supplying arms to ukraine, and another addressed to spain s prime minister. this year s world cup has been marred with controversy from the start. as soon as qatar s victory as host nation was announced 12 years ago, there was deep suspicion over how a tiny desert state with no history in the world cup, and scorching summer temperatures had won. allegations of corruption, vote swapping, and links to trade deals at the highest levels of government soon followed but they have always been denied by organisers and remain unproven. i ve been speaking to bonita mersiades who has written a book where she alleges that fifa is a corrupt organisation. she claims she uncovered evidence of this when she worked on the australia team bidding for the 2018 and 2022 world cups. she was subsequently
years ago, there was deep suspicion over how a tiny desert state, with no history in the world cup, and scorching summer temperatures, had won. allegations of corruption, vote swapping, and links to trade deals at the highest levels of government soon followed, but they have always been denied by organisers and remain unproven. i ve been speaking to bonita mersiades, who has written a book where she alleges that fifa is a corrupt organisation. she claims she uncovered evidence of this when she worked on the australia team bidding for the 2018 and 2022 world cups. she was subsequently sacked from her position something she says was a result of her uncovering this evidence. that were made by fofa at that time and properly still now, who knows, at that time were not based on merit. they were based on what arrangements were ordeals were that were going on behind closed doors. 0n the one
individuals who have attracted a variety of support and you know, i feel no matter who is chosen, that the party s going to be in good hands and i think, you know, they ll be certainly different emphasis, depending who wins. but ultimately, i mean what does it say though, governor, for the first time in decades this is not a foregone conclusion. for so long the leader of the democratic party was picked long before the voting was picked. now we re talking second, third, fourth ballot, vote jockeying and vote swapping, very different from anything we ve seen before. it is, but you re seeing this is politics recreated. it was during the presidential election. people want to get involved and that creates these kinds of tough campaigns. leland: there s certainly a split here and we talked about this sort of, the idea of the dark horse candidate, the mayor
with hobby lobby? they both set up people who are conservative as the victims as being, as their rights being oppressed and they have overlapping attorneys. the attorney for eleanor mccullen who argued the case, he works for the beckett fund for religious liberty that has brought most of the caseses against the con septembtrace coverage. this whole idea is using the first amendment as a weapon to kind of erode different laws and regulations that have been passed to expand access to reproductive health care. we ll see perhaps maybe the anonymity in mccullen was the sign. i don t know this is the case. perhaps it was the sign that there was some vote swapping because justice roberts really likes unanimous decisions. he likes to look reasonable. perhaps that will mean a less bad outcome for contraceptive
world leaders want to come over and kiss the ring and then is it corrupt or just anti-american. i think it s the medical profession, don t rule out horses first and what occurs to me, watching this, is that qatar is has a tremendous amount of oil money and there are ongoing allegations and investigations of vote swapping and bribery among fifa officials. it s incredibly powerful. it generates unimaginable amounts of money, yet is completely internally regulated. it has no real external check, and so that russia gets the bid in 18. russia is you know, also fueled by petro dollars and also quite corrupt and qatar gets it in 2022. is it possible that they want to get it to places that have never had the world cup before?