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and very hungry to win this, and their coaches said that, this game, all eyes will be on this game tonight to see where we are versus the united states. it s going to be a fantastic representation of where women s soccer is. it will determine who wins that group, and this team, whoever comes through tonight and wins this game, will be able to put a stamp on this group and the tournament and have that momentum going forward. you were part of the national team in the fifa s world cup that began in 1991, the first openly gay player, the only black player in the starting lineup of the national team. we were just talking off camera about this, just the incredible trajectory that this sport has taken in this country, but specifically women soccer players and their roles in this sport and field. talk about it from your perspective. for me, i think the ground zero would be 96 and 99, the 99 world cup in particular. when we won that in such
he s been very public about his addiction to cocaine. so the judge started requesting questions about the scope of this agreement. what would be covered under it and that is where the friction first started to unfold. the prosecutors saying under questioning that the judge that it really was just limb ied to tax charges, gun charges and drug charges. she asked hunter biden s team if they agreed with that. they didn t. she said it doesn t seem like we have a meeting of the minds here and that is when the prosecution said that the deal is off and hunter biden s team said yes, it is null and void. and then they asked the judge for some time to try to work something out. they came back telling the judge that they had an agreement. biden s team then decided that yes, they would agree to the scope of the plea agreement as defined by the prosecution. then things started moving forward in the normal course. with the judge questioning hunter biden, him explaining what these charges are. but the
came back together only for the federal judge to decide she s not ready to accept it. now hunter biden s team has to wait and see if the judge will ultimately agree to this deal or if he could end up on trial. cnn s kara scannell is live in the choose in delaware and we re joining by elie honig. to you, first, it seems like a doon deal this morning so what happened? reporter: it sure does. some people thought this would last 30 minutes and it took about three deals where the plea deal was on and off and on and off again. this began to unravel at the beginning whether the judge started asking questions about the scope of this plea agreement. that was the deal where hunter biden was going to plead guilty to two tax misdemeanors for not paying taxes in 2017 and 2018, also part of the deal was a diversion on a gun felony charge possessing a gun while addicted to a controlled substance.
dramatic fashion, it put women s soccer on the map and we became the girls next door. a lot of people started looking at this saying this is interesting. this game was exciting, intriguing, inviting. so maybe i do want to watch soccer. so many middle age men came up to me and said this is the first time i ve ever watched women s sports before. so that was the beginning. and now you have so many amazing players that have seen that, easter in person or on tv and they re now coming through the game. you have players of color, players that are openly gay, you have a fantastic mixture of players on the current team new to the game in terms of being on a national team roster and also a mixture of older players who have been there, done that. so it s an exciting group of folks and it will be interesting to see how they do. it was incredible, and i urge everyone to just google and have a moment there and enjoy it.