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>> frances, good morning. its a soccer scandal but its developing into an angry global diplomatic row. rushs president vladimir putin has gone on state television to criticize the u.s. investigation saying its none of americas business, its a blatant attempt to extend u.s. jurisdiction to other countries and accusing the u.s. of trying to take the world cup from russia. russia is due to host the tournament in three years time. sport and politics should be separate, said putin. of course, in an a...

Unscathed unscathed. i want to talk chuck blazer a top soccer official in the united states. tell us about his role and how he factors in in the scandal. >> hes been an informant for the fbi for at least two years. he was approached in 2011 by agents from the fbi and irs and he cooperated with the investigation. he had access to all the top figures in fifa and we know for a fact he was recording some of the conversations with them. >> this is unbelievable in the past two years knowing this scand...

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Bladders vice presidents. bladder has not been charged but he stayed out of site and released a statement saying "it should be clear we welcome the actions and investigations by the u.s. and swiss authorities. such misconduct has no place in football and we will ensure that those who engage in it are put of the game." bladder is supposed to go up for reelection in zurich as he seeks a fifth term as fifa president. there are new calls for the election to be delayed. the head of european soccer sa...

Until all the fifa nation can push him out, hell stay in power. theres too many people underneath him. hes a smart guy. and i think yes eventually hell be gone but this will take more time than people think. >> >> and talking about the monies, the many zeros there in the millions involved and hundreds of people involved as well. bill neely and nate scott. >> developing now, new england has -- nebraska has become the first conservative leaning state to abolish the death penalty. pete rickets veto...

Re-election? >> reporter: i give you quite a simple answer yes, the vote will happen. he remains the overwhelming favorite. there are six geographical divisions of fifa and europe was the only one that was pushing for a delay of this vote. i just come from their own press conference european organization and they confirm the vote is going ahead. there are 209 delegates in all that get a vote. europe commands 54 of the votes. its likely the vast majority of the 54 votes will go toward the challen...

Need to conduct terrorism investigation. >> reporter: there, you hear him making the point the government is no longer in the business of the collection. that will be done by phone companies and a judge would have to approve that information going forward. this is a tough issue for republicans. mitch mcconnell wants it to go forward without the reforms. john boehner, the house speaker said, no, we want to have it move forward. they are going to try to work it out sunday night. a big story. >> ju...