Ryan Lochte apologizes for behavior in Rio — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:03and now another update on the real
3. 0:05robbery Scandal us swimmer Ryan locky is
4. 0:08saying he's sorry in a statement posted
5. 0:10on his social media accounts he says
6. 0:12quote I want to apologize for my
7. 0:14behavior last weekend for not being more
8. 0:17careful and candid in how I described
9. 0:19the events of of that early morning and
10. 0:22for my role in taking the focus away
11. 0:24from the many athletes fulfilling their
12. 0:26dreams of participating in the Olympics
13. 0:29on the phone with me now from Rio is Ben
14. 0:31Tracy he's been following this story
15. 0:34what more can you tell us
16. 0:35Ben well it seems to be a very carefully
17. 0:38crafted statement and uh that's not a
18. 0:40surprise because we know Ryan locky has
19. 0:42now hired a very high-profile crisis
20. 0:44communication firm uh to help him
21. 0:47through this particular moment in time
22. 0:49for uh for him with fall out of this
23. 0:52it's interesting what he does not say he
24. 0:54doesn't admit to LY he uses phrases like
25. 0:56I should have been more careful in how I
26. 0:57described what happened he doesn't admit
27. 1:00actually doing anything at the gas
28. 1:02station he just says I should have been
29. 1:03more responsible and he then you know
30. 1:06even still flips it around and talks
31. 1:08about it's traumatic to be out late at
32. 1:10night with uh your friends in a foreign
33. 1:12country and somebody pulls a gun on you
34. 1:14and demands money so there seems to be a
35. 1:17part of this where he's trying to have
36. 1:18it both ways where there's a little bit
37. 1:19of okay I acknowledge I did something
38. 1:21wrong here but also my version of the
39. 1:24story is still largely intact yeah I
40. 1:26found that to be actually the most
41. 1:28interesting uh portion of this apology
42. 1:32that the disputed Point whether or not a
43. 1:36gun was pointed at him he's still
44. 1:38sticking to and he's still sticking to
45. 1:41the idea that money was demanded of him
46. 1:44um you know you use the word demand so
47. 1:46you know there's a ceron involved it
48. 1:49wasn't sort of
49. 1:51voluntary exactly I mean we do know
50. 1:53since the press conference yesterday
51. 1:55with the police we do know that a gun
52. 1:57was pointed at him in some fashion at
53. 1:59this security guard who was there who
54. 2:01was trying to get them to stay after
55. 2:03they had caused this damage for the
56. 2:05police to come did at one point point a
57. 2:07gun and the police said that that was
58. 2:09because Ryan lcky was aggressive and
59. 2:11erratic and drunk um now whether or not
60. 2:14that person demanded money at gunpoint
61. 2:17seems to be in debate uh the police
62. 2:19actually say that it was the swimmers
63. 2:21themselves who offered up money to pay
64. 2:23for the damage and then took off um so
65. 2:27whether or not they were entering their
66. 2:28pockets with a gun in their face think
67. 2:30is a very different version of the r
68. 2:31that it seems only Ryan ly is is
69. 2:34reporting yeah and he certainly
70. 2:36indicates in the statement that um which
71. 2:38we haven't that that portion I didn't
72. 2:40read but he indicates in the statement
73. 2:41that he was holding his tongue
74. 2:43essentially until the legal situation
75. 2:45had been cleared up uh which suggests
76. 2:47that there will be no further legal
77. 2:49ramifications but at least one of his
78. 2:51teammates could not leave uh the country
79. 2:53without paying
80. 2:54up exactly Jimmy Fegan is still here in
81. 2:58Rio and what we've learned this warning
82. 3:00his attorney says that they cut a deal
83. 3:02with uh the authorities here in Rio that
84. 3:04he'll pay the equivalent of about $1,000
85. 3:07us uh in a fine and those fines
86. 3:10typically go to charity in cases like
87. 3:12this that will give him his passport
88. 3:14back and we all expect him to be on a
89. 3:16flight tonight from Rio back to the
90. 3:18United States now I don't know if you if
91. 3:19you could even know this but he was the
92. 3:22only swimmer that was asked to pay a
93. 3:24fine the other two weren't they're back
94. 3:26in the US do you know why that is yeah
95. 3:28it was interesting you know the police
96. 3:30made a point of saying that the other
97. 3:32two swimmers that they you know took off
98. 3:34those flights the other night who were
99. 3:35trying to fly back they said they only
100. 3:37wanted them as witnesses that they don't
101. 3:40believe that the two of them lied about
102. 3:41what happened so I I think the way that
103. 3:44this went down was that you had
104. 3:45statements from Ryan mocky you had
105. 3:47statements from Jimmy Sean that the
106. 3:49police were given that they have now
107. 3:51proven to be false these other two
108. 3:53swimmers had not done that and so what
109. 3:56they basically wanted was the other two
110. 3:57swimmers to come back to corroborate the
111. 3:59story that police have now put out there
112. 4:01and they say they have we have not heard
113. 4:03that directly from those two swimmers
114. 4:05but the police say that the other two
115. 4:08did say that the version of event that
116. 4:09the police put out yesterday is the true
117. 4:12one not the version that Ryan Monte gave
118. 4:14all right Ben Tracy thanks a lot for the
119. 4:16update thank you