initial goodell suspended rice for just two games.aced, the baltimore ravens kicked rice off the team and the nfl suspended him indefinitely. rice is currently appealing that decision but in just a week the crisis has gotten deeper. here's a look at the most recent players now under fire. >> it's dwyer. >> jonathan dwyer now in custody. the football star is the sixth nfl player making headlines for alleged abuse in the past few days. dwyer arrested at the cardinals training facility stemming from a slew of alleged abuse beginning in late july including one count of aggravated assault against a 27-year-old female causing a fracture and another involving his 18-month-old child. >> he has been interviewed by our detectives. he has admitted involvement in the incidents, however has denied allegations of physical assault. >> reporter: police say during one incident, he threw a shoe at the 18-month-old and then tossed the cell phone of the female victim out a window preventing her from calling police. the cardinals say they have taken the i

any minute roger goodell will face new york city. goodell will answer questions. commissioner in about nine days. let's get to nbc's anne thompson outside the hotel where that news conference is taking place. what do we expect to hear from the commissioner? >> reporter: well, we expect roger goodell will say he wants to overhaul the personal conduct policy for nfl players. and he wants to do that with the help of the nfl players association and with outside groups. how might he do it? well, we got some indication in a memo that he sent to the league earlier today -- or to all the teams in the league earlier today. in that memo he said within the next 30 days he wants all league and team personnel to participate in education sessions on sexual assault and domestic violence. as of tomorrow, all the clubs will be made aware of resources to help people who are victims of sexual assault and domestic violence in their areas. and the nfl is donating significant resources to two advocacy groups. one is the national domestic hot line which saw an 84% increase in calls afte

there are also calls for goodell's resignation. >> we are insisting that roger goodell must resign and we want an investigator with full authority to do a top to bottom review, sexual assault, dating violence within the community. >> reporter: by any standard, this is a crisis for the commissioner and no one has spoke out against goodell which indicates that they trust him, as of now. >> do you feel like your job is on the line? >> no. i'm used to criticism and i'm used to that. >> since he took over as commissioner. gary tuchman, cnn, atlanta. >> who could ever forget t.j. lane after his appalling behavior in a courtroom? remember this? how this ohio school shooter, murderer of three students unbuttoned his shirt to reveal the shirt killer on his shirt in court. he got three life sentences while he was smiling but still managed to escape prison last night. how does the murderer escape prison, especially one this young? i got this. [thinking] is it that time? the son picks up the check? [thinking] i'm still working. he's retired. i hope he's saving. i hope he saved enough. who matters

goodell during the meeting. four of them said that he -- that rice admitted hitting his wife and the fifth said that rice slapped his wife. and i also say it is unclear because the opener of the ravens, steve bisciotti said earlier that he believed that rice had -- that rice had told him he had hit his wife but it was an open-handed slap and she was aggressive with him and drinking and that all of the damage was caused when she fell in the elevator and hit her head on the railing. it is not clear how much weight we can give to this at the moment because i think what roger goodell was responding to in that cbs interview was the fact that it wasn't clear what led up to the point where she fell. if you go through the entire interview, he's very clear that he's concerned seeing her brought out of that elevator. the other thing is you don't even need any of that because as we've pointed out before, the summons that was made publicly available and reported everywhere after the february 15th incident, it says that he h

but apparently roger goodell thought the answer was ambiguous. just one of the several bizarre statements he made in that interview with nora o'donnell of cbs, and yet another reason why the nfl has embarrassed itself and needs an independent investigation. >> it is just the credibility here getting strained and strained further and further and further. now he comes out and says, no, no, we didn't really get the full story of what happened in the elevator. it was ambiguous. now we have a source who says of course they did. he says no, no, we never saw the tape, never got the tape. there is a very good chain of electronic custody of the fact that they did get their tape in the office whether roger goodell thought it or not. it is harder and harder to believe anything that comes out of the offices. >> and he said in that interview that it would have been illegal for the nfl to obtain the tape in the elevator, which is simply not true. >> well, he was sort of breaking it down. he said it would have been illegal from law enforcement, which of course

the role of roger goodell.ray rice told told goodell he punched his wife in the face three months ago. a statement that contradicts this statement. >> when we met with rice and his representatives, he was ambiguous about what happened. >> goodell said the latest video released by tmz sports was inconsistent with what rice told him. a source with knowledge made it clear he hit her. and he told goodell he was sorry and it wouldn't happen again. the nfl launched an investigation. who stressed our sole motive is to get the truth, the findings made public. >> bottom line there are two owners who are have franchises collectively worth over $3 billion. i think it's important for them to make sure ha whatever comes out is accurate, is transparent, and rapid. outside the reigns sta ravens s surprising number of female fans. >> she struck him first and any woman who can hit a man can be hit back. >> thursday night's nfl broadcast had a different feel. cbs sports in light of the rice scandal changed the pregame show. drop

and, yet, today, goodell said, today, again, that rice's account to him was inconsistent with what goodell later saw in the elevator video. >> i'm telling you right now that it's inconsistent with what he told us, what we saw on that video when i came out roughly ten days ago. >> joining me now, a man who's been called the greatest sports agent in history. if you've ever seen the movie jerry mcguire, he's the man that tom cruise's character is based on. >>> you've got four sources. it's possible there's some misinterpretation. but given the universe of facts we have, it really looks like goodell is, if not lying, shaving the truth about what he knew about what happened that night particularly when there's a police report that basically spells it out. >> i think he had all the facts he needed, just by the police report and by whatever rice told him. to go ahead and act dynamically at the time he disciplined rice in the first place. he could have made a dynamic statement. the reason why this is so sad is that the nfl symbolically is the most popular sport in this country. and notwithstanding

it seems like you have issues with goodell's moral authority. why is congress still granting the nfl an antitrust exemption? >> there ought to be scrutiny to a number of those special breaks that the nfl receives that give it a position public trust. it is antitrust exemption, as a cartel which otherwise would be broken apart by our department of justice or federal trade commission. its tax benefits. under the law. other kind of special treatment it receives. give it a special public position in our laws. but also a position of trust. >> this is an organization that makes $10 billion a year. taxpayers are currently losing out of hundred of millions. why should they be getting these special breaks right now, why don't you take some steps to change this and your fellow members of congress? >> that is a course of action that certainly we ought to kid. equally important i call on the nfl to devote some of the billions of dollars in profits to the problem of domestic violence. as one member of the senate my voice will be for greater responsibility im

goodell named three senior advisors. numerous other nfl players around the league with little if any sanction from the nfl now face 5:00 chum sanction. hardy was deactivated prior to yesterday's game, even though the team had previously declined to take such an action following a july verdict, a july verdict of guilty for assaulting and communicating threats to his ex-girlfriend. she said he threatened to kill her, all of which creates the impression when it comes to disciplinary action, there is no policy rhyme or reason and to manage the p.r. fallout. do you think it's chaos over there? >> it's chaos that they essentially created. the policy has been to make it up as they go alone. when it comes to matters of personal conduct, the discretion to do what he wants that can go anywhere from a game to no games all the way up to a season, there's no framework that is publicly available. >> yeah, we don't have a sentencing guidelines here. there's been examples of unbecoming a player for a game, right? >> well, the drug and p

directed at goodell.s interesting, you know let's be fair, some of those players are their own axes to grind with the commissioner. >> yeah. it's a difficult situation. because when you look at it, the fact that he was only given two games, there was already a, i guess an upswell that was saying man, how can you get two when there are other issues from substance abuse and you know, in performance-enhancing drugs, you know how can that work? i think when you look at it, the nfl when it's come to issues that are outside kind of is your stance abuse and performance-enhancing drugs, have followed the court system a little bit more. they haven't been one to bring in other evidence. so the issues were dealt with in the court and unfortunately, i think when you see this issue, they didn't see the bigger issue that potentially could happen. so they looked at ray, they said ray, he was, he was i guess up front as much as he could. you know, there's some debate in terms of that. but they felt like in his case, that

why now after go goodell was silent for so long? >> precisely because he's been silent for so long, i mould imagine. it's ten days since roger goodell gave that one interview to cbs' norah o'donnell. during those ten days every single day has been dominated by the headlines of bad behavior by nfl players. and he will take questions, we are told today, roger goodell. what he knew about ray rice, the video inside the elevator, what did he know about it, when did he see it? he will also be asked about adrian peterson of the minnesota vikings, of course. why he did not act to punish peterson in any way after these allegations of child abuse against peterson. then there's the question of the carolina panthers. greg harvey, finally benched by his team because of a domestic violence conviction and also he will be asked about ray mcdonald, plays for the san francisco 49ers. is disagreement active despite being arrested on suspicion of domestic violence on august 31st. an awful lot of questions for the commissioner. and, of course, he will a

goodell, miguel marquez from cnn.'s a lot of confusion from fans out there about the mistake you say you've made. you talk about your investigative department at the nfl. regardless of what mr. rice said on june 16th. regardless of the second videotape. on the initial summons it clearly says that mr. rice struck janay palmer with his hand, rendering her unconscious. why did it take that to put this to right. >> it was. was clear that a domestic violence violation had occurred. that was clear to us. and it was horrifying. and that is why we took the step we did. we did the two game suspension and a fine of $500,000. it was not sufficient. and that is because our policies, as i indicated earlier, had fallen behind where we need them to be. we needed to get those policies in a position where the standard for that kind of violation has to be much higher, and that's why three weeks later we raised that standard, and we said, this is not going to be acceptable behavior. and when it occurs, it's a minimum six-game or the sta

commissioner goodell said he didn't see the punch until this week. we don't know if goodell saw it. it's plausible he didn't. the potential shelling of the tape in the league's office does raise questions about how seriously the nfl was treating the investigation. "the wall street journa journal" reported that one unnamed nfl owner told them that roger goodell didn't pursue the investigation all that vigorously because he thought it would be insensitive to question ray rice's wife. investigation into the investigation is now in the hands of a professional, the league has hired former fbi director robert mueller to more on what happened, how it happened and what should have happened, and what happens next, as well as the peterson indictment, still at the table with us, eleanor clift of "the daily beast," jonathan alter and mike pesca host of the slate podcast the gist. this is -- people are still figuring out the details here. a 4-year-old child apparently was playing with others and knocked a kid off a bike and adrian peterson took him out in the yard and grabbed a branch from a tre

goodell has 32 bosses, the nfl owners. but he has millions of customers, those of us who are football fans. that remains the problem, this tricky balance for goodell and the nfl. it's where we begin tonight. bob costas is standing by for us. first to peter alexander who was at the press conference. >> we will get our house in order first. >> reporter: after a ten-day public absence, nfl commissioner roger goodell stepped back into a glaring spotlight with an apology. >> i got it wrong in the handling of the ray rice matter. and i'm sorry for that. but now i will get it right and do whatever is necessary to accomplish that. domestic violence and sexual assault have no place in the nfl. >> reporter: goodell pledged within the next month all league and team personnel including executives, coaches and players will take part in education sessions on domestic violence and sexual assault. and he vowed to overhaul the nfl's personal conduct policy. >> i know this because we will make it happen. nothing is off the table. >> reporte

. >> goodell said that at no time has he considered resigning. goodell announced that the nfl is partnering with the domestic violence hot line at a sexual violence resource center. goodell's biggest challenge will undoubtably be working with the players' union coming up with a new code of conduct and subsequent penalties for all nfl personnel including players. and annie mccormick is live getting reactions from goodell's comments and pledge to make the nfl into a positive force for good. annie what did you hear there today? >> jim as you mentioned goodell said he is partnering with two national antidomestic violence groups. today we actually watched the press conference with leaders from the local anti-domestic violence groups. they say it is a great first step but need more help on the local level. >> i'd like to make a few points. >> the philadelphia domestic violence collaborative meets once a month. today they are meeting and watching the nfl press conference. representatives from congreso, women against domestic abuse, the lutheran house an

and annie mccormick is live getting reactions from goodell's comments and pledge to make the nfl

goodell says he has no plans to resign. but if the sponsors do more than what they've done so far, do you think there will be pressure on team owners and ultimately on goodell to leave? >> i do believe that the pressure will be mounting. it's all key to the sponsors, as you point out. right now, the sponsors and advertisers are voicing their concern and distancing themselves from the nfl. but they are in the main keeping their contracts in place. if they start to back out of those contracts, the pressure is going to be enormous on mr. goodell. >> fran tarkenton, legendary minnesota vikings hall of famer, let me ask you, you're perhaps the most outspoken that we've spoken to today on cnn about the domestic violence problem in the nfl. what do you want fans to do? >> what do i want fans to do? >> yeah. >> i think they should start writing letters, writing e-mails and stop going to games. again, roger goodell getting fired is not going to solve the problem. the problem is going to be solved by 32 owners who control the nationa

the nfl has done this, thank god goodell, roger goodell, has corrected it pretty quickly. but the problem at the beginning was protect the institution over the individual. >> let's be real here. in baseball everybody loves home runs. it was bringing a lot of people into the stadium. nobody had any doubt that these guys were using steroids. but they let it go because the fans wanted it. some of these are the top stars involved and they're looking at dollar signs instead of what's right, is that what you're saying? >> it's the exact same thing that is the temptation for every single institution. we tee that right now in the public school system. we see it in so many other organizations. when you are protecting the institution over the good of the individual. >> it's a good point. >> going to lead to terrible consequences. >> i want to ask dr. ludwig about this. we all saw the ray rice video. i think we were all -- it shocks the conscience to see something like that. >> yeah. >> but she was a fiancee and married him the next day. >> right. >> the second part is she said don't

i don't agree with what roger goodell did at all.e got his punishment and i think they should have stuck to that. what the ravens did, i think is a little messed up, but i know they had to do what they do for the organization, but i stick behind ray rice 100%. >> i don't support what he did but i support him as a person. i believe we're all human and we all make mistakes. >> there you have it. if you tuned in to last night's game, there was something missing from the opening show -- ♪ >> that would be this that's "run this town by jay-z" featuring rihanna, supposed be part of the thursday night football prerecorded open until it was yanked before kickoff. changes were made to make time to discuss the ray rice scandal, an awkward decision, considering rihanna, like janay rice, is a victim of domestic violence. the singer was assaulted in 2009 by then boyfriend chris brown. now i know cbs's heart was in the right place but removing rihanna, a survivor of domestic violence, seemed a little off to me. it was like punishing her because sh

that's why goodell kept it open.own in his heart, this is not it. >> all right i want to ask you, domestic violence accounts for half of the arrests in violent crimes. worse category. is this something the league can fix? or is this just the kind of people that are tracted to playing in this sport? >> well no they are not going to fix this. i've been covering the nfl since late 1970s. i've covered a lot of teams. i'm telling you, this has always been the case. talking to an nfl scout, he brought up a common sense point, it's a very violent sport. these guys can't turn it off. when you're in a situation of conflict, than you want to strike out, whether a wife, friend or what have you. we can talk about it. give the nfl the benefit of the doubt. this is something that is a case and always will be the case unfortunately. >> okay. calling for goodell to step down will it matter. >> i don't think it will matter. what will matter is what the owners have to say. i think terrence is right, the nature and culture of this spor

goodell is an enabler of men who beat women. his position within the national football league is no longer tenable. >> reporter: goodell says the nfl is providing rice and his family resources to help them. and he told cbs news rice may one day be allowed to return to the game. >> i don't rule that out, but he would have to make sure that we are fully confident that he is addressing this issue. >> reporter: in this letter to ravens fans, the owner admitted we were wrong and offered an apology. i'm sorry we let you down. rice who is publicly advocated for the victims of bullying spoke to nbc news last november. >> it's a very powerful thing to be kind to somebody. because you never know what someone's going through. >> reporter: a friend of the rice family and wife of a former nfl athlete told nbc news the episode was out of character. >> they are not violent people. they're very loving, doting over each other, over their daughter. >> reporter: as for commissioner goodell, he doesn't think his job's in jeopardy. >> he probably wo

why did goodell require video proof of the beating in the first place?police documents obtained by abc news show the severity of the attack was clear almost immediately hp police said rice punched his wife, quote, rendering her unconscious. >> they didn't need the tapes. and that's the part that they have yet to own up to. for it to take aç video and to take us being stuck with these kind of lasting horrible images, i think is just -- it just says a lot about how much the nfl missed the mark with this. >> reporter: today, as goodell refused to speak to reporters while he was in north carolina speaking with students, the national organization for women had this to say. >> there are over 50 incidents of domestic violence by nfl personnel on roger goodell's watch. under roger goodell's leadership, the nfl's pattern and practice has been to sweep all of this under the rug. >> ray rice isn't the only player in the nfl to have ever hit his partner. there are players right now who will be playing, who are under domestic violence investigations. >> reporter: do

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very frustrated with roger goodell. this is all off the record. he said two weeks ago his team was so frustrated they started doing things on their own, getting the players and front office together and reading them the riot act of what they cannot do when it comes to sexual assault and domestic violence. they brought in an expert to talk to them. but i'm not optimistic because everybody is talk right now about the thing with jonathan dwyer. i know him. i have dealt with him in atlanta. i have covered georgia tech. he played for georgia tech. i bring that up because they had a visionary atlantic director who invented this thing called the total person concept where the players are taught everything from how to use a right fork and spoon to listening to people talk against domestic violence. and jonathan dwyer was part of that program which tells me no matter what the nfl does there is something that is inherent with the players. it's going to be very, very difficult no matter how much you talk to them you're still going

i think roger goodell probably got the tape. probably buried in bits and pieces and under the end zones of multiple teams in the nfl. i mean, i promise you he didn't see that tape, but having the tape, it was probably destroyed in an nfl manner and they put it in the end zone and they said no one will ever find it again because at least we know that building is secure. >> clearly, guys. >> i'm with you, ben. >> yet america's love for pro football doesn't seem threatened by these recent controversies. in fact, almost 90% of people in a new nbc/marist university poll, they say they haven't cut back on how much they watch the nfl. only 11% said they're less likely to watch. i mean, what do you do to pressure to change? >> well, it's the team owners. look at ben roethlisberger as a great example. when roethlisberger got in trouble multiple times and he was able to brush it under the rug, people kept showing up to those games and watching him play. and i think that's what you see with the owners here and with roger goodell. at the en

that's a lot of assumptions that goodell saw the tape, destroyed it.ell waept wasn't there wednesday, thursday, and friday of that week. that assumption is wrong. whether or not someone could have told him they have the video, that's fine. i would like to say this goes back a couple of years. the new orleans saints, they were -- there was bounty gate. the new orleans saints leadership said, well, we weren't aware of that, and what goodell said to them was ignorance is not an excuse. he threw the book at those people. >> does this change the culture of the nfl? will crimes become less -- hate to even ask the question because it sounds crazy. will committing crimes become less acceptable in the nfl? >> well, yeah. i think they're trying to tighten the reigns on this right now. now, whether it actually changes the landscape, these guys do some of the dumbest things that are imaginable. i personally -- i don't think nothing is going to happen. nothing. the game is just going to continually evolve how it's going to evolve, and whether changes happen or not,

if you're mad at goodell, wear a shirt that says "no to goodell." don't wear a ray rice jersey and flaunt it around in front of those who have been abused by men. >> rachel, i was sort of surprised at the way people termed what happened between janay and ray rice. you heard one man -- >> a mistake. >> a mistake is when you subtract four minus two and it equals one. >> that disturbs me when we talk about domestic violence. something can happen one time and it's not a mistake, it's an intentional act. we need to be careful. that's the distinction people are trying to make but they're misspeaking. janay and ray rice have said this was 30 seconds of their life, that this was a one-time thing, this is not their relationship typically is. we really is no choice but to take their word at what it is and say we either believe them or don't but that is how they are terming it. and you can talk about that if you want to say, hey, they only said it happened one time and we want to move forward with. this i personally think ray rice does e servedeserve a second

the problem is roger goodell decided and nfl decided to make roger goodell judge and jury. when he took over in 2007, there was a spade of arrests and he instituted this personal conduct policy so it was a decision by them so they got themselves in these waters so then as we've been talking about, you have to be careful when you do that. >> there was a scandal with the new orleans saints about -- i don't remember what it was. >> the bounties. >> bounty gate. he took a very tough line in telling players and telling everyone lack of knowledge of it, that's not an excuse. there's a lot of people now saying, you know, pointing the same finger at him. >> he told sean payton, the coach of the saints, you should have known about bounty gate. roger goodell, should you have known about this tape and everything else. >> do you see a possibility of roger goodell stepping down? isn't bottom line in the nfl how much money is being made and roger goodell has made a lot of money for a lot of team owners. >> let's see if sponsors start pulling out. sponsors have issued statements and issue

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>> this goes back seven years when roger goodell took over. he decided to become the judge and jury and have these personal conduct issues. he waded into the waters and they are complicated and they keep changing. i'm curious if he wishes he wouldn't have said i'm the guy early on. >> leslie, given all your experience on this issue what was your initial reaction to the changes that roger goodell proposed today? >> i view this so much more hopefully and less sinically. i think he said a lot of great things today. the first is he said that the nfl is microo'kozzem of the american society. and he took responsibility at least with words for his role in this. and you know, that's exactly what every single abuser has to do and so few of them do. but the most important thing that he said and that the nfl has done is he admitted they got this wrong because they didn't have women's voices in the debate and the discussion of how to punish ray rice and other players. that's the watershed moment here is that women have become incredibly effective at getti

and ray rice scandal has roger goodell hanging by a thread.s the reality sinks in that a so-called outside investigation is being conducted by a former fbi director with ties to the nfl, and being overseen by a pair of nfl team owners, many are saying the league not only has a domestic violence problem, it also has an optics problem. publicist and founder of the bredow agency. this is a conundrum. as boston globe's dawn shaughnessy put it, they are now, the nfl n full-blown watergate cover-up mode and roger goodell is a modern day nixon. does goodell resign, flee in a helicopter from a rooftop of nfl headquarters in manhattan? i mean, there is that sense among a lot of people this is now a story about him and about his inability to manage this league properly. can roger goodell, from a public relations point of view, survive this or a way to survive this? if so, how? >> there's definitely a way to survive it, but roger goodell has really found himself in a very difficult position because domestic violence is a very serious infraction. and the

he knows roger goodell very well. on the positive side he says he finds it hard to believe that roger goodell would lie about whether or not he saw this videotape. on the other hand the source told me there is no way possible that a video goes to the nfl office and somebody of import did not see that. so i believe what's going on here is the ronald reagan plausible deniable thing. roger goodell may not have seen that video but he had his underlings see it and they told him what is going on. and i don't think is it going to be a complete report because of all the things we talked about in the past. two nfl owners basically in charge of this thing, but there a will be enough smoking guns that they may have to force him out. i think there is a decent chance of that. >> the thing that is so intriguing about this is there has been a pattern of behavior in the league that has been accepted. this is the most high profile incident. it's the videotape. now even when in 2012, the chiefs' linebacker, javon belcher killed his gir

there is no law above goodell. he is the emperor and he hands down this punishment and that punishment. all eyes will be on hand and they're going to be on hand again. >> and everything that the owners has said to try to get passed the ray rice situation has been a bit tone deaf. >> because? >> yeah. i'm even speaking in the last day or two where they're saying things like this has been a learning experience. whabt jovan belcher who killed his girlfriend? how has that not been a time to learn about this. no one has taulked about proces. i think roger goodell has taken some pats on the back that he did not deserve. that happens for a few reasons. but i think a big thing is if you punish suh, 31 other teams are saying yeah, suh is out of the game. >> he's a lineman who stomped on the face of another lineman. >> until you have a logical process where you don't go two games for ray rice, oh,we saw that video tape, an entire season for ray rice, is there logic? is there process? it's just a spasm. >> right. and what wil

roger goodell said the story with rice's people was ambiguous.ice is telling another story and so are witnesses. goodell says that is why he suspended the running back for just two games at the time but his story about unclear, but when he brought the body out there almost lifeless, passed out there that part had to have been clear. keep in mind the "associated press" reported a law enforcement official did in fact send a copy of the video to an executive at the nfl in april. as we reported, that had prompted the league to open whatted called an independent investigation over which two owners will have jurisdiction. our chief correspondent jonathan hunt has been following this thing since it began. seems like four years ago. every day it's something else. >> it really is. this new report, puts new pressure on roger goodell to tell exactly what he knew and when he knew it. the espn report details a june 16th meeting in the commissioner's office where ronalder goodell met with ray rice, jania rice, and other officials,q four sources described as b

and in goodell's handling of this affair.but it's kind of sad that it took a video to make that happen. we already had a police report. we already had a previous video of him dragging her unconscious body out of the elevator. so what did we believe really happened? the fact that we allowed ourselves that kind of wiggle room to explain away his actions shows us how much further we have to go on this issue, but, yes, the criticism against their commissioner has been widespread during this week. >> sreenivasan: kavitha davidson of bloomberg, thank you. >> ifill: we have also invited nfl commissioner roger goodell for an interview. >> woodruff: in the 13 years since the nine eleven attacks, not every question about that day has been answered. potentially explosive revelations that may implicate a key u.s. ally in the attacks, remain hidden from public view, classified and stored beneath the u.s. capitol building. jeffrey brown has our story. it was classified by the george w. bush administration which claimed it hurt the war on t

roger goodell.tary of state condi rice, is she going to be the next nfl commissioner? that's what a lo t of people ar wondering. >> she loves football. when she was at stanford, she went to every game at home and away. she would make an ideal commissioner, but you know, they also have give thought to the structure of this job. there's a very big question about whether roger goodell has too much discretion, and whether it will be better for -- to explore alternative ways of doing this. so condi's smart enough to think about that if she gets the job. but certainly roger goodell, he may survive. he's a very good man, but he's in a lot of trouble right now. this league, even is in a lot of trouble. >> certainly is. david gergen, thank you so much. >> okay. randi, thank you. >>> just a few months ago, most of us had never heard of isis. now the u.s. is launching a huge offensive operation against those terrorists, but some think this group just can't keep going the way it is. >>> and later, the nfl is wr

mueller has the investigation, if he doesn't find that goodell saw the tape earlier, if goodell's story on that holds up, do you think goodell survives then? >> first of all, i do think that he survives. i think the owners want him to survive. he's overseeing, as kevin mentioned, $9 billion in revenue. he started as an intern in the nfl office. he's their guy and i think they do want him to stay, but they have to look at the whole facts that came through on this whole ray rice matter to make sure that everything was done according to script. everything was done properly and mueller has brought in a guy with vast experience handling this a former fbi guy. that's just what the public wanted, if not for a woman investigating this. that may have been a better move on the league's part. >> i wonder, too, you cover this professionally. i think a lot of people who are fans, even casual fans even just know the nfl not even as fans, just big cultural force might be looking at the nfl a little differently than they were a week or two ago because of the video and because of peterson and because al

goodell says rules governing personnel conduct will change.ff will undergo education and training about how to prevent abuse. the nfl will partner with the national sexual violence resource center and the national domestic violence hot line which saw an 84% spike in phone calls last week during all of this. roger goodell also insisting he never saw the second video showing ray rice punching his then fiancee. he also insists he has not considered resigning. abc 7 news reporter david louie is live at levi's stadium with reaction from the 49ers tonight. david? >> reporter: well, it's interesting to note that the teams that are listening very carefully to roger goodell who says it won't be easy to institute the new policies given that there are 32 owners and laws do differ from state to state but one thing is clear. at this point, the niners front office is not on the same page with other teams. the niners are heading into a game sunday in which teams are making their own decisions to play or bench players involved with brushes with the law. niner

lobbied the police or roger goodell? >> everybody, it shouldn't be a total shock, the team has a vested interest in having their best player on the field. that is the reason this can be and should be taken out of the team's hands. it is the reason the nfl is asked to weigh in on it, the reason that roger goodell is supposed to be issuing the penalties. it is the reason why multiple sources question who was in the room when they interviewed janay rice, for example, because they shouldn't be breathing over anybody's shoulder with this information. >> and is there any report on harbaugh who gave a press conference a week or so ago? >> yeah, this is really interesting, two separate times according to the report, that he went to the higher-ups and said cut him. we have to cut this guy. what he did was reprehensible, we have to cut him. this is different than the public face. publicly he says he tows the company line, but privately, this has not been confirmed by the ravens, he went to ravens brass and said cut him. and for pe

that's the policy goodell himself announced.ociation is so ed. can you talkg are arrest rates are lower thanq the popuuu)jjy that doesn't help ronalder goodell right now. and part of this -- it occurs to which he wanted to be the persop who was the strictfáqi] disciplinarian before this. now he is owning everything. >> exactly. women and children first is not exactly aa5 guidsn principlet( you something, that upset a lot of players. most players do not in any wayçó shape orçó form run afo3,e of te law. most players hate being treated by their boss and that's why roger goodellÑi in 2011 did a tr of trainingobbp camps bef1!h÷ tl lockout. he wasokko roundly mockedÑi at training camps. @ no authority when it comes to players. they'velp been mockingihn him on twitter and that's reason enough to me about whyjf theÑ 100% ofr backing him says soom> muchi] about the morality of the nationaljup&l league.çó >> when you take the case oflp y rice, who is appealing this indefinite suspension, seems to moral outrage one feels towards what you

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i don't see how roger goodell keeps his job.

still to come, from bad to worse for roger goodell. same for the former >>> in a press conference today roger goodell apologized for his handling of the ray rice incident and plans to implement a new personal conduct policy and balked at the notion he should step down as commissioner of the nfl. asked questioned he looked indecisive and bewildered. >> we have to be cautious in not getting involved in a criminal investigation. i would have love to have seen that tape. should we do more to get that information in the future? that is a question i want experts to do. >> we found out by one phone call. you have a whole legal department. can you explain that? >> i can't explain how you got the information. only you can do that. >> comical. late news out of tallahassee. after screaming an obscenity they said jameis winston won't play the first half of the game against clemson, but they have changed their mind. after a massive public outcry he won't play at all. number one florida state, second ranked clemson tomorrow night and jameison is out

goodell said he will not resign. i want to show you something, not only has bob kraft one of the most powerful owners in the nfl came out and said he thought roger was doing a great job but look at this quote from john mayer ra, one of the owners, owners of the giants, that's going to oversee this investigation. john mara is a high character guy. i want to make that clear. he said something a lot of people liked. many of us were dissatisfied with the original two game suspension of ray rice. he said we have all learned a valuable lesson from this episode. take a look at the next part of his statement. the notion that league should have gone around law enforcement is in my opinion misguided as is the notion that commissioner's job is now in jeopardy. the video is appalling but i believe the team and the league took appropriate action. >> wait. >> after they finally -- >> he's overseeing this thing. >> now again -- >> overseeing this thing. >> overseeing the investigation. >> people who know john mara and i know john m