impact will this likely have on those elections. could they possibly be delayed. postponed. well it ser tcertainly the f time, the public is hearing charges, allegations of corruption. within, within fifa, fifa itself had an investigation. that ended in december, last year. when they decided there weren t ground to move ahead with questions over payments made involving bid for the 2018 and 2022 russia and qatar world cups. they decide to end the investigation. however a senior level qataree official was sanctioned in 2011. so these these claims these allegations have been swirling for a long time. and it does appear to tarnish the image of sepp blatter internationally on the public forum. if you will. however, within fifa, sepp blatter running for his fifth term in office as president.
you ve been hearing charges are far from a sure thing at this time. reporter: that s right, erin. we ve seen this video. a few seconds of video that we ve seen. that s certainly what has brought a lot of these people into the streets is the idea that they believe this is a clear-cut case that these officers should be arrested that these officers should space charges. i m told by people close to the investigation that that is far from being a done deal that there is still a lot of work to do and we may be looking at weeks, months while they wait for a lot of key pieces of the case to be brought together. the key thing here that they re waiting for is the medical examiner s report which is still in the works. it still may be weeks away. they re going to look for experts in addition to their own work before they present a report to the state attorney s office. medical examiner s report as you re saying could be weeks away. that s at the center of all of this. what was the injury to hi
majority of democrats sent the in the a letter reminding him again that the constitution says congress is a part of this process. and with the sanction relationship that is in place, congressments the president to know they are part of it. so, it s one thing for the president to say we may not be making it public, but at least talk to your partners in having to ratify it as to what is going on. is he making a serious mistake. he doesn t think it s ratifying it timing bad for him. same day at least now the same time that the sergeant bergdahl hearing charges. that too is a time when the president decided he wasn t going to tell congress. he just didn t. at the just did it himself. now he has got he is pushing that right back in the face of congress. look, i i think the fact that you tie this a little bit to what he did on bergdahl is a good point. for the president, this is all about him. he wants a legacy. he wants a legacy agreement. it s about him. with bergdahl it was about hi
majority of democrats sent the in the a letter reminding him again that the constitution says congress is a part of this process. and with the sanction relationship that is in place, congressments the president to know they are part of it. so, it s one thing for the president to say we may not be making it public, but at least talk to your partners in having to ratify it as to what is going on. is he making a serious mistake. he doesn t think it s ratifying it timing bad for him. same day at least now the same time that the sergeant bergdahl hearing charges. that too is a time when the president decided he wasn t going to tell congress. he just didn t. at the just did it himself. now he has got he is pushing that right back in the face of congress. look, i i think the fact that you tie this a little bit to what he did on bergdahl is a good point. for the president, this is all about him. he wants a legacy. he wants a legacy agreement. it s about him. with bergdahl it was about
conduct. it s clear progressive groups were targeted as well. they could have looked at laws of political activity by civil servants. hard to prove it wasn t just reasonable behavior by a government president agency. the bottom line is this story was a political bomb shell, difficult for investigators to find a clear violation of law. now there are people on capitol hill who were outraged and have been demanding charges. we re not likely to hear the end of this carol. have some rules changed? some have lost their jobs or resigned rights? absolutely. some have definitely lost their jobs. as i said, this was a huge political controversy. the question is whether you can make a case and prove it in a federal court of law? those are different things. so far we re hearing charges are not likely. joe johns from washington, thanks joe. all new in the next hour of