lisa friel, jane randel and rita smith will help to lead and shape policies and programs relating to domestic violence and sexual assault. previously as the head of the sex crimes prosecution unit for more than a decade. jane randel is the cofound are of no more, a campaign against domestic violence and sexual assault. and rita smith is a former director of the national coalition against domestic violence lisa friel will be involved in all decisions on domestic violence incident, the group will oversee the domestic violence sexual assault policy, and improve training programs for all league personnel. the n.f.l. is yet to meet out punishment for ray mcdonald, who started the game against the bears, and carolina panther's greg hardy, benched by the team against the lions. the minnesota vikings einstated adrian peterson after the team deactivated him. he was indicted after he whipped his 4-year-old son with a switch, resulting in wement and scores on -- in welts and scars on the child's also. a statement read: >> we are trying to do the right thing. this is a difficult path to navigate

so will your client meet with lisa friel?t got that e-mail from the nfl 30 minutes before my press conferen conference. and definitely, my client is going to consider that. however, let us not be distracted by the play that the nfl is making right here. they have failed to answer any of the questions that i have asked them. they have failed to say what they're going to do to enforce their personal conduct policy, which appears to have been violated because they weren't notified. have they said what kind of investigation they're going to do, what kind of action they're going to take? they purport to care about victims of sexual assault. but you know, actions are louder than words, as the old saying goes. so what in fact are they going to do? we'd like answers to our questions. my client is going to keep her mind open about speaking with the nfl. we also are going to be speaking with law enforcement. and we want to make sure that if she does speak with them it's at the right time and it does not have an adverse impact on the in

>> i think it might change the way the league is behaving because of one woman in particular, lisa friel. she was the head of the sex crimes prosecutions in the massachusetts -- massachusetts, rather manhattan district attorney's office. and i have spoken to people who have worked for her in that office and they have nothing but praise for her. more importantly, they say she is a woman who can speak truth to power, who will speak her mind and will not fear telling goodell or the owners, for that matter, what they need to hear and maybe don't want to hear about various sexual abuse cases that come across her desk. she's going to be in charge of the investigative wing of the nfl's new policy. i am hopeful with more strict investigations into these matters, more thorough investigations, that there will be more fitting punishments and more rhyme and reason to those funnishments. >> i have a person who follows football enough to be a fan, but i -- before these scandals, never paid attention to the administration of football. is a weird thing that roger goodell was a no-show at the sunday game

as some of you know, we announced that lisa friel is joining us from downtown new york.'s going to provide a valuable perspective for us, particularly in this area and those are the types of people that we want to have part of our organization and part of our decision-making process. >> mr. goodell? >> out, out, out. what's going on? what are you doing? what are you doing? please! >> sorry about that. >> i had nothing to do with that. >> mr. goodell, miguel marquez from cnn. there's a lot of confusion from fans out there about the mistakes that 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 what was on the second videotape, on the initial summons, it clearly says that mr. rice struck janay with his hand rendering her unconscious. why wasn't it enough then to put this right? >> well, it was. and we saw obviously the original video and it was clear that a domestic violence incident had occurred and it was horrifying and that's why we took the step we did. we did the two game suspens