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Then that third party would go about selling the media rights to broadcasters and sponsors and other entities elsewhere in the world. so there was no match fixing involved. it was all related to the business side of the game. >> and paul butler as to the timing of this indictment there comes a time in some prosecutions some investigations where you don't really have a choice right? as the prosecutor you've got to get these indictments out there because certain situations are ripening that you can no longer keep secret. >> that's right, lawrence. and this comes up all the time with public corru...

Has really resisted attempts for more transparency more accountability, certainly if there was a delay in the election, it would start to placate the critics a little bit to say, hey, we need to take a step back and take a deep breath and try to get to the bottom of this and really you know wait for this election at least for a couple of months and try to hold it then the. >> jeff quickly, did you see anything in today's indictment that impacts the integrity of the outcome of the games, the actual scores in the games? that's the ultimate corruption in sports is somehow affecting the outcome, r...

Going to go out and not try to hurt themselves. >> we have our signal back from recife, brazil. laura is out there. so what's the weather like? >> hi, carol. um -- >> did you hear me? it looks okay. >> i think i hear you. it is, it's absolutely horrible out here. this rain does not want to stop. it is just a constant downpour. now like you just said, fifa has confirmed this game will go ahead as planned. the big thing here, the reason, number one, the pitch must be five. if i go into the stadium to see it for myself, but to postpone this game would have meant postponing the ghana/portugal game...

Games. >> tell me about the officiating. yesterday there was a controversial penalty kick called that gave brazil the tiebreaking goal and there was a lot of like, the fix is in, the fix is in. how legitimate are complaints about the officiating, is there favoring of the home team? >> sure, the -- a lot of things that come to light, "the new york times" did a piece on match fixing in south africa before the world cup there four years ago. there have been gambling rings busted from europe, basically run out of east asia. so everyone is sort of under suspicion. the world cup is maybe a little ha...

They really did. i felt awful for them. they're just wonderful people. i mean really kind, nice people. we had conversations during time-outs or at halftime. but they were really wonderful folks. they were clearly in misery. >> and in europe, the investigation of world soccer has uncovered hundreds of suspected cases of match fixing. authorities said there were 380 suspiciouses matches in europe and another 300 around the world. for another look at the weather, here is bill karins with the weather channel forecast. all right. i know there snow out there. it's going to be cold. >> yeah. given...