure that out command i think our failure to do so will actually end up costing more money because more people will not be able to do what you are doing. They cannot afford it, so they turn and say, i have to keep working because i also have dependent children at home. I have to keep working because my husband no longer can. And so i cannot do any of the caregiving. I have got to go into the formal workplace. Well, then somebody is going to have to come in and help thats going to cost money. Why cant we be smart enough to figure out how we support the Family Caregivers in addition to the nonFamily Caregivers. Caregivers. And i am working very hard to figure out how we do that because clearly the cost projected into the future is quite substantial. But as a friend of mine who is taking care of her husband said to me not so long ago, if every Family Caregiver stopped working tomorrow he would have to find about 350 billion worth of care to make up the difference. So lets figure out how we do that and dont discriminate against Family Caregivers. We also need to give you more respite care. Theyre has to be a program for respite care. [applause] too many people do the work do it out of love, devotion, but it is a 247 job and they dont have time to go to the store, have a cup of tea with a friend, get the hair fixed. Theyll have time to do anything unless there is some respite care in the home or in another facility. And finally, the last thing i would say as im looking at an idea that i heard about recently, the care core. Here is what i think we might be able to do. In every community have a coordinating mechanism so that people who are trained in how they would care for someone who has alzheimers or any other ailment could be on a volunteer basis willing to come in to your home for a certain time. There are a lot of people were tired, a lot of retired nurses and teachers, teachers,teachers, Business People and others who look for volunteer opportunities. And i think if we had a care core where we hoped to find just a mechanism, maybe the online request, maybe the telephone line, maybe line maybe somebody to make the appointment, we could help supplement what might be done by both the family and professional caregivers. But this is a huge issue, and as you can tell i have been thinking about it. My late mother lived with us until she passed away and she was thankfully in good health, but she had some real beginnings of deterioration physically. So i am well aware of how important this is and i really want to thank you for raising it. Thank you so much. [applause] well iwell i am going to get to as many questions as i can. Use myuse my microphone. My name is marie, a High School Student from dover. I have a question. I am involved with the lg bt community and know that gay marriage was just legalize in all 50 states,50 states, and i dont want to undermine that. Thats awesome. But i was wondering what you specifically were going to do about antidiscrimination laws in the workplace. I dont want to be able to get married to someone of the same gender but also be discriminated against in my workplace. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Well you arewell, you are right. The Supreme Court decision was an extraordinary historic milestone. And i think it is worth it if you have any interest looking at the decision because it is a constitutional decision that more than that it is aa decision about how we treat each other, respect each other, acknowledge. People should not have to be lonely. People can have relationships love one another. It was quite a moving decision. You put your finger on the next big challenge, and that is discrimination. When i was in the senate supported the end of law, to end discrimination against people based in those days as we used to say on Sexual Orientation and we do have to do more to make sure that we end discrimination in the workplace in particular. So i am committed to that. I we will work for that. As pres. I we will do everything i can to get it enacted into law. [applause] maybe we can get a microphone. Here comes one. The room got overcrowded. We were going to have microphone set up and then we put in more chairs. Thank you for doing the work you are doing. Anyway i want to thank you for speaking out about the problem that corporations are having too much ability to write the rules in this country. This isthis is related to that, but the city of dover one of the communities that has gotten a grant to acquire military equipment from the federal government. In thisgovernment. In this case and our Motor Vehicle called the bearcat manufactured by company, lancome. Lancome actively help cities figure out how to do the paperwork so that they can qualify for the money that the federal government we will and provide so that they can get these military vehicles which then cause caused problems with Community Relations and communities with the police start to act perhaps more like military forces is set of people protecting the committee. My question is, what steps will you take to make sure our local Law Enforcement do not become just another Profit Center for the militaryindustrial complex . [applause] you know, that is an important question on several levels, one of which you just mentioned. And also because the militarization of local police has been in many ways a problem overa problem over the last couple years with some of the incidents that we have had in communities across the country. I have already spoken out and we really do need to look hard at preventing the militarization of local police forces. And that means a lot of this heavy military equipment that was either already manufactured or manufactured after september 11 which is now made available to local communities should not necessarily end of the. Let me make this. Part of the reason for this is that after september 11 i was a senator from new york. I was theyre but then, you know, hours the next day seeing what had happened in new york and as part of the effort to try to protect our country through the knew department of Homeland Security a lot of money was appropriated that would go through that process that could then be used by cities and towns across america. I think it was too broad. I think it was unfortunately lasting too long so that it is still going on as you rightly say. I think that local communities working with the federal government need to take a hard look at whether we need to be paying for and subsidizing the transfer of such equipment to local communities. There still may be places where it is warranted but i, but i think it has gone too far and needs to be arraigned in. Thank you for raising that. [applause] so many hands. The guys at my back the whole time. And here comes a microphone in a hurry. Sec. , thank you for coming to New Hampshire and speaking to us today. You talked a lot about building our future in this country. As a young person i am concerned about the threat of Climate Change. The threat of Climate Change to our families and our country and around the world. Scientists have shown we need to keep it was at the fossil fuels on the ground to prevent the 2 degrees celsius warming which would be dangerous for women and families around the globe. My question is, you commit to banning fossil fuel extraction of public land from this country which is where 70 percent of fossil fuels. Yes or no . The answer is not until we have the alternatives in place. That may not be a satisfactory answer to you but i would have to take a responsible answer. I am 100 percent in favor of accelerating the development of solar wind advanced biofuel, energy efficiency, everything we can do. [applause] and i would hope that we could get to the. That you made colleges looking at public land and cutting back over time, phasing out the extraction of fossil fuel, but i will say this we still have to run our economy,economy, turn on the lights have to make sure that businesses operate. I want to do is much as i can as quickly as i can to make this Energy Transition but i could not responsibly say to you that i could automatically stop the source of fossil fuels right away without having a substitute in order to keep the economy going to keep people employed, to keep the lights on. But your larger. Really bears repeating. Climate change is an existential threat. Climate threat. Climate change is real. Everybody on the other side who says to you that [applause] they say you when you asked them about Climate Change i am not a scientist. Why dont you start listening to the scientists . [applause] and once you do then you we will be urgently trying to act in your own personal situation trying to be more energy efficient, figure out how to get alternatives available to your home for what your business, standing up against some of the really poorly thoughtout plans for some states to prevent further acceleration of solar and wind and enabling businesses and individuals to sell back to the good of all the things that can make a difference more quickly dispute as to her that moment. Ii think we have got to have a comprehensive and very well thought through anti Climate Change proclaiming your energy plan. Ii applaud the president has done without having the authority from the congress for what he is done with executive orders. Weorders. To continue to build on it. Hopefully we can get to the. Where we develop Something Like a consensus ofa consensus of our country which is what upsets me. The people who are against doing something on Climate Change have no alternative. Its just more of the same. Keep doing it. Keep doing keep doing what were doing now which is a losing policy we do need more people Andin Congress to understand and believe in the importance of addressing Climate Change. We need a president we will keep moving as far as possible on executive authority until we can get more legislation passed for the United States to set the example but i dont want to say i we will do something that i no would be difficult to do until we get everything moving in the right direction and the results and more people doing what there peace of the action might be. I want all of us to think through what we can do and if you get to the. Only entity extraction on public land and at least until we phase it out give more money that can go to fight Climate Change that we will be on the right track to get to the need to be. [applause] how are you . Just want to ask you. [inaudible] [inaudible question] am glad you asked that question because most people think the student loan problems just a young person problem and its not. Its not only the people like yourself went back to school to get additional education but a lot of parents and grandparents are cosigning and guaranteeing and taking out student loans, sometimes mortgaging their home in order to do so. This is a multigenerational problem. Problem. We have 1. 2 trillion in outstanding student debt held by 40 million americans this is a terrible drag on individuals a budget buster for so many individual families and its bad for the economy because a lot of the people who were weighted down can start a business, cant buy a house. Ive had young people tell me they cantcan afford to get married because of the student loan debt. Heres what i want to do, refinance existing debt with Interest Rate is too high compared to the real Interest Rate. [applause] and i we will be rolling out a specific plan for refinancing go with the payment that creates an additional budget strain on the government budget. We have to do it. I dont see any way out. The Interest Rates are too high to begin with, especially when they did not reflect the real Interest Rate. The other thing is we have to get to college to be more affordable. It has to be more affordable. And i also really appreciate what you said about how you have to defer payment because your paying a flat rate based on the 6 percent Interest Rate. So when i went to law school i had to borrow money. I didnt have money. My dad said i can help you go to college. If you go to law school your on your own. I worked, got a scholarship for but i borrowed money. I didnt on a plan that was available to me and my husband at the time my friend, boyfriend at the time borrow money to and we signed up for an income contingent repayment plan. In other words, i want to work of law school for the childrens defense fund. I did not goes on not go some big law firm. I think i made 14,000 a year. We paid back as a percentage of income so that we did not have to defer payments because we didnt have a high Interest Rate that was literally causing us to have to crowd out other obligations. I want to have more people with access to income contingency repaired programs. [applause] and i believe at a certain time particularly if you do the Public Service thing go back to the woman with the alltime challenges, if you become a social worker firefighter, police officer, teacher in the Public Service job, you ought to have your loan forgiven after a certain. Of time. [applause] and if you have another kind of employment you should look at how we get the Interest Rate down to get the planet the payment schedule down and lick of forgiveness eventually. Think of the amount of money. 1. 2 trillion. Think of what that would mean going into the economy. I think we can see that its a really good trade off if we make it. He we will be looking to see how we refinance and make college more affordable. [applause] here comes the microphone. Im sorry. Thank you for taking my question. Im a Public School teacher and i want to no what he stands on education is in the economy. The last 17 years ive been teaching i have seen Public Schools decline and it is a concern ofa concern of mine and i am sure many people here. What do you teach . [inaudible] what . First of all, thank you for teaching. Ii am concerned about what were doing your teachers and there students in the Education System because i do not believe that we are recognizing the challenges that kids bring the school these days that have to be addressed by a teacher in the classroom or the teacher in the Specialty Program like special ed. I believei believe strongly that we have got to do more to support what works in school. Andschool. And what works is recognizing what our job this is for so many teachers with so many kids. You know, i have a great friend, one of my friends from six. Utah for 35 or 40 years and retired a master all the difference between the beginning of your teaching career in the end of your teaching career . And she taught in a suburb of chicago. She said, a lot more kids with problems can be school that did not really have any support and i had a difficult time trying to help them. Number two,. Number two, i felt like every kid that i taught had a little Remote Control device and membrane and they were turning the off all the time because they were so used to quickness and fast responses. The slow, hard, sometimes boring work of learning something was just hard for them to concentrate on and grasp. Here is what i want to say. I want to support those triedandtrue Research Proven approaches that helped you as a teacher do the best job you can. Help your students to succeed to the best of there ability to help the school your in to be a success. And i here that we have gotten so focused on test taking to the exclusion of nearly Everything Else and really believe [applause] i believe in tests. They should be diagnostic. A great accomplishment for the United States. Gather evidence about how many children in our country were not in school because they have some kind of disability. We forget those days. I knocked on doors saying do you have children who are not in school . And i blind children deaf children. The federal government promised it would pay federal government has paid about 17 . But we have have done is to say we want you to educate all the children the other thing we didnt do is to recognize it is important this is something i worked on ever since i was in law school. Itit struck we as you are lawabiding citizens factory workers have to make sure kids go to school. Good habits for the right amount of discipline and love with the guidance they need to take advantage. 80 percent of your brain is physically formed by the advisory. Have been since she was a week old. So bill the other day enough with the reading talking, answering we do this i crazy and then we have other little kids who have a lot harder time. They may not have two parents in the home and maybe working like crazy. They may have difficulties with drugs or alcohol or other problems. By the time my little granddaughter is to kindergarten,just to kindergarten, the Research Shows she we will have heard 30 million more words than a childless adventist background. I want you to be the teacher. Put yourself in the teachers position. Here is Little Charlotte and since she does have some Clinton James a problem is shes talking too much. Think aboutthink about Little Charlie had just as much potential lost a line just as much, but as vocabulary is nowhere near what it could be. Which under the teacher and say from the 1st day of kindergarten yet this achievement gap. You go fix it. We will. Fingers at you if you dont. That is not right. That is just not right. So many people. Zero my gosh. This young man back against the wall. [inaudible question] say it again. Okay. As we all no the knew horizons probe just past than a thousand miles up the. I hate to say it, but is not a planet. Its a poor planet. But that is not the point. I am wondering if you think that Space Exploration considering that nasas funding is dwindling and has been for the past 50 years if it is still a relevant pursue or if it is an obsolete leftoverleft over from the 1950s work we should leave it to corporations. Im just wondering what you think. Youre talkingyou talking to someone who wanted to be an astronaut. When i was a little girl teenager by then was like 14 i think. The Space Program was Getting Started and i wanted to be an astronaut over to nasa and support all i have to do to be prepared to be an astronaut and they were back and said thank you, but we are taking girls that has thankfully changed. And to be fair i never could have qualified anyway. Is not something you spend a lot of time losing sleep over, butover, but i really do support the Space Program. You asked the right question one of the great advantages we have had less 50, 60, 70 years is he the rest of the world is the investment we have made in science and research of all kinds. And it is a huge economic boom. You know back in the early 90s our country invested in mapping the human genome. My husband was president when it finally was revealed money had been put in by both republican and democratic president s and congresses because we wanted to no more about what this meant. In the years since hundreds and thousands of jobs of been created and many millions of dollars have been generated for our economy. Estimate in the hundreds of billions. We have also had lots of businesses spinoff from nasa research. We have had the benefit of that Research Going in to the Public Domain so that it can be used not just for Academic Research purposes but also for commercial purposes. I personally believe it is one of americas advantages. No one is is innovative, creative, smart about taking research and scientific breakthroughs and translating them into commercial and economic activities. I would like to see us continue to explore space. I think were just at the beginning of trying to understand what is a blackhole why it is they are, what is a lack of what it means for us. On theus. On a security basis we should be mapping the meteorites and meteors and other things. There is just a lot for us to keep learning. A think it is a good investment. On my list of things that i want our country to invest in in terms of research and innovation inand science basic science exploring space from our oceans, our genome we are at the brink of all kinds of knew information. Iinformation. I dont have an objection the partnering with commercial enterprises but they are more in the Applied Science arena not the discovery and Research Arena [applause] go. Hello. I would like to ask you, last time you were in last time you were in the white house we had a balancedbudget. Do you think that is possible again . Thank you for asking. [applause] yes we did have a balancedbudget and a surplus in my husband left the white house. And we had the opportunity. I noi no that the democrats but a lot of independents a lot of republicans. I republicans. I hope you are hear because i think the conversation we need i hope gets beyond the usual partisanship and really flexible we can do together as a nation. With respect to the balancedbudget and surplus welabor on track and we stayed on that fiscal course to paying off a national debt, not just eliminating deficit for which is what about budget and surplus means,means, but really paying down our national debt. I went to the senate from january 2001 and remember very well president bush i can support a moderate tax because we do have a balancedbudget call but was not do it to the extent that we lose the advantage we now have to control our own fiscal destiny. I lost that argument going for alternative. In september 11 happened. I knew it was going because many billions of dollars to rebuild new york, theyork, the pentagon, start doing what we needed to do to protect ourselves. And the administration asked for another big tax cut. Then we had to worse command i think it was the thought the only time among the few times. So by the course of that eight years we basically saw huge expenses going in the Homeland Security going in the military command we saw our balancedbudget once again turn into big deficits certainly know surplus and the economic crash. So i would hope with sensible Economic Policy we could get back moving toward balance. My problemmy problem is i feel a little bit like my husband and president obama. I am not quite sure how we will play altogether because we need to be fiscally responsible. You have to keep eye on abuses from wall street and other Financial Institutions which is why we have to defend dodd frank another efforts. I wish we had paid for those wars and have ended up in a better fiscal position that we currently are because of the collapse and everything that pres. Obamapresident obama has tried to do to dig us out of that whole has been important but now that we have our head above the rim we have to figure out how to get out of it and do we need to do. [applause] this man has been patient and anxious. Here comes a microphone. [applause] good afternoon. How do i address you . As you can tell in yiddish and called the old man. One of the things that i have enjoyed for being in New Hampshire is contributing to society, and one of the ways i can do that is because i have this wonderful thing for Social Security. Lets here it for Social Security. [applause] and sue remindto remind people, it was a democrat they got you Social Security. With that in mind i stilli still have Social Security. Thank you. Yes. The answer is yes you will. We have to defend against the efforts to privatize Social Security which makes no economic sense. You also have to do more to help people make more savings themselves and have those savings produce results which means that we have got to have better efforts to get the advisors who tell people about there investments and 4 o 1 k not to be churning and use the money for other things. We need a savings plan on the one side we have got to defend and strengthen Social Security permitting the base. You dont like gold old to me, but in there older years. I just want to say a quick word. Most people who are on Social Security or spouses is who has some understand why this is an essential safety net program. And we have had a lot of efforts i was involved in being back president bushs efforts to privatize Social Security because it would have been a disaster the wellbeing of older women particularly single, widowed, divorced women on Social Security work to marry modest jobs with low wages or worked only intermittently they are having a hard time of it. We it. We have to look at Social Security, protect and defend Social Security. We we will do this for these young people as well. It is notit is not doing away we take care of it and do what is necessary. [applause] yes. a white shirt. You have many titles. Were very proud of that. Appmack have the most experience and i wish you the best and think it we will be runaway. My complaint is very inane call that it affects every Single Person in this room command i do not no if it is something you can help cannot. Ifif the do not call registry, but if you initiated the call and this happened a myself with the national healthcare, which i thought was a marketplace Healthcare Organization to look at reduced health care cost, come to find out it seems it was kind of a scam command i am getting upwards of 20 calls a day. I have tried everything. I tried blocking. The. The phone company only box 12 numbers, so that is helping. Short of me changing my phone number that Everybody Knows i really dont want to do that, but we have elderly, sick relatives children that need to reach us. This phone is constantly bouncing across the country. Even New Hampshire numbers. When they they dont get me against the Seattle Washington dc. Somebody is always telling me and im always running for the phone because i am waiting for a Family Member to contact me. What can we do . Even though we initiated thatthe call and the do not call registry says you initiated that allowed the way stop these robo calls . Please help us . It is out of control. Wow. You know i have to tell you, this is the 1st time i have been asked that. I dont no the answer answer,answer, but i will try to find out if there is an answer command i wouldi would love for somebody on my campaign to meet with you and we will figure out. I can promise you but tell you that i we will look into it, try to figure out theres a way to help you because it is annoying. I know. I have the same issue at home and it is so annoying when you told someone are not interested please dont call me and they go to the cycling call you again and call you again on estimate. I will try to find out what we can do help you. Yes, sir. Here comes the like. Congratulations on a grandparent thing. Isnt it the best. Yeah. You are the only candidate with international experience. [applause] i was telling my 95 yearold motherinlaw that i think the secretary of state job is the most amendment thing. Are we going to regret continues from now will charlotte regret the fact that the iranians will now begin the move as fast as they want and ten years to develop Nuclear Weapons within five years selling arms to all the bad guys in the middle east. It is a fair question command it is going to be something i hope people will follow. The consequences, the potential consequences are ones that we all have to address. Let me tell you how i look at it. And i will just go back a little bit of background. The iranians master the Nuclear Fuel Cycle when george w. Bush was president they built to covert facilities that we no when they began the stock them with centrifuges that were increasingly sophisticated despite the world and our best efforts to try to prevent that. The efforts that we began when president obama came to office and i became secretary of state were directed at trying to force them into a negotiation to do is muchas much as we could to put the lid on the Nuclear Weapons program. I spent the 1st 18 months of my time in the secretary of states job working to put together the coalition of passedpast the Security Council resolution that opposed the crippling sanctions and then enforce. Theyre are a lot of people who dont share our concerns especially in asia. All they are interested in is energy. We had to convince them that it was their worry because the only alternative to some diplomatic negotiation might very well before which would be a disaster for the region for energy supplies, and all the consequences that would flow from the. We really did put in place a tough regime of sanctions command and after the uranian elections when i may have finally got all your support starting with the trip that i madei made to oman we will be explored whether or not theyre would be a serious effort to negotiate an end to the Nuclear Weapons program. The agreement, theagreement, the interim agreement that was reached is called the lausanne agreement. Generally accepted as a positive step and then the final agreement which is over 100 pages wasa hundred pages, was lots of annexes. Think its on the internet and basically does put a lid for a time on the uranium program. There aretheyre are people on the other side of this for my respect who have said very clearly they cannot support it. I think it is a mistake. They believe the iranians will cheat on the agreement and even if they dont shoot with certain of the provisions sunset they we will have a free hand. I think that is a respectable argument. However, i think it is important to ask what alternatives are. When i say that i mean not just what are alternatives today, tomorrow,our alternatives today tomorrow, and 20 years now. What are our alternatives right now they couldve gotten the lid from any other way. Do i trust the irradiance . Absolutely not. This is not Ronald Reagan who made armscontrol agreements with the soviet union which were very important and was criticized the early that people in his own party. He famously said trust but verify. Here i say dont trust and verify. We we will have very intrusive inspections. We we will have monitoring equipment that is highly sophisticated that even without inspections we will be able to alert us to cheating. We we will have a chance to put the irradiance to the test on what they are doing if we think they have cheated without having to get russia and china on board which is a very important achievement in this agreement. The sec. Of energy, sec. , secretary monies, is a very respected Nuclear Scientist has certainly told many of us that this is the very best inspection agreement and intrusive monitoring that we could have put into place. And the lack of trustworthiness is certainly possible at least we will have had a chance i have advocated for a number of years to be much more forceful to put together the umbrella of security around the region including israel and arab allies so it is very clear to iran if they cheat or break out they will pay a very serious price. Like any diplomatic agreement it has its pluses and its drawbacks but on balance i think it is our National Security interest at this time. [applause] they give for taking my question and i will be honest was disappointed by the answer they gave about Climate Change because you said this election will be a deciding election for the century in the fake Climate Changes an important part of that so is to answer your ability to take leadership on Climate Change due to new the fact you have also fuelled contributions to your campaign . No. I know the right cancer to get the votes would have been. You bet i will pay an extraction on public land. How do you do that . I will advocate. How do you get it done . I will keep advocating for it. We have to change our energy policy. I have been clear about that repeatedly. It to do in the way it does not disrupt our economy. It is easy to say to be in the fossil fuel extraction for those to rely on energy so i am a strong believer to tackle Climate Change in the strongest way we can to have that transition in between Renewable Energy solar and wind and advanced biofuel. I have to say im sorry the specific cancer, wait just a minute. [inaudible] that is okay i am all in favor of the climate. I have said in this campaign i will tell you what i believe some people may like end some may not. And i believe strongly. [applause] i totally respect the passion and urgency i understand it and i believe we have a lot of work to do to have the energy and agenda that will create the millions of jobs that ive the kang, frankly Renewable Energy. So from my perspective Climate Change is absolutely essential issue there are candidates who will tell you what everyone to hear i will tell you have to address it in things we need to do we are backsliding. To watch out for the utilitys you want to stop the Renewable Energy to enable customers to sell back to the grid because they want to bring back the transition and we have a lot of work to do to make that happen in. [applause] i certainly would have publicly and on the list of things to address. No doubt. My biggest problem is trying to figure out how to do what we need to do absent a congress that will support what we need to do. Therefore. [applause] therefore it is absolutely imperative we elect people who care passionately about Climate Change as you do have occurred due to run for office to hear your voice is heard in the debate and it is imperative we support the president s effort courageous effort with executive action because he moves forward despite congressional opposition. [applause] we have a lot to do. Go ahead. I support comprehensive Immigration Reform with a path to citizenship. I believe it is not only the smart path to take but economically smart it could help us get the labor market working for everybody again. I take a legitimate concern that people have across the country is for those of american citizens. Here is why it had been. In the end of the lavender 12 million and players can exploit you, pay less than any minimum they dont have to provide good working conditions one of the positive results is to remove the incentive because it would apply to everybody. I dont believe we will support 12 Million People who were living here. If somebody says they want to do that i think they Say Something will never happen. I believe we have to do a better job to secure our borders. Not just the southern but and everywhere else if we move to the Immigration Reform with a path to citizenship the country will take a deep breath to say how do we live with all of that to make sure people are treated fairly and we have the right approach economically. Remember and 2010 there was a Senate Compromise bill with a comprehensive immigration plan by both democrats and republicans that was a lost opportunity but that bill still remains a Good Foundation for comprehensive Immigration Reform. [applause] thank you. You mentioned earlier with the Climate Change debates the was wondering if i could bring that to a different issue. You mentioned you would support a constitutional amendment on Campaign Finance reform. [applause] this is a very important issue i think everyone should be in support of so do think that is something that could happen during your presidency or do you have alternative approaches . Great question. I think we should do everything we can legislatively or regulatory and there is the debates. Some experts say things that congress could do if you put the pressure on them to get them done because if we still have a lopsided majority in the house at least it is a path forward. You have to change the constitution to make that a of voting issue that in every town hall every meeting it every District Across the country incumbents and challengers would be asked for so that may be a great organizing tool. So that is what i intend to do if necessary. I am listening to all the issues that people have. What i realize what if you have a lopsided congress . What age your plan . I will tell you exactly because i hope it isnt as lopsided. I really do. There is a lot of states that are far ahead of the federal government. Iowa gets 25 percent of its energy right now from when and. So does texas. Is not like nothing is happening but at a federal level is not enough is happening the more we can incentivize the states and local communities to do much lower when the better off we will be even if we can get the big solution with the credit with the financial incentives with the expansion of wind and solar and biofuels. Dont forget energy efficiency. The easiest path for word in and there are hundreds of thousands of jobs with energy efficiency. There is a lot we can do besides weight for congress. I dont have a question right now. But with a lopsided congress. You talk about everything just like when i served in the senate i was in the majority and the minority. There is no substitute for building relationships and trying to piece together answers to problems one step at a time i will go anywhere or anytime and i did that in the senate i sponsored the legislation i worked the path with people whom i had nothing else in common but i found that link it will be fun in this campaign because they praise his secretary of state but i will let you hear all of that as the Campaign Goes for word. They will try to forget that they said that. I know how to find Common Ground and how to stand my ground. [applause] if he has a suit and tie deserves to ask a question. We mentioned rewarding citizens for Public Service i am an alumni of americorps and we need to invest a National Service i am grateful for my opportunity to serve with my purse my professional development to allow me to make a difference in my community to halt the complete my undergraduate degree. If elected president would do support the progra allow citizens to serve their country . Yes. Thank you for your service. Absolutely i am a strong supporter of National Service i am pleased to ticket vantage of the Financial Aid to get your undergraduate education. We need more National Service as the link for training for other advanced education. Yes i will definitely push the support but it is quite a tribute to but it has survived because fundamentally it is a patriotic thing to do to serve your country so yes i support that. [applause] let me say one thing. With this next president ial election is not about her but it is about us you have done one heck of a job. Lets take one more question aphakia madam secretary represent our state legislature revoked to welcome you there very soon. Jury the sequester Remaster Program we lost a program with the children who are earlywarning earlywarning, headstart. Yes. 18 children were going but then it was ended what can you do about that . Thank you for asking that it means a lot as a public official you ask me about early age and of the education because that is where it all begins. To have a a good experience to get ready for school. I support head start and i hope to start early headstart to get them at the earliest possible moments to be better prepared. I intend to advocate strongly in favor of Early Childhood with a partnership between the federal government and local community to. Because not every local Community Wants to do with the same and different communities have different numbers of eligible. I want to make that a high priority. [applause] youre doing very well on your Job Interview today. [laughter] youre first out of reading you did a great job. Thank you very much. [applause] s in spending between mens and womens soccer. Senator jerry moran chairs the hearing. [inaudible conversations] this hearing of the subcommittee is called to order with votes scheduled for 3 00 which is troublesome to our schedule but we will see how this goes as far as how we handle that when it arises. T thank you to the witnesses to participate in a very important hearing regarding International Soccer governance bridal think congress should investigate every scandal in the worldport of professional sports nor do i believe the topics we are discussing today will lead to legislation that must beon enacted. But as chairman of this subcommittee with jurisdiction over professional sports is a issue that deserves public attention. Shi by shedding light on the corruption andti bribery andot other activities as a part of International Soccer far to so long, my hope is the american people, current and future sponsors and Media Companies that support the games today will better understand the consequences to allow the organizations governing soccer to continue including the tragic loss of life. According to some reports 4,000 Migrant Workers will die before the first ball isfirs kicked for a the world cup that is appalling. Soccer is by far the most popular sport in the world truly a Global Institution that connects humanity acrossne language, culture. Soccer is attracting a wider audience by the day in the United States. St one must look no further around the excitement of the National Team winning the 2015 world cup last week to see the impact it has some lives. Along with this excitemental comes billions of dollars ofbill annual revenue from tv contracts and sponsorships and endorsements. That is why the revelations of bribery and corruption and mismanagement at fifa are so troubling. I am more disturbed by co reports of Migrant Workers losing lives in preparation for the worlds biggest soccer tournament, the world cup. Criminal activity with International Soccer is so serious that on may 27, 2015 the u. S. Department of justice of unseal the 477 count indictment against fifa officials and corporate exe executives with racketeering, bribery, wireaund fraud and moneylaundering. For other individuals and corporate defendants have pled guilty to various charges. Swiss investigators are now investigating 81 suspicious activities relating to Money Laundering in connection with the 2018 and 2020 world cup bids. The the culture of corruption must be addressed. With the announcement fifaounc president plans twostep down were at a crossroads for the future of soccer and now was the time for the United States and u. S. Soccer federation to determine how we can encourage meaningful reform as well as elected leader at fifa that will spearhead long overdue changes within the organization. The c goal is to have a serious and meaningful conversation how to redress fifa culture of corruption the United States participation and Human Rights Violations stemming from their laps of integrity. Without evinced reforms or implemented we must examine all participation with fifa how to restore integrity to the world cup soccer we should not turn a blind eye to this issue any longer for especially when human lives are at stake. Now i would now like to turn to the Ranking Member for his opening statement. Thank you, mr. Chairman and for having this hearing and for the witnesses to bebein here. So also the department of justice for the profoundlysign significant investigation and i want to note that soccer is a growing and important state we take pride and enjoyment most especially from a the one the with last month by the womens champion team. Congratulations to them to sa y bluntly that the and corruption uncovered in world soccer is a disservice to the game and a disrespect a to them. Disr it betrays the trust of bet countless men and women many are young people just beginning in the sport to have a right to expect better from the leaders of this sport. The fact of the matter is what has been revealed so far is a mafia style Crimes Syndicate in charge of the sport. F my only hesitation to use that term is it is almostlmo insulting to the mafia because they never would have been so blatant over each and every gant with its corruption. This simple fact that this indictment, more than 100s pages long shows a Crime Organization of racketeering conspiracy with an organizational chart that shows how it was run and who knew about this criminall wrongdoing, when did they know, and what did they knowhey and why did they not act more quickly but that is theer t answer the u. S. Federation has to answer today. These are classic questionssic involving any racketeering conspiracy investigation why there is an ongoing criminal investigation we know some of the individuals were responsible andvi should be held accountable. On at least one of the principals has pleaded guilty already and others may be cooperating. But the facts show there had to be either willful ignorance or a blatant incompetence on the part of many of the members of this organization. And that is true of u. S. Soccer as well. They knew about or they should have known about it. I am not sure which is worse. Their recent success of our professional womens soccer s team should remind us and all americans that fifa has engaged in this will full and prolonged disgracefully corrupt conduct including map racketeering and moneylaundering spanning more than two decades midi o were committed in the unitedwh states which is especially troubling. I am saddened by the fact these corrupt practices have deprived america says National Team and millions of fans of the full value and integrity of the game that theye love. The action of fifa and officials have undermined the very sport this organization was established to serve. This is an opportunity for n us add only to ask these questions about whod do whatou and when and why they didnt do anything but to lay a groundwork for reform. Just as candles in the past have led to fundamental far reaching overhauls in the way those sports are organized and conducted i want to know what theyre planning to introduce to a still Greater Transparency and accountability not whether there will but what and when because clearlyuse there is an urgent and immediate need for suchte n reform. I also believe the National Soccer federation has seriousde questions and i think it has to answer them not only at this hearing but for the fans around the country. Clearly we can no longer indulge the idea of fifa and nonprofit full enterprise to be run behind closed doors. It is a recipe for disaster and moral catastrophe. All the reforms that installno Greater Transparency and accountability can shed the necessary sunlight to disinfect this corrupt organization. One proposal is is to reorganize as a publicor S Corporation or some part of that. That i am proud United States has led the world to bring the scandal to light to hold individuals responsible. Ob i but that job is far from over. There needs to be additional action and it should involveit s battling members of the public and Public Officials but also, let me emphasize emphasize, the private corporations that sponsor these events that sponsor International Soccer l like mcdonalds and cocacolaand to play their part to ensurepart that they stand as guardians of good governance. T at least one of those corporations is mentioned ins the indictment. As my colleague has mentioned, these actions have reallife consequences not only financially but potential discrimination against women in the game and potential physical harmbe to the workers who may have been involved in other countries where major physical construction involved Human Trafficking and human rights abuse and worse. Co the International Community must collectively work to ensure human rights areman upheld wherever our athletes compete. The betrayal of trust is no less when Human Trafficking is involved to build a stadium where our athletes compete it is the betrayal of trust on the part of those organizations that sponsored the game and bet implicates the entire sport we should not tolerate theicat most primitive competitions to be staged at the expense of the most vulnerable citizens. Today that hearing is a first up and i want to thank all of you for being here res today and look forward to your testimony to restore the trust of american fans. The trust which has been betrayed by which they deserve. Thank you. Our panel today consists of four witnesses the ceo ofynn, the u. S. Soccer federationtati federation, denied states representative of fifa and the president and ceo of the fairfax group, a member of fifa independent Governance Committee. Mr. Sunjeev bery the advocacy director for the middlect east and north africa will testify about the findings of the report regarding working conditions and finally mr. Jennings as investigative writer and to filmmaker accredited pulling the cover of of the fifa scandal. Please testified. On behalf of Unitedr States Soccer Federation thank you senators and other members of the subcommittee to give u. S. Soccer the opportunity to appear to answer questions. On behalf of the womens National Team also i would think the president and mrs. Obama and thes distinguished members of the subcommittee in the fans in the United States including all large televisionh a audience ever to watch a soccer match you supported cheered the women to the cup title 10 days ago. I have been u. S. Soccer 1 chief executive over the last 50 years ultimately i am responsible for daytoday operations of thenize federation. We are Nonprofit Membership Organization recognized bynd the Olympic Committee as a governing body for soccer and fifa as the national associationer member for thed United States for asst required by fifa also aaf, member of the Regional Confederation that covers north and Central America in the caribbean nations. For more than 100 years u. S. Soccer mission is to make a primitive spore in the United States to continue the growth and development at all levels. U. S. Soccer fields the u. S. Special team that has wonwo three battles and an olympic goldtl medals in the mensal team in the process of defending its 2013 gold cup title. Ous we also feel that their olympic team and also other age basedu. Teams. Made up of organizations including professional leagues still image of the thomas Soccer Organization for disabled athletes and the use amateur organizations. U. S. Soccer is governed by andep 14 person volunteer board elected by members that includes independent directors athlete representatives and directors representing different segments of thenual membership. Y an the annual tax returns and policy and bylaws board of directors Meeting Minutes are all publicly available on our web site. With fifa we are one of 209 Association Members that must vote on any substantial changes to the organizationr na regardless of the size or players or the quality of the team each vote counts the same until two years ago when the president was elected to the executive committee the federation did not have direct representation although i over influence has been limited the federation is a strong advocate to reform the organization by improving governance and increasing transparency and strengthening ethics rules. U. S. Soccer supported fifa decision to conduct a review of the governance structure to urge adoption of reforms after it was released. D wepr supported the investigation by the Ethics Committee to the bidding and award process of the world cups and publicly advocated for the release of a full report not just a summary report released by fifa last fall. U. S. Soccer nominated prince khalid bin supported his challenge to defeat the president in a recent election not because of the potential risk with a possible bid the mens club but u. S. Soccer believes the of governance and good leadership is paramount more important to the sport then hosting any individual world cup. Going forward we believefa p reform will have to start in light of his stated intention to resign. We understand many believe itti is time for a change in u. S. Soccer will continue to work with federations to promote change and alter the culture at fifa. Efforts to reform have more quickly. D we have a committee that has u. S. Soccer president to help guide the confederation through a period of turmoil. In the executive committee based on recommendations had sweeping reforms coated on for compliance and transparency. Im they give for your time i will respond your specific questions. Good afternoon chairman and Ranking Member and members of the subcommittee thank you for the opportunity to do appear before you today in the field of transparency and integrity. I am honored to speak on an issue of a driving force throughout my career including serving on the independent Governance Committee and as cofounder the worlds leading ngo with accountability to spearhead the Advisory Board member force for security and as the senator stated soccer is the most popular sport in the world and a tracking a wider audience by the day. Otor however the Upper Echelon has been notoriously corrupt for many years with the recent efforts manyansp allegations were swept under the rug now that the late juan dash lack of transparency is brought to public attention there is a tremendous opportunity to discuss the inherent autonomy sports organizations have maintained is essential to do a the values embedded in the sport it is a difficultount concept theyre underminedcomm with those bodies but the growing commercial interest in the rapidly growing Sports Industry of legal or illegal or all converging to create a situation asn increasingly challenging to put in Compliance Standards and fifa is a big business with the revenue of 5. 6 billion and it had a chance to be a leader in reforming the scandals first began to pop up ted years ago. Despite multiple chances to change along with their own committee fifa held to the irresponsible motion withoutonly interference or oversight. Every single governing body of the international Olympic Committee to the nfl needs towo agree to modern standards of transparency and accountability while many whole this sacred it is an incredibly profitablee re industry that needs to bean f regulated and treated for what it is, a big business. The recent events require coordinated Global Action and i believe there is the way we can achieve this with the cooperation and support from governments and Industry Leaders around the world. International center for sports security also nonprofit has the idea of the Sports Industry Transparency Initiative provides server on their board of but divisorsrgan we have established Global Standards to be voluntarily adopted as an agreement to form a governing group to work with the Sports Authority well having ae st higher ethics and values it would create a benchmark to evaluate that efficiency of programs the standards wouldagin include but not limited toa de professional boards ofing directors, managing conflicts of interest interest, building a Democratic Foundation foundation, increasing transparency and accountability, to level the Playing Field of athletes, motivating ethical behavior for staff andent volunteers an engaging with stakeholders in to showcase integrity and considering the positive role sports in society to establish effective risk controls it is comprehensive and far reaching well every principle does not apply to alatl organizations there is enough Common Ground thatpe they and understand what is expectedct of them in terms of integrity and transparency as the attorney general pointed out in her speechand after announcing the charges , many individuals and organizations were trusted with keeping soccer open and accessible to all they held important in responsibilities at every level. Building soccer fields for children to organizing the world can up world cup they expected to protect the integrity of the gamef wo instead they corrupted the business to serve their interests and enriched themselves. Mr. Chairman i look forward to answering your questions. Mr. Bery . Chairman and Ranking Member and distinguishedesty guest come on behalf ofity Amnesty International thank you for the opportunity to address the issue of thea fifa will step 2022 world cup brought in to the shocking condition is routine for Migrant Workersob the undercover sponsorships system they cannot change Employers Without the permission of the Current Employer even if theyre notan paying the employees they can still block the employee from changing jobs to leave the country. In 2012 the Research Fund had a survey of 1,0001, lowincome migrants and 90 percent said their employers possess passports which is a violation of what and 20 percent said their salary waspa different than what they were promised prior to leaving the home country in 21 percent said sometimes rarely or never received a salary on time. Has documented researchers in the most extreme examples foreign Migrant Workers were suicidal being trapped tra without pay and forced to depend on charity to eat and Family Members in countries of origin face eviction and evi other challenges because a Family Member was trapped not been paid for work they have done. As more than 1. 5 million working today 90 percent of the total work force consists of foreign nationals the numbers increase at a dramatic rate growing by 43 since the country was awarded the world cup in 2010. This is occurring in the context of a massiveve i construction boom the governments spendingrded hundreds of billions of dollars it goes well beyondcoun stadiums many projects are solely for the world cup the remains central to theand success of the sportinga gl event with the overlapping efforts for tourism and commerce. The problems faced go beyond restrictions placed on the sponsorship system. Migrant workers are prohibited from trading a trade union the labor lawsng t should offer some protection are not enforced. To make matters worse thousands of workers in fro domestic rules are excluded from the projections set out under the labor law mostly women working in householdsng i are exposed to greater exploitation including sexual violence. Despite repeated announcements to a the country the government hasernm failed to address this problem. R ex the government promised of limited reforms but one year later none have been implemented. In 2013 Amnesty International identified night nine key issues that should be addressed urgently but one year later and nothing has changed in the most critical areas of the limited actions have been taken that do not address the fundamental factor to facilitate use. The ultimate responsibility for the rights of workers rest with authorities but when fifare awarded the 2020 to world cup to them assumed a responsibility of the human rights impact unfortunately their efforts have fallen short of that is needed to insure the world cup is not based on labor exploitation for premiere written testimony about one specificne solutions to the problem and they should be implemented by the government and countries that Migrant Workers are from. United States Government can s help in specific ways. He d but to fix the deeply flawedes system tos address the other problems it is not enough for fifa officials to except verbal commitments mss and a strong message to therigh construction sectorwo humanrights must be respected and all projects and fifa was put in place to monitor this not onlytels stadiums in Training Facilities but hotels hotels, transportation and projects and other infrastructure if reforms are not put in place urgency the facilities for the royal couple carried a permanent stain of forced labor and human suffering thank youty for the opportunity to tes testify today. I did testify here to john mccain and in 1999 under those scandals but it hasch changed since then have a bite to join to honor americas soccer players and the gracious way they and the other 23 teams conducted themselves with the womens world cup. This contrasts that the with the massive deficiencies of the u. S. Soccer federation to upset the corrupt fifa mcfadyen the to lifestyle he provides but how american soccer relates to fifa via note the absence of the fifa delegate that is one crucial question. Where is the . Meri where is he . He is the man who takes the American Values suppose the to fifa but is not here to talk about it that undermines the whole process. I am an investigativebit. Reporter i represent documentarys to the bbc working with cbs than 60 minutes and hbo i also reported in war zones. I am not a Sports Reporter it is not what i do. I am proud to be the only reporter in the world because of my a disclosure of his i corruption but before. Stumbling on the lowlifes i had to experience organized wit crime to be nose to nose with the mafia in palermo. It checks all the boxes of this in ticket to seizemi power and running rackets compromising authorities with criminality behind the walls. After seven years to probe these sleazebags putting up with their threats and attacks the mybi computer the fbi special agents in londonds s the Business Card said organized crime the real people had arrived. August 2011 i gave them documents about those that hid from the fans also check has been there since 1995 look who represented radio look we were happy to have represented American Values i will come back to that buttain he had the Financial Information from the fans and mysores from the archives the regional body of the nations including the u. S. Say privately to executive Committee Members including u. S. Soccer. U. S. Soccer had to know that plays and his fellow critics from trinidad who is fighting extradition were including and eve beating taxes but they looked away. Now to go into the feelings of u. S. Soccer i would be happy to present it to you and discuss it later. If americas soccer leaders had taken action when they should have, and they would have been in w jail now he is seeking asylum in zimbabwe and the 2022 world cup i toasted by usa benighted cup graveyard in the gulf. The fbi and irs a check a few weeks to check out the he information i gave them but immediately he folded and fifa has imploded now it is a smell they shall. That is all with nocr credibility nobody wants to know it. Dyom f there is one time you could work talk walk down the street with the fifa logo but nobody does that now. Who would dare . To be determined to stay inng. Power dont believe the nonsense of him going his hit men are working against the rivals to obey his instructions his operation and says that he is innocent but disports leader can only travel to russia or do copper co that is the international. He can engage with organizations to create aci newat organization to invite the tv networks to go but i cannot see mcdonalds with the remnants of the organizedcrime family and one other crucial thing the United States should do. You may remember with the u. S. Olympic committee was thin disarray deficit candle 16 years ago they were to investigate where they went wrong and make recommendations as a Senate Investigation this committee will help u. S. Soccer set up a similar independent committee to see what on earth has gone so bad. Also it puts everything on mine it was inadequate in 1994 but with newth reorganized reinvigorated soccer but we say we can do it and join with us. Many of the associations would come with you theeati absent partner is treating you with contempt and with u. S. Soccer and the moms and dads and the whole sporter with content if he cannot come here to defend u. S. Soccers activities within fifa. He will be in zurich next week for private meetings of what is left for those who are not in jail. Ilwhen perhaps to urge him to day to email i want to know everything you have paid yourself and your bonuses and her diem i have to help america kickstart that is what you have to do as a sta country to get somes credibility back internationally. Thank you. T me thank you. I will start to ask the question. You heard him just say u. S. Soccer had to know. So the question is what it did u. S. Soccer know and what should you have known and in particular with the indictment of racketeering, bribery, wire fraud and moneylaundering, what is the reaction of the u. S. Soccer federation . Does u. S. Soccer federation know about concacaf in similar circumstances