Hello, it's Meglyn-Han. Welcome to full-time. I am joined by the Athletics Jeff Router.

We are going to go all in on the U.S. Women's National Team. We've got a She Belief Cup roster. We've got Emma Hayes, the women's national team way. But Jeff, first, like, what's up? How is Minnesota? Are you currently being the king of the Midwest right now? I feel like you are. Every day I can be. Yeah, a little less snow than Vermont, more cold. It's, it's that point where it's too cold for snow to fall and even the snow's like, I don't want this. So we're in the thick of it, but soccer, of course. Why not? Yeah, it feels like preseason, doesn't it? Right. I think we've got like a full foot of snow outside right right the moment. I'm like, yeah, things should be happening on a soccer field. Right. This is an orange ball podcast. Yeah. There we go. There we go. All right. So again, we're going to be talking to all things. US women's national team. Heard a lot from Emma Hayes over the past week and a half or so. There's always a lot to discuss whenever

she gets on a microphone. And yeah, we'll also be breaking down the latest roster for She Believes Cup

by the end of the show. But before we get there, we've got to do a little news rundown here

because I want to start first where we are back to talking about the core values

of the NWSL, whether the league is going to protect its players.

Again, I think these questions are they're only going to become more frequent, unfortunately.

And this is coming up again after executive action from the White House

that intends to ban transgender athletes from sport, especially at the lower levels,

at the youth levels at NCAA, and also threatens to cut Title IX funding from schools that do not

comply. Now, in the wake of this executive order, we've heard two different responses and two,

I would say, very different responses. We've got NWSL Players Association, executive director

Megan Burke, talking to BBC News following the settlement with the NW cell and the three

attorneys generals. And then the other is from NWSL Commissioner

Jessica Berman, who went on Sarah Spain's daily podcast, good game. And that was recorded in New

Orleans during a Super Bowl Media Day event radio row. So first, before we start the discussion,

let's hear from them first.

Plainly stated, this executive order absolutely does not protect women in sports. Let's be

clear and call this what it is. And first of all, I appreciate the question on National

Girls and Women in Sports Day on a day in which the Players Association has made this huge

announcement that actually does protect women in

sports, given the history of abuse and misconduct in the NWS hell. This executive order is a

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