yes or no, was one of those banned substances epo? yes. did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? yes. did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone, or human growth hormone? yes. yes or no, in all seven of your tour de france victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? yes. buzz, you are a pulitzer prize winner, you re a smart guy, friend of mine. how was he able to roll you so recently as a couple months ago? well, you know, i cringe when i see that cover, and i say that honestly. i think he was able to roll me because i did not do my due diligence, and i think he aided and abetted just slightly because i spoke to him before i did the story. this was in august.
substances to enhance your cycling performance? yes. yes or no, was one of those banned substances epo? yes. did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? yes. did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone, or human growth hormone? yes. yes or no, in all seven of your tour de france victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? yes. buzz, you are a pulitzer prize winner, you re a smart guy, friend of mine. how was he able to roll you so recently as a couple months ago? well, you know, i cringe when i see that cover, and i say that honestly. i think he was able to roll me because i did not do my due diligence, and i think he aided and abetted just slightly
yes. yes or no, was one of those banned substances epo? yes. did you ever blood dope or use brad transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? yeah. did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone, cortisone or human growth hormone? yeah. yes or no, in all seven of your tour defrance victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? yes. in your opinion, was it humanly possible to win the tour defrance without doping? seven times in a row? not in my opinion. i viewed the situation as one big lie, but i repeated a lot of times. as you said, it wasn t as if i just said no and i moved off it.
have never taken drugs, then incidents like that could never happen. how clear is that? did you ever take banned substances to enhance your cycling performance? yes. yes or no? was one of those banned substances epo? yes. did you ever blood dope or use blood transfusions to enhance your cycling performance? yes. did you ever use any other banned substances like testosterone? cortisone? or human growth hormone? yes. yes or no? in all seven of your tour de france victories, did you ever take banned substances or blood dope? yes. ask yourselves this, america. what are you going to do with all those yellow rubber bracelets today? man. welcome back to morning joe. i m mike barnicle in today for joe and mika. mark halperin, john heilemann,
anyone who said otherwise was just out to get him. i have never doped. i ve never taken performance enhancing drugs. my best defense is i ve never tested positive. reporter: he didn t just lie to reporters, fans, sponsors and even cancer survivors, he lied under oath, too. it can t be any clearer that i haven t taken drugs. armstrong has been accused of running up a doping bill at more than $1 million. officials describe a ghoulish list of medical enhancements, blood transfusions up to twice in three weeks during the tour, along with epo, testosterone, cortisone and extract of calf s blood. armstrong now says he was caught up in a fairy tale of his own making. this story was so perfect for so long. and i mean that, as i try to take myself out of the situation, and i look at it, you overcome the disease, you win the tour de france seven times, you have a happy marriage, you have children. it s just this mythic perfect story.