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Red card. >> reporter: events like the world cup helped fifa bring in $2 billion a year. >> a sport that unites and inspires. >> reporter: the international event draws top players, top tourism, and top publicity for host cities and sponsors. now the justice department says fifa officials have used that allure to earn a cool $150 million in bribes for more than two decades. in exchange it allegedly provided lucrative media and marketing rights to the world cup and fifa. >> fifa worldwide has ext...

Earring, wire fraud and money laundering. >> this really is the world cup of fraud. and today, we are issuing fifa a red card. >> events like the world cup help fifa bring in more than $2 billion a year. the international event draws top players, top tourism and to be top publicity for the host cities and sponsors. now the justice department says fifa officials have used that allure to earn a cool $150 million in bribes for more than two decades. in exchange, it allegedly provided lucrative medi...

>> delights and inspires -- >> reporter: the international event draws top players, top tourism, and top publicity for host cities and sponsors. now the justice department says fifa officials have used that allure to earn a cool $150 million in bribes for more than two decades. in exchange it allegedly provided lucrative media and marketing rights to the world cup and other tournaments. >> fifa worldwide has extraordinary power. this is uber power. we can make a case that this is the biggest spo...

>> there you go. hope you like spicy. hes a brazilian cat. hes got to like spicy. [ speaking foreign language ] a little cachaca. >> yes. >> that will set you right. >> i think now youre protected from the poison. ♪ >> were coming up to the world cup and i think a lot of people are going to be reading about crime and all of that. how do you think its going to go, the world cup? disaster or its going to somehow work out? >> i think it will be a success. >> you think it will be a success. >> im ...

>> im sure of it. >> salvador is one of the host cities for the 2014 world cup. a huge stadium has recently been completed, but a lot of people are worried, concerned, if brazil is ready. i have been told thousands of prostitutes are studying tourist-appropriate languages in preparation, so probably a lot of people are going to get laid, a lot of people are going to get robbed, a lot of people are going to get laid and robbed. >> have you ever been here in carnival? >> no. >> the world cup is th...

>> were coming up to the world cup and i think a lot of people are going to be reading about crime and all of that. how do you think its going to go, the world cup? disaster or its going to somehow work out? >> i think it will be a success. >> you think it will be a success. >> im sure of it. >> salvador is one of the host cities for the 2014 world cup. a huge stadium has recently been completed, but a lot of people are worried, concerned, if brazil is ready. i have been told thousands of prosti...

Russia when they said they would not discriminate, unfortunately, they were proven wrong. you challenged them. and today they came full circle in terms of putting that into not only the charter but into host city contracts, that there can be no discrimination in those cities on the basis of sexual orientation. and its really a historic day and amazing that its come in just a year, although we still have work to do, because we dont know for sure where our transgender brothers and sisters fit into...

Think that it was here, on this show, when our friend anita de france was challenged by lawrence odonnell when she says she has no choice but to believe russia when they said they would not discriminate, unfortunately, they were proven wrong. you challenged them. and today they came full circle in terms of putting that into not only the charter but into host city contracts, that there can be no discrimination in those cities on the basis of sexual orientation. and its really a historic day and a...

This is a typical day. at 1:00 in the afternoon, the temperature 124 degree heat stroke weather. 20 degrees hotter than in brazil which they declared first of its kind water break in the middle of the match. soccer federation officials were warned by the potentially dangerous heat and about what human rights groups called medieval labor conditions for immigrant workers. >> seven, eight, nine, ten in this room. >> reporter: but all that was ignored in the final vote which came down to qatar and t...

Qatar. this is a typical day. at 1:00 in the afternoon, the temperature is 124 degrees. thats heat stroke weather. 20 degrees hotter than in brazil which in this years world cup they declared the first of its kind water break in the middle of the match. >> it could be dangerous. >> reporter: soccer federation officials were warned about the potentially dangerous heat and about what human rights groups called medieval labor conditions for immigrant workers. >> seven, eight, nine, ten in this room...