joining me is cnn legal analyst danny savalos.mention to you, they were hammered and were stupid tearing down a sign, but they didn't do anything to warrant the drawing of weapons on them. and why were they paying cash outside the judicial system to be let go? >> yeah, this statement, first of all, is brilliantly crafted. certainly a team of pr and lawyers were involved because it really is a very, very good statement. and its obviously serving the swimmers' interests. but i've been saying this from the beginning, that the problem i had with brazilian authorities holding a press conference and saying these men were not robbed and then in the same breath they say, what happened may have been that somebody pointed a gun at them and demanded money. well, that is robbery. and this statement also locks in that lochte may have ripped down a sign, but if you read the statement, then two guns are drawn on them, then they are made to sit down on the sidewalk with their hands up, we saw that from the video, and then thereafter lochte gets i

. >> joining me now is cnn legal analyst danny savalos in new york. danny, are you convinced that these swimmers fabricated their story in. >> well, you know, there's a line -- there's a lot of people saying, they lied, darn it. but you know, there's really a lot of space between truth and a lie, and often, the real truth lies somewhere in between of two diametrically opposed stories and that may be the case here. but look, it's never a good idea to give anything less than the truth to authorities like the police, but the practical reality is, police will tell you themselves that they spend all day, their entire shift, being lied to by citizens. sometimes it's involuntary, sometimes it's intentional. but in this case, you know, we have to look at what we know so far, which seems to be changing by the minute. the swimmers said they were robbed. brazilian authorities held a press conference today where they said, it's impossible. they were not robbed. but it's possible, the authorities said, that somebody may have demanded money and pointed a gun at them