Ryan Lochte Speaks For First Time Since Rio Scandal: ‘I Over-exaggerated That Story’ — Transcript

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1. 0:01[Music]
2. 0:04blemish on these games an embarrassing
3. 0:06episode involving one of Team USA's
4. 0:08highest profile athletes Ryan locky and
5. 0:11several teammates tonight with the last
6. 0:13of the four American swimmers finally
7. 0:15back home locky is opening up about the
8. 0:18controversy in an exclusive interview
9. 0:20with Matt laau the 32-year-old calling
10. 0:22his behavior that night immature and
11. 0:25childish locky says he takes full
12. 0:27responsibility for his actions and for
13. 0:29not telling the whole story from the
14. 0:31start here's Matt
15. 0:33La you told me on the phone Ryan you
16. 0:35said we are victims here we are victims
17. 0:39and we're happy that we're safe in the
18. 0:41police press conference they said not
19. 0:43victims they're vandals how do you feel
20. 0:46about
21. 0:47that it's how you want to how you want
22. 0:50to make it look like uh whether you call
23. 0:54it a robbery whether you call it
24. 0:56extortion or us paying uh just for the
25. 1:00the damages like we don't know all we
26. 1:01know is that there was a gun pointed in
27. 1:04our Direction and we were demanded to
28. 1:07give money gunner in his statement to
29. 1:10police said at some point someone who
30. 1:12spoke English walked over and offered to
31. 1:15help translate this altercation and he
32. 1:19made it clear that the security guard
33. 1:21was telling the four of you you need to
34. 1:24pay for that stuff that damage before
35. 1:27you can leave here or I'm going to call
36. 1:29the police police you understood that at
37. 1:32that time didn't you yeah so then we had
38. 1:34to give the money at that point you're
39. 1:36striking a deal you're striking a deal
40. 1:39to pay for what damage you've caused so
41. 1:41that he doesn't call the police and this
42. 1:44doesn't become a bigger incident isn't
43. 1:45that isn't that fair we just wanted to
44. 1:48get out of there um we were held I mean
45. 1:51there was a gunpoint in our direction we
46. 1:53were all frightened um and we wanted to
47. 1:56get out of there as quick as possible
48. 1:58and the only way we knew is by this guy
49. 2:00saying you have to give him money so we
50. 2:03gave him money and we got out what I'm
51. 2:04trying to get at is the first version of
52. 2:06the story you told Ryan was much more
53. 2:08about the Mean Streets of Rio yeah and
54. 2:11the version we're hearing now is much
55. 2:13more about a negotiated settlement to
56. 2:17cover up some dumb behavior
57. 2:20and that's why I'm taking full
58. 2:22responsibility for it is because I overe
59. 2:25exaggerated that story and if I'd never
60. 2:28done that we wouldn't in this mess those
61. 2:31guys would never be in
62. 2:34Rio or were in Rio um nothing of the
63. 2:38none of this would have happened and it
64. 2:39was
65. 2:40my immature
66. 2:44Behavior part of mat L's exclusive
67. 2:46conversation with Ryan locky you can see
68. 2:48more of