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and to the club s fans. the club says the players are being brought home early. the club also says our players at every level are expected to behave as representatives and ambassadors for our futbol club. we treat their conduct extremely seriously. pearson is the son of lester s manager, nigel pearson. on a tour of thailand, the home of lester s owners. just unbelievable story. you just wonder about the culture of the club. a lot of questions to come. yeah. all right, well jordan s prince ali bin al hussein back in amman after losing the fifa election. blatter elected to a fifth term. nine fifa officials charged with corruption. he withdrew from the race before the second round of voting when it was clear blatter would win. i want to thank everyone. and this is a democratic
better to part of the base he was immersed in hess radio commentaries and fox news. that gives you a certain mindset. what you are talking about is stuff that are often dog whistles to the right. it s got him a huge following. you ask him what s different between now and then he is a lot more famous than if 2008. let s go to breaking news overnight, with soccer s governing body fifa officials, five corporate consecutives have been indicted, connected to the world cup and other tournaments in latin america. attorney general loretta lynch released a statement that reads, the indictment corruption that is rampant, systemic and deep rooted abroad and here in the united states spans at least two generations of soccer officials who as alleged have abused tear positions of trust to acquire millions of dollars in bribes and kickbacks, let s bring in bill neely. what s so fascinateing is how
these arrests were done overnight in one of the best hotels in switzerland and europe and going into a meeting of officials who have been above the law for deckades. yes, good morning, joe, it was a very unwelcome baik wake-up call for at least six fifa officials, perhaps seven. they were expecting to wake up by their swiss lake begin the process of reelecting their president for a fifth time. fifa of course one of those powerful organizations if world sport and a vote to reelect sepp blatter, the single most powerful man in world sport soccer known as the beautiful game but today soccer is besmir wered. balls it s a scandal the fbi says spans generations and
they woke them up in the middle of the night and pulled them out of this five-star hotel. let them collect some of their things. led some out in handcuffs out the side door of the hotel. the long-time president seth blatter. he was not among those listed in the indictment. but willie the fbi has been investigating fifa for years. this guy is the target. you look at the press release. they said there is only the beginning. i ve got a feeling some people are going to start rolling pretty quickly. it s got to be shocking. you are sitting there in a five-star hotel thinking i will figure out talk to people. some of these guys made $150 million in kickback bribes money laundering. they re thinking business as usual. suddenly they re dragged out of there. plucked to the united states. thank you, switzerland, and you know seth blatter, he s a