Ryan Lochte Takes 'Full Responsibility' for Rio Incident — Transcript

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1. 0:00we are hearing from Olympic swimmer Ryan
2. 0:02locky for the first time since Brazilian
3. 0:04police publicly doubted his account of
4. 0:07what happened at that Rio gas station
5. 0:09Loy at the center of this International
6. 0:12Scandal sitting down for an interview
7. 0:14admitting that his behavior was immature
8. 0:17two of his fellow teammates who were
9. 0:18with him during that incident now
10. 0:20revealing what they say happened and
11. 0:22they are pointing the finger squarely at
12. 0:24locky also tonight we are hearing from a
13. 0:27witness who stepped in to help translate
14. 0:29for the American an as it all went down
15. 0:32we have a lot of fast-moving
16. 0:33developments tonight and ABC's Matt
17. 0:35Gutman is in Rio starting us
18. 0:37off tonight Ryan locky on camera for the
19. 0:41first time since he told what Brazilian
20. 0:43police call a fabricated version of the
21. 0:45now international incident at this Rio
22. 0:48gas station that's why I'm taking full
23. 0:50responsibility for it is because I OV
24. 0:52exaggerated that story and if I'd never
25. 0:55done that we wouldn't be in this mess
26. 0:58but stopping short of saying he lied
27. 1:00telling NBC news whether you call it a
28. 1:03robbery whether you call it extortion or
29. 1:06us paying uh just for the damages like
30. 1:10we don't know now two of the cartet of
31. 1:12swimmers in this now Infamous video
32. 1:14blaming locky for inflaming a standoff
33. 1:17that had them hauled into two police
34. 1:19stations in Rio questioned about Lock's
35. 1:22version of events he cocked it put it to
36. 1:24my forehead police have accused him of
37. 1:26lying and after a week of Silent
38. 1:28solidarity with
39. 1:30both Gunner B and Jack Conger now
40. 1:32apologizing and openly contradicting
41. 1:35parts of his story they pull us over not
42. 1:38according to them both saying in
43. 1:39statements they pulled into this gas
44. 1:41station Ben writing we foolishly
45. 1:44relieved ourselves on the backside of
46. 1:45the building behind some bushes then
47. 1:48saying locky is the man you see here
48. 1:50pulling to the ground a framed metal
49. 1:52advertisement Congress statement says
50. 1:54the attendance then hailed two armed
51. 1:56security men there was a heated exchange
52. 1:58here you can see the swimmer sitting
53. 2:00locky standing that's the point Benz
54. 2:03writes that locky inflamed the situation
55. 2:06again I cannot speak to his actions but
56. 2:08Ryan stood up and began to yell at the
57. 2:10guards after Jack and I both tugged at
58. 2:13him in an attempt to get him to sit back
59. 2:15down it was then say police that one of
60. 2:17the guards pulled a gun V says a
61. 2:19customer at the station Fernando Delo
62. 2:21offered to help and diffuse the standoff
63. 2:24locky had released his own tepid apology
64. 2:26on Friday for quote not being more
65. 2:28careful and candid in how I described
66. 2:30the events that's an understatement says
67. 2:33that Good Samaritan no police no police
68. 2:35please please no police okay they were
69. 2:36saying no police no police pleas that
70. 2:39Good Samaritan telling us that the
71. 2:41swimmers weren't extorted they agreed to
72. 2:43pay in order to avoid the police and
73. 2:46that at no time was a gun directly
74. 2:48pointed at them he also adds that locky
75. 2:51was so drunk he was incoherent cilia
76. 2:54Matt Gutman leading us off thank
77. 2:58you