than $150 million in bribes and kickbacks in an investigation led by u.s. attorney loretta lynch that spanned two decades. they were expected to uphold the rules that keep soccer honest and to protect the integrity of the game. instead, they corrupted the business of worldwide soccer to serve their interests and to enrich themselves. one person not involved in the indictment the, the current president of fifa, sepp blatter, up for re-election friday. in a separate case, swiss prosecutors have announced a criminal probe into the alleged bribery. that investigation linked to russia and the tiny country of qatar awarded the 2018 and 2022 world cups respectively. we have more from chris pallone. there are a lot of developments. is this a big victory for the attorney general who supervised this case as a u.s. attorney in brooklyn? of course it appears that way. we ll really know that once these cases start to go trial and we start to get verdicts. four people have already pl
. welcome back to new day. i m live in beautiful rio. half the draw played over the weekend in the hunt for the world cup. today, team usa is training in salvador, preparing for what is, any way you look at it, a tough match against belgium tomorrow. remember, be you win or go home now. can we win? i don t know. but jimmy conrad does. retired player with the u.s. team. played in the 2006 world cup. hi, chris. appreciate it. so, what s the real deal? belgium is 3-0. they call them the golden generation. we re a bunch of scrappers. do we have a shot? no question we have a shot. we have the intangible, which is belief and momentum. we take care of a tough group. i m really excited about our chances. we are playing over our heads. we re hungry. super ambitious.
a great spirit and fights until the last second. it was a grind but it was a wonderful one of an end of the day. it gives the u.s. a lead. joining me now from brazil is jimmy conrad and member of the u.s. world cup team. jimmy, the u.s. scored the first goal in the first minute of the game and then the winning one right near the end. it was pretty exciting. oh, very exciting. it wasn t the mosts a thetically pleasing game but there s a thin line between success and failure at the world cup and the big play by dempsey and brooks and howard in goal. we need him hot to have the success and a huge three points. the other two teams in the group, portugal and germany, they are going to be pretty tough. which one do you think the u.s. will have more trouble with? i m going to take portugal. really?
coming in and clint dempsey broke his nose and will have that figured out. we ll end up having to see what ends up happening with his status. one of the thing that is s so fun about the world cup for the u.s. is the fact that we get to be the underdog and the fans here have just been absolutely amazing. they have been amazing. i got to sit in the middle of the american outlaws last night and i had my fan on and had a blast. really passionate about the team. they ve been chanting all game. i had a few beers spilled on me so excited at the end. it was a good time. sacrifice well wort making. jimmy conrad, our own world cup correspondent, great talking with you. thank you so much. and up next, capitol hill heating up with plenty of reaction to some breaking news. the arrest of a key player in the benghazi attacks of two years ago. we will have that for you next.
and he says this is eric holder, the attorney general, we retain the option of adding additional charges in the coming days as we work to identify, as well, and arrest any of his co-conspirators. officials say it happened on the weekend on sunday in libya, an effort by u.s. special forces aided by the fbi to arrest this man we ve known of for so long, ahmed abu khattala, accused of being one of the co-conspirators, ringleaders, master mind if you will on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. he had actually been designated a terrorist in january by the state department which called him a senior leader of the benghazi branch of ansar al shariah, the terror group the government blamed for the attack. the criminal charges were actually filed last year in july of 2013 and were just unsealed by the federal judge who s responsible for the case here in washington and that cheens that he will undoubtedly the u.s. will try to bring him here to face charges. being questioned now and we don