3 U.S. SWIMMERS HAVE BEEN DETAINED IN RIO.
IN FACT, THEY WERE DETAINED WHEN THEY WERE BOARDING THEIR FRIGHT
ñ THEIR FLIGHT BACK INTO THE UNITED STATES.
AUTHORITIES BELIEVE THEY FILED A FALSE POLICE REPORT IN
REGARDS TO BEING ALLEGEDLY ROBBED WHILE THEY WERE IN RIO.
THIS IS A STORY WE REPORTED ON A COUPLE OF DAYS AGO.
RYAN LOCHTE, WHO IS ALSO A SUMMER, ALLEGED THAT HE HAD
BEEN ROBBED AT GUNPOINT AND SAID THAT THE ROBBERS TOOK HIS
MONEY BUT LEFT HIS CREDENTIALS AND HIS PASSPORT.
OPEN ORACLE ñ AUTHORITIES CLAIM TO HAVE VIDEO THAT SHOWS LOCHTE
AND THREE TEAMMATES INVOLVED IN
AN ALTERCATION IN WHICH ONE
OF THE SWIMMERS WAS SEEN BREAKING DOWN THE DOOR TO THE
BATHROOM AT THE GAS STATION AND FIGHTING WITH A SECURITY GUARD."
WHY IS THAT RELEVANT?
WELL, RIGHT NOW WHAT THE AUTHORITIES IN RIO ARE
ALLEGING IS THAT THEY WERE NEVER ROBBED AT GUNPOINT.
THEY ARE ALLEGING THAT THESE SWIMMERS HAD A CRAZY NIGHT WHERE
THEY GOT REALLY DRUNK, THEY WENT TO A GAS STATION, WHERE THEY
PROCEEDED TO DAMAGE PROPERTY THERE, AND THEN AS THE SECURITY
GUARDS WERE TRYING TO DEAL WITH THEM, THEY WERE GETTING
ROWDY, AND THE AUTHORITIES ARE NOT SAYING THAT A GUN WAS
NOT PULLED ON THEM, BUT THEY ARE SAYING THAT THE PEOPLE WHO
CONFRONTED THE SWIMMERS WERE NOT COPS, THEY WERE NOT
ROBBERS, THEY WERE SECURITY GUARDS TRYING TO SUBDUE THEM.
YEAH, SO WHEN WE FIRST REPORTED THIS STORY, ALL THESE HOLES IN
THE STORY WERE NOT EVIDENT, BUT EVEN THEN WE WERE A LITTLE
SKEPTICAL.
WE SHOWED YOU A VIDEO OF RYAN LOCHTE BEING GOOFY.
THIS GUY IS A KNUCKLEHEAD.
IT WASN'T JUST US BY THE WAY, IT'S NOT LIKE WE WERE
SHERLOCK HOLMES AND WE FIGURED IT OUT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE LIKE, THIS LOCHTE CHARACTER IS A
LITTLE WILD AND SOMETHING ABOUT HIM IS INCREDIBLE.
YOU KNOW WHY?
BECAUSE HE HIMSELF HAD SAID THAT HIS REACTION TO THE ROBBERY
WAS, WHATEVER.
IT MADE HIM SEE YOU REALLY WEIRDLY HEROIC.
THE GUN WAS POINTED TO HIS HEAD, AND THE GUY EVEN COCKED THE
WEAPON, AND HE WAS LIKE, WHATEVER.
REALLY?
AND I HATED THE WAY THAT HE SAID, OH MY TEAMMATES ALL
GOT ON THE GROUND LIKE THEY WERE TOLD, BUT ME I DIDN'T, HE
SAID I DIDN'T DO THAT.
ANYWAY, BUT AT THE TIME WE DIDN'T KNOW ALL THE DETAILS.
SO NOW WE DO, LET ME TELL YOU WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.
THE AUTHORITIES ARE TOTALLY RIGHT.
SO LOOK, BEFORE YOU GET INTO WHAT YOU THINK I WANT TO
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL THE FULL DETAILS.
WHAT DO I NEED DETAILS FOR?
I'VE ALREADY GOT IT FIGURED OUT.
BUT GO AHEAD.
CENK CAN'T WAIT, HE WANTS TO TELL YOU HIS OPINIONS, BUT
CENK I'M NOT DONE TELLING YOU THE DETAILS.
WHO CARES?
THIS WAS A PRESS CONFERENCE THAT WAS HELD BY AUTHORITIES IN
RIO, AND THEY ARE TRYING TO EXPLAIN WHAT THE VIDEO IS,
WHAT THEY ENCOUNTERED AND WHAT THEY THINK.
WE WILL ASK IF HE WAS AT GUNPOINT.
YES, THEY ñ SOME OF THE SECURITY GUARDS DESCRIBE -- THE ATHLETES,
AND BASED ON ONE OF THE ATHLETES WAS REALLY DISTURBED SOMEHOW, HE
WAS ACTUALLY VERY, KIND OF ANGRY.
SO WITH THE REASON THEY USED A WEAPON WITH CONTROL,
PROBABLY, ONE OF THEM, THE ANSWER YES.
RIGHT NOW, AS WE SPEAK, WHAT THE POLICE CAN AFFIRM, THERE
WAS NO ROBBERY IS THE WAY ñ
AS THE WAY IT WAS REPORTED OR CLAIMED BY THE ATHLETES.
THEY WERE NOT VICTIMS OF THE CRIMINAL ACTIONS THAT THEY
CLAIM THEY WERE.
THE POLICE CAN AFFIRM THAT.
IN THEORY, ONE OR ALL OF THEM MIGHT BE CHARGED FOR FALSE
INDICATION OF A CRIME, AND FOR DAMAGING ñ
FOR FALSE COMMUNICATION OF A CRIME, AND FOR DAMAGING
PRIVATE ASSETS, THE GAS STATION.
I'M NOT SAYING THAT THEY ARE CHARGED RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF
THAT, WE HAVE TO FINALIZE THE INVESTIGATION, AND IN
THEORY, THAT COULD BE THE CASE.
THIS IS NOT REALLY ñ THIS KIND OF CRIME, IT WILL NOT LEAD TO
THEIR ARREST.
SO ONE OTHER THING THAT I WANT TO MAKE ABSOLUTELY CLEAR, RYAN
LOCHTE WAS ALREADY IN THE UNITED STATES BY THE TIME THE
OTHER SWIMMERS WERE DETAINED AT THE AIRPORT.
SO RIGHT NOW, ABC NEWS REPORTED THAT AUTHORITIES ARE
RECOMMENDING AN INDICTMENT OF RYAN LOCHTE; HOWEVER, THEY
BACKTRACKED IT A LITTLE BIT AND SAID THAT THE COPS ARE JUST
RECOMMENDING THAT HE BE INDICTED.
CONVENIENTLY LOCHTE GET OUT OF TOWN AND LEADS ñ
LEAVES THE OTHER GUYS HOLDING THE BAG WHEN IT SEEMS LIKE
IT WAS MOSTLY HIS FAULT.
AND ONE OF THE GUYS CONFIRMED THAT HIS DESCRIPTION OF THE
EVENTS WAS NOT ACCURATE.
THE REASON I GOT THIS IS BECAUSE MY WIFE WATCHES THE OLYMPICS AND
THEY MADE THAT A PET ñ THEY MADE US A FEDERAL CASE LAST NIGHT.
THEY'VE GOT MATT LAUER IN HIS $30 MILLION DOLLAR SALARY AND
ALL THE OTHER REPORTERS GOING, OH MY
GOD WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE!
WE'RE GOING TO BREAK THIS DOWN, THIS
IS THE CRIME OF THE CENTURY.
THAT WAS KIND OF SUPERFLUOUS INFORMATION ABOUT MATT LAUER.
I WAS JUST SAYING, THEY GOT EVERYBODY ON IT.
WHAT I WANTED $25 MILLION SALARY?
PLEASE BELIEVE ME!
LAST NIGHT THEY DIDN'T KNOW ALL THE DETAILS WE KNOW NOW, SO
MATT LAUER APPARENTLY HAD INTERVIEWED HIM AND HE
SAID, OKAY FIND THE GUY DIDN'T PUT THE GUN TO MY HEAD HE
KIND OF GENTLY HELD IT OUT.
I WAS LIKE, OKAY THIS GUY MADE EVERYTHING UP, IT'S SUPER
OBVIOUS.
THEN WE FOUND OUT THAT THE WALLET HE SAID WAS STOLEN
ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH THE X-RAY MACHINE, AND HE STILL HAS
HIS WALLET.
I WAS LIKE OH, I'M DONE WITH THIS, HE TOTALLY MADE IT UP.
AND I SHOULD'VE KNOWN BETTER, I SHOULD'VE CALLED IT OUT ON
THE DAY OF COMPLETELY AND BEEN ADAMANT ABOUT IT, BECAUSE
WHAT KIND OF ROBBERY DOESN'T TAKE YOUR CELL PHONE AND
YOUR CREDENTIALS?
I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DO WITH THE CREDENTIALS BUT HE WAS
LIKE OH, OH NO HE LEFT MOST OF THE THINGS I NEEDED BUT HE
JUST HAPPENED TO TAKE SOME MONEY.
WHAT HAPPENED WAS, THESE IDIOTS GOT DRUNK AND ñ
GOT DRUNK AND KICKED DOWN THE DOOR AND THE SECURITY GUARD WAS
LIKE, YOU GOT TO GIVE ME MONEY FOR THE DOOR THAT'S RIDICULOUS.
AND AT SOME POINT, THE SECURITY GUARD PULLED UP A WEAPON,
THAT'S WHAT HE SAID, HE PRETENDED TO HAVE A BADGE
BUT HE WASN'T REALLY A COP.
BECAUSE HE WAS THE SECURITY GUARD AND THEY KNEW HE WAS
THE SECURITY GUARD.
THERE WAS SOME TRUTH TO WHAT HE WAS SAYING.
OH YEAH, SOME TRUTH.
I'M NOT STICKING UP FOR WHAT THEY DID BY THE WAY, WHAT THEY
DID WAS WRONG, AND IT IS LIKE TYPICAL FRAT BOY BEHAVIOR RIGHT?
WHERE THEY GO AND THEY ARE URINATING ALL OVER THE
PLACE AND DOING WHATEVER IT IS THAT THEY DO.
GET THE FUCK UP!
GET THE FUCK OFF THIS TRAIN!
THAT'S AT THE SECURITY GUARD WAS TRYING TO TELL THEM.
AND PEOPLE IN RIO ARE UNDERSTANDABLY OUTRAGED BY THIS
BECAUSE WHAT THEY DID WAS THEY EXPLOITED A REAL PROBLEM IN RIO
INVOLVING VIOLENCE IN THE FAVELAS, AND GANG ACTIVITY
AND ALL OF THAT, FOR THEIR OWN USE, AS AN EXCUSE FOR THEIR
OWN BEHAVIOR ñ FOR THEIR OWN BEHAVIOR, AND THAT'S OKAY.
SO I HOPE THAT THEY DO FACE WHATEVER CONSEQUENCES ARE
NECESSARY.
LOCHTE FILED A FALSE POLICE REPORT, AND THAT IS WHAT
AUTHORITIES ARE RECOMMENDING THAT HE GETS INDICTED FOR,
SO WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
ONE OF THE GUYS ALREADY TURNED, SO WE ALREADY KNOW IT.
ONE OF THE SWIMMERS SAID, YEAH ALL RIGHT, SO IT'S OVER.
IT'S NOT LIKE THAT ONE GUY CONFESSED AND THE OTHER
THREE IT'S LIKE, OH THAT WAS A FALSE CONFESSION.
NOBODY IS GOING TO JAIL OVER THIS, IT'S NOT A FEDERAL
CASE OR A BIG DEAL, IS JUST BECAUSE OF THE OLYMPICS.
IT'S OTHERWISE A SHOW SHOW, A TINY LITTLE STORY, SO I'M
MORE AMUSED OF HOW BIG IT HAS BECOME THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
BUT ANA IS RIGHT, BRAZIL HAS THIS PROBLEM, IT'S A
PERCEPTION PROBLEM AND IT'S A REAL PROBLEM, DON'T MAKE
LIGHT OF IT YOU KNUCKLEHEAD.
WHY DIDN'T YOU JUST LEAVE IT ALONE?
WHY DID YOU HAVE TO FILE A POLICE REPORT IN THE FIRST
PLACE?
I KNOW HE'S TRYING TO COVER IT UP, HE HAD TO SPEND THE MONEY
THERE AND HE'S WORRIED THEY ARE GOING TO REPORT HIM, BUT DON'T
DO THAT, DON'T MAKE IT WORSE, JUST SHUSH.
STOP IT WITH YOUR FREAKY STUFF.
YOUR FREAKY SHIT.
YOU GET YOUR HANDS THE FUCK UP OFF THIS TRAIN WITH THAT FREAKY
SHIT!
OKAY?
THAT'S ALL YOU SHOULD HAVE DONE AND LEFT
IT AT THAT.