professional players effectively refused to compete in games demanding this behavior be addressed, behavior that this report say it s was many executives, coaches, as well as owners knew about, but did nothing to stop it. a shocking, new report alleges stimic abuse within the u.s. women s professional soccer league saying sexual misconduct and verbal abuse spread throughout the report spread even into youth soccer. we thought it was important to lay it all out in terms of, embarrassed on the evidence that we were able to find who knew what when and what they did about it and what they didn t do about it. reporter: former acting attorney general sally yates led the independent investigation which interviewed more than 200 people and found the national women s soccer league under the u.s. soccer federation failed to
my client s word for it when it comes to putting my reputation in front of the federal government. that s very significant. in all of this. especially when it comes down to the documents. and any chance justice too prove donald trump knew what he was asking wasn t true. i mean the lawyers knew enough to say i can t take your word for it. he said, fine, i ll do it myself, but some of those documents that remained in mar-a-lago were moved into his office. thank you very much. a scathing report finds players in the u.s. national women s soccer league endured years of emotional and sexual abuse. what the owners and coaches did. five weeks out from the midterms. we preview key races that could determine which party controls the senate. and senate candidate herschel walker denying thatat paid f for a woman s abortion during a night of drama in this race.
matter breaking and deeply troubles is what the u.s. soccer president is calling the findings of an independent investigation that reveals systemic abuse and misconduct by coaches in the top tier of women s professional soccer. the report also issued warnings the girls face abuse in youth soccer as well. cnn is live for us in chicago with more. just very alarming findinging here, lucy. reporter: incredibly alarming, brianna. a coach asking a player to his house to review game video and then showing pornography and berating young players quizzing them on sex lives yet another coach accused of coercing their players into sex. gruesome findings in this report that comes a year after
cone reacted to the report saying the problem is bigger than one person, one organization and systemic. time to read through it and think about the actions and inactions of certain people and that, it will take us some time to really think about what s need to be done in terms of discipline. reporter: now, the national women s soccer league said it would review the findings. in a statement they wrote, we recognize the anxiety and mental strain these pending investigations have caused and the trauma many including players on staff are having to relive. the big questions, what action will be taken by the league and federation to ensure this kind of behavior does not continue going forward. so unacceptable what we found out here. lucy, thank you for that report. next what ceos of major american companies are saying abouout the chances of recessio
ended up showing her pornography, exposing himself. another coach was allegedly known for berating players and then asking intrusive questions about their sex lives. another coach allegedly coerced players into sexual relationships and was fired by one top team, hired by a rival team. the original club said nothing about the misconduct, even wishing him well publicly. this report was led by former acting attorney general sally yates and was based on over 200 eyewitness interviews. she wrote in the report, teams, the league and the federation not only repeatedly failed to respond appropriately when confronted with player reports and evidence of abuse. they also failed to institute basic measures to prevent and address it. abuse of coaches moved from team to team, those of the national women s soccer league and the u.s. soccer federation in a position to correct the record stayed silent, and no one at the teams, the league or the federation demanded better of coaches. how did the natio