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>> my pleasure france. >> and i wart to start with the nfl saying there is more work to do with the player safety and it is our top priority. from where you stand professionally with the nfl, what has been done to make that safety a top priority? >> well, i've been a participant myself many years ago in football and followed the concussion problem for several decades and in my opinion i don't think football has been safer, in terms of the rules changes produced the equipment changes, the safer tackling techniques and the big emphasis on proper management of concussions when they do occur. >> a...

The former major league baseball player, ryan freel, has become the first pro baseball player to be diagnosed with a severe brain disease known as c.t.e. it's associated with bruising sports like football and hockey but freel's case suggests baseball may have a growing concussion problem as well. freel committed suicide last year at the age of 36 after playing a relentless and fierce style of baseball for eight seasons. rachel nichols is joining us now, the host of cnn's "unguarded." how do you think this is going to impact major league baseball, this latest development, rachel? >> we've alrea...

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He had been more fusive in offering apologies and trying to reinstate and validate those who he besmirched along the way. it's a sad story, and i hope that whatever the goal was, i hope he believes he achieved it, but i agree with you. i don't know what the goal was last night. >> we're -- it's not just cycling. there was not a single member largely because of the steroid scandals that happened in that sport. football has a huge concussion problem that's about to blow up into something much larger and also legal. issues will come up from that. now cycling. we have notre dame football. i mean, ...

His mind. do we know any details make us believe that seau believed he had a problem with concussions? were there symptoms? >> we know four things. the first is his ex-wife said he had many concussions. a good friend of his who played in mayor league soccer and junior was complaining b about his on concussion problem and junior said i had one and it lasted for 20 years. it's like a headache that's never stopped. the other thing that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt and this is what's truly damming is that in junior seau two-decade career he was not publicly diagnosed with a concussion not on...